Do we really need more TLDs though? I don't think so. Many TLDs (such as.name and.info) have floundered horribly. The problem is exactly that corporate interests have consolidated to the point that a major player, such as AOL (as it did early on with.info) chooses to not recognize the TLD, it becomes ineffective.
The bottom line is we do not need any more TLDs. That's just a virtual "land grab" for registrars that has absolutely no benefit to the online community.
The suggestion that the generic TLDs should be administered by a non-profit organisation (with international representation, I would add) is entirely reasonable and seems like the Right Answer.
In theory it sounds good. However, in practice, I can't say I've ever come across a well-organized non-profit that wasn't constantly having to sacrifice its ideals to stay afloat, or wasn't teeming with epic ego-battles among the people involved.
I hate to admit it, but I think government agencies are traditionally better run and organized than the vast majority of non-profits.
I agree that the tech community has traditionally been averse to playing politics, and this is evidenced in many areas. Nowhere is this more poignant than in the issue of SPAM, which is now more of a political than a technical issue. The tech community needs to form a hardcore lobbying group to force the Federal Authorities to do their job and prioritize the prosecution of spammers and other groups who are stealing, breaking into and destroying resources. The ineffectiveness of anti-spam efforts nowadays is the perfect testimonial to the much-needed aggressive politicking the tech community needs to do to solve this problem.
On the other hand, the business community is also being too political and not technical enough. Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of businesses do not have secure networks and related policies and 99% of the larger operations are not fully-exploiting the technology available to them.
Likewise, the mainstream business community is excessively political and seems to have had the common sense, as well as technical insight, sucked out of a majority of their business models. The whole "dot bomb" implosion was the result of too many companies relying exclusively on hype and politics to drive their business model.
While the tech community can stand to be more political, I think the mainstream business community even more desperately needs to get technical.
Unlike IBM, virtually none of these software developers and hobbyists had access to enterprise-scale equipment and testing facilities for Linux development.
Oooh ooh, that's a hoot! All of us "hobbyist" computer programmers can't gain access to "enterprise scale" equipment. Has any decent programmer in the last 30 years really had any problem getting access to better resources? I don't think so.
Someone sent this to me in e-mail. It seems to sum up the issue nicely.
"We Live In Exciting Times"
I just heard that yet more funding is planned on being cut from NASA, the organization responsible for space flight, exploration and related technology.
All I can say is, "It's about time!"
Is all this NASA stuff really "science?" You people just don't get it.
Space is not the new frontier.
Creating new technology that can slice onions and potatoes into neat shapes, the ability to organize large quantities of neckties utilizing a single closet hanger, a hard taco wrapped inside a flour tortilla with ranch-flavored "Rio Grande Sauce", a new non-stick frying pan coating, penis enlargement vitamins, a chocolate-covered candy bar that will make you lose weight, a light beer "that doesn't taste like a light beer"... now THAT'S science! These amazing advancements immediately enhance the human condition(tm). But there's much more work to be done!
Why, why, why? Why do we insist on exploring the heavens when we have so many challenging frontiers upon us here in the real world? At least GW Bush agrees with me. It's time for the rest of the populace to take off their blue-blockers.
We live in an exciting time. I can't think of another time or place I'd rather be. While our parents and peers might have pondered the enigma of landing on the moon, we have much more pressing concerns: Will Richard get voted off of Survivor:All Stars? Is Michael Jackson going to jail for real this time? Will the seventh Harry Potter movie be as good as the sixth? What more can we learn about Janet Jackson's right breast? The Dukes of Hazzard is being made into a movie! Did you hear me? The DUKES OF HAZZARD! Will it be true to the original? We'll have to find out, but all I can say is, the anticipation is killing me!!
We've given a lot of "science" a try over the years. There's still no cure for cancer; clean-burning fuel technology isn't here; poverty and hunger continue to dominate regions and cultures. Surely after all this time, we should just admit that our resources need to be diverted to more immediate concerns that have the potential to reward us more quickly and efficiently?
