Under the US constitution, the Freedom of Speech is a Natural Right, not a government endowed right. A person acquires the right by nature of existing, and the Government is prohibited from infringing on it
Bullshit. The purpose of removing TLD control from the US government is so it can't shut people up at will, including Americans.
Yeah, that's why Wikileaks got shut down so easy, in fairness there was a short period of time when we had to use the IP Address to get there.
Did I read the name of the Bill correctly. Considering the Snowden revelations I would have thought it was actually *more* in the interests of US citizens that the root TLDs were not controlled by the US government anymore.
You say that like giving up control of the root TLDs is going to keep the NSA from slurpling up any and all traffic going through the internet's backbone. The only way to keep that from happening is to route around the US, GB and AUS, good luck with that. As it is the NSA's ability to collect traffic has outpaced its ability to process it.
I'm not sure that is an ad Hominum, I'm sure that since the Senator from Canada has had to withdraw his presidential ambitions and is now struggling to remain relevant, he has learned that being a bit Trumpian is an effective way to get you some Media exposure.
Any country, or any company, or any kid with spare time can set up their own root servers, their own TLDs, and their own domains. Then with the authority of laws, policies, or a note passed around the local high school, users can be convinced to point their resolving to that custom DNS, bypassing anything the US government wants to do.
The whole notion of maintaining control of the internet is somewhat asinine.
They could, but many ISPs happily redirect ports so it's a YMMV proposition. Now what is even scarier than playing Games with DNS, is playing games with BGP; at that point the limit to what you can do is the effort you want to make in doing it.
So can I. From here at the bottom end of Africa. I challenge you to name one site I cannot reach.
And, whilst you are about it, see if you can establish or join a communist party in the USA. That is not a problem for the minority of folk down here who feel so inclined.
You mean like the Comunist Party USA or Worker's Party in America or Socialist's Party USA or maybe even the Green Party? Our ballets are quite rich although the mainstream media and the incumbent Parties would have the World, including Americans, believe they have to chose between the Republicans and the Democrats.
If we don't trust our own Government, can we imagine what the fuck we think of your Government?
If you actually read the article the bill being proposed, all it's really about is preventing the POTUS from transferring control of DNS to a non-governmental agency through executive action alone.
Is it really much better to Trust the EU Government who is trying to make mandatory to use a Government Issued Identification Card to make certain online postings; or maybe the UN, Dictator's Social Club would be better? This is a red-herring anyway, if you want to control the internet, you want to control Border Gateway Protocol, if you control BGP, you can route any traffic to sites you find inconvenient through your own proxies or even your own sites.
Of course on second hand not having to wade through a boat-load of Group-thinking Fan-Boys Anonymous Cowards might improve things here.
Whether Internet is a monopoly is debatable, where I'm at I'd love for Comcast to drop a line to the house, or even DSL, but that's not going to happen. What I do have is Hughsnet (satellite Internet), At&T 4Glte on the phones, there is also 3G and 4G to the router, so there are multiple options.
Comcast is an important tier 2 network, and have built their own "back-end infrastructure", perhaps not to the same scale as AT&T or Level 3, but it's there.
I work with several 45ish year old women and operating machines at their optimum potential just isn't one of their emotional values. They tend to be more people orientated than technically orientated, hell if something doesn't break for me to fix, they'll just call me to come up and say hi every once in a while. That doesn't make them either better or lesser than anyone else, their strengths are a valuable addition to our team.
"The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations on the data. We're basing them on the climate models." -Prof. Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
There hasn't been food stamps in a long time, it's EBT cards through SNAP. The issuance of the cards was spun to the recipients as a way to reduce stigma, they were in reality a means to reduce fraud; I remember Limbaugh going on a rant about how ridiculous it was to prevent embarrassment for food stamp recipients, but in reality it was about preventing Mom from sending Junior to the conner store to buy penny candy and bring back the change. OBTW I still lust for the Welfare Cheese, it was so good.
Klug's real crime was that he changed all the tabs in the code to spaces before handing the code to another student.
Some developers really do not like that sort of thing.
No it's worse, he used perl style and put the curly braces on the same line as the conditional; totally fucking unforgivable; most people would have raped his Wife and killed his first born Son too!
The very poor always did go to the Doctor, medicaid covered about half of the costs, then told providers they had to accept half of their fees and that they had to take all medicaid or none. Even if the poor that didn't sign up for medicaid or didn't even have their $3.00 co-pay, the provider's had to at least treat them until they were stable, and if they didn't pay anything what was going to happen, you can't garnish the wages of someone who makes a living returning empty pop bottles.
Right now We're seeing more lower middle-class patients on benefit plans that pay 50%UCR that used to be on plans that paid 80%UCR and the 50%UCR plans are denying many more services, bundling more separate services together that used to be separate fees and unilaterally downgrade services after treatment. What happening now is we don't do any routine treatment without a benefits predetermination first, and this is slowing down treatments by at least a week. Soon you'll see healthcare providers scheduling based on benefits as much as need, if your cash you get in first, if your 80%UCR in a week if your 50%UCR we'll see you 1 day a week as space is available.
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I don't think you know what wiped off the map means.
Kind of looks like Dresden.
Oh teach me not to watch the link, the truth is, it's a very good for a 7 digit /.er.
Under the US constitution, the Freedom of Speech is a Natural Right, not a government endowed right. A person acquires the right by nature of existing, and the Government is prohibited from infringing on it
Bullshit. The purpose of removing TLD control from the US government is so it can't shut people up at will, including Americans.
Yeah, that's why Wikileaks got shut down so easy, in fairness there was a short period of time when we had to use the IP Address to get there.
