IOD has to recognize that there is no battle for '.web' specifically. Everyone interested in operating new TLDs is being restrained by NSI, ICANN, and the DOC. IOD was running around for years claiming to 'own' the.web TLD. Well, that didn't work out.. I have nothing against them, but I'm glad that they failed in their '.web' trademark claim. Private companies owning TLDs as private property and as trademarks is not right for the internet and its users.
A better system is a shared registry. What we have for.com,.org, and.net right now is a system where NSI is the central registry. ICANN granted some 100 companies the rights to talk to NSI's registry to add, modify, renew, etc. new domains into the (com|org|net) registries using a protocol called RRP (registry-registrar protocol).
As the FOCI/IOD letter points out, NSI is still a monopoly registry, charging everyone from Opensrs.org to Register.com to Bulk Register.com a fee of $6 per domain. ICANN has saved NSI a fortune on marketing.
I don't believe that Conspiritas^WAffilias should be exclusively running the.web TLD any more than I believe that IOD should. We definately need a.web TLD.. We also need hundreds of others. I'm surprised that the letter has several paragraphs about IOD's 4-year testbed '.web' registry, but no mention of Name.Space, which
has been running a registry of hundreds of new toplevel domains for just as long!!
Why do we want to bicker and argue about single meaningless (what does.web mean?) three letter TLDs when the real prize is true expressive domain names that can actually be used to form meaningful phrases and expressions! Doesn't anyone remember expression!!
Point out the benefits of a legally licensed, preinstalled operating system. Customers have the original CD so they can reload the software. They also have a manual for everyday troubleshooting,...
This are particularly important considerations with M$ OSes..
I'm personally not a money hungry domain registrar. I'm an individual hacker, like the rest of us. I've had stories posted to Slashdot. I've got a lot to say about issues that affect you and me.
Either add to the discussion or shut up.
Why can't you reply to my point, instead of
wishing that I'll go away? My point was that the TLD namespace needs RAPID expansion to avoid a landrush by trademark interests and domain hoarders. I'll be satisfied when I see that happen in a democratic and fair way. Trickling new TLDs in one at a time, each 'owned' by a different registry is not my idea of democracy or fairness.
With new TLDs, every company is going to register in any TLD they can. This will lead to exactly the same problem.
This is exactly what will happen if TLDs are brought in 1, 2, or 3 at a time, with totally meaningless three-letter names. This is one of the strongest reasons why Name.Space has pushed to open up hundreds of new TLDs, with meaningful extensions. If you decide to make TLDs which are actually specific enough to do their job of segmenting the domain space, then you need lots of them.. The more specific, the more you need.. And there is no reason not to add hundreds of them. No reason at all... This is probably the only way will avert a landgrab and a goldrush in the new domain space.
While we'd appreciate the free book, I think you may be the one who needs to be brought up to speed if you think that there is a technical barrier to running several new TLDs. Name.Space has been operating a registry for 500+ new TLDs for 4 years now with no complaints from BIND. The FUD that we used to see from the likes of NSI about new TLDs breaking the internet is just that: FUD. There are thousands of domains operating in these new TLDs without a hiccup. You can see them for yourself by pointing your DNS servers to 209.48.2.11, 206.86.247.30, or one of Name.Space's 7 other globally diverse nameservers. Several ISPs have made the switch. Name.Space _IS_ the sort of alternative root system that people have been asking for on Slashdot everytime this pops up. If enough people express interest in a new domain which is generic and useful, then Name.Space will add it to the root. It's that simple.
Name.Space does not assert exclusive 'ownership' of the new TLDs, only a right to publish under them. It may look like a land grab when placed on a list of land-grabbers on that ICANN site, but it most certainly is not.
As for your point about domain-squatting vultures,
Name.Space doesn't support domain squatting or registrations on famous names. Name.Space will not allow a domain to be resold. Which domains are Name.Space squatting on?
The other is that for many public-key systems (if not all?), you'd need one version of each file for *every* private key meant to decrypt it, which in some settings might be a bit much if one runs into problems assigning groups.
Actually, the message is encrypted with a session key, and the session key and a message hash is encrypted to a public key and tacked onto the message.. You can tack as many encrypted session keys and hashes to the message as you want, they aren't big at all... The bulk of the message is encrypted with a single session key.
Hushmail can only send encrypted email to other Hushmail users (and NO Hushmail users are on Macs, because it doesn't WORK on a Mac). I'd much rather use Lokmail which does PGP over SSL. They're two different approaches, and I prefer the interoperability with PGP users..
Of course, PGP (GnuPG) is the best, but if you can't use it for some reason, I think Lokmail is the next best thing.
