However if an ASCII character is being represented using IDN representation, then spoofing is likely taking place, switch to punycode.
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Of course, I could be out to lunch on this one too, since I don't know in detail how the IDN thing works.
It might be time for you to do a little more reading...
The issue isn't an ASCII letter being "represented using an IDN representation" in the way that you seem to imply.
It's a matter of an ASCII character being replaced with a unicode letter that LOOKS the same. It's not just a different way of encoding the same character, it's an entirely different letter that just LOOKS like the letter it is impresonating.
They removed default compatibility for international domain names.
Your statement is misleading.
Support for IDNs is still present, it's just that after inputting a URL using an IDN domain name like http://www.göögle.com/, it is displayed as the punycore representation in the address bar: http://www.xn-ggle-5qaa.com/
The merits of this work around are certainly up for debate (hint: the debate started years ago).
I wonder how much of an impact this will have on foreign adoption of Firefox over IE.
Seeing as no currently shipping version of Microsoft Internet Explorer supports IDNs... you can probably stop wondering.:)
Tourist town, you say? You will make them happy by providing every digital media reader known to man, and the means to burn and e-mail the photos back home. They can burn a CD full of photos and empty their camera, and they can e-mail a few photos home to family/friends. This, in addition to "the usual" public kiosks that aren't annoyingly locked down, printing services, internet access for people with laptops, etc.
Also, get in touch with your local public library/libraries. See if they have a computer lab. See what they offer. Look into working together, if only from the standpoint of "oh, we don't offer that service, but they do". If you can refer people to each other, you will both benefit.
Windows users: The "jazilla.bat" file may or may not work for you. You may wish to edit this file to specify the classpath as above. You could also change your CLASSPATH environment variable, if you felt the need.
Line of Sight means there must be a more or less unobstructed path from you to the tower. The tower is one point, your antenna is another point, you have to be able to draw a straight line between the two withint intersecting any non-vaporous objects. No trees, no buildings, no Goodyear Blimps, no nothing.
The world of RF is complex, and often things aren't as simple as pointing your antennas at each other... Just ask any RF engineer about water. Or hills. And the fun beast known affectionately as "multipath".
Go do some research and reading on Multichannel Multipoint Distribution System (MMDS), QAM64, QPSK, and all kinds of other fun acronyms. And for some more information regarding MMDS peek at this comment, below.
In fact, there's even an interesting little press release on Hybrid's site regarding the whole deal in Chicago.
This isn't very new to me, as the majority of my work and home bandwidth is provided by a local ISP that has been deploying these systems since the Fall of 1998. As an individual subscriber I've pulled traffic nearing the 8Mbit/sec mark. Yep, that's something a little more than the equivalent of five T-1's.
MMDS has a lot of advantages over your typical "unlicensed" wireless gear operating in the 900MHz and 2.4GHz spectrum... namely the fact that MMDS islicensed by the FCC (in the US).
Businesses that build their existance and survival on the fragile structure of "unlicensed" wireless often don't spend the time to properly research what it is that they are getting into... a mess. The first "provider" in an area to deploy "unlicensed" equipment has great success... and then the second "provider" comes along... and things start to slow down a little... and then another provider comes along perhaps... and things start to break (more)...
And then an Amateur Radio Operator/ham comes along and decides to start using the spectrum for Amateur TV, and the FCC comes in and shuts the "providers" down as they are infringing on the rightful license of said ham to use the 2.4GHz spectrum. *poof*:)
Another thing to consider, and one of the other reasons I like my MMDS provider... They don't have that interestingly restrictive TOS that Sprint Broadband has.
There are many forms of the MAPS RBL subscription.
One form that appeals to some network providers is the MAPS RBL Subscription via Multihop eBGP4. This subscription option involves configuration within border routers of a subscribing network provider. Any traffic that passes through a router configured to peer with the MAPS RBL feed will null-route packets destined for any host or network listed in the MAPS RBL. This includes ALL internet protocol traffic -- not just mail.
If a network or host is listed in the MAPS RBL, and a router between you and that host or network is configured to use the MAPS RBL BGP feed, you will be unable to browse a website located there, you will be unable to ftp to them, and yes, you will be unable to send them mail. And they will be unable to send you mail, or browse your web site. Again, any traffic passing through a router configured in this way that is destined for an IP in the MAPS RBL will be null-routed -- for all intents and purposes, dropped on the floor.
