A phone call from Malaysia to the United States can cost in excess of USD35 for a 30 minute call. Costs of telecommunications here are not as cheap as you are used to, and being put on hold while paying for an international call is not fun at all, let me tell you.
Additionally, your retort sort of legitimizes my subject, in that it is too american centric to assume that phone costs are trivial as well.
Using the phone may be an option for most within the continental USA, but for the rest of us in other parts of the world, a phone call alone could burn up the USD35 which NSI charges for yearly registration.
I too recently switched a couple of domains to easyDNS and am pretty much impressed with what they offer. Sure, it's USD35/year as well, but they throw in 4 DNS servers for you, mail MXing as well as dynamic dns if needed.
The main beef with NSI seems to be their Guardian authentication system which supposedly works thru email (with PGP signatures) and thru a web based interface. I've found myself confused by both of these at many times, and mind you, I do not consider myself an Internet newbie. Switching to easyDNS when the domains came up for renewal was sweet, and with their nameservers now being authoritative for my domains, I'm less plagued by net brownouts between the US and Malaysia. Mail gets thru much easier as well with their MX forwarding.
No one's taking credit away from DARPA/ARPA and the other good folks who started the internet. But let's take a good look at the state of the internet (and its namespace) today. The other nations have a stake in the process as well, and a lot of internet initiatives are also funded by non-US concerns. Additionally, getting back to the core of the internet as a bunch of cooperating networks, it is clear that it no longer is the sole domain of the US.
Global consensus is that the ccTLDs represent country specific interests while the gTLDs represent cross-planet presence. The lack of interest in.us is glaringly evident, since most prefer the.com/.net/.org. At the same time, registrars/registries are run by US concerns with very US concentric ways of doing things. This leaves other national interests by the wayside. Look at the way UDRPs are panned as being too trade-centric.
I'd like to see a truly global body representing the gTLDs, with ccTLDs including.us managed by the nations themselves.
It is not a tech hub, but domain name issues concern the entire planet, not just the tech hubs. It is still rather sore to some folk that TLDs like.com,.net and.org are seen as belonging the the United States. Holding ICANN meetings elsewhere in the world in rotation allows others to participate in this process, thereby not depriving citizens of nations who sometimes cannot afford airplane tickets and hotel stays in large cities.
Irrespective of where it is held, ICANN has always provided for participatory input from others not physically present thru the web. I have had my comments typed into IRC read out aloud to the General Assembly as well as being displayed on the large screen at the assembly itself.
I've worked with Visionics face recognition technology back in 1996-1997 for a project for the Malaysian government. Having met and talked to Visionics senior officers including Dr Joseph Attck, the CEO, i must say i was impressed with their technological prowess.
having said this, i did not detect any big brother type ambitions on their part, though they didnt blink and eyelid when informed what their technology was going to be used for. at that time, they were testing multiple recognitions in near realtime off a single frame and it worked wonders in dog and pony shows. seeing your face circled by a green circle a split second after you appeared on camera thrilled the people we were demoing it too.
granted, this/. discussion is about a false positive and the resulting enroachment into mr miliron's life due to a screwup and perhaps has more of a libertarian slant. nevertheless, i somehow think that this is only the start of a new wave of identification technologies. we've always been amazed by how true gordon moore has been with his law, and this is catching up on us. face recognition, and perhaps gait recognition, in the future will make this sort of identification the norm no matter what the privacy advocates say. dont get me wrong, i abhor my privacy being violated as well, but technology like this is too much like candy for law enforcement to ignore. it's going to be hard to stop its deployment worldwide, let alone the US of A.
But seriously, with the charged nature of things, isnt a question like this loaded and bound to evolve into a religious war ? So most folk here use linux, but then others pick FreeBSD or OpenBSD or NetBSD. To each his own, eh ?
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SMS MO and MT is pretty much common in Asia as well. In fact, in the Phillipines, it was used widely by the Filipino public. to pass messages during Joseph Estrada's ouster.