Somewhere out there, a person still doesn't have the lowest interest rate on their fourth mortgage! In someone's backyard in Cleveland, there's a plant whose leaves may offer a slight reduction in hair loss among a small sampling of people in a clinical trial. And what are we doing? We're taking pictures of little spots of light millions of light years away. What's the point? If we still cannot produce a triple cheeseburger with "Swiss-flavored" cheese and "smoke-flavored" sauce for under 79 cents, something is wrong. Very wrong.
It's about time we got our priorities straight as Americans, the true superpower and leader of the free world and capital market.
We are wasting precious time and money staring into the heavens while other nations are rapidly approaching our advances in superior low-fat grilling technology. Somewhere out there, much closer than the moon or Mars, is the technology we need to make our clothes smell "winter fresh"; there's a new drink that's a cross between a Martini and Hawaiian Punch -- AND WE NEED TO FIND IT!
How much longer can we afford to spin our wheels with pointless interstellar pursuits when there are still movie scripts about rogue cops and cartoon characters that need to be green-lighted?
So we landed an RC car on Mars. Are you happy? Did we get any high-speed footage of this car in a chase sequence in which it flies into the air and explodes? No! What a total waste!
People, we need to get our priorities straight. Thank God for the Bush Administration!
Ok, ok, I do need to be fair to NASA. The organization did come up with the amazing "Contour Pillow(tm)", but I still sense that the NASA is being distracted with counterproductive ideals when an even more superior mattress technology is i
The effort calls for the agencies to send e-mail to owners of tens of thousands of servers, asking them to check their server configurations for possible open relays or open proxies. Operation
Secure Your Server will direct the owners to information on how to inexpensively check servers and close the openings.
"We're certain that a lot of people we're going to contact are not aware of the problem," says Don Blumenthal, coordinator of the FTC Internet Lab.
Immediately following the press conference, Mr. Blumenthal crawled back underneath his rock.
It's an inevitability that the e-mail system will move to a whitelist-based system. It's much more efficient than trying to blacklist 1000 times more IPs and constantly update client-based filtering systems, but it's going to be awhile before this happens because commercial interests will snow-job the public into paying them money for several more years before people realize this is pissing into the wind.
When spammers exploit open relays, they are violating numerous federal laws involving computer tampering and break-ins. Why is the FTC annoying network operators and not getting off their butts and enforcing the existing laws?
This is like sending out flyers telling children to not talk to strangers instead of going after the child molesters that are roving up and down the street in plain view every single day.
It's also worth noting that (via a tip *cough*) Bob Cringely exposed in Infoworld that Microsoft was running BSDI for their web servers in the mid 1990s.
This may be a goofy question that I should know, but is there an authoritative source for the root server list? How do you determine which is the most efficient root server for your area, aside from going through the list and doing traceroutes?
It's a matter of economics. If the information that NYT is holding hostage is worth me sacrificing anonyminity, then ok. However, I don't trust most of the major media to be responsible with the information they collect, be it partially-bogus or not, and nowhere can that be more evidenced than an examination of the information they actually publish.
I think it's a liability for the seller, but a windfall for the buyer. For example, I was searching for a rare item that was part of a series of collectables named after the "millennium". The seller had the product misspelled as "milennium" and had much fewer bids and I was able to pick it up for a fraction of its worth. I guess it depends upon whether you want the buyer or seller to be uneducated. The former works if you're trying to scam someone; the latter works if you're looking for a good deal.
With all due respect, I believe that C/C++ is more portable across more platforms than Java will ever be, not to mention it's more solid and efficient. This is further evidenced by more and more cross-platform libraries such as Qt. I recognize that a lot of new progammers jumped on the Java bandwagon because it was "the new thing" or was taught in college as a focal point of the compsi degree, but the truth is there aren't as many opportunities and possibilities with Java as C. Chances are as you're reading this, much of the software running on your machine was written in C/C++, and this language has always been relatively easy to port to other platforms -- it might not be the most elegant or user-friendly development environment, but it's still the way to go for serious applications.
