It wouldn't be very useful for your work computer, home computer, laptop, mobile phone and refrigerator to share the same IP-address through NAT. What if all the above needs to run a web server on port 80? Secondly, they all probably get IP connectivity from different providers, which makes it kind of difficult to let them share the same IP-address.
Secondly, NAT breaks a lot of useful stuff. I wouldn't call an internet connection behind NAT a proper internet connection. Specially if you don't control the router doing the NAT.
On June 9th, Los Angeles officially becomes the world's first city to have its own Internet domain.
Wrong. This is yet another domain belonging to a third world banana republic, who unfortunately have sold out their domain name to speculators.
Who in LA would really want to flash a Laos telephone number? Or a car licence plate? Why buy a third world domain name?
Would.la domain owners really want a lot of questions about their connections to the country of Laos? Be sure to remind them where the domain name originates, or if they've been to Vientiane.
The real problem is less technical. It is political and judicial. And it is localized to a few countries which are not serious on cracking down on spam: USA, Korea...
Countries which have proper laws on spam have practically no domestic spam problem.
The US needs to clean up its own act. Get a clear cut federal law against spam. It works wonders. It makes it that much easier for ISPs to convince customers that spamming is bad, if you can point to a law rather than just say it's bad etiquette and not considered acceptable use blah-blah-blah...
Don't blame the internet protocols for US politicians faults.
The term "UNIX" has a specific meaning in U.S. law
I'm a coder, not a lawyer. I don't care. I despise parts of trademark and patent law, which has become corrupted. I refuse to let stupid lawyers define UNIX for me. I'm smart enough to recognice a UNIX system when I see one.
Now, will all the lawyers please leave the room, so that us techies can continue to talk uninterrupted?
Where I live in Europe, we have very little spam in my native language. I receive very little spam in other european languages also, with some notable exceptions. Most (95% +) of the spam I get is american, most of the rest is korean.
I believe the reason for this is that Norway and most other European countries have laws against unsolicited email and fax marketing.
Thus, I believe the problem of spam can only be solved by laws. American laws. The bulk of the problem would be solved by a federal US law. It should be illegal for any US individual or company to send spam or use spam in their marketing, whether or not the spam is actually sent via US based servers, whether or not the spam is sent to someone based in the US or not.
To make the law effective, it should be possible to file complaints electronically and automatically. Let an organization like EFF organize it, or some sleazy class action lawyer, or both. Lawyers will go after the worst offenders, and make them pay for each recipient, whether they are located in the US or not. Claims won can be paid to those who complained about the spam via paypal, or simply be donated to the spam fighting organizations, EFF, open source projects, amnesty, the red cross, UNHCR, etc.
This will be preventive. Spam will have a cost for the spammers. They'll risk getting huge legal fees. Volume of spam _will_ go down.
Whether a particular message is illegal according to the legal definition of spam is left to courts to decide.
Point is: If it's easy in this day and age to spam a million people, it should be equally easy for those hit by this problem to demand justice and get a compensation. If the risk of getting caught and having to pay for spamming increases dramatically, the practice of spamming will decrease even more dramatically.
The European Union has won a major trade case against the United States in the World Trade Organisation. The WTO has ruled that the US is unfairly subsidising the exports of its multinational companies by giving them a special tax break - the so-called foreign sales corporation tax exemption (FSC).
It allows big exporters like Microsoft and Boeing to shield some of their export income from US taxes by setting up a foreign subsidiary.
There are times when you have to look beyond the poll numbers and do what is right. Unfortunately, in Old Europe, there are no Churchills. There sure are a lot of Chamberlains though.
George W Bush is hardly a Churchill. He's more like a Marx brother. Hardly the kind of politician you'd want to lead your country into war.
What about 9/11 struck you as 'negotiated diplomacy'?
Show me the evidence Iraq was behind 9/11... Show me the evidence there's a connection between Al Qaida and Saddam Hussein...
