First of all any dedicated spammer or other miscreant can fake contact data with some that is valid but not theirs. Second, you go after the IP not the friggin domain. That's just a label, not the source of the damage.
This is nothing more than a blatant attempts by the Intellectual Property lobby that has co-opted ICANN (Ironic, but an organization that was tasked with making new TLDs hasn't done so in a decade and as of right now, new TLDs are two years away from whenever you ask, just as they have been since 1996, which is exactly what the TM lobby wants) to be able to serve anybody with a summons for IP infirngement. It has nothing to do with any operational issues in the DNS. No really, I checked.
Never mind that even some of the women lawyers involved in the creation of ICANN have been stalked from their whois data (Mikki Barry for example).
If you need clear proof ICANN is just a nexus for the same types that do such good work in the RIAA and MPAA, check this out:
Speaking to Anti Trust: go read the relevant laws, which were created to do something about monopolistic practices of the railroads at the turn of the 20th century.
The key ideas here are stifling innovation and consumer choice. Bugger those up and you might have the DoJ and FTC staring at you. DoJ seems to like to go after international cartels, while the FTC seems to look more at interstate trade, roughly corresponding to Sherman S1 and S1 respectively. Although it's the Clancy act that seems to get convictions.
I don't know a lot about US anti trust law, but I'm not sure the Apple Palm debacle qualifies as such. But I'm not the one you have to convince!
"Moving the control to international platform where also other advanced democratic countries can balance out totalitarian undemocratic countries is a step in the right direction."
Modulo the bloody obvious which is that government doesn't need to be in the loop in the first place. It's not liked they helped build it and knew what they were doing, ney, the DoC in charge of this now are the same bunch that mandated OSI protocols when talking to the government. When the Internet had reached near ubiquity and OSI still didn't have any networking code they relaxed that rule.
Now these guys are in charge of ICANN and jus handed the keys to an unelected bunnch of clueless government wonks who are already being lobbied hard by the trademark people, one of the most powerful lobbies in America... and the ones that don't leave fingerprints.
You mean like how the ITU act as censors of the telephone network?
Except they don't."
Dude, these are the clowns that tried to shut down tcp/ip and make is use x.400 email addresses. You ever try to fit 200 character addresses on a business card.
They thought the internet was for stoned slackers and wanted it killed.
"The UN already has the Universal Postal Union and the International Telecommunications Union, which do for post offices, telephony, and radio roughly what ICANN does for the Internet. The ITU does a decent job..."
Go read "Exploring the Internet" to see how the ITU tried to stop the internet from being formed and was one of the biggest obstacles to the rise of telecommunications and computer networks.
And keep in mind the ITU came from the coordination of a few powerful families in Europe that own all the telcos there.
In the day when singalling levels and voltages were a problem when connecting the worlds telephones the ITU made sense, but since everything's gone digital the ITU is trying to reinvent itself and somehow claim relevance to the net.
Paul Vixie and Karl Denninger did a little study around 1997 or 8 that showed cache coherancy was still maintained well past the 10,000 TLD mark.
So saying new tlds will "bust" things is not really true. The same fear existed about one million names in the com zone, somewhere around 600,000 names poeple freaked out and predicted meltdown.
There are 80 million names in the com zone today, and about 150 million domains worldwide.
The sky isn't falling either.
But since you brought up.xxx, here's where thst's at: after jumping every hurdle icann put in its way and finally getting past that and finally past the "Government Advisory Council" it was rubber stamped "no" by the US Department of Commerce, who are supposed to rubber stamp it "yes", but, a Bushie called in a favour and it was killed. EU objections to.xxx had been met and accomidated.
So it's interesting timing as there is an appeal/review of this coming up very shortly. It's difficult to imagine what obstacles can be put in the path of.xxx now but I'm always surprised at the evil genius that is ICANN/DoC.
I'm not buying this squatting crap. Less than two months ago I grabbed a desirable 4 letter com name that had never been registered. People have been saying "all the good names are taken" for a decade.
There will always be somebody else who has "your" domain. Know why ? They registered it first, and RFC 1591 is pretty clear: "first come, first served". It may not seem fair, but anything else is even less fair.
"Yes, I'd rather see UN manage the internet than a single country (US). Then it would actually have opinions of other countries on it too."
