...it is about publishing them. You can request a free account and download the current zone file for the root dns.

Verisign also provides this service for free for .COM and .NET, CZDS is just a centralized place so you can get the zones for all the new gTLDs without requesting accounts at 500 registries.

This hack, while bad, doesn't directly affect the root dns system.

You proved the point of the article with this statement alone.

All the XWING Games were developed by Totally Games not Lucas Arts, Xwing vs Tie Fighter was just the first one that their logo was attached to.

I disagree with this statement that social skills are extremely easy to learn. Relating to others with different intentions, personalities and nationalities in various situations is difficult. It takes a lot of skill and practice. What it takes to sell someone a drink in a coffee shop is quite a bit different than trying to negotiate a deal with a Japanese Business man while playing golf. Relating in different social scenarios differ greatly, and can be treated as art.

BART is automated, the driver can operate the train but unless there is a problem with the computer their main job is to close the doors.

They are called Trolley Busses, and they operate in many cities in the united states including San Francisco.

California uses less energy per person because of the weather not because of the lack of manufacturing.

manufacturing is never going to come back to California not because of taxes, not because of environmental laws, but because the cost of living is so high. and it is high because it is a desirable place to live.

Except the HSR line that california is billing is from LOS ANGELES to SAN FRANCISCO.

It's actually fairly simple.

They don't want pissed off parents coming into the office.

Strip searching children: it's okay, they are preventing our children from using dangerous drugs, you know the things we should be preventing.

Canceling Proms: it's okay, we hate the gays, and we don't want our children exposed to the way the world really is because it doesn't fit in our world view.

Spying on children: AHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHhhhh you are watching my thieving child when they are home!?!

Parents want the school to do the tough things that they aren't willing to do. "i don't feel comfortable searching my kids if i think they are using the marijuana but it's okay because the school will do it for me." I think that 90% of parents are prefectly happy to let school administrators do their parenting for them, and with that power they took it too far with the webcam.

On and one more thing, the Washington post article is WRONG TOO.

This article summary is fairly misleading, they are no longer registering the .CN extension

Here is some background:

  In December, giving 2 days notice to the international registrars, the .CN registry changed their policy to require paper documentation to register a .CN domain name. In January, because the registry didn't plan this very well, and because they gave absolutely no notice, they decided to turn off registrations all together until they could figure out how to actually implement their new policy. The registry implemented their policy without figuring out actually how to implement their policy..

After a month of no registrations, they opened it up, changing their policy once again to only allow .CN registrations for companies not individuals, and only companies that had an office in china. From what i understand, they are trying to remove the stigma of .CN being the #1 fraud extension (before .cm came out that is)

So to be clear, godaddy is no longer doing .CN registrations because .CN is no longer completely automated, which makes it unprofitable with their business model which is primarily based on volume.

Godaddy had the 9.95 price point when their competition was ~25/yr, and it wasn't immediate. .CO is the .new .CM. I work at a registrar and almost all of our .CM registrations tend to be screened out using fake credit cards. Even after it goes live and the price point for .CO is probally going to be ~60/yr, that is still too expensive for the "legitimate" squatter to put up their advertising pages. Judging from the .CM registrations at my company that got through the screening process, they tend to be deleted within a few months when the credit card dispute comes through. The registry doesn't care because they have already gotten their registration fee. I'd say that atleast 50% of our .CM registrations are screened out as fraud automatically, and the remainder are a mix between companies trying for brand protection and fraud. .CO will never be a big legitimate tld, my feeling is that you are going to see:
    a) .CO domains parked or forwarded by legitimate users for brand protection
    b) .CO domains parked by the registrar due to a chargeback so they can get atleast some of the money they lost back.
    c) .CO domains parked by the client until the company that owns the name goes through the dispute process.

Bad thing for the internet, good thing for Columbia, good for .

This is a fairly old scam.

I remember atleast 10 years ago at an Arco station had a sticker on the machine that said don't enter in your card if the reader looks wierd. I have also seen that warning on swipe ATMs