"In all intended uses of a zone transfer, the secondary server is operated by the same party that operates the primary server"
This is about the farthest thing from a "fact" imaginable.
RFC-mumble mumble (1034? 1035? I'm lazy) says secondary nameservers should be on separate networks.
Properly they should be on the most robust and geographically disparate networks you can find. The chances of somebody administering both networks is remote.
Perhaps the judge thinks nameservers means two computers on the same network are primary and secondary. This is actually discourged, because, you know, in technical terms it's a fucking retarded idea.
You know back in the 80s people on usenet notiuced that there were no uucp connections going into North Dakota and therefore Noth Dakota didn't actually exist. Now I think I know why there were no uucp connections going into North Dakota.
I hear the ladies love a Bad Boy. I just did a zone transfer from a North Dakota nameserver. I am SUCH a rebel. Come get me, biotches.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to tear the labels off some mattresses and jaywalk. I be bad, yeah I be bad.
"I'm writing my own article on worst navigation by a Web site. This PCWorld page will clearly be number 1 on my list."
#2: Facebook. That thing is SO weird and clumsy and counter intuitive - I don't see why it's so popular. Bloody thing doesn't een work half the time. Send. Click. Send. Hey I clicked. Send damn you. No? Yeah, what-ever. Fuggit I'll send them a real email.
"To those of us who have learned to type blindly at a decent speed, the big layout, clicking sound and unmistakeable tactile feedback are actually pro's"
Amen brother. I can't use any other keyboard. When you've hit a key on a model M, baby you KNOW you've hit a key. There's just neevr any question. It takes up too much space on a desk? Oh. 1) Tough 2) So? 3) get a bigger desk ya pansy.
Plus they're $2 in thrift shops. Hell, sometimes if I'm in some funky computer store and see one tucked away and ask they'll often as not say "it's too old to be useful just take it". Yeah baby, score.
Plus you can take them apart eight ways from sunday and they're nearly impossible to kill. And how many other 25 year old computer products are still usefull today?
Come to think of it my car and microwave are also 25 years old and better than any of the crap found new today.
Huh, they really were the good old days.
I do take the caps lock key off though. It's annoying to HIT IT INSTEAD OF TAB.
Well... hang on and think about it for a second. In a perfect world if you look up a domain it remains available. But this is not a perfect world, we have ICANN instead.
My first reaction when reading TFA was "no way. they can't be".
But I see their point. With over a hundred registrars, many of them just squatters who want to get domains for the wholesale price of $6, it does appear ot be true that if you look up a domain at NSI you are still able to purchase it.
Compare this to some other registrar where if you look it up suddenly it's sold and now you have to buy it on the secondary market which will cost you way more that a regular domain. Lessor of two evils perhaps?
How long does it take to happen? I just looked up a long silly name at NSI and fifteen mninutes later it's still availalable. Anybody else notice this?
Here's why it won't work. Note that alternative top level domains have been around for a *cough*decade*cough* while. And were making progress, that is, reasonable people, ISP's (earthlink) and companies (GE, etc...) used them. Not because they were cool or had new names, that was sort of icing, but because they were faster.
But, this didn't sit well with some folks; here's what they did.
Enter the "transparent" proxy cache.
In a true end to end internet you type, say, yahoo.com into the browser address bar, your computer looks up the IP address of it, then sends a web request to that IP.
If you used alternative DNS servers and had typed in, say, http://free.tibet/ then it would dutifully look up the name, and a web request to that IP and youd get the page rendered on your browser window.
Enter the "transparent" proxy cache.
It sits at your isp. It intercepts the web request for a website, does a DNS lookup - using the ISP's nameservers - then IF the name resoves does the web request and caches it. ISP's love this because it saves them outbound bandwidth. In many *cough*oversubscribed*cough*allofthem*cough* ISP's it makes the difference between reasonable performance and "uh, this is so slow it's not working".
But the problem is it ignored the fact your computer has already looked up the name and successfully got back an IP address. That doesn't matter. If it doesn't resolve in the proxy caches/ISPs dns, you won't see that page despite the fact - again, your computer was able to resolve it. And of course in this day and age a DNS lookup error is gonna give you a frigging yahoo searchg page - at least that's what my satellite connection does.
So, my computer can in fact resolve free.tibet. But because of all this tomfoolery (and frankly blatent disregard for end-to-end) I get yahoo instead. Yay.
The Russians can set up all the alternative root servers they want. But if your ISP has a "transparent" proxy cache, you're never going to be able to see them.
Plus there's the email issue. If the receiving mail server dosn's use the same alternative DNS as the sender, that mail is gonna bounce. Ask me how I know.
