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  1. Re:We can only hope so by burndive · · Score: 1 · on Will the U.S. Lose Control of the Internet?

    "Maybe, but right now the US is asserting control over everyone else's networks."

    No, they are providing an indexing service whereby a host's IP address can be obtained from a very large hierarchical look-up table.

    The only thing that makes this particular index "the" index, is that everyone has agreed to use it. If anyone doesn't want to use it, they are free to make an alternate one. Alternates exist, but no one uses them, because the current system is good enough.

    Personally, I wouldn't mind it if DNS was restructured to look something like this:

    http://us/org/slashdot/
    http://uk/co/amazon/
    http://com/ebay/
    etc.

    There's no reason that someone accessing web content should care which part of a URL is the host and which part is the directory, and it would blur the artificial status barrier that exists between hosting a domain, a subdomain, and a directory within a domain.

    I don't see why the whole ".xxx" thing is such a big deal. Why don't we all just agree that the following are flagged as porn:

    xxx.domain.com
    domain.com/xxx

  2. Not a very INSIGHTFUL article. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait · on ArsTechnica Explains O(1) Scheduler

    After I read this article I found that I had just wasted 5 minutes reading drivel which I knew already.

    Ars have dumbed this topic down so much so that it does not even go on to talk about the problems with the 2.4 seheduler but instead talks about Zinf at the end (a media player).

    I know its not the type of site typical slashdot readers (well educated computer enthuaists ) read, and its main audience is mac users they should atleast explain the difference this will make over the laymans 2.4 kernel.