You'd think that wouldn't you? I mean it looks right on paper. But in fact the opposite of what you'd expect is what you really want.
Go back to when Network Solutions ran the InterNIC, domains were free, or rather they were subsidized by the National Science Foundation - NSI was it's contractor for the DNS stuff.
Want fuck.com? Fuck no. "It you can't get it on a license plate then you can't have it as a domain".
But then when NSF aegis stopped, suddenly you could register any name. Free speech. In what country did this happen? The United States. I'm not a yank but I hear they're big on that free speech thing.
I can't say I'm impresses with ICANN and think the USG should turn that thing off before it embarasses uitself to death - policy can go to the FCC ("This is not your fathers FCC") while the actual physical maintenance can go to NIST; they both do these things already.
But in this way these functions are now subject to the Administrative Procedures Act which is how you get the checks and balances America is do good at (no, really) into the game.
Give it to the UN and you now have ideology as one component to any decision making, from a disparate mass. A political compromise is no way to run a naming system for computers on a network.
A little helper program so you could easily push buttons to back up and restore the google apps. Make it easy.
I have a new (to me) G1 and I gotta say some things are easy and a joy (sadly, twitter, althouhg good news, ssh) while other things are so difficult and painful (logging into starbucks wifi through the web) I can see myself going postal and throwing the phone across the room. Especially if I hear the words "meditation", organic" or "yoga" one more time.
"How many shenanigans and payola are Rogers and Bell throwing at the CRTC anyways?"
Like we'll ever know.
Can I once again point out that if UUCP had kept evolving instead of being distracted by the dialup isp with pretty pictures then by now we'd have a robust mesh and big telco wouldn't be so nearly in the way.
It's not too late to do this with wireless meshes, the wrt54 seems to be the weapon of choice here.
Get to work. Nobody's gonne do this for you. Connect your router with any other routers you can see and fan out.
Spaf's first name is Eugene? Really? I didn't even know he had a first name, I thought he was born "Spaf" like "Cher". Next you're gonna tell me Stef's first name is Einar or sumptin'.
Try using only Opera and using ebay. It's a joke, you'll find huge white spaces as though there were 25 "pages" in this one page. And the page is twice as wide as the actual screen is.
It's been this way for almost a year and now I guess other poeple are seeing the same nonsense.
30% of the time when I try a website that's new to me I end up saying to myself "haven't people actually tried this"
No actually not. Running an A/C compressor exploits the thermal efficiency of a heat exchanged. Way better than trying to make heat from electricity. However heat kills lithium cells. They love the cold.
So you're both screwed, but for different reasons.
There's nothing basic about battery chemistry. There's lead acid and variants thereof, nickel cadmium, nikel metal hydride and two main types of lithium.
Lithium is the one that is least impacted by use. What really shortens its lifespan is *heat*. It just friggin hates heat and in fact the Tesla uses an oil cooling system to keep heat away from the battery.
After heat, age is the next killer. A 10 year old battery is as dead if you used it all the time or never used it. This is why you have to be careful with date codes on lithium devices, you want the newest ones.
What you said was true of nickel cadmium though, but that's 30 years ago. And while lithium us no fun you wouldn't believe how nasty cadmium is. Yellow bolts on cars used to be cad plating. That process was banned in the US in the 60s because cadmium is so toxic. Poeple go to Mexico to get it done now when restoring old cars.
I was trying to think of a car analogy for this but I'm afraid I have failed miserably at that. Would a Linux analogy work instead?
"The amount of effort going into making passenger cars more efficient is absurd. Passenger cars are already a miracle of modern engineering in terms of efficiency and pollution. While we try to squeeze the last 3-5% of possible gains out of the system we are simultaneously almost completely ignoring the major polluter on the road. Legacy diesel engines are, by far, the worst offender in terms of pollution of the type that actually hurts people directly (smog, particulate, etc)."
Um, no.
The byproducts of a gasoline engine are odixes of nitrogen (forming nitric acid and acid rain) and suphur oxides (if the cat isn't doing it's job which ic remarkably common). You probably now what rates these come out of an engine because of smog tests where you are which permit certain amount of unburned hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen, etc.