Did I read the name of the Bill correctly. Considering the Snowden revelations I would have thought it was actually *more* in the interests of US citizens that the root TLDs were not controlled by the US government anymore.
You say that like giving up control of the root TLDs is going to keep the NSA from slurpling up any and all traffic going through the internet's backbone. The only way to keep that from happening is to route around the US, GB and AUS, good luck with that. As it is the NSA's ability to collect traffic has outpaced its ability to process it.
Cruz's bill only prevents the POTUS from changing the current situation by executive fiat, by requiring legislative action.
I'm not sure that is an ad Hominum, I'm sure that since the Senator from Canada has had to withdraw his presidential ambitions and is now struggling to remain relevant, he has learned that being a bit Trumpian is an effective way to get you some Media exposure.
Any country, or any company, or any kid with spare time can set up their own root servers, their own TLDs, and their own domains. Then with the authority of laws, policies, or a note passed around the local high school, users can be convinced to point their resolving to that custom DNS, bypassing anything the US government wants to do.
The whole notion of maintaining control of the internet is somewhat asinine.
They could, but many ISPs happily redirect ports so it's a YMMV proposition. Now what is even scarier than playing Games with DNS, is playing games with BGP; at that point the limit to what you can do is the effort you want to make in doing it.
So can I. From here at the bottom end of Africa. I challenge you to name one site I cannot reach.
And, whilst you are about it, see if you can establish or join a communist party in the USA.
That is not a problem for the minority of folk down here who feel so inclined.
You mean like the Comunist Party USA or Worker's Party in America or Socialist's Party USA or maybe even the Green Party?
Our ballets are quite rich although the mainstream media and the incumbent Parties would have the World, including Americans, believe they have to chose between the Republicans and the Democrats.
If we don't trust our own Government, can we imagine what the fuck we think of your Government?
If you actually read the article the bill being proposed, all it's really about is preventing the POTUS from transferring control of DNS to a non-governmental agency through executive action alone.
Is it really much better to Trust the EU Government who is trying to make mandatory to use a Government Issued Identification Card to make certain online postings; or maybe the UN, Dictator's Social Club would be better?
This is a red-herring anyway, if you want to control the internet, you want to control Border Gateway Protocol, if you control BGP, you can route any traffic to sites you find inconvenient through your own proxies or even your own sites.
Of course on second hand not having to wade through a boat-load of Group-thinking Fan-Boys Anonymous Cowards might improve things here.
The USA is only 200 years old. It has no culture whatsoever.
As opposed to Europe that was essentially wiped off the face of the planet in WWII?
look its a propaganda bot
Is that the Search Engine that doesn't show Senator Clinton as voting for the Southern Border Fence?
Whether Internet is a monopoly is debatable, where I'm at I'd love for Comcast to drop a line to the house, or even DSL, but that's not going to happen. What I do have is Hughsnet (satellite Internet), At&T 4Glte on the phones, there is also 3G and 4G to the router, so there are multiple options.
Comcast is an important tier 2 network, and have built their own "back-end infrastructure", perhaps not to the same scale as AT&T or Level 3, but it's there.
I work with several 45ish year old women and operating machines at their optimum potential just isn't one of their emotional values. They tend to be more people orientated than technically orientated, hell if something doesn't break for me to fix, they'll just call me to come up and say hi every once in a while. That doesn't make them either better or lesser than anyone else, their strengths are a valuable addition to our team.
Yes and they also give you tactile feedback, so you can learn what feels right and what feels wrong as you operate them.
"The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations on the data. We're basing them on the climate models." -Prof. Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
Prof. Chris Folland e-mails me only known confirmation of quote widely attributed to him: “The data doesn’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations on the data. We’re basing them on the climate models.”
Cheap energy is one of the surest ways to lift people out of poverty.
There hasn't been food stamps in a long time, it's EBT cards through SNAP. The issuance of the cards was spun to the recipients as a way to reduce stigma, they were in reality a means to reduce fraud; I remember Limbaugh going on a rant about how ridiculous it was to prevent embarrassment for food stamp recipients, but in reality it was about preventing Mom from sending Junior to the conner store to buy penny candy and bring back the change.
OBTW I still lust for the Welfare Cheese, it was so good.
Interesting, the license file was added 29 days ago, on a 2 year old project; nothing to see here!
Klug's real crime was that he changed all the tabs in the code to spaces before handing the code to another student.
Some developers really do not like that sort of thing.
No it's worse, he used perl style and put the curly braces on the same line as the conditional; totally fucking unforgivable; most people would have raped his Wife and killed his first born Son too!
In my day we took FORTRAN and COBOL together and we had some vicious fights over the keypunch stations too!
T-Bone Steak, $15.50/lbs 2015 prices
The very poor always did go to the Doctor, medicaid covered about half of the costs, then told providers they had to accept half of their fees and that they had to take all medicaid or none. Even if the poor that didn't sign up for medicaid or didn't even have their $3.00 co-pay, the provider's had to at least treat them until they were stable, and if they didn't pay anything what was going to happen, you can't garnish the wages of someone who makes a living returning empty pop bottles.
Right now We're seeing more lower middle-class patients on benefit plans that pay 50%UCR that used to be on plans that paid 80%UCR and the 50%UCR plans are denying many more services, bundling more separate services together that used to be separate fees and unilaterally downgrade services after treatment.
What happening now is we don't do any routine treatment without a benefits predetermination first, and this is slowing down treatments by at least a week. Soon you'll see healthcare providers scheduling based on benefits as much as need, if your cash you get in first, if your 80%UCR in a week if your 50%UCR we'll see you 1 day a week as space is available.
I remember reading that the national death rate in Belgium actually went down during the Nazi invasion and WW II.
or Nixon v. McGovern