If administration of TLDs is delegated to 1 commercial entity for each of these new TLDs, as is the case with most country TLDs, we will be taking a step backwards. There should be 1 international group, ICANN, which manages TLDs. Extend upon that an 'open' method of domain registration for accredited registrars and we have ourselves a very nice open system not owned in any way by commercial organisations. Does anyone else have any insights on how this will be done/should be done?
Funny that this issue comes up, 45 minutes ago I was reading the latest issue of Blink, Earthlinks monthly spam... *cough* magasine. It had an interview with Dr. Drew of MTV LoveLine and www.drdrew.com fame in which he mentioned that in such a dysfunctional and disconnected world (In the emotional regard, not what we may at first think.;), online communities are an extremely effective way at making "connections" with people. Anyone who has heard Dr. Drew wouldn't question what he says, I would personally kill people for him... oh wait, that sorta thing's already been done, whatever.
Considering my other post and the accelerated rate at which 'progress' is made (ie. There has been greater advances in the past 10 years than there was during the 50 or even 100 years before it.) I do not doubt this at all, sadly.
Karma whore? How do you figure? I say what I feel. If I wanted to be a Karma Whore I would come up with some propaganda in line with the OSS movement/linux/whatever to spew, although it'd be off topic I'm sure I could find some clever way to squeeze it in there. In any event, you're a retard, my post had a score of 1 so I don't see how you could say I'm a Karma Whore.
I think the bigger problem here is the USPTO. (US patent and tm office or whatever.) Businesses are greedy, we all know that, you can't really blame them well, expect them not to work within the law if it will benefit them. What really needs to be done is a reevaluation of how the USPTO is structured, how they grant patents, and who's in charge of this evaluation. What is a common problem in government is people who do not understand something, are often the ones in the position to make laws regarding it. This needs to change. If we had tech-savvy people on a comment panel, or better, as part of the review panel in the USPTO, we would see a drastic reduction in these garbage patent filings. Anyone have ideas on how we can make something like that happen? As I currently see it, governments are juggernauts not able to be moved by the people, the exact entity government is supposed to serve.
Sorry if it's confusing, I'm on day 2, heh. Anyway yea I emmigrated to Sweden. I am aware of the fact that different countries have different policies, but in order to emigrate to any country it is 99% the same process, *nation-specific requirements* asside. I was merely trying to provide a high level detail of the process. Someimes with such complex/daunting things, people have no idea how to even begin.
Hm however, the caffeine just kicked in and I rememberd what my original point was. Do you think that the X-box would have had the criticism if it were NOT spearheaded by M$? (Holly crap I really have to start sleping. I'm turning into a friggin retard. I'm surprised I haven't yet imploded or something.)
For example, would such effort have been put into finding holes in DreamCast's ability if it were not spearheaded by Microsoft? While I dislike M$ as much as anyone else, I do like being my own devil's advocate... good for keeping from becoming narrow minded I believe.
I coded the link fine, I pressed preview and it looked fine, I then posted it. Slashdot's bloody preview text box messed up the spacing of my end hyperlink tag. Sorry again.
I was in this position about 2 years ago, only worse. I wasn't even in Sweden, I just visited it for holiday; Being a student in the US will make it easier. I fell in love and decided to move there. Once I got back to the US I contacted both the US and Swedish consolate nearest me and began the process. You can find a list of every consolate / embassy here. Most of the consolates have not only information regarding emigrating to their country, but online assistants and quick-references for making the process very simple.
It basically goes like this:
1. Contact the US consolate and inform them you wish to immigrate.
2. Fill out the paperwork they will send you and return it to them, including your passport.
3. Return to your country to await processing. (You usually must return to your country, but that was in my case. If you are already here for school there may be an exception.)
4. Interview with the US consolate in your home country, or if you can stay in the US during the process, with the nearest US immigration office.
5. About 4-6 weeks later you will receive word.
It was a very simple process only requiring an hour or so of paper work and 1 *stress free* meeting with the Swedish consolate. Basically it's as simple as this. You all are geeks, geeks are in demand, you can easily emigrate to the US and most other countries.
Make 'protection schemes' crumble, it's not only entertaining but you gains status, too! While I read the summary of this post I began to giggle to myself thinking about how, inevitably, Entertainment Corporations will release some new magical scheme to 'protect' digital goods, and inevitably, it will be cracked, less than 24 hours after its debut no less. Then I got thinking about something that I think is an interesting fact; not only are there folks who enjoy cracking this stuff for obvious reasons, but given the mainstream evolution of everything digital, it's somewhat of a race to be the first to crack it and gain status. This is like the "geek" version of the Emmys or something. I loved thinking about which country I thought the country would come out of first or the age of the guy/girl. (Hell, another good idea, I want to see a geek chick crack a 'protection scheme' or release the next DDoS Killer App.) I love this era. Big Business tries to extend its strangle-hold on the digital world like it has the bio world and teens give them a big "fuck you." They're in our world now and nothing digital, by nature, is safe. Don't you guys find this really exciting and entertaining seeing these old timers that consider us just 1 collective consuming entity cry and bitch "foul play" while trying to keep up with us insignificant consumers?
