he has a point, though; half-a-second times, say 50 billion messages would put him in jail for roughly 800 years.
Meanwhile, I suggest one better. jail him for average transmission time between SMTP server and user, and fine him for bandwidth costs.
Do some math now... call it 0.01 seconds per message, at about 100kB I presently pay $10/month for 1G of bandwidth/month at my host, making one spam cost 0.095 cents. That's 15 years and a fine of $47,500,000 for 50 billion spams. Seems appropriate...
You realize that ICANN doesn't even control all of the DNS servers. They control the "root" servers. That's about 16 or so computers for each TLD, which are considered "authoritative" by your ISP.
In fact, most ISPs, web hosts, etc have their own DNS servers, which will request, from time to time, information from the root servers.
Of course, you can set up your web server to decide who's authoritative and who's not. Create your own isolated internet if you care to. 'cept it's not isolated, really.
See, the IP addresses in your network are still publicly routable, as are the ip addresses outside of it routable by you. A user can just change their DNS server to a known DNS server other than yours and you're no longer isolated.
I'm thinking DNS should, instead, be a peer-to-peer thing. Look up websites like looking up usernames on Skype - by asking the guy next to you. Lots of fun anarchy would ensue from that, let me tell you.
You know, if we even need domain names. Dunno about you, but I do most of my searching from google. Why not handle the whole internet like a P2P? Get at pages via their hashes. You'd never be able to slashdot a page again, let me tell you.
Why on earth do these keep getting modded as funny? It's the same damn joke EVERY TIME. I'm pretty sure I remember it not being funny the third time... You know, once you're a wit, twice you're a half-wit. Geometric progression or worse.
Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of asshats saying "Yeah, I know ICANN doesn't do much. I still want my finger in it. After I've pulled it out of my asshole"
Ah, yes, the gentle busybody. See how it frolicks in the fields of politics, making far more noise than one would expect from their tiny bodies. Oh, and look there! A busybody attempting to insert its snout into a place where it doesn't belong, ostensibly to eat some of the luscious attention it deserves none of!
Yeah, these "ICANN is pwnx0red by the US government" people annoy me.
I mean, honestly, DNS is a flawed piece of shit that needs replaced, as does the body that conrols where DNS gets its naming from, but c'mon. The net's not going to DIE because ICANN sucks.
So, rather than allowing the price to drop due to age of machine, they start shipping the upgraded machine at the same cost, while denying those who just want the regular one the ability to choose a lower-cost machine.
And in the process, they've got their fans convinced they're doing 'em a favor.
Well, if it's written in Java, chances are that its extensions are too.
However, I have two problems with having a browser written in java: 1) It won't run on my 500Mhz Dell without making the internet feel like I'm slogging through stiff pudding. (No, Firefox doesn't; I'm running a highly tweaked Linux 2.6/Debian) 2) I don't want a JVM running every damn time I want to check my gMail. 3) Can you imagine a JVM interpreting javascript?? We're talking slow.
Here's a hint, guys: Discover the beauty of gcc+(wxWindows|GTK+) and build accordingly.
"Some songs should be $0.99 and some songs should be more."
And some should be much, much less. Like, for example, anything by Brittney Spears, Boy Bands, or rappers with a vocabulary under 20 words, should sell for, oh, I dunno, a 20 cent credit towards your iTunes account.
So what you're saying is... When I buy a CD, of that $18, $0.20 is going to the artist, and $15.80 is going to pay for advertisements, middle managers, and contract lawyers, whos only talent is to siphon money off a font of talent?
Rar. I'm not buying albums; I'm just going to shows.
Sure. Ballmer also made an ass of himself when talking about number of worldwide Linux client machines. "Sure, we lost the city of Munich, but... c'mooonn"
How about changing the meaning of corporation from "individual citizen entity mad of a group of people" to "group of individual people", thus stripping their constitutional rights. A corporation does not need a right to free speech; they control vast international communication networks. A corporation doesn't need to be protected against unreasonable search and seziure; if they're doing something wrong, I want to know. And a corporation should not be allowed to make campaign contributions - stripping their ability to control the nonmarket landscape would prevent the number of companies that get around antitrust rules, local regulations, and other such business impediments, leaving them purely subject to market pressures.
