American companies did the same thing recently with the.eu TLD. I do not think it is ICANN's fault that American companies are in control of so much.
When you go to Google, you are confronted with 35 languages (most of them real) for their website. I do not think that ICANN is forcing websites to work in English. Foreign language users have plenty of content and more with every passing second!
"it's closer to rolling up with a class of EMT's-in-training"
That's called rotations, and the students at my school all have to do them at different times. Believe it or not you may have an EMT in training assisting the full timers in patient care next time you call an ambulance.
There are several kinds of consent. Aside from the "Yes you can do this to me and I will sign an afidavit to that effect" type, there is also implied consent. If a reasonable average person would consent to me doing something to him but he is not able to consent, I can treat him under implied consent. This applies to unresponsive patients of course, but it is also used with children without parents present and some mentally ill. How many people know anything about what is onboard an ambulance? No one is in a position to object to my shoving a CombiTube down his throat (basic blind intubation) to make it easier to breathe for him, so why would the same patient have an objection to a paramedic (who has more training then an EMT) replacing the blood that he lost?
Actually, that is exactly what I meant. As an EMT I am required to know the law. People's lives were saved in these informed consent trials. The people who really need this stuff are in no position to sign anything. It is designed for people who will die without it, so what's the problem?
Polyheme is an artificial blood that is in the final stages of field testing in the USA. Taken together, these two technologies promise to significantly reduce deaths caused by trauma on the battlefields and highways.
"The Minuteman III and Polaris missiles have solid boosters with 'end the world by' dates."
One of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "Well Mr. President, the way I see it we have two options. On one hand we can replace the boosters with new ones, but that is both dangerous and extremely expensive. On the other hand, we can start a nuclear war by August 17th when they expire."
I recomend the Palm Lifedrive. It is designed to browse the Internet out of the box and comes with a mini office suite. It has a built in hard drive and accepts memory cards. I take mine everywhere with me and I even use an optional keyboard to write papers on it. (In case you can't tell, I am a big fan of Palm.)
"I have to give it to ICANN. The group tried to help VeriSign to save face by asking it to voluntarily remove the service when the first request could have easily been an order and not a request. Rather than take that opportunity, VeriSign rejected ICANN's request."
ICANN took the action that had to be taken in a gradual manner that it thought was fair to Verisign. After the latter party refused to comply, they fixed the situation with an order. It should never have happened in the first place, but ICANN did everything they could have to fix the situation.
I understand the principle, but please look at the data. The Internet is actually being censored by the countries that the US doesn't like, not the other way around! When has the US used this authority to bully anybody? Bush has never even mentioned the possibility of using net control as a means of punishing anyone for any reason.
Here's another plausible scenario: Let's say that the Chinese anger us (maybe by shooting down one of our spyplanes for argument's sake). They would be powerless to stop us from controlling all of the information entering the country and forbidding certain words from being searched... Oh wait.
Other than theory, you are able to cite only one example of something with which you disagree. I am a Republican and supporter of the Bush administration, but even I can find more than one problem in virtually every part of government! One scandel isn't bad by federal government standards, and I think that other countries would have had made least one objectionable action by now had they been in charge.
That should be the motto of all patriotic people. So simply stated yet so true. I have yet to read a convincing account of what problems exist solely because of US control over some aspects of the Internet.
A lot of science is not done for any specific practical outcome. It is done for science's sake. When science's sake also happens to be cool, more power to it!
I have always been a big fan or forums (fora?) as I imagine most/.ers also are. When I am playing just about any game ever made, I have been able to find help online. I fail to see what these coaches do that a player's friends cannot. Oh wait... friends?
That's my point from the GP. Without sysadmins around, everything would burn to the ground even without the senseless Office Space allusion. You certainly deserve a hearty celebration of the newfound holiday!
I completely agree that it is good to build equity. If you have $15,000 left on a $20,000 mortgage and need money, you can sell the house. Even if you take a little loss you get a whole lot more money back than you would from an apartment. You will get around $5,000 cash to spend on whatever emergency needs attending, whereas you would get exactly $0 (plus security deposit) from an apartment.
In order to show how underappreciated they are, I think sysadmins should just go party instead of coming into the office on Friday. When thousands of dollars go missing and the building burns to the ground, they won't be to blame (and Milton will get away again).
I have been known to load songs onto a Memory card and use them on multiple devices. I am very glad that Sony has upgraded its multimedia abilities so that PSP users no longer have to use arcane naming and specific folders. I do not like any device that forces such burdans on the end user. I have far too many songs to have to put them in a specific way.
I doubt that it will stagnate the state of the art, and Java is regarded as the highest authority in Java. I am surprised to see how many Java fans there are here on/. considering the flames I have gotten in the past when I write about how cool Java is.
I agree with what you are saying, but realize the amount of trust that we are given Google. I for one trust their "Don't be evil" motto, but it would be a breach of public faith to start meddling with search results too much.
What role does the agency in question play in net neutrality? Having been an intern in DC at the time that net neutrality was a big issue, I can tell you to blame congress if you disagree with the outcome. What I am saying is that we need to put aside how we feel about the country or the administration and look at the data. What is the harm?
