Napster was providing the function that radio used to CKLW was am AM, clear freq (800 KHz, and the first AM Stereo) top 40 station that would play some demo stuff from local and some non-local bands, people like Bob Seger, Ted Nugent, I even heard the Cars a few times.
On a good night I've heard that station in north Alabama, and I've know people who told me that they picked it up in Alaska as well.
With a little home-brewed equipment it could be heard world-wide, the station was in Windsor Ontario, Canada.
In the Army, people would look at me strange when they were asking about an artists break-out recording, and I you tell them about good their previous works were.
All part of it maybe that the hormone impared 13yrs have decided that cheesey boy/girl is now OUT and the music industry is between cash-cows until all of those kids decide what's next to be IN. Its easy for them to go gahgah over music when Mommy and Daddy's paying for it.
After a little experience at something called working for a living, we tend to audition the CD either at a friends, or via MP3, before the money is paid for a double CD set with only one song worth listening to.
I think that when the CD's are released w/copy-protection, it means that the artists are OUT and only the diehard fans are buying. They are only one step from being total has-been's.
The RIAA argues that when the revenue curve starts to flatten at the top, they're losing to priracy; why then doesn't the revenues from blank media start ot rise?
Yes companies are starting to realize that the web-space is mostly analogous to a magazine or radio. And like Magazines or Radio you need quality content to pull in impressions, and that the revenue is mostly from advertising subscription revenue covers little more than overhead.
I think you are wrong about the web-space sorting out into a big-guys only thing, the same as there are a lot of hard to find specialty magazines, and narrow niche radio staions out there if you know where to look. I've often thought gee if I make a barbeque web-site and actualy made some money off it wouldn't my backyard cookouts become an R&D expense?
We all knew it was getting too hot, but we didn't know how far it would go. Buy quality for the long term, does the business plan make sense or is it all Blue Smoke and mirrors.
Resource allocation helps a lot, if the riskier tech stocks pick up too much value compared to your solid blue chip's, reallocate.
As far as domain name speculation goes, its about supply and demand. When Companies overestimated the economic potential of the web, names were scarce and therefore valuable in themselves, after the dotBomb most companies are a lot more careful about looking through the BS and some are positively gun-shy, making names plentifull and less valuable.
As far as shorting stocks, you'd better only do it with money that you saved up for a Vegas trip, but remember slots there pay out 98.7%, and are probably a better deal!
Sorry to burst your bubble but I am 47yr WASP (White Anglo-Saxen Protestent) Male not working in IT, many years ago I was in the local Comm College's Nursing program so I know what being discriminated against is like. I also know how frustrated you can get when you don't have the "social skills" to deal with it.
Sure the guy might have been better off putting a different spin on his hubbies, instead of saying he skates with 16yr olds saying he mentors "at risk youths"; still it's being judged by standards other than your work skills
my new boss asked me some questions, such as "how old are you" and "what are you hobbies I don't think that your boss was being chummy trying to get to know you and then decided you were a juvenile delinquent, but was already had already decided to remove you and was just trolling for ammo.
That's one of the big reasons I'm very schitzo about keeping personal and professional lives as seperate as possible. Don't make it out to be a big secret or anything mysterious just don't elaborate, KISS.OBTW 3 months is a pretty standard cooling off period before firing the "old bosses" freinds.
Keep the toys in the toybox and the tools in the toolbox
A big part of the 'ploit seems to revolve around M$ trying to do a "hardware detect" over the LAN to load the proper OS or third party "drivers". They are suprised that network boundries are primarily psycological, so their ease-of-use feature leaks out into the internet and causes security problems.
Linux® on the other hand demands much more standards compliance and relies less on "drivers" to provide translation layers and introduction of security and or performance problems.
And I agree, I just did a WindowME® install a few months ago, on a freshly formated hard-drive SuSE has blown Windows out of the water for a couple years on ease of install, auto-detected hardware not to mention ease of use. I do disagre with modern Linux desktops being hard to learn, for the same functionality as windows its about the same or easier to learn, but you can do alot more on the desktop in *nix than windows. (I like the way jaws drop when I change screen resolutions, and jump back and forth between six different screens and have twenty differnt apps running at the same time, from windows users.)
when a new bug is discovered, want to know all the details up front so they can test the bug before and after fixing on their systems. All of the links I've followed was a little light on details, which leads me to believe this vulnerability is pretty low level in the kernal stuff. Patches to fundemental kernal services can have far reaching side-effects, in short a patched WindowsXP would be basicaly a new OS compaired to an unpatched Machine; and all existing security testing is out-the window and you start from scratch.
