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Canada / Geek / General / wtf — 16 Comments
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May 10

Mobilicity Launches… on GoDaddy

Mobilicity, a new mobile phone carrier is launching in Canada on May 15th, 2010. Starting in Toronto, then covering other major cities like Vancouver, and Montreal, the service is competitively priced with unlimited plans for calling and text messages at around $35 dollars (CAD) a month, which is pretty sweet.

After seeing some buzz on Twitter about Mobilicity, I went to their website, which was so slow I thought I was on dial-up.

This amateur stuff from a Telecom?
No… It can’t be.

But after seeing a database connection error (This means shit is broken for all your non-techies) I realized something was really up.

Check this out:

# host www.mobilicity.ca
www.mobilicity.ca has address 173.201.38.96
# host 173.201.38.96
96.38.201.173.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ip-173-201-38-96.ip.secureserver.net.

Huh? Secureserver.net is….

# whois 173.201.38.96
 
OrgName:    GoDaddy.com, Inc.
OrgID:      GODAD
Address:    14455 N Hayden Road
Address:    Suite 226
City:       Scottsdale
StateProv:  AZ
PostalCode: 85260
Country:    US
 
NetRange:   173.201.0.0 - 173.201.255.255
CIDR:       173.201.0.0/16
OriginAS:   AS26496
NetName:    GO-DADDY-SOFTWARE-INC
NetHandle:  NET-173-201-0-0-1
Parent:     NET-173-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Allocation
NameServer: CNS1.SECURESERVER.NET
NameServer: CNS2.SECURESERVER.NET
NameServer: CNS3.SECURESERVER.NET
Comment:    Please send abuse complaints to abuse@godaddy.com
RegDate:    2009-09-18
Updated:    2009-09-18

Its GoDaddy. A telecom that hosts its website on GoDaddy.

Yikes.

Canada / Geek / General — 2 Comments
29
May 08

Canadian Online Astronaut Recruitment

Today the Canadian Space Agency started a recruitment campaign for the next set of astronauts. From the website

“The Canadian Space Agency is seeking outstanding scientists, engineers and/or medical doctors with a wide variety of backgrounds. Creativity, diversity, teamwork, and a probing mind are qualities required to join the Canadian Space Agency’s Astronaut Corps. To withstand the physical demands of training and space flight, candidates must also demonstrate a high level of fitness and a clean bill of health.”

I decided to got through the sign up process. Interestingly enough, the first skill testing question was a CAPTCHA. Seriously – What the fuck point would there be for a BOT to sign up to become an astronaut?
Astronaut Recruitment

Typical questions may include

Whats the furthest distance you’ve been from home?

Do you easily become nauseous?

Are you comfortable peeing into a tube? But seriously, it’s pretty cool that we’re recruiting for astronauts on the internet. Space travel seems so casual now, but still very very elite. I guess I’ll have to wait until they start mining turbinium on mars.