"In contrast to the past seven years, I will send a clear and unwavering message: drug use is wrong, and we will have zero tolerance for those who target our children with the plague of drugs."
To have him continue:
"Of course, if I'm specifically asked if I've had, oh, say a bust for DUI, I'd say "I don't have a perfect record as a youth" and let you folks just guess what I may have done in my rich-boy past."
"So what I did as a youth is different from what our Nation's youth should do as a youth."
"Hey! I'm different! I'm rich! I get to do stuff you don't!"
"And then when the truth came out, that I'd been busted for DUI when I was 30(as a youth?)I'd say that I'd was trying to hide this so as not to embarrass my daughters, even though probably the best lesson I could give them would be to step forward like a man and admit this, and stop my self-righteous, hypocritcal attacks against Al Gore as being a man without integrity."
"But, Hey! I'm a Republicrat politician! So you expected forthright honesty? Dream on! And vote for me!"
Maybe you haven't been around here long enough to realize it, or maybe you think that sort sophomoric crap is funny...
Hell, it wasn't even well-written.
Rebut my points, one-by-one, if you can:
1) *Don't* you clowns have anything better to put up?
2) What *did* happen to my submittal? It was about a bot-reply I got from a major corporation, when I responded to a post to the ip-chains mail-list from someone who was apparently their employee, doing ip-chains homework while he was on the company dollar.
The gist of the auto-reply was that I was sending one of their employees an email clearly off-topic for the corporate context in which he worked, and my email was shunted off to a holding area, undelivered, while they hauled him in on the carpet to ask what the hell he was doing, screwing around with ip-chains stuff while he was on the clock.
This was clear evidence of Corporate email screening and interception, filtering and diverting personal email on the basis of some algorithm which decided that this guy was wasting time while on the job.
He was being busted after posting to a mail-list that had nothing to do with his work.
I submitted this anecdote under "Privacy".
Apparently this sort of issue, and this sort of clear proof of Corporate snooping, is far less important than that poorly-written pseudo-email allegedly from Bill Gates -- flame-bait clearly designed to rile up the Linux/Window$ flame war and also principally intended to generate a lot of traffic on/.
3) And posting that sort of crap *does* make/. look very foolish and very very juvenile to any outsider who wanders by.
But does anyone care?
Hell no.
It generates traffic. Traffic is king. Traffic is what keeps the advertising rates up and makes money for somebody, somewhere 'way off in the background.
The War on Drugs has been a consistently neglected topic in discussions surrounding this federal election. My question is, do you believe the War on Drugs has been an unqualified success, and if not, what would you change about it if elected president?
G.W. Bush:
"The Democrat administration, Bill's been letting defense fall all apart under his watch and I wouldn't.
It's really important that these United States have a strong military and the military defend us against the hundreds of thousands of United Nations troops that right at this moment are hiding in the woods of Northern Minnesota, just waiting for word from the Trilateral Commission or from the Free Masons or from the Wicans, to come sweeping down out of the woods of Northern Michigan and take away all our guns and make us a one-world government of socialists and atheist-humanists and Wicans, too, whatever they are.
The Democrat administration under Bill, Bill's been too busy letting his morals get all soft to be hard on defense and I'm hard on defense, very hard, but under my program I'd be easy on making defense hard, it would be easy for defense to be harder and stronger and tougher because a good defense is a strong offense.
And offense is important, too, in a war, a war on drugs or the commies or the Libyans or what have you.
What will you do to protect the rights of atheists and those who hold minority faiths, such as Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, et al?
G.W Bush:
"Well. Let me say this about that. What you will get under my program is not, it's not that I don't like minorities, well, some of my best friends are minorities, like Spanish, I love the Spanish and I hope they vote for me!
The record shows that I love Spanish food, Spanish food if it's not too hot, or spicy. I really like Taco Bell and that's Spanish that's not too hot -- I mean, it's good food, American food, that's not hot, I mean it's warm enough to eat and it's good.
Good American food. Food that's Spanish. A minority of Americans eat Spanish food. And I do.
And I think that we need to get Big Government out of Spanish food, and out of minorities.
And we need to get minorites out of Big Government unless they're Spanish and they eat food.
Oct. 30, 2000 | SEATTLE -- A hacker had high-level access to Microsoft Corp.'s computer system for 12 days -- not up to five weeks, as the company had first reported -- and was monitored the entire time."
So they watched the guy for 12 days? OK...