I think that they should be forced to burn a CD and mass mail them to consumers/ and display them at software outlets. It should contain there precious patches, and tutorials on computer security starting at newbee level. Gee how would have thought that the ease-of-usage features of M$ software might lead to security vulnerabilites.
slashdot is a business, and one operating in a very tough niche, basicaly lots of competion and very little available ad revinue these days. If style of story A generates $1000.00 in ad revenue and style B genertes $50.00 guess which gets posted. This is not bad either actualy its giving us what we want, we vote by what we click on on each visit and we get what we want.
My wifes almost exactly the same and has no problem, sure she needs me to occasionaly admin some thing or install something, but so does the boss on a WindowsME® machine, what's the diff?
The biggest diff is Microsoft® all but pays OEM to pre-install windows®. Once I was spec'ing a SCO boxen and the local 'puter store responded to my telling them that a windows install was unnecessary, "for $40.00 we'll remove the software"!
Well actualy I look at it like this, in the army if a story is started with a line like "now this is no bullshit"; the story is either
1. total bullshit but hilarious
2. actualy happened but told from a bizare point of view.
3. is a totaly stupid thing that everybody has done themselves, pretends they haven't
same kind of thing here. The Microsoft bashing is a kind of inside joke. The joke is actualy more about us being geeky, hyper-focused on how bad they are, and a little bit myoptic towards reality. Now have explianed that in an unbiassed manner as posible for a/. reader I have to inform you that the secret anti-Microsoft bashing society local #0400, ( #0400 is where CP/M a pre-DOS OS loaded programs, you could exec that location and run the program in memory recovering unsaved changes in the process i.e. obscure inside joke) requires me to insert this biased phrase "but you have to admit that their software and business practices make them such an easy target."
It alows microsoft to imply that releasing a virus, worm, or trogan is the same as killing thousands of inocent men, women, and children.
Attacking M$ is analogus to Lex Luther shining Kryptonite on Superman, an attack on truth, justice and the american way.
It also alows microsoft to imply that any vulnerablities that were discovered before 9/11, isn't applicable to the present epoch. Not to mention that it lets Howard Schmidt put the interviewer, Paul Coe Clark III, on Microsoft's friendly interviewer list.
When I took Marketing 101
1. Marketing != PR
2. Marketing != advertising
3. Marketing != reactive
Marketing is about Product, Price, and Position. It proactive and its scientific, what Microsoft confuses with Marketing is like confusing Socialogy with sleazy used cars salesmanship.
What they need to do, like the vast majority of corperations is completely seperate Marketing from advertising, and accounting. Real Marketing is much closer to R & D and should have a closer relationship to product developement than any other department.
1. Product needs work I think the real market has slipped out from under them.
Security, Stability, Speed in that order is where the market seems to be heading. Less consern with feature creap and more attention to make basic functionality rock solid and easy to use.
2. Price, who can beat free? that's what the consumer pays; after all it comes on the machine, very few people write a seperate check. Businesses on the other hand are kicking and screeming over liciensing costs lately. I guess they are tired of subsidising the consumer grade product. I chuckle when some suit says "open software is worth the price you pay for it." when their company is running 2K oem M$ licienses.
There have been a few times when I've helped a newbee with a RTFM type problem, except some of the "manuals" were 3 - 5 years old; So instead I told him what to do and what he should see when things were working correctly. Basicaly simple, effective troubleshooting technics. He actualy Emailed me back thanking me for my help, letting me know that the problem was solved and my technic pointed him in the right direction.
We have to remember that sometimes the developers just don't see the simple problems or can not understand those of us that struggle on what they see as a trivial point.
I've always had good luck with www.linux-knowledge-portal.org/ originaly it was pretty SuSE centric, but my latest visit reveilved that they are expandanding to a less distro orientated portal, english and german versions can be selected.
The portal doesn't subscribe to the M$ style of relaod and reboot then call back if it doesn't work style of support.
Historicaly, the articles have had a polished how-to style of a print magazine, but enough depth, down to "click here" add this line to this file and screen shots.
click on face w/ your name under it an enter password
left click icon of the application you want to run on the desktop
Use application
Close application when done
when leaving your computer for any reason, right click the desktop and select the Lock Screen option to lock the computer. It will ask you for your password to get back in
log off by right clicking the desktop and selecting logoff option, when finished
to shutdown click shutdown option on the login screen, when computer say changing to runlevel 0, you know you've clicked the correct option and can turn off the monitor, the computer turns off all by itself when it's ready, this is optional Linux rarely has to be shut down or rebooted.
congatulations, you can now use Linux® better than most people can use windows®!