Bruce Schneier gave a pretty lukewarm review of Hushmail, by the way... there's no telling where that applet came from.
Lokmail.net has a free webmail service which is PGP enabled. I don't know about y'all, but I like interoperability in my Carnivore busting..
Anyway, since when is Carnivore busting such a big deal? I would suggest to anyone who can't use PGP directly for whatever reason to get a Lokmail account.
Since the C&D letters, the CueCat
Linux Driver has steadily progressed
from 0.0.8 to 0.1.3, and has gotten a
lot better. Pierre Coupard and other
folks have done a lot with the device.
Since the C&D letters, the driver has
added support for multiple CueCats, we've
put together 2 different models of serial
port converters for the CueCat (think Palm)...
and added support for using the CueCat on
a serial port, keyboard port, or mouse port.
The driver is now a loadable module, and even
supports the USB CueCat which isn't even
officially RELEASED yet!! We've also been able
to test the CueCat with all kinds of different
barcodes and figure out many of the CueCat
codes for them.. On a hardware level, we've
figured out how to wipe or even reprogram
the ID code... I don't know about you folks
or about Kevin Poulsen for that matter,
but I see this as a successful project so far..
For the 1 week after the C&D letters, people
were a bit worried and the development went
more private, but that's only 1 week! That's
a reasonable amount of lag time to allow lawyers
to digest the problem. After 1 week without
response from Digital Convergence, we all just
started breathing again and went back to work.
This reminds me of Dr. F's Earth-tethered satellite from MST3K, `Imbilicus!'. It seems like something you'd need the red,yellow, and blue card keys to get access to in Final Fantasy XXXII. `Space Elevator', indeed!
The treatment of burns depends on the depth, area and location of the burn. Burn depth is
generally categorized as first, second or third degree. A first degree burn is superficial and
has similar characteristics to a typical sun burn. The skin is red in color and sensation is
intact. In fact, it is usually somewhat painful. Second degree burns look similar to the first
degree burns; however, the damage is now severe enough to cause blistering of the skin and
the pain is usually somewhat more intense. In third degree burns the damage has progressed
to the point of skin death. The skin is white and without sensation.
Think 'entropy' whenever you hear something like this.. You're talking about entropy without mentioning it by name.
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is immutable. You can't get around it.. It says that the entropy in a system has to increase or stay the same in any process.. In any real (nonideal) process, the entropy increases. If you are using ambient heat to do work, it has to be powered by creating entropy somewhere. If there's a colder body nearby, the entropy is created there.. Okay fine, that's a heat motor. But there isn't any entropy generated when you interface two surfaces which are the same temperature.
---Disclaimer--- IANAChemist
( I'm just an EE who paid attention in PChem )
Right... The energy comes from somewhere...
I wonder how the energy needed to compress N2 compares to the energy required to pump, ship, refine, and ship gasoline... I think we'd be in better shape if the combustion doesn't have to
happen in the car. Somewhere far away, and under
controlled conditions, the N2 can be packaged. Anything is better than releasing toxic shit all over the cities.. Because cities have more cars, they get hit the hardest with the pollution. This is also where the most people live, so the pollution from the cars is in exactly the wrong place, and happening under uncontrolled conditions (each car is a pollution producing plant)..
I feel much better about pollution-free cars driving up and down the high-population areas,
even if the energy does have to come from somewhere... So even if it's not FREE, it's a whole lot better than what we've got today..
I shuddered everytime he misused the word
"whom" in that short article.
So many grammatical mistakes, I wonder if such
lack of attention to important detail is why
GTK-- sucked.
"As in the 1978 confrontation with MOVE, the city claimed MOVE members inside the house
fired first - but when city workers combed the debris the next day, they found no trace of the
automatic weapons the police had accused MOVE of firing to initiate the battle. "
That's why we need to publicize this mistake
and make it memorable. A lot of people here
are chanting that we shouldn't feed the troll,
but I think that his fundamental math error
shows that he doesn't really take his writing
seriously, and he should be ridiculed and
ridiculed, and riduculed for it. If we forget
who he is, then he'll be starting from zero,
instead of from (-2: troll)
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IOD has to recognize that there is no battle for '.web' specifically. Everyone interested in operating new TLDs is being restrained by NSI, ICANN, and the DOC. IOD was running around for years claiming to 'own' the .web TLD. Well, that didn't work out.. I have nothing against them, but I'm glad that they failed in their '.web' trademark claim. Private companies owning TLDs as private property and as trademarks is not right for the internet and its users.
