I'm suprised "Freeside" and "Villa Straylight" haven't been mentioned. A few more suggestions:
Hull Breach
Auto Destruct
Warning Extreme Hazard to Crew
Watchtower
Fortress of Very Little Solitude
House of Pain
House of Fun
House of 1000 Corpses
House of the Rising Sun
Not That Node The Other Node No The OTHER Other Node.
I've been using my trusty StarTAC on Verizon for many a year now (motto: if it's still working, keep using it) but now I want to take the plunge into mobile development. Does Verizon support any platforms that have geek cred i.e. open source, large developer base, few restrictions, decent tools, goddamn-this-is-a-great-phone etc. etc. Verizon's network has been 5x5 in my experience so I'm reluctant to switch. ("Perhaps the other networks are just as good, we don't know. Frankly, we don't want to know.") But it seems its reluctant to let any of the cool kids hang out there.
Rewinding the scenario I spelled out a bit, this wouldn't involve any rewiring of DNS. Basically, if I owned a TLD, could I place contractual obligations on anyone that wanted to create domain names under it?
We already have TLDs with usage restrictions..edu,.gov, and.int domains cannot be used for any old web site. Many national domains can only be owned by residents/organizations residing in those countries.
But these are more of a benign nature. I'm talking about setting up TLDs that work on their own set of principles:
- The owners of the.anon TLD require domain name owners to adhere to strict rules regarding privacy an anonymity
- The owners of the.vegas TLD require domain name owners to cut them in on the action
- The owners of the.commons TLD require domain name owners to have creative commons licensing for all content.
- The owners of the.christ TLD require domain name owners to keep it clean
- and so on and so on.
Going back to the.bob scenario the TLD owners place restrictions on domain name owners regarding user authentication, revenue sharing, e-mail use, etc. The obligations placed on the domain name owners would effectively wall off the.bob domain, if not completely in reality.
Why this might sell is that visitors of domains under these TLDs would know what to expect. If I go to an.anon site I'm virtually guaranteed my boss or significant other won't find out what I do there (at least from the site owners.) If I'm a Christian I know a.christ site won't contain anything that will shake my faith. Users know that there is a third party overseeing the use of the domain they are visiting. If the site owners didn't follow the dictates of the TLD owners, they wouldn't have the domain name in the first place.
Just a thought experiment. Suppose you set up a TLD -.bob for instance. Users can set up domains for web sites, e-mail, FTP etc. within.bob just like any other domain, but the rules of using it are different from the rest of the web. Such as -
Web -
- Only other.bob account holders can access.bob sites. No one else can get in, not even google.
-.bob sites cannot be accessed anonymously, but.bob sites must guarantee privacy - your usage can't be shared with anyone else.
E-mail and IM -
- No anonymous addresses or accounts..bob e-mail addresses or chat names must be linked to an actual person.
-.bob users can only send/receive e-mails or IM to other.bob addresses. Nothing outside.bob is allowed in.
- Spam is not allowed. At all. You spam, you lose your.bob access
Content -
- Your.bob account comes with a license with nearly all known media companies. (www.timewarner.bob, for instance.) For a monthly fee you can access any media they have digitized - books, news, film, music, games, software, etc. It's DRMed out the wazoo, of course. All usage is tracked. Violate the terms of use and you lose your.bob access.
In other words, a fully privatized portion of the internet. A nightmare to some, but to others - "Access to all media? No spam? $39.95 a month? Where do I sign?"
Other TLDs could set up other ecologies..ftw might only allow services that are fully encrypted and anonymous, for example.
Is there anything that would prevent TLD owners from doing this?
How long will it be until storage technologies that reply on motors and spinning disks and some form of stylus (magnetic heads, lasers, etc.) are a thing of the past? Or are there fundamental reasons why motor-driven media will always have an edge over their solid-state brethren for the foreseeable future?
Couldn't in theory an add-on be built to convert an iTouch into a flown-blown cell phone? It would be a kludge to be sure but then you'd have the equivalent of an iPhone that works on any network.
Isn't it about time the Microsoft icon was updated? Bill the Gates is doing other things these days and who follows ST-TNG anymore? Maybe a screaming Steve Ballmer in a Darth Vader helmet instead?
Keanu will be hitting 45 by the time production rolls around. Isn't Spike supposed to be in his early 20s?
Now if he shaves his head and hits the gym and wants to play Jet..