When is the last time you saw a windows user logining off or screen locking their computer when leaving it idle?
That's not business accounting that's a checkbook register with halfway decent invoicing tacked on. In short qb kisses the pooch; I have to use it at work to many simple things are kludges. what we need is
NO web interface, ergonemic nightmare ie no short cut keys. To long to upload to web server, pass off to PHP or Perl CGI then update database then send back then wait for browser to render
We need a more fine-grained permissions system, just becuase I can enter invoices and billings from venders doesn't mean I'm authorized or need to know the checkbook balance or see the profit/loss reports or balance sheets
double entry isn't needed, when accounting was invented 4K years ago people added and subtracted manualy and it was important to check and find errors, we used 'puters now no silly arithmatic errors other than possible round-off stuff so no need for double entry.
a simple CRM module would be nice (I just read that MS is pushing for entery into small/mid-sized CRMCustomer Relations Management)
MultiUser is needed
Hey if we want quickbooks, it's my understanding that it runs under wine anyways. Yes a small business is much more like an enterprise than most imagine.
Boy you should see my family at christmas dinner, most of us would probably qualify as border-line Asperger's syndrome and the 'Normals' in the family usualy either hide in another room, or leave crying over percieved social snubs. Yes I can be "social", but its a skill set that's learned, and when I do it it's a mode of thinking that I turn on or off.
And as for teachers, they are either crying johnny can't focus, or johnny is so focused that he resents my trying to get his attention to teach him this silly bullshit.
Most of what I learned in school was learned inspite of the teacher.
I'm using SuSE 7.2, Opera/5.0 (Linux 2.4.2 i686; U) [en] , staticaly linked because I've had bad luck updating my KDE without problems. Last lock-up was with SuSE 6.4, that was quite a while ago.
DUH.. think about program crashes OS; gotta be Windows®. If program causes death spiral that takes 2 hrs. for system to become unresponsive, that's probably linux/unix.
I've never had a system crash in 6 yrears of using linux®, sure I've had plenty of program crashes, I've had a few X windows lockups, two so bad I had to telnet in from the LAN to kill X-Windows to get the system back; but never a system crash.
I've never ever had a program execute without explict permission to execute in Linux®. This new (2 1/2 year old) security vulnerabilty in Microsoft Windows® systems definately makes all of those script=kiddies look pretty stupid, they've been using things as crude as viruses all of this time.
I find it just increadable that MS is found guilty of anti-competative practices for among other things giving away software at no cost, and the punishment includes giving away software at no cost!
Realy smart, because you gave away your software, placing your stuff on almost every desktop in the world We'll punish you by letting you teach hundreds of thousands of school kids to use your software. Hell let's take it farther, we'll make a law that if a drug dealer is caught giving free drugs to school kids to get them hooked, the punishment is to take a way the drugs and give them to the school kids for free!
I guess that this is the difference between an air-head and a vacuume-packed head! They just don't get it do they.
As the Brit would say bugger off. The.com's are the american play-ground; the.co.uk's are the brit's play-ground and there are hundreds more.
If you don't like the way we play just take your ball and go home to your own play-ground. That's the whole point, they want to do business with us, collect our money, but do it by their rules, it just don't work that way, never has and never will; my game my rules, your game your rules.
If I want to do bussiness in Russia, I'd better be prepaired to play by differnt rules, some will be better, some will be worse but all will be different. It's a big world with a lot of people, neither your views nor mines are the last words on anything.
A lot of rootservers are in the US, and the root-servers are the fundamental resource for control over the internet well that's an under-statement let's see there is NIC, alterNIC, openNIC, PacificROOT, and AtlanticROOT all off the top of my head, I know there is more.
Why don't other countries do that as well? They do, the.us is implied so a example.com is equivalent to example.com.us as your's would be example.co.uk . the problem being is that the foreign sites want to be visible to the US markets so foreign companies want their nationaly registered trademarks enforced in US jurisdictions with results that are ranging from unfair to pathetic.
Like when an Indian company Tatos if I remember correctly took the URL BigTatos.com from a porn site, a real good impression when your precious company web site is indudated by americans looking for porn!
