...if I had another person constantly looking over my shoulder, it would drive me insane. The methodology sounds good, but as long as the other person is out of projectile range. --
...why don't those hackers get it over with already and create.sux?
Because the first names registered would be those such as "microsoft.sux", and then would come the big company, DMCA in hand, to the nearest court house. --
(from the article) In the much-awaited decision, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) limited the term of VeriSign rights to the.org name to the end of 2002, and the.net name to the start of 2006.
And they will only make $XXX million in that time frame. Remember that there's tons of names going every day, and eventually the selection will be extremely limited to anything but the most unique names, so the potential for profit of the future owners would be greatly limited.
Under the new agreements, VeriSign would provide $5 million to the nonprofit group that takes over.org, invest at least $200 million in research and development, pay its full share of ICANN expenses, to charge equal fees for registering names and eliminate the one-time $10,000 new registrar and other fees.
And I bet companies like Network Solutions will still be charging $70 per year. Personally, I use gandi.net, which charges about 12 Euros (about $10-11 USD, along with the best ownership agreement) per year, and have yet to find a better deal. The dropping of the $10,000 "new registrar" fee will not bring the prices for end users down any lower than maybe $10, or else how will the registrars turn a worthwhile profit? --
Not really a suprise anymore, but yes, someone at SGI has decided to take sgisucks.com. Of course, there is no http server at the address, but the name is taken:
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evilpenguin@paladin:~$ whois sgisucks.com
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the.com,.net, and.org domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.
Domain Name: SGISUCKS.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: www.opensrs.org
Name Server: NS1.LAUDERDALE.NET
Name Server: NS2.LAUDERDALE.NET
Updated Date: 24-apr-2000
>>> Last update of whois database: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:58:41 EDT
The Registry database contains ONLY.COM,.NET,.ORG,.EDU domains and
Registrars.
Found InterNIC referral to whois.opensrs.net.
Registrant:
Worldnet Companies Inc.
1299 East Commercial Blvd.
Floor #2
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33334
US
Domain Name: SGISUCKS.COM
Administrative Contact:
WNC, Admin dns@lauderdale.net
1299 East Commercial Blvd.
Floor #2
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33334
US
954-453-6000
Technical Contact:
WNC, Admin dns@lauderdale.net
1299 East Commercial Blvd.
Floor #2
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33334
US
954-453-6000
Billing Contact:
WNC, Admin dns@lauderdale.net
1299 East Commercial Blvd.
Floor #2
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33334
US
954-453-6000
Record last updated on 30-Mar-2001.
Record expires on 25-Apr-2001.
Record Created on 26-Apr-1998.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.LAUDERDALE.NET 209.203.219.2
NS2.LAUDERDALE.NET 209.236.27.5
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Well, atleast as not as rediculous as "overtheverizon.com". Sgisucks.net is also taken, but.org is still open. --
The Simpsons have always been the only respectable thing on the FOX Network. (Rather than, "When Alien Autospy Doctors Attack But End Up In Boot Camp XII", featuring John Walsh as young black man from the wrong side of the spoofed lunar landing)
Family Guy was great too, but that seems to have been either canceled or moved into the distant future. --
Then of-course there is HotShots part deux which proclaims: Body Count:150,000 - Bloodiest Movie Ever (or something to that effect)
Ah, I remember that. Some funny stuff (and this was back in the days when censorship wasn't as big of an issue as it is today).
Just imagine a new sub-rating system based on the body count. Now, insted of just seeing "Rated R", you would see "Rated R, D.C.T. (Death Count Total): 150,000". --
They have been moreso of late than ever. Example: here in NYC, the Honorable (haha) mayor Rudolph Giuliani just started up a "decency" committee to oversee the exibits in publicly-funded museums, to make sure nothing too "provacative" (i.e., the Sensations exibit in the Brooklyn Museum of Art) gets displayed, or else they cut off funding. Basiclly, now anything that is considered offensive (to Christians and Jews) will not be allowed in public museums, therefore making it impossible for such artists to even get exposed and get noticed. If that was Allah covered in elephant shit, Giuliani wouldn't say a damn thing. And this is just one example.
However, what other choice do you have? The Democrats, who are on the inside what Republicans are on the outside, have the Tipper Gore / PMRC regime. There really is no fundamental diffrence between the Republicrats when it comes to censorship.
It's a shame when a company creates a realy good product and then lets it die by lack of advertising and not making any commercial applications to run on their own OS.
