Besides, do you really trust a second-rate "hi-fi" (haha!) company to build the suspension for your car? I certainly wouldn't! Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Chevy, et al have been doing it for far longer, and have a much deeper wealth of automotive knowledge. I'll trust the experts on this one, rather than Bose.
Uh yeah. A guy I know works for Harman/Becker and brought a next model year test-sled to one of our gettogethers. A bunch of us drove it around; I played slalem in a Publix parking lot at 2 in the morning, ignoring his screaming until the car finally stops, flashing "suspension low" in red on the dash.
"whassat?"
"Turn the car off and on, you need to reboot it, then get out of the fucking drivers seat".
Throttle by wire, brake by wire... even the MB engineers say in private "nobody will be able to fix these things in 10 years" - and this from a conpany that prides itself on selling virtually any part for any year car. Lost of us drive 20 and 30 year old Mercedes, and older, as daily drivers.
MB has pledged to cut back over 700 complex subsystems. They recognize they've gone too far.
Oh and MB's aren't expesnive any more the C(heap) class costs like a Camry. And looks like one.
If I could justify the gas I'd drive a 109, but I drive a 300SD. I'm pretty sure I don't need F1 suspension and how the BOSE system would improve, say, a Maybach is a little unclear to me.
I don't get it Peter, you say you wildcarded a domain but NSI can't without seeking approval. Why the difference? The relevany RFC says it applies to all levels.
As for keeping NSI in scope show me where it says they can't do this.
You never paid $100 a year, ever. Check your facts.
There was an "intellectual infrastructure" fund levy added by the NSF - this was to keep the IETF process "pure" in light of more commercialization of the various I* organizations. It was to be used for paying people to attent conferences, research, stuff like that. Congress pilfered it and spent it on Internet2 benefitting the organization headed by the newly appointed head of ICANN. Just coincidence I'm sure.
You get to elect your government. ICANN came out of an effort to create new TLDS. The the trademark attornies got involved. How many tlds have been created?
I don't get you guys. Nor everybody downloads music and cares about the RIAA, but almsot everybody on the net uses a domain name. And nobody seems to care it's now in the hands of the same guys.
I've always wondered by a browser couldn't chase the dns to provide a more meaningfull diagnostic. For example:
"No such domain exists" - the TLD servers returned NXDOMAIN
"The domain exists but the authoritative servers are unreachable" - domain has been properly delegated by the parent zone but the nameservers are off the air
"The domain is not set up properly" - the domain has been properly delegated and the authoritative nameservers answer with proper NS records but no A record can be found.
And so on and so forth. Seeing the same "No DNS" since Marc Andresson released the first copy of Netscape on usenet is pretty lame.
(I spelled "NXDOMAIN" wrong. Gosh, what a shock, that's not what I expected at all.)
Ok, it's the wrong way to do it. But it could be made to work. (cf. Clarks law)
Verisign certainly had the ability to do it as evidenced by the fact they did do it.
ICANN setting policy is the larger issue here and while I'm inclined to agree with you on the technical issues the question arises is it better to have Verisign win to keep ICANN within their intended scope? That's a tough call.
It's a funny quote from a movie not intended to be offensive [or even a genuine reference to sexuality at any level]. Basically I'm saying that working for them wasn't a pleasant experience, and I found many of their business practices to be less than what I would call ethical. Sorry for any confusion...
Oh, so you worked for marketing?
I did a consulting gig there writing RRP diagnostics. Their senior tech people are as good as they come. Their marketing people were from a different planet.
Verisign caused a lot more damage than just to email. Any application that needs to determine the validity of a domain name broke.
Hi Peter; One other possible answer is "you can't rely on NXDMAIN"; you couldn't before NSI did this of course as at the time 13 other TLDS were dong it from as far back as 3 years prior. Perhaps another heuristic was indicated? Perhaps "what does this tld do with a known bad name query" ?
There is also a non-zero faction of people that found the "service" usefull. "Did you mean...." on a web page is better for some people than a popup saying "No DNS". I realize all the net isn't http, see above.
It's a shallow victory. It gives ICANN power it was never supposed to have. What else is new?
or does the Verisign DNS hijack have some obscure benefit that I didn't see?
Yes, it limited ICANN's powers to it's original intended technical focus, not policy. There's more trademark attornys inside the ICANN machine than you probbaly realize, and if ICANN controlls damn near everything something like this should make you a little nervous.
The National Science Foundation originally funded all registration services for IPs and Domains. They bid it out and NSI won it. At the time the net was largely US academic and R&D and fell within the aegis of the NSF.
When Stephen Wolff privatied the NSF backbone and uunet, sprint etc had an excuse to exist, Wolff simply overlooked the fact the domain/ip stuff was still in government control.
