I'm still upset that.org isn't reserved for oranisations and not-for-profit groups anymore, that.net is being used by non network providers and.com is one of the only available TLDs for people to get personally.
What I believe we really need is to replace the domain name system with a keyword system; I know, I know, AOL comes to mind.
However, wouldn't: "person Michael Babcock" be a nice way to find the list of people who registered that "keyword domain"? How about "company Redhat" or something like "company [linux]" to get all names containing "Linux"?
DNS was designed, quite obviously, for a one-to-one relationship between companies/sites/individuals and names. This relationship can still be maintained using DNS, but superceded by maintained keyword indexes (as a dmoz extension?). There are many companies by certain names; apc.com wasn't held by American Power Conversion for a long time (who had to register apcc.com) because another company or group also has the initials APC. Name dispute resolution would still exist, but we wouldn't need to worry about telling someone they couldn't use a common word for their keyword name just because another company uses it as their trademark.
Implementation is another discussion, but I use Alexa's keyword system and Yahoo's indexes a lot more often than I use domain names to find companies and individuals.
Your SIG, "Keep current on the genocide perpetuated by the zionist israelis" doesn't exactly lead one to believe that you'd direct me to something neutral or with high journalistic integrity either.
The Jerusalem Post was mentioned only because it is a very large paper in the area and happens to cover the events from their perspective. The NYT covers events from an angle that the Globe and Mail (Canadian) wouldn't cover them from for that matter.
All news should be taken with an open and critical mind to some degree.
When is Slashdot going to be available on WAP anyway? Is it already? It hasn't come up on my phone when I've tried.
It would be nice to get the list of headlines and be able to select the headline I want to see the main story. Reading through comments could be more tedious, but doable with a little UI work.
WAP is a great way to check your E-mail on the road too, if you don't have a PDA to hook up to.
That is no different in my way than xns or passport; that data, once received by the remote site, is in their hands. You need a service contract _with them_, not with xns or passport unless you trust those entities to enforce the rules.
My suggestion was just to make that data available to the personal agent.
I was suggesting configuring personal agents on one's own devices to access encrypted data at these remote sites to then send themselves to the websites / services requiring that information.
Instead of having "ME visit ECOMM site, ECOMM site pass me to PASSPORT, PASSPORT log me into ECOMM site", it would be "ME visit ECOMM site, MY AGENT fetch data from STORAGE SITE, MY AGENT send data to ECOMM site."
Why not simply offer remote storage facilities that allow the storage of arbitrary encrypted data? Personal agents can then fetch that data using a username and password through, for example, LDAP. That data is decrypted on the user's computer (or cell, pda, etc.).
This can be a subscription service and storage prices and access speed would be the points of value for consumers. It also requires nothing from the subscriber except a way for them to pay (pre-paying even?) and a username+password combo.
We need to stop believing and perpetuating this myth that "Free Software" costs nothing. Free Software costs the people who write, debug and document it a lot of time and energy. Some of those people work many long hours on it and for some reason, you believe they don't deserve to be paid for it.
Wait, you don't believe that? Then if their hours are paid for, and those hours developped Free Software, then that Free Software cost somebody money -- in the long run, it will be you. I'd rather pay a Free Software developer directly (Paypal, etc.) for feature growth (as MySQL and ReiserFS offer, for starters) than just wait for VA Linux to think of a way to get that investment back out of me.
I'm probably never going to buy a VA Linux server, but I'd love to read Slashdot for a long time to come...
A lot of programmers seem to ignore that software should be resiliant to errors, especially those made by errors. That's why we have "rm -i" and "This document has changed, save changes?"
Those who are purists, I guess, think its up to the next person down the food chain to keep errors out of the way; I recently requested that the string functions in glibc which require a non-NULL value should return with an error when called with NULL instead of segmentation faulting. I was told this was non-spec and it would continue to crash if the programmer broke the rules.
Not everyone in the world who writes software has read the C specs. Not everyone who uses a spreadsheet even cares whether computers can be case sensitive or not. What benefit is there for functions in a spreadsheet being case sensitive anyway?
Do you actually have any stats to the contrary? My numbers show about 30% actually.
I've never had a 10/T segment with more than 5 computers active get any more than 2-3Mbps in backplane bandwidth.
With a switched hub, yes, you get full bandwidth between each port (assuming the hub has sufficient backplane bandwidth to deal with all the inter-port traffic), but with normal "old-fashioned" ethernet hubs, no, you don't.