"The company was alerted to the break-in by the creation of new accounts giving users access to parts of Microsoft's computer network..."We start seeing these new accounts being created, but that could be an anomaly of the system," Miller said.
Well, I know that spontaneous account creation is a commonplace occurance on *any* system I've ever worked on.. Personally, I *never* worry about it..
"After a day or two, we realized it was someone hacking into the system."
Well, that must have been a shock! From "System Anomaly" to "Being Hacked"! That must have ruined someone's day...
It was not until Oct. 26, however, that the company notified federal law enforcement, which is investigating the matter. Microsoft said it initially planned to handle the break-in on its own.
"We realized the intrusion had grown to the level that warranted bringing in the FBI," Miller said.
READ: "..we realized we'd been cracked and we had to say something before the cracker did, so we could control the spin..."
Miller acknowledged the hacker could have been in the system for longer than 12 days, but he said the company is confident that high-level access occurred only between Oct. 14 and Oct. 25.
But even with low-level access, the hacker could have accessed corporate e-mails and other confidential information, Miller said.
But wait! Which is it? Twelve days, or longer? Or twelve days of high-level access and some longer period of -- what? -- mere access to "e-mails and other confidential information"?
That's a relief..
When you look at the entire pattern of M$ discussion of this event, from the first admittal, to Balmer's statements (which I take as very significant), to the more recent evolution, it's MNSHO that M$ got cracked, and cracked hard, and cracked by professionals, not scr1pt k1dd13s.
Next, watch for this story to disappear off the front page entirely.
In a week or so, you won't even know that this happened.
Except for new legislation in Wa$hington, if Gee-Dub-Ya and the Republicrats get elected..
I'm sorry: *you* have twisted my knickers, as it were...
"...is if your personal freedom isn't being restricted any more, then does loss of personal privacy with regards to the government really matter?
My personal freedom is an *entirely* separate issue from my personal privacy. I cannot see for a moment how you can say that (if..) my freedom is not restricted, then I should be unconcerned about the loss of my personal privacy.
A non sequitur.
"...if you're not doing anything illegal, then does it really matter if the government knows about all your legal activities?"
What happens when "my" government re-defines what's legal and what's illegal?
How can I be safe from any future, arbitrary changes in the laws, over which I have *no* control, and probably no knowledge, until the Secret Police are knocking at my door?
Honestly!
"...if you're not doing anything illegal, then does it really matter..."
A utterly naive attitude.
How *completely* aware are you, of all laws and statutes that are in effect where you live?
US law does not apply and ouside the US and M$ would not be able to put such a ridiculous interpretations on the law anywhere else.
Tell that to that kid from -- where was it? -- Sweden? Norway?
Jon something... Jan something...
He's 16.. deCSS..
aww.. I forget.
t_t_b
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Hope the spin doesn't make you dizzy!
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Well, as you might expect, this is getting spun like crazy:
"Hackers that broke into Microsoft may have done little more than poke around a few computers, although they had several weeks to explore the software giant's network, sources said.
Contrary to previous reports that indicated hackers had extensive access inside the company for as long as three months, the period was more likely shorter than four to five weeks, sources familiar with the matter said."
Well, that's a lot different! It only took 'em five weeks to figure out they'd been cracked.
The investigation is also focusing on how the attack was executed to determine whether an amateur hacker was at work or if this was an internatinal attempt to steal trade secrets or software source code from Microsoft.
So your basic scr1pt k1dd13 cracked Microsoft? Any body been on IRC crowing about this 'sploit?
The attack tentatively has been traced back to St. Petersburg, Russia, sources said, fueling speculation the break-in was an act of industrial espionage."
Damn it, it was the Russians! Those bastards! Wouldn't you just know it! That'll piss-off all the right-wing Commie baiters in Washington DC.
(But wait! Can you say "mail-drop"?
Sure! I knew you could!)
And finally, aha!
"Congress has been wrestling with cybercrime legislation ever since the denial-of-service attacks on online retailers such as eBay and Amazon.com earlier this year, and such legislation now seems especially timely with the latest hacker attack, this time on software giant Microsoft."
Or is the crack timely in relationship to the legislation?
Has there been any independant corroboration that any of this happened?
"One person familiar with the case said it appeared the hackers initially gained access to Microsoft's corporate computers by using hacker software called the QAZ Trojan, which first surfaced in China in July. The QAZ software is traditionally delivered by e-mail and opens a "back door" to hackers, giving them remote control over the infected computer."
