My attitude is that connectivity has become basic infrastructure
I concur. I would like to see connections open everywhere with the option of limited surfing as Guest (should the host feel generous) or having to authenticate to my ISP (or the NBN or some central authority/network) through this random open connection, and have all usage billed to my account.
I find it odd that QPS Media has failed to supply the public with any technical information on what tools they are using and the scope of the exercise
Are they simply searching for wireless networks? Or going as far as trying default passwords?
Are they geocaching MAC Addresses and SSIDs that will be used in other investigations?
Are they sniffing traffic? Are they collecting any personally identifiable information?
While this is a nice service, I do think this does not fall under the purview of the state police
If this is simply a SIGINT operation in disguise, it is better left to the DSD or ASIO
If this is simply a community service, the state governement should use grants to coerce the industry to extend their voluntary code of practice so that ISP's are responsible for making their customers aware of the risks as part of the signup process.
This looks like a money grab from this years' budget
The QPS is always complaining that they do not have enough funding to pay their staff. Now they are wasting precious manhours to mine data that they could easily purchase (or even receive for free) from Google.
Merely 15 years ago I was doing the exact same thing and have been, on umpteen occasions, questioned, detained, given a 'move on' notice or just generally harassed.
No the.com domain belongs to the US..com,.net,.gov,.mil,.edu,.and org are ALL US domains.
I refute this claim.
[.com.org.net.edu.int ] were classified as 'World Wide Generic Domains' while [.gov.mil.us ] were US-only according to RFC 1591 [^1]
I highly recommend that you read the paper titled "WRONG TURN IN CYBERSPACE:
USING ICANN TO ROUTE AROUND THE APA AND THE CONSTITUTION" by A Michael Froomkin. [^2]
In 1998, ICAAN was formed and given management rights of the [.com.net.org ] TLD's by the USC. In 2000, ICAAN's rights were formally recognized by the DoC and separate (and conflicting) agreements were signed. U.S government retained control of [.int.edu ] domains and set restrictive polices on both (against the RFC). Please note that ICAAN is required to comply to RFC 1034, 1035 and 1591 [^3][^4]
Today, we no longer have the 'World Wide Generic Domains'. These have been replaced with a different TLD system which specifies Generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) as domains that operate directly under policies established by ICANN processes for the global Internet community. [^5] [.com.org.net ] are classified as gTLD's and thus are for the global Internet community. [^6]
Nowhere in this factsheet does it say that [.com ] etc belong to the US. This is simply regarding an agreement transferring management from the U.S government to ICAAN.
If you're a Canadian company with Canadian customers, use.ca, eh?.com makes it seem like you're targeting your southern neighbors.
.com is the de facto standard top domain for pretty much any website in the world
The Facts
Country-Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLD) are two-letter domains established for countries Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) are three-letter (or more) domains that operate directly under policies established by ICANN processes for the global Internet community Sponsored Top-Level Domains (sTLD) are proposed and sponsored by private agencies or organizations
U.S Jurisdiction
The U.S government has jurisdictional control over the ccTLD of its country and territories [.us.gu.vi ]
Being the sponsor of the following sTLD's, the U.S Government also has jurisdictional control over [.mil.edu.gov ]
Generic Top-Level Domains like [.com.net ] by spirit belong to the global community and are under the control of ICAAN, however, ICAAN incorporated in the U.S and falls under U.S Jurisdiction. The highly controversial [.xxx ] sTLD is also sponsored by a U.S company and falls under the jurisdiction of the U.S government.
There are many other TLD's I have not listed here that are also under U.S government jurisdiction either directly or indirectly (i.e. through organizations incorporated within U.S borders)
Conclusion
.com belongs to the global internet community but U.S legislation may be forced upon adopters at the U.S governments whim.
sources: as listed by parent
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A de-cocainized extract of coca leaf is reportedly one of the flavoring ingredients in Coca-Cola.
To this day, Coca-Cola uses as an ingredient a cocaine-free coca leaf extract. This may contain minute traces of cocaine.
The pharmacologically active ingredient of coca is the alkaloid cocaine, which is found in the amount of about 0.3 to 1.5%, averaging 0.8%,[1] in fresh leaves. Besides cocaine, the coca leaf contains a number of other alkaloids, including methylecgonine cinnamate, benzoylecgonine, truxilline, hydroxytropacocaine, tropacocaine, ecgonine, cuscohygrine, dihydrocuscohygrine, nicotine and hygrine.
Ecgonine can be metabolized into cocaine by the body (and vice versa).
There is no state sales tax in NSW.
We have a Goods and Services Tax (GST) of 10% which is federal but shared with the states.
If it is not goods, it is a service.
A few things like whole foods (water, sugar, flour. f&v) are exempt.
This makes things interesting for restaurants and cafes.
If I purchase a bottle of 100% fruit juice for take-out - I pay no GST as the goods are a whole food and thus exempt.