There is no credible evidence for this.
Some of the early indications of this has been retracted by the CIA, like the alleged meeting between an iraqi intelligence officer an one of the 9/11-attackers on Prague airport.
US politicians are using 9/11 as a pretext for lots of basically unrelated wars. Most americans actually think there is a connection between iraq and al-Qaida. Most intelligence aganecies do not.
What about the antrax attacks reminded you of polite discussion?
Who were behind the anthrax attacks?
As far as I know, it's still a mystery. But the substance seems to be of US origin.
I haven't seen any credible evidence that Iraq was behind the anthrax attacks.
Can the rest of the world not accept that we're still pissed off?
Sure, I can understand you're pissed off.
And the natural american reaction to being pissed off seems to be to get an Ak47 and shoot randomly around the neighbourhood.
Al-Qaida was thrown out of Afghanistan, and both Germany and Norway helped with major military contributions in Afghanistan.
But attacking Iraq is totally unrelated to 9/11. Bin Laden and his gang are islamic fundamentalists, and Saddam is nearly secular and socialist, and they basically seems to hate the guts of each other.
9/11 doesn't give you the right to attack whatever country you want.
We don't give a fuck; alone or with allies, we're going to destroy asshole nations.
If the rest of the world would also go to war with such a motto, the US would be history.
Calm down. Listen to your allies. War should always be the last resort.
He was Norwegian. As were the rest of the gang of Norwegian resistance fighters who sabotaged the heavy water plant at Rjukan.
These days more than 90% of Norwegians are against an attack on Iraq without UN security council backing. (Just as pretty much all the rest of the world except the USA.)
War is not something one should enter into lightly. All other alternatives should be tried before one resorts to war.
Cool! I've been trying to get VTK running on OSX, but it was kinda hard to figure it out by myself. I look forward to try to port my girlfriend's VTK geographical visualization project over from the dark side (evil empire visual c++).
No, actually, it isn't. IDN is an internet standard for transcriping international characters in DNS.
There is nothing wrong with the standard here, the main problem is that Verisign destroys the consistency of the DNS system, just for the sake of advertising one of their plugins for one browser for one OS.
Support for IDN should be built into DNS resolvers in applications or operating systems, not being used for messing up DNS consistency.
Microsoft could patch MSIE to support IDNs quite quickly, and then there would be no need for Verisign's stupid dirty hack.
Remember that if you use IE, you automatically get thrown to a Microsoft Web site if you go to a non-existant domain.
But Verisign change the behaviour of the underlying DNS system, no matter which portnumber, application or OS you use. Yet they only provide a MSIE for windows plugin for IDN domain names.
The internet is not all web, and the changes they made can be bad for applications like mail. The changes they made to DNS behaviour is not a good thing.
Verisign is evil. This is yet another proof. Take the.com and.net registry away from them ASAP.
This is a tragedy, but these astronauts must not die for nothing.
We need to go to Mars, not just with a handful of astronauts, but with hundreds and hundreds of skilled professionals, willing to stay there and become martians. Then there will be life on Mars.
Britannica says: unit of volume in the metric system, equal to one cubic decimetre (0.001 cubic metre), or 0.264172 U.S. gallon. From 1901 to 1964 the litre was defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water at 4 C (39.2 F) and standard atmospheric pressure; in 1964, the original, present value was reinstated.
Part of the problem is all the totally clueless ISPs which don't do proper egress filtering. That is, they don't filter out outgoing packets with falsified sender addresses.
Norway is not a member of the EU, only halfway. Sort of like the way Puerto Rico is not a proper US state.
We can't vote in European Parliament elections, our government have no seat in the European council of ministers, and we have no commissioners. Yet we have to implement all applicable EU law and directives. Norway is part of Schengen, the passport free zone in the EU. And we have the same legally protected rights to move, study and work anywhere we want in the EU as EU citizens have.
