Need to go to ICANN's unix.org? Fine, click a pulldown tab in your Mozilla 2.0 browser and select ICANN, or better yet, type http://icann//unix.org/ . Otherwise, stick with http://freenic//unix.org/ or (if opennic ever decides to dump ICANN peering) http://opennic//unix.org/
Aside from the fact that this would fundamentally break nearly every application that already does DNS through the definitive/de facto root servers (and has for the past 25+ years), I still can't see this working.
Think of this: your long distance carrier is MCI [(333)333-3333]. You want to call your brother, who happens to be on Sprint [(444)444-4444]. Imagine having to call the MIC->Sprint Gateway, before calling him? Or having to dial the "Sprint Prefix" (//freenic). If you forget to do that, you'd get MCI's (444)444-4444 instead of Sprint's (444)444-4444 (which is what you REALLY want).
Not to mention, a third root system catching on, and having to purchase many instances of the same domains within many roots.
OR a resolution system for the various prefixes (how would your machine figure out which root servers to use for the various prefixes?)
These analogies aren't perfect, of course, but I can see how multi-roots would get very annoying and cause even MORE problems.
Time is money. It takes a lot more time to make pages look like they should in NS4. We bill our clients on an hourly basis. The 'NS4 tax' is an estimate on how much longer HTML production will take when we run into NS4 problems. They're bound to pop up. They always do. Sometimes they're a simple fix. Other times not so much, and yet other times there IS not fix, and we need to find a complete workaround.
I hardly do any HTML myself, and I know, that our designers and html producers aren't lazy.
It's very difficult to make modern HTML (HTML4/XHTML) display correctly, without a hitch, accross many browsers.
Personaly, I think people using netscape 4 should be shot. Baring that, showing them a fugly-ass page is good enough.
I couldn't agree more -- especially the second part.
-We generally try to talk the client out of it when they ask for NS4 support. -We generally add 10-15% to our HTML production budget when a client demands NS4 support.
The way we see it: If a user can't/is too lazy to upgrade their browser from that 4 year old POS, then they're USED to seeing messed up pages. There's no good excuse to use NS4. If that's corporate policy, complain about it and get it changed. If you're too lazy to download 15 megs, I have no pity for you.
It takes a VERY long time to get complicated HTML to display the same on recent browsers AND legacy browsers.
I'm just not so sure defacing national tv broadcasts is much different than defacing web pages.
<sarcasm> No kidding. I don't have access to my bookmarks from here, can you point me in the direction of the sattelite haxx0r script kidd1e archive? </sarcasm> (-;
We have a corporation similar to Clearchannel up here in Canada. The CHUM group pretty much controls pop culture here. Picture ClearChannel owning MTV.
All that talk makes me thirsy. Get me a [bottle|glass|pitcher of] water, please. I went to the chinese restraunt and ordered two [orders|plates of] noodles and a [bowl|plate of] rice; msg is a salt they really overuse.
also:
Pass the salt [shaker]. Would you like [a spoon of] sugar in your coffee?
It's great. Simple to use, easy to update, can read and edit from any web terminal on this side of our firewall. Need to find out hardware info about the Mac in the corner office? Log into the hardware tracker directly FROM said Mac.
Some people also don't like that nasty hiss from the SB16.
Creative cards have noisy DACs, in my opinion. I find the digital out on the SBLive is very clean, though..
[shrug]
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For the humor impaired: Slashdot's authors dont realize it (and dont disturb them--they're innocent, like little kids..) but the genie is already out of the bottle.
For the stylistically impaired, user submissions are in italics, and slashdot editors' comments are not. Sure, maybe they shouldn't have posted it, but don't put words in their mouths.
I just finished reading Programming PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf's latest co-authored book.
It's by far the most concise, useful, and down-and-dirty books I've ever read on PHP. Even the usually-useless PHP function reference in this books is a step above the norm.
The book talks about important things like PDF creation, the GD library, and how to extend PHP. Setting up and connecting to a DB is kept to a minimum. Kudos to the man.
It bothers me when people refer to people as 'terrible musicians'.
