"It's ICANN, and specifically Verisign for selling huge numbers of domains so cheaply"
Read your history.
Originally domains were free. But this kinda "domaining" hadn't caught on yet.
The NSF subsidized domain names by paying the Internic (de facto, network solutions) to handle domain registrations. The NSF's mandata was to serve US post secondary educational institutions and at such time as domains were starting to be commercial (because of Steven Wolff's moving of control of the Internet out of USG hands) the NSF didn't know what to do and was directed to tell its contractor to begin charging for domains. They were $100 for two years in advance of $50 to rereg a name. By this time "domaining" was already a problem.
There was widespread consensus that $50/yr was WAY too much and consumers forced the issue and lowred the price.
ICANN doesn't make policy it "measures community consensus and codifies it". Verisign would love to have higher priced domains.
In other words we have met the enemy and he is us.
"Google enables these people to make a return on their "investment"
This happened before Google, it happened with Alta Vista, too.
It's been happening since about 1997 or 98 or so when that article appeared in Wired where the guy registered McDonalds.com and tried to sell it to Burger king (or something like that). Within a week the latency for a domain registration at the Internic went from 3 days to 11 weeks.
"will it ever be possible to truly move to an 'online desktop'?""
Probably for a while, but that's stupid. Server functions will migrate to your desktop. Many of us have already done this. The rest of you folks are called "Windows users".
"I guess "WebOS" sounds a lot sexier than "crappy useless Flash programs that just barely work"."
What he said. It's nice to see people working in this area and I can see they've put some thought into it.
But the first two I tried didn't work at all and the third was mildly interesting.
I think they've all missed the boat (or maybe I have) though in that moving your desktop out there to the net is not I think what's going to happen. Rather than use some server out there I think your desktop will be the server.
"Or, when organizing a dinner outing, one employee could use an internal SMS tool to bid 2 Yootles for Italian and 4 Yootles for Mexican. 'If you don't get to go to the restaurant you want to, you get compensation' in Yootles"
Alex I'll take "most retarded use of the Internet for $1000".
It's amazing poeple could go out to lunch harmoniously for decades prior to this stunning reveleation.
I can see where some people want to only use and get used to the bottom right to resize windows and that's fine but I find that to be the single most annoying thing about OSX.
Just reading the FA, without thinking, I resized three sides to that browser window so it was readable by moving each of three sized to exactly where I wanted it.
Sure this is not for everyone (I guess) but it seems silly to not allow/enable it if that's what I want to do.
I've been programming C/unix since the mid 70s (and was the beta tester for what is now gcc; I used to work with Dave Conroy while he wrote it back in the PDP-11/RSX11M days). From this position the windows programming model and stability is a very very bad joke.
My parents think it's just swell. Till it crashes or hangs. Their OSX machine is "in the mail".
I still use 98 if I have to use windows as I can get it *fairly* stable. Something I can't get XP to do in a dialup line (I live WAY out in the country).
I used Microsoft unix in the 80's - Xenix. I'm annoyed they didn't go that route and have watched windows from V1.0 on. What a sick joke.
MS has a LOT of smart people (Even Dave Conroy works there now) but all their products are, IMO, substandard in terms of quality and get worse with every release. I prefer FreeBSD on servers and OSX on desktops. I absolutely will not use word or powerpoint or excel.
"BIND is like Windows. The damn thing just doesn't work" - Dan Bernstein.
My kids didn't get much if any of the email I sent them to theit hotmail addresses. With their help I tested this and sure enough, my logs indicate mail is being passed off to hotmail and then just goes into a black hole never to be delivered.
I use the phone a lot more now. Email is such a crapshoot these days.
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"It's ICANN, and specifically Verisign for selling huge numbers of domains so cheaply"
Read your history.
Originally domains were free. But this kinda "domaining" hadn't caught on yet.
The NSF subsidized domain names by paying the Internic (de facto, network solutions) to handle domain registrations. The NSF's mandata was to serve US post secondary educational institutions and at such time as domains were starting to be commercial (because of Steven Wolff's moving of control of the Internet out of USG hands) the NSF didn't know what to do and was directed to tell its contractor to begin charging for domains. They were $100 for two years in advance of $50 to rereg a name. By this time "domaining" was already a problem.
There was widespread consensus that $50/yr was WAY too much and consumers forced the issue and lowred the price.
ICANN doesn't make policy it "measures community consensus and codifies it". Verisign would love to have higher priced domains.
In other words we have met the enemy and he is us.
"Google enables these people to make a return on their "investment"
This happened before Google, it happened with Alta Vista, too.
It's been happening since about 1997 or 98 or so when that article appeared in Wired where the guy registered McDonalds.com and tried to sell it to Burger king (or something like that). Within a week the latency for a domain registration at the Internic went from 3 days to 11 weeks.
"Trademark means competing suppliers of the same product/service can't use the same name"
So, "delta" would bring up an airline schedule or a catalog of faucets?
"you'll have a hard time finding good coffee in the US."
