Nominet
What on earth justifies Nominet been involved in this project?
605 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Nov 2009
One of the hotels I stayed in whilst travelling around Vietnam had the default username and password on the router, I kept logging in as admin and rebooting it when things got clogged up.
I was going to tell them when I checked out, but had second thoughts due to a surprisingly well built Vietnamese gentleman working reception that morning...
What we're finding is a large number of fake ecommerce sites that are scraping content from websites, including ours, and passing them off as real.
Some of these sites "sell" our own brand products. We had a case this morning where we are out of stock in one size but a customer got in touch with us and said "Well, www.whatever-site-that-is-only-registered-for-a-year-and-has-an-odd-domain-name. has it for sale, how come you don't when you make it?"
Before the Interwebs, an English cleaner was working in a TV station in Australia where they were rehearsing an obit on the Queen's death. On hearing this, she rang her mother who still lived in the UK with the news.
Mother then rings local radio station to ask if they can confirm the Queen had died. Who duly broadcast such news...
(might have been about '93 as I was working in the media sector then)
Does anyone care? Does anyone really pay attention to the domain that is shown from search engine results? (I'm talking the general public here though.) The only one I thought had legs was .bank to be run by a registrar that would only register them to known financial institutions (though the Nationwide's on both sides of the Atlantic might have had to scrap it out in the car park). The rest, just a money grab for ICANN.
And on that note, I'm never going to go on Bebo again....
I've never had a Microsoft call, but like others have stated, it's our job to keep them trying to scam us rather than those more vulnerable.
I do have fun with others, with ambulance chasers: I say I can't talk due to the CAA being involved. When they ask who they are, I say "It's the Civil Aviation Authority, it's because of the plane crash"
People trying to flog phones: "Do you have any family that would be interested in this offer" Me, after a short pause and a sniff, "Both my parents were on the plane that got shot down over the Ukraine"
...amongst others...
Surely we are getting to the point where cables are unnecessary. I already get a faster download speed at home on my mobile compared to my home broadband. (and I live in a mid-sized town, FWIW) Must be better to put the money into getting everybody tooled up with 4G and move from there?
Ancient applications platform?
CF was released in 1995, a year after PHP. And the latest version was released only 7 months ago.
I know you guys don't "get" CF, but it is used by a hell of a lot of very large companies and various government bodies. (yes, I use it and have done for since CF4.5...)