I'm kind of embarrassed to say it, but I actually liked the rocked-up, colorized 80's release. Of course, I haven't seen it for at least a decade, so perhaps I'd feel differently about it now. It was my introduction to Metropolis, however, and I thought it was pretty damn cool.
I'm very excited to hear about the "restored" release (hope it comes to my metro soon), though it sounds like there are a number of rolls still missing... what's 1500 new feet of film translate to, minute-wise, anyway? 10 minutes?
great! looking at the website, one would think it had been abandoned a year ago. i don't suppose you could scrounge up a digital camera and get some pics of that beauty uploaded, could you?
I inquired about.ST (Sao Tome & Principe) and had the following reply from their general manager. It's heartening information:
We will soon be posting information regarding ongoing projects on São Tome and Principe on http://www.nic.st. [...] The old (very old) informtion site is locate at http://www.bahnhof.st
In short: The major part of income from.ST domain sales are invested locally by the local.ST company run by locals from São Tome. There are many active school programs wich involves internet connected rooms equipped with up to date computers, special training and education for teachers etc. There is also a cybercafé and operations together with the post office to make e-mail more available to the local community, who in general does not own a computer. The local company also runs traditional ISP services - but is hindered to develop some of them because of the monopoly of the local telephone company to run telecombased services.
He goes on to say that they are adamant about not providing contact email addresses via their whois server. Another good thing:)
VHS won because its length was more convenient for the renting of pornographic movies versus Betamax's initial targetting of time-shifting. VHS served a real need for people to be able to more conveniently view pornography in the privacy of their home.
The point being that Betamax's 1 hour tape length (designed to record network broadcasts) wasn't long enough to contain the material that consumers wanted to rent - porn.
Much of the article you link to makes sterling sense, but how many porn movies really need to be over an hour long? I would argue that Betamax might have proven quite the boon to the porn industry, by helping to focus their screenwriting and editing efforts toward producing films with tighter dialog and more efficient plot development. No, I think in this case the consumer lost:)
I don't know... I think that apple's pro line is moving in the right direction. The XServe and the TiBook look pretty gov-friendly already. Sure, you'd have a hard time slipping a flower power imac in, but Apple has left the candy colors behind it, and good riddance I say.
Imagine a flat panel imac with the entire case looking like its brushed metal underside instead of that cheap looking whiter-than-white plastic. I think those would fit in well in a government install. All net-booting Jaguar, too, for easy administration.
So yeah, while your IT mangler might not be inclined toward Apple, sometimes these decisions come from on high, with a bit of boot to back them up. Doncha think Tony Blair would just love to have some showpiece ministry completely kitted out with super-stylish yet oh-so practical imac workstations? Roll cameras, it's new labour, switching and thinking different.
With the everincreasing range of wireless, especially over the *free* spectrum, will we see the end of ip over telephony.
yup, it's a free spectrum. that means that your device cannot interfere with licensed users of the spectrum, and that it must accept all interference. so if some duly licensed hams decide they want to party all night on your wavelength then it's just too bad for your neighborhood's net connection.
i like wifi et al as auxiliary coverage, and it's great to find friendly public nodes in parks and cafes and such... i wouldn't want to totally unwire, however, until i had some guarantees that a hamtv or over-extended cordless phone wouldn't leave me cut-off.
we need our *own* spectrum, specific to wireless networking, without other significant forms of accidental interference. the us govt (sorry, international readership) gives enough spectrum up to the corps... why not designate a chunk for an open wireless space?
The.io TLD (British Indian Ocean Territory) attempts to accomplish something like what you propose. Essentially, you would go to www.joes.io and if the only place that had registered "joes" with them were Joe's Hamburgers of Littleton, OH, they would auto-redirect to whatever the real URL for Joe's Hamburgers was (www.joes.hamburgers.littleton.oh.us ?). If, on the other hand, three businesses had registered "joes.io" with them, then going to www.joes.io would bring up a page much as you describe:
Joe's Hamburgers (Littleton, OH) - we cook 'em tasty!