Of course other protocols like ftp and irc are immune. I can ftp to ftp://free.tibet all day long. It's just web and mail that won't work. Yes, this was done on purpose by staunch critics of alternative DNS.
You'd think this might be some sort of net.neutrality issue, no?
I chose Apache over Unix as an example because people were paid to write unix as their job. Apache just happened cause it was needed and to me represents the epitome of the open source ideals.
Finding domains have been registered just because you searched for the name has been going on for over a decade. And they're just now starting to look for evidence? Hell, in the comments phase that let up to ICANN poeple were complaining about this.
And keep in mind ICANN's mandate from the USG was "the stability of the internet". That's it. And now they've pawned that off to a committee?
Oh well. What do you expect for 60 million a year?
Keep in mind the people that snatch those searched registrations are the ones that fund icann.
I worked for the Gray Telephone and Telepgraph company in Los Angeles in the 80s. It had been renamed "Teleautograph" and made those funny "telewriter" things. They were getting out of that and selling fax machiens and over the power line email terminals when I left in 1989.
Ah yes but. In a car, an electric car, it had one property no gas power car can ever have - you can recharge it with sunlight. I work at home and I don't go on daily commutes. Some weeks I may go to the store a few times and that's it. A moderate solar array might in some cases eliminate or at least diminish the need to plug the car in and pay for electricty. There's a certain appeal to that that in some sense overrides all other desirable features in a car.
Now if these batteries can take a 2 hour laptop and give you 20 hours from it, uh does that mean the Tesla roadster now can do 4000 miles instead of 400 miles? That would be kinda significant...
Are you friggin serious? They're really saying "if you call your data something dot mp3 we won't take it but if you call is data something dot someting else it works fine"?
Really?
Oh well. Their drives are banned here for near universal premature and catastrophic failures anyway.
Symbolics wasn't actually first, DEC was. Brian Reid registered it in January (and still has the datestamped mail from the Internic) but they screwed up the dates in whois.
"It's just that every time DNS, SMTP, or NTP comes up, a legion of DJB fanbois appears and rants at everyone who doesn't love his software. Maybe DJB is fine; I just can't stand his followers.
This is a very true statement. As a pretty much clueless when it comes to DNS Windows admin I would never try to host internet facing DNS with Windows DNS. What I do is setup all of the AD domains with.local and use forwarders that point to real DNS servers to resolve anything that isn't on the local network. Like everything else Microsoft related, the MS version of the technology is there to let the MS boxes talk to each other "
Between the rabid fanboys and the clueless MS phucks there's a middle road. And we don't run BIND. And somehow despite all hints to the contrary our dns just works and works and works and requires a lot less effort to keep it running than that bind thing.
"On energy, they say nothing about renewable energy like solar or wind, while it's clear even to me that solar will take a very big part of the production in the next years. "
Agreed. Their big deal ? Batteries. Never mind there's been no advances in them since the Li ion cell a decade ago or that there were more 2 recent breakthroughs in solar cells this past year covered on this site.
You want a real energy prediction? People in rural areas will continue to dump their oil furnaces in favour of wood. Wind turbines are on the increase as are microhydro installations with a paddle wheel driving a car alternator. Commercial wind becomes viable, more homes adopt wind than solar until the efficiency is there.
Oil will rise.
Somewhwere on the net is a well illustrated article about a gut that used the very vey powerful magnets in scsi drives to build a 5 KW wind turbine from scratch that used an airplane propellor. I can't find it and would kill to see it again.
"I would strike out the whole "all works owned for up to 6 months after employment" "
Back when I was a wage slave I used to strike out parts of contracts that seemed illegal or particularly onerous to me, then sign it. I wouldn't bother to tell them.
90% of the time they signed it anyway without looking. Especially if it's not on the first page.
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Nah, they used a 16-bit int and it wrapped around.
"need I say more? "
No, you need say less.
"outside of those large cities you'd probably not have much luck picking up any good signal. "
Yup, correct. (looks outside at polar bears).
We get "the channel" and "the other channel" and I have a 75' antenna.
The both have hockey, which I loathe, nearly all the time.
It took me lest than 4 seconds to find a refernce to "cyberlaw" from 1995. Is this guy nuts?
"In all intended uses of a zone transfer, the secondary server is operated by the same party that operates the primary server"
This is about the farthest thing from a "fact" imaginable.
RFC-mumble mumble (1034? 1035? I'm lazy) says secondary nameservers should be on separate networks.
Properly they should be on the most robust and geographically disparate networks you can find. The chances of somebody administering both networks is remote.
Perhaps the judge thinks nameservers means two computers on the same network are primary and secondary. This is actually discourged, because, you know, in technical terms it's a fucking retarded idea.