The quality of art (songwriting (composition, lyrics, etc), in this case) is measured subjectively. There's no correct way to do it, other than to follow certain style normes.
The quality of a skill (playing a guitar, singing, etc, in this case) is measured objectively. There's a proper way to play a certain song. There's a certain frequency at which notes should be sung.
Musicians are skilled "workers". Composers are the "art crowd". They just happen to be the same people in this case.
Nice rant, but the article talks about paying to STREAM the movies. When I looked at the old version of the site, they had that nasty realOne format, and it would've been quite difficult to copy. Most people will not be able to do so.
Plus, the quality of the films are much lower than that of VHS. If the big 'pirates' wanted to distribute content, they'd go to Blockbuster, dump it into their pc: analog, dvd, whatever.
Sure, this service isn't legit. And you're right, the MPAA is over-zealous. Consumers (obviously) WANT a service like this, and if the MPAA isn't going to offer it, someone else will (even without legal merit). As the argument is commonly made, if the powers that be would just offer a similar service in an accessible, non-restrictive, don't-assume-you're-a-thief format, people would subscribe. But they're scared.
IMHO, this isn't the same Napster debate, all over again.
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I love in Montreal.
My friends have passed through with Quebec plates, and have received bills. I've seen them.
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Need to go to ICANN's unix.org? Fine, click a pulldown tab in your Mozilla 2.0 browser and select ICANN, or better yet, type http://icann//unix.org/ . Otherwise, stick with http://freenic//unix.org/ or (if opennic ever decides to dump ICANN peering) http://opennic//unix.org/
Aside from the fact that this would fundamentally break nearly every application that already does DNS through the definitive/de facto root servers (and has for the past 25+ years), I still can't see this working.
Think of this: your long distance carrier is MCI [(333)333-3333]. You want to call your brother, who happens to be on Sprint [(444)444-4444]. Imagine having to call the MIC->Sprint Gateway, before calling him? Or having to dial the "Sprint Prefix" (//freenic). If you forget to do that, you'd get MCI's (444)444-4444 instead of Sprint's (444)444-4444 (which is what you REALLY want).
Not to mention, a third root system catching on, and having to purchase many instances of the same domains within many roots.
OR a resolution system for the various prefixes (how would your machine figure out which root servers to use for the various prefixes?)
These analogies aren't perfect, of course, but I can see how multi-roots would get very annoying and cause even MORE problems.
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Hardly.
Time is money. It takes a lot more time to make pages look like they should in NS4. We bill our clients on an hourly basis. The 'NS4 tax' is an estimate on how much longer HTML production will take when we run into NS4 problems. They're bound to pop up. They always do. Sometimes they're a simple fix. Other times not so much, and yet other times there IS not fix, and we need to find a complete workaround.
I hardly do any HTML myself, and I know, that our designers and html producers aren't lazy.
It's very difficult to make modern HTML (HTML4/XHTML) display correctly, without a hitch, accross many browsers.
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Personaly, I think people using netscape 4 should be shot. Baring that, showing them a fugly-ass page is good enough.
I couldn't agree more -- especially the second part.
-We generally try to talk the client out of it when they ask for NS4 support.
-We generally add 10-15% to our HTML production budget when a client demands NS4 support.
The way we see it: If a user can't/is too lazy to upgrade their browser from that 4 year old POS, then they're USED to seeing messed up pages. There's no good excuse to use NS4. If that's corporate policy, complain about it and get it changed. If you're too lazy to download 15 megs, I have no pity for you.
It takes a VERY long time to get complicated HTML to display the same on recent browsers AND legacy browsers.
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Or...
if you rent a DVD from Blockbuster, is Blockbuster responsible if you make a copy?
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Go ahead try it.
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No doubt this means that the more childish among us will make us all look bad. Sigh.
Tesla Coil.
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It costs me 4 cents a meg to receive spam.
It costs the spammer 5 to 70 cents to send me junk mail.
Unfortunately, I can't spamassassin my (non-E) mailbox.
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Banner advertising is _SO_ 2000.
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I'm just not so sure defacing national tv broadcasts is much different than defacing web pages.
