Yeah, this makes a lot of sense. Let's sue VeriSign because someone thinks the management of.com was not bid out properly. VeriSign didn't control the bid process, they participated. So CFIT should really be suing ICANN, since they're the ones who control the process. But ICANN doesn't have much money.
And on what basis do you think the price should be going down? The price has gone up for the last 2 years, but that's still only a total of 14% over the last 10 years. And not only that, the increase has only be a total of $0.86, which is even less significant when you compare it to the price of a registration (given that we ignore the folks who use domain registrations as a loss leader for other products).
The price of compute power may be going down, but the number of registrations and queries is only going up. In addition, the attacks on the infrastructure are only increasing and getting more sophisticated. And you can't ignore inflation as well. So why should the price of domains go down when the price of most other things go up over time?
I registered my own domain about 4 years ago so I'd never have to change my email address again; it happens to be a.net. Now I face what amounts to a retroactive price hike.
Speaking of nothing practical to add...
How is this retroactive? You're not being asked to pay more for the last 4 years you were registered. You can lock in prices now with a longer term contract. You sign a 1 year contract every year for a.net domain, and lock in the price for that year. It's just like cell phone service, cable TV (really, more monthly), and every other service you get provided.
Show me where you were ever guaranteed that your prices would stay the same, and then you can start complaining. Or heck, wait until VeriSign actually decides to raise prices. Right now it's just ICANN saying that they can. Chances are, if they do raise the prices they'll just raise them to $6 per domain per year, like the.com domains. And since most registrars currently charge you the same fee for.com and.net, you're actually getting "screwed" now.
AOL until recently had Carl Hutzler, one of the most respected names in anti-spam, who has turned AOL around and made them one of the leaders in anti-spam, from outbound port 25 blocking to SPF.
Don't credit things to people if they didn't do them. Carl wasn't responsible for outbound port 25 tagging/filtering/blocking. I know that for an absolutely certainty. And while Carl may have done a lot of anti-spam work, the outbound port 25 work is what dropped AOL from one of the top 5 spammers to not even on the list of the top 50 as soon as it was implemented (according to SpamCop, at the time).
This might be an interesting comment, if it was anywhere close to accurate. Google is a registrar, not a registry. Network Solutions is a registrar (and, of course, no longer part of VeriSign). VeriSign is a registry, not a registrar.
As a customer, you never deal directly with VeriSign anymore. However, the registrar you use does (if it's a com/net/cc/tv/etc. domain that VeriSign is the registry for), whether that's Gandi, GoDaddy, Register.com, or Google. Google isn't going to change that. Every time you register a com/net domain, you pay the registrar you picked, and that registrar pays VeriSign $6/year.
Additionally, Google being a registrar doesn't mean they're hosting a root nameserver of any sort. In fact, it probably assures they won't, for conflict of interests reasons.
Well, let's see. He beat all the records (64 days on a game show was one. Just over 2 million was another one) that he had wanted to beat (he's talked about it). He had talked with his family about stepping down at some point (I was talking with his dad about this around 1.5mil somewhere). And he likes round sums of money (2.5 mil is about as round as it's going to get, unless he went to 3).
He was tired at game 55. Personally, I think he threw this game. For almost the entire Jeopardy round he seemed to be ringing in slow. Like he was trying to allow the other players to ring in first. But they weren't doing it. Some of the answers, like Bastogne (a Daily Double), I don't believe he didn't know.
And I have an extremely hard time believing he didn't know that Final Jeopardy answer. FedEx doesn't have 70k seasonal employees. If FedEx has a "seasonal" time of year, it would be around Christmas and wouldn't last 4 months. And FedEx employees, at least the ones who would be seasonal (package handlers, drivers, etc.), are not white collar. And everyone that I gave the question to today immediately came up with the right answer.
I just don't buy it. I mean, I don't blame him for wanting to get out. But he also could have just said "I don't want to play tomorrow", and walked away. The rules allow for that.
Microsoft was responsible for the software that runs on the Dish Network Dishplayer (7200-series). And they sucked at it too. The thing crashed constantly. At least now that Dish is responsible for the software directly, it works a little better, but they're still dealing with the horrible base that MS laid.