There's a German lady on eBay - Uta - that sells home roasted fair trade organic coffee that is utterly to die for.
I found this a couple of years ago and it still makes me nervous every fall. Moreso now that I've actually seen The Day After Tomorrow.
I hope he's wrong. I REALLY hope he's wrong.
Glaciation
"It's kinda sad to see a pioneer live the rest of his life in near poverity."
Like Ghandi?
"I wonder who got bribed for this crap."
This is not a joke.
I love the new LCD displays. It means all the good Trinitron CRTs are stupid cheap now on Craigslist. Woo hoo. There's lots...
You couldn't pay me to switch from crts.
Fuckit.
Self sign your own certs.
If google and paypal can't get it right why should anybody else care?
all people should care about is it's encrypted. Do you REALLY believe CA's check who you are?
A previous posting regarding cert keys hit the nail on the head.
"will it ever be possible to truly move to an 'online desktop'?""
Probably for a while, but that's stupid. Server functions will migrate to your desktop. Many of us have already done this. The rest of you folks are called "Windows users".
"I guess "WebOS" sounds a lot sexier than "crappy useless Flash programs that just barely work"."
What he said. It's nice to see people working in this area and I can see they've put some thought into it.
But the first two I tried didn't work at all and the third was mildly interesting.
I think they've all missed the boat (or maybe I have) though in that moving your desktop out there to the net is not I think what's going to happen. Rather than use some server out there I think your desktop will be the server.
"Don't know about the money part, but why not the IETF?"
They only do protocols.
Am I the only one that's nervous that there exists someplace a list of hundreds of kiddie porn sites updated in near real time?
Who here doesn't know of somebody underpaid and easily corruptable that works at a big ISP?
This thing sounds like a godsend to people who want to get access to this kind of stuff.
Am I missing something here?
"Or, when organizing a dinner outing, one employee could use an internal SMS tool to bid 2 Yootles for Italian and 4 Yootles for Mexican. 'If you don't get to go to the restaurant you want to, you get compensation' in Yootles"
Alex I'll take "most retarded use of the Internet for $1000".
It's amazing poeple could go out to lunch harmoniously for decades prior to this stunning reveleation.
No wonder Yahoo is not relevant these days.
How bout it's an option?
I can see where some people want to only use and get used to the bottom right to resize windows and that's fine but I find that to be the single most annoying thing about OSX.
Just reading the FA, without thinking, I resized three sides to that browser window so it was readable by moving each of three sized to exactly where I wanted it.
Sure this is not for everyone (I guess) but it seems silly to not allow/enable it if that's what I want to do.
Note to his Steviness: please fix.
" Or the software you could get for the Amiga."
I'd kill for a copy of Dpaint III that run on (nearly) everything.
I do.
I've been programming C/unix since the mid 70s (and was the beta tester for what is now gcc; I used to work with Dave Conroy while he wrote it back in the PDP-11/RSX11M days). From this position the windows programming model and stability is a very very bad joke.
My parents think it's just swell. Till it crashes or hangs. Their OSX machine is "in the mail".
I still use 98 if I have to use windows as I can get it *fairly* stable. Something I can't get XP to do in a dialup line (I live WAY out in the country).
I used Microsoft unix in the 80's - Xenix. I'm annoyed they didn't go that route and have watched windows from V1.0 on. What a sick joke.
MS has a LOT of smart people (Even Dave Conroy works there now) but all their products are, IMO, substandard in terms of quality and get worse with every release. I prefer FreeBSD on servers and OSX on desktops. I absolutely will not use word or powerpoint or excel.
"BIND is like Windows. The damn thing just doesn't work" - Dan Bernstein.
Ok so I'm lookin north. I live where it's dark and far enough north the aurora is pretty good here.
But it's cloudy. And it'd gonna be cloudy all week.
Wadda rip.
"I know they drop silently if your server has no spf"
Oh. No SPF here. But this doesn't explain why some get through and some don't. I suppose I should do the spf thing and see what happens. Thanks.
My kids didn't get much if any of the email I sent them to theit hotmail addresses. With their help I tested this and sure enough, my logs indicate mail is being passed off to hotmail and then just goes into a black hole never to be delivered.
I use the phone a lot more now. Email is such a crapshoot these days.
The luminescent phosphour wore out. Get some luminescent paint and paint it on then look at it under a stong lens and you can see the scintiliations.
Or get an old watch off ebay with a radium dial and in a very dark place look at it under a strong lens. You can see little nuclear fireworks there.
>Paris Hilton?
Uh, yeah, ABOUT that.
>The only thing this list proves, it the author's inaptitude as a journalist.
You spelled "asshole" wrong.
Maybe Paris Hilton is on that list to give Mary Shelly new ideas?
Nobody in the Department of Commerce knows anything about computers except how to turn them on. On a good day.
Vista doesn't need anti-virus software? Gee, just like 98.
Great plan. Release a malware magnet like XP then release 98 again saying it's an upgrade.
Clever.