Joe's Shoes (Oxnard, CA) - a sweet treat for your feet
Joe's Pizza (Cambridge, G.B.) - meat and cheese on dough
They claim to have over 350,000 registered users, but I've never encountered a redirecting IO address in the wild, and it's not a very sexy implementation (imho). The other two examples they cite on their homepage, spicegirls.io and discman.io seem to tell the real story -- it may be fine if you're just redirecting to the index page of a domain, but when your IO redirector points at some page deep in the twisted hierarchy of your corporate website, well, that's just one more annoying (and unusual) thing for your admin to have to maintain.
I doubt that is true and i work for a registry BTW
From the article:
"I helped to design and build the infrastructure for CORE to become a domain name registry. It cost us less than 25 cents per year per name to run. Even if you added the likely legal bills from NSI suing us, it amounted to less than $2 per year for each domain name. NSI is still charging $6 per year, and doing it in much higher volumes, where it should actually cost them less than 1 cent per year to do the work."
It's a volume savings, according to him, so depending on the size of the registry you work for, YMMV. Unless you work for VeriSign, and I optimistically imagine that they are seeing less and less of an economy of scale as people flee to other registrars.
I shouldn't have to say this, but those of you reading comments without reading the article really should do yourselves a favor and follow that link. The fact that ICANN won't let its own director have access to the books is an incredible testament to both its star-chamber mentality and the incredibly fucked-up way in which it is constituted in the first place.
In addition, Gilmore has some particularly spooky things to say about the history of Network Solutions, and what he estimates the *real cost* of maintaining a domain's registration to be (less than 1 cent/year).
Ehh, even if OS X is a *nix OS, most malicious little trolls are still quite unfamiliar with MacOS...
I don't think that they care whether it's MacOS or not. It's Apache or it's SSH -- they're familiar enough with those.
It makes more sense for Apple to simply release packages consisting of multiple minor security updates every three to six months.
You're trolling, right? You must be trolling. You really think that Apple should leave big, known, gaping holes unpatched for months on end? Check it, man, a week wasn't fast enough for a number of posters in this forum... if Apple let 3 months go by they'd be crucified, even if not a single mac was 'sploited
Most mac users would rather not have Software Update launch and pester them every week.
I don't know. I feel a frisson of excitement when SU has something new for me. Usually it means that something that was broken will soon be less broken, or better yet, there will be new functionality for me to enjoy. Granted the latest AirPort update was a major bust, but I'm all in favor of their rolling out the lastest bugfixes as soon as they've been thoroughly tested.
Do you mean OS X runs like a snail, or Aqua does? I've got a new 700Mhz iBook (with the 16Mb Radeon) and it's about as clippy as I could ask it to be. I really think much of the impression of sluggishness that OS X imparts comes from its handling of the interface... I have a 450 MHz G4 desktop with lame graphics cards and it just pokes along.
Yeah, I too have aspirations of buying a rundown farm of serious acreage (well, serious by city-slicker standards -- shut up you montana penguin-ranchers:) and having room to build follies and run the occasional sheep. It's the high-speed access question that slaps the sense into me every time.
Yes, I'm rather fond of them myself. I have exchanged some email with the manager of their NIC in Ireland. Turns out that they have recently been training some Timorese in network skillz, but it seems they won't be able to assume local control of the NIC for some time yet -- the infrastructure is nowhere near ready:(
Maybe he thinks people in other countries should just be able to register, for instance,.gov.us?
No, and I have no intention of registering in someone else's.gov.xx namespace either. That would be misleading (and probably quite difficult). Second level domains reserved for classes of institution, like.gov,.edu,.ac, etc. should, I think, be generally protected space. It's relatively easy for a nic to verify if the applicant is from a governmental department or educational institution -- there's a certain barrier to entry -- and a domain in that space is widely understood to be a valid credential. It would be unfortunate to lose that.
Now, as to whether non-US agencies should be able to hold domains in the.gov and.mil gTLDs... that's a diffferent question. Ideally that would be the case, and perhaps 15 years ago it could have been worked out (probably by introducing ISO 3166-1 codes as restricted second levels, eg.us.gov). However, the early history of the internet seems to have set the precedent on this score, and I don't think there's any turning back.
The trickier ones to regulate are.com,.co,.net,.org, &c, and we've gone so far down the road of their being available to all that I think where you put yourself in those categories is just a question of self-identification. As to non-USians being allowed to register in.us namespace, sure, why not?
But don't abuse the TLD of other countries. It's just rude and misleading.
