The advantage of Iomega over CD's is that you can use it as a hard-drive in that you can edit a file
inline. On a CD you have to re-burn the CD when you change a file.
Been living in a cave at all, recently?
There's such a thing as UDF, packet-writing..
Google is your friend for that shit, it's 2 am here and I'm gonna go to sleep, yeah..
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a shared military, a shared government ??? You really seems as ignorant as G. Bush !! Military
relation between France and Germany are like those between France and USA in the OTAN... And
shared government: wtf ! Don't you learn in school what is a governement, but perhaps you think we
(the world) are all under the governship of the ONU...
For the benefit of L-T-R English readers:
OTAN=NATO
UNO=UN
This kind of Frenchification of abbreviations is exactly why "ISO" is not an abbreviation of "International Standards Organisation".. If that were the case, the French would spoil the standardization process by calling ISO OSI (Organisation de Standardisation Internationale).. EEk!
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My current bank gives away nice crypto tokens ("calculators") with every electronic banking account. Cost? about $150/account.
My *other* bank just prints out 100 challenge/response thingies (password 1: G3DSG3323SD, password 2: F$5yDFG32 etc.) and sends you a new sheet (in a tamper-evident envelope) every time you run out..
Cost? I'd say about $1 per 100 transactions
So a $300 device (is that the cost?) sound a bit steep.. --
It works in europe well because they run a hundred houses off of one transformer.
In the United States there is usually one transformer on every street block (4-7 houses).
As I understand it the main objection to running signals over power lines is the noise on such lines caused by the hardware (TVs, radio'sm lightswitches, dimmers) connected to it.. Having less houses per transformer (or, segment) would mean less interference on that segment!
I fail to see the difference between having a transformer every 4-7 houses or a nice linux box every 4-7 computers -- a linux box NATting my LAN, hooked up to my cable modem. The thing that makes it work is the fact that all the UTP and coaxial cable is shielded from interference, while AC lines aren't..
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The interesting bit of this is that downloading music is perfectly legal, as is storing it. After all, you've already paid for making a home-copy when you bought the media. There is no such surcharge on harddrives, yet, but there wasn't on CD-Rs before, and obviously they're getting it now, so the brunt is on them to actually go after the money. (And they will)
hosting music without paying off the record companies (which may or may not actually pay the people whose music is being distributed an approriate amount of money, or at all) is illegal, and the temporary arrangement seems to have been suspended. I use the word 'paying off' judiciously; it's obviously a bribe to get them off your back -- if you host anything other than top-40 MP3s the artists are unlikely to actually get paid for what is know in Dutch as 'author's rights' (as opposed to copyright).
Recently VPRO radio had to pull all the Sony owned music from their programming since they store all of their programs, available for streaming, on their website (weeding out Sony songs and edit them out of the streams was just too much work).
The other big 4 (soon to be 3) record companies are, of course, following suit.
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You've got files on your lan, the software fingerprints it and filemonitors log where it goes.
They've got a big database which they fill with fingerprints from usenet porn, warez, and other questionable newsgroups. One of these fingerprints hows up on your workstation, a filemonitor detects it, and you're in trouble with the boss..
The password cracking thing is wholly unrelated to this stuff, as well as the harddrive forensics and all that other stuff, which has been around for decades.
They probably don't have to access all new porn sites, just wait for the porn to show up on usenet. The real question is how good the fingerprints are. You've got your birthday-paradox on the one hand, and mutating files and multi-generational copies on the other hand.. This post probably changes the fingerprint on this whole page, but it shouldn't. And if it doesn't, the fingerprint is probably the same as the fingerprint for cnn.com.
Impressed? Nah. Handy? Maybe.. Dunno.. If your employees are watching porn all day, you ought to notice, I mean, what are all your non-porn watching employees doing if you can't notice the difference in productivity? --
What's needed is an email petition perhaps - "why British Telecom wants to control what YOU can read."
And the answer is; to make money. And they want to take your money without you feeling ripped off, so they make most services not that expensive. But they make others incredibly expensive. Premium services. Of course, for this subsidization to work, they'll have to block competing wapsites that offer the premium info for free. (Example; news from cnn is a premium service on NL KPN's minfo wap service, but cnn.com can be accessed by wap for free using any other network provider's wap service)
And like the fools they are, yes, most consumers will say "hey, how often do I need those premium services anyway, so what if they block a load of sites?".
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Lets see.. $80 for the phone, $25/month for service, including 180 minutes of airtime, 12 month contract with one of the Dutch GSM carriers.. Doesn't sound prohibitively expensive.. Cometo think of it.. Maybe I should get me one of those..:-)
(not spam, but I got these prices from this page it's in Dutch and for the Dutch market though..)