<sarcasm>
No kidding. I don't have access to my bookmarks from here, can you point me in the direction of the sattelite haxx0r script kidd1e archive?
</sarcasm>
(-;
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Like we need another keiretsu (-:
We have a corporation similar to Clearchannel up here in Canada. The CHUM group pretty much controls pop culture here. Picture ClearChannel owning MTV.
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All of the browsers I currently use have a "history". When I open the "history" tab, I get what looks an awful lot like links to pages I've visited.
I wonder if it's illegal to visit their website without my browser's history disabled.
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British Researchers have found a way to make teeth ugly?
hmmm..
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You're forgetting about the assumptions:
All that talk makes me thirsy. Get me a [bottle|glass|pitcher of] water, please. I went to the chinese restraunt and ordered two [orders|plates of] noodles and a [bowl|plate of] rice; msg is a salt they really overuse.
also:
Pass the salt [shaker].
Would you like [a spoon of] sugar in your coffee?
S
We use a Wiki Wiki Web for all of our internal system (servers, network, telephone, hardware, etc) documentation.
PHP Wiki
It's great. Simple to use, easy to update, can read and edit from any web terminal on this side of our firewall. Need to find out hardware info about the Mac in the corner office? Log into the hardware tracker directly FROM said Mac.
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Some people also don't like that nasty hiss from the SB16.
Creative cards have noisy DACs, in my opinion. I find the digital out on the SBLive is very clean, though..
[shrug]
S
For the humor impaired: Slashdot's authors dont realize it (and dont disturb them--they're innocent, like little kids..) but the genie is already out of the bottle.
For the stylistically impaired, user submissions are in italics, and slashdot editors' comments are not. Sure, maybe they shouldn't have posted it, but don't put words in their mouths.
S
I just finished reading Programming PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf's latest co-authored book.
It's by far the most concise, useful, and down-and-dirty books I've ever read on PHP. Even the usually-useless PHP function reference in this books is a step above the norm.
The book talks about important things like PDF creation, the GD library, and how to extend PHP. Setting up and connecting to a DB is kept to a minimum. Kudos to the man.
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Videotron caps as well, then charges 7 cents per magabyte for excess!
Yep. $71.68 per gig.
Fortunately, the White Samsung modems don't support the necessary DOCSIS features to do bandwidth audits. (-:
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Will I be able to see this in the North East (Montreal)? The article doesn't say, but I'm hoping to see a partial.
What time would it be at?
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It bothers me when people refer to people as 'terrible musicians'.
The quality of art (songwriting (composition, lyrics, etc), in this case) is measured subjectively. There's no correct way to do it, other than to follow certain style normes.
The quality of a skill (playing a guitar, singing, etc, in this case) is measured objectively. There's a proper way to play a certain song. There's a certain frequency at which notes should be sung.
Musicians are skilled "workers". Composers are the "art crowd". They just happen to be the same people in this case.
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Nice rant, but the article talks about paying to STREAM the movies. When I looked at the old version of the site, they had that nasty realOne format, and it would've been quite difficult to copy. Most people will not be able to do so.
Plus, the quality of the films are much lower than that of VHS. If the big 'pirates' wanted to distribute content, they'd go to Blockbuster, dump it into their pc: analog, dvd, whatever.
Sure, this service isn't legit. And you're right, the MPAA is over-zealous. Consumers (obviously) WANT a service like this, and if the MPAA isn't going to offer it, someone else will (even without legal merit). As the argument is commonly made, if the powers that be would just offer a similar service in an accessible, non-restrictive, don't-assume-you're-a-thief format, people would subscribe. But they're scared.
IMHO, this isn't the same Napster debate, all over again.
Heh I was going to mention Mackie, but you beat me to it.
My favourite is the diagram of "the mating ritual of consenting adult banana plugs"
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(for the uninitiated)
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good deal of military brass were nixed when the pentagon got nailed... explaining that one away could be kind of tough
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fnah. not THAT tough.
http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/
Doesn't even look like a Photoshop job, to me.
It's not like /. pioneered the idea of pre-announcing press releases.
Yahoo News Search for "will announce"
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