Par for the course.

Hope they snagged GeorgeWBushPresidentalLibrary.com and other variants as well. Monkeyboy deserves to leave office shaking in impotent rage.

Full of win!

I thought that was illegal to do now.

or was the dude who gave microsoft's domain name back to them for free an idiot?

log_jammin: I thought that was illegal to do now.

or was the dude who gave microsoft's domain name back to them for free an idiot?

Microsoft is a registered trademark, I somehow doubt that the Dubyah Library is the same. Without and deep and profound knowledge of U.S. legislation when it comes to domain squatting, I would guess that it would make quite a bit of a difference.

/Does over here
//The guy who was squatting google.no lost HARD in court

I thought Dubyah had a secret url since the everything in the library would be secret.

BitwiseShift: I thought Dubyah had a secret url since the everything in the library would be secret.

I actually know one of the people working on it - a professor of mine who works for the National Archives. Says she's getting real tired of the "two coloring books and My Pet Goat" comments.

saintstryfe: BitwiseShift: I thought Dubyah had a secret url since the everything in the library would be secret.

I actually know one of the people working on it - a professor of mine who works for the National Archives. Says she's getting real tired of the "two coloring books and My Pet Goat" comments.

That's got to be hell.

The taxpayer pays, so who cares?

ilambiquated: The taxpayer pays, so who cares?

Actually, presidential libraries are privately funded. Bill Clinton's was supposedly built with tons of Saudi Money.

Cornwell: Microsoft is a registered trademark, I somehow doubt that the Dubyah Library is the same. Without and deep and profound knowledge of U.S. legislation when it comes to domain squatting, I would guess that it would make quite a bit of a difference.

I asked because I thought a few actors/famous people sued over their names being owned by other people.

As a former sysadmin of the Clinton presidential library website, I'm getting a kick out of these replies...

I have never worked with a more bureaucratic technical organization. I've worked for a phone company that had less bureaucracy and more intelligence.

I notified those idiots many times of various impending failures. By the time we got rid of that crap, two of their three old busted ass v210s had died and the last one was barely limping along.

TwistedFark: saintstryfe: BitwiseShift: I thought Dubyah had a secret url since the everything in the library would be secret.

I actually know one of the people working on it - a professor of mine who works for the National Archives. Says she's getting real tired of the "two coloring books and My Pet Goat" comments.

That's got to be hell.

Well, she doesn't say too much specific. I wish I could name drop, but because I assume she's under a severe NDA, plus professional ethics (archivists can't say a whole lot about their collections until they're released. Don't give away what people will pay for access to, you know), I don't want to hurt her in any way.

She's damn good at her job, though. Very dedicated, very professional. She takes the train from Washington to New York one day a week to teach at my school, simply because she feels it's part of her professional obligation to help teach new LIS students. Damn fine professor, good person too. Helped me with a registration problem more then any one else.

Actually, I've had a banner semester for good professors. Between her, my meta data instructor who is Library Journal's Teacher of the year (new window, and yes, I'll name drop him), and the person who operates one of the more fiscally sound library systems in the entire US, I got some first rate education this semester.

All this, and all it cost is the down payment on a house.

saintstryfe: I actually know one of the people working on it - a professor of mine who works for the National Archives. Says she's getting real tired of the "two coloring books and My Pet Goat" comments.

I'm guessing she made the choice to take the job, so she can suck it up. A library for a vehement anti-intellectual is going to be the butt of quite a few jokes.

cot: I'm guessing she made the choice to take the job, so she can suck it up. A library for a vehement anti-intellectual is going to be the butt of quite a few jokes.

A presidential library is a big feather in the cap of an archivist, regardless of the president. As I understand it, she is not doing the displays or anything like that, she's doing the nuts-and-bolts of preservation, managing the cataloging of those materials that haven't been cataloged yet, ect. She's not a political employee, she's employed by the National Archives, career, and doesn't choose the projects

don't be so libby, jees. I know Bush is a moron, and his political appointees are schmucks, but not everyone who works for the man is actually a political lacky.