Out here in Malaysia, SMS is a popular form of messaging, even putting pagers out of business. Most mobile carriers also give you an email interface, so anyone on the internet can send me an SMS by just sending an email. Fortunately, the carriers have also implemented anti-spam capabilities, so no one gets spam on your mobile.
it all boils down to providing good managed services. the hosting company here obviously, in my opinion, faulted in its service agreement. ensuring that their customers are well protected should be one such service they provide. more so since they're _renting_ the cobalt box and not co-locating it on behalf. renting the box implies that they're responsible for it's upkeep due to normal wear and tear.
You state that Malaysia bars your exit if you do not have a letter from your employer. This is as far removed from the truth as possible.
Expats with valid work permits can walk in and out of the country at will, and many of them do as a lot of MNCs have regional headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.
In fact, for infotech and software professionals working for Multimedia Super Corridor companies, it has become so much easier and less of a bureaucratic hassle to get a work permit. The understanding that free flow of talent into the country is essential to its future progress is ingrained in the national psyche.
The IDNO is a democratic organization, with elected Charter Committee and Polling Committee. The List Assembly of the IDNO is in current session, and a List Vote is in progress.
There will obviously be detractor's to the IDNO, but to insinuate the above is mischevious. A dictatorship will not have voting processes and participatory decision making process in the form of a List Assembly and rules and procedures to ensure that this is adhered to.
It is perhaps pertinent to mention that the IDNO is seeking recognition as a constituency for individual domain name owners, and thus has the potential for being the largest constituency within ICANN's Domain Name Supporting Organization Assembly. Currently, the ICANN structure seems to ignore this large body of people, and the IDNO serves as an attempt to remedy this situation.
I would encourage that all who individually hold a domain name to sign up as an IDNO member and to participate actively within it's decision making process. The IDNO as a constituency would allow you to have a more explicit role in the ICANN process, as opposed to the two step process the ICANN At-Large Membership provides.
I seriously can't believe this.... I've seen FBSD sold in Imbi Plaza, Kajang,Serdang, Ampang Park.. and that's just in the klang valley. unless
That's the point you miss. We're talking of the original stuff released by Walnut Creek. Not some ripoff sold by a scam artist which I must add is only in business because worms patronize his warez.
Walnut Creek CDROM does sell packaged versions of FreeBSD Releases as well as the snapshots which can be gotten on a subscription. Buy a copy off the web site or get the bundle along with Greg Lehey's excellent book, The Complete FreeBSD.
However, I too would agree that FreeBSD off the shelf is scarce, even in Malaysia where I am. Perhaps a proper marketing push should be done here. We definitely need more commercially focussed effort here, not in a move to make money but in order to reach the masses who somehow think that anything not on the shelves isnt any good.
No beef on the Linux folk, but FreeBSD is opensource as well. It ain't fair that Linux gets all the press inches.
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A phone call from Malaysia to the United States can cost in excess of USD35 for a 30 minute call. Costs of telecommunications here are not as cheap as you are used to, and being put on hold while paying for an international call is not fun at all, let me tell you.
Additionally, your retort sort of legitimizes my subject, in that it is too american centric to assume that phone costs are trivial as well.
I too recently switched a couple of domains to easyDNS and am pretty much impressed with what they offer. Sure, it's USD35/year as well, but they throw in 4 DNS servers for you, mail MXing as well as dynamic dns if needed.
The main beef with NSI seems to be their Guardian authentication system which supposedly works thru email (with PGP signatures) and thru a web based interface. I've found myself confused by both of these at many times, and mind you, I do not consider myself an Internet newbie. Switching to easyDNS when the domains came up for renewal was sweet, and with their nameservers now being authoritative for my domains, I'm less plagued by net brownouts between the US and Malaysia. Mail gets thru much easier as well with their MX forwarding.
Global consensus is that the ccTLDs represent country specific interests while the gTLDs represent cross-planet presence. The lack of interest in .us is glaringly evident, since most prefer the .com/.net/.org. At the same time, registrars/registries are run by US concerns with very US concentric ways of doing things. This leaves other national interests by the wayside. Look at the way UDRPs are panned as being too trade-centric.