Diesels on the other hand emit miniscule amounts of these pollutants, so small they don't bother emasuring them. And in fact the "smog" test for diesle around here is "look at the exhaust. If you can't see the car you fail" but in practical terms if an engine is that bet you wouldn't have been able to afford to drive it to the smog check place. And that's 30 year old diesls. Don't even think of 30 year old vergassers, if you can find one.
Modern advanced in diesel far outpace gasoline, and in fact 3 years ago Mercedes introduced the "blue" engine that is so clean that in some cities (Mexico city, Peking) the air coming out of the exhaust is cleaner that the air going on. So while gas cars continue to pollute, diesel cars clean the air as you drive them, which I agree seems right out of Monty Python.
Diesls are more efficient and pollute less, and can use bio-oil. Three reasons why they're way way more popular then vergassers in Europe where fuel price is more of an issue, and where the Black Forest in Germany has already been outright killed by vergasser emissions.
"Doesn't this just shift the burden of pollution and disposal to a different party? The net effect is unchanged. Li-Ion batteries use a lot things that aren't good for the environment and a lot of energy to do so. Someone else is using more energy so you can use less. Net of zero.
Give me a TDI motor any day over this hybrid stuff."
"In a story in the Toronto Star, William Tahil, research director with Meridian International Research asserts that there isn't enough lithium available to mine to support the world's 900 million vehicles."
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Why would you actually want v6? What is it you cant do right now with v4?
First of all any dedicated spammer or other miscreant can fake contact data with some that is valid but not theirs. Second, you go after the IP not the friggin domain. That's just a label, not the source of the damage.
This is nothing more than a blatant attempts by the Intellectual Property lobby that has co-opted ICANN (Ironic, but an organization that was tasked with making new TLDs hasn't done so in a decade and as of right now, new TLDs are two years away from whenever you ask, just as they have been since 1996, which is exactly what the TM lobby wants) to be able to serve anybody with a summons for IP infirngement. It has nothing to do with any operational issues in the DNS. No really, I checked.
Never mind that even some of the women lawyers involved in the creation of ICANN have been stalked from their whois data (Mikki Barry for example).
If you need clear proof ICANN is just a nexus for the same types that do such good work in the RIAA and MPAA, check this out:
http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/at-large_atlarge-lists.icann.org/2009q4/005957.html
http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/at-large_atlarge-lists.icann.org/2009q4/005960.html
http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/at-large_atlarge-lists.icann.org/2009q4/005961.html
ICANN is only "open and transparent" when you read between the lines.
Speaking to Anti Trust: go read the relevant laws, which were created to do something about monopolistic practices of the railroads at the turn of the 20th century.
The key ideas here are stifling innovation and consumer choice. Bugger those up and you might have the DoJ and FTC staring at you. DoJ seems to like to go after international cartels, while the FTC seems to look more at interstate trade, roughly corresponding to Sherman S1 and S1 respectively. Although it's the Clancy act that seems to get convictions.
I don't know a lot about US anti trust law, but I'm not sure the Apple Palm debacle qualifies as such. But I'm not the one you have to convince!
" as long as you are using the domain name for something other than holding out on someone else for a profit "
There's a law against this now. Anti-Cybersquatting Piracy Act (ACPA) Lanham Act S. 43(d) 15 U.S.C. S.1125(d)
Google brings out Wave and IBM clones Gmail?
Try to find a low milage HPIII D
Built like tank.
"Moving the control to international platform where also other advanced democratic countries can balance out totalitarian undemocratic countries is a step in the right direction."
Modulo the bloody obvious which is that government doesn't need to be in the loop in the first place. It's not liked they helped build it and knew what they were doing, ney, the DoC in charge of this now are the same bunch that mandated OSI protocols when talking to the government. When the Internet had reached near ubiquity and OSI still didn't have any networking code they relaxed that rule.
Now these guys are in charge of ICANN and jus handed the keys to an unelected bunnch of clueless government wonks who are already being lobbied hard by the trademark people, one of the most powerful lobbies in America... and the ones that don't leave fingerprints.
You mean like how the ITU act as censors of the telephone network?
Except they don't."
Dude, these are the clowns that tried to shut down tcp/ip and make is use x.400 email addresses. You ever try to fit 200 character addresses on a business card.
They thought the internet was for stoned slackers and wanted it killed.
Oh wait...
