TLDs are necessary because of the way DNS works. Basically a dns request for jack.spanner.example.com goes to the root name servers, asks for the holder of.com records, queries that server for the holder of example.com info, queries that server for either the record for jack.spanner or the dns that holds the spanner.example.com records.
If there were no TLDs the root servers would have to hold every domain record for the whole inet, which would be like a return to the hosts file infrastructure.
More info (which is undoubtedly more accurate than my fuzzy mumblings above ) here.
An excerpt from the transcript of the show (actually germaine to the DARE topic, the guy is a DARE person that goes to schools):
> BRET RICHARDSON: Just last week, I had one of my
> students come to me to tell me about one of his
> relatives, and he wants something done about it,
> so the information has been turned over to our
> drug task force. I tell them all the
> ramifications of that choice that they are
> making, and if they want the police involved in
> it, it's going to disrupt the family life. And
> then it's up to the student to decide if that's
> the direction they want it to go. We don't
> encourage the kids to spy. That's not my role.
> I'm there as instructor, not as an enforcement
> officer.
Hmm, "We don't encourage the kids to spy." I have to wonder if thats true. I remember the Nazi's encouraged children to rat on their parents.
> 1st BOY: I really didn't know much about
> marijuana. I didn't know what harmful effects it
> can do on your life and stuff like that. I mean,
> it's really nice to know now. And I made the
> decision not to do marijuana or any drug.
> 2nd BOY: It just- like, it can hurt you, and it
> kills you and stuff if you do too much of it.
I think the worst thing about DARE is the untruth of most of their arguments. For one they and other war on drugs propaganda organizations tend to refer to all illicit drugs as "drugs", not often making distinctions between different drugs, i.e. "Drug will kill you." Ok, that is possible with heroin, cocaine, alchol, and tobacco, but marajuana has no known toxicity. Its not possible to OD on it. Never mind the fact that legal drugs kill orders of magnitudes more people every year than illegal ones.
War on Drugs = new McCarthyism
Just as irrational, just as unjust, & just as politically devisive.
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But at $1000/programmer-month they could get another person easily.
TLDs are necessary because of the way DNS works. Basically a dns request for jack.spanner.example.com goes to the root name servers, asks for the holder of .com records, queries that server for the holder of example.com info, queries that server for either the record for jack.spanner or the dns that holds the spanner.example.com records.
If there were no TLDs the root servers would have to hold every domain record for the whole inet, which would be like a return to the hosts file infrastructure.
More info (which is undoubtedly more accurate than my fuzzy mumblings above ) here.
Frontline did a good show on marijuana law a few years ago. Hidden in the site is the most well thought out essay on the drug war I've ever read (its by an appeals court judge).
An excerpt from the transcript of the show (actually germaine to the DARE topic, the guy is a DARE person that goes to schools):
> BRET RICHARDSON: Just last week, I had one of my
> students come to me to tell me about one of his
> relatives, and he wants something done about it,
> so the information has been turned over to our
> drug task force. I tell them all the
> ramifications of that choice that they are
> making, and if they want the police involved in
> it, it's going to disrupt the family life. And
> then it's up to the student to decide if that's
> the direction they want it to go. We don't
> encourage the kids to spy. That's not my role.
> I'm there as instructor, not as an enforcement
> officer.
Hmm, "We don't encourage the kids to spy." I have to wonder if thats true. I remember the Nazi's encouraged children to rat on their parents.
> 1st BOY: I really didn't know much about
> marijuana. I didn't know what harmful effects it
> can do on your life and stuff like that. I mean,
> it's really nice to know now. And I made the
> decision not to do marijuana or any drug.
> 2nd BOY: It just- like, it can hurt you, and it
> kills you and stuff if you do too much of it.
I think the worst thing about DARE is the untruth of most of their arguments. For one they and other war on drugs propaganda organizations tend to refer to all illicit drugs as "drugs", not often making distinctions between different drugs, i.e. "Drug will kill you." Ok, that is possible with heroin, cocaine, alchol, and tobacco, but marajuana has no known toxicity. Its not possible to OD on it. Never mind the fact that legal drugs kill orders of magnitudes more people every year than illegal ones.
War on Drugs = new McCarthyism
Just as irrational, just as unjust, & just as politically devisive.
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MT