Of course any cafe has the right to put up whatever gizmo restrictions they want, and to hope they still get enough business. What surprises me is that this establishment chose to ban books. People have been reading books in such places for generations.
DNS is here to stay. There are many reasons for humans to have names assigned to IP addresses, apart from just web sites. With IPv6 this becomes even more true. No network administrator is going to want to type 128-bit IP addresses very often, even in hex (which only covers A-F, so someone gets DE:AD::BE:EF but never ME:AT::HE:AD).
Even if you eventually allow spaces in DNS and get looser about the notion of top-level domains, like "My Company Name" instead of "mycompanyname.com", you still have DNS.
Right now you have Google I-Feel-Lucky which converts long name to DNS which converts to IP.
But this all misses the point: 100-year is just a marketing ploy. It's still a business decision to pay $1k and never worry about it again.
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Of course any cafe has the right to put up whatever gizmo restrictions they want, and to hope they still get enough business. What surprises me is that this establishment chose to ban books. People have been reading books in such places for generations.
Oh. Just e-books.
Yes. Well, clearly, that makes sense.
My favorite haunt turns off their WiFi feed when the place is packed. This seems like a reasonable compromise. They post this policy for all to see.
DNS is here to stay. There are many reasons for humans to have names assigned to IP addresses, apart from just web sites. With IPv6 this becomes even more true. No network administrator is going to want to type 128-bit IP addresses very often, even in hex (which only covers A-F, so someone gets DE:AD::BE:EF but never ME:AT::HE:AD).
Even if you eventually allow spaces in DNS and get looser about the notion of top-level domains, like "My Company Name" instead of "mycompanyname.com", you still have DNS.
Right now you have Google I-Feel-Lucky which converts long name to DNS which converts to IP.
But this all misses the point: 100-year is just a marketing ploy. It's still a business decision to pay $1k and never worry about it again.