The single letter.COM/.ORG/.NET domain prohibition was enacted prior to the existence of ICANN, however, existing single letter registrations were grandfathered in and were able to be kept. No exceptions have been granted after the prohibition started.
The article is clear -- Qantas never claimed a laptop or electrical device had anything to do with it. The ATSB (the Australian equivalent of the NTSB) is the one being quoted about uncommanded movements.
I fly that route regularly (and have been on QF72 twice in the past few months), and clear air turbulence is not uncommon. The sky can be completely clear and then bang - your lunch is all over you. When all is said and done it would not surprise me in the least if they just hit an air pocket.
What the hell is an AA record? You do realise that that::FFFF:1.2.3.4 is an IPv4 address and won't be transmitted over IPv6 infrastructure?
The fact is IPv6 is about as desirable as adding extra digits or overlays to telephone numbers. Noone wants to dial extra digits, but at some point you are going to need them to grow the number space. The difference is there is no regulatory body to enforce an orderly switchover, so early adopters (i.e. IPv4 holders) hold on to their shorter numbers and skew the market.
1. You can not query the root name servers to identify the availability of domains like "google.com". The root name servers are only authoritative for top-level domains. You would need to query the authorities for.com, for example.
2. Domain registration != Domain availability in the DNS. It is entirely possible to register a domain and not be able to query it in the DNS. You can only use WHOIS to verify it.
This is disappointing news, and begs the question why the Mozilla Foundation can't provide the needed resources to Thunderbird?
Given the Mozilla Foundation HAS a substantial amount of money, presumably spinning Thunderbird out into a separate entity will mean Thunderbird will have even less money than it has today because it can not be cross-subsidised by Firefox's search revenues. Spinning Thunderbird out, which will cost it more and earn it less, doesn't sound like a recipe for success if your problem is lack of resources.
Qantas is not allowed to accept passengers just for the LAX-JFK route. The LAX is in effect a refueling stop, and you can only purchase tickets JFKSYD and LAXSYD, but not LAXJFK on QF.
That exec has it pretty much spot on. But you know what? It doesn't matter. Because the type of people who'll buy the iPhone prefer form over function anyway.
With the increase of rich applications in the browser (AJAX etc.), the need to install binaries on a mobile decreases. If, as promised, the iPhone basically has the full build of Safari on it -- then this should be possible.
I'm no Mac fan boy, but realise with each passing year I use a web browser more, and stand-alone applications less. The iPhone fits with that trend.
VeriSign never had "ICANNs job before ICANN came along". The IANA function was operated by the University of Southern California prior to the creation of ICANN in 1998. The operation of IANA dates back to 1972, and never in that time has it been operated by VeriSign.
My concern would be for all the internet filtering and firewalling software which explicitly only allows ASCII in HTTP headers.
IDN encoding is pure ASCII, in a similar way that MIME email attachments are. The protocol layer never sees anything other than letters, numbers and hyphens. All IDN encoded domains are prepended with "xn--" so that end-user interfaces can tell them apart and convert them back and forth.
IDN support is available in most popular browser (although disbled for security issues.)
What browser are you referring to? IDN support is in Firefox, IE, Opera etc. and not disabled, so I am wondering what this most popular browser you are referring to is...
If we don't, by and large, like what our PM is doing - and has been doing for over a decade - then why do we still vote for him? The people continue to vote him and his party in so I'd say most Aussies therefore agree with his policies. If not, the Aussie people have only the Aussie people to blame. Just like the American people must take the blame for the actions of their leader. You half answered your own question. In the US, you can vote for the president -- largely for how they handle matters of foreign policy and trade -- as distinct from how you elect representatives to parliament. In Australia, there is no distinction, and the Prime Minister is appointed by the party that has majority representation. Unless you happen to live in the Prime Minister's electorate, you can not vote for or against him.
In Australia, I'd say the majority supported the majority parties' policies on domestic issues (where they have had a pretty good ten years of substantial economic growth, record low unemployment, etc.). Its policy on intellectual property (and, say, the Iraq war) was rather secondary.
If you could vote for John Howard separately on trade issues and the war, I am sure he would have gotten sent a bigger message by the electorate at the last election.
I am a native English speaker and have said "It's the 2nd of August, 2006" all my life. I don't think the English language has driven the order of the notation, rather the other way around. America is just odd.
I say it is half past 12, I don't say the time is "30:12" though.
This is the list of people blocked by Treasury. I am sure they are matching names against that, not just picking up on people with a particular first name. Unfortunately, the risk of overlap is not entirely out of the question, but people are just playing things for political gain if they say they block everyone with the name Mohammed.
Yeah. Except for the fact Australia is generally one of the countries where police use their discretion to let common sense prevail, rather than haul people away for breaching the letter of the law.
What you describe sounds like pretty much everywhere outside the U.S.
In Europe, at least, iPods are pretty hard to buy retail. You are lucky if you can find a store that stocks a shuffle. I know in Brussels the high tech mega mart ("Media Markt", comparable to Best Buy) still only sells iPod Minis - no Nanos or 5G iPods. And there are only Apple Stores in US, UK and Japan.
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The single letter .COM/.ORG/.NET domain prohibition was enacted prior to the existence of ICANN, however, existing single letter registrations were grandfathered in and were able to be kept. No exceptions have been granted after the prohibition started.
Why isn't 0.0.0.0 or 10.* a valid IP address? Since when is the definition of IP address to be unicast and globally routable?
