Part of living with that freedom is accepting that there are views that don't agree with yours and that people expressing those views have the *right* to express them in the same way you do. I may not feel as comfortable with the fact that those other countries have laws that I would not like to live under but they are their laws and they have a right to govern their citizens.
Perhaps the time is right for alternate root servers to expand out of the shadows. Isn't the point of the internet basic protocol connectivity so that others can add services on top of them? If an ISP in a foreign country (or the US for that matter) wants to use a another DNS server and treat it as a root server, why do I care?
The Netscape problem (An article in the Daily Aardvark points out that Netscape users have a hard time reading Passport Q&A
) appears to be a long-standing problem whereas Netscape 4.x will fail to load a page if a linked style sheet cannot be loaded. The page not found is for the style sheet, or so it appears. Now, mind you, it is entirely possible that Microsoft Passport's web admin knew this and did it intentionally. Its probably more likely that it's just another case of someone doing a half-assed job because they used a tool (like, uh maybe, Frontpage!?) and didn't understand/bother to check their work. Amateurs... geesh.
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Part of living with that freedom is accepting that there are views that don't agree with yours and that people expressing those views have the *right* to express them in the same way you do. I may not feel as comfortable with the fact that those other countries have laws that I would not like to live under but they are their laws and they have a right to govern their citizens.
Perhaps the time is right for alternate root servers to expand out of the shadows. Isn't the point of the internet basic protocol connectivity so that others can add services on top of them? If an ISP in a foreign country (or the US for that matter) wants to use a another DNS server and treat it as a root server, why do I care?
The Netscape problem (An article in the Daily Aardvark points out that Netscape users have a hard time reading Passport Q&A ) appears to be a long-standing problem whereas Netscape 4.x will fail to load a page if a linked style sheet cannot be loaded. The page not found is for the style sheet, or so it appears. Now, mind you, it is entirely possible that Microsoft Passport's web admin knew this and did it intentionally. Its probably more likely that it's just another case of someone doing a half-assed job because they used a tool (like, uh maybe, Frontpage!?) and didn't understand/bother to check their work. Amateurs... geesh.