Maybe someone should campaign for a change in the DNS system so that there is a seperate system for every country every country does, infact in some countries sell domain rights are big business I remember the.to domain was involved in some legal unplesentness not to long ago.
What this realy does is enforce the fact that the WIPO is not the fat lady; it's the involved countries courts that have the final say, so when there is a dispute we'll just give lip service to the UN body and save most of our resorces for the court fight in the juricictional country.
A cool add-ons would be a light-intensified flouroscopy. Someone made one using standard mil-spec night vision device, a flourescent screen and a tritium wristwatch for a radiation source (no clinicaly significant radiation doseage). This would allow for multispectral imaging in false color, Even diferant energies for optimal visualisation of soft and hard tissues. I bet you could used that.
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Napster was providing the function that radio used to
CKLW was am AM, clear freq (800 KHz, and the first AM Stereo) top 40 station that would play some demo stuff from local and some non-local bands, people like Bob Seger, Ted Nugent, I even heard the Cars a few times.
On a good night I've heard that station in north Alabama, and I've know people who told me that they picked it up in Alaska as well.
With a little home-brewed equipment it could be heard world-wide, the station was in Windsor Ontario, Canada.
In the Army, people would look at me strange when they were asking about an artists break-out recording, and I you tell them about good their previous works were.
All part of it maybe that the hormone impared 13yrs have decided that cheesey boy/girl is now OUT and the music industry is between cash-cows until all of those kids decide what's next to be IN. Its easy for them to go gahgah over music when Mommy and Daddy's paying for it.
After a little experience at something called working for a living, we tend to audition the CD either at a friends, or via MP3, before the money is paid for a double CD set with only one song worth listening to.
I think that when the CD's are released w/copy-protection, it means that the artists are OUT and only the diehard fans are buying. They are only one step from being total has-been's.
The RIAA argues that when the revenue curve starts to flatten at the top, they're losing to priracy; why then doesn't the revenues from blank media start ot rise?
Yes companies are starting to realize that the web-space is mostly analogous to a magazine or radio. And like Magazines or Radio you need quality content to pull in impressions, and that the revenue is mostly from advertising subscription revenue covers little more than overhead.
I think you are wrong about the web-space sorting out into a big-guys only thing, the same as there are a lot of hard to find specialty magazines, and narrow niche radio staions out there if you know where to look. I've often thought gee if I make a barbeque web-site and actualy made some money off it wouldn't my backyard cookouts become an R&D expense?
We all knew it was getting too hot, but we didn't know how far it would go.
Buy quality for the long term, does the business plan make sense or is it all Blue Smoke and mirrors.
Resource allocation helps a lot, if the riskier tech stocks pick up too much value compared to your solid blue chip's, reallocate.
As far as domain name speculation goes, its about supply and demand. When Companies overestimated the economic potential of the web, names were scarce and therefore valuable in themselves, after the dotBomb most companies are a lot more careful about looking through the BS and some are positively gun-shy, making names plentifull and less valuable.
As far as shorting stocks, you'd better only do it with money that you saved up for a Vegas trip, but remember slots there pay out 98.7%, and are probably a better deal!
Sorry to burst your bubble but I am 47yr WASP (White Anglo-Saxen Protestent) Male not working in IT, many years ago I was in the local Comm College's Nursing program so I know what being discriminated against is like. I also know how frustrated you can get when you don't have the "social skills" to deal with it.
Sure the guy might have been better off putting a different spin on his hubbies, instead of saying he skates with 16yr olds saying he mentors "at risk youths"; still it's being judged by standards other than your work skills
my new boss asked me some questions, such as "how old are you" and "what are you hobbies
I don't think that your boss was being chummy trying to get to know you and then decided you were a juvenile delinquent, but was already had already decided to remove you and was just trolling for ammo.
That's one of the big reasons I'm very schitzo about keeping personal and professional lives as seperate as possible. Don't make it out to be a big secret or anything mysterious just don't elaborate, KISS.OBTW 3 months is a pretty standard cooling off period before firing the "old bosses" freinds.
Keep the toys in the toybox and the tools in the toolbox
A big part of the 'ploit seems to revolve around M$ trying to do a "hardware detect" over the LAN to load the proper OS or third party "drivers". They are suprised that network boundries are primarily psycological, so their ease-of-use feature leaks out into the internet and causes security problems.
Linux® on the other hand demands much more standards compliance and relies less on "drivers" to provide translation layers and introduction of security and or performance problems.