Presidential libraries also have a board and budget that is used to funnel money tax free to people of the President's choosing

Ho. Lee. shiat. I grew up with this guy...what a badass.

saintstryfe: A presidential library is a big feather in the cap of an archivist, regardless of the president. As I understand it, she is not doing the displays or anything like that, she's doing the nuts-and-bolts of preservation, managing the cataloging of those materials that haven't been cataloged yet, ect. She's not a political employee, she's employed by the National Archives, career, and doesn't choose the projects

So will we finally find out who's corpse Cheney is keeping in his man sized safe?

I'm betting that it's a captured vampire that Cheney is slowly draining of its blood to keep him alive as the blood of human babies no longer worked following the replacement of his heart with the Cyberdyne Cardiacatron 2000.

saintstryfe: A presidential library is a big feather in the cap of an archivist, regardless of the president. As I understand it, she is not doing the displays or anything like that, she's doing the nuts-and-bolts of preservation, managing the cataloging of those materials that haven't been cataloged yet, ect. She's not a political employee, she's employed by the National Archives, career, and doesn't choose the projects

Actually this reminds me, it's really too bad that she wasn't working for the Bush Administration sooner. They might not have had so many issues with their "lost" emails.

saintstryfe: cot: I'm guessing she made the choice to take the job, so she can suck it up. A library for a vehement anti-intellectual is going to be the butt of quite a few jokes.

A presidential library is a big feather in the cap of an archivist, regardless of the president. As I understand it, she is not doing the displays or anything like that, she's doing the nuts-and-bolts of preservation, managing the cataloging of those materials that haven't been cataloged yet, ect. She's not a political employee, she's employed by the National Archives, career, and doesn't choose the projects

don't be so libby, jees. I know Bush is a moron, and his political appointees are schmucks, but not everyone who works for the man is actually a political lacky.

I'm willing to bet no one is making fun of her, just the man behind the library. Have her come up with better jokes than the coloring book joke. Then she can lambast everyone who uses it and tell better jokes. Kinda like the scene in the movie Roxanne

saintstryfe: cot: I'm guessing she made the choice to take the job, so she can suck it up. A library for a vehement anti-intellectual is going to be the butt of quite a few jokes.

A presidential library is a big feather in the cap of an archivist, regardless of the president. As I understand it, she is not doing the displays or anything like that, she's doing the nuts-and-bolts of preservation, managing the cataloging of those materials that haven't been cataloged yet, ect. She's not a political employee, she's employed by the National Archives, career, and doesn't choose the projects

don't be so libby, jees. I know Bush is a moron, and his political appointees are schmucks, but not everyone who works for the man is actually a political lacky.

Conversely: if she ever DID vocalize anything on the "no-no" list of things not to say, her job will be filled with someone that WILL kowtow to the Layman's Bush Doctrine (thou shalt have no other political ideals before mine).

Wouldn't the average person wanting to go to that particular site type in www.GeorgeWBushLibarry.com anyway?

log_jammin: I thought that was illegal to do now.

or was the dude who gave microsoft's domain name back to them for free an idiot?

Pretty much everything comes down to legal fees. Microsoft, as well as having a trademark which makes a strong case, has the money to choke anybody that crosses them to death.

Here without a trademark I don't think any case brought would be guaranteed to win and the legal fees would likely be on level with the pay off. The company's options were the following

1) Lose 20 K + contesting this in court. Have to move temporarily to another URL while it's being settle and in all likelihood lose the contract (though Bush's gov rewards dumber things)
1a) Win the site back months down the line
1b) Possibly lose and be completely screwed

2) Blush and pay up 30K keeping what must be a considerable contract.

saintstryfe: I actually know one of the people working on it - a professor of mine who works for the National Archives. Says she's getting real tired of the "two coloring books and My Pet Goat" comments.

You can tell her that I sympathize. I think it's wrong to short-sell an institution like that...an institution that's bound to have one of the largest comic book sections anywhere...

Mr. Coffee Nerves: Wouldn't the average person wanting to go to that particular site type in www.GeorgeWBushLibarry.com anyway?

Only until they secure the rights to fail.org

Domains are becoming passe. I simply type in the address bar what I'm looking for and read the google results.

So instead of typing www.georgewbushlibaray..libarar...lib..lib..lieberal..fark..

I'd type George Bush Library and let google find it for me.

They could have used another domain, such as GWBLibrary.com and moved on.