This is the crux of our diagreement. I don't advocate for the right to register in any ccTLD's namespace -- if they want to keep registration closed to non-domestics, that's fine, and perhaps commendable -- but if a county's NIC has decided to allow non-resident registrants, where's the harm in that? In theory (see above for Best Practices for ccTLDs) the role of the ccTLD manager is to facilitate the development of network access within their Local Community. If they have, presumably in consultation with local stakeholders, determined that the additional revenue / visibility / good will that such a policy might generate will help to further the cause of the local community, who am I to judge the propriety? My only criteria, as an informed consumer, is that the NIC execute its trusteeship in good faith, for the bettement of its community.
Ultimately, I submit that non-resident registrants are likely to feel a certain fondness for their host country -- assuming that the NIC is locally managed, or at least not entirely disassociated from its locality, (like.tv or.cc, or the incredibly sordid tale of.io). In the same way that pen-pals create a bond between disparate nationalities, I see the relationship between a non-resident registrant and the host nation as one which can serve to build international advocacy for local issues. And let's face it, many of these developing nations and territories, just finding their way onto the internet, can use all of the friends they can get.
I should, perhaps, clarify that I have no intention of getting up to any hinkiness with my offshore domain -- at least, nothing that should get anyone's rotors spinning-up. It'll be routed to my home, for one thing, and although the law may be murky I'm not interested in setting a precedent.
I'd just like my contact info to not be available to every joe shmoe or harvestbot that wants to trawl their database. The bulk of the spam i receive is addressed to the contacts at domains i own, which makes it hard to catch those pesky renewal notices, valid contacts, &c.
"... the Tokelau Internet Project Foundation, sponsored by global Fortune 500 companies around the world, has the goal to provide a full duplex 512 kbps Internet satellite link to the group of islands.
Pity there are no Fortune 500s signed on to the project yet. Wonder what % of the reg fees goes toware the Tokelau Internet Project.
I haven't found a copy of an approved version, but the Final Draft of "Best Practice Guidelines for ccTLD Managers" has some interesting things to say about the relationship between ccTLD Managers and the countries they serve (italics mine):
3.1.1 Service to the Community
3.1.1.1 Promotion of the Internet - It is the obligation of the ccTLD Manager to foster the use of the Internet in the geographical location associated with the ccTLD's ISO-3166-1 code for which the domain is named. The Manager should take a leadership role in promoting awareness of the Internet, access to the Internet, and use of the Internet within the Country. The ccTLD Manager should develop, over time, a consultative process with various elements of society including the government, the education interests, the health care interests, the cultural and other non-commercial interests, the business interests, and other sectors of society that may be affected by and which may profit by the use of the Internet, and who together make up the Local Internet Community.
3.1.1.2 Service - As community service is an essential and central element in the mandate of a ccTLD, the ccTLD Manager should from time to time, and depending on its financial situation, identify activities serving the interests of the local community with respect to the Internet. The ccTLD Manager should engage with the local community to stimulate broad usage of the Internet through initiatives such as educational programs, technical assistance, programs to enhance Internet access opportunities for residents, identification of innovative benefits to the local community through the Internet, or other activities as the ccTLD Manager may from time to time identify as serving the best interests of the local community with respect to the Internet. As part of its operating agreement with ICANN, the ccTLD Manager should develop a plan, consistent with its financial capabilities, for fulfilling its obligations to the Local Internet Community, including a consultative process interfacing with important elements of the local society both public and private. In general, the ccTLD Manager should attempt to provide service at the best level possible.
Ditto here. I once had a gig as network manager for a public middle school and was duly fingerprinted and photographed so that they could confirm with the Feds that I am neither a felon nor known sex offender. Good thing to know if your kids are in school there, but it does seriously suck that the Man has my prints on file in perpetuity, so far as I know.
What a splendid idea! I'm completely unfamiliar with ownership rights of films... how does one know when a movie has fallen into the public domain? Does this mean I can rip copies of my Charade DVD with impunity?
> They would rather lick the snot off a man's hairy ass than perform such a vulgar act as eating Kraft Macaroni and Cheese from a box.
I think I might too. Maybe you'll catch a cold from buttock-snot licking (?!?!), but eat Kraft Macaroni and Cheese straight from the box and you're likely to break some teeth.