GSM..ahh..Ain't Europe a great place to be right now;-) (Apart from Asia and Japanof course..) --
It's simple really, all the people I know buy a new cellphone at least once every year. Which means that their newest phones now have WAP, even though they didn't ask for it. When I-mode hits Europe, they'll have it, when UMTS/3G does, they'll have it too.. Probably because they liked the new phone because it was smaller, or cooler, or has a better battery..
Besides, if you take out a 12-month contract, or renew it, operators will give you a brand spanking new phone for almost no money at all..;-)
I've got a nokia 3210 with T9 predictive text-input (yay!) which is being repaired at the moment (grrr).. My next phone (in slightly less than a year's time from now) will probably be (the succesor to) the Ericsoon T28s, or something like that.. That flip is just too cool, and it has Tetris...;-)
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This would be a great argument if Europe had better landline-service (and prices, ouch!) than the US.
The thing with wireless is, your country doesn't need to be densely populated. You can just make cells bigger if they're not used that often. And you can have cells in places where people are most likely to be (Dutch operators always put cells next to highways before putting them in smaller towns for example).
Finally you don't need any landlines to connect the cells, you just use micro-wave tranceivers.
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I know I'm not supposed to mention this, but in the construction of the XXXXXX for the XXX XXXXX project in 19XX, did considerations of XXXXXXXXity and XXXXXXX play a bigger or a smaller part compared to the speed-advantage of XXXXXXXX algorithms developed by the XXXXXX team? In what way are you now integrating XXXXXXX XXXXXXX in to the XXXX and/or XXX of the top-layer XXXXXX-management?
Also, my best regards to XXXX XXXXXXXX if you see hXX..
I have a friend who lives in nearby Laurel, MD, who works for them. He is instructed, when asked where he works by a stranger, to decline to state, answering with a generic "Defense Department" when pushed.
As they manufacture their own chips.. Why can't he just say he works for Intel(l)?;-) --
Does ANYONE honestly believe that a pharmaceutical company, which spends millions or billions of dollars in research and development to produce drugs that YOU ALL USE AND NEED would continue to do this if they were not allowed to make a return on their investment, time, and effort? NOT!
So you're saying society would need those medicines? But pharma companies wouldn't be able to invest a few million and recoupe it because any one can then copy it?
Society needs roads. I think you'll find that most roads are built with the taxpayer's money, and not by private companies which charge toll.
Why would medicines-development be different from road-development?
It's not my fault the US still haven't got healthcare and social benefits right.... --
It has been remarked that Africa's agricultural problems stem mostly from the fact that farming is getting more and more unattractive (to the point of bancruptcy) for farmers since food from Western countries, where farming is subsidized, is dumped at unrealistic prizes, thereby forcing local farmers out of the market. Then what happens is maybe a drought, causing the remaining few farmers to lose their income too, and hey presto the entire local economy collapses to the point where no-one can afford to buy food, domestic or foreign.. Of course then they get food "aid" from the West, food for free.. Which gets hijacked by the elite, and depresses prizes on the food market even more!
In fact, even Russians have complained that cheaply dumped European food is forcing their own farmers out of business, promoting general misery.
What needs to be done is quite simple. The West, and especially the European Union, should stop subsidizing agriculture! Forcing third world countries to drop their protectionist trade bariers while subsidizing European farmers by all means possible (from cash-in-hand and tax-breaks to guaranteed prices instead of an open market) just means more unfair competition for the world's farmers..
Political instability in Africa as I see it seems to be mainly the result of the ubiquity of weapons there. How come 12 year olds are running around with AKs? Aren't African countries too poor to afford killing-machine technology? Apparently there are lots of people waiting to sell weapons at a discount.. Probably most weapons are just recycled from war to war, instead of proverbially being made into ploughs..
And of course there is the colonial past of African countries that spit up their borders along lines that have no historical significance, plus the fact that the installed governments usually are just puppets of the old regime, and not very democratic.(In fact, compare these issues with the "troubles" in Northern Ireland.. Or the former Yugoslavia.) Plus, which colonial government has ever bothered to educate 'the natives' properly? That would only cost money, and the West mostly just needed the countries' natural resources and cheap labor if not slavery..
In my view, most problems in Africa stem mostly from it's past and the unwillingness of the West to do what's fair in trade and politics.. To the advantage of local warlords.