"The UN already has the Universal Postal Union and the International Telecommunications Union, which do for post offices, telephony, and radio roughly what ICANN does for the Internet. The ITU does a decent job..."
Go read "Exploring the Internet" to see how the ITU tried to stop the internet from being formed and was one of the biggest obstacles to the rise of telecommunications and computer networks.
And keep in mind the ITU came from the coordination of a few powerful families in Europe that own all the telcos there.
In the day when singalling levels and voltages were a problem when connecting the worlds telephones the ITU made sense, but since everything's gone digital the ITU is trying to reinvent itself and somehow claim relevance to the net.
The ITU makes a lot of people real nervous.
Paul Vixie and Karl Denninger did a little study around 1997 or 8 that showed cache coherancy was still maintained well past the 10,000 TLD mark.
So saying new tlds will "bust" things is not really true. The same fear existed about one million names in the com zone, somewhere around 600,000 names poeple freaked out and predicted meltdown.
There are 80 million names in the com zone today, and about 150 million domains worldwide.
The sky isn't falling either.
But since you brought up .xxx, here's where thst's at: after jumping every hurdle icann put in its way and finally getting past that and finally past the "Government Advisory Council" it was rubber stamped "no" by the US Department of Commerce, who are supposed to rubber stamp it "yes", but, a Bushie called in a favour and it was killed. EU objections to .xxx had been met and accomidated.
So it's interesting timing as there is an appeal/review of this coming up very shortly. It's difficult to imagine what obstacles can be put in the path of .xxx now but I'm always surprised at the evil genius that is ICANN/DoC.
I'm not buying this squatting crap. Less than two months ago I grabbed a desirable 4 letter com name that had never been registered. People have been saying "all the good names are taken" for a decade.
There will always be somebody else who has "your" domain. Know why ? They registered it first, and RFC 1591 is pretty clear: "first come, first served". It may not seem fair, but anything else is even less fair.
"Yes, I'd rather see UN manage the internet than a single country (US). Then it would actually have opinions of other countries on it too."
You'd think that wouldn't you? I mean it looks right on paper. But in fact the opposite of what you'd expect is what you really want.
Go back to when Network Solutions ran the InterNIC, domains were free, or rather they were subsidized by the National Science Foundation - NSI was it's contractor for the DNS stuff.
Want fuck.com? Fuck no. "It you can't get it on a license plate then you can't have it as a domain".
But then when NSF aegis stopped, suddenly you could register any name. Free speech. In what country did this happen? The United States. I'm not a yank but I hear they're big on that free speech thing.
I can't say I'm impresses with ICANN and think the USG should turn that thing off before it embarasses uitself to death - policy can go to the FCC ("This is not your fathers FCC") while the actual physical maintenance can go to NIST; they both do these things already.
But in this way these functions are now subject to the Administrative Procedures Act which is how you get the checks and balances America is do good at (no, really) into the game.
Give it to the UN and you now have ideology as one component to any decision making, from a disparate mass. A political compromise is no way to run a naming system for computers on a network.
A little helper program so you could easily push buttons to back up and restore the google apps. Make it easy.
I have a new (to me) G1 and I gotta say some things are easy and a joy (sadly, twitter, althouhg good news, ssh) while other things are so difficult and painful (logging into starbucks wifi through the web) I can see myself going postal and throwing the phone across the room. Especially if I hear the words "meditation", organic" or "yoga" one more time.
"One table top centerpiece for decoration"
A centerpiece? A fucking centerpiece? Really?
The BSD party kit is so much easier. Weed and sunglasses.
"It really struck me like a bunch of the "I'm a PC" guys throwing a party."
I thought it was his mum and her other retarded children.
"How many shenanigans and payola are Rogers and Bell throwing at the CRTC anyways?"
Like we'll ever know.
Can I once again point out that if UUCP had kept evolving instead of being distracted by the dialup isp with pretty pictures then by now we'd have a robust mesh and big telco wouldn't be so nearly in the way.
It's not too late to do this with wireless meshes, the wrt54 seems to be the weapon of choice here.
Get to work. Nobody's gonne do this for you. Connect your router with any other routers you can see and fan out.
Spaf's first name is Eugene? Really? I didn't even know he had a first name, I thought he was born "Spaf" like "Cher". Next you're gonna tell me Stef's first name is Einar or sumptin'.