Ok I Star Trek as much as the next "geek", who happened to be harassed in high school by double digit IQ jocks who thought slamming into each other at full speed was a better idea than revelling in the latest technology, and who now makes more than triple the entire income of the family of the harasser, no no bitterness here muahahaha, but what I want to know is when will the Regards
I commend Honda for this but I am still extremely disappointed in general society.
I thought that if anything would incite alternative fuel/practices discussion, the recent petrol shortages in western nations would have done so. I watch CNN daily and I heard not 1 single reference to the necessity for increased R&D or anthing related! It was all "We need a way to not only pump our poor planet dry, but also provide this non-renewable resource for such a low price that people waste as much as they possibly can."
I'm not a "dirt eating tree unf'er" or something, but I do have a fucking brain. Our society is completely reliant upon petrol and I think it goes to show how dense and narrow minded the majority of people are when alternative fuels and increased R&D are not even discussed. And don't post a reply saying that, while that's important, we need to solve the current issue of fuel shortages. Of course I know that, but it appears that there is zero focus on the mid to long term solutions, the truly important issues!
As the summary of this post says, we all know to pretty much stay away from "point oh" software releases. While this is a common and currently wise choice, it is not correct. Why should we learn to accomodate that which is not perfect rather than striving to improve the imperfection.
The issue, among other things, is current software development practices, not specifically Red Hat. As there are many methods for higher quality (Read: Better.) software development, such as OOD *before* a single line of code is written, they are hardly given attention in even the most enterprise level environments. I think most of us can attest to this, and I also think most of us can see the fault in this practice. You do not begin building an automobile without first having run through design, logic, models, et cetera. Software should be no different. I'm not an idealist, software *can* kick ass, in even "point oh" releases, but we need to begin to swallow our pride and realise we're not capable of developing quality software, of any substantial size, without proper design practices and documentation first.
Ok well if we convert to that reference frame, and agree that AOL's servers won't be 'opened', just the protocol, the issue now becomes whether it's fair to require AOL to open the protocol considering they invested the resources to develop the protocol and so on. THIS IS a debatable open source question which I would and do agree to see both sides on, of course. As with everything in the open source movement, it's a very complex issue if you are truly unbiased and not over-zealous or selfish, thus not solvable in a message board thread. Let's all put this into our 'backpack' of issues to consider through time.
Oh your *capitalistic* firm relies on this app now and is bothered by their inability to tweak it to their liking? Well since it's a commercial organisation using this thing, all the more fucking reason to realise that commercial organisations are out there to make money, not open up their stuff *at their cost* (bandwidth, et cetera) so your firm can profit more. Don't be hypocritical, should your firm be expected to give free products/services to other firms to profit from? Uhu.
We may all prefer 1 'open IM network' but this isn't right. Why the bloody hell should AOL be forced to allow other firms to use THEIR service resources? Isn't this conflicting with the court's ruling that the meta-auction site (Cannot remember the name.) cannot index eBay's site because it robs eBay of the ability to use it's own resources? Hm, courts [may] force AOL to allow other firms to use their resources, but courts also disallow firms to use the resources of other firms. I think the WORLD's court systems are really out of touch with fucking reality.
I think you should detail as much about this "invention" as is possible and release it into the public domain. If you're courageous, do this under your real name. If you're fearful of litigation, most likely the case considering the asshole'esque nature of American firms, do it under some alias and make the invention description vague enough as to not tip off this firm that you are the author. In no lawyer, but if the stuff is released into public domain and has a similar concept/structure as the patent application to be filed, it may create a situation where it can be shown they were not some epic innovators and perhaps work towards making the patent application not approved.
(If my logic and/or grammar is weak, I've been up for 2 days now and so fuck you.)
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If administration of TLDs is delegated to 1 commercial entity for each of these new TLDs, as is the case with most country TLDs, we will be taking a step backwards. There should be 1 international group, ICANN, which manages TLDs. Extend upon that an 'open' method of domain registration for accredited registrars and we have ourselves a very nice open system not owned in any way by commercial organisations. Does anyone else have any insights on how this will be done/should be done?
