I fly on average every few weeks intercontinentally and the LAST thing I want is finance news. Its bad enough when the only English language channels I can get in hotels is CNN International and Bloomberg.
Give us anything other than finance news. If you are a trader, what are you going to do, call in buy orders when you are over the middle of the Pacific? If you were interested in doing some trading at 37000ft, wouldn't you be using the WiFi access that comes with Conexion to access some trading website, rather than watching TV to learn about it?
I don't see what effect this FCC ruling has because I can already fly from Frankfurt to American cities and get Internet access (either CAT-5 or 802.11b) on the flight.
A program should always fail in a manner similar to, "Dear User, I have tried best and failed. This is what I was trying to do [insert itemized list here], this is why I failed [insert error here]. I finished what I could, and this [insert data here] is that which was leftover and I don't know what to do with. This is who you should contact. Should I try one of these [itemized list] recovery methods, start again, or give up and die? Thank you."
I'm guessing you're the programmer responsible for the endless loops of "Abort, Retry or Fail?" in DOS, where no matter which option you chose it asked the question again.
DNS expiries and retries are completely configurable. You can set your zone to expire every 5 minutes if you want to. That is how these dynamic DNS places do it.
Just because you have set up your zone to refresh every 12 hours doesn't mean its mandatory.
"This is not new. It has existed in [town name] for the last [5/10/50] years. These guys are way behind [my country]"
Clearly the article is not about the same kind of inductive sensors that is available in almost EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. Just because your country has vehicle sensors at traffic lights doesn't make you special - everyone hs it. Ditto for traffic light schedules for different times of day. Ditto for remote controlling traffic flow from a traffic operations center.
Even Belgium, the place this research is from.
So clearly this is NOT what the research is talking about.
Well, you are right that it is not Sitefinder, but it is VeriSign. All the VeriSign staff treat it as their own, and it is operated by VGRS staff (the division inside VeriSign that runs.net and.com too)
Why the article is completely stupid is this domain has had a wildcard for years. This is nothing new or noteworthy.
People with low UIDs are not necessarily old timers, because the whole login system with UIDs on Slashdot was released well after Slashdot became popular. Those that have short UIDs just were looking at the site on the right minute of the day to get them.
If I recall correctly, I registered my account only very shortly after the login system began, and I have a (comparitively) massive UID.
Apparently, Omnifarious is stubbornly concerned that someone might hack into this guy's computer when he is transferring from ext3 to reiser4, spend significant (hypothetical even) resources in generating identical files that have the same md5 sum in the brief window of opportunity before the file transfer is complete. And what would be the attacker's gain? Nothing more than pissing this guy off by having a couple of corrupted files.
Yes, MD5 collisions have been shown. That has NOTHING to do with the problem at hand regarding checking file corruption when transferring between two disks. The argument that MD5 should be abandoned for this purpose is ridiculous.
VeriSign Completes Sale of Network Solutions Unit to Pivotal Private Equity
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA. November 25, 2003 - VeriSign Inc., a leading provider of critical infrastructure services for Internet and telecommunications networks, today announced the completion of the sale of its Network Solutions domain name registrar business to Pivotal Private Equity. The customer-facing registrar business is the world's leading provider of domain name registration services, and an industry leader in value added services such as business email, website hosting and other web presence services.
The person that asked the question provided the answer. The IETF MARID working group is designed to take all the existing proposals, find the best, and settle on it.
This article is just making something out of nothing.
Don't be surprised if they launch it in a different way.
For example, synthesising a pair of NS records for every non-existant domain rather than using wildcards. This will mean that this hack won't work, they are no longer using DNS "wildcards" per se, and all the concerns about protocol violation vanish.
So, basically, you are saying that any country's sovereign property is open for any capitalist to take and manage if they are able to make more money from it. Even if they take that property through deception?
I bought a TG-50 about a month ago. On the first question, the remote worked better than the regular VCR and TV remotes on fresh batteries. Pity the generic button mapping in the Palm App couldn't be configured - this is on application where the ability to skin is needed.
The graffiti input is a pain, but not because of the clam shell. Rather, you have to press a grafitti button to pop up an input window every time you want to enter something.
The manual says it supports MS Pro (up to 1gb) memory sticks. I don't have one so I haven't tried.
It seems to me the finger here is being unfairly pointed at the registrar. It was a RESELLER of the registrar (the reseller was Internet Registrations Australia - famous for spamming people with fake invoice-looking renewal notices) that took payment and did not pass it on to the registrar.
It even says so in the third paragraph of the Age article.
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Connexion already provides Internet. This is an extra service on top of that.
I fly on average every few weeks intercontinentally and the LAST thing I want is finance news. Its bad enough when the only English language channels I can get in hotels is CNN International and Bloomberg.
Give us anything other than finance news. If you are a trader, what are you going to do, call in buy orders when you are over the middle of the Pacific? If you were interested in doing some trading at 37000ft, wouldn't you be using the WiFi access that comes with Conexion to access some trading website, rather than watching TV to learn about it?
Lufthansa offers both. Right now.