Where have these people been? Info about QAZ has been out -- how long?
"An unknown employee received e-mail carrying the dangerous software payload and inadvertently installed it. The viruslike software disguised itself as Notepad, a Windows program used for reading text messages."
You mean, s/he double-clicked an unknown email attachment? Do these people think they're so protected from the real world that they don't have to use any common sense whatsoever?
"The hackers, whose identities are unknown, are believed to have had access to the codes for three months."
Three months? Three months! Where the fsck have these people been?
The most vaunted, most pre-eminent, most powerful, most successful (well, by some measures..) software company on the entire f*cking planet has been cracked for three f*cking months and no body noticed?
What a bunch of idiots!
Lulled to sleep by dreams of their own power, and staggered to their knees by the enormous size of their own monolithic bulk...
"Perhaps November will be more meaningful if large numbers of Americans deliberately choose not to participate in this election, and make their reasons known, rather than shrugging and ignoring it. Perhaps then, the Beltway might really buckle a bit."
Nuts.
The Republicrats and the Demolicans don't care a goddam about how many people don't vote.
The present system is set up such that if only a minute percentage of the US population votes, one or the other of the only two controlling political parties will still win.
And the game goes on, because the politicians and the bureaucrats all still have a job on Wednesday after the election.
I'm increasingly coming to think that the only thing to do is vote for Nader.
Pleading some nonesense about a freeze period to allow some sort of trademark violation to be challenged and/or removed is specious, at best.
The people who "registered" these common business names with IOD are being scammed.
Period.
"Sure! We'll happily take your money right now and set you right up!"
"If there's some sort of problem later, why, Don't Worry! Be Happy!"
Nuts.
These suckers are being scammed.
They're being led to believe that, at some level, they have some possessory right over these international business names, as domain names in the.web tld.
Again, nuts.
I think that would be called fraud, in some circles.
And note that this from IOD's FAQ admits that you're not getting *anything* that really works anywhere in the current real world:
"I cannot see.WEB(TM) names from my browser. What's wrong?"
"The simple answer is that the Internet's root servers, the domain name servers that essentially "run the Internet" have not had Image Online Design's.WEB(TM) added to them at this time. In our understanding with IANA, we were to have been entered in October of 1996. Image Online Design continues to maintain that the completion of the ongoing process with the U.S. Government and ICANN should begin with the addition of Image Online Design's.WEB(TM) registry to the root servers."
Right. Real Soon Now.
"Will people be able to send me E-Mail at my.WEB(TM) address?"
"The same problem with the root servers with regards to browsers exists for e-mail, and all other Internet services. This is the problem we are trying to address at this time."
"...in spite of the presence of an arguably better proposal from Image Online Design, who have been fighting to bring you a working.Web registry for over four years now..."
B*llsh*t...
Here's the sort of thing Image Online Design aka webtld.com has really been doing, while it's been hiding under the smokescreen of this pap: "Image Online Design...continues to work to ensure that these policies and procedures are created fairly and openly, and will be pleased to work within the framework if they are created such..."
These noble, philanthropic, high-minded folks have been pandering to squatters, just like the scumbags.
And taking money, of course!
"pepsi.web" registration information.
Owner: Mitch Wolf
Email: mwolf@tacobell.web
Steno-Wolf Associates
PO Box 12959
San Luis Obispo
CA, 93406
US
"cocacola.web" registration information.
Owner: Antonione Paupério
Email: antonione@uol.com.br
Rua Pequetita 179, 12 andar
São Paulo
São Paulo, 04552-060
BR
"ford.web" registration information.
Owner: omer gokalp
Email: omerasir@mail.com
ýnonu cad saray sk 17 mahmutbey
ýstanbul
ýstanbul, 34550
TR
"sony.web" registration information.
Owner: Ray Solone
Email: Ray_Solone@asinet.com
3100 Fite Circle
Sacramento
CA, 95827
US
"toshiba.web" registration information.
Owner: C. Wiersma / S. Kraus
Email: cwiersma@home.com
906 Yates St.
Victoria
B.C., V8V 3M2
CA
"microsoft.web" registration information.
Owner: Greg and Brent Hather
Email: rhather@aol.com
3675 Sequoia Drive
San Luis Obispo
CA, 93401
US
Do you know how fast all these suckers are gonna get blown out of the water by hordes and hordes of lawyers once this scam get out?