Asymmetric routing and inadequate coverage on the border can be a noted hole, but in cases such as these, the MAPS RBL BGP feed isn't really working anyways.
First off, I hate to break the bad news to everyone, but that Great New *TLD that just popped into your head? It's been thought of before. By lots of people.
New *TLDs are nothing new, and indeed have been being debated, tossed around, fought over, proposed, implemented, and torn down for the better part of the last decade or so.
CmdrTaco didn't think of.god,.dot, and probably not even.rob. Neither did you, most likely.:)
ANYONE interested in domain policy (and the politics are Quite Interesting in this realm... surf the domain-policy mailing list archives (hosted by InterNIC).
Had the 386 been a complete secret as to the internals(memory management/protection, etc) would Linux have even been started? (perhaps, but it would have been much more difficult)
Actually, I do believe that for the longest time major portions of the 386 instruction set were either maintained as a secret or under some other form of restriction. I recall Insignia's SoftWindows for the MacOS being unable to run Windows 3.1x in Enhanced mode due to some issues with the 386 instruction set.
As noted on redhat's own news site, Microsoft has demonstrated pre-alpha versions of windows on ia64. The "Stunning news from MS on this front is long overdue." comment is somewhat off-base. Microsoft isn't as far behind as some would like to think. Rest not on your laurels, and keep up the good work.
First off, there's some difference between http://www.terraserver.com/ and http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ -- The general look and feel of the sites, as well as significant chunks of their functionality (and no, I don't know which was there "first"). I believe the two sites share the same dataset in many cases, whether by nature of those data being available to both parties or by way of cooperation between the two.
Aerial Images, Inc. (TERRASERVER-DOM) 615 Hillsborough Street Raleigh, NC 27603
Domain Name: TERRASERVER.COM
Results of a traceroute and destination ip's are different as well. Not to mention the fact that the http://www.terraserver.com/ site isn't responding all that well, while the http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ site is.
http://www.terraserver.com/ doesn't like people using their images. They've invested a bit of money into getting the pics up there, and they are interested in keeping a closer hold on things. Last time I visited their site, there was a bit of java (iirc, it desired full permissions as well) that prevented many things such as printing and saving of the images. http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ does things a little nicer in that most of their imagery is a series of images fused together in a table.
So, http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ is responding, but no guarantees as to the existence of the data in question.
While you're waiting for terraserver to start responding again, perhaps you're wondering what the weather's like out at beautiful Groom Lake today, you can check http://www.accuweather.com/a dcbin/alien_index?nav=home for the full 5-day forecast.
Humidity: 50%
Dew Point: 34 **Men in Black: 40 Winds: S 20 mph Pressure: 29.83" R Visibility: 20 mi. **Unmarked helicopters: 27
You can be prosecuted for multiple crimes in the course of one trial or as part of a larger crime. For example, you can commit a felony, use a firearm in the commission of said felony, and cross state lines, commit the felony in a building, use encryption in the commission of the crime... Each count can carry mandatory sentences, etc... That's how people get 2 life sentences. You may get off on one count of something, or plea bargain to get a charge dropped, but the others may stick. Welcome to the US legal system.;) It may make sense, and there may be a reason for it all, but I'm not in posession of that knowledge at the moment.
Well, Mandrake the Person has been using the name far longer than Mandrake the Linux Distribution has been... So I'd check with the Mandrake the Linux Distribution people to see why they came up with that name.
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AOL has offered a feedback loop for years.
Information on how to activate it is available at http://postmaster.info.aol.com/fbl/index.html.
MSN/Hotmail's offering is quite a bit different, and I'm not yet prepared to offer an opinion on which interface/mechanism is more useful.
Right now, we find the AOL feedback loop quite useful, as do many others.
More feedback loops for large mail providers are documented in this Spamhaus FAQ entry
It might be time for you to do a little more reading...
The issue isn't an ASCII letter being "represented using an IDN representation" in the way that you seem to imply.