This was a waste of 30k.

Because I'm bored:

rob.d:
This was a waste of 30k.

Not if you recieved it.
:)

TwistedFark: That's got to be hell.

So does the idea of working on a library to commemorate a guy who freely admits he doesn't read books.

DAMNIT.

Missed out on a good one here. I'm sorry, but that domain name is pricessless. Deff worth more then 30K.

What were they thinking!?

IXI Jim IXI: Mr. Coffee Nerves: Wouldn't the average person wanting to go to that particular site type in www.GeorgeWBushLibarry.com anyway?

Only until they secure the rights to fail.org

I was thinking more along the lines of Eightyearsofepicfail.com but yours works too.

TyrantII: DAMNIT.

Missed out on a good one here. I'm sorry, but that domain name is pricessless. Deff worth more then 30K.

What were they thinking!?

That they didn't want a visit from the Secret Service's "SPecial Persuasion" division? Including an all expenses paid trip to an "Undisclosed location?"

Or the IRS's special audit team...you know the one. The one that "finds" all sorts of violations.

Free Radical:I was thinking more along the lines of Eightyearsofepicfail.com but yours works too.


80 ears of epic fail? Is that when Ali Baba's band of thieves doesn't listen to him and crazy hijinks ensue?

log_jammin: Cornwell: Microsoft is a registered trademark, I somehow doubt that the Dubyah Library is the same. Without and deep and profound knowledge of U.S. legislation when it comes to domain squatting, I would guess that it would make quite a bit of a difference.

I asked because I thought a few actors/famous people sued over their names being owned by other people.

The guy who owned MikeRowesoft.com (not Mike Rowe) got to keep his domain because it didn't break trademark laws.

DoWhatNowToWhat: The guy who owned MikeRowesoft.com (not Mike Rowe) got to keep his domain because it didn't break trademark laws.

I thought it WAS Mike Rowe who owned MikeRowesoft.com, just not THE Mike Rowe?

Ahh domain squatting. Patent trolling for retards.

Harvey Manfrenjensenjen: Free Radical:I was thinking more along the lines of Eightyearsofepicfail.com but yours works too.


80 ears of epic fail? Is that when Ali Baba's band of thieves doesn't listen to him and crazy hijinks ensue?

I lol'd

3M stock must be through the roof on account of the Bush library. They make the best redacting tape.

hahahahaha. it'd just have coloring books anyway.

As a former NOC tech at Illuminati Online, where Governor George W. Bush's black Dell server cabinet was located, i'm getting a kick out of this. AFAIK, "Illuminati Karate" has no relationship with "Illuminati Online" AKA "IOCOM", but it's a curious coincidence, eh?

Interestingly, 13 months before the 2001 elections, Bush was suddenly moved to a more secure (and obviously, less politically embarrassing) location. It kind of felt like they knew he was going to win the election the following year, and realized he needed hardened facilities. Our webservers and userhosts were absolutely, totally violated by hackers, and our credit card processor suspended our privileges because we kept accepting stolen cards. LOL

This is an actual picture of Bush's server cabinet in 2000.



A couple more pics of our ghetto server room taken in 2001:



That "spot chiller" was the ONLY air conditioning for the server room, and hell no, we didn't have a generator to supply backup power.

Grrrr. OK, the election was actually in 2000. And I should clarify that our network was infested with hackers regardless of Bush's presence there. Some colo customers were cheerfully running their Ethernet cards in promiscuous mode, the userhosts and web servers were full of active, unknown accounts which weren't in the billing system, and our email servers were still handling virtual mail boxes for customers we'd lost years earlier. So many "secondary" accounts were not linked to the primary in any way, so they weren't deleted. People in Russia and China were cleverly running their hacker toolz on our userhosts disguised as IRC clients and our user's web directorie's permissions were not uniformly set.

We had a public TELNET interface to some legacy user account tools, which would let you launch Lynx, which would allow anyone to browse everyone's private web folders (and collect usernames for spamming). They barely understood me when I warned them about it, and cared even less about it. LOL

saw the guy interviewed on the local news. He registered JohnMcCainLibrary.com as well

FAIL.

Headline: "Co. buys back Bush library domain name for $35K"

I guess no one bothered to read TFA.