And I agree, I just did a WindowME® install a few months ago, on a freshly formated hard-drive SuSE has blown Windows out of the water for a couple years on ease of install, auto-detected hardware not to mention ease of use. I do disagre with modern Linux desktops being hard to learn, for the same functionality as windows its about the same or easier to learn, but you can do alot more on the desktop in *nix than windows. (I like the way jaws drop when I change screen resolutions, and jump back and forth between six different screens and have twenty differnt apps running at the same time, from windows users.)
when a new bug is discovered, want to know all the details up front so they can test the bug before and after fixing on their systems.
All of the links I've followed was a little light on details, which leads me to believe this vulnerability is pretty low level in the kernal stuff. Patches to fundemental kernal services can have far reaching side-effects, in short a patched WindowsXP would be basicaly a new OS compaired to an unpatched Machine; and all existing security testing is out-the window and you start from scratch.
I think that they should be forced to burn a CD and mass mail them to consumers/ and display them at software outlets. It should contain there precious patches, and tutorials on computer security starting at newbee level. Gee how would have thought that the ease-of-usage features of M$ software might lead to security vulnerabilites.
slashdot is a business, and one operating in a very tough niche, basicaly lots of competion and very little available ad revinue these days. If style of story A generates $1000.00 in ad revenue and style B genertes $50.00 guess which gets posted. This is not bad either actualy its giving us what we want, we vote by what we click on on each visit and we get what we want.
My wifes almost exactly the same and has no problem, sure she needs me to occasionaly admin some thing or install something, but so does the boss on a WindowsME® machine, what's the diff?
The biggest diff is Microsoft® all but pays OEM to pre-install windows®. Once I was spec'ing a SCO boxen and the local 'puter store responded to my telling them that a windows install was unnecessary, "for $40.00 we'll remove the software"!
Well actualy I look at it like this, in the army if a story is started with a line like "now this is no bullshit"; the story is either
/. reader I have to inform you that the secret anti-Microsoft bashing society local #0400, ( #0400 is where CP/M a pre-DOS OS loaded programs, you could exec that location and run the program in memory recovering unsaved changes in the process i.e. obscure inside joke) requires me to insert this biased phrase "but you have to admit that their software and business practices make them such an easy target."
1. total bullshit but hilarious
2. actualy happened but told from a bizare point of view.
3. is a totaly stupid thing that everybody has done themselves, pretends they haven't
same kind of thing here. The Microsoft bashing is a kind of inside joke. The joke is actualy more about us being geeky, hyper-focused on how bad they are, and a little bit myoptic towards reality. Now have explianed that in an unbiassed manner as posible for a
It alows microsoft to imply that releasing a virus, worm, or trogan is the same as killing thousands of inocent men, women, and children.
Attacking M$ is analogus to Lex Luther shining Kryptonite on Superman, an attack on truth, justice and the american way.
It also alows microsoft to imply that any vulnerablities that were discovered before 9/11, isn't applicable to the present epoch. Not to mention that it lets Howard Schmidt put the interviewer, Paul Coe Clark III, on Microsoft's friendly interviewer list.
Military proverb; No plan survives contact with the enemy
1. Marketing != PR
2. Marketing != advertising
3. Marketing != reactive
Marketing is about Product, Price, and Position. It proactive and its scientific, what Microsoft confuses with Marketing is like confusing Socialogy with sleazy used cars salesmanship.
What they need to do, like the vast majority of corperations is completely seperate Marketing from advertising, and accounting. Real Marketing is much closer to R & D and should have a closer relationship to product developement than any other department.
1. Product needs work I think the real market has slipped out from under them.
Security, Stability, Speed in that order is where the market seems to be heading. Less consern with feature creap and more attention to make basic functionality rock solid and easy to use.
2. Price, who can beat free? that's what the consumer pays; after all it comes on the machine, very few people write a seperate check. Businesses on the other hand are kicking and screeming over liciensing costs lately. I guess they are tired of subsidising the consumer grade product. I chuckle when some suit says "open software is worth the price you pay for it." when their company is running 2K oem M$ licienses.
3. M$ has position down pat; they're everywhere.
There have been a few times when I've helped a newbee with a RTFM type problem, except some of the "manuals" were 3 - 5 years old; So instead I told him what to do and what he should see when things were working correctly. Basicaly simple, effective troubleshooting technics. He actualy Emailed me back thanking me for my help, letting me know that the problem was solved and my technic pointed him in the right direction.
We have to remember that sometimes the developers just don't see the simple problems or can not understand those of us that struggle on what they see as a trivial point.
