Grammar matters to the extent that it makes a message clear. However Grammar Nazi's care far too much about this stuff. If I start a sentence with 'and' or split an infinitive it doesn't matter at all unless in so doing I make my message unclear.
Same with UK/US spellings, people care far too much about a few letters difference that doesn't affect meaning.
Yes, it's a different situation, but that does not change the law. Deep packet inspection is illegal. It doesn't matter WHY you are doing it, unless it's called for by a judicial warrant.
You misunderstand. It's illegal if You or I do it, it's not illegal if any part of the government does it.
I knew it was all going to turn to shit the first time I saw an advert on the internet.
Should the governments of the world start blocking encrypted connections there will be no choice but to replace the internet with something better. A worldwide mesh net might be possible by then.
Deep packet inspection is already happening in the UK. Don't believe me? Try a telnet to port 80 on a webserver you control from a domestic UK internet connection. Then enter 'HTTP \nHOST piratebay.org\n' Your connection gets hijacked at that point and the server sees a faked reset from your IP.
Don't have a webserver? Try any website instead but if you use your own you can tcpdump both sides of the connection to see the hijacking happening.
Between this, email and telephone snooping, stop and search without the suspicion of wrongdoing, and indefinite house arrest without trail the UK has already become a fascist prison.
Actually it is. All search is an exercise in brute force with the problem space reduced by heuristics. The trick is to reduce the problem space to as small as possible by using good heuristics.
They got all those millions selling useless TLD's, they have to spend it somewhere.
That might have something to do with it. They are a non-profit who used their granted monopoly to make millions ( at least ) by selling text strings for obscene amounts of cash.
Isn't it time we replaced the whole messed up DNS setup and got these nasty people off our Internet?
It's simply too much money for the job, smart people do great jobs for considerably less. What they are going to get for that kind of money is a MBA drone who talks in buzzwords, has no imagination, and only cares about acquiring as much personal wealth as possible.
People that get paid more just get more greedy and more not less susceptible to bribery and other types of corruption. You can't pay someone enough to change their human nature.
This assumes the inevitability and longevity of the concept of the nation-state, which has only been around a couple hundred years and is arguably (anthropologically speaking) not at all inevitable as a social entity.
Ultimately, would you just give out TLDs for whatever social entity you chose to recognize as some sort of homogenous group? How arbitrary are you prepared to be?
That seems to me to be the ultimate problem with TLDs. They are always already arbitrary. Just leave them so instead of imagining there's some sort of rationality (such as country-codes) which will just inevitabley be wiped away or need to be modified to fit some new scheme someday.
Fair point. I'd recognize countries as those the UN recognizes as a 'nation state'. US is a country, UK is a country, Scotland isn't, Sealands isn't.
Should the entire concept of countries or nation states disappear then we have bigger problems than an outdated domain name system. Go for generic domains in that case I guess, it needs more thinking about.
One TLD for each country to do what they like with plus something like NameCoin but with way higher costs for registering domains under some anarchy TLD. Throw in a TLD for companies over some big size and another for non-profits over a certain size.
The top level should be managed by some international body and be operationally independently of all governments.
Each country should run a DNS service for the top level which should be globally accessible.
Professionals can now work on the go... a boost with the 128 MB RAM memory
Exactly what professional can work with such little RAM?
I don't even think you could connect to a VM properly with that...
I've run databases, web servers, mail servers all on a Linux machine with less RAM. With the right tuning it should be possible to get something usable on there.
Of course RAM is cheap so why not just add a little more?
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I thought that one was true. Thanks for enlightening me.
Grammar matters to the extent that it makes a message clear. However Grammar Nazi's care far too much about this stuff. If I start a sentence with 'and' or split an infinitive it doesn't matter at all unless in so doing I make my message unclear.
Same with UK/US spellings, people care far too much about a few letters difference that doesn't affect meaning.
Yes, it's a different situation, but that does not change the law. Deep packet inspection is illegal. It doesn't matter WHY you are doing it, unless it's called for by a judicial warrant.
You misunderstand. It's illegal if You or I do it, it's not illegal if any part of the government does it.
I knew it was all going to turn to shit the first time I saw an advert on the internet.
Should the governments of the world start blocking encrypted connections there will be no choice but to replace the internet with something better. A worldwide mesh net might be possible by then.
Deep packet inspection is already happening in the UK. Don't believe me? Try a telnet to port 80 on a webserver you control from a domestic UK internet connection. Then enter 'HTTP \nHOST piratebay.org\n' Your connection gets hijacked at that point and the server sees a faked reset from your IP.
