We need a "wildcard" in the .com zone......
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If we had a wildcard, then all these lookups would resolve! Problem solved
Let's go ask Network Solutions to add a wildcard to.com.
[the above is a lame attempt at humor]
[or is it--tinfoil hats on -- could it be that NS is behind the article in an attempt to promote the "sitefinder" wildcard entry?]
Re:Is it really true - I don't think it's fully tr
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And I don't think DNS systems cache "does not exist" lookups, do they? So if an email refers to a non-existent domain 5 times, it could wind up with 5 different time-consuming failed lookups.
BIND certainly does cache NXDOMAIN ["does not exist"] for some period of time. I am not sure how long though.
BIND, at least, does negative caching. Surely this means the load on DNS servers due to looking up the non-existent spam domains is minimal.
Also, once the mail server has decided that a bounce reply is undeliverable (because of no DNS records), surely it is going to dump the email immediately, rather than continuning to attempt to deliver it?
So is this a case of SOME brain dead implementaions of DNS and mail servers, or a real problem for all?
Regardless, things don't look good for TiVo in the long term. Their hardware is a loss-leader that is entering the commodity realm,
No kidding! Just before Christmas, Tivo gave away several thousand units. My wife picked one up (after waiting in line for 3 hours). Downside: now we are paying the monthly subscription.
Did it ever occur to anyone that what this settlement offers is vouchers to purchase more M$ software.
Well, it might occur to you that the vouchers can only be redeemed for M$ software, but you would be wrong. From the Q&A:
Qualifying software includes any non-custom software offered by any software vendor for use on a desktop, laptop or tablet computer.
The qualifying computer hardware or software does not have to be a Microsoft product.
Speaking of attacking in every way possible, I'm surprised some group of "white hat hackers" hasn't come up with a DDOS spammer attack bot, kind of like the Lycos screensaver.
You have not looked at artists against 419, have you? It's not a bot, just a few web pages that continuously reload images from spammers' sites, but it seems to be effective.
Well,
I live in California and my city has installed traffic light cameras. I have not noticed any decrease in yellow light times and I have been here long enough that I would have noticed such a decrease even if it happened before installation of the cameras.
Also, your comment: "US is currently preparing for a completely different thing..." appears to show a massive lack of understanding of the nature of goverment in the US. THe US is preparing no such thing. Individual cities (and perhaps states) may be, but this is merely many entities operating simultaneously: it's not the "US".
On a more interesting note: in the UK, the in-car navigation systems warn drivers about speed cameras. Perhaps we need in-car navigation systems to warn about red-light cameras in the US.
Of course, most of the time I know I just need to unplug the modem for about 30 secs to 1 minute to let the memory clear itself, and then it will normally work
My experience with Comcast has not been so bad. I was experiencing problems with my modem suddenly stopping routing packets. It would do this perhaps several times a day, so the next time it went out, I logged onto their chat system to a support tech (I was at work). They confirmed that the modem was out, scheduled a service call (on Sunday). On Saturday, they tried to weasel out of coming (because my modem was responding), but when I pointed out that the problem was intermittent, they kept the appointment.
When the tech arrived, he diagnosed a weak signal, fixed the excessively tight curve on the cable in their box and since then, it has been rock solid. No need to occasionally power off the modem.
So, my guess is, if you have to power cycle your modem, there is actually somthing wrong with your hookup.
I reinstalled XP for my aunt who stopping using her pc, within minutes of being on the internet it was getting nailed. I couldn't even download patches.
It frustrated me and I know what I am doing.
Apparently you don't. XP has a built-in firewall. If you had enabled it before connecting to the Internet, your aunt's PC would not have been "nailed".
$600 for a 20gig ipod wouldn't sell in the US.. why does it in the UK?
Simple: because people are prepared to pay that price. Products generally retail at the price that will bring the most profit, increased prices will reduce the volume, but increase the gross profit. There is a optimum point somewhere and it would appear that for many electronics devices, it is higher in the UK.
There is also the factor that the UK price includes VAT (17%), while the US price does not include tax.
But once i thought about it, i'd rather verizon (et al.) worked cooporatively with city governments. City governments want city wide wifi, verizon could do it, add a few dollars here and there, wam bam
But the bill would seem to give Verizon far too much leverage in any negotiations, because it takes away alternatives from the city. In other words, what does this bill do to ensure Verzon will "work cooperatively"?