..not that I support a live action version in the first place, or CG or avatar or 3D or whatever flavor of the decade they plan to add to the mix. Long live flat animation!
If the converter box coupons help keep perfectly good CRT TVs out of the wastestream it sounds like money well spent. (Relevent report on that from 60 Minutes)
(Anthony is at his PC playing Call of Duty, the sound of gunfire filling the office. The VP of Sales walks in.)
Vice President of Sales (nervously): Morning Anthony! It's a real good day we're havin' here in Peaksville! A real good day!
Sys Admin (rushing in): Good Lord! Both of the RAID drives are blank! The entire site is gone!
VP: Anthony, do you know anything about this?
Anthony: A message kept popping up on my screen saying the drives were nearing capacity. I don't like it when popups come up on my screen! So I deleted all the files. (waves his hands like a magician) Now all our drives are at 100% capacity!
SA: Why you little..
VP: Why it's real good that you done that Anthony! Real good! I hate when popups come up on my screen too, don't you Bill?
SA: Yes, I really hate that.
VP: Bill, why don't you go and restore the files from the backups?
SA (barely containing his anger): I would but when I went to the vault for the tapes it was filled with Pokemon cards.
VP: Anthony, do you know where the tapes are?
Anthony: I wished them into the cornfield. Silly stupid tapes! I needed the vault for my cards! What if there was a fire? Or a dragon attacked?
SA: Well, we can still restore from our offsite storage..
Anthony: Oh I shut that down, when did I do that? My Birthday! I needed money for my party. The accountants said there wasn't any and I got real sore! So I shut down nonessential services to fund my party. We had a petting zoo and everything!
SA (losing it): Nonessential! Do you realize what you've done!? The site's dead! Nearly six years of data, thousands of users gone! This means disgrace and bankruptcy!
(Anthony pauses the game and points his fingers at the SA, turning him into a jack-in-a-box. The VP stifles a screen.)
Anthony (unpausing the game): I didn't like that dumb old site anyway. We'll make a site so that people can play Call of Duty online for free!
VP: But Anthony we don't have the rights to..(Anthony shoots her a mean look) Why that's a fine idea, Anthony, real fine! We'll get started on it right away! Right away...
This is why users should be able to easily back up their own data for any online service. If a service entrusted with your data provides no straightforward way to drop a copy of it onto your own hard drive, don't trust it. I'd go as far to say that any service that doesn't strongly recommend you keep your own backups shouldn't be trusted.
Do the big kahunas of the "Web 2.0" world give users that option? Gmail, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter etcetera ad nauseam?
- "Rochambeau for it?"
- "Two out of three?"
- "Deal."
- "OK. Rock-paper-scissors-Shoot! Rock. Rock-paper-scissors-Shoot! Paper. Rock-paper-scissors-Shoot! Rock."
- "I win!"
- "Yeah, you win... go ahead and say it.."
- "Helmsman! Engines to FULL IMPULSE POWER!"
- "Doofus." (pushes button)
A couple of years back I downloaded a novel published under Creative Commons from a respected writer (excellent book, BTW.) The site included a PayPal "tip jar", so I put in five bucks. The writer wrote me soon afterward and kindly offered to send me a paperback copy of the book, as, after a few thousand downloads, I was the very first person to use the tip jar.
Not to knock Creative Commons, but our society may still need some rewiring to make it profitable profitable.
I'd be a little nervous using WiFi on a municipal network essentially built for the police. Is it encrypted? Anonymous? What are the privacy guarantees? If you surf to alqaedabarelylegalshootthepresidentfreecrackz.com ("I was just curious") will the po po (as the kids say) make a courtesy call?
Its a similar problem to something like Nursing, in the other direction. At my graduation, the CS group sat right behind the nursing group. There's lots of comments at how the CS group was 80% male. There were no comments at how the nursing group was 97% female.
I've always suspected the name for the profession was a major logjam here. A silly logjam I'll grant you, but it's still there. Can't we come up with a term for the profession with appropriately obscure Latin roots that means "takes care of sick people"?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm suprised "Freeside" and "Villa Straylight" haven't been mentioned. A few more suggestions:
Hull Breach
Auto Destruct
Warning Extreme Hazard to Crew
Watchtower
Fortress of Very Little Solitude
House of Pain
House of Fun
House of 1000 Corpses
House of the Rising Sun
Not That Node The Other Node No The OTHER Other Node.