However, if I were to consume that juice at the restaurant, the sale would then also constitute a service and GST would be applied.
Unfortunately, electronics, software and telecommunications are ALWAYS taxed.
So sue em for the cost a new PS3, since that's what it will take to restore you the original functionality that they took away ( one PS3 to play games and do PSN, one to run linux, since you can't do it on both anymore).
Add to this the cost of the additional 380Wh the second unit will draw over its lifetime and the cooling required.
I recently purchased a floppy drive for $5 after discovering a couple hundred old disks that I had misplaced a decade ago. They contained, among other things, scans of certificates that I have lost the origins to in a cyclone.
Got the drive home, opened the box and found there was no connector on the motherboard *sigh*
Thanks for your response. Would be good to give this service a go
I was registering from home and this IP resolves to the same city as is listed with my card details. My middle initial appears on my card but no corresponding field during registration. This may have caused the flag.
Also, I can not login because I am not registered and I can't signup because i am registered. Maybe this needs looking into. I have logged a support email [No Ref] but if you are able to assist me, I will gladly take you up on your offer.
For anything that is not suitable for public forums, I can be reached at firstname.lastname@gmail.com
I decided to sign up for the GoGrid Public Beta $50 Trial.
The first page asks for your email address, a password, and a pre-filled promo code.
The next page asks for your personal information and CC details for billing past the free credit.
All this information was filled out correctly but their 3rd party merchant biller failed to process the details and returned an error. This may have been a glitch or it is possible that the biller does not support non-US transactions
In a second attempt to sign up, I was told that my email address was already registered and was subsequently denied. So I tried signing in, which failed.
I look forward to trialling this service when these simple but show-stopping creases are ironed-out.
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My attitude is that connectivity has become basic infrastructure
I concur. I would like to see connections open everywhere with the option of limited surfing as Guest (should the host feel generous) or having to authenticate to my ISP (or the NBN or some central authority/network) through this random open connection, and have all usage billed to my account.
Including Simpsons porn
I find it odd that QPS Media has failed to supply the public with any technical information on what tools they are using and the scope of the exercise
Are they simply searching for wireless networks? Or going as far as trying default passwords?
Are they geocaching MAC Addresses and SSIDs that will be used in other investigations?
Are they sniffing traffic? Are they collecting any personally identifiable information?
While this is a nice service, I do think this does not fall under the purview of the state police
If this is simply a SIGINT operation in disguise, it is better left to the DSD or ASIO
If this is simply a community service, the state governement should use grants to coerce the industry to extend their voluntary code of practice so that ISP's are responsible for making their customers aware of the risks as part of the signup process.
This looks like a money grab from this years' budget
The QPS is always complaining that they do not have enough funding to pay their staff. Now they are wasting precious manhours to mine data that they could easily purchase (or even receive for free) from Google.
Oh, and F1rst
Merely 15 years ago I was doing the exact same thing and have been, on umpteen occasions, questioned, detained, given a 'move on' notice or just generally harassed.
Well, as an American, I must admit we have our shortcomings... but I'm rather proud of the example we set by hanging teenage girls in the town square for the 'crime' of being a witch .
FTFY
Very clever.
This law article explains the situation in detail.
http://www.law.umn.edu/uploads/x9/zx/x9zxd7nnmzDMMwHVC-aRHw/Sonbuchner-Final-Online-PDF-04.07.09.pdf
Nice article. I wish I could mod you up.
No the .com domain belongs to the US. .com, .net, .gov, .mil, .edu, .and org are ALL US domains.
I refute this claim.
[.com .org .net .edu .int ] were classified as 'World Wide Generic Domains' while [ .gov .mil .us ] were US-only according to RFC 1591 [^1]
I highly recommend that you read the paper titled "WRONG TURN IN CYBERSPACE: USING ICANN TO ROUTE AROUND THE APA AND THE CONSTITUTION" by A Michael Froomkin. [^2]
In 1998, ICAAN was formed and given management rights of the [ .com .net .org ] TLD's by the USC. In 2000, ICAAN's rights were formally recognized by the DoC and separate (and conflicting) agreements were signed. U.S government retained control of [ .int .edu ] domains and set restrictive polices on both (against the RFC). Please note that ICAAN is required to comply to RFC 1034, 1035 and 1591 [^3][^4]
Today, we no longer have the 'World Wide Generic Domains'. These have been replaced with a different TLD system which specifies Generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) as domains that operate directly under policies established by ICANN processes for the global Internet community. [^5] [ .com .org .net ] are classified as gTLD's and thus are for the global Internet community. [^6]
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/legacy/ntiahome/domainname/agreements/summary-factsheet.htm
Nowhere in this factsheet does it say that [ .com ] etc belong to the US. This is simply regarding an agreement transferring management from the U.S government to ICAAN.
I'll see you're source and raise you 6
[^1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1591
[^2] http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann.pdf
[^3] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1034
[^4] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035
[^5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain
[^6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain
Buy yourself another laptop.