(The fools who made people vote for this deal in the last EU membership referendum actually claimed it would give Norway more autonomy. This has clearly proved to be outright false.)
You can't own property, maaan. Property owns you...
BTW: Norway is not socialist, and the once great socialdemocratic party has been very much marginalized. Todays government is a christiandemocratic coalition. Our F16s patrol the skies of Afghanistan, while our special forces are back from operation Anaconda.
Norway is not a member of the EU, but we are a member of the European common market through the EEA agreement. The EEA agreement commits Norway to implement all applicable EU law into its own without delay. Norway implements EU law into its own faster than any of the other 18 EU and EEA countries.
But we have no influence on EU law, and can't vote for representaties which may influence the process. It's stupid, but that's what you get with a EU-ignorant population and a referendum.
Read-only laws, we have no write permission. Activists which are EU citizens will have to try to change the EUCD for us, through their elected representatives.
I'm sure the Norwegians can handle the English version of Office just fine.
Yep. I don't even have the Norwegian versions of Windows or Office. Only the English versions. This is fairly common for computer professionals and programmers in Norway. (Of course, some of this has to do with the awful translations of some of these products.)
Practically everybody here speaks English. English education starts at age 7 at school. Even my then 80+ year old grandmother had no problem conversing fluently in English with South African friends of the family who came to visit.
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It wouldn't be very useful for your work computer, home computer, laptop, mobile phone and refrigerator to share the same IP-address through NAT. What if all the above needs to run a web server on port 80? Secondly, they all probably get IP connectivity from different providers, which makes it kind of difficult to let them share the same IP-address.
Secondly, NAT breaks a lot of useful stuff. I wouldn't call an internet connection behind NAT a proper internet connection. Specially if you don't control the router doing the NAT.
NAT is not the answer. NAT is just an ugly hack.
On June 9th, Los Angeles officially becomes the world's first city to have its own Internet domain.
.la domain owners really want a lot of questions about their connections to the country of Laos? Be sure to remind them where the domain name originates, or if they've been to Vientiane.
Wrong. This is yet another domain belonging to a third world banana republic, who unfortunately have sold out their domain name to speculators.
Who in LA would really want to flash a Laos telephone number? Or a car licence plate? Why buy a third world domain name?
Would
The real problem is less technical. It is political and judicial. And it is localized to a few countries which are not serious on cracking down on spam: USA, Korea...
Countries which have proper laws on spam have practically no domestic spam problem.
The US needs to clean up its own act. Get a clear cut federal law against spam. It works wonders. It makes it that much easier for ISPs to convince customers that spamming is bad, if you can point to a law rather than just say it's bad etiquette and not considered acceptable use blah-blah-blah...
Don't blame the internet protocols for US politicians faults.
The term "UNIX" has a specific meaning in U.S. law
I'm a coder, not a lawyer. I don't care. I despise parts of trademark and patent law, which has become corrupted. I refuse to let stupid lawyers define UNIX for me. I'm smart enough to recognice a UNIX system when I see one.
Now, will all the lawyers please leave the room, so that us techies can continue to talk uninterrupted?
Where I live in Europe, we have very little spam in my native language. I receive very little spam in other european languages also, with some notable exceptions. Most (95% +) of the spam I get is american, most of the rest is korean.
I believe the reason for this is that Norway and most other European countries have laws against unsolicited email and fax marketing.
Thus, I believe the problem of spam can only be solved by laws. American laws. The bulk of the problem would be solved by a federal US law. It should be illegal for any US individual or company to send spam or use spam in their marketing, whether or not the spam is actually sent via US based servers, whether or not the spam is sent to someone based in the US or not.
To make the law effective, it should be possible to file complaints electronically and automatically. Let an organization like EFF organize it, or some sleazy class action lawyer, or both. Lawyers will go after the worst offenders, and make them pay for each recipient, whether they are located in the US or not. Claims won can be paid to those who complained about the spam via paypal, or simply be donated to the spam fighting organizations, EFF, open source projects, amnesty, the red cross, UNHCR, etc.
