OK, I'm not sure about this, but I think this with exactly what new gTLDs is to be introduced is not settled. ICANN has just said that new gTLDs will be introduced, quoting from Preliminary Report:
Resolved [00.46], that the Board hereby adopts the Names Council's recommendation that a policy be established for the introduction of new TLDs in a measured and responsible manner.
That these will include.shop,.tel and.news are only examples that ZDNet takes out of thin air. Now, you should be able to guess that from ZDNet's own words:
The first new Web addresses should start to appear by this year's end or the beginning of next, but no one will know what the new top-level domains will be until November.
So, it is not clear that.shop,.tel and.news will be on the list. And, the At Large Directors who are going to be elected will probably be involved.
Eventually, if market theory or Darwin is right, the bad providers go out of business...
Darwin is probably right, market theory is not. The market is stooopid. For the market to work, purchases must have been made on a well-reasoned, well-informed basis. They aren't. I take that as self-evident, really...:-)
I'm not a programmer, but there was a guy on one of the mailing lists I'm on who had a completely off-topic aggresive rants about what he called "backyard morons, destroying the most important carrier of communication because a bunch of spammers are abusing them". It was very little substance in his post, but what he said was that relays must remain open for emergeny communication. He said that 80% of the spam comes from blatantly misconfigured servers, so that instead of closing relays, one should not accept mail from misconfigured servers. Now, I have no clue, and it seems that the best current practice is to close relays. This guy usually does have a clue, it is just really difficult to tell what the clue is between the flames.
Can't agree with you there. That is, I can to some extent agree with you that it is not effective in day-to-day spam prevention because they are too restrictive. I worked full day on a nomination for two Austrian ISPs that let a religious moron spam me for half a year (the siad the world would end May 5th), but it was not considered for inclusion. Hell, you have to have a really good case to get anything into the RBL!
But, I don't think I can blame them. If fewer big ISPs used the RBL, it wouldn't be as powerful for it's primary purpose, namely pushing the ISPs to get a clue, and that is how spam can ultimately be stopped.
I have never had any spam from yesmail, nor have I found the word yesmail in my megs of spam. This means, however, that they'll be added to my filters, and they are probably not going to be removed any time soon. This is ultimate stupidity from yesmail's side. They will inevitably be added to a lot of private filters, and while MPAS would remove them from the list within 15 minutes if they clean up their act, they will have a really hard time getting removed from all the private filters....
I agree. The web design market out there is really really bad. Firms design pages that look good on the managment's desktop, and everybody's happy, but the web looses with so much crap out there. I think it is a good thing that someone wakes up and say "this is not what we paid you for". I think that sets a good precedent. Now, the real problem here is educating the general public and managment of how little of the ideas about the web that is actually been realized so far.
Hell, my University paid razorfish to design the university web pages, and they suck big time. The contract said "design for Universal Accessibility", but razorfish has apparently not read the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and has done nearly every possible mistake. These guys is in serious need of RTFM.
Well, I guess this idea is not new, but I guess it is time to consider it. A self-nominee needs massive backup just to run for election, and I guess not many people will be able to get that backup. Why don't/.ers unite and come up with someone that may nominate themselves and get some backup from the rest of us?
Yeah, you're right, Netscape sucks, and I have too had to struggle with an CSS implementation that is so bad it makes you wonder if the programmers had read the spec. And, Netscape did some bad things, they did introduce things that has done great harm. However, I think they did it mostly out of stupidity, and I think that is mor excuseable than what M$ is doing, they're doing it to control. I don't think we should stop flaming M$ just because NS is bad too...:-)
I guess I should have looked this up before posting, but ouch, bother... Doesn't it have to do with what's the characters in the value are...? Alphanumerics are OK, others are not. Anyway, the validator is based on a rigorous parser, the SP, I'm pretty sure it reports only the things that are wrong.:-)
I don't. They worked very slow for a period, and that lead up to HTML 3.2, which was just a formalization of the tag soup everyone was writing and a blind alley (yeah, 90% of web developers are still in that blind alley). I have also been quite confused to see how long it took to get RDF up to proposed recommendation, especially since it is obviously one of TimBL's favorite childs. However, if you look at XML, CSS, DOM, you see that W3C is far far, very far ahead of anybody else out there. M$ "innovations" are dwarfed by the W3C efforts in most aspects.
M$ is trying to build a web for graphical desktops. That's going to be their death. I hope.
Well, I'm in Norway, and I'm going to do work for the association of blind. Just find an organization you can support and call them up, tell them you want to help. Geeks are important but few, so they will probably be happy to accept your offer to help.
Yep, I have compass pages online, and I too get lots of e-mail. I still have my address on the page, but I have an autoresponder that sends a message if certain words are present in the e-mail saying I can't answer in a while, while I finish my (astronomy!:-)) thesis. When I finish, I plan to turn it into a community based Open Content/Source project and get a domain for it.
