But you forgot to also mention Kazakhstan. The point of the article wasn't that the Afghani or Iraqi ccTLDs' had been taken from whoever and allocated to whatever, but the fact that this had done by ICANN and they'd worded it as a redelegation, which is a tad cheeky! You can argue the toss in the case of Iraq and Arghanistan given the recent US involvement with both countries, but that isn't the point.
The point is that the US via ICANN are self appointed judge and jury over the entire internet!
This anarcho-capitalist "ICANN is evil" saw has reached its nadir. If you want to live outside of government control, I invite you to move to Western Sahara and send us all a postcard telling us all about your newfound utopia.
Off. And high-horse.
This isn't about attacking capitalism or even the US or ICANN. It *is* about making democratic decisions. At present, there is no democracy! So please refrain from twisting the arguement.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt we have like 10 articles a few months ago about the UN and EU mad at the US for controlling the internet, and wanted more international involvment? Now we have an article thats mad at the US for giving up control of the internet to other nations?! WTF?
Not sure how you got modded "interesting". Did you read the article? The point was that the US had used its powers to act as self appointed judge and jury over things that might otherwise be considered out of its (the US's) juristiction. These are precisely the powers that the UN and EU were complaining about!!
Agreed that the images may or may not be Beagle, but the idea of it being a political photoshopping? Nah! There's no need; they've blamed underfunding and/or the Prof. so there's really nothing to gain. Conversely, trying to fake evidence would be a super massively stupid risk.
I'm sure that is a lot of it on a personal level, but perhaps a bigger part is because if you can't explain what went wrong the first time, you're going to have a tough time getting funding for a second go.
I've absolutely no evidence to back this up, but from memory (normally pretty flakey!), I think the Beagle air bags were meant to collapse on impact; so no bouncing.
As opposed to the Mars Rovers where they were designed to bounce a bit.
I hadn't heard of RedHawk either, but I just figured they selected it 'cos it had a better "military" name.... I mean, lets face it, Breezy Badger was never going to be used.
or Horay Hedgehog.
Yellow Dog - nope.
Debian - Ian and Debbie's OS? Not quite up there on the old threat level really!
Its amazing how well this runs. But there's no kick-back when you fire the machine gun.... so in my view it fails completely! They might as well scrap the entire thing now!!:D
Also, the Slashdot server can be entangled with any other server simply by linking it (no crystals required). When the/. server is entangled, we know that at any given instant, if the/. server is running, the entangled server will not and vice versa.
The problem is, that although most things can work fine under linux, they still tend to be easier to get working under Windows.
Example: Ubuntu 5.10 -- I absolutely love it to bits, but there is one machine I have with a wireless card that I can't get working. Another that does rather irritate me is that I like num-lock *enabled* when I log in; to do this in Ubuntu involed installing some package or other and making some config changes... and that ignores the time to google to find this info.
Other minor issues... my laptop won't _restart_ under Ubuntu (accepting that I need to restart less;) ). And the hibernate function doesn't seem to work properly either.
I know most of these are driver/firmware problems, and are difficult to resolve if the manufacturers are not being proactively helpful.... but on the other hand, as an end user, I don't care -- Windows works "better" in the sense that it does the things that I expect it to do!
It's terrible what happened to him; not sure if everyone heard, but he was abducted by the forest dwelling pygmies of Bhutan[1] whilst on a hiking holiday[2] several years back[3]... something about trying to find his inner-self[4]... anyway, he's never been seen since[5].
Legend has it that you can still hear the screams!![n]
--
[1]May not be entirely true.
[2]May not be entirely true.
[3]May not be entirely true.
[4]May not be entirely true.
[5]May not be entirely true.
You could probably, just about, have purchased a Lnksys PAP2 ATA (~£40 unlocked) and regular DECT handset(s) for the same price. And that would've been completely non-proprietry. You could switch SIP based VoIP supplier at will. You could add DECT handsets at will.
Or maybe it's purely a defensive move; by undermining Microsofts future revenues, Google protects itself from the constant threat that MS is! Ballmer did say he was going to "kill Google" so it would not be entirely unreasonable for Google to respond.
That of course assumes that the Sun/Google announcement *is* an Office suite; I'm still not 100% convinced that's what will be announced..... but we'll find out soon!!:)
The original post does say "non-virulent" and "the Sterne strain is not thought to be harmful to humans". So clearly they're using it to make baby food for hurican victims!
Actually, I do pretty much agree with your comments, but they might carry a little more weight if you had read all the words in TFA rather than just skim it!:D
Slashdot Mirror
Nice and objective.
But you forgot to also mention Kazakhstan. The point of the article wasn't that the Afghani or Iraqi ccTLDs' had been taken from whoever and allocated to whatever, but the fact that this had done by ICANN and they'd worded it as a redelegation, which is a tad cheeky! You can argue the toss in the case of Iraq and Arghanistan given the recent US involvement with both countries, but that isn't the point.
The point is that the US via ICANN are self appointed judge and jury over the entire internet!
This anarcho-capitalist "ICANN is evil" saw has reached its nadir. If you want to live outside of government control, I invite you to move to Western Sahara and send us all a postcard telling us all about your newfound utopia.
