You know, as a Tyco employee, it kinda burns me to see Tyco lumped in with the 'worst of the worst'. Unlike Enron and Worldcom, which were shutdown as a result by the Feds and removed from the NYSE, Tyco was never removed, and is still a living company.
Tyco did have a CEO, CFO, and Chief Counsel who did willingly break the rules, and Tyco took them to court (as an aside, Tyco demanded not only what they took, but the total cost of all the fraudulent programs and ALL salaries paid since they were hired).
Tyco has done a lot of work to turn themselves around. Sorry for the rant, but I had to get that off my chest.
Well, you might have a point... except that (I hope) you only get naked in the privacy of your own home. You disclose your identity in public. What's the problem with disclosing it to an officer of the law?
Why don't DNS servers have a list of correct top-level domains, in order to answer directly, without going to a root server?
How do you know your list of TLDs is correct? What if Elbonia splits into North Elbonia and Mudland, and they each want their own TLD? You need some way to check if a given TLD is valid or not, and root servers are there for that.
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You know, as a Tyco employee, it kinda burns me to see Tyco lumped in with the 'worst of the worst'. Unlike Enron and Worldcom, which were shutdown as a result by the Feds and removed from the NYSE, Tyco was never removed, and is still a living company.
Tyco did have a CEO, CFO, and Chief Counsel who did willingly break the rules, and Tyco took them to court (as an aside, Tyco demanded not only what they took, but the total cost of all the fraudulent programs and ALL salaries paid since they were hired).
Tyco has done a lot of work to turn themselves around. Sorry for the rant, but I had to get that off my chest.
Well, you might have a point... except that (I hope) you only get naked in the privacy of your own home. You disclose your identity in public. What's the problem with disclosing it to an officer of the law?
I agree. Besides, which would you rather: Darl hit by a .303 int the head in the street, or hit by something larger in the ass in jail?
Why don't DNS servers have a list of correct top-level domains, in order to answer directly, without going to a root server?
How do you know your list of TLDs is correct? What if Elbonia splits into North Elbonia and Mudland, and they each want their own TLD? You need some way to check if a given TLD is valid or not, and root servers are there for that.