And I love this:
"As stated in the registration section of this web site, if you are at all hesitant to register due to the situation, please wait for a resolution before doing so."
Hesitant? Well P.T. Barnum said something about a sucker being born every minute. I guess this is continuing proof.
...the right wing aka: Republican party has been the party of deliberate disinformation since time immemorial.
My Southern Califonia, right-wing lunatic fringe uncle (he and my aunt quit the John Birch Society in the mid-fifties because it *wasn't* conservative enough..) used to constantly give me such tracts as "The Big Red Lie" when I was in junior high school in the late '50s.
That was an entire book dedicated to modifying, amplifying and ultimately distorting snippets of fact regarding the Soviet Union into page after page of bald-faced lies.
But the end justifies the means.
These are absolutists who are absolutely correct, most often because god (their god, anyway...) is on their side.
Remember:
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."
Most of the right wing still believes that at its heart, even though most of the most public figures have adopted the politically expedient posture to hide what they truly think because they know they're too extreme for most Americans.
"Once again the Primary issue for this race is this: Who do you want making decisions about your life? The Government - then vote for Al. but if you would prefer to make more decisions for yourself - VOTE BUSH."
This has been the cornerstone of right-wing smokescreen for decades!
Is the right wing about to abolish government and let you do what ever you choose?
Hell no!
Are they going to let you or someone you know have an abortion, if you so choose?
Hell no!
The right wing is just as in love with governmental authority as the left: ever heard of the term "fascism"?
The simple fact is that the Republican party has always been the government of the rich and the powerful. (And the absolutists and the authoritarians, and the single-issue litmus test freaks...)
It'll never be anything else.
Are the Republicans going to let you make decisions about your own life?
"...The idea is -- and Akamai and other companies are doing this -- you move content, you spread it around so it's replicated, so when somebody asks for it, you intercept the domain-name query and you look at it and say: "Where is this user coming from? Where is the closest place he can get the content?" And your DNS [domain name system] answers, then points the user to the place that's closest. Therefore, we've got geographically sensitive domain names."
This is already being tried in newspaper publishing and IMHO it doesn't work: I get an edition of the Seattle Times that's geographically edited to be relevant to my geographic location -- which means that there's some local news I *never* hear about, at least via the newspaper, which has become largely irrelevant anyway...
I don't doubt for a minute that the concept of content replication across a wide geographic area, ostensibly to speed transmission to impatient users, will not be compromised and focused such that you get what some marketing droid *thinks* you're going to be interested in, simply based on where you're located.
I *don't* think distributed content servers are relevant to any discussion of gTLD issues -- distributed content is a marketing hack.
The actual voting for individual politicians has become *almost* a choice between Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum, particularily on the national level here in the US..
(..although I do still believe there is a significant difference in the philosophy of the two major US political parties)
It's no wonder noone bothers to vote, anymore..
The only thing that brings me out to major elections is the referendum and the initiative process: there, you get to actually *vote* for or against actual laws.
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To have him continue:
"Of course, if I'm specifically asked if I've had, oh, say a bust for DUI, I'd say "I don't have a perfect record as a youth" and let you folks just guess what I may have done in my rich-boy past."
"So what I did as a youth is different from what our Nation's youth should do as a youth."
"Hey! I'm different! I'm rich! I get to do stuff you don't!"
"And then when the truth came out, that I'd been busted for DUI when I was 30(as a youth?)I'd say that I'd was trying to hide this so as not to embarrass my daughters, even though probably the best lesson I could give them would be to step forward like a man and admit this, and stop my self-righteous, hypocritcal attacks against Al Gore as being a man without integrity."
"But, Hey! I'm a Republicrat politician! So you expected forthright honesty? Dream on! And vote for me!"
"Thank you!"
t_t_b
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Maybe you haven't been around here long enough to realize it, or maybe you think that sort sophomoric crap is funny...
Hell, it wasn't even well-written.
Rebut my points, one-by-one, if you can:
t_t_b
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I think not; therefore I ain't®
t_t_b
Extra credit: who is supposed to have said it, and why is that wrong?
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I think not; therefore I ain't®
by Tim Doran
The War on Drugs has been a consistently neglected topic in discussions surrounding this federal election. My question is, do you believe the War on Drugs has been an unqualified success, and if not, what would you change about it if elected president?
G.W. Bush:
"The Democrat administration, Bill's been letting defense fall all apart under his watch and I wouldn't.