Hrm... reminds me of the Amiga 500 and 2500. Here was a computer that kicked ass beyond anything that would come for many years, and yet it died off because of a lack of advertising. It was really a shame too, because Commodore could have very well gained a stronghold on the industry for years to come. Not that Be is all that impressive to me, but it was definitly a good OS and looked like it had some good things going for it. --
If you've ever used Verizon DSL, you'd know that it's not much faster than a 56k modem, every other packet is dropped and the mail servers have been crashing every tuesday for the last three or four months (I'm serious... atleast in the NYC area it has been). --
The power required to do quick bzips wouldn't be the problem, seeing as how a gigahertz is now becoming a family computer. The problem I see is on the user end -- they would have to use a browser/plugin which did the decompressing and puts it back into the original format.
It's certainly a good idea, it just needs to be integrated into MS IE and Netscape first. --
For the people who just have a little webserver on their DSL or cable modem that only maybe gets two or three hits a day, this would be a great little thing to place on top of your monitor or server. While it's a cool idea to have a webcam pointed at it, I'd rather just have one on top of my monitor so I can see a number roll over when someone visits my website.
I was thinking of doing something similar, just via a diffrent control method. I was going to embed a standard text counter into the main page, and then write a simple cgi script to take the number and output it on the serial port, where it could be interpreted by some kind of simple logic on a PIC Microcontroller, which could power a set of segmented LEDs or an LCD display.
What about Flash swf files and the like? I suppose they could be hosted the same as images, although a 1 MB swf would take up 50x the space of an average image. That's also where the end users would see a bigger jump in performance (in getting one big file instead of a bunch of little ones). --
Well said, and I agree that a system based on the theory of Gnutella (the client _is_ the server) would be the most efficent. However, it just does not seem possible (atleast at the present) for sevral reasons.
Firstly, most internet users are still on those slow dialups. Although Cable and DSL are very popular and affordable, they are not yet accesable everywhere, and to the casual internet user they can seem like overkill. The reason why connection speed is important is this; ever download a file from a gnutella client on a slow 56k modem? Now imagine that connection with sevral others on the same line... scary, eh?
Secondly, suppose the to a page was redirected to someone else near you who just viewed it. You would send a request to them, but unless they have some kind of similar client, you're just going to be sitting their aimlessly. In order for something like this to work, it must be made into a standard that would be embedded and distributed into all OS's. If just a few OS's supported the system, it would not reach the point where it could actually take a significant load off a central server.
Thirdly, you would be using the other person's (the hosts') upload bandwidth, and bandwidth is something no one wants to sacrifice.
I could continue, but it just comes down to the fact that this kind of system is suitable for Gnutella for swapping mp3s, but not a global-scale webserving solution. --
According to this article on the matter, it was Digital Island who made the first claim of patent infringement, followed by a frenzy of finger pointing.
I wouldn't think that this case has any affect on acadamia, because even though the infrastructure was developed in an acedemic envornment, its use by Akamai is anything but; so the lawsuit was not over the acedemic roots of it but rather the commercial use. --
I must say. But I was wondering, how big is this thing? From looking at the pictures there was no measurements, nor anything to base a scale on. Anyone know the dimensions? --
I got to the above site by searching in google for "portland radio", clicked on my first result, and then clicked through a listing of AM radio stations in Portland, OR (here, if you care). So there. Just about every radio station has some kind of streaming broadcast set up, you just need to do a simple websearch. --
Ok, so I pay $500-$1000 for a system with a 17" monitor. Then, I pay $25-50/month for broadband internet access. After all this, I have the honor of paying $10/month to watch baseball in a puny screen with piss poor audio?
I really hate it when people make statements like this. No one is going to buy a computer system just to listen to MLB. This would be something you subscribe to if you already have a computer. The same way no one is going to buy a computer to watch tv (via a tv tuner card) or send faxes (via a modem).
One more thing, you wouldn't be "watching" anything except the minutes scroll by on realplayer. Here's a key line from the article: "Baseball fans will have to pay this season for Internet feeds of major league radio broadcasts. I don't know about you, but I can't "watch" a radio program. --
...called a radio. It's really cool. You can listen to sports broadcasts on the go, or sit back and listen to some tunes! You can even be intellectually stimulated by some talk radio! Think of the possibilities! --
Slashdot Mirror
Hell, ESPN would jump on it.
Right after XTREME (note the absence of the "E", in order to emphisize the coolness factor) Paint Drying!
--
...if I had another person constantly looking over my shoulder, it would drive me insane. The methodology sounds good, but as long as the other person is out of projectile range.
--
You're kidding, right?
.org, and that's where the .com will point you anyway, so, I suggest looking at your URL bar.
Slashdot started as a
--
Oh yeah, .aero is the future, man! Just think of the possible advertising campaigns; "Soar into the future with .aero!"
--
...why don't those hackers get it over with already and create .sux?
Because the first names registered would be those such as "microsoft.sux", and then would come the big company, DMCA in hand, to the nearest court house.