Don't have a webserver? Try any website instead but if you use your own you can tcpdump both sides of the connection to see the hijacking happening.
Between this, email and telephone snooping, stop and search without the suspicion of wrongdoing, and indefinite house arrest without trail the UK has already become a fascist prison.
brute force != solving a sudoku
Actually it is. All search is an exercise in brute force with the problem space reduced by heuristics. The trick is to reduce the problem space to as small as possible by using good heuristics.
Dam. You beat me to it.
[citation needed]
No idea if the above if true or false but I'd also love a citation too.
The only study I found was published in 1968.
Here are some:
Not network security but built on .NET.
Here is a list of fish:
cod
salmon
place
haddock
What was your point again?
Microsoft have a terrifying security history, who is using their network security tools?
Can someone give me a list of those companies so I can make sure I don't deal with them?
They got all those millions selling useless TLD's, they have to spend it somewhere.
That might have something to do with it. They are a non-profit who used their granted monopoly to make millions ( at least ) by selling text strings for obscene amounts of cash.
Isn't it time we replaced the whole messed up DNS setup and got these nasty people off our Internet?
It's simply too much money for the job, smart people do great jobs for considerably less. What they are going to get for that kind of money is a MBA drone who talks in buzzwords, has no imagination, and only cares about acquiring as much personal wealth as possible.
People that get paid more just get more greedy and more not less susceptible to bribery and other types of corruption. You can't pay someone enough to change their human nature.
Based on your low slashdot ID you will do a better job too.
This guy is being paid way too much. ICANN is behaving irrationally by paying this much money, this reeks of corruption.
This assumes the inevitability and longevity of the concept of the nation-state, which has only been around a couple hundred years and is arguably (anthropologically speaking) not at all inevitable as a social entity.
Ultimately, would you just give out TLDs for whatever social entity you chose to recognize as some sort of homogenous group? How arbitrary are you prepared to be?
That seems to me to be the ultimate problem with TLDs. They are always already arbitrary. Just leave them so instead of imagining there's some sort of rationality (such as country-codes) which will just inevitabley be wiped away or need to be modified to fit some new scheme someday.
Fair point. I'd recognize countries as those the UN recognizes as a 'nation state'. US is a country, UK is a country, Scotland isn't, Sealands isn't.
Should the entire concept of countries or nation states disappear then we have bigger problems than an outdated domain name system. Go for generic domains in that case I guess, it needs more thinking about.
I like it... can I be one of the TLD Internet Diplomats who get diplomatic Immunity for operating outside of all country borders?
Nobody gets diplomatic immunity, everything is done by clear and fair procedures, nobody makes a profit and everything is made public.
One TLD for each country to do what they like with plus something like NameCoin but with way higher costs for registering domains under some anarchy TLD.
Throw in a TLD for companies over some big size and another for non-profits over a certain size.
The top level should be managed by some international body and be operationally independently of all governments.
Each country should run a DNS service for the top level which should be globally accessible.
Professionals can now work on the go ... a boost with the 128 MB RAM memory
Exactly what professional can work with such little RAM?
I don't even think you could connect to a VM properly with that...
I've run databases, web servers, mail servers all on a Linux machine with less RAM. With the right tuning it should be possible to get something usable on there.
Of course RAM is cheap so why not just add a little more?
Don't. Buy fire and theft insurance and leave the kit there. Buy new kit if the worst happens.
You could consider removable disk cadies so you can remove all the data in a real hurry if you have to.
Do you have any WP7 experience at all?
Do you? Or do they just give you a script to repeat on web forums?
People have been waiting for the next version to fix their problems since windows 3 came out.
After all these years why should MS change tactics and actually fix things?
What's my beef? My beef?
I'm a vegetarian you insensitive clod! I only eat apples and blackberrys.
Can I have your beef then? I'll trade it for a carrot.
It's VI verses EMACS with Microsoft in the middle trying to push NOTEPAD!
Microsoft isn't going to do well in the phone market, they don't have the pretty of Apple, the utility of Android, or the stability of either.
I have a n900 and it's great thanks.
Because freetards can't acknowledge anything that Microsoft does as good. That's why outside of freetard commentators the phones get good reviews.
Err no, Linux based phones do more for less cash and iphones own the 'oh! Shiny!' market.
There really isn't a place for windows phones in the market, that's why they are doing badly.
Since when did Slashdot start publishing adverts as stories?
Windows phones are lame. I spent good money on one once and it crashed all the time, no way am I risking getting another.
I can do everything on my Linux phone thanks. There is no reason to spend more money on something that does less!