It's really important that these United States have a strong military and the military defend us against the hundreds of thousands of United Nations troops that right at this moment are hiding in the woods of Northern Minnesota, just waiting for word from the Trilateral Commission or from the Free Masons or from the Wicans, to come sweeping down out of the woods of Northern Michigan and take away all our guns and make us a one-world government of socialists and atheist-humanists and Wicans, too, whatever they are.
The Democrat administration under Bill, Bill's been too busy letting his morals get all soft to be hard on defense and I'm hard on defense, very hard, but under my program I'd be easy on making defense hard, it would be easy for defense to be harder and stronger and tougher because a good defense is a strong offense.
And offense is important, too, in a war, a war on drugs or the commies or the Libyans or what have you.
And a war on Wicans.
What ever they are.
Thank you."
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
by Electric Angst
What will you do to protect the rights of atheists and those who hold minority faiths, such as Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, et al?
G.W Bush:
"Well. Let me say this about that. What you will get under my program is not, it's not that I don't like minorities, well, some of my best friends are minorities, like Spanish, I love the Spanish and I hope they vote for me!
The record shows that I love Spanish food, Spanish food if it's not too hot, or spicy. I really like Taco Bell and that's Spanish that's not too hot -- I mean, it's good food, American food, that's not hot, I mean it's warm enough to eat and it's good.
Good American food. Food that's Spanish. A minority of Americans eat Spanish food. And I do.
And I think that we need to get Big Government out of Spanish food, and out of minorities.
And we need to get minorites out of Big Government unless they're Spanish and they eat food.
Thank you."
t_t_b
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I think not; therefore I ain't®
Associated Press
Oct. 30, 2000 | SEATTLE -- A hacker had high-level access to Microsoft Corp.'s computer system for 12 days -- not up to five weeks, as the company had first reported -- and was monitored the entire time."
So they watched the guy for 12 days? OK...
"The company was alerted to the break-in by the creation of new accounts giving users access to parts of Microsoft's computer network..."We start seeing these new accounts being created, but that could be an anomaly of the system," Miller said.
Well, I know that spontaneous account creation is a commonplace occurance on *any* system I've ever worked on.. Personally, I *never* worry about it..
"After a day or two, we realized it was someone hacking into the system."
Well, that must have been a shock! From "System Anomaly" to "Being Hacked"! That must have ruined someone's day...
It was not until Oct. 26, however, that the company notified federal law enforcement, which is investigating the matter. Microsoft said it initially planned to handle the break-in on its own.
"We realized the intrusion had grown to the level that warranted bringing in the FBI," Miller said.
READ: "..we realized we'd been cracked and we had to say something before the cracker did, so we could control the spin..."
Miller acknowledged the hacker could have been in the system for longer than 12 days, but he said the company is confident that high-level access occurred only between Oct. 14 and Oct. 25.
But even with low-level access, the hacker could have accessed corporate e-mails and other confidential information, Miller said.
But wait! Which is it? Twelve days, or longer? Or twelve days of high-level access and some longer period of -- what? -- mere access to "e-mails and other confidential information"?
That's a relief..
When you look at the entire pattern of M$ discussion of this event, from the first admittal, to Balmer's statements (which I take as very significant), to the more recent evolution, it's MNSHO that M$ got cracked, and cracked hard, and cracked by professionals, not scr1pt k1dd13s.
Next, watch for this story to disappear off the front page entirely.
In a week or so, you won't even know that this happened.
Except for new legislation in Wa$hington, if Gee-Dub-Ya and the Republicrats get elected..
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
"...is if your personal freedom isn't being restricted any more, then does loss of personal privacy with regards to the government really matter?
My personal freedom is an *entirely* separate issue from my personal privacy. I cannot see for a moment how you can say that (if..) my freedom is not restricted, then I should be unconcerned about the loss of my personal privacy.
A non sequitur.
"...if you're not doing anything illegal, then does it really matter if the government knows about all your legal activities?"
What happens when "my" government re-defines what's legal and what's illegal?
How can I be safe from any future, arbitrary changes in the laws, over which I have *no* control, and probably no knowledge, until the Secret Police are knocking at my door?
Honestly!
"...if you're not doing anything illegal, then does it really matter..."
A utterly naive attitude.
How *completely* aware are you, of all laws and statutes that are in effect where you live?
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
Tell that to that kid from -- where was it? -- Sweden? Norway?
Jon something... Jan something...
