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  1. Disadvantages of ISO by BillGatesLoveChild · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Dark Corners of the OpenXML Standard

    Once it is ratified as an ISO Standard, the standard is locked up and anyone that does want to a copy has to buy it from ISO. These are copyrighted. They're not cheap; thousands of dollars. Out of the reach of the average hobbyist, and not listed anywhere on the Internet. That 6,000 page draft will vanish into the mists of time.

    Larger Companies can afford this, but garage companies and hobbyists definitely can't. So what's the chance of an open source or even small upstart challenging Microsoft's Documentonopoly? Zero.

    Want another example? ISO country codes. The country codes (e.g. .us, .jp) are actually ISO, and ISO ended up backing off on a demand for royalties for this(!) But if you want state codes (e.g. California, Kantou), well, forget it unless you want to buy them off ISO. http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/ 2003-September/001472.html

    ISO aren't the only ones guility of doing this. IEEE do it as well. Want the latest simulation standard? Then get out your checkbook: http://standards.ieee.org/catalog/olis/compsim.htm l

    ISO and the IEEE are enemies of openness. Microsoft is taking a page out of their gamebook.

    ISO or IEEE certification is a *bad* thing.

  2. Re:Greylisting by hta · · Score: 1 · on I am the Most Spammed Person in the World

    I've got a web page with the greylisting database stats for my mail server at my webserver. It shows on the low side of a thousand messages being held by SQLgrey's block at any given time - which translates to less than a thousand spams per day blocked.
    It's a significant decrease in spam getting through, but no panacea.

  3. Full List of April Fools Web Sites by Urgo · · Score: 5, Informative · on Introducing RMS-Lint

    For a full updated list of sites pulling april fools jokes see here

    Some of the latest enteries:
    livejournal.com - on userinfo pages, "Friend"/"Friend Of" -> "Stalking"/"Stalked By"
    www.gpf-comics.com - Comic mirrored.
    smh.com.au - Yum-cha trolleys with "L" plates
    www.clutchfans.com - Patrick Ewing returning to NBA
    www.freeciv.org - Freeciv ANSI client
    www.rav4world.com - Closed? Should have announced that TOMORROW!
    www.retrocrush.com - Nude pics of Jaclyn Smith
    westcoaster.net - Roller coaster site turned into teen girl site
    www.meowpawjects.com - Sock people forced webmaster to take website down.
    miceage.com - Disney merges with Walmart
    www.badgerbadgerbadger.com - Badgers replaces with zombies
    skepdic.com - Skeptic's Dictionary closing
    fool.com - Buffett buys Krispy Cream
    launch.com - Britney Spears & Jason Alexander To Renew Wedding Vows
    MetaFilter.com - Turned in to a Wiki for the day
    www.ddrkc.com - owner sold site to a user that is unpopular
    brownpau.com - March for Web Standards
    www.beyondunreal.com - ut2k4 production suspended
    globetechnology.com - Microsoft Solitaire
    www.modernwiccan.com - Randomized Color Scheme
    bbs.fuckedcompany.com - Site shutting down
    www.diary-x.com - looks like diaryland!
    theprp.com - Music site to "Previously Ridden Ponies"
    mpx200.org - Pocket PC with 2Gb system memory/Smart Drunk Pocket PC application
    www.macosxhints.com - triple G5 Powermacs
    www.slyfx.com - AOL buys slyfx
    palminfocenter.com - Palms for toddlers.
    www.carniola.org - fake news story
    eikenes.alvestrand.no - Considering porn spam to be in a separate dialect to everything else
    defunctgames.com - Pimps At Sea fox xbox

  4. Full list of april fools jokes by Urgo · · Score: 4, Informative · on Omniscience Protocol

    For a full updated list of sites pulling april fools jokes see here

    Some highlites:
    livejournal.com - on userinfo pages, "Friend"/"Friend Of" -> "Stalking"/"Stalked By"
    www.gpf-comics.com - Comic mirrored.
    smh.com.au - Yum-cha trolleys with "L" plates
    www.clutchfans.com - Patrick Ewing returning to NBA
    www.freeciv.org - Freeciv ANSI client
    www.rav4world.com - Closed? Should have announced that TOMORROW!
    www.retrocrush.com - Nude pics of Jaclyn Smith
    westcoaster.net - Roller coaster site turned into teen girl site
    www.meowpawjects.com - Sock people forced webmaster to take website down.
    miceage.com - Disney merges with Walmart
    www.badgerbadgerbadger.com - Badgers replaces with zombies
    skepdic.com - Skeptic's Dictionary closing
    fool.com - Buffett buys Krispy Cream
    launch.com - Britney Spears & Jason Alexander To Renew Wedding Vows
    MetaFilter.com - Turned in to a Wiki for the day
    www.ddrkc.com - owner sold site to a user that is unpopular
    brownpau.com - March for Web Standards
    www.beyondunreal.com - ut2k4 production suspended
    globetechnology.com - Microsoft Solitaire
    www.modernwiccan.com - Randomized Color Scheme
    bbs.fuckedcompany.com - Site shutting down
    www.diary-x.com - looks like diaryland!
    theprp.com - Music site to "Previously Ridden Ponies"
    mpx200.org - Pocket PC with 2Gb system memory/Smart Drunk Pocket PC application
    www.macosxhints.com - triple G5 Powermacs
    www.slyfx.com - AOL buys slyfx
    palminfocenter.com - Palms for toddlers.
    www.carniola.org - fake news story
    eikenes.alvestrand.no - Considering porn spam to be in a separate dialect to everything else
    defunctgames.com - Pimps At Sea fox xbox

  5. ITU is very technically competent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting · on ICANN Troubles At UN Summit On Internet

    To the stupid posts above mentioning that "diplomats" are not competent to handle the technical issues: diplomats are there to focus on the process, not the specifics.

    ITU (this is a UN-ITU joint summit, isn't it?) is perfectly competent to handle the technical issues linked with numbering and naming. They do it very well already for the phone and for a portion of the OID tree.

  6. Good Analysis by Harald Alvestrand by dgreenwood · · Score: 5, Interesting · on ICANN Board Spurns Democratic Elections
    Harald Avlestrand has written what I consider a good analysis relating to ICANN Reform

    " ICANN Reform - a personal view

    Note: This is not the view of any body, organization or entity that I
    sometimes represent. It is my personal attempt to organize thoughts that can
    form the basis of saying something about how ICANN should be organized.


    What ICANN was designed to do

    ICANN, as designed, was supposed to carry out a few tasks:


    • Control the content of the "root zone file"
    • Hand out address space (IPv4 and IPv6) in a responsible manner to RIRs
    • Perform book-keeping functions on other number assignments

    All these functions can occupy a full-time person. Making sure the
    information about those changes and modifications are visible to the world at
    large throuh a web service can occupy another.


    The rest of ICANN is concerned with one matter only:


    Who gives those two people their instructions?



    ..."
  7. A few tools by Ludoo · · Score: 4, Informative · on LDAP Tools - Where are they?
    maybe there are some duplicates with the above posts
    Object Identifiers Schema Browsers Language Libraries Exchange Schema
  8. Re:How to write S�ren's name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on IP Theft in the Linux Kernel

    You're a fucking knob:

    link

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    Sure the official name is "The X Window System" but many people refer to it as X-Windows. After all, you knew what I was talking about, didn't you?

    Ass.....

  9. ASN.1? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Old Protocol Could Save Massive Bandwidth

    You've got to be kidding.

    Compare SNMP, LDAP, and Kerberos (if you've ever worked with implementations of them) with SMTP and NNTP.