The computer game industry is tremendously competitive. It's one field where probably for every opening, there are hundreds of applicants that would love such a position. You're on the right track thinking you need to really have a portfolio in order to get your foot in the door.
Unfortunately, the salaries for low and mid-level positions in the gaming industry arent terribly impressive, due in large part to there being no shortage of people who'd love to work in this field. Many companies, like Sony Online Entertainment pay pathetic wages, but unfortunately your best chance of getting a game design job is to start out as a grunt and work your way up. The first few years of which you might find yourself making a fraction of the money you could in other fields. I guess that's the price you pay for a very cool job.
Why run such an application under Windows in the first place? And building your own isn't very practical. Aside from the satisfaction of doing something from scratch, it's not very economical to roll your own. You can get a Tivo unit from DirectTV for $99 that works flawlessly - start with something solid and then mod it if you want, but I don't see much economic incentive to do this.
OTOH, I'm very happy with my Tivo. It's amazing how this dramatically changes the role of television in your life. If you don't have a PVR, get one, but you'll save a lot of money and time picking up a commercial unit than trying to build one from scratch.
The work this guy has done is amazing. Even if you aren't into these types of things, you cannot help but respect the tremendous attention to detail he has put into his work. If only most commercial programmers had the work ethic of this guy imagine the stability and performance of our software and other systems.
People seem to be preoccupied with who is right, when it seems obvious who is right. I'd be more concerned with:
o If they settle this case and it doesn't come to trial or get ruled upon
o If you have a portfolio, annuity or mutual fund with SCOX stock
Slashdot Mirror
Speaking of the Lisa, there's nothing like a computer that tells you it's not ready to be turned off after you hit the power button.
Wow. Maybe I'll release the source code for all the Shareware I distributed during that time as well. Anyone still using Turbo Pascal?
I guess the big winner in this issue are not the software developers, but the thrift stores.
Do we really need more TLDs though? I don't think so. Many TLDs (such as .name and .info) have floundered horribly. The problem is exactly that corporate interests have consolidated to the point that a major player, such as AOL (as it did early on with .info) chooses to not recognize the TLD, it becomes ineffective.
The bottom line is we do not need any more TLDs. That's just a virtual "land grab" for registrars that has absolutely no benefit to the online community.
Is the space station wheelchair accessible?
The suggestion that the generic TLDs should be administered by a non-profit organisation (with international representation, I would add) is entirely reasonable and seems like the Right Answer.
In theory it sounds good. However, in practice, I can't say I've ever come across a well-organized non-profit that wasn't constantly having to sacrifice its ideals to stay afloat, or wasn't teeming with epic ego-battles among the people involved.
I hate to admit it, but I think government agencies are traditionally better run and organized than the vast majority of non-profits.
I agree that the tech community has traditionally been averse to playing politics, and this is evidenced in many areas. Nowhere is this more poignant than in the issue of SPAM, which is now more of a political than a technical issue. The tech community needs to form a hardcore lobbying group to force the Federal Authorities to do their job and prioritize the prosecution of spammers and other groups who are stealing, breaking into and destroying resources. The ineffectiveness of anti-spam efforts nowadays is the perfect testimonial to the much-needed aggressive politicking the tech community needs to do to solve this problem.
On the other hand, the business community is also being too political and not technical enough. Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of businesses do not have secure networks and related policies and 99% of the larger operations are not fully-exploiting the technology available to them.
Likewise, the mainstream business community is excessively political and seems to have had the common sense, as well as technical insight, sucked out of a majority of their business models. The whole "dot bomb" implosion was the result of too many companies relying exclusively on hype and politics to drive their business model.
While the tech community can stand to be more political, I think the mainstream business community even more desperately needs to get technical.
Unlike IBM, virtually none of these software developers and hobbyists had access to enterprise-scale equipment and testing facilities for Linux development.