How about a Congress that's chosen by percentages; write down who you want to be in office at the ballot box, and anyone who's been written in is a member - with votes equal to the number of people who voted him in, and a pay package similarly disseminated; one dollar a year for each vote he got.
How about a House whose only purpose is to create laws by greater than two thirds majority, but a senate whos only purpose is to repeal them by greater than one third minority? Figure, if more than two thirds think it's a good idea, chances are it is; if more than a third of the people think its not, then they're probably right.
I could go on for hours about political ideas spoken and inspired by "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", and honestly believe that many of them are elegantly designed, if a little snarky.
Actually, he's being realistic; many people (espeicailly career congressmen) will completely ignore a sensible argument. Meanwhile, they might start to notice when they're suddenly getting no grass-roots support. Or when they've suddenly stopped getting contributions from a company that's lost customers because of being snubbed by a recently passed law.
"Vote with your Dollar" and all that. Best way to incite change.
Still, companies will also pull contributions because of a law that has snubbed their ability to rob their customers.
I propose that governments should work like churches; take donations to pay for their antisocial habit.
Government wouldn't need so much money if they weren't paying for one quarter of the workforce and an additional tenth of the country's population. Meanwhile, the income tax is technically unconstitutional, but, you know, that never seems to stop anything anymore.
On the other hand, /> <blockquote>According to Jarad Carleton, an IT industry analyst with Frost & Sullivan in Palo Alto, California, Macrovision's new software will be beneficial to Apple. "If a CD is protected with DRM technology that doesn't allow consumers to transfer the music on the CD to their Apple iPod, you end up with a lot of very dissatisfied customers," he told TechNewsWorld.</blockquote> Seems someone is listening. 'Course, that's from last year, and not a peep since. I'll bet Macrovision CDs still don't play in more advanced car CD players.
"Now, we need to understand that listening to music on your computer is an extra privilege. Normally people listen to music on their car or through their home stereos," said Kyyrä. "If you are a Linux or Mac user, you should consider purchasing a regular CD player."
This is tantamount to:
"Now we need to understand that, for computer users, owning physical media is an extra privelige - one that requires extra effort. Normally people listen to music via iTunes or on Hardware MP3 Players from files they've encoded from their CD collection. If you are a Linux user, since we're being assholes about it, we suggest you download our media illegally"
Actually, Phillips is angry but impotent about that. The MPAA is a bit more powerful than them, and they don't want to get caught in a legal battle over semantics.
Your card number is not transmitted from your card. With the inductance field, a challenge datum (randomly selected public key) is sent. In return, your data is encrypted by the card and returned to the scanner, which then decodes the data into a hash of your card info, which is then sent with the transaction request to the bank.
In other words, at no point does the cleartext of your card go through. Unlike with a magnetic stripe, where your card number is in cleartext and encoded (not encrypted) on the magstripe.
It's basically fraud protection. Prevent fraud by making the cards more difficult to duplicate.
That doesn't mean you can't just steal the card, but lets face it, the second you notice yours is missing, what do you do?
If you're not reporting it missing, you deserve thefted.
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he has a point, though; half-a-second times, say 50 billion messages would put him in jail for roughly 800 years.
Meanwhile, I suggest one better. jail him for average transmission time between SMTP server and user, and fine him for bandwidth costs.
Do some math now...
call it 0.01 seconds per message, at about 100kB
I presently pay $10/month for 1G of bandwidth/month at my host, making one spam cost 0.095 cents.
That's 15 years and a fine of $47,500,000 for 50 billion spams.
Seems appropriate...
"Yeah, cos you can't make a good product people can use without charging for it."
