The US neo-cons see the UN as a rival to their own of agenda of a US imperial world government.
The idea of global issues being managed by an organisation in which all countries are represented is anathema to them, they want the US to be in a position to dictate it's terms upon the world.
Basically it is a DNS-based system for publishing a global social network graph, including friendship, accrediation and principal-agent relationships, so that you can filter/block mail based on what amounts to a "web of trust".
PKI is optional. MRN is designed to play well with any kind of sender authentication scheme, eg SPF, DMP, RMX, Yahoo's DomainKeys or PKI Certificates.
MRN is still under development, and there is a mailing list for getting involved if you are interested in this approach.
You can do this with the double-blind remailing service at sudonames.com: each person as an account (a 'sudoname') and can attach as many origin addresses as they want to it. Then you have a white-list of the 'sudonames' of each of your friends. Non-whitelisted people can still mail you, albeit at a nonzero cost.
AOL's SPF records 'whitelist' their own servers whilst saying nothing about the rest of the net.
This means that mail sent from @aol.com addresses via AOL's servers can be treated as authentic by spam filters, whilst any mail sent by other means is treated exactly the same as before (ie maybe forged, maybe not).
OTOH it is even more exclusive than Orkut: although you can open an account, there is _no_ inbuilt invitation system for establishing friend links, nor any 'search' function to find other users etc...
Presumably the beatle remains the property of the space agency/nation or whatever. It does not matter where it goes, it's still not 'distributing' anything.
Re "OSS is evolutionary, democratic, and capitalistic"
I would suggest the following classifications to refute your statement that OSS is capitalistic. I am using 'the people' to refer to assets held in common:
Democracy: government of the people, by the people, for the people. Liberalism: government of oneself, by oneself, for oneself. Socialism: government of the people, by the elite, for the people. Communism: government of everything, by the elite, for the elite. Capitalism: government of the people, by corporations, for investors. Fascism: government of everything, by corporations, for the elite.
The US has in it's history moved from a 'liberal democratic' ideal to an overtly 'capitalist' one. OSS is one of the few forces in today's US that is bucking that trend.
Given that the mainstream is moving to the next stage (fascism) I would say that Free Software is increasingly important and the author of the article is obviously a fascist.
You have not gained even a little bit of safety, in fact we are all in far greater danger than ever before from the criminals you keep electing to manipulate and exploit you.
If you want a name, fix the bloody phone software to make it easier to enter URLs. Maybe even make it suggest completions from the phone companies' DNS cache rather than the phones' internal dictionary.
What's the betting IBM have a patent on this ENUM bollocks?
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The US neo-cons see the UN as a rival to their own of agenda of a US imperial world government.
The idea of global issues being managed by an organisation in which all countries are represented is anathema to them, they want the US to be in a position to dictate it's terms upon the world.
Basically it is a DNS-based system for publishing a global social network graph, including friendship, accrediation and principal-agent relationships, so that you can filter/block mail based on what amounts to a "web of trust".
PKI is optional. MRN is designed to play well with any kind of sender authentication scheme, eg SPF, DMP, RMX, Yahoo's DomainKeys or PKI Certificates.
MRN is still under development, and there is a mailing list for getting involved if you are interested in this approach.
You can do this with the double-blind remailing service at sudonames.com: each person as an account (a 'sudoname') and can attach as many origin addresses as they want to it. Then you have a white-list of the 'sudonames' of each of your friends. Non-whitelisted people can still mail you, albeit at a nonzero cost.
But hotmail, yahoo, accounts are _not_ frequently used for spamming.
A lot of spam has _forged_ headers to make it look like it comes from one of these free accounts, but that does not mean it comes from there.
You mean like bondedsender.org?
Can't see much that is newsworthy in this article. Move along please, nothing to see here...
All you need is the Mailbox Reputation Network.
Sorry that URL should be The Mailbox Reputation Network.
Also check-out the Mailbox Reputation Network, which can provide the infrastructure for doing this on a global scale.
What a load of bullshit.
If you Americans had reigned-in your dangerous, out-of-control corporation (Microsoft) in the first place, the EU would not need to.
Bunch of hypocrites.
You seem to be assuming that SPF affects the From: header. It does not.
It authenticates the mail return-path (ie the place bounces are sent to) but you can put anything you want in the From: header
Not true.
AOL's SPF records 'whitelist' their own servers whilst saying nothing about the rest of the net.
This means that mail sent from @aol.com addresses via AOL's servers can be treated as authentic by spam filters, whilst any mail sent by other means is treated exactly the same as before (ie maybe forged, maybe not).
OTOH it is even more exclusive than Orkut: although you can open an account, there is _no_ inbuilt invitation system for establishing friend links, nor any 'search' function to find other users etc...
I don't see the need for invitation-only sites
What is the benefit of this?
All you need is a command-line.
Typing in SQL manually is generally *mutch* more flexible some *steenkin* GUI.
Real Geeks don't use GUIs! Don't need it, want it, erm, afford it...
I've used konqueror exclusively for a couple of years now, it's great.
Recently tried IE6 on a friend's PC and my god did it suck.
It's still in an early beta, but useable.
The biggest threat is the dumbness of most proposed responses to the problem.
Presumably the beatle remains the property of the space agency/nation or whatever. It does not matter where it goes, it's still not 'distributing' anything.
Perhaps the rumours of UNIX's death have been exaggerated?
Re "OSS is evolutionary, democratic, and capitalistic"
I would suggest the following classifications to refute your statement that OSS is capitalistic. I am using 'the people' to refer to assets held in common:
Democracy: government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Liberalism: government of oneself, by oneself, for oneself.
Socialism: government of the people, by the elite, for the people.
Communism: government of everything, by the elite, for the elite.
Capitalism: government of the people, by corporations, for investors.
Fascism: government of everything, by corporations, for the elite.
The US has in it's history moved from a 'liberal democratic' ideal to an overtly 'capitalist' one. OSS is one of the few forces in today's US that is bucking that trend.
Given that the mainstream is moving to the next stage (fascism) I would say that Free Software is increasingly important and the author of the article is obviously a fascist.
You have not gained even a little bit of safety, in fact we are all in far greater danger than ever before from the criminals you keep electing to manipulate and exploit you.
Can you make that a pretzel?
*waits 20 seconds*
yeah, right
If you want a number, use decimal IP notation.
If you want a name, fix the bloody phone software to make it easier to enter URLs. Maybe even make it suggest completions from the phone companies' DNS cache rather than the phones' internal dictionary.
What's the betting IBM have a patent on this ENUM bollocks?