He's 16.. deCSS..
aww.. I forget.
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
"Hackers that broke into Microsoft may have done little more than poke around a few computers, although they had several weeks to explore the software giant's network, sources said.
Contrary to previous reports that indicated hackers had extensive access inside the company for as long as three months, the period was more likely shorter than four to five weeks, sources familiar with the matter said."
Well, that's a lot different! It only took 'em five weeks to figure out they'd been cracked.
The investigation is also focusing on how the attack was executed to determine whether an amateur hacker was at work or if this was an internatinal attempt to steal trade secrets or software source code from Microsoft.
So your basic scr1pt k1dd13 cracked Microsoft? Any body been on IRC crowing about this 'sploit?
The attack tentatively has been traced back to St. Petersburg, Russia, sources said, fueling speculation the break-in was an act of industrial espionage."
Damn it, it was the Russians! Those bastards! Wouldn't you just know it! That'll piss-off all the right-wing Commie baiters in Washington DC.
(But wait! Can you say "mail-drop"?
Sure! I knew you could!)
And finally, aha!
"Congress has been wrestling with cybercrime legislation ever since the denial-of-service attacks on online retailers such as eBay and Amazon.com earlier this year, and such legislation now seems especially timely with the latest hacker attack, this time on software giant Microsoft."
Or is the crack timely in relationship to the legislation?
Has there been any independant corroboration that any of this happened?
Just wondering, and sceptical, as always...
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
Where have these people been? Info about QAZ has been out -- how long?
"An unknown employee received e-mail carrying the dangerous software payload and inadvertently installed it. The viruslike software disguised itself as Notepad, a Windows program used for reading text messages."
You mean, s/he double-clicked an unknown email attachment? Do these people think they're so protected from the real world that they don't have to use any common sense whatsoever?
"The hackers, whose identities are unknown, are believed to have had access to the codes for three months."
Three months? Three months! Where the fsck have these people been?
The most vaunted, most pre-eminent, most powerful, most successful (well, by some measures..) software company on the entire f*cking planet has been cracked for three f*cking months and no body noticed?
What a bunch of idiots!
Lulled to sleep by dreams of their own power, and staggered to their knees by the enormous size of their own monolithic bulk...
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
Nuts.
The Republicrats and the Demolicans don't care a goddam about how many people don't vote.
The present system is set up such that if only a minute percentage of the US population votes, one or the other of the only two controlling political parties will still win.
And the game goes on, because the politicians and the bureaucrats all still have a job on Wednesday after the election.
I'm increasingly coming to think that the only thing to do is vote for Nader.
A vote for Gush or Bore is meaningless.
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
tomato
potatoe
potato
e-mail
email
Let's call the whole thing off.
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
Or at least that's what the fish makes of it...
OK: I get (L to R) a penguin; a donkpengiger; a reinpenrog; and penpigephant.
Now, *that's* mutation!
t_t_b
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I think not; therefore I ain't®
The people who "registered" these common business names with IOD are being scammed.
Period.
Nuts.
These suckers are being scammed.
They're being led to believe that, at some level, they have some possessory right over these international business names, as domain names in the .web tld.
Again, nuts.
I think that would be called fraud, in some circles.
And note that this from IOD's FAQ admits that you're not getting *anything* that really works anywhere in the current real world:
"I cannot see .WEB(TM) names from my browser. What's wrong?"
"The simple answer is that the Internet's root servers, the domain name servers that essentially "run the Internet" have not had Image Online Design's .WEB(TM) added to them at this time. In our understanding with IANA, we were to have been entered in October of 1996. Image Online Design continues to maintain that the completion of the ongoing process with the U.S. Government and ICANN should begin with the addition of Image Online Design's .WEB(TM) registry to the root servers."
Right. Real Soon Now.
"Will people be able to send me E-Mail at my .WEB(TM) address?"
"The same problem with the root servers with regards to browsers exists for e-mail, and all other Internet services. This is the problem we are trying to address at this time."
Nuts, third time.
t_t_b
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I think not; therefore I ain't®
B*llsh*t...
Here's the sort of thing Image Online Design aka webtld.com has really been doing, while it's been hiding under the smokescreen of this pap: "Image Online Design...continues to work to ensure that these policies and procedures are created fairly and openly, and will be pleased to work within the framework if they are created such..."
These noble, philanthropic, high-minded folks have been pandering to squatters, just like the scumbags.
And taking money, of course!
"pepsi.web" registration information.