.com, .org, and .net right now is a system where NSI is the central registry. ICANN granted some 100 companies the rights to talk to NSI's registry to add, modify, renew, etc. new domains into the (com|org|net) registries using a protocol called RRP (registry-registrar protocol).
.web TLD any more than I believe that IOD should. We definately need a .web TLD.. We also need hundreds of others. I'm surprised that the letter has several paragraphs about IOD's 4-year testbed '.web' registry, but no mention of Name.Space, which
.web mean?) three letter TLDs when the real prize is true expressive domain names that can actually be used to form meaningful phrases and expressions! Doesn't anyone remember expression!!
A better system is a shared registry. What we have for
As the FOCI/IOD letter points out, NSI is still a monopoly registry, charging everyone from Opensrs.org to Register.com to Bulk Register.com a fee of $6 per domain. ICANN has saved NSI a fortune on marketing.
I don't believe that Conspiritas^WAffilias should be exclusively running the
has been running a registry of hundreds of new toplevel domains for just as long!!
Why do we want to bicker and argue about single meaningless (what does
Why only three letters?
Point out the benefits of a legally licensed, preinstalled operating system. Customers have the original CD so they can reload the software. They also have a manual for everyday troubleshooting, ...
This are particularly important considerations with M$ OSes..
I'm personally not a money hungry domain registrar. I'm an individual hacker, like the rest of us. I've had stories posted to Slashdot. I've got a lot to say about issues that affect you and me.
Either add to the discussion or shut up.
Why can't you reply to my point, instead of
wishing that I'll go away? My point was that the TLD namespace needs RAPID expansion to avoid a landrush by trademark interests and domain hoarders. I'll be satisfied when I see that happen in a democratic and fair way. Trickling new TLDs in one at a time, each 'owned' by a different registry is not my idea of democracy or fairness.
Why should they pay you anything?
It's your silly broken software..
The world changes.. Deal with it.
No one owes you anything.
With new TLDs, every company is going to register in any TLD they can. This will lead to exactly the same problem.
This is exactly what will happen if TLDs are brought in 1, 2, or 3 at a time, with totally meaningless three-letter names. This is one of the strongest reasons why Name.Space has pushed to open up hundreds of new TLDs, with meaningful extensions. If you decide to make TLDs which are actually specific enough to do their job of segmenting the domain space, then you need lots of them.. The more specific, the more you need.. And there is no reason not to add hundreds of them. No reason at all... This is probably the only way will avert a landgrab and a goldrush in the new domain space.
Name.Space's point is that there is room for both. Why not? Why limit ourselves?
While we'd appreciate the free book, I think you may be the one who needs to be brought up to speed if you think that there is a technical barrier to running several new TLDs. Name.Space has been operating a registry for 500+ new TLDs for 4 years now with no complaints from BIND. The FUD that we used to see from the likes of NSI about new TLDs breaking the internet is just that: FUD. There are thousands of domains operating in these new TLDs without a hiccup. You can see them for yourself by pointing your DNS servers to 209.48.2.11, 206.86.247.30, or one of Name.Space's 7 other globally diverse nameservers. Several ISPs have made the switch. Name.Space _IS_ the sort of alternative root system that people have been asking for on Slashdot everytime this pops up. If enough people express interest in a new domain which is generic and useful, then Name.Space will add it to the root. It's that simple.
Name.Space does not assert exclusive 'ownership' of the new TLDs, only a right to publish under them. It may look like a land grab when placed on a list of land-grabbers on that ICANN site, but it most certainly is not.
As for your point about domain-squatting vultures,
Name.Space doesn't support domain squatting or registrations on famous names. Name.Space will not allow a domain to be resold. Which domains are Name.Space squatting on?
The other is that for many public-key systems (if not all?), you'd need one version of each file for *every* private key meant to decrypt it, which in some settings might be a bit much if one runs into problems assigning groups.
Actually, the message is encrypted with a session key, and the session key and a message hash is encrypted to a public key and tacked onto the message.. You can tack as many encrypted session keys and hashes to the message as you want, they aren't big at all... The bulk of the message is encrypted with a single session key.
Hushmail can only send encrypted email to other Hushmail users (and NO Hushmail users are on Macs, because it doesn't WORK on a Mac). I'd much rather use Lokmail which does PGP over SSL. They're two different approaches, and I prefer the interoperability with PGP users ..
Of course, PGP (GnuPG) is the best, but if you can't use it for some reason, I think Lokmail is the next best thing.
Bruce Schneier gave a pretty lukewarm review of Hushmail, by the way... there's no telling where that applet came from.
Lokmail.net has a free webmail service which is PGP enabled. I don't know about y'all, but I like interoperability in my Carnivore busting..
