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Small Business Administration Objects to .US Deal
rlarner writes: "The United States Small Business Administration has written a letter to the NTIA that challenges the .US sale. The SBA claims that the UDRP and sunrise period were not properly enacted - they needed comment periods, etc. The letter is here." We've done a few previous stories about the handling of .us. Free registration of second-level domains under .us were supposed to go live shortly.
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After 600+ posts and 20 articles, my karma has been peaked at 50 for what seems like forever now. My new campaign: Karma Suicide!! Every post from now until my karma's back at zero will be this short crapflood posted with my +1 bonus (which i've lost already). So moderators: Do your worst! You got only 6 more points to go! Mod me troll/OT/Overrated/etc to get my karma back to where it began. Do this ASAP! And as for the rest of you, commit karma suicide today!
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
This early post for Ida!
The EIN consists of a high capacity fiber-optic network based on ownership or contractual access to approximately 18,000 miles of fiber optic network capacity throughout the United States. At December 31, 2000, the EIN included 25 pooling points of which 18 were in the U.S. and one each in Tokyo, London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, Dusseldorf and Frankfurt, allowing the EIN to connect to most major U.S. cities and a large number in Europe. The breadth of pooling points within the EIN extends its reach by allowing connectivity with a greater number of network and service providers. Enron anticipates further increasing the scope and reach of the EIN by adding pooling points during 2001.
The EIN's fiber network and imbedded software intelligence bypasses traditional fragmented and congested public internet routes to deliver faster, higher quality data. Enron's Broadband Operating System provides the intelligence to the EIN and connects to both physical and software network elements. Enron's broadband operating system enables the EIN to: (i) provision bandwidth in real time; (ii) control quality and access to the network for internet service providers; and (iii) control and monitor applications as they stream over the network to ensure quality and avoid congested routes. Enron's broadband operating system automates the transaction process from the order's inception to electronic billing and funds transfer. As a result, the EIN allows Enron to provide high quality content delivery services for content providers and to contract for firm bandwidth delivery commitments to support Enron's bandwidth intermediation business.
Similar to its wholesale energy businesses, Enron acts as principal in its bandwidth transactions and makes markets for bandwidth capacity. Enron provides bandwidth on demand at specified service levels and guaranteed delivery. Enron aggregates bandwidth supplies from multiple counterparties and, from its portfolio of bandwidth contracts, provides flexible, low cost bandwidth management products to its customers. Enron believes that customers will be able to reduce costs by paying for only the bandwidth they use, at prices that reflect the current market. Enron completed the first bandwidth transaction in December 1999, a monthly incremental contract for bandwidth between New York City and Los Angeles. Enron entered into over 300 intermediation transactions during 2000. Enron's plans for the bandwidth capacity markets include risk management products, structured finance and bandwidth portfolio management. In addition to bandwidth, Enron is developing markets and managing risk for all elements of networks, including dark fiber, circuit transactions, internet transit, private transport and storage.
Enron believes that applying its skills developed in the merchant energy services market to the developing bandwidth market can result in operating efficiencies to participants in this market. Development of bandwidth and other related products as commodities will be dependent, among other things, on the ability of the industry to develop and measure quality of service benchmarks and connectivity of networks of market participants to facilitate processing of contracted services. There can be no assurance that such a market will develop.
Enron provides premium broadband delivery services for media and entertainment, financial services, general enterprise and technology companies. The transportation of media-rich content, including live and on-demand streaming video, over the EIN significantly enhances the quality and speed to end-users from that provided by the public internet. Enron focused its efforts in 2000 on the development of a broadband entertainment-on-demand platform to service the anticipated growing demand for interactive entertainment services to the consumer. Enron is pursuing opportunities related to the commercial and technical entertainment on demand model developed during 2000. There can be no assurance that a broad market will develop for premium broadband delivery services.
Nice one, lunchy.
I got banned. Let this be a lesson : keep your karma low
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
Business and people as well (parents mostly anyway).
.xxx not a reality?
.xxx domain.
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Follow me for a second here.....
Why is
1) Think how much easier it would be for corporations to block "inappropriate" sites.
2) Parental Software would actually protect kids from viewing adult material.
3) I can't see it hurting the porn industry. Hell, they make more money than any other type of business on the web.
Just my 2 cents, I know it's somewhat off topic, but I just find it appalling that this is more of an issue than the creation of the
*This has been yet another Yopt mini-rant, NOT brought to you by the The Helena Rubinstein Foundation. Todays Letter is X X & X and the number 2x4x6x8*
if somebody knows about domain-name origins: Why is South Africa .za? My wife asked last nite.
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Everything Solaris recently posted a slew of articles, showing that the Solaris community is alive and well. Featuring Open Source software, articles like "Providing Core Customer Services" discuss how to set up that new infrastructure with both Open Source and high-availability in mind. Other interesting articles include, "Replacing Sendmail with Postfix" and "Upgrading to ProFTPD."