England (where I live) has unlimited telephone calls, full cable TV, and uncapped, unlimited cable Internet access for between £30-£40 per month*. High speed Internet is common here, and I don't know anyone (not even grandparents) who has dialup anymore.
* That's with NTL if anyone is curious. the between amount depends on sports channels and stuff.
Saying "Third grade rules of grammar and spelling should be observed in summaries.", immediately followed by "Storys should be assigned to the category they belong to." is a tad hypocritical don't you think?
"project management" sounds suspiciously unnecessary... A buzzterm invented to sell an application we've never had a need for before computers came along.
God forbid they'd have to rely on their own wits in the event of failure! Imagine what would have happened to the American revolutionaries in the War of Independence if the GPS had failed!
Yeah, that's what we need! I mean one country (England) in Europe only invented the steam engine, locomotive, 3-piece suit, vaccination, lead crystal, television, radio, the telephone, hovercraft, and both the internal combustion and the jet engine.
We paid for the research, and the development of all of these...
The generated keycode is only valid for 30 seconds. I doubt phishers will be monitoring the responses in real time, or are fast enough for the code not to expire.
As far as I can see, the Internet is more 'foreign' than American. If the rest of the world removed the USA from the equation, would anyone really miss it? Everything important is international anyway, like Google and whatnot. The world can survive without the US, but not vice-versa I think.
Not flamebait or trolling, just thinking out loud.
What we are talking about is control of the servers that govern the way the internet works
No, we're talking about control of the servers that assign human-friendly names to machine-friendly numbers. Hardly the sole foundation of the Internet.
and I don't want some Chinese beaurocrat having the power to affect what web pages (for example) I can see in the US (which becomes a possibility as soon as they are running their own root server)
And I don't want some American beaurocrat having that exact same power. All you need to do if China wants to stop you accessing certain names, is grab it from a different root server. Currently we don't seem to have much of a choice in the matter.
All this scare-mongering over China censoring the world is pure nonsense. I've never heard, not once, of them trying to inflict their censorship on anyone else.
1. The issue of contention seems to be the DNS roots, not the entirity of the Internet. It is an integral part, but by no means the only part.
2. As for the "America paid for the Internet" argument we hear often, they only paid for their own part of it. I'm quite sure they didn't nip over to England to lay cables, or Australia, or Japan.
3. As for "America invented the Internet", sure Americans came up with some key parts of the Internet. However a lot of it is International in nature. The WWW, arguably the most visible part of the Internet, is a European creation.
However, I don't think central control is a good idea. Wasn't the Internet built around the concept of redundancy? Why don't we have a root server in each major country? England, USA, Japan, China, Australia, Israel, Russia? And so on... Having one nation control most of the DNS roots seems a bad idea in the end, especially considering the slippery slope the USA is becoming in terms of privacy and control issues.
This is not a troll against the USA by any means though, I'm just saying that keeping control of a fundamental worldwide technology/system is a bit silly.
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The same technology they use to automagically send me to google.co.uk when I hit google.com.
Read what you wrote again. cycling on the motorway.
Just shows how terribly laid out the USA is. Is there a particular reason that everywhere is miles and miles apart?
England (where I live) has unlimited telephone calls, full cable TV, and uncapped, unlimited cable Internet access for between £30-£40 per month*. High speed Internet is common here, and I don't know anyone (not even grandparents) who has dialup anymore.
* That's with NTL if anyone is curious. the between amount depends on sports channels and stuff.
The summary states Microsoft has lost a unique asset, not sales of some generic product.
Saying "Third grade rules of grammar and spelling should be observed in summaries.", immediately followed by " Storys should be assigned to the category they belong to." is a tad hypocritical don't you think?
If Sony released the PS3 on the 31st of October?
I know it's almost certainly not going to happen, but we can dream.
Also, why is it FUD if it's MS, and rumours if it's anyone else?
"project management" sounds suspiciously unnecessary... A buzzterm invented to sell an application we've never had a need for before computers came along.
From a laymen's perspetive this seems a lot like Y2K in terms of the scope of changes required.
