“This somewhat amusing press release of sorts tells us one of those things we’ve all been waiting a while for. SCO(X) has announced that ‘it received a Nasdaq Staff Determination letter on December 21, 2007 indicating that as a result of having filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel has determined to delist the company’s securities from the Nasdaq Stock Market and will suspend trading of the securities effective at the open of business on Thursday, December 27, 2007.’ PJ at Groklaw has surmised that with effectively zero cash resources left,…

“The poker economy has never been flusher. There are an estimated 60m-80m regular players in America and perhaps 80m-100m elsewhere. Poker is by far the largest chunk of the online gambling market, which had worldwide revenues of around $15 billion in 2006—a figure that may be closer to $20 billion this year. Poker chips are among the best-selling items on Amazon.com. What was once the preserve of either high-rollers or low-lifes is now being roundly embraced by the mass of ordinary folk in between.” The Economist this week

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:…