*sigh* moron CEO-types.
Yeah, I'm just waiting for:
Newspapers to come entirely in "ePaper" format, and popup ads to begin appearing.
Um...
Are you high?
You realize that ICANN doesn't even control all of the DNS servers. They control the "root" servers. That's about 16 or so computers for each TLD, which are considered "authoritative" by your ISP.
In fact, most ISPs, web hosts, etc have their own DNS servers, which will request, from time to time, information from the root servers.
Of course, you can set up your web server to decide who's authoritative and who's not. Create your own isolated internet if you care to. 'cept it's not isolated, really.
See, the IP addresses in your network are still publicly routable, as are the ip addresses outside of it routable by you. A user can just change their DNS server to a known DNS server other than yours and you're no longer isolated.
I'm thinking DNS should, instead, be a peer-to-peer thing. Look up websites like looking up usernames on Skype - by asking the guy next to you. Lots of fun anarchy would ensue from that, let me tell you.
You know, if we even need domain names. Dunno about you, but I do most of my searching from google. Why not handle the whole internet like a P2P? Get at pages via their hashes. You'd never be able to slashdot a page again, let me tell you.
Hmmm... Add on P2P-based domain naming system, and I'm in.
Why on earth do these keep getting modded as funny? It's the same damn joke EVERY TIME. I'm pretty sure I remember it not being funny the third time... You know, once you're a wit, twice you're a half-wit. Geometric progression or worse.
Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of asshats saying "Yeah, I know ICANN doesn't do much. I still want my finger in it. After I've pulled it out of my asshole"
Ah, yes, the gentle busybody. See how it frolicks in the fields of politics, making far more noise than one would expect from their tiny bodies. Oh, and look there! A busybody attempting to insert its snout into a place where it doesn't belong, ostensibly to eat some of the luscious attention it deserves none of!
Yeah, these "ICANN is pwnx0red by the US government" people annoy me.
I mean, honestly, DNS is a flawed piece of shit that needs replaced, as does the body that conrols where DNS gets its naming from, but c'mon. The net's not going to DIE because ICANN sucks.
Fearmongers.
So, rather than allowing the price to drop due to age of machine, they start shipping the upgraded machine at the same cost, while denying those who just want the regular one the ability to choose a lower-cost machine.
And in the process, they've got their fans convinced they're doing 'em a favor.
Well, if it's written in Java, chances are that its extensions are too.
However, I have two problems with having a browser written in java:
1) It won't run on my 500Mhz Dell without making the internet feel like I'm slogging through stiff pudding. (No, Firefox doesn't; I'm running a highly tweaked Linux 2.6/Debian)
2) I don't want a JVM running every damn time I want to check my gMail.
3) Can you imagine a JVM interpreting javascript?? We're talking slow.
Here's a hint, guys:
Discover the beauty of gcc+(wxWindows|GTK+) and build accordingly.
"Some songs should be $0.99 and some songs should be more."
And some should be much, much less. Like, for example, anything by Brittney Spears, Boy Bands, or rappers with a vocabulary under 20 words, should sell for, oh, I dunno, a 20 cent credit towards your iTunes account.
So what you're saying is... When I buy a CD, of that $18, $0.20 is going to the artist, and $15.80 is going to pay for advertisements, middle managers, and contract lawyers, whos only talent is to siphon money off a font of talent?
Rar. I'm not buying albums; I'm just going to shows.
Sure. Ballmer also made an ass of himself when talking about number of worldwide Linux client machines. "Sure, we lost the city of Munich, but... c'mooonn"
Yeah. Brazil, too, man.
Doot.
It's a standard computer, just with teensy hardware. It'll even boot from a USB device, like a CD ROM, for example.
Still, *covet*
Campaign finance reform has nothing to do with free speech. It has to do with money.
Blogs have nothing to do with money, they're to do with free speech. They're grass roots for the most part.
There ain't nothing wrong with grass roots.
