One of the magazines I read weekly is The Economist, it has two types of subscription, online and printed, with 80 USD annually you can read the online version, if you prefer the printed version it goes for 220 USD annually. One thing makes me think, who is the person that works on the pdf version weekly and put it in the torrent? It’s not an easy job, it has an average of 150 pages and it’s an executive magazine, most of the readers can afford 80 USD annually, some evil executive has an internal doing this?

“Consumer electronics retailer CompUSA said Friday that it will go out of business after the holidays following sale of the company to Gordon Brothers Group LLC, a restructuring firm. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. CompUSA of Dallas operates 103 stores, which plan to run store-closing sales during the holidays. Privately held CompUSA, controlled by Mexican financier Carlos Slim Helu’s Grupo Carso SA, said discussions were under way to sell certain stores in key markets. Stores that can’t be sold will be closed.” Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/08/BU3ETQI3S.DTL

The DNS was created in 1984 and in 1985 top level domains were defined. The first top level domains were COM, ORG, EDU, GOV, MIL and ccTLD. In April 1985 cmu.edu, purdue.edu, rice.edu and ucla.edu were the first registered domain names. The first .gov was css.gov and was registered in June 1985. The first .org was mitre.org and was registered in July 1985. Now for the first .com which was registered on March 15 1985 and it was symbolics.com which still happens to be up and running, although not much to look at. Now for the first 100 registered domains:…