Because when I travel for work, I like to lug around 2 laptops.
If you're a Canadian company with Canadian customers, use .ca, eh? .com makes it seem like you're targeting your southern neighbors.
.com is the de facto standard top domain for pretty much any website in the world
The Facts
.us .gu .vi ] .mil .edu .gov ] .com .net ] by spirit belong to the global community and are under the control of ICAAN, however, ICAAN incorporated in the U.S and falls under U.S Jurisdiction. The highly controversial [ .xxx ] sTLD is also sponsored by a U.S company and falls under the jurisdiction of the U.S government.
.com belongs to the global internet community but U.S legislation may be forced upon adopters at the U.S governments whim.
Country-Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLD) are two-letter domains established for countries
Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) are three-letter (or more) domains that operate directly under policies established by ICANN processes for the global Internet community
Sponsored Top-Level Domains (sTLD) are proposed and sponsored by private agencies or organizations
U.S Jurisdiction
The U.S government has jurisdictional control over the ccTLD of its country and territories [
Being the sponsor of the following sTLD's, the U.S Government also has jurisdictional control over [
Generic Top-Level Domains like [
There are many other TLD's I have not listed here that are also under U.S government jurisdiction either directly or indirectly (i.e. through organizations incorporated within U.S borders)
Conclusion
sources: as listed by parent
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A de-cocainized extract of coca leaf is reportedly one of the flavoring ingredients in Coca-Cola.
To this day, Coca-Cola uses as an ingredient a cocaine-free coca leaf extract. This may contain minute traces of cocaine.
The pharmacologically active ingredient of coca is the alkaloid cocaine, which is found in the amount of about 0.3 to 1.5%, averaging 0.8%,[1] in fresh leaves. Besides cocaine, the coca leaf contains a number of other alkaloids, including methylecgonine cinnamate, benzoylecgonine, truxilline, hydroxytropacocaine, tropacocaine, ecgonine, cuscohygrine, dihydrocuscohygrine, nicotine and hygrine.
Ecgonine can be metabolized into cocaine by the body (and vice versa).
http://www.budget.gov.au/2010-11/content/overview/html/overview_37.htm
~84% of all Individual Income Tax is spent on welfare.
I was surprised to see how little, compared to the individual taxpayer, Business (including resources sector ) are contributing in way of taxes.
http://rtw.ml.cmu.edu/rtw/kbbrowser/anonymous
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I believe their already doing this over they're.
they shouldn't be taxed as goods then.
There is no state sales tax in NSW. We have a Goods and Services Tax (GST) of 10% which is federal but shared with the states. If it is not goods, it is a service. A few things like whole foods (water, sugar, flour. f&v) are exempt.
This makes things interesting for restaurants and cafes. If I purchase a bottle of 100% fruit juice for take-out - I pay no GST as the goods are a whole food and thus exempt. However, if I were to consume that juice at the restaurant, the sale would then also constitute a service and GST would be applied.
Unfortunately, electronics, software and telecommunications are ALWAYS taxed.
So sue em for the cost a new PS3, since that's what it will take to restore you the original functionality that they took away ( one PS3 to play games and do PSN, one to run linux, since you can't do it on both anymore).
Add to this the cost of the additional 380Wh the second unit will draw over its lifetime and the cooling required.
Heritage Building Society in Australia only allow a 5 character password for netbanking.
Case-insensitive alpha-numeric only.
Furthermore, the login interface uses a 'virtual keyboard' which is unusable from my secure Blackberry.
I need IE with Javascript to log in.
I recently purchased a floppy drive for $5 after discovering a couple hundred old disks that I had misplaced a decade ago. They contained, among other things, scans of certificates that I have lost the origins to in a cyclone.
Got the drive home, opened the box and found there was no connector on the motherboard *sigh*
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This site says it all.
Thanks for your response. Would be good to give this service a go
I was registering from home and this IP resolves to the same city as is listed with my card details. My middle initial appears on my card but no corresponding field during registration. This may have caused the flag.
Also, I can not login because I am not registered and I can't signup because i am registered. Maybe this needs looking into. I have logged a support email [No Ref] but if you are able to assist me, I will gladly take you up on your offer.
For anything that is not suitable for public forums, I can be reached at firstname.lastname@gmail.com
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Beta indeed.
I decided to sign up for the GoGrid Public Beta $50 Trial.
The first page asks for your email address, a password, and a pre-filled promo code.
The next page asks for your personal information and CC details for billing past the free credit.
All this information was filled out correctly but their 3rd party merchant biller failed to process the details and returned an error. This may have been a glitch or it is possible that the biller does not support non-US transactions
In a second attempt to sign up, I was told that my email address was already registered and was subsequently denied. So I tried signing in, which failed.
I look forward to trialling this service when these simple but show-stopping creases are ironed-out.
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There, fixed that for you.
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