Oooh ooh, that's a hoot! All of us "hobbyist" computer programmers can't gain access to "enterprise scale" equipment. Has any decent programmer in the last 30 years really had any problem getting access to better resources? I don't think so.
I'm taking bets that IBM will settle with SCO. This would give IBM's Linux "legitimacy" while FUD will continue to hover over other suppliers.
When this happens, the whole tech community is going to freak out, because most of us were too idealistic to imagine such a scenario happening.
Welcome to the real [corporate] world.
Someone sent this to me in e-mail. It seems to sum up the issue nicely.
"We Live In Exciting Times"
I just heard that yet more funding is planned on being cut from NASA, the organization responsible for space flight, exploration and related technology.
All I can say is, "It's about time!"
Is all this NASA stuff really "science?" You people just don't get it.
Space is not the new frontier.
Creating new technology that can slice onions and potatoes into neat shapes, the ability to organize large quantities of neckties utilizing a single closet hanger, a hard taco wrapped inside a flour tortilla with ranch-flavored "Rio Grande Sauce", a new non-stick frying pan coating, penis enlargement vitamins, a chocolate-covered candy bar that will make you lose weight, a light beer "that doesn't taste like a light beer"... now THAT'S science! These amazing advancements immediately enhance the human condition(tm). But there's much more work to be done!
Why, why, why? Why do we insist on exploring the heavens when we have so many challenging frontiers upon us here in the real world? At least GW Bush agrees with me. It's time for the rest of the populace to take off their blue-blockers.
We live in an exciting time. I can't think of another time or place I'd rather be. While our parents and peers might have pondered the enigma of landing on the moon, we have much more pressing concerns: Will Richard get voted off of Survivor:All Stars? Is Michael Jackson going to jail for real this time? Will the seventh Harry Potter movie be as good as the sixth? What more can we learn about Janet Jackson's right breast? The Dukes of Hazzard is being made into a movie! Did you hear me? The DUKES OF HAZZARD! Will it be true to the original? We'll have to find out, but all I can say is, the anticipation is killing me!!
We've given a lot of "science" a try over the years. There's still no cure for cancer; clean-burning fuel technology isn't here; poverty and hunger continue to dominate regions and cultures. Surely after all this time, we should just admit that our resources need to be diverted to more immediate concerns that have the potential to reward us more quickly and efficiently?
Somewhere out there, a person still doesn't have the lowest interest rate on their fourth mortgage! In someone's backyard in Cleveland, there's a plant whose leaves may offer a slight reduction in hair loss among a small sampling of people in a clinical trial. And what are we doing? We're taking pictures of little spots of light millions of light years away. What's the point? If we still cannot produce a triple cheeseburger with "Swiss-flavored" cheese and "smoke-flavored" sauce for under 79 cents, something is wrong. Very wrong.
It's about time we got our priorities straight as Americans, the true superpower and leader of the free world and capital market.
We are wasting precious time and money staring into the heavens while other nations are rapidly approaching our advances in superior low-fat grilling technology. Somewhere out there, much closer than the moon or Mars, is the technology we need to make our clothes smell "winter fresh"; there's a new drink that's a cross between a Martini and Hawaiian Punch -- AND WE NEED TO FIND IT!
How much longer can we afford to spin our wheels with pointless interstellar pursuits when there are still movie scripts about rogue cops and cartoon characters that need to be green-lighted?
So we landed an RC car on Mars. Are you happy? Did we get any high-speed footage of this car in a chase sequence in which it flies into the air and explodes? No! What a total waste!
People, we need to get our priorities straight. Thank God for the Bush Administration!
Ok, ok, I do need to be fair to NASA. The organization did come up with the amazing "Contour Pillow(tm)", but I still sense that the NASA is being distracted with counterproductive ideals when an even more superior mattress technology is i
Immediately following the press conference, Mr. Blumenthal crawled back underneath his rock.