To make ana analogy, do you think your car repair bills would increase or decrease if your state government decided that your were no longer allowed to perform basic repairs to your own car?
Either way, they're demoing them at Linux Expo in February.
Demos are frequently not examples of final production units. It's pretty easy to knock up a demo without having everything in place to make the final product.
Cool idea, but why the large minimum order requirements
Perhaps becuase it is vapourware?
Could it be that the product does not exist yet, but the "supplier" figured out that it could be manufactured cost-effectively if there were a guaranteed build quantity of 100k units?
In the vote 4 years ago, counties controlled by Democrats reported artificially lowered votes for Bush.
Quoting from the report:
Essentially, net of other
effects, electronic voting had the greatest positive effect on change
in percent voting for Bush from 2000 to 2004 in
democratic counties.
Now, I don't know if my suggestion is correct, but the analysis in the rpoort appears to be predicated on an assumption that the 2000 vote count was accurate.
I couldn't say anything about that at the time, but now I can tell you that we paid them that license fee to expand our rights to the code," he said, referring to the February 2003 multi-million-dollar purchase of expanded Unix SVR4 license rights from the SCO Group
Doesn't this mean that TSG owes those license fees to Novell, since it was for expanded SVr4 rights?
If your car is older than 25 years or so, then it's a "classic" and you don't have to pass smog checks.
Not true. Until this year, if a car was 30 year old, then it qualified for exemption of smog checks. Now, what has happened is that the rolling thirty year exemption has been repealed (after being in force for only a very few years) and cars with model years '74 and earlier are exempt.
Qualification for the exemption is fixed -- it won't include model year '75 and earlier after Jan 2005.
Godfrey settled out of court with Demon (after a key part of Demon's defence was struck down) so nothing binding in terms of judgement took place in court.
IIRC, his 1994 case did result in a judgement, not a settlement. Furthermore, the later case against Demon Internet was rather different: it was against an ISP for not removing the libellous articles, both the 1994 and the case in the story were cases where the defendent was the person who authored the libelous articles.
Also, different juristictions. Godfrey took place in the UK.
What's your point? The story was about a case in Canada -- depending on where you live, that would also be a "different jurisdiction". Furthermore, don't Canadian courts take into account British decisions?
This will put an end to the malice claim in the copyright dispute, which should unravel the IBM case as well...
I'm sorry... insightful?
SCO's case is for slander of title. There is some chance that the judge might decide that SCO does not own the SysV copyrights, but this filing won't be the document that pursuades him so to do.
This document clearly spells out a lack of malice, since it shows that Novell's execs had a reason to believe that Novell still owns the SysV copyrights.
Furthermore, lack of SysV copyrights won't actually unravel SCO's mostly contract case, but it will advance IBM's counter claims.
Note that this isn't about transferring a domain from one owner to another. It's about transferring a domain from one registrar to another while keeping the same owner. Transfers of ownership come under different rules.
While you may be correct about the rules, registrars don't really have a way to tell if the request for transfer is actually coming from the owner, of if it is a transfer to a new owner, except by emailing the current owner -- in other words, practically, these rules apply to ownership changes also.
Taxation should be necessary, relevent, and funds garnered from it reused in related affairs. Take, for instance, gasoline tax. This is (should) used to build and maintain roads, an act directly related to the consumption of gasoline. It even makes sense. The more gasoline you buy, the more you are driving, and the more wear you put on the road. Similarly, the more you wear the road down, so too should you aid more in repairing same.
You are ignoring the other purpose of taxation: to discourage behaviours that society feels are harmful or should be limited. For example, many countries have vastly higher gasolene taxes, to discourage the use of private motor vehicles (and indirectly encourage the use of mass transportation).
In this case, however, it is very hard to see how a tax on VoIP would accomplish either goal. It's hard to see why VoIP should be discouraged and it is hard to see why VoIP is related to any local services - after all, I can take my VoIP phone to another country and keep the same number -- am I using local services if I am abroad (and my billing address is a PO box)?
In my view, one should be taxed (if at all) on the local connection: be that fiber, copper, coax, wireless or whatever. The taxes on that local connection should be put towards the local services. One should then be free to put whatever type of protocol one wants onto that local connection without different taxation for different protocols.
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If we had a wildcard, then all these lookups would resolve! Problem solved
.com.
Let's go ask Network Solutions to add a wildcard to
[the above is a lame attempt at humor]
[or is it--tinfoil hats on -- could it be that NS is behind the article in an attempt to promote the "sitefinder" wildcard entry?]