Yeah, I'm not buying it. Digging back, we find that Allerca claims to be owned by Geneticas. If we check out the other "companies" under that umbrella, we'll find Genequus, who claim to do horse cell banking and cloning. Yes, that's right. They'll sell you a clone of your horse for $100k. Discounts for 10 or more.
Another one, LifeARK, claims to be doing cell banking for endangered animals. They want donations, and they accept them through PayPal. Don't think so. A large company that was doing such work wouldn't deal with PayPal's onerous agreement and high fees. Especially not if their other divisions were dealing with large sums of money already.
ForeverPet does cell banking for companion pets. But they can't yet clone them. But another division can clone horses? Yeah, right.
Because the interior construction of the thing isn't a matter of a subjective experience. Using solder joints to secure one circuit board to another is bad construction.
I'm glad your jukebox works. Given what I know of the interior of these things, I would consider you lucky.
Personally, I will never buy another piece of equipment made by Archos. I had to take apart one of their Jukebox Recorders to try and get it to function at all. I discovered that the 4 circuit boards inside (which pretty much make up the entirety of the interior, and what the outer casing attaches to) are all held together with solder joints. As in they have attached the circuit boards to each other using solder. In addition, the battery contacts are on circuit boards at either end of the main boards. So when you put the batteries in, the pressure of the springs puts stress on the solder joints that hold the thing together.
Needless to say, I was not able to revive this piece of crap.
This makes the third time in the last 2 years that Vonage has dropped their rates by $5 a month. We signed up at $40 a month, and it was a good deal then. At $25 a month it's pretty amazing.
Quality is good. You do have to keep an eye on what your upstream bandwidth is (we're at 128 kbps, and given that that's not guaranteed, I think we're pushing it a little at times), but a QoS router will take care of that nicely.
So AOL's extending the system that they use for all internal AOL logins to the general public. Big deal. They never implemented the internal system correctly to start with, which reduced the effectiveness by quite a bit.
When you're using a SecurID, you're supposed to enter in the number displayed by the device and a PIN number. So if the device displays 12345 and your pin is 6789, you would enter 123456789 at the prompt to authenticate. The point of this is that it combines something you have and something you know. Now, of course AOL will say that they already have you entering something you know, in the form of your normal password.
But the other benefit of the SecurID setup is that if you increment (or decrement. I can never remember, since AOL never did it correctly) the PIN number by one when you enter it in, the authentication server will set off an alarm that says you're logging in under duress. Especially considering how much sensitive internal AOL employees have access to when they log in (of course, it varies based on what you need to have access to).
How many of you want to bet that AOL users start writing their password on a small slip of paper and taping it to the back of the SecurID?
I agree with you 100% here, and it's the same thing I've been saying for a while now. And add the fact that even if, by some fluke, a third party candidate managed to get elected president, they'd never be able to get anything done. This is not a dictatorship (current evidence to the contrary), and the president can't just do whatever they want without the support of Congress. Change starts at the local level, and works up.
Unfortunately, until the third parties realize this, and realize that they're not going to do any good in the presidential race and the present time, they're going to continue to be seen by the majority as spoilers or kooks at best. I may agree with a lot of what Mr. Badnarik says, but I'm not going to even consider voting for him, or one of his third party competitors. Our electoral system is not structured such that I can vote that way without throwing away that vote (and yes, regardless of what he says, it is throwing away a vote). So I'll vote for one of the two big party candidates, the one that I agree with more, and continue to look for some change on the local level.
Yeah, I actually sat next to Ken's father at a taping in LA recently, and that was the first time he had gone to see Ken (later than the currently airing episodes). Him and his wife had been harassing Ken asking him if they were ever going to get to see a taping.
By the way, really nice people. We got to talk for a bit.
Automatic upgrades from an uncontrolled source are the last thing you want to do in a production environment. Set a standard image, then when updates come along, evaluate them in a test environment, then distribute exactly those updates to the production systems.
Stick to standards, and things you can duplicate exactly, or you're asking for a world of trouble.