Yep, that's the way to do it. I', going to work two months for the association for blind in Norway once I finish my thesis, building accessible web pages. I just called them up, and you bet they wanted to have me there.
I'd say find a charity you support, call them up and tell them you've got time to spare and they will probably happily accept you.
I wonder how this compares to statistics of countries that have an even higher density of wireless communication devices, e.g. Finnland, Sweden, Norway?
Well, this is certainly kind of cute, but isn't it just adding some sophistication to the process done by those companies (e.g. tomra) using lasers to scan things for pattern recognition? Just wondering, I'm not too into this kind of stuff...:-)
Yep, this is certainly not news. I responded to an IPN localization of GRB000126 in January. And I was certainly not the first to do so, IPN has been invaluable for GRB research for a long time. My GCN Ciricular wasn't very exciting, though, I just reported that we didn't find anything.
Well, it is bloody hard to find the redshift of GRBs, I can tell you that... It is only a handful where it has been successfully done. You pretty much have to do it on the optical counterpart after the burst, and you have to get a big telescope before it gets too faint.
As a Norwegian, I can just say Amen...:-) If you're the kind of geek, who like me likes "extreme" sports (I'm not doing it because some marketing droids say it is extreme and becuase some say it is dangerous, I do it because it makes me feel good), I would say go and establish a company in some small place, with a few thousand inhabitants in some great mountain area or something. I would take a map, look up some places in western and northern Norway that looks great, make a few phones to the mayors of a few communities and see what they say. Some will probably take off and offer you cheap office facilities and everything... That won't happen in the cities though. Broadband connections is up and coming, politicians have stated that broadband connections is as important as roads, so it shouldn't matter so much where you are physically located.
I know it, I've even used it a few times, but I find that the search results are just not accurate enough compared to Google to be useful for most searches.
IMHO, Yahoo sucks big, their directory is grossly outdated, it took my a year to get one of my own dead pages removed.
My favourite search engine now is Google, but why all the fuzz? OK, they are running Linux on a bunch of boxes, is that the reason why/.ers liek it so much? I think it is just marginally better than the alternatives.
One of the reasons they are better than the alternatives is that the pages are so clean. I recently answered a survey on the Google site where I hope I got that point through. It was lots of questions of the portal type things on the form, I hope they are not going in that direction. I think they are not.
But, if Google opened their source, I mean, with all the geeks allready liking Google, they would certainly get a lot of good people, and their page rank technology won't last forever. Besides, a link doesn't have any implied meaning, and of course people do mostly make links to good pages, but that need not necessarily be a good thing to use. I have links to pages I have slaughtered...
Yep, I've been spammed several times by these morons. First, I was a professional in the food industry, then a professional in the science fiction industry. Wow, I wonder what else I'd be a professional in? However, it is not necessarily afternic.com who is behind this, quite clearly, it is mainauctions.com who is behind this, and I'd let afternic have the benefit of the doubt. It seems the guy who put this up for auction has been suspended from afternic, so I'd say they are probably not spammers.
Indeed, but it is a point nevertheless. For my thesis, I'm using the Open Source statistics package R and occasionally Mathematica. Now, I know R has bugs, I have two unresolved bug reports in the bug reporting system myself. Yet, I trust R more than I trust Mathematica. As a scientist, I don't like faith. However, it is exactly what the closed-sourced software like Mathematica asks me to have, faith. With R, I know it has bugs, but whenever my results fail to pass my sanity checks, I can see what the code does, and usually that this the trick, I don't need to trust that the developers followed the spec or did the formal testing and certification, I can see what it does.
After this, and after seeing what some closed source packages does, I really don't have much faith left. Mathematica, however, seems good, I only wish I could dissect the source.
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That these will include .shop, .tel and .news are only examples that ZDNet takes out of thin air. Now, you should be able to guess that from ZDNet's own words:
So, it is not clear that .shop, .tel and .news will be on the list. And, the At Large Directors who are going to be elected will probably be involved.
10% was undoubtedly too much to ask, so this means it will be easier to enter. So again, who is the /.er who wants to be At Large Director?
Darwin is probably right, market theory is not. The market is stooopid. For the market to work, purchases must have been made on a well-reasoned, well-informed basis. They aren't. I take that as self-evident, really... :-)
I'm not a programmer, but there was a guy on one of the mailing lists I'm on who had a completely off-topic aggresive rants about what he called "backyard morons, destroying the most important carrier of communication because a bunch of spammers are abusing them". It was very little substance in his post, but what he said was that relays must remain open for emergeny communication. He said that 80% of the spam comes from blatantly misconfigured servers, so that instead of closing relays, one should not accept mail from misconfigured servers. Now, I have no clue, and it seems that the best current practice is to close relays. This guy usually does have a clue, it is just really difficult to tell what the clue is between the flames.