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I'm very excited to hear about the "restored" release (hope it comes to my metro soon), though it sounds like there are a number of rolls still missing... what's 1500 new feet of film translate to, minute-wise, anyway? 10 minutes?
great! looking at the website, one would think it had been abandoned a year ago. i don't suppose you could scrounge up a digital camera and get some pics of that beauty uploaded, could you?
We will soon be posting information regarding ongoing projects on São Tome and Principe on http://www.nic.st. [...] The old (very old) informtion site is locate at http://www.bahnhof.st
In short: .ST domain sales are invested locally by .ST company run by locals from São Tome. There are many active
The major part of income from
the local
school programs wich involves internet connected rooms equipped with up
to date computers, special training and education for teachers etc.
There is also a cybercafé and operations together with the post office
to make e-mail more available to the local community, who in general
does not own a computer. The local company also runs traditional ISP
services - but is hindered to develop some of them because of the
monopoly of the local telephone company to run telecombased services.
He goes on to say that they are adamant about not providing contact email addresses via their whois server. Another good thing :)
The point being that Betamax's 1 hour tape length (designed to record network broadcasts) wasn't long enough to contain the material that consumers wanted to rent - porn.
Much of the article you link to makes sterling sense, but how many porn movies really need to be over an hour long? I would argue that Betamax might have proven quite the boon to the porn industry, by helping to focus their screenwriting and editing efforts toward producing films with tighter dialog and more efficient plot development. No, I think in this case the consumer lost :)
Imagine a flat panel imac with the entire case looking like its brushed metal underside instead of that cheap looking whiter-than-white plastic. I think those would fit in well in a government install. All net-booting Jaguar, too, for easy administration.
So yeah, while your IT mangler might not be inclined toward Apple, sometimes these decisions come from on high, with a bit of boot to back them up. Doncha think Tony Blair would just love to have some showpiece ministry completely kitted out with super-stylish yet oh-so practical imac workstations? Roll cameras, it's new labour, switching and thinking different.
yup, it's a free spectrum. that means that your device cannot interfere with licensed users of the spectrum, and that it must accept all interference. so if some duly licensed hams decide they want to party all night on your wavelength then it's just too bad for your neighborhood's net connection.
i like wifi et al as auxiliary coverage, and it's great to find friendly public nodes in parks and cafes and such... i wouldn't want to totally unwire, however, until i had some guarantees that a hamtv or over-extended cordless phone wouldn't leave me cut-off.
we need our *own* spectrum, specific to wireless networking, without other significant forms of accidental interference. the us govt (sorry, international readership) gives enough spectrum up to the corps... why not designate a chunk for an open wireless space?
You can see an example of this at work at http://www.lloyds.io
They claim to have over 350,000 registered users, but I've never encountered a redirecting IO address in the wild, and it's not a very sexy implementation (imho). The other two examples they cite on their homepage, spicegirls.io and discman.io seem to tell the real story -- it may be fine if you're just redirecting to the index page of a domain, but when your IO redirector points at some page deep in the twisted hierarchy of your corporate website, well, that's just one more annoying (and unusual) thing for your admin to have to maintain.
From the article:
It's a volume savings, according to him, so depending on the size of the registry you work for, YMMV. Unless you work for VeriSign, and I optimistically imagine that they are seeing less and less of an economy of scale as people flee to other registrars.
In addition, Gilmore has some particularly spooky things to say about the history of Network Solutions, and what he estimates the *real cost* of maintaining a domain's registration to be (less than 1 cent/year).
Ehh, even if OS X is a *nix OS, most malicious little trolls are still quite unfamiliar with MacOS...
I don't think that they care whether it's MacOS or not. It's Apache or it's SSH -- they're familiar enough with those.
It makes more sense for Apple to simply release packages consisting of multiple minor security updates every three to six months.
You're trolling, right? You must be trolling. You really think that Apple should leave big, known, gaping holes unpatched for months on end? Check it, man, a week wasn't fast enough for a number of posters in this forum... if Apple let 3 months go by they'd be crucified, even if not a single mac was 'sploited
Most mac users would rather not have Software Update launch and pester them every week.
I don't know. I feel a frisson of excitement when SU has something new for me. Usually it means that something that was broken will soon be less broken, or better yet, there will be new functionality for me to enjoy. Granted the latest AirPort update was a major bust, but I'm all in favor of their rolling out the lastest bugfixes as soon as they've been thoroughly tested.