Regards
Funny that this issue comes up, 45 minutes ago I was reading the latest issue of Blink, Earthlinks monthly spam... *cough* magasine. It had an interview with Dr. Drew of MTV LoveLine and www.drdrew.com fame in which he mentioned that in such a dysfunctional and disconnected world (In the emotional regard, not what we may at first think. ;), online communities are an extremely effective way at making "connections" with people. Anyone who has heard Dr. Drew wouldn't question what he says, I would personally kill people for him... oh wait, that sorta thing's already been done, whatever.
Regards
"His excellence in theoretical physics notwithstanding, I don't think he has expertise in all the disciplines that such a prediction requires."
!@$#&$%
Uhm. In fact I think it's the *exact* thing you discount that gives him such qualifications. I do not see your logic, perhaps it does not exist.
Regards
Considering my other post and the accelerated rate at which 'progress' is made (ie. There has been greater advances in the past 10 years than there was during the 50 or even 100 years before it.) I do not doubt this at all, sadly.
Regards
Karma whore? How do you figure? I say what I feel. If I wanted to be a Karma Whore I would come up with some propaganda in line with the OSS movement/linux/whatever to spew, although it'd be off topic I'm sure I could find some clever way to squeeze it in there. In any event, you're a retard, my post had a score of 1 so I don't see how you could say I'm a Karma Whore.
Regards
I think the bigger problem here is the USPTO. (US patent and tm office or whatever.) Businesses are greedy, we all know that, you can't really blame them well, expect them not to work within the law if it will benefit them. What really needs to be done is a reevaluation of how the USPTO is structured, how they grant patents, and who's in charge of this evaluation. What is a common problem in government is people who do not understand something, are often the ones in the position to make laws regarding it. This needs to change. If we had tech-savvy people on a comment panel, or better, as part of the review panel in the USPTO, we would see a drastic reduction in these garbage patent filings. Anyone have ideas on how we can make something like that happen? As I currently see it, governments are juggernauts not able to be moved by the people, the exact entity government is supposed to serve.
Regards
Sorry if it's confusing, I'm on day 2, heh. Anyway yea I emmigrated to Sweden. I am aware of the fact that different countries have different policies, but in order to emigrate to any country it is 99% the same process, *nation-specific requirements* asside. I was merely trying to provide a high level detail of the process. Someimes with such complex/daunting things, people have no idea how to even begin.
Regards
Hm however, the caffeine just kicked in and I rememberd what my original point was. Do you think that the X-box would have had the criticism if it were NOT spearheaded by M$? (Holly crap I really have to start sleping. I'm turning into a friggin retard. I'm surprised I haven't yet imploded or something.)
Regards
Well yea I guess it is as simple as that. I'm sure, as we see on /., that anything AOL does is pretty much criticised as well... with good reason. ;)
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I meant if DreamCast WERE spearheaded by Microsoft, as in the motive behind this article was to band-wagon attack M$.
For example, would such effort have been put into finding holes in DreamCast's ability if it were not spearheaded by Microsoft? While I dislike M$ as much as anyone else, I do like being my own devil's advocate... good for keeping from becoming narrow minded I believe.
Regards
I coded the link fine, I pressed preview and it looked fine, I then posted it. Slashdot's bloody preview text box messed up the spacing of my end hyperlink tag. Sorry again.
Regards
I was in this position about 2 years ago, only worse. I wasn't even in Sweden, I just visited it for holiday; Being a student in the US will make it easier. I fell in love and decided to move there. Once I got back to the US I contacted both the US and Swedish consolate nearest me and began the process. You can find a list of every consolate / embassy here.
Most of the consolates have not only information regarding emigrating to their country, but online assistants and quick-references for making the process very simple.
It basically goes like this:
1. Contact the US consolate and inform them you wish to immigrate.
2. Fill out the paperwork they will send you and return it to them, including your passport.
3. Return to your country to await processing. (You usually must return to your country, but that was in my case. If you are already here for school there may be an exception.)
4. Interview with the US consolate in your home country, or if you can stay in the US during the process, with the nearest US immigration office.
5. About 4-6 weeks later you will receive word.
It was a very simple process only requiring an hour or so of paper work and 1 *stress free* meeting with the Swedish consolate. Basically it's as simple as this. You all are geeks, geeks are in demand, you can easily emigrate to the US and most other countries.
Anyway, Good luck!
