They did not announce the shutdown before 9/11. It was almost immediately afterward. If you can produce a citation to the contrary, I'll retract that statement, but you can't.
On the other hand, ZKS claimed to have planned the shutdown before 9/11. But that's not the same as announcing.
What would you have said if you had cypherpunk cred and were shutting down due to government pressure? "Due to the polite request of the RCMP, and their generous offer not to raid our offices, confiscate our equipment, and put us out of business, in addition to the fact that the independent Freedom server operators are all scared, the Freedom network will shut down on October 1?" Please.
I'll be expecting you to post the IP address of your Freedom server, then. I'm not mocking anybody, just pointing out what should be obvious risks of providing such a service.
If you're looking for something right above state, that's a new locality. Neustar isn't accepting any new locality delegations right now. I don't know whether they ever will--there's no clear indication either way on their site.
If you want to register a fourth level domain in an already delegated locality domain (e.g. yourdomain.new-york.ny.us), you need to contact the delegated manager. Keep in mind that this is a hit or miss--some of them are very good, while some, like hostmaster@prairie.net, are incommunicado, not answering any communication. I hope after things settle out, that those blowing off requests will have their delegations taken away, but for the moment, things are static.
Looks like locality domains will remain free (unless the delegated manager charges a fee):
"For purposes of this
Agreement, "Registered Name" shall not include domain names registered or
maintained pursuant to the locality-based structure defined in RFC 1480, as
amended or superceded by previous or the current usTLD Administrator." (from the document you linked)
but I could see a non-profit network springing up...
Because I'm certain there are lots of volunteers out there that want to donate their bandwidth to the cause of having their door kicked down and family forced face down on the floor at gunpoint because someone used their Freedom server to threaten the POTUS, exchange kiddie porn with an FBI agent, or (horror of horrors) download a non-rights-managed piece of music and that person was the lucky person to be the exit server for the traffic.
These servers simply cannot be run successfully by individuals with the potential legal problems of relatively honest use, much less malicious use. And after 9/11, I doubt very many ISPs would be able to weather the storm, either.
Also true for Mozilla. The feature is useful for other than web browsers, though. Even more offtopic--any idea why Microsoft did just the opposite for the Office XP apps? They used to be MDI, and now are still, sort of, but each document or spreadsheet takes its own icon in the taskbar. Of course, buried somewhere in the myriad settings may be a checkbox to turn it off, but I haven't dug yet.
Obviously you didn't follow the plot too closely. If he'd let them have what they wanted, the NSA agents would have killed him and his whole family on the spot.
Of course, Apple can afford to provide the OS when they charge twice the going rate for the equivalent Intel/AMD hardware. Even so, Microsoft and its bedfellows are starting to make the Mac look like a darned nice platform next upgrade, especially given OSX.
If they were released at today's prices, they would be. They slipped under the music cartel's radar initially because they were expensive, it wasn't practial to extract audio at 1X (if at all), and there was no psychoacoustic compression like MP3.
The one shell enhancement I'd like to see in Win2K (because XP's not going to happen with WPA and that "all your box are belong to us" EULA) is the "Close group" function from the taskbar. For example, if I have IE open with 50 windows, only one taskbar entry is taken up, and "Close group" will close all 50. Other than that, I can live without the enhancements I've run across working on others' systems.
If only more people realized that, and didn't just roll over, this world would be a hell of a lot better of a place. Joe and Jane Everybody seem amazed when told what they can accomplish often by just being a squeaky wheel and a pain in the ass to people with power.
Using it right now. Admittedly, it takes up a chunk of RAM that would probably be better used running apps, so I sometimes switch back to "Windows Classic." Stability has not been a problem, though it was under Win9x.
Which, for the people I'm advising, have no use whatsoever. And if it did have any use, I'd advise them to forgo those enhancements over their privacy and ability to change hardware without approval from Chairman Bill.
Bummer. I'm running a G450 dual display even as we speak under Win2K. Heresy though it is, I never did getting around to doing the work to make dual head work in Linux.
Concur. Stardock is cool. They sell subscription software the only way I'll buy it, too--with perpetual right to use for components already obtained if you allow your subscription to expire. Which, of course, I haven't.
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And we're shocked, shocked that this ignorant morass of old boys in the Georgia legislature is proposing a censorship law?
What's next? Are we going to find out Microsoft is a monopoly?
On the other hand, ZKS claimed to have planned the shutdown before 9/11. But that's not the same as announcing.