In other news, GP is in the running for most modded post ever. From 1 to -1 all the way up to +3.
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When you go to Google, you are confronted with 35 languages (most of them real) for their website. I do not think that ICANN is forcing websites to work in English. Foreign language users have plenty of content and more with every passing second!
Of course other countries do such a better job at managing domains.
That's called rotations, and the students at my school all have to do them at different times. Believe it or not you may have an EMT in training assisting the full timers in patient care next time you call an ambulance.
There are several kinds of consent. Aside from the "Yes you can do this to me and I will sign an afidavit to that effect" type, there is also implied consent. If a reasonable average person would consent to me doing something to him but he is not able to consent, I can treat him under implied consent. This applies to unresponsive patients of course, but it is also used with children without parents present and some mentally ill. How many people know anything about what is onboard an ambulance? No one is in a position to object to my shoving a CombiTube down his throat (basic blind intubation) to make it easier to breathe for him, so why would the same patient have an objection to a paramedic (who has more training then an EMT) replacing the blood that he lost?
Actually, that is exactly what I meant. As an EMT I am required to know the law. People's lives were saved in these informed consent trials. The people who really need this stuff are in no position to sign anything. It is designed for people who will die without it, so what's the problem?
But make sure that the mechanics don't get involved. This isn't a truck after all.
I think it wrapped again, seeing as the post went from +3 to +2 to +5.
Polyheme is an artificial blood that is in the final stages of field testing in the USA. Taken together, these two technologies promise to significantly reduce deaths caused by trauma on the battlefields and highways.
Nonsense! There is nothing wrong linking linking as often as Wikipedia does
One of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "Well Mr. President, the way I see it we have two options. On one hand we can replace the boosters with new ones, but that is both dangerous and extremely expensive. On the other hand, we can start a nuclear war by August 17th when they expire."
I'll just have to turn my monitor upside down! Oh crap, I'm using a laptop.
I recomend the Palm Lifedrive. It is designed to browse the Internet out of the box and comes with a mini office suite. It has a built in hard drive and accepts memory cards. I take mine everywhere with me and I even use an optional keyboard to write papers on it. (In case you can't tell, I am a big fan of Palm.)
"I have to give it to ICANN. The group tried to help VeriSign to save face by asking it to voluntarily remove the service when the first request could have easily been an order and not a request. Rather than take that opportunity, VeriSign rejected ICANN's request."
ICANN took the action that had to be taken in a gradual manner that it thought was fair to Verisign. After the latter party refused to comply, they fixed the situation with an order. It should never have happened in the first place, but ICANN did everything they could have to fix the situation.
Here's another plausible scenario: Let's say that the Chinese anger us (maybe by shooting down one of our spyplanes for argument's sake). They would be powerless to stop us from controlling all of the information entering the country and forbidding certain words from being searched... Oh wait.
Other than theory, you are able to cite only one example of something with which you disagree. I am a Republican and supporter of the Bush administration, but even I can find more than one problem in virtually every part of government! One scandel isn't bad by federal government standards, and I think that other countries would have had made least one objectionable action by now had they been in charge.
Ancient wisdom: float like a penguin, sting like a penguin that has a stinger.
That should be the motto of all patriotic people. So simply stated yet so true. I have yet to read a convincing account of what problems exist solely because of US control over some aspects of the Internet.
A lot of science is not done for any specific practical outcome. It is done for science's sake. When science's sake also happens to be cool, more power to it!
I have always been a big fan or forums (fora?) as I imagine most /.ers also are. When I am playing just about any game ever made, I have been able to find help online. I fail to see what these coaches do that a player's friends cannot. Oh wait... friends?
That's my point from the GP. Without sysadmins around, everything would burn to the ground even without the senseless Office Space allusion. You certainly deserve a hearty celebration of the newfound holiday!
I completely agree that it is good to build equity. If you have $15,000 left on a $20,000 mortgage and need money, you can sell the house. Even if you take a little loss you get a whole lot more money back than you would from an apartment. You will get around $5,000 cash to spend on whatever emergency needs attending, whereas you would get exactly $0 (plus security deposit) from an apartment.
In order to show how underappreciated they are, I think sysadmins should just go party instead of coming into the office on Friday. When thousands of dollars go missing and the building burns to the ground, they won't be to blame (and Milton will get away again).
I have been known to load songs onto a Memory card and use them on multiple devices. I am very glad that Sony has upgraded its multimedia abilities so that PSP users no longer have to use arcane naming and specific folders. I do not like any device that forces such burdans on the end user. I have far too many songs to have to put them in a specific way.
I doubt that it will stagnate the state of the art, and Java is regarded as the highest authority in Java. I am surprised to see how many Java fans there are here on /. considering the flames I have gotten in the past when I write about how cool Java is.
I agree with what you are saying, but realize the amount of trust that we are given Google. I for one trust their "Don't be evil" motto, but it would be a breach of public faith to start meddling with search results too much.
In other news, GP is in the running for most modded post ever. From 1 to -1 all the way up to +3.