Not really. The top of the page is an XM PCR at xmfanstore.com, and I'm not seeing other sellers of the actual hardware on there. If you bothered to read the article, you'd know that XMFanStore said that they ordered a bunch of PCRs from XM back on the 18th, and the order did not get filled and they were told that it was being discontinued.
There are only a handful of authorized resellers for the PCR. Doesn't mean there aren't other people selling them, but you won't be getting them from XMFanStore.
My idea is that Slashdot editors should have to submit their own stories anonymously, and let them be reviewed and approved/denied by the other editors.
Once again, we have someone comparing Windows with RedHat, while not taking into account that RedHat is comprised of many many additional applications that don't have equivalents in the Windows install. Not to mention many server applications (Apache, bind, sendmail, rsync, etc.) that enable the remote access that many of the security vulnerabilities use. I would wager that OS X is in a similar situation (when compared with Windows).
Let's have one of these companies do a real test. Where they take a Windows install, and then a RedHat (or SuSE) install crafted to match it as closely as possible. No servers, Mozilla installed on the Linux system. Just the basics. Then count the vulnerabilities. It will tell a much different story.
I guess he hasn't been talking to his COO lately, considering that just yesterday we were reading that Sun says that hardware will be free. So if Sun's hardware is going to be free, and their OS is going to be free, where do I sign up?
Nope. Still not going to buy it. Lucas should take a cue from Spielberg (with ET). Release a big box set that includes both the "special edition" and original releases. Then you might get my attention.
Until then, I'll get by with my laserdisc versions of the originals.
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Yeah, this makes a lot of sense. Let's sue VeriSign because someone thinks the management of .com was not bid out properly. VeriSign didn't control the bid process, they participated. So CFIT should really be suing ICANN, since they're the ones who control the process. But ICANN doesn't have much money.
Makes you question motivations.
-Todd
And on what basis do you think the price should be going down? The price has gone up for the last 2 years, but that's still only a total of 14% over the last 10 years. And not only that, the increase has only be a total of $0.86, which is even less significant when you compare it to the price of a registration (given that we ignore the folks who use domain registrations as a loss leader for other products).
The price of compute power may be going down, but the number of registrations and queries is only going up. In addition, the attacks on the infrastructure are only increasing and getting more sophisticated. And you can't ignore inflation as well. So why should the price of domains go down when the price of most other things go up over time?
-Todd
I registered my own domain about 4 years ago so I'd never have to change my email address again; it happens to be a .net. Now I face what amounts to a retroactive price hike.
.net domain, and lock in the price for that year. It's just like cell phone service, cable TV (really, more monthly), and every other service you get provided.
.com domains. And since most registrars currently charge you the same fee for .com and .net, you're actually getting "screwed" now.
Speaking of nothing practical to add...
How is this retroactive? You're not being asked to pay more for the last 4 years you were registered. You can lock in prices now with a longer term contract. You sign a 1 year contract every year for a
Show me where you were ever guaranteed that your prices would stay the same, and then you can start complaining. Or heck, wait until VeriSign actually decides to raise prices. Right now it's just ICANN saying that they can. Chances are, if they do raise the prices they'll just raise them to $6 per domain per year, like the
-Todd
AOL until recently had Carl Hutzler, one of the most respected names in anti-spam, who has turned AOL around and made them one of the leaders in anti-spam, from outbound port 25 blocking to SPF.
Don't credit things to people if they didn't do them. Carl wasn't responsible for outbound port 25 tagging/filtering/blocking. I know that for an absolutely certainty. And while Carl may have done a lot of anti-spam work, the outbound port 25 work is what dropped AOL from one of the top 5 spammers to not even on the list of the top 50 as soon as it was implemented (according to SpamCop, at the time).
-Todd
For the com/net registry, this is correct. That probably doesn't apply to other, less regulated registries, like CC or TV.
-Todd
This might be an interesting comment, if it was anywhere close to accurate. Google is a registrar, not a registry. Network Solutions is a registrar (and, of course, no longer part of VeriSign). VeriSign is a registry, not a registrar.