BIND certainly does cache NXDOMAIN ["does not exist"] for some period of time. I am not sure how long though.
BIND, at least, does negative caching. Surely this means the load on DNS servers due to looking up the non-existent spam domains is minimal.
Also, once the mail server has decided that a bounce reply is undeliverable (because of no DNS records), surely it is going to dump the email immediately, rather than continuning to attempt to deliver it?
So is this a case of SOME brain dead implementaions of DNS and mail servers, or a real problem for all?
You have not looked at artists against 419, have you? It's not a bot, just a few web pages that continuously reload images from spammers' sites, but it seems to be effective.
Well, I live in California and my city has installed traffic light cameras. I have not noticed any decrease in yellow light times and I have been here long enough that I would have noticed such a decrease even if it happened before installation of the cameras. Also, your comment: "US is currently preparing for a completely different thing ..." appears to show a massive lack of understanding of the nature of goverment in the US. THe US is preparing no such thing. Individual cities (and perhaps states) may be, but this is merely many entities operating simultaneously: it's not the "US".
On a more interesting note: in the UK, the in-car navigation systems warn drivers about speed cameras. Perhaps we need in-car navigation systems to warn about red-light cameras in the US.
My experience with Comcast has not been so bad. I was experiencing problems with my modem suddenly stopping routing packets. It would do this perhaps several times a day, so the next time it went out, I logged onto their chat system to a support tech (I was at work). They confirmed that the modem was out, scheduled a service call (on Sunday). On Saturday, they tried to weasel out of coming (because my modem was responding), but when I pointed out that the problem was intermittent, they kept the appointment.
When the tech arrived, he diagnosed a weak signal, fixed the excessively tight curve on the cable in their box and since then, it has been rock solid. No need to occasionally power off the modem.
So, my guess is, if you have to power cycle your modem, there is actually somthing wrong with your hookup.
Simple: because people are prepared to pay that price. Products generally retail at the price that will bring the most profit, increased prices will reduce the volume, but increase the gross profit. There is a optimum point somewhere and it would appear that for many electronics devices, it is higher in the UK.
There is also the factor that the UK price includes VAT (17%), while the US price does not include tax.
But the bill would seem to give Verizon far too much leverage in any negotiations, because it takes away alternatives from the city. In other words, what does this bill do to ensure Verzon will "work cooperatively"?
To make ana analogy, do you think your car repair bills would increase or decrease if your state government decided that your were no longer allowed to perform basic repairs to your own car?
Demos are frequently not examples of final production units. It's pretty easy to knock up a demo without having everything in place to make the final product.
Perhaps becuase it is vapourware?
Could it be that the product does not exist yet, but the "supplier" figured out that it could be manufactured cost-effectively if there were a guaranteed build quantity of 100k units?
Isn't this the same as the "Artists against 419" site is doing?
This is /. All you need to know about pivot tables is that they are a feature of a Microsoft tool.
In the vote 4 years ago, counties controlled by Democrats reported artificially lowered votes for Bush. Quoting from the report:
Now, I don't know if my suggestion is correct, but the analysis in the rpoort appears to be predicated on an assumption that the 2000 vote count was accurate.Qualification for the exemption is fixed -- it won't include model year '75 and earlier after Jan 2005.
Parents!
There have already been well publicised cases of families having to settle with the RIAA because of a child's filesharing activities.
I expect this will be promoted by the MPAA as a way for parents to ensure that their children don't get the family in trouble.
So how is this news?
I'm sorry ... insightful?
SCO's case is for slander of title. There is some chance that the judge might decide that SCO does not own the SysV copyrights, but this filing won't be the document that pursuades him so to do.
This document clearly spells out a lack of malice, since it shows that Novell's execs had a reason to believe that Novell still owns the SysV copyrights.
Furthermore, lack of SysV copyrights won't actually unravel SCO's mostly contract case, but it will advance IBM's counter claims.
In this case, however, it is very hard to see how a tax on VoIP would accomplish either goal. It's hard to see why VoIP should be discouraged and it is hard to see why VoIP is related to any local services - after all, I can take my VoIP phone to another country and keep the same number -- am I using local services if I am abroad (and my billing address is a PO box)?
In my view, one should be taxed (if at all) on the local connection: be that fiber, copper, coax, wireless or whatever. The taxes on that local connection should be put towards the local services. One should then be free to put whatever type of protocol one wants onto that local connection without different taxation for different protocols.