You know back in the 80s people on usenet notiuced that there were no uucp connections going into North Dakota and therefore Noth Dakota didn't actually exist. Now I think I know why there were no uucp connections going into North Dakota.
I hear the ladies love a Bad Boy. I just did a zone transfer from a North Dakota nameserver. I am SUCH a rebel. Come get me, biotches.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to tear the labels off some mattresses and jaywalk. I be bad, yeah I be bad.
"I have two IBM's PC-AT keyboards. Can't currently use 'em in my PC (no PS/2 ports), I agree they're awesome."
You'll admit saying somthing like this in public?
Use. An. Adapter.
That's sorta why they make them.
And no Windows key! Woo hoo!
"I'm writing my own article on worst navigation by a Web site. This PCWorld page will clearly be number 1 on my list. "
#2: Facebook. That thing is SO weird and clumsy and counter intuitive - I don't see why it's so popular. Bloody thing doesn't een work half the time. Send. Click. Send. Hey I clicked. Send damn you. No? Yeah, what-ever. Fuggit I'll send them a real email.
"To those of us who have learned to type blindly at a decent speed, the big layout, clicking sound and unmistakeable tactile feedback are actually pro's"
Amen brother. I can't use any other keyboard. When you've hit a key on a model M, baby you KNOW you've hit a key. There's just neevr any question. It takes up too much space on a desk? Oh. 1) Tough 2) So? 3) get a bigger desk ya pansy.
Plus they're $2 in thrift shops. Hell, sometimes if I'm in some funky computer store and see one tucked away and ask they'll often as not say "it's too old to be useful just take it". Yeah baby, score.
Plus you can take them apart eight ways from sunday and they're nearly impossible to kill. And how many other 25 year old computer products are still usefull today?
Come to think of it my car and microwave are also 25 years old and better than any of the crap found new today.
Huh, they really were the good old days.
I do take the caps lock key off though. It's annoying to HIT IT INSTEAD OF TAB.
" IMHO, bullshit."
Well... hang on and think about it for a second. In a perfect world if you look up a domain it remains available. But this is not a perfect world, we have ICANN instead.
My first reaction when reading TFA was "no way. they can't be".
But I see their point. With over a hundred registrars, many of them just squatters who want to get domains for the wholesale price of $6, it does appear ot be true that if you look up a domain at NSI you are still able to purchase it.
Compare this to some other registrar where if you look it up suddenly it's sold and now you have to buy it on the secondary market which will cost you way more that a regular domain. Lessor of two evils perhaps?
How long does it take to happen? I just looked up a long silly name at NSI and fifteen mninutes later it's still availalable. Anybody else notice this?
" But I don't think it is reasonable to say that the whole thing won't work because your ISP sucks and transparent proxies you"
You're guessing. I've got 10 years experience with this and I'm telling you it's not practical.
I'm not sure you understand what percent of transit providers uses these caches.
"The main problem isn't obsolete software, but hardware."
Well, that'll get those last versions of bind4 out. It pukes on quad a records.
Here's why it won't work. Note that alternative top level domains have been around for a *cough*decade*cough* while. And were making progress, that is, reasonable people, ISP's (earthlink) and companies (GE, etc...) used them. Not because they were cool or had new names, that was sort of icing, but because they were faster.
But, this didn't sit well with some folks; here's what they did.
Enter the "transparent" proxy cache.
In a true end to end internet you type, say, yahoo.com into the browser address bar, your computer looks up the IP address of it, then sends a web request to that IP.
If you used alternative DNS servers and had typed in, say, http://free.tibet/ then it would dutifully look up the name, and a web request to that IP and youd get the page rendered on your browser window.
Enter the "transparent" proxy cache.
It sits at your isp. It intercepts the web request for a website, does a DNS lookup - using the ISP's nameservers - then IF the name resoves does the web request and caches it. ISP's love this because it saves them outbound bandwidth. In many *cough*oversubscribed*cough*allofthem*cough* ISP's it makes the difference between reasonable performance and "uh, this is so slow it's not working".
But the problem is it ignored the fact your computer has already looked up the name and successfully got back an IP address. That doesn't matter. If it doesn't resolve in the proxy caches/ISPs dns, you won't see that page despite the fact - again, your computer was able to resolve it. And of course in this day and age a DNS lookup error is gonna give you a frigging yahoo searchg page - at least that's what my satellite connection does.
So, my computer can in fact resolve free.tibet. But because of all this tomfoolery (and frankly blatent disregard for end-to-end) I get yahoo instead. Yay.
The Russians can set up all the alternative root servers they want. But if your ISP has a "transparent" proxy cache, you're never going to be able to see them.
Plus there's the email issue. If the receiving mail server dosn's use the same alternative DNS as the sender, that mail is gonna bounce. Ask me how I know.