(USA-centric post)
I've been using my trusty StarTAC on Verizon for many a year now (motto: if it's still working, keep using it) but now I want to take the plunge into mobile development. Does Verizon support any platforms that have geek cred i.e. open source, large developer base, few restrictions, decent tools, goddamn-this-is-a-great-phone etc. etc. Verizon's network has been 5x5 in my experience so I'm reluctant to switch. ("Perhaps the other networks are just as good, we don't know. Frankly, we don't want to know.") But it seems its reluctant to let any of the cool kids hang out there.
Rewinding the scenario I spelled out a bit, this wouldn't involve any rewiring of DNS. Basically, if I owned a TLD, could I place contractual obligations on anyone that wanted to create domain names under it?
.edu, .gov, and .int domains cannot be used for any old web site. Many national domains can only be owned by residents/organizations residing in those countries.
.anon TLD require domain name owners to adhere to strict rules regarding privacy an anonymity .vegas TLD require domain name owners to cut them in on the action .commons TLD require domain name owners to have creative commons licensing for all content. .christ TLD require domain name owners to keep it clean
.bob scenario the TLD owners place restrictions on domain name owners regarding user authentication, revenue sharing, e-mail use, etc. The obligations placed on the domain name owners would effectively wall off the .bob domain, if not completely in reality.
.anon site I'm virtually guaranteed my boss or significant other won't find out what I do there (at least from the site owners.) If I'm a Christian I know a .christ site won't contain anything that will shake my faith. Users know that there is a third party overseeing the use of the domain they are visiting. If the site owners didn't follow the dictates of the TLD owners, they wouldn't have the domain name in the first place.
We already have TLDs with usage restrictions.
But these are more of a benign nature. I'm talking about setting up TLDs that work on their own set of principles:
- The owners of the
- The owners of the
- The owners of the
- The owners of the
- and so on and so on.
Going back to the
Why this might sell is that visitors of domains under these TLDs would know what to expect. If I go to an
Just a thought experiment. Suppose you set up a TLD - .bob for instance. Users can set up domains for web sites, e-mail, FTP etc. within .bob just like any other domain, but the rules of using it are different from the rest of the web. Such as -
.bob account holders can access .bob sites. No one else can get in, not even google. .bob sites cannot be accessed anonymously, but .bob sites must guarantee privacy - your usage can't be shared with anyone else.
.bob e-mail addresses or chat names must be linked to an actual person. .bob users can only send/receive e-mails or IM to other .bob addresses. Nothing outside .bob is allowed in. .bob access
.bob account comes with a license with nearly all known media companies. (www.timewarner.bob, for instance.) For a monthly fee you can access any media they have digitized - books, news, film, music, games, software, etc. It's DRMed out the wazoo, of course. All usage is tracked. Violate the terms of use and you lose your .bob access.
.ftw might only allow services that are fully encrypted and anonymous, for example.
Web -
- Only other
-
E-mail and IM -
- No anonymous addresses or accounts.
-
- Spam is not allowed. At all. You spam, you lose your
Content -
- Your
In other words, a fully privatized portion of the internet. A nightmare to some, but to others - "Access to all media? No spam? $39.95 a month? Where do I sign?"
Other TLDs could set up other ecologies.
Is there anything that would prevent TLD owners from doing this?
How long will it be until storage technologies that reply on motors and spinning disks and some form of stylus (magnetic heads, lasers, etc.) are a thing of the past? Or are there fundamental reasons why motor-driven media will always have an edge over their solid-state brethren for the foreseeable future?
The satellite
Was out of sight
Radioactive though
It was all right
When it was high
But now its very low...
...except one.
You know...thingy.
Hopefully you just dump 'em in a box and they inductively charge. Otherwise the demand for power squids is gonna go through the roof.
Couldn't in theory an add-on be built to convert an iTouch into a flown-blown cell phone? It would be a kludge to be sure but then you'd have the equivalent of an iPhone that works on any network.
I sure hope someone got fired for *that* one!
Randall: Worse than getting robbed by some f'n Star Trek geek?
Dante: I'm not even supposed to be here today!
Isn't it about time the Microsoft icon was updated? Bill the Gates is doing other things these days and who follows ST-TNG anymore?
Maybe a screaming Steve Ballmer in a Darth Vader helmet instead?
..for a envelope full of trinkets.