Go Matt go. Your decades of providing truly great software do not go unnoticed.
Try using only Opera and using ebay. It's a joke, you'll find huge white spaces as though there were 25 "pages" in this one page. And the page is twice as wide as the actual screen is.
It's been this way for almost a year and now I guess other poeple are seeing the same nonsense.
30% of the time when I try a website that's new to me I end up saying to myself "haven't people actually tried this"
You have to be kidding me. Where would this network be today if I could spell?
http://rs79.vrx.net/works/usenet/alt.sex/
http://rs79.vrx.net/works/usenet/terms/froup/
" I live in Arizona and I've replaced the battery in my black car every 22 months like clockwork due to the heat. (yay 10 year warranties)"
I'm guessing this is a standard battery? Try an Optima. I got 8 years out on in my Mercedes diesel that lives through -44 winters.
The rule here is "5 years and replace it" if you never want a problem. But nobody knew how long an Optima would last and now I have some idea.
Just another data point.
No actually not. Running an A/C compressor exploits the thermal efficiency of a heat exchanged. Way better than trying to make heat from electricity. However heat kills lithium cells. They love the cold.
So you're both screwed, but for different reasons.
" Basically rechargeable batteries"
There's nothing basic about battery chemistry. There's lead acid and variants thereof, nickel cadmium, nikel metal hydride and two main types of lithium.
Lithium is the one that is least impacted by use. What really shortens its lifespan is *heat*. It just friggin hates heat and in fact the Tesla uses an oil cooling system to keep heat away from the battery.
After heat, age is the next killer. A 10 year old battery is as dead if you used it all the time or never used it. This is why you have to be careful with date codes on lithium devices, you want the newest ones.
What you said was true of nickel cadmium though, but that's 30 years ago. And while lithium us no fun you wouldn't believe how nasty cadmium is. Yellow bolts on cars used to be cad plating. That process was banned in the US in the 60s because cadmium is so toxic. Poeple go to Mexico to get it done now when restoring old cars.
I was trying to think of a car analogy for this but I'm afraid I have failed miserably at that. Would a Linux analogy work instead?
"The amount of effort going into making passenger cars more efficient is absurd. Passenger cars are already a miracle of modern engineering in terms of efficiency and pollution. While we try to squeeze the last 3-5% of possible gains out of the system we are simultaneously almost completely ignoring the major polluter on the road. Legacy diesel engines are, by far, the worst offender in terms of pollution of the type that actually hurts people directly (smog, particulate, etc)."
Um, no.
The byproducts of a gasoline engine are odixes of nitrogen (forming nitric acid and acid rain) and suphur oxides (if the cat isn't doing it's job which ic remarkably common). You probably now what rates these come out of an engine because of smog tests where you are which permit certain amount of unburned hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen, etc.
Diesels on the other hand emit miniscule amounts of these pollutants, so small they don't bother emasuring them. And in fact the "smog" test for diesle around here is "look at the exhaust. If you can't see the car you fail" but in practical terms if an engine is that bet you wouldn't have been able to afford to drive it to the smog check place. And that's 30 year old diesls. Don't even think of 30 year old vergassers, if you can find one.
Modern advanced in diesel far outpace gasoline, and in fact 3 years ago Mercedes introduced the "blue" engine that is so clean that in some cities (Mexico city, Peking) the air coming out of the exhaust is cleaner that the air going on. So while gas cars continue to pollute, diesel cars clean the air as you drive them, which I agree seems right out of Monty Python.
Diesls are more efficient and pollute less, and can use bio-oil. Three reasons why they're way way more popular then vergassers in Europe where fuel price is more of an issue, and where the Black Forest in Germany has already been outright killed by vergasser emissions.
" Doesn't this just shift the burden of pollution and disposal to a different party? The net effect is unchanged. Li-Ion batteries use a lot things that aren't good for the environment and a lot of energy to do so. Someone else is using more energy so you can use less. Net of zero.
Give me a TDI motor any day over this hybrid stuff."
"In a story in the Toronto Star, William Tahil, research director with Meridian International Research asserts that there isn't enough lithium available to mine to support the world's 900 million vehicles."
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/01/30/beyond-peak-oil-are-we-facing-peak-lithium/
TDI makes way more sense. But that doesn't play as well in the church of green where facts are sometimes optional.