Say you work at a store. You chat with your co-worker. You know you're at work, you know your boss might walk in because of that, and since you're in a public place, some people might overhear your conversation. But on the whole, you know that you can still talk about things you'd consider private. People don't tend to eavesdrop, and if they do, you'd notice. Your boss doesn't eavesdrop on your conversations at the coffeemachine, even if you work in an officebuilding that has securitycameras..
But now let's say you're chatting using your computer. At work your employer has the right to record and analyse everything you've ever typed! And now, in a public place like IRC everyone should have the right to store your conversations? Ouch!!
Let's say you go to a strip club. It's a public place. You might comment upon a specific exotic dancer's impressive features. You wouldn't expect it to be recorded, stored and indexed for semi-eternity, nor would you expect your boss to be able to use a website to search your strip club comments.. Of course, if he were there, well, it's a fair cop, gov, I mean the chances of that are pretty slim aren't they? You wouldn't expect your comments to be widely disseminated. A strip club, though a public place, is not a forum.
But say something in alt.hotties.nude and it's archived by deja.com. Now #nudehotties is next?
I'ts like they're busy installing cameras and microphones everywhere but inside your actual home, and recording, indexing and publishing it.. First usenet. Then IRC. Your homepage of course, your slashdot comments, your browsing behaviour using cookies, every last scrap of information about you will now be collected unless it's your e-mail.
Perhaps ICQ will have a 'download my message history' button on you personal ICQ homepage next? Why not? It's not like ICQ is private.. I mean, you're talking to some-one else right? That could be anybody, so why not let anybody read it?
Writing novella-length emails about your girlfriend?? Yikes, that will get you thrown in jail for being a stalker, or thrown into a mental hospital for being a pervert, and that's just what would happen over here let alone what could happen in a CountryOfConcern.. --
most MP3s contain music that has not been licensed by the website/scour/napster publisher. However, this is the publisher's responsibility. If I go to my favorite radio station's website and listen to their Real Audio stream, it's their responsibility to actually license that music. The same goes for MP3s. Storing those MP3s for personal use is fair use. Any service that facilitates making copies of MP3s from any source at all facilitates making fair use copies, since it is not the end-user's responsibility to license that music, it's the publisher's!
And even if cases in which music that is offered without being licensed also invalidates the fair-use component of copying and/or storing the music, prohibiting an copy-making service will also harm our rights in the cases where the music is licensed. In other words, prohibiting services such as scour, napster, and eventually lycos' mp3 search, irc, http etc. is patently an overbroad measure.
In conclusion; prohibiting products or services that enable copying harm the individual's right to fair-use, harms the progress of the arts, constitutes an overbroad measure by any stretch of the imagination, and IMNSHO has no basis in law.
You might as well prohibit CD-Rs and FedEx. Or pens. Hey, how about a tax on paper so only decent upstanding members of society can afford to print newspapers?
Example.net,.com and.org are domain names that will never be registered to any one, they're reserved specifically to be used in examples in textbooks etc. There are no DNS entries for these domains, so all mail should bounce. Thank the boys and girls at IANA for this nice service;-)
Of course, loads of domain name registrars and ISPs advertise with yourname.com.. Which is of course a competitor! Doh!! --
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FYI authority for ccTLDs (country code top level domain names, such as.nl,.uk,.de etc.) is already delegated to the governments of the corresponding countries.
In fact, the.us domain has second level state domain names, such as dc.us, with third level cityname domain, such as washington.dc.us - the authority over these domains is delegated to whatever organization local authorities designate to exert it. It seems that almost nobody knows about the.us domain, especially not US citizens;-)
For a exhaustive listing of ccTLDs and links to their registrars see the IANA ccTLD database
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So don't buy nuclear reactors with a 3 month warranty!
Of course manufacturers aren't going to produce stuff that outlives the warranty by tens of years..
But hey, feel free to buy that carton of milk and bitch when it actually DOES turn sour a month after the sell-by date..
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Been living in a cave at all, recently?
There's such a thing as UDF, packet-writing.. Google is your friend for that shit, it's 2 am here and I'm gonna go to sleep, yeah..
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Why use SCSI instead of AGP? Hmm.. Maybe cuz it's easier to get SCSI cables than AGP cables ;-)
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For the benefit of L-T-R English readers:
OTAN=NATO
UNO=UN
This kind of Frenchification of abbreviations is exactly why "ISO" is not an abbreviation of "International Standards Organisation".. If that were the case, the French would spoil the standardization process by calling ISO OSI (Organisation de Standardisation Internationale).. EEk!
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Cost? about $150/account.