It's a matter of an ASCII character being replaced with a unicode letter that LOOKS the same. It's not just a different way of encoding the same character, it's an entirely different letter that just LOOKS like the letter it is impresonating.
That's why it's called a homograph attack. :)
Your statement is misleading.
Support for IDNs is still present, it's just that after inputting a URL using an IDN domain name like http://www.göögle.com/, it is displayed as the punycore representation in the address bar: http://www.xn-ggle-5qaa.com/
The merits of this work around are certainly up for debate (hint: the debate started years ago).
Seeing as no currently shipping version of Microsoft Internet Explorer supports IDNs... you can probably stop wondering.Tourist town, you say? You will make them happy by providing every digital media reader known to man, and the means to burn and e-mail the photos back home. They can burn a CD full of photos and empty their camera, and they can e-mail a few photos home to family/friends. This, in addition to "the usual" public kiosks that aren't annoyingly locked down, printing services, internet access for people with laptops, etc.
Also, get in touch with your local public library/libraries. See if they have a computer lab. See what they offer. Look into working together, if only from the standpoint of "oh, we don't offer that service, but they do". If you can refer people to each other, you will both benefit.
You may need to specify a classpath manually using one of the following (again, both from the directory containing README, COPYING.TXT, etc.):
Windows users: The "jazilla.bat" file may or may not work for you. You may wish to edit this file to specify the classpath as above. You could also change your CLASSPATH environment variable, if you felt the need.
Think about what you just said. :)
Line of Sight means there must be a more or less unobstructed path from you to the tower. The tower is one point, your antenna is another point, you have to be able to draw a straight line between the two withint intersecting any non-vaporous objects. No trees, no buildings, no Goodyear Blimps, no nothing.
LOS changes in definition at some manufacturer's whim... but when it comes to the Hybrid equipment that Sprint Broadband is working with, and when doing RF-return, the above definition certainly sticks.
The world of RF is complex, and often things aren't as simple as pointing your antennas at each other... Just ask any RF engineer about water. Or hills. And the fun beast known affectionately as "multipath".
Go do some research and reading on Multichannel Multipoint Distribution System (MMDS), QAM64, QPSK, and all kinds of other fun acronyms. And for some more information regarding MMDS peek at this comment, below.
It's not DSL. It's MMDS -- Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service.
Sprint Broadband is one of the largest customers of Hybrid Networks Inc.
In fact, there's even an interesting little press release on Hybrid's site regarding the whole deal in Chicago.
This isn't very new to me, as the majority of my work and home bandwidth is provided by a local ISP that has been deploying these systems since the Fall of 1998. As an individual subscriber I've pulled traffic nearing the 8Mbit/sec mark. Yep, that's something a little more than the equivalent of five T-1's.
MMDS has a lot of advantages over your typical "unlicensed" wireless gear operating in the 900MHz and 2.4GHz spectrum... namely the fact that MMDS is licensed by the FCC (in the US).
Businesses that build their existance and survival on the fragile structure of "unlicensed" wireless often don't spend the time to properly research what it is that they are getting into... a mess. The first "provider" in an area to deploy "unlicensed" equipment has great success... and then the second "provider" comes along... and things start to slow down a little... and then another provider comes along perhaps... and things start to break (more)...
And then an Amateur Radio Operator/ham comes along and decides to start using the spectrum for Amateur TV, and the FCC comes in and shuts the "providers" down as they are infringing on the rightful license of said ham to use the 2.4GHz spectrum. *poof* :)
Another thing to consider, and one of the other reasons I like my MMDS provider... They don't have that interestingly restrictive TOS that Sprint Broadband has.
There are many forms of the MAPS RBL subscription.
One form that appeals to some network providers is the MAPS RBL Subscription via Multihop eBGP4 . This subscription option involves configuration within border routers of a subscribing network provider. Any traffic that passes through a router configured to peer with the MAPS RBL feed will null-route packets destined for any host or network listed in the MAPS RBL. This includes ALL internet protocol traffic -- not just mail.
If a network or host is listed in the MAPS RBL, and a router between you and that host or network is configured to use the MAPS RBL BGP feed, you will be unable to browse a website located there, you will be unable to ftp to them, and yes, you will be unable to send them mail. And they will be unable to send you mail, or browse your web site. Again, any traffic passing through a router configured in this way that is destined for an IP in the MAPS RBL will be null-routed -- for all intents and purposes, dropped on the floor.