As a customer, you never deal directly with VeriSign anymore. However, the registrar you use does (if it's a com/net/cc/tv/etc. domain that VeriSign is the registry for), whether that's Gandi, GoDaddy, Register.com, or Google. Google isn't going to change that. Every time you register a com/net domain, you pay the registrar you picked, and that registrar pays VeriSign $6/year.
Additionally, Google being a registrar doesn't mean they're hosting a root nameserver of any sort. In fact, it probably assures they won't, for conflict of interests reasons.
-Todd
VeriSign is not a registrar. VeriSign is a registry. You don't deal with VeriSign. You deal with someone (a registrar) who deals with VeriSign.
-Todd
Opportunity is going to get over there and get
"Hey! Little help over here? Can you just kick that back over this way? Say, you play goalie?"
-Todd
Well, let's see. He beat all the records (64 days on a game show was one. Just over 2 million was another one) that he had wanted to beat (he's talked about it). He had talked with his family about stepping down at some point (I was talking with his dad about this around 1.5mil somewhere). And he likes round sums of money (2.5 mil is about as round as it's going to get, unless he went to 3).
He was tired at game 55. Personally, I think he threw this game. For almost the entire Jeopardy round he seemed to be ringing in slow. Like he was trying to allow the other players to ring in first. But they weren't doing it. Some of the answers, like Bastogne (a Daily Double), I don't believe he didn't know.
And I have an extremely hard time believing he didn't know that Final Jeopardy answer. FedEx doesn't have 70k seasonal employees. If FedEx has a "seasonal" time of year, it would be around Christmas and wouldn't last 4 months. And FedEx employees, at least the ones who would be seasonal (package handlers, drivers, etc.), are not white collar. And everyone that I gave the question to today immediately came up with the right answer.
I just don't buy it. I mean, I don't blame him for wanting to get out. But he also could have just said "I don't want to play tomorrow", and walked away. The rules allow for that.
-Todd
Microsoft was responsible for the software that runs on the Dish Network Dishplayer (7200-series). And they sucked at it too. The thing crashed constantly. At least now that Dish is responsible for the software directly, it works a little better, but they're still dealing with the horrible base that MS laid.
I don't think TiVO has a thing to worry about.
-Todd
Yeah, I'm not buying it. Digging back, we find that Allerca claims to be owned by Geneticas. If we check out the other "companies" under that umbrella, we'll find Genequus, who claim to do horse cell banking and cloning. Yes, that's right. They'll sell you a clone of your horse for $100k. Discounts for 10 or more.
Another one, LifeARK, claims to be doing cell banking for endangered animals. They want donations, and they accept them through PayPal. Don't think so. A large company that was doing such work wouldn't deal with PayPal's onerous agreement and high fees. Especially not if their other divisions were dealing with large sums of money already.
ForeverPet does cell banking for companion pets. But they can't yet clone them. But another division can clone horses? Yeah, right.
Because the interior construction of the thing isn't a matter of a subjective experience. Using solder joints to secure one circuit board to another is bad construction.
I'm glad your jukebox works. Given what I know of the interior of these things, I would consider you lucky.
-Todd
Personally, I will never buy another piece of equipment made by Archos. I had to take apart one of their Jukebox Recorders to try and get it to function at all. I discovered that the 4 circuit boards inside (which pretty much make up the entirety of the interior, and what the outer casing attaches to) are all held together with solder joints. As in they have attached the circuit boards to each other using solder. In addition, the battery contacts are on circuit boards at either end of the main boards. So when you put the batteries in, the pressure of the springs puts stress on the solder joints that hold the thing together.
Needless to say, I was not able to revive this piece of crap.
-Todd
This makes the third time in the last 2 years that Vonage has dropped their rates by $5 a month. We signed up at $40 a month, and it was a good deal then. At $25 a month it's pretty amazing.
Quality is good. You do have to keep an eye on what your upstream bandwidth is (we're at 128 kbps, and given that that's not guaranteed, I think we're pushing it a little at times), but a QoS router will take care of that nicely.