As in, it happens to be current. Its also owned by Conrad Black, as I understand it, a bit of a media mogul in his own right, but not a completely partisan newspaper.
Anyone who thinks American journalism doesn't lie to them has issues.
Why do you make a distinction between capitalists and Christians? In much of the developing and muslim world they are one and the same.
Christian mores and values are part of the psyche of the foundations of America because of its roots in Europe and whether Christianity is or is not a dominant force in the world today does not change the fact that America's laws and fundamental freedoms often come from Christian sources -- well recognised facts by the rest of the world.
Don't forget that Bush is both -- a Christian and a very strong believer in Captialism.
The question I want congress to answer is why do they believe that mandatory restrictions on crypto software in the US or even in NATO countries would restrict the availability of current secure software in the hands of terrorists. Why does Congress believe that terrorists (or other major crime rings) will obey the new laws in the first place? They're criminals.
It should simply be required that you operate in a full-disclosure mode about patents you have or are seeking that are related to the issues in a working group you participate in. This should be part of the requirements of participating in the working group at all. In fact, I'm not sure that its not.
Don't forget that the media also requested that anyone with recorded phone conversations that may be relevant to please turn them into the police or the FBI.
They're not armed for the same reasons that guards in max security prisons aren't -- don't let them steal your gun and use it. A terrorist is more likely to be able to get a gun away from you than you are to be able shoot them.
Oh, and get the Japanese to help in their design so they're a little more structurally sound for unknown events;-). Japanese buildings often sway by several meters at the tops during earthquakes, etc.
I'm waiting for major US cities to become fortresses; as the US realises that they are no longer impenetrable, air defence systems and rapid-deployment strike systems will slowly become the norm for Washington, New York, SF, etc.
Missle-defence? Maybe... but we need a way to defend ourselves against people on the inside too.
Yes, we are in pain for humanity that this could happen at all. We are looking at the possible beginnings of war that touches us again. We do not want or need that.
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Some of the reasons I like using Python for my backend apps:
myfunc = foo.bar.stuff
myfunc(1)
myfunc(2)
I'd be interested in a JSP-like front-end to Python objects as well.
I'm still upset that .org isn't reserved for oranisations and not-for-profit groups anymore, that .net is being used by non network providers and .com is one of the only available TLDs for people to get personally.
What I believe we really need is to replace the domain name system with a keyword system; I know, I know, AOL comes to mind.
However, wouldn't: "person Michael Babcock" be a nice way to find the list of people who registered that "keyword domain"? How about "company Redhat" or something like "company [linux]" to get all names containing "Linux"?
DNS was designed, quite obviously, for a one-to-one relationship between companies/sites/individuals and names. This relationship can still be maintained using DNS, but superceded by maintained keyword indexes (as a dmoz extension?). There are many companies by certain names; apc.com wasn't held by American Power Conversion for a long time (who had to register apcc.com) because another company or group also has the initials APC. Name dispute resolution would still exist, but we wouldn't need to worry about telling someone they couldn't use a common word for their keyword name just because another company uses it as their trademark.
Implementation is another discussion, but I use Alexa's keyword system and Yahoo's indexes a lot more often than I use domain names to find companies and individuals.
Your SIG, "Keep current on the genocide perpetuated by the zionist israelis" doesn't exactly lead one to believe that you'd direct me to something neutral or with high journalistic integrity either.
The Jerusalem Post was mentioned only because it is a very large paper in the area and happens to cover the events from their perspective. The NYT covers events from an angle that the Globe and Mail (Canadian) wouldn't cover them from for that matter.
All news should be taken with an open and critical mind to some degree.
When is Slashdot going to be available on WAP anyway? Is it already? It hasn't come up on my phone when I've tried.
It would be nice to get the list of headlines and be able to select the headline I want to see the main story. Reading through comments could be more tedious, but doable with a little UI work.
WAP is a great way to check your E-mail on the road too, if you don't have a PDA to hook up to.
That is no different in my way than xns or passport; that data, once received by the remote site, is in their hands. You need a service contract _with them_, not with xns or passport unless you trust those entities to enforce the rules.
My suggestion was just to make that data available to the personal agent.
There is almost no need for a privacy contract when using strong crypto and deciding which data to pass along yourself.
I don't think you understood my point.
I was suggesting configuring personal agents on one's own devices to access encrypted data at these remote sites to then send themselves to the websites / services requiring that information.
