blurbytree's comments

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: How SOPA Could Ruin My Life

Free speech has many exceptions. So no, you shouldn't be able to link to anything you want to. Just like free speech, there are many exceptions about what you can link to which are already illegal.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: “It’s Time to Give GoDaddy a Break”

I agree that GoDaddy should be given a break. Not because I like them, but because I hate internet mob bullying in general. They've been kicked to the ground by the baying mob, and have said they're sorry.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: “It’s Time to Give GoDaddy a Break”

FWIW I've used them for SSL certs. I've had to call support a couple of times, and both times their support was outstanding... I mean surprisingly ridiculously good.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: Amazon Has Drastically Changed the Way I Read

There's tons of other time for that, when you can't read etc. eg when you're driving.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: Fixing holes in EC2 reliability

The other lesson I'd add is that if an instance dies and can't be rebooted, you'll need to stop/start it, which will result in an IP address change.

Best to have elastic IPs at the ready for that instance, or be prepared to deal with the IP changes.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: Dear MG Siegler, Are you seriously upset about your photo?

How about when your kid/elderly relative does a search on google and sees it?

Google can choose to allow or disallow what they want.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: Why ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10 in JavaScript

There are only 3 things, which aren't surprising to anyone who has done much js.

  1). a list of expressions eg (foo,bar,baz) evaluates to the last one.
  2). Array(4) creates an empty array of 4 elements
  2). Array(4).toString() = ",,,"

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

I don't think killing an elephant away from any village or crops proves that the elephant isn't a nuisance for that village, or that it routinely destroys the crops.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

There's a thing called due process. There's law.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

So fix the bit that's broken - the government. Companies are just playing by the rules.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

You're also posting endless articles (Not you personally ;) ), trying to poke everyone else into doing the same.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

I'm in no way affiliated or connected to GoDaddy. I don't have any domains registered with them. I dislike internet hate mobs, which as you say are designed to "teach them a lesson".

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

He killed the elephant because it was destroying the communities crops, and the community got fed well from the meat.

I don't think it's quite as one sided as you propose.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

They're cheap, they work, they're not going to go out of business....

Couldn't care less if their CEO likes hunting, or if they help the US government with its internet censorship agenda. Hate the US government for that, not random companies.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

Yes. Regardless, protests like this never achieve anything apart from wasting peoples time.

If you don't like GoDaddy, or disagree with some of their policies, don't use them. It's the whipping people up into an internet hate mob unconcerned with any facts that I find distasteful.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: 3.3 million e-mails between the most powerful men are about to be released.

For example, they'd make anyone possessing, downloading, reading, printing etc any of these emails a 'terrorist' and imprison them indefinitely.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

No. But I think people should make up their own minds.

The process of whipping up an internet hate mob with the aim of destroying <person>/<company> etc is one of the parts of the internet I detest the most. It's ugly bullying.

It rarely concerns itself with facts, just how big the internet hate mob can grow to and whether they can succeed at destroying their chosen enemy.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: Why ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10 in JavaScript

It's linked directly in the original question?

http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?24,33349,33405

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: Why ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10 in JavaScript

It's surprising if you haven't used javascript before I guess.

blurbytree | 14 years ago | on: 3.3 million e-mails between the most powerful men are about to be released.

And, it's the reason governments will clamp down and regulate the internet more and more.

This is why we can't have nice things.