I've always had good luck with www.linux-knowledge-portal.org/
originaly it was pretty SuSE centric, but my latest visit reveilved that they are expandanding to a less distro orientated portal, english and german versions can be selected. The portal doesn't subscribe to the M$ style of relaod and reboot then call back if it doesn't work style of support.
Historicaly, the articles have had a polished how-to style of a print magazine, but enough depth, down to "click here" add this line to this file and screen shots.
congatulations, you can now use Linux® better than most people can use windows®!
When is the last time you saw a windows user logining off or screen locking their computer when leaving it idle?
Hey if we want quickbooks, it's my understanding that it runs under wine anyways. Yes a small business is much more like an enterprise than most imagine.
Boy you should see my family at christmas dinner, most of us would probably qualify as border-line Asperger's syndrome and the 'Normals' in the family usualy either hide in another room, or leave crying over percieved social snubs. Yes I can be "social", but its a skill set that's learned, and when I do it it's a mode of thinking that I turn on or off.
And as for teachers, they are either crying johnny can't focus, or johnny is so focused that he resents my trying to get his attention to teach him this silly bullshit. Most of what I learned in school was learned inspite of the teacher.
I'm using SuSE 7.2, Opera/5.0 (Linux 2.4.2 i686; U) [en] , staticaly linked because I've had bad luck updating my KDE without problems. Last lock-up was with SuSE 6.4, that was quite a while ago.
DUH.. think about program crashes OS; gotta be Windows®. If program causes death spiral that takes 2 hrs. for system to become unresponsive, that's probably linux/unix.
I've never had a system crash in 6 yrears of using linux®, sure I've had plenty of program crashes, I've had a few X windows lockups, two so bad I had to telnet in from the LAN to kill X-Windows to get the system back; but never a system crash.
I've never ever had a program execute without explict permission to execute in Linux®. This new (2 1/2 year old) security vulnerabilty in Microsoft Windows® systems definately makes all of those script=kiddies look pretty stupid, they've been using things as crude as viruses all of this time.
I find it just increadable that MS is found guilty of anti-competative practices for among other things giving away software at no cost, and the punishment includes giving away software at no cost!
Realy smart, because you gave away your software, placing your stuff on almost every desktop in the world We'll punish you by letting you teach hundreds of thousands of school kids to use your software. Hell let's take it farther, we'll make a law that if a drug dealer is caught giving free drugs to school kids to get them hooked, the punishment is to take a way the drugs and give them to the school kids for free!
I guess that this is the difference between an air-head and a vacuume-packed head! They just don't get it do they.
As the Brit would say bugger off. The .com's are the american play-ground; the .co.uk's are the brit's play-ground and there are hundreds more.
If you don't like the way we play just take your ball and go home to your own play-ground. That's the whole point, they want to do business with us, collect our money, but do it by their rules, it just don't work that way, never has and never will; my game my rules, your game your rules.
If I want to do bussiness in Russia, I'd better be prepaired to play by differnt rules, some will be better, some will be worse but all will be different. It's a big world with a lot of people, neither your views nor mines are the last words on anything.
A lot of rootservers are in the US, and the root-servers are the fundamental resource for control over the internet
.us is implied so a example.com is equivalent to example.com.us as your's would be example.co.uk . the problem being is that the foreign sites want to be visible to the US markets so foreign companies want their nationaly registered trademarks enforced in US jurisdictions with results that are ranging from unfair to pathetic.
Like when an Indian company Tatos if I remember correctly took the URL BigTatos.com from a porn site, a real good impression when your precious company web site is indudated by americans looking for porn!
.to domain was involved in some legal unplesentness not to long ago.
well that's an under-statement let's see there is NIC, alterNIC, openNIC, PacificROOT, and AtlanticROOT all off the top of my head, I know there is more.
Why don't other countries do that as well? They do, the
Maybe someone should campaign for a change in the DNS system so that there is a seperate system for every country every country does, infact in some countries sell domain rights are big business I remember the
What this realy does is enforce the fact that the WIPO is not the fat lady; it's the involved countries courts that have the final say, so when there is a dispute we'll just give lip service to the UN body and save most of our resorces for the court fight in the juricictional country.
A cool add-ons would be a light-intensified flouroscopy. Someone made one using standard mil-spec night vision device, a flourescent screen and a tritium wristwatch for a radiation source (no clinicaly significant radiation doseage). This would allow for multispectral imaging in false color, Even diferant energies for optimal visualisation of soft and hard tissues. I bet you could used that.