trombone8

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by trombone8 11y ago
Indeed, it is in fact the lottery organizers that are scamming people out of their money by giving false impressions about the expected returns.
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by trombone8 11y ago
Simply saying "this is uncertain information" does not absolve the use of "truth" and "prove" without qualifiers as the text does. Except for that mention the text does not act like there are any uncertainty, h
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by trombone8 11y ago
Well, this is arstechnicas coverage of the guardians story so essentially the same thing.
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by trombone8 11y ago
Man, I just get angry with people this sloppy. How can you write: "Now, Morris is the first to admit that this wasn’t exactly a true scientific experiment, but you know what? That’s okay! Because the findings are still fascinating.&quo
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by trombone8 11y ago
I think the issue is that ICANN belives it has the right to contact information to the people it has granted a licence of a domain. I believe Whois information isn't really intended for the end users, but rather the administrators of t
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by trombone8 11y ago
How? By finding bugs in the interface that allows hostile users to set new values for the email address at the registrar and using this for triggering the 15 days period?
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by trombone8 11y ago
Why need it be a test? If verification just needs a click on a link it doesn't seem very onerous to require that click. If the mail doesn't arrive, you know you have a problem with a deadline NOW, instead of a randomly appearing p
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by trombone8 11y ago
To me, one issue seems to be that ICANN dares to demand of the registrar that they must verify the contact information that is REQUIRED to be present in a registration... that's not really a sane stance to have when you sell a subscrip
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by trombone8 11y ago
It would seem these rules apply to any registrar that gets domain names from Icann...