Anyway, since when is Carnivore busting such a big deal? I would suggest to anyone who can't use PGP directly for whatever reason to get a Lokmail account.
Since the C&D letters, the CueCat
Linux Driver has steadily progressed
from 0.0.8 to 0.1.3, and has gotten a
lot better. Pierre Coupard and other
folks have done a lot with the device.
Since the C&D letters, the driver has
added support for multiple CueCats, we've
put together 2 different models of serial
port converters for the CueCat (think Palm)...
and added support for using the CueCat on
a serial port, keyboard port, or mouse port.
The driver is now a loadable module, and even
supports the USB CueCat which isn't even
officially RELEASED yet!! We've also been able
to test the CueCat with all kinds of different
barcodes and figure out many of the CueCat
codes for them.. On a hardware level, we've
figured out how to wipe or even reprogram
the ID code... I don't know about you folks
or about Kevin Poulsen for that matter,
but I see this as a successful project so far..
For the 1 week after the C&D letters, people
were a bit worried and the development went
more private, but that's only 1 week! That's
a reasonable amount of lag time to allow lawyers
to digest the problem. After 1 week without
response from Digital Convergence, we all just
started breathing again and went back to work.
PS... Happy RSA Freedom day..
This reminds me of Dr. F's Earth-tethered satellite from MST3K, `Imbilicus!'.
It seems like something you'd need the red,yellow, and blue card keys to get access to in Final Fantasy XXXII.
`Space Elevator', indeed!
So where's your PGP key?
What's the point of signing it if
your key isn't on the keyservers
or even in you
This is a crummy way to do it...
She wasn't driving...
Why can't people read before posting....
It doesn't mean charred meat.
EDUCATE yourself!!
What are the categories of burns?
The treatment of burns depends on the depth, area and location of the burn. Burn depth is
generally categorized as first, second or third degree. A first degree burn is superficial and
has similar characteristics to a typical sun burn. The skin is red in color and sensation is
intact. In fact, it is usually somewhat painful. Second degree burns look similar to the first
degree burns; however, the damage is now severe enough to cause blistering of the skin and
the pain is usually somewhat more intense. In third degree burns the damage has progressed
to the point of skin death. The skin is white and without sensation.
Maybe you don't realize how hot 190F is...
Nitrogen (N2) is inert...
Nitrous Oxide (NO2) isn't.
They're different substances, and we're not
talking about (NO2).
I don't know what brown pungent gas you're talking about, but it isn't N2.
Think 'entropy' whenever you hear something like this.. You're talking about entropy without mentioning it by name.
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is immutable. You can't get around it.. It says that the entropy in a system has to increase or stay the same in any process.. In any real (nonideal) process, the entropy increases. If you are using ambient heat to do work, it has to be powered by creating entropy somewhere. If there's a colder body nearby, the entropy is created there.. Okay fine, that's a heat motor. But there isn't any entropy generated when you interface two surfaces which are the same temperature.
---Disclaimer--- IANAChemist
( I'm just an EE who paid attention in PChem )
Right... The energy comes from somewhere...
I wonder how the energy needed to compress N2 compares to the energy required to pump, ship, refine, and ship gasoline... I think we'd be in better shape if the combustion doesn't have to
happen in the car. Somewhere far away, and under
controlled conditions, the N2 can be packaged. Anything is better than releasing toxic shit all over the cities.. Because cities have more cars, they get hit the hardest with the pollution. This is also where the most people live, so the pollution from the cars is in exactly the wrong place, and happening under uncontrolled conditions (each car is a pollution producing plant)..
I feel much better about pollution-free cars driving up and down the high-population areas,
even if the energy does have to come from somewhere... So even if it's not FREE, it's a whole lot better than what we've got today..
I'm tempted to order my own thesis and see
if I get a check..
Or telling you that you have to speak English
on it..
I shuddered everytime he misused the word
"whom" in that short article.
So many grammatical mistakes, I wonder if such
lack of attention to important detail is why
GTK-- sucked.
"As in the 1978 confrontation with MOVE, the city claimed MOVE members inside the house
fired first - but when city workers combed the debris the next day, they found no trace of the
automatic weapons the police had accused MOVE of firing to initiate the battle. "
Clue for you...
Scumbag
That's why we need to publicize this mistake
and make it memorable. A lot of people here
are chanting that we shouldn't feed the troll,
but I think that his fundamental math error
shows that he doesn't really take his writing
seriously, and he should be ridiculed and
ridiculed, and riduculed for it. If we forget
who he is, then he'll be starting from zero,
instead of from (-2: troll)