Now if he shaves his head and hits the gym and wants to play Jet..
LOLCATS!!! <3 <3 <3 :-)
If the converter box coupons help keep perfectly good CRT TVs out of the wastestream it sounds like money well spent.
(Relevent report on that from 60 Minutes)
(Anthony is at his PC playing Call of Duty, the sound of gunfire filling the office. The VP of Sales walks in.)
Vice President of Sales (nervously): Morning Anthony! It's a real good day we're havin' here in Peaksville! A real good day!
Sys Admin (rushing in): Good Lord! Both of the RAID drives are blank! The entire site is gone!
VP: Anthony, do you know anything about this?
Anthony: A message kept popping up on my screen saying the drives were nearing capacity. I don't like it when popups come up on my screen! So I deleted all the files. (waves his hands like a magician) Now all our drives are at 100% capacity!
SA: Why you little..
VP: Why it's real good that you done that Anthony! Real good! I hate when popups come up on my screen too, don't you Bill?
SA: Yes, I really hate that.
VP: Bill, why don't you go and restore the files from the backups?
SA (barely containing his anger): I would but when I went to the vault for the tapes it was filled with Pokemon cards.
VP: Anthony, do you know where the tapes are?
Anthony: I wished them into the cornfield. Silly stupid tapes! I needed the vault for my cards! What if there was a fire? Or a dragon attacked?
SA: Well, we can still restore from our offsite storage..
Anthony: Oh I shut that down, when did I do that? My Birthday! I needed money for my party. The accountants said there wasn't any and I got real sore! So I shut down nonessential services to fund my party. We had a petting zoo and everything!
SA (losing it): Nonessential! Do you realize what you've done!? The site's dead! Nearly six years of data, thousands of users gone! This means disgrace and bankruptcy!
(Anthony pauses the game and points his fingers at the SA, turning him into a jack-in-a-box. The VP stifles a screen.)
Anthony (unpausing the game): I didn't like that dumb old site anyway. We'll make a site so that people can play Call of Duty online for free!
VP: But Anthony we don't have the rights to..(Anthony shoots her a mean look) Why that's a fine idea, Anthony, real fine! We'll get started on it right away! Right away...
This is why users should be able to easily back up their own data for any online service. If a service entrusted with your data provides no straightforward way to drop a copy of it onto your own hard drive, don't trust it. I'd go as far to say that any service that doesn't strongly recommend you keep your own backups shouldn't be trusted.
Do the big kahunas of the "Web 2.0" world give users that option? Gmail, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter etcetera ad nauseam?
They're not proper street lights if they don't.
- "Rochambeau for it?"
- "Two out of three?"
- "Deal."
- "OK. Rock-paper-scissors-Shoot! Rock. Rock-paper-scissors-Shoot! Paper. Rock-paper-scissors-Shoot! Rock."
- "I win!"
- "Yeah, you win... go ahead and say it.."
- "Helmsman! Engines to FULL IMPULSE POWER!"
- "Doofus." (pushes button)
A couple of years back I downloaded a novel published under Creative Commons from a respected writer (excellent book, BTW.) The site included a PayPal "tip jar", so I put in five bucks. The writer wrote me soon afterward and kindly offered to send me a paperback copy of the book, as, after a few thousand downloads, I was the very first person to use the tip jar.
Not to knock Creative Commons, but our society may still need some rewiring to make it profitable profitable.
Get his books, and if you friend's boss will swing for his one-day course, all the better.
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/index
I'd be a little nervous using WiFi on a municipal network essentially built for the police. Is it encrypted? Anonymous? What are the privacy guarantees? If you surf to alqaedabarelylegalshootthepresidentfreecrackz.com ("I was just curious") will the po po (as the kids say) make a courtesy call?
Jumbo Woolly - Mammoth.
A elephant barely alive.
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.
We have the technology.
We have the capability to make the world's first bionic mammoth.
Jumbo Woolly will be that mammoth.
We can make him better than he was before.
Better, tuskier, fuzzier.
Its a similar problem to something like Nursing, in the other direction. At my graduation, the CS group sat right behind the nursing group. There's lots of comments at how the CS group was 80% male. There were no comments at how the nursing group was 97% female.
I've always suspected the name for the profession was a major logjam here. A silly logjam I'll grant you, but it's still there. Can't we come up with a term for the profession with appropriately obscure Latin roots that means "takes care of sick people"?