This will be preventive. Spam will have a cost for the spammers. They'll risk getting huge legal fees. Volume of spam _will_ go down.
Whether a particular message is illegal according to the legal definition of spam is left to courts to decide.
Point is: If it's easy in this day and age to spam a million people, it should be equally easy for those hit by this problem to demand justice and get a compensation. If the risk of getting caught and having to pay for spamming increases dramatically, the practice of spamming will decrease even more dramatically.
Look who's talking...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/655071.stm
The European Union has won a major trade case against the United States in the World Trade Organisation. The WTO has ruled that the US is unfairly subsidising the exports of its multinational companies by giving them a special tax break - the so-called foreign sales corporation tax exemption (FSC).
It allows big exporters like Microsoft and Boeing to shield some of their export income from US taxes by setting up a foreign subsidiary.
There are times when you have to look beyond the poll numbers and do what is right. Unfortunately, in Old Europe, there are no Churchills. There sure are a lot of Chamberlains though.
George W Bush is hardly a Churchill. He's more like a Marx brother. Hardly the kind of politician you'd want to lead your country into war.
What about 9/11 struck you as 'negotiated
diplomacy'?
Show me the evidence Iraq was behind 9/11... Show me the evidence there's a connection between Al Qaida and Saddam Hussein...
There is no credible evidence for this.
Some of the early indications of this has been retracted by the CIA, like the alleged meeting between an iraqi intelligence officer an one of the 9/11-attackers on Prague airport.
US politicians are using 9/11 as a pretext for lots of basically unrelated wars. Most americans actually think there is a connection between iraq and al-Qaida. Most intelligence aganecies do not.
What about the antrax attacks
reminded you of polite discussion?
Who were behind the anthrax attacks?
As far as I know, it's still a mystery. But the substance seems to be of US origin.
I haven't seen any credible evidence that Iraq was behind the anthrax attacks.
Can the rest of the world not accept that
we're still pissed off?
Sure, I can understand you're pissed off.
And the natural american reaction to being pissed off seems to be to get an Ak47 and shoot randomly around the neighbourhood.
Al-Qaida was thrown out of Afghanistan, and both Germany and Norway helped with major military contributions in Afghanistan.
But attacking Iraq is totally unrelated to 9/11. Bin Laden and his gang are islamic fundamentalists, and Saddam is nearly secular and socialist, and they basically seems to hate the guts of each other.
9/11 doesn't give you the right to attack whatever country you want.
We don't give a fuck; alone or with allies,
we're going to destroy asshole nations.
If the rest of the world would also go to war with such a motto, the US would be history.
Calm down. Listen to your allies. War should always be the last resort.
French. Or we'd all be speaking German now.
He was Norwegian. As were the rest of the gang of Norwegian resistance fighters who sabotaged the heavy water plant at Rjukan.
These days more than 90% of Norwegians are against an attack on Iraq without UN security council backing. (Just as pretty much all the rest of the world except the USA.)
War is not something one should enter into lightly. All other alternatives should be tried before one resorts to war.
Cool! I've been trying to get VTK running on OSX, but it was kinda hard to figure it out by myself. I look forward to try to port my girlfriend's VTK geographical visualization project over from the dark side (evil empire visual c++).
This is nothing.
Norwegian telco Telenor has implemented a 1GB/month limit on their ADSL offering! And they offer various ways to pay for more, of course.
Luckily there's enough competition in the marketplace, and only the most clueless or brand-loyal seem to go for the Telenor ADSL "deal".
No, actually, it isn't. IDN is an internet standard for transcriping international characters in DNS.
There is nothing wrong with the standard here, the main problem is that Verisign destroys the consistency of the DNS system, just for the sake of advertising one of their plugins for one browser for one OS.