My *other* bank just prints out 100 challenge/response thingies (password 1: G3DSG3323SD, password 2: F$5yDFG32 etc.) and sends you a new sheet (in a tamper-evident envelope) every time you run out..
Cost? I'd say about $1 per 100 transactions
So a $300 device (is that the cost?) sound a bit steep..
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In the United States there is usually one transformer on every street block (4-7 houses).
As I understand it the main objection to running signals over power lines is the noise on such lines caused by the hardware (TVs, radio'sm lightswitches, dimmers) connected to it.. Having less houses per transformer (or, segment) would mean less interference on that segment!
I fail to see the difference between having a transformer every 4-7 houses or a nice linux box every 4-7 computers -- a linux box NATting my LAN, hooked up to my cable modem. The thing that makes it work is the fact that all the UTP and coaxial cable is shielded from interference, while AC lines aren't..
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Microsoft not only owns a stake in MSNBC, but also in.. Apple..
Maybe Apple is deliberately throwing the game, then?
Maybe not though..
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hosting music without paying off the record companies (which may or may not actually pay the people whose music is being distributed an approriate amount of money, or at all) is illegal, and the temporary arrangement seems to have been suspended. I use the word 'paying off' judiciously; it's obviously a bribe to get them off your back -- if you host anything other than top-40 MP3s the artists are unlikely to actually get paid for what is know in Dutch as 'author's rights' (as opposed to copyright).
Recently VPRO radio had to pull all the Sony owned music from their programming since they store all of their programs, available for streaming, on their website (weeding out Sony songs and edit them out of the streams was just too much work).
The other big 4 (soon to be 3) record companies are, of course, following suit.
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They've got a big database which they fill with fingerprints from usenet porn, warez, and other questionable newsgroups. One of these fingerprints hows up on your workstation, a filemonitor detects it, and you're in trouble with the boss..
The password cracking thing is wholly unrelated to this stuff, as well as the harddrive forensics and all that other stuff, which has been around for decades.
They probably don't have to access all new porn sites, just wait for the porn to show up on usenet. The real question is how good the fingerprints are. You've got your birthday-paradox on the one hand, and mutating files and multi-generational copies on the other hand.. This post probably changes the fingerprint on this whole page, but it shouldn't. And if it doesn't, the fingerprint is probably the same as the fingerprint for cnn.com.
Impressed? Nah. Handy? Maybe.. Dunno.. If your employees are watching porn all day, you ought to notice, I mean, what are all your non-porn watching employees doing if you can't notice the difference in productivity?
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Apple. Innvating shareholdervalue. Think different.
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And the answer is; to make money. And they want to take your money without you feeling ripped off, so they make most services not that expensive. But they make others incredibly expensive. Premium services. Of course, for this subsidization to work, they'll have to block competing wapsites that offer the premium info for free. (Example; news from cnn is a premium service on NL KPN's minfo wap service, but cnn.com can be accessed by wap for free using any other network provider's wap service)
And like the fools they are, yes, most consumers will say "hey, how often do I need those premium services anyway, so what if they block a load of sites?".
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(not spam, but I got these prices from this page it's in Dutch and for the Dutch market though..)
GSM..ahh..Ain't Europe a great place to be right now ;-) (Apart from Asia and Japanof course..)
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Only 3 Megabit is pathetic.. Even 3 Megabyte is pathetic.. 3 MB *ever* ?? What does that work out to expressed in Mbps ? ;-))
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Besides, if you take out a 12-month contract, or renew it, operators will give you a brand spanking new phone for almost no money at all.. ;-)
I've got a nokia 3210 with T9 predictive text-input (yay!) which is being repaired at the moment (grrr).. My next phone (in slightly less than a year's time from now) will probably be (the succesor to) the Ericsoon T28s, or something like that.. That flip is just too cool, and it has Tetris... ;-)
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The thing with wireless is, your country doesn't need to be densely populated. You can just make cells bigger if they're not used that often. And you can have cells in places where people are most likely to be (Dutch operators always put cells next to highways before putting them in smaller towns for example).
Finally you don't need any landlines to connect the cells, you just use micro-wave tranceivers.
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"Do you feel you need to moo all your vials beginning with abe to the directory kunf-fu?"
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Also, my best regards to XXXX XXXXXXXX if you see hXX..
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As they manufacture their own chips.. Why can't he just say he works for Intel(l)? ;-)
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So you're saying society would need those medicines? But pharma companies wouldn't be able to invest a few million and recoupe it because any one can then copy it?
Society needs roads. I think you'll find that most roads are built with the taxpayer's money, and not by private companies which charge toll.
Why would medicines-development be different from road-development?