I'd like to see a truly global body representing the gTLDs, with ccTLDs including .us managed by the nations themselves.
Irrespective of where it is held, ICANN has always provided for participatory input from others not physically present thru the web. I have had my comments typed into IRC read out aloud to the General Assembly as well as being displayed on the large screen at the assembly itself.
having said this, i did not detect any big brother type ambitions on their part, though they didnt blink and eyelid when informed what their technology was going to be used for. at that time, they were testing multiple recognitions in near realtime off a single frame and it worked wonders in dog and pony shows. seeing your face circled by a green circle a split second after you appeared on camera thrilled the people we were demoing it too.
granted, this /. discussion is about a false positive and the resulting enroachment into mr miliron's life due to a screwup and perhaps has more of a libertarian slant. nevertheless, i somehow think that this is only the start of a new wave of identification technologies. we've always been amazed by how true gordon moore has been with his law, and this is catching up on us. face recognition, and perhaps gait recognition, in the future will make this sort of identification the norm no matter what the privacy advocates say. dont get me wrong, i abhor my privacy being violated as well, but technology like this is too much like candy for law enforcement to ignore. it's going to be hard to stop its deployment worldwide, let alone the US of A.
But seriously, with the charged nature of things, isnt a question like this loaded and bound to evolve into a religious war ? So most folk here use linux, but then others pick FreeBSD or OpenBSD or NetBSD. To each his own, eh ?
Out here in Malaysia, SMS is a popular form of messaging, even putting pagers out of business. Most mobile carriers also give you an email interface, so anyone on the internet can send me an SMS by just sending an email. Fortunately, the carriers have also implemented anti-spam capabilities, so no one gets spam on your mobile.
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it all boils down to providing good managed services. the hosting company here obviously, in my opinion, faulted in its service agreement. ensuring that their customers are well protected should be one such service they provide. more so since they're _renting_ the cobalt box and not co-locating it on behalf. renting the box implies that they're responsible for it's upkeep due to normal wear and tear.
You state that Malaysia bars your exit if you do not have a letter from your employer. This is as far removed from the truth as possible.
Expats with valid work permits can walk in and out of the country at will, and many of them do as a lot of MNCs have regional headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.
In fact, for infotech and software professionals working for Multimedia Super Corridor companies, it has become so much easier and less of a bureaucratic hassle to get a work permit. The understanding that free flow of talent into the country is essential to its future progress is ingrained in the national psyche.
There will obviously be detractor's to the IDNO, but to insinuate the above is mischevious. A dictatorship will not have voting processes and participatory decision making process in the form of a List Assembly and rules and procedures to ensure that this is adhered to.
It is perhaps pertinent to mention that the IDNO is seeking recognition as a constituency for individual domain name owners, and thus has the potential for being the largest constituency within ICANN's Domain Name Supporting Organization Assembly. Currently, the ICANN structure seems to ignore this large body of people, and the IDNO serves as an attempt to remedy this situation.
I would encourage that all who individually hold a domain name to sign up as an IDNO member and to participate actively within it's decision making process. The IDNO as a constituency would allow you to have a more explicit role in the ICANN process, as opposed to the two step process the ICANN At-Large Membership provides.
I seriously can't believe this.... I've seen FBSD sold in Imbi Plaza, Kajang,Serdang, Ampang Park.. and that's just in the klang valley. unless
That's the point you miss. We're talking of the original stuff released by Walnut Creek. Not some ripoff sold by a scam artist which I must add is only in business because worms patronize his warez.
However, I too would agree that FreeBSD off the shelf is scarce, even in Malaysia where I am. Perhaps a proper marketing push should be done here. We definitely need more commercially focussed effort here, not in a move to make money but in order to reach the masses who somehow think that anything not on the shelves isnt any good.
No beef on the Linux folk, but FreeBSD is opensource as well. It ain't fair that Linux gets all the press inches.