--
(from the article) In the much-awaited decision, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) limited the term of VeriSign rights to the .org name to the end of 2002, and the .net name to the start of 2006.
.org, invest at least $200 million in research and development, pay its full share of ICANN expenses, to charge equal fees for registering names and eliminate the one-time $10,000 new registrar and other fees.
And they will only make $XXX million in that time frame. Remember that there's tons of names going every day, and eventually the selection will be extremely limited to anything but the most unique names, so the potential for profit of the future owners would be greatly limited.
Under the new agreements, VeriSign would provide $5 million to the nonprofit group that takes over
And I bet companies like Network Solutions will still be charging $70 per year. Personally, I use gandi.net, which charges about 12 Euros (about $10-11 USD, along with the best ownership agreement) per year, and have yet to find a better deal. The dropping of the $10,000 "new registrar" fee will not bring the prices for end users down any lower than maybe $10, or else how will the registrars turn a worthwhile profit?
--
Gee, mission accomplished. Now I can't read the article. Idiot.
--
Not really a suprise anymore, but yes, someone at SGI has decided to take sgisucks.com. Of course, there is no http server at the address, but the name is taken:
.com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.
.COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and
Registrars.
.org is still open.
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evilpenguin@paladin:~$ whois sgisucks.com
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the
Domain Name: SGISUCKS.COM Registrar: TUCOWS.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: www.opensrs.org
Name Server: NS1.LAUDERDALE.NET
Name Server: NS2.LAUDERDALE.NET
Updated Date: 24-apr-2000
>>> Last update of whois database: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:58:41 EDT
The Registry database contains ONLY
Found InterNIC referral to whois.opensrs.net.
Registrant:
Worldnet Companies Inc.
1299 East Commercial Blvd.
Floor #2
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33334
US
Domain Name: SGISUCKS.COM
Administrative Contact:
WNC, Admin dns@lauderdale.net
1299 East Commercial Blvd.
Floor #2
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33334
US
954-453-6000
Technical Contact:
WNC, Admin dns@lauderdale.net
1299 East Commercial Blvd.
Floor #2
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33334
US
954-453-6000
Billing Contact:
WNC, Admin dns@lauderdale.net
1299 East Commercial Blvd.
Floor #2
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33334
US
954-453-6000
Record last updated on 30-Mar-2001.
Record expires on 25-Apr-2001.
Record Created on 26-Apr-1998.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.LAUDERDALE.NET 209.203.219.2
NS2.LAUDERDALE.NET 209.236.27.5
--------
Well, atleast as not as rediculous as "overtheverizon.com". Sgisucks.net is also taken, but
--
The Simpsons have always been the only respectable thing on the FOX Network. (Rather than, "When Alien Autospy Doctors Attack But End Up In Boot Camp XII", featuring John Walsh as young black man from the wrong side of the spoofed lunar landing)
Family Guy was great too, but that seems to have been either canceled or moved into the distant future.
--
Then of-course there is HotShots part deux which proclaims: Body Count:150,000 - Bloodiest Movie Ever (or something to that effect)
Ah, I remember that. Some funny stuff (and this was back in the days when censorship wasn't as big of an issue as it is today).
Just imagine a new sub-rating system based on the body count. Now, insted of just seeing "Rated R", you would see "Rated R, D.C.T. (Death Count Total): 150,000".
--
They have been moreso of late than ever. Example: here in NYC, the Honorable (haha) mayor Rudolph Giuliani just started up a "decency" committee to oversee the exibits in publicly-funded museums, to make sure nothing too "provacative" (i.e., the Sensations exibit in the Brooklyn Museum of Art) gets displayed, or else they cut off funding. Basiclly, now anything that is considered offensive (to Christians and Jews) will not be allowed in public museums, therefore making it impossible for such artists to even get exposed and get noticed. If that was Allah covered in elephant shit, Giuliani wouldn't say a damn thing. And this is just one example.
However, what other choice do you have? The Democrats, who are on the inside what Republicans are on the outside, have the Tipper Gore / PMRC regime. There really is no fundamental diffrence between the Republicrats when it comes to censorship.
So basiclly, we're screwed either way.
--
It's a shame when a company creates a realy good product and then lets it die by lack of advertising and not making any commercial applications to run on their own OS.
Hrm... reminds me of the Amiga 500 and 2500. Here was a computer that kicked ass beyond anything that would come for many years, and yet it died off because of a lack of advertising. It was really a shame too, because Commodore could have very well gained a stronghold on the industry for years to come. Not that Be is all that impressive to me, but it was definitly a good OS and looked like it had some good things going for it.
--
You forgot the current updates on what celebrity is getting divorced and carrying whose child.