Regards
Make 'protection schemes' crumble, it's not only entertaining but you gains status, too! While I read the summary of this post I began to giggle to myself thinking about how, inevitably, Entertainment Corporations will release some new magical scheme to 'protect' digital goods, and inevitably, it will be cracked, less than 24 hours after its debut no less. Then I got thinking about something that I think is an interesting fact; not only are there folks who enjoy cracking this stuff for obvious reasons, but given the mainstream evolution of everything digital, it's somewhat of a race to be the first to crack it and gain status. This is like the "geek" version of the Emmys or something. I loved thinking about which country I thought the country would come out of first or the age of the guy/girl. (Hell, another good idea, I want to see a geek chick crack a 'protection scheme' or release the next DDoS Killer App.) I love this era. Big Business tries to extend its strangle-hold on the digital world like it has the bio world and teens give them a big "fuck you." They're in our world now and nothing digital, by nature, is safe. Don't you guys find this really exciting and entertaining seeing these old timers that consider us just 1 collective consuming entity cry and bitch "foul play" while trying to keep up with us insignificant consumers?
Regards
Ok I Star Trek as much as the next "geek", who happened to be harassed in high school by double digit IQ jocks who thought slamming into each other at full speed was a better idea than revelling in the latest technology, and who now makes more than triple the entire income of the family of the harasser, no no bitterness here muahahaha, but what I want to know is when will the
Regards
I commend Honda for this but I am still extremely disappointed in general society.
I thought that if anything would incite alternative fuel/practices discussion, the recent petrol shortages in western nations would have done so. I watch CNN daily and I heard not 1 single reference to the necessity for increased R&D or anthing related! It was all "We need a way to not only pump our poor planet dry, but also provide this non-renewable resource for such a low price that people waste as much as they possibly can."
I'm not a "dirt eating tree unf'er" or something, but I do have a fucking brain. Our society is completely reliant upon petrol and I think it goes to show how dense and narrow minded the majority of people are when alternative fuels and increased R&D are not even discussed. And don't post a reply saying that, while that's important, we need to solve the current issue of fuel shortages. Of course I know that, but it appears that there is zero focus on the mid to long term solutions, the truly important issues!
Hello, my name is x and I hate people.
Regards
As the summary of this post says, we all know to pretty much stay away from "point oh" software releases. While this is a common and currently wise choice, it is not correct. Why should we learn to accomodate that which is not perfect rather than striving to improve the imperfection.
The issue, among other things, is current software development practices, not specifically Red Hat. As there are many methods for higher quality (Read: Better.) software development, such as OOD *before* a single line of code is written, they are hardly given attention in even the most enterprise level environments. I think most of us can attest to this, and I also think most of us can see the fault in this practice. You do not begin building an automobile without first having run through design, logic, models, et cetera. Software should be no different. I'm not an idealist, software *can* kick ass, in even "point oh" releases, but we need to begin to swallow our pride and realise we're not capable of developing quality software, of any substantial size, without proper design practices and documentation first.
Regards
Ok well if we convert to that reference frame, and agree that AOL's servers won't be 'opened', just the protocol, the issue now becomes whether it's fair to require AOL to open the protocol considering they invested the resources to develop the protocol and so on. THIS IS a debatable open source question which I would and do agree to see both sides on, of course. As with everything in the open source movement, it's a very complex issue if you are truly unbiased and not over-zealous or selfish, thus not solvable in a message board thread. Let's all put this into our 'backpack' of issues to consider through time.
Oh your *capitalistic* firm relies on this app now and is bothered by their inability to tweak it to their liking? Well since it's a commercial organisation using this thing, all the more fucking reason to realise that commercial organisations are out there to make money, not open up their stuff *at their cost* (bandwidth, et cetera) so your firm can profit more. Don't be hypocritical, should your firm be expected to give free products/services to other firms to profit from? Uhu.
We may all prefer 1 'open IM network' but this isn't right. Why the bloody hell should AOL be forced to allow other firms to use THEIR service resources? Isn't this conflicting with the court's ruling that the meta-auction site (Cannot remember the name.) cannot index eBay's site because it robs eBay of the ability to use it's own resources? Hm, courts [may] force AOL to allow other firms to use their resources, but courts also disallow firms to use the resources of other firms. I think the WORLD's court systems are really out of touch with fucking reality.
I wonder if he can comment on if the Judge ever reads /.?
I think you should detail as much about this "invention" as is possible and release it into the public domain. If you're courageous, do this under your real name. If you're fearful of litigation, most likely the case considering the asshole'esque nature of American firms, do it under some alias and make the invention description vague enough as to not tip off this firm that you are the author. In no lawyer, but if the stuff is released into public domain and has a similar concept/structure as the patent application to be filed, it may create a situation where it can be shown they were not some epic innovators and perhaps work towards making the patent application not approved.
(If my logic and/or grammar is weak, I've been up for 2 days now and so fuck you.)