-Todd
So AOL's extending the system that they use for all internal AOL logins to the general public. Big deal. They never implemented the internal system correctly to start with, which reduced the effectiveness by quite a bit.
When you're using a SecurID, you're supposed to enter in the number displayed by the device and a PIN number. So if the device displays 12345 and your pin is 6789, you would enter 123456789 at the prompt to authenticate. The point of this is that it combines something you have and something you know. Now, of course AOL will say that they already have you entering something you know, in the form of your normal password.
But the other benefit of the SecurID setup is that if you increment (or decrement. I can never remember, since AOL never did it correctly) the PIN number by one when you enter it in, the authentication server will set off an alarm that says you're logging in under duress. Especially considering how much sensitive internal AOL employees have access to when they log in (of course, it varies based on what you need to have access to).
How many of you want to bet that AOL users start writing their password on a small slip of paper and taping it to the back of the SecurID?
-Todd
I agree with you 100% here, and it's the same thing I've been saying for a while now. And add the fact that even if, by some fluke, a third party candidate managed to get elected president, they'd never be able to get anything done. This is not a dictatorship (current evidence to the contrary), and the president can't just do whatever they want without the support of Congress. Change starts at the local level, and works up.
Unfortunately, until the third parties realize this, and realize that they're not going to do any good in the presidential race and the present time, they're going to continue to be seen by the majority as spoilers or kooks at best. I may agree with a lot of what Mr. Badnarik says, but I'm not going to even consider voting for him, or one of his third party competitors. Our electoral system is not structured such that I can vote that way without throwing away that vote (and yes, regardless of what he says, it is throwing away a vote). So I'll vote for one of the two big party candidates, the one that I agree with more, and continue to look for some change on the local level.
-Todd
Yeah, I actually sat next to Ken's father at a taping in LA recently, and that was the first time he had gone to see Ken (later than the currently airing episodes). Him and his wife had been harassing Ken asking him if they were ever going to get to see a taping.
By the way, really nice people. We got to talk for a bit.
-Todd
Automatic upgrades from an uncontrolled source are the last thing you want to do in a production environment. Set a standard image, then when updates come along, evaluate them in a test environment, then distribute exactly those updates to the production systems.
Stick to standards, and things you can duplicate exactly, or you're asking for a world of trouble.
-Todd
Not really. The top of the page is an XM PCR at xmfanstore.com, and I'm not seeing other sellers of the actual hardware on there. If you bothered to read the article, you'd know that XMFanStore said that they ordered a bunch of PCRs from XM back on the 18th, and the order did not get filled and they were told that it was being discontinued.
There are only a handful of authorized resellers for the PCR. Doesn't mean there aren't other people selling them, but you won't be getting them from XMFanStore.
-Todd
My idea is that Slashdot editors should have to submit their own stories anonymously, and let them be reviewed and approved/denied by the other editors.
-Todd
Yes. Just like the game preceeding the A.I. movie release. It's just a shame that the game was so much better than the movie.
Most of the people playing the game know it's a marketing gimmick. It doesn't make it any less fun to solve the puzzles, though.
-Todd
Yeah, unfortunately, it's been been done before.
Once again, we have someone comparing Windows with RedHat, while not taking into account that RedHat is comprised of many many additional applications that don't have equivalents in the Windows install. Not to mention many server applications (Apache, bind, sendmail, rsync, etc.) that enable the remote access that many of the security vulnerabilities use. I would wager that OS X is in a similar situation (when compared with Windows).
Let's have one of these companies do a real test. Where they take a Windows install, and then a RedHat (or SuSE) install crafted to match it as closely as possible. No servers, Mozilla installed on the Linux system. Just the basics. Then count the vulnerabilities. It will tell a much different story.
-Todd
I guess he hasn't been talking to his COO lately, considering that just yesterday we were reading that Sun says that hardware will be free. So if Sun's hardware is going to be free, and their OS is going to be free, where do I sign up?
-Todd
Nope. Still not going to buy it. Lucas should take a cue from Spielberg (with ET). Release a big box set that includes both the "special edition" and original releases. Then you might get my attention.
Until then, I'll get by with my laserdisc versions of the originals.
-Todd