Support for IDN should be built into DNS resolvers in applications or operating systems, not being used for messing up DNS consistency.
Microsoft could patch MSIE to support IDNs quite quickly, and then there would be no need for Verisign's stupid dirty hack.
Remember that if you use IE, you automatically get thrown to a Microsoft Web site if you go to a non-existant domain.
.com and .net registry away from them ASAP.
But Verisign change the behaviour of the underlying DNS system, no matter which portnumber, application or OS you use. Yet they only provide a MSIE for windows plugin for IDN domain names.
The internet is not all web, and the changes they made can be bad for applications like mail. The changes they made to DNS behaviour is not a good thing.
Verisign is evil. This is yet another proof. Take the
Well put. We need to go to Mars.
This is a tragedy, but these astronauts must not die for nothing.
We need to go to Mars, not just with a handful of astronauts, but with hundreds and hundreds of skilled professionals, willing to stay there and become martians. Then there will be life on Mars.
Owww! My Brain hurts! This it TGIF, this is America!
No, actually, this is Europe...
What does this crap have to do with me?
All this crap was explicitly designed to make you realize the world is much more than the US of A.
Why should I vote for him? Did he invented Internet?
Close. The web was invented on a NeXT box.
Not quite.
Britannica says: unit of volume in the metric system, equal to one cubic decimetre (0.001 cubic metre), or 0.264172 U.S. gallon. From 1901 to 1964 the litre was defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water at 4 C (39.2 F) and standard atmospheric pressure; in 1964, the original, present value was reinstated.
Økokrim?!? Where's my keyboard's "Ø" key?
To the right of the "L" key. Assuming you have a Norwegian or Danish keyboard.
If you don't, you can use Ö instead. It's basically the same letter, the way it's written in Sweden or Germany.
The "Ø" sound is the same as the "U" in the English word "run".
Part of the problem is all the totally clueless ISPs which don't do proper egress filtering. That is, they don't filter out outgoing packets with falsified sender addresses.
They've had years to do that, and still don't.
Norway is not a member of the EU, only halfway. Sort of like the way Puerto Rico is not a proper US state.
We can't vote in European Parliament elections, our government have no seat in the European council of ministers, and we have no commissioners. Yet we have to implement all applicable EU law and directives. Norway is part of Schengen, the passport free zone in the EU. And we have the same legally protected rights to move, study and work anywhere we want in the EU as EU citizens have.
(The fools who made people vote for this deal in the last EU membership referendum actually claimed it would give Norway more autonomy. This has clearly proved to be outright false.)
Correct. But Norway is member of the EEA, and thus has to implement all applicable EU directives without delay.
You can't own property, maaan. Property owns you...
BTW: Norway is not socialist, and the once great socialdemocratic party has been very much marginalized. Todays government is a christiandemocratic coalition. Our F16s patrol the skies of Afghanistan, while our special forces are back from operation Anaconda.
Norway is not a member of the EU, but we are a member of the European common market through the EEA agreement. The EEA agreement commits Norway to implement all applicable EU law into its own without delay. Norway implements EU law into its own faster than any of the other 18 EU and EEA countries.
But we have no influence on EU law, and can't vote for representaties which may influence the process. It's stupid, but that's what you get with a EU-ignorant population and a referendum.
Read-only laws, we have no write permission. Activists which are EU citizens will have to try to change the EUCD for us, through their elected representatives.
Boycott nynorsk. Just don't speak to those guys. Or switch to English.
I'm sure the Norwegians can handle the English version of Office just fine.
Yep. I don't even have the Norwegian versions of Windows or Office. Only the English versions. This is fairly common for computer professionals and programmers in Norway. (Of course, some of this has to do with the awful translations of some of these products.)
Practically everybody here speaks English. English education starts at age 7 at school. Even my then 80+ year old grandmother had no problem conversing fluently in English with South African friends of the family who came to visit.