But, I don't think I can blame them. If fewer big ISPs used the RBL, it wouldn't be as powerful for it's primary purpose, namely pushing the ISPs to get a clue, and that is how spam can ultimately be stopped.
I have never had any spam from yesmail, nor have I found the word yesmail in my megs of spam. This means, however, that they'll be added to my filters, and they are probably not going to be removed any time soon. This is ultimate stupidity from yesmail's side. They will inevitably be added to a lot of private filters, and while MPAS would remove them from the list within 15 minutes if they clean up their act, they will have a really hard time getting removed from all the private filters....
Hell, my University paid razorfish to design the university web pages, and they suck big time. The contract said "design for Universal Accessibility", but razorfish has apparently not read the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and has done nearly every possible mistake. These guys is in serious need of RTFM.
Well, I guess this idea is not new, but I guess it is time to consider it. A self-nominee needs massive backup just to run for election, and I guess not many people will be able to get that backup. Why don't /.ers unite and come up with someone that may nominate themselves and get some backup from the rest of us?
Yeah, you're right, Netscape sucks, and I have too had to struggle with an CSS implementation that is so bad it makes you wonder if the programmers had read the spec. And, Netscape did some bad things, they did introduce things that has done great harm. However, I think they did it mostly out of stupidity, and I think that is mor excuseable than what M$ is doing, they're doing it to control. I don't think we should stop flaming M$ just because NS is bad too... :-)
I guess I should have looked this up before posting, but ouch, bother... Doesn't it have to do with what's the characters in the value are...? Alphanumerics are OK, others are not. Anyway, the validator is based on a rigorous parser, the SP, I'm pretty sure it reports only the things that are wrong. :-)
M$ is trying to build a web for graphical desktops. That's going to be their death. I hope.
Well, I'm in Norway, and I'm going to do work for the association of blind. Just find an organization you can support and call them up, tell them you want to help. Geeks are important but few, so they will probably be happy to accept your offer to help.
Yep, I have compass pages online, and I too get lots of e-mail. I still have my address on the page, but I have an autoresponder that sends a message if certain words are present in the e-mail saying I can't answer in a while, while I finish my (astronomy! :-)) thesis. When I finish, I plan to turn it into a community based Open Content/Source project and get a domain for it.
I'd say find a charity you support, call them up and tell them you've got time to spare and they will probably happily accept you.
I wonder how this compares to statistics of countries that have an even higher density of wireless communication devices, e.g. Finnland, Sweden, Norway?
Well, this is certainly kind of cute, but isn't it just adding some sophistication to the process done by those companies (e.g. tomra) using lasers to scan things for pattern recognition? Just wondering, I'm not too into this kind of stuff... :-)
I find /. Science/Space news strange at times, they post things like this which is far from news, but my note on the first high-resolution imaging to GRB host galaxies which is truly great stuff, was rejected.
Well, it is bloody hard to find the redshift of GRBs, I can tell you that... It is only a handful where it has been successfully done. You pretty much have to do it on the optical counterpart after the burst, and you have to get a big telescope before it gets too faint.
As a Norwegian, I can just say Amen... :-) If you're the kind of geek, who like me likes "extreme" sports (I'm not doing it because some marketing droids say it is extreme and becuase some say it is dangerous, I do it because it makes me feel good), I would say go and establish a company in some small place, with a few thousand inhabitants in some great mountain area or something. I would take a map, look up some places in western and northern Norway that looks great, make a few phones to the mayors of a few communities and see what they say. Some will probably take off and offer you cheap office facilities and everything... That won't happen in the cities though. Broadband connections is up and coming, politicians have stated that broadband connections is as important as roads, so it shouldn't matter so much where you are physically located.
I know it, I've even used it a few times, but I find that the search results are just not accurate enough compared to Google to be useful for most searches.
My favourite search engine now is Google, but why all the fuzz? OK, they are running Linux on a bunch of boxes, is that the reason why /.ers liek it so much? I think it is just marginally better than the alternatives.
One of the reasons they are better than the alternatives is that the pages are so clean. I recently answered a survey on the Google site where I hope I got that point through. It was lots of questions of the portal type things on the form, I hope they are not going in that direction. I think they are not.
But, if Google opened their source, I mean, with all the geeks allready liking Google, they would certainly get a lot of good people, and their page rank technology won't last forever. Besides, a link doesn't have any implied meaning, and of course people do mostly make links to good pages, but that need not necessarily be a good thing to use. I have links to pages I have slaughtered...
The rest of the practice sucks, though.
Yep, but it was the Times who did the wrong, not Cryptome.
After this, and after seeing what some closed source packages does, I really don't have much faith left. Mathematica, however, seems good, I only wish I could dissect the source.
Everything W3C comes up with undergo public review. Just have a look at the W3C P3P homepage, there's a list there where you can send your comments.
Yeah, that's why I'm an astrophysicist.... :-)