"There's a crisis in the mideast! But who cares about those silly zealots getting their panties in a bunch? There's _real_ news to report!"
--
If you own a Dreamcast, and have used the browser or any online game, then you know how annoying keyboard apps can be. They just suck. Period.
Without handwriting recognition, you may as well just carry around paper. Anything beyond one or two sentences would just take too long.
--
If you've ever used Verizon DSL, you'd know that it's not much faster than a 56k modem, every other packet is dropped and the mail servers have been crashing every tuesday for the last three or four months (I'm serious... atleast in the NYC area it has been).
--
The power required to do quick bzips wouldn't be the problem, seeing as how a gigahertz is now becoming a family computer. The problem I see is on the user end -- they would have to use a browser/plugin which did the decompressing and puts it back into the original format.
It's certainly a good idea, it just needs to be integrated into MS IE and Netscape first.
--
For the people who just have a little webserver on their DSL or cable modem that only maybe gets two or three hits a day, this would be a great little thing to place on top of your monitor or server. While it's a cool idea to have a webcam pointed at it, I'd rather just have one on top of my monitor so I can see a number roll over when someone visits my website.
I was thinking of doing something similar, just via a diffrent control method. I was going to embed a standard text counter into the main page, and then write a simple cgi script to take the number and output it on the serial port, where it could be interpreted by some kind of simple logic on a PIC Microcontroller, which could power a set of segmented LEDs or an LCD display.
Hmm.. I just may do that.
--
What about Flash swf files and the like? I suppose they could be hosted the same as images, although a 1 MB swf would take up 50x the space of an average image. That's also where the end users would see a bigger jump in performance (in getting one big file instead of a bunch of little ones).
--
Well said, and I agree that a system based on the theory of Gnutella (the client _is_ the server) would be the most efficent. However, it just does not seem possible (atleast at the present) for sevral reasons.
Firstly, most internet users are still on those slow dialups. Although Cable and DSL are very popular and affordable, they are not yet accesable everywhere, and to the casual internet user they can seem like overkill. The reason why connection speed is important is this; ever download a file from a gnutella client on a slow 56k modem? Now imagine that connection with sevral others on the same line... scary, eh?
Secondly, suppose the to a page was redirected to someone else near you who just viewed it. You would send a request to them, but unless they have some kind of similar client, you're just going to be sitting their aimlessly. In order for something like this to work, it must be made into a standard that would be embedded and distributed into all OS's. If just a few OS's supported the system, it would not reach the point where it could actually take a significant load off a central server.
Thirdly, you would be using the other person's (the hosts') upload bandwidth, and bandwidth is something no one wants to sacrifice.
I could continue, but it just comes down to the fact that this kind of system is suitable for Gnutella for swapping mp3s, but not a global-scale webserving solution.
--
According to this article on the matter, it was Digital Island who made the first claim of patent infringement, followed by a frenzy of finger pointing.
I wouldn't think that this case has any affect on acadamia, because even though the infrastructure was developed in an acedemic envornment, its use by Akamai is anything but; so the lawsuit was not over the acedemic roots of it but rather the commercial use.
--
Memory: 6 Gbits DDR SDRAM
How much did _that_ cost?!?!?!?!
--
I must say. But I was wondering, how big is this thing? From looking at the pictures there was no measurements, nor anything to base a scale on. Anyone know the dimensions?
--
please tell me what station in portland, oregon broadcasts the oakland a's games and you have a point. until then you are just being silly.
Here you go:
www.kfxx.com - Portland Sports Radio
They have a stream that you can listen to 24/7.
I got to the above site by searching in google for "portland radio", clicked on my first result, and then clicked through a listing of AM radio stations in Portland, OR (here, if you care). So there. Just about every radio station has some kind of streaming broadcast set up, you just need to do a simple websearch.
--
Ok, so I pay $500-$1000 for a system with a 17" monitor. Then, I pay $25-50/month for broadband internet access. After all this, I have the honor of paying $10/month to watch baseball in a puny screen with piss poor audio?
I really hate it when people make statements like this. No one is going to buy a computer system just to listen to MLB. This would be something you subscribe to if you already have a computer. The same way no one is going to buy a computer to watch tv (via a tv tuner card) or send faxes (via a modem).
One more thing, you wouldn't be "watching" anything except the minutes scroll by on realplayer. Here's a key line from the article: "Baseball fans will have to pay this season for Internet feeds of major league radio broadcasts. I don't know about you, but I can't "watch" a radio program.
--
...called a radio. It's really cool. You can listen to sports broadcasts on the go, or sit back and listen to some tunes! You can even be intellectually stimulated by some talk radio! Think of the possibilities!
--