Off. And high-horse.
This isn't about attacking capitalism or even the US or ICANN. It *is* about making democratic decisions. At present, there is no democracy! So please refrain from twisting the arguement.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt we have like 10 articles a few months ago about the UN and EU mad at the US for controlling the internet, and wanted more international involvment? Now we have an article thats mad at the US for giving up control of the internet to other nations?! WTF?
Not sure how you got modded "interesting". Did you read the article? The point was that the US had used its powers to act as self appointed judge and jury over things that might otherwise be considered out of its (the US's) juristiction. These are precisely the powers that the UN and EU were complaining about!!
Without doubt, this idea will have been considered.... so I guess the distance is too great. It would be cool though!
Agreed that the images may or may not be Beagle, but the idea of it being a political photoshopping? Nah! There's no need; they've blamed underfunding and/or the Prof. so there's really nothing to gain. Conversely, trying to fake evidence would be a super massively stupid risk.
I'm sure that is a lot of it on a personal level, but perhaps a bigger part is because if you can't explain what went wrong the first time, you're going to have a tough time getting funding for a second go.
I've absolutely no evidence to back this up, but from memory (normally pretty flakey!), I think the Beagle air bags were meant to collapse on impact; so no bouncing.
As opposed to the Mars Rovers where they were designed to bounce a bit.
Surely that means their software is now "infected" with GPL? And as such, they must release all related source code!! ;)
and the Nokia 770 if I recall correctly!
Opera works on (and is currently used) mobile devices.
I don't know what Google's intent is (or even if this is just a rumour), but I'd venture a guess that it isn't about desktop.
Very interesting! May I ask which versions of MS Works, Windows and OOo you were using?
Yeah, we call it the old "slashdot end of year cull"!
;)
If this didn't happen, there'd be far too many low quality geeks.
I hadn't heard of RedHawk either, but I just figured they selected it 'cos it had a better "military" name.... I mean, lets face it, Breezy Badger was never going to be used.
or Horay Hedgehog.
Yellow Dog - nope.
Debian - Ian and Debbie's OS? Not quite up there on the old threat level really!
Its amazing how well this runs. But there's no kick-back when you fire the machine gun.... so in my view it fails completely! They might as well scrap the entire thing now!! :D
Surely AMD should be cleaning up on laptops? (based on the assumtion that higher clock speeds = more power consumption)
So indirectly, you're saying that Itanic was a new generation of PA-RISC and *not* a new generation of x86?
Which does really seem to highlight the problem -- AMD had a part that was a next-gen x86 whilst Intel did not!
Hmmmm........ I'm just thinking out loud here, but... perhaps they should merge and become:
STAR-SHACKS!
no? well, maybe:
RADIO-BUCKS!
Yes.
/. server is entangled, we know that at any given instant, if the /. server is running, the entangled server will not and vice versa.
Also, the Slashdot server can be entangled with any other server simply by linking it (no crystals required). When the
Tell me it ain't true - I dare ya!!
The problem is, that although most things can work fine under linux, they still tend to be easier to get working under Windows.
;) ). And the hibernate function doesn't seem to work properly either.
Example: Ubuntu 5.10 -- I absolutely love it to bits, but there is one machine I have with a wireless card that I can't get working. Another that does rather irritate me is that I like num-lock *enabled* when I log in; to do this in Ubuntu involed installing some package or other and making some config changes... and that ignores the time to google to find this info.
Other minor issues... my laptop won't _restart_ under Ubuntu (accepting that I need to restart less
I know most of these are driver/firmware problems, and are difficult to resolve if the manufacturers are not being proactively helpful.... but on the other hand, as an end user, I don't care -- Windows works "better" in the sense that it does the things that I expect it to do!
It's terrible what happened to him; not sure if everyone heard, but he was abducted by the forest dwelling pygmies of Bhutan[1] whilst on a hiking holiday[2] several years back[3]... something about trying to find his inner-self[4]... anyway, he's never been seen since[5].
Legend has it that you can still hear the screams!![n]
--
[1]May not be entirely true.
[2]May not be entirely true.
[3]May not be entirely true.
[4]May not be entirely true.
[5]May not be entirely true.
uh huh!
Oh, and you could've switched your PC off! (I forgot about that) ;-)
You could probably, just about, have purchased a Lnksys PAP2 ATA (~£40 unlocked) and regular DECT handset(s) for the same price. And that would've been completely non-proprietry. You could switch SIP based VoIP supplier at will. You could add DECT handsets at will.
Or maybe it's purely a defensive move; by undermining Microsofts future revenues, Google protects itself from the constant threat that MS is! Ballmer did say he was going to "kill Google" so it would not be entirely unreasonable for Google to respond.
:)
That of course assumes that the Sun/Google announcement *is* an Office suite; I'm still not 100% convinced that's what will be announced..... but we'll find out soon!!
So it was the tree's fault! Or whoever planted them!! :)
The original post does say "non-virulent" and "the Sterne strain is not thought to be harmful to humans". So clearly they're using it to make baby food for hurican victims!
:D
Actually, I do pretty much agree with your comments, but they might carry a little more weight if you had read all the words in TFA rather than just skim it!