Maybe you live in the US. Here in the UK I haven't had more than a brief glitch for years, which is easy handled by a big capacitor soldered accross the power supply. *much* cheaper than a UPS and 99% as effective if you have a decent power company.
If they have a data trail for each visit, they can also mine for frequency of visits. How long till they start providing this data to insurance companies? People who frequent bars most = statistically more likely to have health problems, motoring accidents, lose their jobs, etc.
Before everyone yells 'privacy policy' I will point out that most (all?) medical insurers will not insure you unless you give up the right to privacy of your medical records.
IMHO, legal privacy protections are ultimately useless, as soon as any record exists, powerful organisations will find a way to obtain it.
The simplest rule should be this: That all interdepartmental data communications should be using a standard (ie: IP-claim-free) and well-documented protocol or format.
This would not dicate choices in software, indeed it would guarantee that each department has a free choice to 'use the right tool'.
But it would as a side-effect devalue most M$ products as candidates, since most would only be suitable for work that is entirely internal to the a particular department.
There would of course need to be an auditing/review system to ensure that the rule was being adhered to. This would probably lead to the maintenance of a 'cleared product list' of software choices that have passed the audit. Where 'embrace and extend' has been employed on a protocol the list entry would have to come with deployment notes explaining how to avoid interoperability problems.
Your suggestions are just as perjorative and excessive. They have not 'stolen' anyones email any more than it would be reasonable to refer to breach of copyright as 'theft'. We all know how propagandist that one is.
Why not just call it 'email address gathering' or 'collecting'?
Having used both PHP and J2EE for major projects, I'd have to say that I prefer PHP because:
1. It is more concise - java even _less_ compact than C++ with a good set of libraries - whereas PHP has loads of very forgiving high-level functions builtin. 2. It is more lightwight - java is just _still_ too bloated and slow even after all these years of promises from Sun. 3. The Java VM's for Linux really suck, they 'officially support' only RedHat and are unstable as hell running on Debian.
That said I really miss the J2EE ability to cache persistent data between requests in memory simply by declaring a variable as static. It's the only feature I miss in PHP.
As far as.NET goes, it never reached my radar since it is Windows-only.
Is there really a hard _legal_ difference between the 'custodianship' of.com and the 'ownership' of.museum? Or are we all just making false assumptions based on what we would like to believe?
The point about URL's is their transcribability between different media, most important of which are (a) human memory, and (b) backs of cigarette packets.
I often find myself in a bar and a website name get's mentioned, and written down on whatever is at hand.
Do not underestimate the amount of first-time visitor traffic that is driven by almost indescipherable jots on crumpled pieces of paper, or hangover-clouded attempts to remember the URL you were told the night before.
They don't state if it's simply blocking the well-known IP of SiteFinder or doing something cleverer.
How long till they change the IP/round-robin it?
I noticed the wildcard domain does not generate an SOA record so that may be a better detection mechanism, but maybe it will break existing misconfigured sites?
In any case, Verisign can always come up with new scams to make the record look more authentic.
The only long-term solution is to move to a different host, which would be really hard to arrange collectively.
As an EU consumer, this may seem to be a bad thing since it prevents me from saving money by buying from abroad.
As an EU producer, this is a good thing as it creates a level playing field for both foreign and domestic suppliers.
As an EU citizen, this is a good thing as it closes a market-distorting loophole whilst at the same time securing tax revenues that are essential for sustainable public-sector financing. I rather not go the US route of running up a massive and inevitably ruinous public debt.
In conclusion, this is on balance a positive developent.
I'm gonna patent a super-duper genetically engineered bacterium/nanobot hybrid that eats anyting, turning it into a raw chemical sludge that is then reassembled by other nanobots into pure blocks of elemetary materials.
Then I can take over the world using garbage as raw material. BWUHAHAHAHAHA!
Of course there's no risk of the wee beasties escaping and eating the planet, oh no. It'll say so on the FAQ at my website.
1. Create decent doc2html converter that works. 2. Build pluggable 'autotransformer' modules for all common mail servers which converts incoming/outgoing.mail attachments automatically. 3. Allow config of 'internal' and 'external' format policy to set how mail should be converted each way (incoming or outgoing). 4. Add 'format transforming HOWTO' to outgoing mails. Include intructions on where to download the autotransformer. 5. Make installation point-and-click.
The year rings a bell.. (a) The year of inauguration of the Apollo Space Program (b) The year of the Afghan reconstitution (c) Martin Luther King delivers the "I have a dream" speech.
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No, that would be Al Gore :)
Why the fuck was this modded down to a troll? Can't people even ask a simple question around here these days?
Maybe you live in the US. Here in the UK I haven't had more than a brief glitch for years, which is easy handled by a big capacitor soldered accross the power supply. *much* cheaper than a UPS and 99% as effective if you have a decent power company.
No, I think that was Sweden :-)
I'm still on kernel 2.2 with debian/stable. My servers have been running 2 years without a reboot.
Is there anything really cool in 2.6 to convince me to upgrade?