The original plans were to create lots of others NSI's. Postel in 96 wanted 300 new TLDS to compete with NSI; tradictionally the net solves problems of monopoly by the creation of additional resources, not regulation, but, the trademark attornies saw ICANN as a convenient stranglehold and combined with the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars big busines have paid for washington lobbyits to exert influence there is no real competion for NSI, jsut additional sales channels. Unless of course you think.coop,.museum and.pro are even remotely viable.
It's unfortunate that todays decision, while highly regarded, asssits ICANN in it's feature creep; it's scope is supposed to be a narrow technical mandate, and they've prevented NSI from doing what dozens of other tlds have done for years.
TO find the real motivation behind this, and no it's not NXDOMAIN - follow the money.
I'm still pissed off at the fact that 3 years later I still can't walk up to a Bell videophone booth. Or that there's no Pan-Am space clipper. Hell, there isn't even a Pan-Am any more.
In related news, our editors today learned of the calc_virus; remote explotation of Windows Calculator utility is possible and attackers can gain access to your machine via this program. The announcment that MS recommends you use an abacus was heralded as a remarkable advance in system security
It's not just you. I've lost count of how many we've tried and I swear the less you pay the better they work. Sony seems to be the worst; I did a 9 month gig at Sony and everybody there told me to avoid sony phones like the plague.
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Besides, do you really trust a second-rate "hi-fi" (haha!) company to build the suspension for your car? I certainly wouldn't! Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Chevy, et al have been doing it for far longer, and have a much deeper wealth of automotive knowledge. I'll trust the experts on this one, rather than Bose.
Uh yeah. A guy I know works for Harman/Becker and brought a next model year test-sled to one of our gettogethers. A bunch of us drove it around; I played slalem in a Publix parking lot at 2 in the morning, ignoring his screaming until the car finally stops, flashing "suspension low" in red on the dash.
"whassat?"
"Turn the car off and on, you need to reboot it, then get out of the fucking drivers seat".
Throttle by wire, brake by wire... even the MB engineers say in private "nobody will be able to fix these things in 10 years" - and this from a conpany that prides itself on selling virtually any part for any year car. Lost of us drive 20 and 30 year old Mercedes, and older, as daily drivers.
MB has pledged to cut back over 700 complex subsystems. They recognize they've gone too far.
Oh and MB's aren't expesnive any more the C(heap) class costs like a Camry. And looks like one.
If I could justify the gas I'd drive a 109, but I drive a 300SD. I'm pretty sure I don't need F1 suspension and how the BOSE system would improve, say, a Maybach is a little unclear to me.
So get a 240D with an slushbox and A/C. It still won't accelerate but that's normal.
OM617.095 baby, OM617.
I don't get it Peter, you say you wildcarded a domain but NSI can't without seeking approval. Why the difference? The relevany RFC says it applies to all levels.
As for keeping NSI in scope show me where it says they can't do this.
So you got rid of the wolves?
The .com and .net TLDs were originally created by the US government,
Nope.
and the US Department of Commerce is the organization ultimately responsible for managing them
Tangentially. Congress is responsibe, it's delegated to the DoC.
Since the Commerce Dept would prefer not to handle this themselves
They wouldn't know how.
they contracted with a private company (Network Solutions)
NSI was doing this years before the DoC got their grubby paws on it.
Since this wasn't going so well and different organizations were managing different things, a private non-profit company was established
Aye carumba. I give up. Please learn what really happened.
You never paid $100 a year, ever. Check your facts.
There was an "intellectual infrastructure" fund levy added by the NSF - this was to keep the IETF process "pure" in light of more commercialization of the various I* organizations. It was to be used for paying people to attent conferences, research, stuff like that. Congress pilfered it and spent it on Internet2 benefitting the organization headed by the newly appointed head of ICANN. Just coincidence I'm sure.
You get to elect your government. ICANN came out of an effort to create new TLDS. The the trademark attornies got involved. How many tlds have been created?
I don't get you guys. Nor everybody downloads music and cares about the RIAA, but almsot everybody on the net uses a domain name. And nobody seems to care it's now in the hands of the same guys.
I've always wondered by a browser couldn't chase the dns to provide a more meaningfull diagnostic. For example:
"No such domain exists" - the TLD servers returned NXDOMAIN
"The domain exists but the authoritative servers are unreachable" - domain has been properly delegated by the parent zone but the nameservers are off the air
"The domain is not set up properly" - the domain has been properly delegated and the authoritative nameservers answer with proper NS records but no A record can be found.
And so on and so forth. Seeing the same "No DNS" since Marc Andresson released the first copy of Netscape on usenet is pretty lame.
(I spelled "NXDOMAIN" wrong. Gosh, what a shock, that's not what I expected at all.)
Ok, it's the wrong way to do it. But it could be made to work. (cf. Clarks law)
Verisign certainly had the ability to do it as evidenced by the fact they did do it.