It's an inevitability that the e-mail system will move to a whitelist-based system. It's much more efficient than trying to blacklist 1000 times more IPs and constantly update client-based filtering systems, but it's going to be awhile before this happens because commercial interests will snow-job the public into paying them money for several more years before people realize this is pissing into the wind.
When spammers exploit open relays, they are violating numerous federal laws involving computer tampering and break-ins. Why is the FTC annoying network operators and not getting off their butts and enforcing the existing laws?
This is like sending out flyers telling children to not talk to strangers instead of going after the child molesters that are roving up and down the street in plain view every single day.
It's also worth noting that (via a tip *cough*) Bob Cringely exposed in Infoworld that Microsoft was running BSDI for their web servers in the mid 1990s.
If you really want to get freaked out here's where you can check out what kind of neighbors you have.
This may be a goofy question that I should know, but is there an authoritative source for the root server list? How do you determine which is the most efficient root server for your area, aside from going through the list and doing traceroutes?
It's a matter of economics. If the information that NYT is holding hostage is worth me sacrificing anonyminity, then ok. However, I don't trust most of the major media to be responsible with the information they collect, be it partially-bogus or not, and nowhere can that be more evidenced than an examination of the information they actually publish.
I think it's a liability for the seller, but a windfall for the buyer. For example, I was searching for a rare item that was part of a series of collectables named after the "millennium". The seller had the product misspelled as "milennium" and had much fewer bids and I was able to pick it up for a fraction of its worth. I guess it depends upon whether you want the buyer or seller to be uneducated. The former works if you're trying to scam someone; the latter works if you're looking for a good deal.
With all due respect, I believe that C/C++ is more portable across more platforms than Java will ever be, not to mention it's more solid and efficient. This is further evidenced by more and more cross-platform libraries such as Qt. I recognize that a lot of new progammers jumped on the Java bandwagon because it was "the new thing" or was taught in college as a focal point of the compsi degree, but the truth is there aren't as many opportunities and possibilities with Java as C. Chances are as you're reading this, much of the software running on your machine was written in C/C++, and this language has always been relatively easy to port to other platforms -- it might not be the most elegant or user-friendly development environment, but it's still the way to go for serious applications.
The computer game industry is tremendously competitive. It's one field where probably for every opening, there are hundreds of applicants that would love such a position. You're on the right track thinking you need to really have a portfolio in order to get your foot in the door.
Unfortunately, the salaries for low and mid-level positions in the gaming industry arent terribly impressive, due in large part to there being no shortage of people who'd love to work in this field. Many companies, like Sony Online Entertainment pay pathetic wages, but unfortunately your best chance of getting a game design job is to start out as a grunt and work your way up. The first few years of which you might find yourself making a fraction of the money you could in other fields. I guess that's the price you pay for a very cool job.
If DOS paid for your helocopter, you'd love it too. ; )
It's really interesting to watch the Mac viral marketers come out of the woodwork for stories like this.
Why run such an application under Windows in the first place? And building your own isn't very practical. Aside from the satisfaction of doing something from scratch, it's not very economical to roll your own. You can get a Tivo unit from DirectTV for $99 that works flawlessly - start with something solid and then mod it if you want, but I don't see much economic incentive to do this. OTOH, I'm very happy with my Tivo. It's amazing how this dramatically changes the role of television in your life. If you don't have a PVR, get one, but you'll save a lot of money and time picking up a commercial unit than trying to build one from scratch.
The work this guy has done is amazing. Even if you aren't into these types of things, you cannot help but respect the tremendous attention to detail he has put into his work. If only most commercial programmers had the work ethic of this guy imagine the stability and performance of our software and other systems.
Women are the more substantive consumers over man. Who do you think they're buying the "tech" for?
People seem to be preoccupied with who is right, when it seems obvious who is right. I'd be more concerned with: o If they settle this case and it doesn't come to trial or get ruled upon o If you have a portfolio, annuity or mutual fund with SCOX stock