How about changing the meaning of corporation from "individual citizen entity mad of a group of people" to "group of individual people", thus stripping their constitutional rights. A corporation does not need a right to free speech; they control vast international communication networks. A corporation doesn't need to be protected against unreasonable search and seziure; if they're doing something wrong, I want to know. And a corporation should not be allowed to make campaign contributions - stripping their ability to control the nonmarket landscape would prevent the number of companies that get around antitrust rules, local regulations, and other such business impediments, leaving them purely subject to market pressures.
Hm.
How about a Congress that's chosen by percentages; write down who you want to be in office at the ballot box, and anyone who's been written in is a member - with votes equal to the number of people who voted him in, and a pay package similarly disseminated; one dollar a year for each vote he got.
How about a House whose only purpose is to create laws by greater than two thirds majority, but a senate whos only purpose is to repeal them by greater than one third minority? Figure, if more than two thirds think it's a good idea, chances are it is; if more than a third of the people think its not, then they're probably right.
I could go on for hours about political ideas spoken and inspired by "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", and honestly believe that many of them are elegantly designed, if a little snarky.
Actually, he's being realistic; many people (espeicailly career congressmen) will completely ignore a sensible argument. Meanwhile, they might start to notice when they're suddenly getting no grass-roots support. Or when they've suddenly stopped getting contributions from a company that's lost customers because of being snubbed by a recently passed law.
"Vote with your Dollar" and all that. Best way to incite change.
Still, companies will also pull contributions because of a law that has snubbed their ability to rob their customers.
And regulators are answerable to no one. Go fig.
"Taxes are required for any functioning society."
Yeah, sure.
I propose that governments should work like churches; take donations to pay for their antisocial habit.
Government wouldn't need so much money if they weren't paying for one quarter of the workforce and an additional tenth of the country's population. Meanwhile, the income tax is technically unconstitutional, but, you know, that never seems to stop anything anymore.
On the other hand,/>
<blockquote>According to Jarad Carleton, an IT industry analyst with Frost & Sullivan in Palo Alto, California, Macrovision's new software will be beneficial to Apple. "If a CD is protected with DRM technology that doesn't allow consumers to transfer the music on the CD to their Apple iPod, you end up with a lot of very dissatisfied customers," he told TechNewsWorld.</blockquote>
Seems someone is listening.
'Course, that's from last year, and not a peep since. I'll bet Macrovision CDs still don't play in more advanced car CD players.
Idiots.
"Now, we need to understand that listening to music on your computer is an extra privilege. Normally people listen to music on their car or through their home stereos," said Kyyrä. "If you are a Linux or Mac user, you should consider purchasing a regular CD player."
This is tantamount to:
"Now we need to understand that, for computer users, owning physical media is an extra privelige - one that requires extra effort. Normally people listen to music via iTunes or on Hardware MP3 Players from files they've encoded from their CD collection. If you are a Linux user, since we're being assholes about it, we suggest you download our media illegally"
Actually, Phillips is angry but impotent about that. The MPAA is a bit more powerful than them, and they don't want to get caught in a legal battle over semantics.
They can already do that with credit cards.
Jeez. Somebody's been watching too much "Minority Report"
Better security.
Your card number is not transmitted from your card. With the inductance field, a challenge datum (randomly selected public key) is sent. In return, your data is encrypted by the card and returned to the scanner, which then decodes the data into a hash of your card info, which is then sent with the transaction request to the bank.
In other words, at no point does the cleartext of your card go through. Unlike with a magnetic stripe, where your card number is in cleartext and encoded (not encrypted) on the magstripe.
It's basically fraud protection. Prevent fraud by making the cards more difficult to duplicate.
That doesn't mean you can't just steal the card, but lets face it, the second you notice yours is missing, what do you do?
If you're not reporting it missing, you deserve thefted.
portable?
Hell, an RFID reader connected to a small parabolic dish to increase its range. You could be swiping peoples credit card from 100 yards.