And, to the layman, that turned out to be a big heap of no problem.
Fortunately, hospital pillows have plastic covers and so are unlikely to cause problems, ..."
Possible side effects include suffocation.
God forbid they'd have to rely on their own wits in the event of failure! Imagine what would have happened to the American revolutionaries in the War of Independence if the GPS had failed!
Oh, wait...
Yeah, that's what we need! I mean one country (England) in Europe only invented the steam engine, locomotive, 3-piece suit, vaccination, lead crystal, television, radio, the telephone, hovercraft, and both the internal combustion and the jet engine.
We paid for the research, and the development of all of these...
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Fine screw you, we'll build our own GPS/DNS system! with blackjack! and hookers!
in fact, forget the system!
Yeah, McDonalds sent the Africans 100,000 straws with the food.
The Africans sent a letter back saying "thanks for the leg warmers!"
*runs away*
How can someone spell Tetris wrong three times in a row?!
But don't you think that if windows code was open sourced that eventually all the leaks would be patched??
Well Linux has been free and open for the past 14 years, and it is still getting flaws patched now.
The generated keycode is only valid for 30 seconds. I doubt phishers will be monitoring the responses in real time, or are fast enough for the code not to expire.
As far as I can see, the Internet is more 'foreign' than American. If the rest of the world removed the USA from the equation, would anyone really miss it? Everything important is international anyway, like Google and whatnot. The world can survive without the US, but not vice-versa I think.
Not flamebait or trolling, just thinking out loud.
it's about other countries implementing some sort of content control.
It's only DNS. It has nothing to do with the content. And countries have been filtering and censoring just fine without global control of DNS so far.
The "primary Internet" is full of shit. The content won't be split asunder, only the naming system.
I don't care if I go to "www.google.com" or "google.eu" or "google.goatse", as long as I can get there.
This latest build includes some major revamping of Windows Media Player, including a smart interface.
This smart interface seems, from the images, to be a simplification and cruft-removal exercise. A good idea, I feel.
Also, notice the place where the Avatar should be in MSN:
To see this dynamic display picture, you need the latest version of Macromedia flash player
*shudder*
I have no doubt that there were plenty of dumb or naive kids that made lots of stupid choices and had to face unpleasant consequences.
That's the crux of the issue, most rarely face the consequences, or are even aware of potential ones.
What we are talking about is control of the servers that govern the way the internet works
No, we're talking about control of the servers that assign human-friendly names to machine-friendly numbers. Hardly the sole foundation of the Internet.
and I don't want some Chinese beaurocrat having the power to affect what web pages (for example) I can see in the US (which becomes a possibility as soon as they are running their own root server)
And I don't want some American beaurocrat having that exact same power. All you need to do if China wants to stop you accessing certain names, is grab it from a different root server. Currently we don't seem to have much of a choice in the matter.
All this scare-mongering over China censoring the world is pure nonsense. I've never heard, not once, of them trying to inflict their censorship on anyone else.
1. The issue of contention seems to be the DNS roots, not the entirity of the Internet. It is an integral part, but by no means the only part.
2. As for the "America paid for the Internet" argument we hear often, they only paid for their own part of it. I'm quite sure they didn't nip over to England to lay cables, or Australia, or Japan.
3. As for "America invented the Internet", sure Americans came up with some key parts of the Internet. However a lot of it is International in nature. The WWW, arguably the most visible part of the Internet, is a European creation.
However, I don't think central control is a good idea. Wasn't the Internet built around the concept of redundancy? Why don't we have a root server in each major country? England, USA, Japan, China, Australia, Israel, Russia? And so on... Having one nation control most of the DNS roots seems a bad idea in the end, especially considering the slippery slope the USA is becoming in terms of privacy and control issues.
This is not a troll against the USA by any means though, I'm just saying that keeping control of a fundamental worldwide technology/system is a bit silly.
8. Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.
I don't see how a wiretap could be covered by that? Sure, if you want to dice semantics you can say that they are "searching" your conversation?