I think you'll find that Sweden has the highest per-capita immigration in the world
If they have a data trail for each visit, they can also mine for frequency of visits. How long till they start providing this data to insurance companies? People who frequent bars most = statistically more likely to have health problems, motoring accidents, lose their jobs, etc.
Before everyone yells 'privacy policy' I will point out that most (all?) medical insurers will not insure you unless you give up the right to privacy of your medical records.
IMHO, legal privacy protections are ultimately useless, as soon as any record exists, powerful organisations will find a way to obtain it.
You must be thinking of viola
If they 'win', people will stop using SMTP email as it would be useless. So even if they 'win', they 'lose' in the end anyway.
The simplest rule should be this: That all interdepartmental data communications should be using a standard (ie: IP-claim-free) and well-documented protocol or format.
This would not dicate choices in software, indeed it would guarantee that each department has a free choice to 'use the right tool'.
But it would as a side-effect devalue most M$ products as candidates, since most would only be suitable for work that is entirely internal to the a particular department.
There would of course need to be an auditing/review system to ensure that the rule was being adhered to. This would probably lead to the maintenance of a 'cleared product list' of software choices that have passed the audit. Where 'embrace and extend' has been employed on a protocol the list entry would have to come with deployment notes explaining how to avoid interoperability problems.
Try reading the jumbled web and you'll see.
They should put a 1c tax on each domain name registered.
This would be trivial for most people.
Except VeriSign, who have just registered an infinite number of domain names using their 'wildcard' method.
So VeriSign would end up owing $infinity to the IRS. Hehehehe!
Your suggestions are just as perjorative and excessive. They have not 'stolen' anyones email any more than it would be reasonable to refer to breach of copyright as 'theft'. We all know how propagandist that one is.
Why not just call it 'email address gathering' or 'collecting'?
I didn't say it was always unintentional
Having used both PHP and J2EE for major projects, I'd have to say that I prefer PHP because:
.NET goes, it never reached my radar since it is Windows-only.
1. It is more concise - java even _less_ compact than C++ with a good set of libraries - whereas PHP has loads of very forgiving high-level functions builtin.
2. It is more lightwight - java is just _still_ too bloated and slow even after all these years of promises from Sun.
3. The Java VM's for Linux really suck, they 'officially support' only RedHat and are unstable as hell running on Debian.
That said I really miss the J2EE ability to cache persistent data between requests in memory simply by declaring a variable as static. It's the only feature I miss in PHP.
As far as
I am not aware of any law that says making a profit from your rightful property wrong.
.com domain belong to Verisign in the same sense that .museum belongs to that organisation?
My point is: does the
Is there really a hard _legal_ difference between the 'custodianship' of .com and the 'ownership' of .museum? Or are we all just making false assumptions based on what we would like to believe?
I keep dropping it in my beer when I get drunk.
Never did it any harm.
Anything that uses just IP numbers is unaffected. Like gnutella, etc.
The point about URL's is their transcribability between different media, most important of which are (a) human memory, and (b) backs of cigarette packets.
I often find myself in a bar and a website name get's mentioned, and written down on whatever is at hand.
Do not underestimate the amount of first-time visitor traffic that is driven by almost indescipherable jots on crumpled pieces of paper, or hangover-clouded attempts to remember the URL you were told the night before.
They don't state if it's simply blocking the well-known IP of SiteFinder or doing something cleverer.
How long till they change the IP/round-robin it?
I noticed the wildcard domain does not generate an SOA record so that may be a better detection mechanism, but maybe it will break existing misconfigured sites?
In any case, Verisign can always come up with new scams to make the record look more authentic.
The only long-term solution is to move to a different host, which would be really hard to arrange collectively.
As an EU consumer, this may seem to be a bad thing since it prevents me from saving money by buying from abroad.
As an EU producer, this is a good thing as it creates a level playing field for both foreign and domestic suppliers.
As an EU citizen, this is a good thing as it closes a market-distorting loophole whilst at the same time securing tax revenues that are essential for sustainable public-sector financing. I rather not go the US route of running up a massive and inevitably ruinous public debt.
In conclusion, this is on balance a positive developent.
I'm gonna patent a super-duper genetically engineered bacterium/nanobot hybrid that eats anyting, turning it into a raw chemical sludge that is then reassembled by other nanobots into pure blocks of elemetary materials.
Then I can take over the world using garbage as raw material. BWUHAHAHAHAHA!
Of course there's no risk of the wee beasties escaping and eating the planet, oh no. It'll say so on the FAQ at my website.
1. Create decent doc2html converter that works.
2. Build pluggable 'autotransformer' modules for all common mail servers which converts incoming/outgoing.mail attachments automatically.
3. Allow config of 'internal' and 'external' format policy to set how mail should be converted each way (incoming or outgoing).
4. Add 'format transforming HOWTO' to outgoing mails. Include intructions on where to download the autotransformer.
5. Make installation point-and-click.
The year rings a bell..
(a) The year of inauguration of the Apollo Space Program
(b) The year of the Afghan reconstitution
(c) Martin Luther King delivers the "I have a dream" speech.