After the 2012 elections we MUST start a 3rd party. A conservative party.

Samantha on December 30, 2011 at 5:55 PM

THIS +100000000000

SilverDeth on December 30, 2011 at 11:34 PM

Do you suppose this is what Palin plans to do?

I do not believe Go Daddy no longer supports SOPA, since they helped write the legisltation in the first place. There’s a big difference between no longer publically showing support for the legislation and coming out against it.

Legislators need to go back and come back with something better and a lot less draconian.

lexhamfox on December 30, 2011 at 8:03 PM

Addressing piracy is like addressing polution: It doesn’t matter the results, as long as the politicans can say they “did something.” As the diminishing returns get more and more expensive, there will be more and more of a “problem in search of an answer,” and guys and gals like Lex here will wonder how the government got so gosh darned tyrannical.

he nation is drowning in debt, government spending is completely out of control, unemployment is ridiculously high, half the nation is on the public dole and wanting more, almost 50 million people on food stamps……. the US is broke and broken…… someone tell me how the F*** legislation like this comes to light and why there are folks on the public payrolls crafting this garbage? there’s NO PRIORITIES. SOPA is not only stupid, it just not a priority. No wonder they are at 5% approval….

maineconservative on December 30, 2011 at 5:29 PM

Because we upon an election year and the special interests who are pushing for this legislation is probably funneling a large sum of money at politicians who need the funds for their reelection campaigns. Of course that doesn’t apply to every member of Congress, but sadly it applies to most of them.

After the 2012 elections we MUST start a 3rd party. A conservative party.

Samantha on December 30, 2011 at 5:55 PM

THIS +100000000000

Will not stop anything really. Congress is no longer America. It is its own land, where those who work there are not held to account for anything they do. Even with our current mood, the people in congress today know they are almost 100% certain to be in office after the next election cycle.

There is a tipping point for all things. They can push and push and push…

As fictional Tyler Durden said…

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

This goes for political systems and the tyrants that oversee them as well.

After the 2012 elections we MUST start a 3rd party. A conservative party.

Samantha on December 30, 2011 at 5:55 PM

Yes, yes, and yes.

I honestly think that Congress is using the MPAA as an excuse to help give themselves some cover. The Internet is the great leveling field where anything goes. People in power have seen how governments were toppled with help from the internet. They also saw how a “safe” politician in NY suddenly found himself out of a job because of the internet.

Politicians have only one goal in office, stay in office. The Internet is quite possibly the most dangerous thing for a politician. With the rise of Blogs and Social Media it doesn’t take much for a political gaff to turn into a scandal.

Just my two cents, now worth $0.0098 thanks to Tim Geitner.

Individualist on December 30, 2011 at 4:21 PM

Great line. : )

Perverted. Did they show nudity? Was anybody harmed? Did the actors get paid? Were they working under duress? CAN YOU CHANGE THE CHANNEL?

Capitalist Hog on December 30, 2011 at 2:59 PM

Oh, LIGHTEN UP, FRANCIS!!!

Now, back in your pretentious nunnery, sniffy one.

tree hugging sister on December 30, 2011 at 3:14 PM

Your definitions of “perverted,” “pretentious,” “nunnery,” and no doubt the old standby “prude” could use some work. Either you’re ignorant of GoDaddy or your attitude simply speaks volumes about how we’re “defining deviancy down.”

And sorry; fell into “Shop” mode — didn’t mean to hijack.

because, for some strange reason, the Chinese are really interested in owning it.

unclesmrgol on December 30, 2011 at 7:49 PM

Isn’t it bizarre?

Some Russian is running a script against every scrap of server software I’ve heard of and a few I haven’t — I want to drive traffic just so my 404 count is not such an embarrassing fraction of my total hits :)

No point, Comrade! No point! Even if you cracked me, what are you going to do? Go through my Bacon essays and misspell all the words?

As far as my home network, if it’s my copy of Rebecca Black’s Friday, I’ll give it to you!

Glasnost!

APasserBy on December 30, 2011 at 8:17 PM

Prudes unite.

Many of us have long boycotted GoDaddy because of their perverted ads.

itsnotaboutme on December 30, 2011 at 2:36 PM

…CAN YOU CHANGE THE CHANNEL?

Capitalist Hog on December 30, 2011 at 2:59 PM

Just an observation: Taking your business somewhere else IS changing the channel!

I would have thought the last year would have disabused you of the belief that members of congress are for smaller government.

chemman on December 30, 2011 at 5:16 PM

Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, United States Constitution:

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

So, as badly conceived as SOPA is, it does deal with a right contained within our Constitution.

BocaJuniors on December 30, 2011 at 6:09 PM

Well, it’s not like he’s Barack Obama or someone else who requires our complete allegiance no matter what he says…

We aren’t liberals, in other words.

The thought that all you need is the equivalent of a warrant to shut down a site is chilling.

Disclosure: I myself have all of my domain names with GoDaddy because they have been proactive in dealing with spam. GoDaddy’s terms of service state that they will not provide any services to spammers, be it DNS, server space, or registry.

Do there’s a lot to be said for GoDaddy’s voluntary position with respect to privacy and copyrights.

CiLH1 on December 30, 2011 at 3:32 PM

I think you’ve missed the “why” — which GoDaddy didn’t do a very good job of explaining.

Spammers harvest registry records — in essence downloading the entire registry database — which in GoDaddy’s case is in the millions in terms of records. GoDaddy’s response was to restrict the numbers of records a given IP address could download in a given unit of time — thus slowing considerably the attempts by spammers to get the all-important list of e-mail address of the Name Holders who have registered domains at GoDaddy — which are certain to be a valid e-mail addresses and therefore quite valuable from a spammer’s point of view.

GoDaddy has implemented a method whereby the firewall is made transparent for other registrars who contact GoDaddy and give them the necessary netblock information.

I use this same workable technique at home to shield my SSH port on my server — because, for some strange reason, the Chinese are really interested in owning it.

In addition, it’s possible to get the registry records directly from the GoDaddy website if you are willing to deal with a CAPTCHA mechanism — thus allowing GoDaddy to claim that they meet all ICANN regulations — which regulations do NOT say that a registrar MUST provide bulk access to TCP/UDP Port 43 (Whois) records — only that they may provide such access to third parties.

See http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/whois-service-requirements-final-report-29jul10-en.pdf

I guess all your excitement with Congress disapproval numbers will disappear. Mine did.

American Dream 246 on December 30, 2011 at 6:39 PM

I have to acknowledge some tempering has now occurred.

You want to do something revolutionary? Do something like block all requests to Google from addresses in a .gov domain. Block access to Facebook and youTube from .mil. Do a little DNS blocking of your own to show how ugly it will get. Those would be “nuclear options”!

O/T

5% Think Congress Doing a Good Job: New Low

:) 5%

Axe on December 30, 2011 at 3:26 PM

WARNING. Low ratings for Congress is good. But I had a really bad wake up call yesterday with my banker. She was saying everybody is whining about the economy – I know she voted for the one of course so I replied right away that you get what you voted for. It’s because of Congress she said. I kind of agreed – throw them all out – but then the surprise: “if they would listen to him and do what he says things would be much better”…HUH???

So according to this moron, if the US is going down it is because of Congress…well, because Congress does not listen to obama!

I guess all your excitement with Congress disapproval numbers will disappear. Mine did.