Instead of having "ME visit ECOMM site, ECOMM site pass me to PASSPORT, PASSPORT log me into ECOMM site", it would be "ME visit ECOMM site, MY AGENT fetch data from STORAGE SITE, MY AGENT send data to ECOMM site."
Why not simply offer remote storage facilities that allow the storage of arbitrary encrypted data? Personal agents can then fetch that data using a username and password through, for example, LDAP. That data is decrypted on the user's computer (or cell, pda, etc.).
This can be a subscription service and storage prices and access speed would be the points of value for consumers. It also requires nothing from the subscriber except a way for them to pay (pre-paying even?) and a username+password combo.
No stats tracking by remote sites.
We need to stop believing and perpetuating this myth that "Free Software" costs nothing. Free Software costs the people who write, debug and document it a lot of time and energy. Some of those people work many long hours on it and for some reason, you believe they don't deserve to be paid for it.
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Wait, you don't believe that? Then if their hours are paid for, and those hours developped Free Software, then that Free Software cost somebody money -- in the long run, it will be you. I'd rather pay a Free Software developer directly (Paypal, etc.) for feature growth (as MySQL and ReiserFS offer, for starters) than just wait for VA Linux to think of a way to get that investment back out of me.
I'm probably never going to buy a VA Linux server, but I'd love to read Slashdot for a long time to come
A lot of programmers seem to ignore that software should be resiliant to errors, especially those made by errors. That's why we have "rm -i" and "This document has changed, save changes?"
Those who are purists, I guess, think its up to the next person down the food chain to keep errors out of the way; I recently requested that the string functions in glibc which require a non-NULL value should return with an error when called with NULL instead of segmentation faulting. I was told this was non-spec and it would continue to crash if the programmer broke the rules.
Not everyone in the world who writes software has read the C specs. Not everyone who uses a spreadsheet even cares whether computers can be case sensitive or not. What benefit is there for functions in a spreadsheet being case sensitive anyway?
Do you actually have any stats to the contrary? My numbers show about 30% actually.
I've never had a 10/T segment with more than 5 computers active get any more than 2-3Mbps in backplane bandwidth.
With a switched hub, yes, you get full bandwidth between each port (assuming the hub has sufficient backplane bandwidth to deal with all the inter-port traffic), but with normal "old-fashioned" ethernet hubs, no, you don't.
Go to MySQL's Homepage and read up on their replication system.
As in, it happens to be current. Its also owned by Conrad Black, as I understand it, a bit of a media mogul in his own right, but not a completely partisan newspaper.
Anyone who thinks American journalism doesn't lie to them has issues.
Why do you make a distinction between capitalists and Christians? In much of the developing and muslim world they are one and the same.
Christian mores and values are part of the psyche of the foundations of America because of its roots in Europe and whether Christianity is or is not a dominant force in the world today does not change the fact that America's laws and fundamental freedoms often come from Christian sources -- well recognised facts by the rest of the world.
Don't forget that Bush is both -- a Christian and a very strong believer in Captialism.
The question I want congress to answer is why do they believe that mandatory restrictions on crypto software in the US or even in NATO countries would restrict the availability of current secure software in the hands of terrorists. Why does Congress believe that terrorists (or other major crime rings) will obey the new laws in the first place? They're criminals.
It should simply be required that you operate in a full-disclosure mode about patents you have or are seeking that are related to the issues in a working group you participate in. This should be part of the requirements of participating in the working group at all. In fact, I'm not sure that its not.
As another poster posted, I'd go for capabilities and longevity instead; probably CD+RW.
This is one of the reasons I also regularly read the Jerusalem Post.
Don't forget that the media also requested that anyone with recorded phone conversations that may be relevant to please turn them into the police or the FBI.
They're not armed for the same reasons that guards in max security prisons aren't -- don't let them steal your gun and use it. A terrorist is more likely to be able to get a gun away from you than you are to be able shoot them.
Oh, and get the Japanese to help in their design so they're a little more structurally sound for unknown events ;-). Japanese buildings often sway by several meters at the tops during earthquakes, etc.
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I'm waiting for major US cities to become fortresses; as the US realises that they are no longer impenetrable, air defence systems and rapid-deployment strike systems will slowly become the norm for Washington, New York, SF, etc.
... but we need a way to defend ourselves against people on the inside too.
Missle-defence? Maybe
Yes, we are in pain for humanity that this could happen at all. We are looking at the possible beginnings of war that touches us again. We do not want or need that.
Just in case you're claiming that being allowed to bring guns to work or on a plane would have helped, how?