Owner: Mitch Wolf
Email: mwolf@tacobell.web
Steno-Wolf Associates
PO Box 12959
San Luis Obispo
CA, 93406
US
"cocacola.web" registration information.
Owner: Antonione Paupério
Email: antonione@uol.com.br
Rua Pequetita 179, 12 andar
São Paulo
São Paulo, 04552-060
BR
"ford.web" registration information.
Owner: omer gokalp
Email: omerasir@mail.com
ýnonu cad saray sk 17 mahmutbey
ýstanbul
ýstanbul, 34550
TR
"sony.web" registration information.
Owner: Ray Solone
Email: Ray_Solone@asinet.com
3100 Fite Circle
Sacramento
CA, 95827
US
"toshiba.web" registration information.
Owner: C. Wiersma / S. Kraus
Email: cwiersma@home.com
906 Yates St.
Victoria
B.C., V8V 3M2
CA
"microsoft.web" registration information.
Owner: Greg and Brent Hather
Email: rhather@aol.com
3675 Sequoia Drive
San Luis Obispo
CA, 93401
US
Do you know how fast all these suckers are gonna get blown out of the water by hordes and hordes of lawyers once this scam get out?
And I love this:
"As stated in the registration section of this web site, if you are at all hesitant to register due to the situation, please wait for a resolution before doing so."
Hesitant? Well P.T. Barnum said something about a sucker being born every minute. I guess this is continuing proof.
t_t_b
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Whoa!
It's like deja vu, all over again!
t_t_b
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You've gotta be kidding!
Besides, it wasn't a made-up word, it was Martian...
t_t_b
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My Southern Califonia, right-wing lunatic fringe uncle (he and my aunt quit the John Birch Society in the mid-fifties because it *wasn't* conservative enough..) used to constantly give me such tracts as "The Big Red Lie" when I was in junior high school in the late '50s.
That was an entire book dedicated to modifying, amplifying and ultimately distorting snippets of fact regarding the Soviet Union into page after page of bald-faced lies.
But the end justifies the means.
These are absolutists who are absolutely correct, most often because god (their god, anyway...) is on their side.
Remember:
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."
Most of the right wing still believes that at its heart, even though most of the most public figures have adopted the politically expedient posture to hide what they truly think because they know they're too extreme for most Americans.
t_t_b
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This has been the cornerstone of right-wing smokescreen for decades!
Is the right wing about to abolish government and let you do what ever you choose?
Hell no!
Are they going to let you or someone you know have an abortion, if you so choose?
Hell no!
The right wing is just as in love with governmental authority as the left: ever heard of the term "fascism"?
The simple fact is that the Republican party has always been the government of the rich and the powerful. (And the absolutists and the authoritarians, and the single-issue litmus test freaks...)
It'll never be anything else.
Are the Republicans going to let you make decisions about your own life?
Yeah, right!
Dream on!
t_t_b
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"...The idea is -- and Akamai and other companies are doing this -- you move content, you spread it around so it's replicated, so when somebody asks for it, you intercept the domain-name query and you look at it and say: "Where is this user coming from? Where is the closest place he can get the content?" And your DNS [domain name system] answers, then points the user to the place that's closest. Therefore, we've got geographically sensitive domain names."
This is already being tried in newspaper publishing and IMHO it doesn't work: I get an edition of the Seattle Times that's geographically edited to be relevant to my geographic location -- which means that there's some local news I *never* hear about, at least via the newspaper, which has become largely irrelevant anyway...
I don't doubt for a minute that the concept of content replication across a wide geographic area, ostensibly to speed transmission to impatient users, will not be compromised and focused such that you get what some marketing droid *thinks* you're going to be interested in, simply based on where you're located.
I *don't* think distributed content servers are relevant to any discussion of gTLD issues -- distributed content is a marketing hack.
t_t_b
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Please see: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/10/12/16252 19&cid=120
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
t_t_b
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Oh, gee...
Just step off into the corner and have a good cry...
t_t_b
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If ya don't like Katz don't read him!
Of course, you could be *really* *really* into self-abuse...
*ahem*hehheh*choke*
t_t_b
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How'd he do that?
t_t_b
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(..although I do still believe there is a significant difference in the philosophy of the two major US political parties)
It's no wonder noone bothers to vote, anymore..
The only thing that brings me out to major elections is the referendum and the initiative process: there, you get to actually *vote* for or against actual laws.
t_t_b
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