What would you have said if you had cypherpunk cred and were shutting down due to government pressure? "Due to the polite request of the RCMP, and their generous offer not to raid our offices, confiscate our equipment, and put us out of business, in addition to the fact that the independent Freedom server operators are all scared, the Freedom network will shut down on October 1?" Please.
I'll be expecting you to post the IP address of your Freedom server, then. I'm not mocking anybody, just pointing out what should be obvious risks of providing such a service.
That was moving. I wish I had the incisiveness of that guy!
If you want to register a fourth level domain in an already delegated locality domain (e.g. yourdomain.new-york.ny.us), you need to contact the delegated manager. Keep in mind that this is a hit or miss--some of them are very good, while some, like hostmaster@prairie.net, are incommunicado, not answering any communication. I hope after things settle out, that those blowing off requests will have their delegations taken away, but for the moment, things are static.
"For purposes of this Agreement, "Registered Name" shall not include domain names registered or maintained pursuant to the locality-based structure defined in RFC 1480, as amended or superceded by previous or the current usTLD Administrator." (from the document you linked)
Because I'm certain there are lots of volunteers out there that want to donate their bandwidth to the cause of having their door kicked down and family forced face down on the floor at gunpoint because someone used their Freedom server to threaten the POTUS, exchange kiddie porn with an FBI agent, or (horror of horrors) download a non-rights-managed piece of music and that person was the lucky person to be the exit server for the traffic.
These servers simply cannot be run successfully by individuals with the potential legal problems of relatively honest use, much less malicious use. And after 9/11, I doubt very many ISPs would be able to weather the storm, either.
AFAIK, the source was never removed, though I grabbed it immediately in case it had been.
Also true for Mozilla. The feature is useful for other than web browsers, though. Even more offtopic--any idea why Microsoft did just the opposite for the Office XP apps? They used to be MDI, and now are still, sort of, but each document or spreadsheet takes its own icon in the taskbar. Of course, buried somewhere in the myriad settings may be a checkbox to turn it off, but I haven't dug yet.
Sorry I left the satire tags off for you--I thought it was pretty obvious without them ;).
SELECT NAME, SSN FROM PURCHASE, CUSTOMER
WHERE CUSTOMER.SSN = PURCHASE.SSN
AND
TITLE LIKE '%BOMB%';
(changing table names as appropriate for a library)?! That, my friend, is scarier to me than anything that has actually happened so far.
Obviously you didn't follow the plot too closely. If he'd let them have what they wanted, the NSA agents would have killed him and his whole family on the spot.
Of course, Apple can afford to provide the OS when they charge twice the going rate for the equivalent Intel/AMD hardware. Even so, Microsoft and its bedfellows are starting to make the Mac look like a darned nice platform next upgrade, especially given OSX.
Jobs made a non-competition pact with Gates. Molotov signed a non-aggression pact with Ribbentrop. Interesting to watch the parallels!
If they were released at today's prices, they would be. They slipped under the music cartel's radar initially because they were expensive, it wasn't practial to extract audio at 1X (if at all), and there was no psychoacoustic compression like MP3.
The one shell enhancement I'd like to see in Win2K (because XP's not going to happen with WPA and that "all your box are belong to us" EULA) is the "Close group" function from the taskbar. For example, if I have IE open with 50 windows, only one taskbar entry is taken up, and "Close group" will close all 50. Other than that, I can live without the enhancements I've run across working on others' systems.
If only more people realized that, and didn't just roll over, this world would be a hell of a lot better of a place. Joe and Jane Everybody seem amazed when told what they can accomplish often by just being a squeaky wheel and a pain in the ass to people with power.
Using it right now. Admittedly, it takes up a chunk of RAM that would probably be better used running apps, so I sometimes switch back to "Windows Classic." Stability has not been a problem, though it was under Win9x.
Which, for the people I'm advising, have no use whatsoever. And if it did have any use, I'd advise them to forgo those enhancements over their privacy and ability to change hardware without approval from Chairman Bill.
Bummer. I'm running a G450 dual display even as we speak under Win2K. Heresy though it is, I never did getting around to doing the work to make dual head work in Linux.
Concur. Stardock is cool. They sell subscription software the only way I'll buy it, too--with perpetual right to use for components already obtained if you allow your subscription to expire. Which, of course, I haven't.
More importantly, why would anyone want to go through the trouble to run XP? What makes XP all that over Win2K?
Like I tell people here, Windows XP is just Windows 2000 with some new eye candy and the DMCA/Big Brother Expansion Pack.
And apparently, it was a warning wasted on most of the generation currently in office. Or maybe they're using it as a "guide book."