Asymmetric routing and inadequate coverage on the border can be a noted hole, but in cases such as these, the MAPS RBL BGP feed isn't really working anyways.
Competition? See The Open Root Server Confederation as well as This Comment, Above. Exactly what you're looking for.
First off, I hate to break the bad news to everyone, but that Great New *TLD that just popped into your head? It's been thought of before. By lots of people.
New *TLDs are nothing new, and indeed have been being debated, tossed around, fought over, proposed, implemented, and torn down for the better part of the last decade or so.
CmdrTaco didn't think of .god, .dot, and probably not even .rob. Neither did you, most likely. :)
For a listing of proposed *TLDs and their status, see http://www.earth-net.net/GTLD/database. html (gzipped text file)
Pay particular attention to Field 2, Root Server Providers. Check out the Open Root Server Confederation.
While we're on this subject, a quick redux to the .god TLD... zone files and current status of .god registry.
ANYONE interested in domain policy (and the politics are Quite Interesting in this realm... surf the domain-policy mailing list archives (hosted by InterNIC).
nietscheisdead.god
Actually, I do believe that for the longest time major portions of the 386 instruction set were either maintained as a secret or under some other form of restriction. I recall Insignia's SoftWindows for the MacOS being unable to run Windows 3.1x in Enhanced mode due to some issues with the 386 instruction set.
In fact, as early as August 31, 1999 -- when the ia64 chip was known as Merced instead of Itanium -- Microsoft announced that they had Windows running on engineering prototype systems. See also 64-bit Windows Overview at Microsoft's site, which notes that there is an existing Software Developers Kit and Device Driver Toolkit, specs for the Win64 API, etc.
Of course, clicking the link to the SDK and the DDK results in:
As noted on redhat's own news site, Microsoft has demonstrated pre-alpha versions of windows on ia64. The "Stunning news from MS on this front is long overdue." comment is somewhat off-base. Microsoft isn't as far behind as some would like to think. Rest not on your laurels, and keep up the good work.
First off, there's some difference between http://www.terraserver.com/ and http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ -- The general look and feel of the sites, as well as significant chunks of their functionality (and no, I don't know which was there "first"). I believe the two sites share the same dataset in many cases, whether by nature of those data being available to both parties or by way of cooperation between the two.
Results of a traceroute and destination ip's are different as well. Not to mention the fact that the http://www.terraserver.com/ site isn't responding all that well, while the http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ site is.
http://www.terraserver.com/ doesn't like people using their images. They've invested a bit of money into getting the pics up there, and they are interested in keeping a closer hold on things. Last time I visited their site, there was a bit of java (iirc, it desired full permissions as well) that prevented many things such as printing and saving of the images. http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ does things a little nicer in that most of their imagery is a series of images fused together in a table.
So, http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ is responding, but no guarantees as to the existence of the data in question.
While you're waiting for terraserver to start responding again, perhaps you're wondering what the weather's like out at beautiful Groom Lake today, you can check http://www.accuweather.com/a dcbin/alien_index?nav=home for the full 5-day forecast.
Correct. See this comment for more information.
Those looking for multilingual solutions for sites might want to look into making some use of Apache's content negotiation. See http://www.apache.org/docs/cont ent-negotiation.html for more information.
You can be prosecuted for multiple crimes in the course of one trial or as part of a larger crime. For example, you can commit a felony, use a firearm in the commission of said felony, and cross state lines, commit the felony in a building, use encryption in the commission of the crime... Each count can carry mandatory sentences, etc... That's how people get 2 life sentences. You may get off on one count of something, or plea bargain to get a charge dropped, but the others may stick. Welcome to the US legal system. ;) It may make sense, and there may be a reason for it all, but I'm not in posession of that knowledge at the moment.
Well, Mandrake the Person has been using the name far longer than Mandrake the Linux Distribution has been... So I'd check with the Mandrake the Linux Distribution people to see why they came up with that name.
Perhaps you should hang out on SlashNET more often. Victoria and a good portion of the Time City team can be found there.