It's not my fault the US still haven't got healthcare and social benefits right....
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In fact, even Russians have complained that cheaply dumped European food is forcing their own farmers out of business, promoting general misery.
What needs to be done is quite simple. The West, and especially the European Union, should stop subsidizing agriculture! Forcing third world countries to drop their protectionist trade bariers while subsidizing European farmers by all means possible (from cash-in-hand and tax-breaks to guaranteed prices instead of an open market) just means more unfair competition for the world's farmers..
Political instability in Africa as I see it seems to be mainly the result of the ubiquity of weapons there. How come 12 year olds are running around with AKs? Aren't African countries too poor to afford killing-machine technology? Apparently there are lots of people waiting to sell weapons at a discount.. Probably most weapons are just recycled from war to war, instead of proverbially being made into ploughs..
And of course there is the colonial past of African countries that spit up their borders along lines that have no historical significance, plus the fact that the installed governments usually are just puppets of the old regime, and not very democratic.(In fact, compare these issues with the "troubles" in Northern Ireland.. Or the former Yugoslavia.) Plus, which colonial government has ever bothered to educate 'the natives' properly? That would only cost money, and the West mostly just needed the countries' natural resources and cheap labor if not slavery..
In my view, most problems in Africa stem mostly from it's past and the unwillingness of the West to do what's fair in trade and politics.. To the advantage of local warlords.
But hey, what do I know..
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But now let's say you're chatting using your computer. At work your employer has the right to record and analyse everything you've ever typed! And now, in a public place like IRC everyone should have the right to store your conversations? Ouch!!
Let's say you go to a strip club. It's a public place. You might comment upon a specific exotic dancer's impressive features. You wouldn't expect it to be recorded, stored and indexed for semi-eternity, nor would you expect your boss to be able to use a website to search your strip club comments.. Of course, if he were there, well, it's a fair cop, gov, I mean the chances of that are pretty slim aren't they? You wouldn't expect your comments to be widely disseminated. A strip club, though a public place, is not a forum.
But say something in alt.hotties.nude and it's archived by deja.com. Now #nudehotties is next?
I'ts like they're busy installing cameras and microphones everywhere but inside your actual home, and recording, indexing and publishing it.. First usenet. Then IRC. Your homepage of course, your slashdot comments, your browsing behaviour using cookies, every last scrap of information about you will now be collected unless it's your e-mail.
Perhaps ICQ will have a 'download my message history' button on you personal ICQ homepage next? Why not? It's not like ICQ is private.. I mean, you're talking to some-one else right? That could be anybody, so why not let anybody read it?
Oh well..
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Writing novella-length emails about your girlfriend?? Yikes, that will get you thrown in jail for being a stalker, or thrown into a mental hospital for being a pervert, and that's just what would happen over here let alone what could happen in a CountryOfConcern..
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most MP3s contain music that has not been licensed by the website/scour/napster publisher. However, this is the publisher's responsibility. If I go to my favorite radio station's website and listen to their Real Audio stream, it's their responsibility to actually license that music. The same goes for MP3s. Storing those MP3s for personal use is fair use. Any service that facilitates making copies of MP3s from any source at all facilitates making fair use copies, since it is not the end-user's responsibility to license that music, it's the publisher's!
And even if cases in which music that is offered without being licensed also invalidates the fair-use component of copying and/or storing the music, prohibiting an copy-making service will also harm our rights in the cases where the music is licensed. In other words, prohibiting services such as scour, napster, and eventually lycos' mp3 search, irc, http etc. is patently an overbroad measure.
In conclusion; prohibiting products or services that enable copying harm the individual's right to fair-use, harms the progress of the arts, constitutes an overbroad measure by any stretch of the imagination, and IMNSHO has no basis in law.
You might as well prohibit CD-Rs and FedEx. Or pens. Hey, how about a tax on paper so only decent upstanding members of society can afford to print newspapers?
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Of course, loads of domain name registrars and ISPs advertise with yourname.com.. Which is of course a competitor! Doh!!
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In fact, the .us domain has second level state domain names, such as dc.us, with third level cityname domain, such as washington.dc.us - the authority over these domains is delegated to whatever organization local authorities designate to exert it. It seems that almost nobody knows about the .us domain, especially not US citizens ;-)
For a exhaustive listing of ccTLDs and links to their registrars see the IANA ccTLD database
For .us domain delegations see the official United States domain registry
Note how beautifully hierarchical the .us construction is. Most ccTLDs (such as .nl) have a yucky flat namespace, just like .com
P.S.: it's spelled 'mnemonic', as in Johnny.
HTH, HAND
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