I don't see what effect this FCC ruling has because I can already fly from Frankfurt to American cities and get Internet access (either CAT-5 or 802.11b) on the flight.
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A program should always fail in a manner similar to, "Dear User, I have tried best and failed. This is what I was trying to do [insert itemized list here], this is why I failed [insert error here]. I finished what I could, and this [insert data here] is that which was leftover and I don't know what to do with. This is who you should contact. Should I try one of these [itemized list] recovery methods, start again, or give up and die? Thank you."
I'm guessing you're the programmer responsible for the endless loops of "Abort, Retry or Fail?" in DOS, where no matter which option you chose it asked the question again.
DNS expiries and retries are completely configurable. You can set your zone to expire every 5 minutes if you want to. That is how these dynamic DNS places do it.
Just because you have set up your zone to refresh every 12 hours doesn't mean its mandatory.
"This is not new. It has existed in [town name] for the last [5/10/50] years. These guys are way behind [my country]"
Clearly the article is not about the same kind of inductive sensors that is available in almost EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. Just because your country has vehicle sensors at traffic lights doesn't make you special - everyone hs it. Ditto for traffic light schedules for different times of day. Ditto for remote controlling traffic flow from a traffic operations center.
Even Belgium, the place this research is from.
So clearly this is NOT what the research is talking about.
They would do well to work on translating c't and not iX into English. Now that I no longer live in Germany, I'd love to get it again.
Well, you are right that it is not Sitefinder, but it is VeriSign. All the VeriSign staff treat it as their own, and it is operated by VGRS staff (the division inside VeriSign that runs .net and .com too)
Why the article is completely stupid is this domain has had a wildcard for years. This is nothing new or noteworthy.
People with low UIDs are not necessarily old timers, because the whole login system with UIDs on Slashdot was released well after Slashdot became popular. Those that have short UIDs just were looking at the site on the right minute of the day to get them.
If I recall correctly, I registered my account only very shortly after the login system began, and I have a (comparitively) massive UID.
Apparently, Omnifarious is stubbornly concerned that someone might hack into this guy's computer when he is transferring from ext3 to reiser4, spend significant (hypothetical even) resources in generating identical files that have the same md5 sum in the brief window of opportunity before the file transfer is complete. And what would be the attacker's gain? Nothing more than pissing this guy off by having a couple of corrupted files.
Yes, MD5 collisions have been shown. That has NOTHING to do with the problem at hand regarding checking file corruption when transferring between two disks. The argument that MD5 should be abandoned for this purpose is ridiculous.
The real figures sound even better - there are 20 million Aussies, and just shy of 300 million Americans.
VeriSign Completes Sale of Network Solutions Unit to Pivotal Private Equity
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA. November 25, 2003 - VeriSign Inc., a leading provider of critical infrastructure services for Internet and telecommunications networks, today announced the completion of the sale of its Network Solutions domain name registrar business to Pivotal Private Equity. The customer-facing registrar business is the world's leading provider of domain name registration services, and an industry leader in value added services such as business email, website hosting and other web presence services.
No, they sold it 6 months ago.
VeriSign doesn't own a registrar so your conspiracy theory makes no sense.
Well, arguing over wordsmithing does not changing this from being something obvious, to a non-obvious invention worthy of patenting.
As I understand it, you could customise DDR to allow you to dance to "Deutschland ueber Alles" if you like.
You do realise TLD means "top level domain"? co.uk is a second level domain.
The person that asked the question provided the answer. The IETF MARID working group is designed to take all the existing proposals, find the best, and settle on it.
This article is just making something out of nothing.
Well, VeriSign use their own inhouse built nameserver called ATLAS.
Don't be surprised if they launch it in a different way.
For example, synthesising a pair of NS records for every non-existant domain rather than using wildcards. This will mean that this hack won't work, they are no longer using DNS "wildcards" per se, and all the concerns about protocol violation vanish.
So, basically, you are saying that any country's sovereign property is open for any capitalist to take and manage if they are able to make more money from it. Even if they take that property through deception?
I have a bridge to sell you.
Wrong, MD5 dosen't calculate all of the file after the first 300Kb.
Wrong, MD5 does. Kazaa doesn't.
I bought a TG-50 about a month ago. On the first question, the remote worked better than the regular VCR and TV remotes on fresh batteries.
Pity the generic button mapping in the Palm App couldn't be configured - this is on application where the ability to skin is needed.
The graffiti input is a pain, but not because of the clam shell. Rather, you have to press a grafitti button to pop up an input window every time you want to enter something.
The manual says it supports MS Pro (up to 1gb) memory sticks. I don't have one so I haven't tried.
Nothing to do with them. Unfortunately Australia "pioneered" this kind of dodgy operation and the Australian ones came before the DRo* started.
.au Regulator, auDA, has issued a number of consumer alerts about them. For example, NetRegister is another company run by the same person as IRA.
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It seems to me the finger here is being unfairly pointed at the registrar. It was a RESELLER of the registrar (the reseller was Internet Registrations Australia - famous for spamming people with fake invoice-looking renewal notices) that took payment and did not pass it on to the registrar.
It even says so in the third paragraph of the Age article.