Of course other protocols like ftp and irc are immune. I can ftp to ftp://free.tibet all day long. It's just web and mail that won't work. Yes, this was done on purpose by staunch critics of alternative DNS.
You'd think this might be some sort of net.neutrality issue, no?
I chose Apache over Unix as an example because people were paid to write unix as their job. Apache just happened cause it was needed and to me represents the epitome of the open source ideals.
Apache.
Finding domains have been registered just because you searched for the name has been going on for over a decade. And they're just now starting to look for evidence? Hell, in the comments phase that let up to ICANN poeple were complaining about this.
And keep in mind ICANN's mandate from the USG was "the stability of the internet". That's it. And now they've pawned that off to a committee?
Oh well. What do you expect for 60 million a year?
Keep in mind the people that snatch those searched registrations are the ones that fund icann.
Don't expect too much.
"
The patent was later given to Tesla.
I worked for the Gray Telephone and Telepgraph company in Los Angeles in the 80s. It had been renamed "Teleautograph" and made those funny "telewriter" things. They were getting out of that and selling fax machiens and over the power line email terminals when I left in 1989.
"The method in TFA sounds like it would really scratch up whatever you're trying to test. Is there a way to run a test without damaging the object?"
Titanium is the only metal hydrogen peroxide reacts with.
Grinding titanum in considered very dangerous. It can explode.
Whoever wrote the article is seriously undereducated.
"Do not confuse .kids, which is a good idea, with .xxx, which is dangerous and stupid."
.com will feel pressure to move to "where they should be".
You're guessing. And I'm guessing you're guessing wrong.
Who'd want example.com when they could have example.xxx ?
I think in time any pron sites left in
There's already a kids domain. It was a huge flop.
Thanks for playing. Don Pardo do we have parting gifts for our contestant?
"Batteries might suck in comparison to gasoline"
Ah yes but. In a car, an electric car, it had one property no gas power car can ever have - you can recharge it with sunlight. I work at home and I don't go on daily commutes. Some weeks I may go to the store a few times and that's it. A moderate solar array might in some cases eliminate or at least diminish the need to plug the car in and pay for electricty. There's a certain appeal to that that in some sense overrides all other desirable features in a car.
Now if these batteries can take a 2 hour laptop and give you 20 hours from it, uh does that mean the Tesla roadster now can do 4000 miles instead of 400 miles? That would be kinda significant...
Are you friggin serious? They're really saying "if you call your data something dot mp3 we won't take it but if you call is data something dot someting else it works fine"?
Really?
Oh well. Their drives are banned here for near universal premature and catastrophic failures anyway.
Figgers.
Symbolics wasn't actually first, DEC was. Brian Reid registered it in January (and still has the datestamped mail from the Internic) but they screwed up the dates in whois.
Mitre.org was the fitst domain registered.
"It's just that every time DNS, SMTP, or NTP comes up, a legion of DJB fanbois appears and rants at everyone who doesn't love his software. Maybe DJB is fine; I just can't stand his followers.
.local and use forwarders that point to real DNS servers to resolve anything that isn't on the local network. Like everything else Microsoft related, the MS version of the technology is there to let the MS boxes talk to each other "
This is a very true statement. As a pretty much clueless when it comes to DNS Windows admin I would never try to host internet facing DNS with Windows DNS. What I do is setup all of the AD domains with
Between the rabid fanboys and the clueless MS phucks there's a middle road. And we don't run BIND. And somehow despite all hints to the contrary our dns just works and works and works and requires a lot less effort to keep it running than that bind thing.
Life goes on...
" On energy, they say nothing about renewable energy like solar or wind, while it's clear even to me that solar will take a very big part of the production in the next years. "
Agreed. Their big deal ? Batteries. Never mind there's been no advances in them since the Li ion cell a decade ago or that there were more 2 recent breakthroughs in solar cells this past year covered on this site.
You want a real energy prediction? People in rural areas will continue to dump their oil furnaces in favour of wood. Wind turbines are on the increase as are microhydro installations with a paddle wheel driving a car alternator. Commercial wind becomes viable, more homes adopt wind than solar until the efficiency is there.
Oil will rise.
Somewhwere on the net is a well illustrated article about a gut that used the very vey powerful magnets in scsi drives to build a 5 KW wind turbine from scratch that used an airplane propellor. I can't find it and would kill to see it again.
" I would strike out the whole "all works owned for up to 6 months after employment" "
Back when I was a wage slave I used to strike out parts of contracts that seemed illegal or particularly onerous to me, then sign it. I wouldn't bother to tell them.
90% of the time they signed it anyway without looking. Especially if it's not on the first page.