Do you mean OS X runs like a snail, or Aqua does? I've got a new 700Mhz iBook (with the 16Mb Radeon) and it's about as clippy as I could ask it to be. I really think much of the impression of sluggishness that OS X imparts comes from its handling of the interface... I have a 450 MHz G4 desktop with lame graphics cards and it just pokes along.
India has specified their .res SLD for research institutes. Thus .res.in
Unless you want to get fucked up as quickly as possible, I think the more accurate order would be:
Drive past open node - 1 drink
Drive past closed node - 2 drinks
Drive past WEP node - 3 drinks
There are a lot of open nodes out there, and I don't see much WEP.
Maybe he thinks people in other countries should just be able to register, for instance, .gov.us?
.gov.xx namespace either. That would be misleading (and probably quite difficult). Second level domains reserved for classes of institution, like .gov, .edu, .ac, etc. should, I think, be generally protected space. It's relatively easy for a nic to verify if the applicant is from a governmental department or educational institution -- there's a certain barrier to entry -- and a domain in that space is widely understood to be a valid credential. It would be unfortunate to lose that.
.gov and .mil gTLDs ... that's a diffferent question. Ideally that would be the case, and perhaps 15 years ago it could have been worked out (probably by introducing ISO 3166-1 codes as restricted second levels, eg .us.gov). However, the early history of the internet seems to have set the precedent on this score, and I don't think there's any turning back.
.com, .co, .net, .org, &c, and we've gone so far down the road of their being available to all that I think where you put yourself in those categories is just a question of self-identification. As to non-USians being allowed to register in .us namespace, sure, why not?
.tv or .cc, or the incredibly sordid tale of .io). In the same way that pen-pals create a bond between disparate nationalities, I see the relationship between a non-resident registrant and the host nation as one which can serve to build international advocacy for local issues. And let's face it, many of these developing nations and territories, just finding their way onto the internet, can use all of the friends they can get.
No, and I have no intention of registering in someone else's
Now, as to whether non-US agencies should be able to hold domains in the
The trickier ones to regulate are
But don't abuse the TLD of other countries. It's just rude and misleading.
This is the crux of our diagreement. I don't advocate for the right to register in any ccTLD's namespace -- if they want to keep registration closed to non-domestics, that's fine, and perhaps commendable -- but if a county's NIC has decided to allow non-resident registrants, where's the harm in that? In theory (see above for Best Practices for ccTLDs) the role of the ccTLD manager is to facilitate the development of network access within their Local Community. If they have, presumably in consultation with local stakeholders, determined that the additional revenue / visibility / good will that such a policy might generate will help to further the cause of the local community, who am I to judge the propriety? My only criteria, as an informed consumer, is that the NIC execute its trusteeship in good faith, for the bettement of its community.
Ultimately, I submit that non-resident registrants are likely to feel a certain fondness for their host country -- assuming that the NIC is locally managed, or at least not entirely disassociated from its locality, (like
I should, perhaps, clarify that I have no intention of getting up to any hinkiness with my offshore domain -- at least, nothing that should get anyone's rotors spinning-up. It'll be routed to my home, for one thing, and although the law may be murky I'm not interested in setting a precedent.
I'd just like my contact info to not be available to every joe shmoe or harvestbot that wants to trawl their database. The bulk of the spam i receive is addressed to the contacts at domains i own, which makes it hard to catch those pesky renewal notices, valid contacts, &c.
Mod me off-topic if you must, but I am reminded of the halcyon days of Serdar Argic. It's just not as trollsome without him :)
Pity there are no Fortune 500s signed on to the project yet. Wonder what % of the reg fees goes toware the Tokelau Internet Project.
If this document has been ratified, I'd like to see a final copy. Seems that http://www.cctld-drafting.org/ is defunct, and www.cctld.org is for sale -- the irony!
What a splendid idea! I'm completely unfamiliar with ownership rights of films ... how does one know when a movie has fallen into the public domain? Does this mean I can rip copies of my Charade DVD with impunity?
Gah! Leave Charade alone you bastards!
I think I might too. Maybe you'll catch a cold from buttock-snot licking (?!?!), but eat Kraft Macaroni and Cheese straight from the box and you're likely to break some teeth.
hee hee. "My new lighting technique is unstoppable!"
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