ICANN setting policy is the larger issue here and while I'm inclined to agree with you on the technical issues the question arises is it better to have Verisign win to keep ICANN within their intended scope? That's a tough call.
If it turns out one day ICANN drops domains used by, say, P2P software because of the "The Intellectual Property Constituency - Trademark, intellectual, anti-counterfeiting interests" we might wonder how ICANN got into the policy business when their original mandate was "technical coordination". It's a slippery slope.
Perhaps this is just FUD. If it is we should thank our lucky stars.
You didn't say how the wolves are.
OTOH being able to buy stuff online is pretty handy, no?
It's a funny quote from a movie not intended to be offensive [or even a genuine reference to sexuality at any level]. Basically I'm saying that working for them wasn't a pleasant experience, and I found many of their business practices to be less than what I would call ethical. Sorry for any confusion...
Oh, so you worked for marketing?
I did a consulting gig there writing RRP diagnostics. Their senior tech people are as good as they come. Their marketing people were from a different planet.
Verisign caused a lot more damage than just to email. Any application that needs to determine the validity of a domain name broke.
Hi Peter;
One other possible answer is "you can't rely on NXDMAIN"; you couldn't before NSI did this of course as at the time 13 other TLDS were dong it from as far back as 3 years prior. Perhaps another heuristic was indicated? Perhaps "what does this tld do with a known bad name query" ?
There is also a non-zero faction of people that found the "service" usefull. "Did you mean...." on a web page is better for some people than a popup saying "No DNS". I realize all the net isn't http, see above.
It's a shallow victory. It gives ICANN power it was never supposed to have. What else is new?
How are the wolves?
or does the Verisign DNS hijack have some obscure benefit that I didn't see?
Yes, it limited ICANN's powers to it's original intended technical focus, not policy. There's more trademark attornys inside the ICANN machine than you probbaly realize, and if ICANN controlls damn near everything something like this should make you a little nervous.
Who did you work for and what did you do?
The National Science Foundation originally funded all registration services for IPs and Domains. They bid it out and NSI won it. At the time the net was largely US academic and R&D and fell within the aegis of the NSF.
.coop, .museum and .pro are even remotely viable.
When Stephen Wolff privatied the NSF backbone and uunet, sprint etc had an excuse to exist, Wolff simply overlooked the fact the domain/ip stuff was still in government control.
The original plans were to create lots of others NSI's. Postel in 96 wanted 300 new TLDS to compete with NSI; tradictionally the net solves problems of monopoly by the creation of additional resources, not regulation, but, the trademark attornies saw ICANN as a convenient stranglehold and combined with the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars big busines have paid for washington lobbyits to exert influence there is no real competion for NSI, jsut additional sales channels. Unless of course you think
It's unfortunate that todays decision, while highly regarded, asssits ICANN in it's feature creep; it's scope is supposed to be a narrow technical mandate, and they've prevented NSI from doing what dozens of other tlds have done for years.
TO find the real motivation behind this, and no it's not NXDOMAIN - follow the money.
And the fact that ICANN is a monopoly doesn't bother you?
One might ask the question why other TLDs have been allowed to get away with this for 3 years prior. .WS was the first one to do this IIRC.
Remember Pris, the pleasure model? Of course she's going to look human - would you want to engage in sexual activities with a green bodied replicant?
What's it gonna cost me?
yeah.. but as someone who was born in 1981
Born in 1981? 1981?!? In 1981 I remember... uh, never mind I have kids that might read this.
I used to be worried that my parents would one day read what I wrote on the net.
I'm still pissed off at the fact that 3 years later I still can't walk up to a Bell videophone booth. Or that there's no Pan-Am space clipper. Hell, there isn't even a Pan-Am any more.
Talk about lousy product placement.
"Consider these points:"
Hey is that why it's called Science Fiction?
"Duh. Double duh" - Weemba
This is the country that showed (at least scenes of) full frontal nudity - Oh Calcutta! - on TV in 1970 ? Gak.
Yup, hence "Urban Cowboy" was correctly X rated
Do you mean Midnight Cowboy ?
I can remember my parents seeing this in the theatre, and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, both rated X.
Imagine a world when your parents go out to see X rated movies.
Ok that was too easy, imagine a world where... uh, oh never mind.
In related news, our editors today learned of the calc_virus; remote explotation of Windows Calculator utility is possible and attackers can gain access to your machine via this program. The announcment that MS recommends you use an abacus was heralded as a remarkable advance in system security
It's not just you. I've lost count of how many we've tried and I swear the less you pay the better they work. Sony seems to be the worst; I did a 9 month gig at Sony and everybody there told me to avoid sony phones like the plague.
$30 Unidens seem to work real well.
"For every 3 gamers who buy one of these, we give one to a disabled person who desparately needs it".
How do they tell the two apart?