I think what's wrong with the outright ban of VPN by either policy or blocking is that the cable companies are making decisions on what is and what is not appropriate residential Internet usage. VPN can and is being used for non-business purposes.
I don't think the.xxx TLD is going to work. As soon as porn operators move their sites into the.xxx TLD, they'll probably lose lots of business from users connecting from colleges, work, libraries, "good" ISPs, etc. If I run a porn site I would definitely avoid the.xxx TLD.
The face recognition systems proved easier to crack than the fingerprint or voice recognition systems. We tried to gain entry using a mask we created by printing a digital image from a color printer. This didn't work. But then we cut a nose hole in the mask and placed the mask on someone with a somewhat similar nose. At the default thresholds, we were able to fool Miros's TrueFace Network several times and Visionics' FaceIt NT once."
Yes, but in a real world scenario, there will be a guard standing next to the machine. Unless he/she is sleeping or dead, your funny looking mask will certainly be noticed.
There is this solution: borrow from the phone companies and implement a Geographic Location code in the browser/O.S. that works like the telephone phone country code/area code system. When browsing a local web site, the user just types in the shortened version without the location part (just "www.MyShoeRepairStore.com" instead of "www.MyShoeRepairStore.com(.city.state.us)", or "www.MyShoeRepairStore-somecity.com").
If you want to set up shop in a different city, just register the same short domain name in the new location: www.MyShoeRepairStore.com(.newcity.newstate.newcou ntry).
Want to be global? Get rid of your local domain names and register it "globally". Now "www.MyShoeRepairStore.com(.intl)" works from anywhere. In cases of conflixes between local and global names, absolute name qualification would be required for global names... like having to always dial the area code for 800 numbers.
Local businesses/advertisers will love this because they can have a locality specific web site and still have a short web site address.
There are many good reasons for having locality based domain names. Many businesses are inherently local (doctor offices, lawyers, real estate, car repair shops, etc.). For these organizations, having a locality based domain name would definitely help target the web sites to the right audience. Integrated into a search engine, locality based domain names would allow for much better searches on local specific stuff.
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I think what's wrong with the outright ban of VPN by either policy or blocking is that the cable companies are making decisions on what is and what is not appropriate residential Internet usage. VPN can and is being used for non-business purposes.
I don't think the .xxx TLD is going to work. As soon as porn operators move their sites into the .xxx TLD, they'll probably lose lots of business from users connecting from colleges, work, libraries, "good" ISPs, etc. If I run a porn site I would definitely avoid the .xxx TLD.
The face recognition systems proved easier to crack than the fingerprint or voice recognition systems. We tried to gain entry using a mask we created by printing a digital image from a color printer. This didn't work. But then we cut a nose hole in the mask and placed the mask on someone with a somewhat similar nose. At the default thresholds, we were able to fool Miros's TrueFace Network several times and Visionics' FaceIt NT once."
Yes, but in a real world scenario, there will be a guard standing next to the machine. Unless he/she is sleeping or dead, your funny looking mask will certainly be noticed.
There is this solution: borrow from the phone companies and implement a Geographic Location code in the browser/O.S. that works like the telephone phone country code/area code system. When browsing a local web site, the user just types in the shortened version without the location part (just "www.MyShoeRepairStore.com" instead of "www.MyShoeRepairStore.com(.city.state.us)", or "www.MyShoeRepairStore-somecity.com"). If you want to set up shop in a different city, just register the same short domain name in the new location: www.MyShoeRepairStore.com(.newcity.newstate.newcou ntry).
Want to be global? Get rid of your local domain names and register it "globally". Now "www.MyShoeRepairStore.com(.intl)" works from anywhere. In cases of conflixes between local and global names, absolute name qualification would be required for global names... like having to always dial the area code for 800 numbers.
Local businesses/advertisers will love this because they can have a locality specific web site and still have a short web site address.
There are many good reasons for having locality based domain names. Many businesses are inherently local (doctor offices, lawyers, real estate, car repair shops, etc.). For these organizations, having a locality based domain name would definitely help target the web sites to the right audience. Integrated into a search engine, locality based domain names would allow for much better searches on local specific stuff.