I'd rather take issue with the fact it completely fails on IPv6 addresses.
The article is clear -- Qantas never claimed a laptop or electrical device had anything to do with it. The ATSB (the Australian equivalent of the NTSB) is the one being quoted about uncommanded movements.
I fly that route regularly (and have been on QF72 twice in the past few months), and clear air turbulence is not uncommon. The sky can be completely clear and then bang - your lunch is all over you. When all is said and done it would not surprise me in the least if they just hit an air pocket.
What the hell is an AA record? You do realise that that ::FFFF:1.2.3.4 is an IPv4 address and won't be transmitted over IPv6 infrastructure?
The fact is IPv6 is about as desirable as adding extra digits or overlays to telephone numbers. Noone wants to dial extra digits, but at some point you are going to need them to grow the number space. The difference is there is no regulatory body to enforce an orderly switchover, so early adopters (i.e. IPv4 holders) hold on to their shorter numbers and skew the market.
Perhaps you can explain what is not valid in the WHOIS information for these domains?
The wholesale price for a .com.au domain is $AU22.55/2yrs, i.e. $AU11.27/yr or $US10.37/yr. If you are paying over $100, that's you're own business.
1. You can not query the root name servers to identify the availability of domains like "google.com". The root name servers are only authoritative for top-level domains. You would need to query the authorities for .com, for example.
2. Domain registration != Domain availability in the DNS. It is entirely possible to register a domain and not be able to query it in the DNS. You can only use WHOIS to verify it.
This is disappointing news, and begs the question why the Mozilla Foundation can't provide the needed resources to Thunderbird?
Given the Mozilla Foundation HAS a substantial amount of money, presumably spinning Thunderbird out into a separate entity will mean Thunderbird will have even less money than it has today because it can not be cross-subsidised by Firefox's search revenues. Spinning Thunderbird out, which will cost it more and earn it less, doesn't sound like a recipe for success if your problem is lack of resources.
Qantas is not allowed to accept passengers just for the LAX-JFK route. The LAX is in effect a refueling stop, and you can only purchase tickets JFKSYD and LAXSYD, but not LAXJFK on QF.
Registrants can transfer from Go Daddy to whichever registrar they like.
That exec has it pretty much spot on. But you know what? It doesn't matter. Because the type of people who'll buy the iPhone prefer form over function anyway.
With the increase of rich applications in the browser (AJAX etc.), the need to install binaries on a mobile decreases. If, as promised, the iPhone basically has the full build of Safari on it -- then this should be possible.
I'm no Mac fan boy, but realise with each passing year I use a web browser more, and stand-alone applications less. The iPhone fits with that trend.
VeriSign never had "ICANNs job before ICANN came along". The IANA function was operated by the University of Southern California prior to the creation of ICANN in 1998. The operation of IANA dates back to 1972, and never in that time has it been operated by VeriSign.
IDN encoding is pure ASCII, in a similar way that MIME email attachments are. The protocol layer never sees anything other than letters, numbers and hyphens. All IDN encoded domains are prepended with "xn--" so that end-user interfaces can tell them apart and convert them back and forth.
IDN support is available in most popular browser (although disbled for security issues.)
What browser are you referring to? IDN support is in Firefox, IE, Opera etc. and not disabled, so I am wondering what this most popular browser you are referring to is...
Umm, you do realise this was registered in 2005? Such domains already exist and can be registered today.
The technical test is about having Internationalised Domain Names at the top-level, or root, of the DNS. So then you can have
In Australia, I'd say the majority supported the majority parties' policies on domestic issues (where they have had a pretty good ten years of substantial economic growth, record low unemployment, etc.). Its policy on intellectual property (and, say, the Iraq war) was rather secondary.
If you could vote for John Howard separately on trade issues and the war, I am sure he would have gotten sent a bigger message by the electorate at the last election.
Okay, so they've been dropping some ccTLDs, but IANA has Procedures for Establishing ccTLDs. So, when was the last time they created a new ccTLD?
June 2006
This guy?
ARIN hands out IP addresses in North America to ISPs and network operators, however, ARIN only hands out numbers it has been given by IANA.
I am a native English speaker and have said "It's the 2nd of August, 2006" all my life. I don't think the English language has driven the order of the notation, rather the other way around. America is just odd.
I say it is half past 12, I don't say the time is "30:12" though.
This is the list of people blocked by Treasury. I am sure they are matching names against that, not just picking up on people with a particular first name. Unfortunately, the risk of overlap is not entirely out of the question, but people are just playing things for political gain if they say they block everyone with the name Mohammed.
Is that for the Volvo Polo then ? (perhaps you meant Volkswagen - the article seems to thing so)
Swedish car.. German car... Both start with a V and come form that Europe place, so close enough for the submitter!
Yeah. Except for the fact Australia is generally one of the countries where police use their discretion to let common sense prevail, rather than haul people away for breaching the letter of the law.
Where? They aren't listed on http://www.apple.com/buy/
I've only seen Applecentres in Australia (which are just redistributors), not Apple Stores.
What you describe sounds like pretty much everywhere outside the U.S.
In Europe, at least, iPods are pretty hard to buy retail. You are lucky if you can find a store that stocks a shuffle. I know in Brussels the high tech mega mart ("Media Markt", comparable to Best Buy) still only sells iPod Minis - no Nanos or 5G iPods. And there are only Apple Stores in US, UK and Japan.