There is a domain not registered. Someone registers it to cybersquat. This person plans on reselling it later on for a huge profit. However, let us introduce a new rule. A $30 additional fee aimed at preventing cybersquatting. 10 years"
No.
Some registrars have a "prepay for 100 years" policy.
"Yes, it really is necessary. That domain name has a real market value, the only question is, who is making the money: ICANN who can hopefully use them to enhance the infrastructure of the Internet"
Can't happen. Icann has a narrow charter to "coordinate names and numbers". While I'd love them to give me a grant to pay me for doing my tropical fish websites that probbaly isn't appropriate either.
The "real market value" stuff is only appealing until your own domain is seen as valuable.
Keep in mind the domain stuff is a way to identify computers on the network. It is not a virtual real estate MLM plan (and yes I realize some people get away with this. This does not mean, I think, we should redesign the system so all of it is that way)
"ICANN needs to publically itemize each and every thing they spend money on."
As if.
Karl Aurbach was elected as a director of the corporation and he had to sue icann just to be able to se the books.
This might be considered a little unusual in a normal organization. Usually directors have access to the corporations accounting to know what's going on. Even more weird for an organization like icann that keeps blathering on about being "open and transparent".
"Yes, but they can simply raise the CEO's pay to stay nonprofit."
The non-profit org scam is just disgusting. For profit corporations are accountable to their shareholders which is a nice control mechanism.
Non-profits with memebers can sometimes be ok.
If you look carfully you'll see the USG's original intention up formation of icann was that it be a membership organization.
You'll notice there are still no members.
The reason for this is they do not want members to sue the corporation and change policy. Under California law where icann is chartered, memebrs of a non-profit can use the organization and use it's own money to do so.
So no members. God forbid those pesky net people get in the way of big business interests - you'll also note who runs icann now. Trademark attornies by and for large three lettered organizations.
Jon Postel in 1996 had a vision of 300 new tlds. Somewhere along the line this technical enhancement of the internet got a little subverted.
In 1986 the relevant RFC said so but even then it wasn't exactly law and right out of the gate people ignored it. Right or wrong? That's a personal interpretation and there is not 100% consensus on this.
Netsol tried very hard to enforce.net registrations for year to be complient and what happened was people who really wanted one that didn't deserve one were persistance enough to get one while people who did actually deserve one had to jump through hoops and experience all sorts of delays. So they gave up.
While the idea of having strict taxonomy - or more correctly, ontology - per TLD is a nice idea the legacy ones cannot be brought into line. New ones with a strict policy AND some mechanism for enforecment can.
At at any rate the original charter for.org was "non profits and other things that don't fit into.com and.net" and in that sense it was a catch all.
Even if it were held to be strinctly for non profits, what good does that do? I know a small yacht club with a.org name. This is in keeping with the letter of the law but probably not the spirit.
The notion you can assign everything on the interent to a small handful of "buckets" that make sense uniformly is insane. They're just arbitrary character strings used for human convenience to computers can find each other on the network. Any definition beyond that is sbuject to problems.
"You have to admit the idea of a slab of beefing growing in a nutrient vat is pretty fucking creepy though"
Compared to what? I know a place where you can go right now and see cut out hearts of animals, plus other of their body parts, hacked to bits and put in plastic ready to take home and eat.
", I have to admit, after my initial posting, I did have a think about IP addresses."
The IP addess identifies the machine, not the user.
I have a bunch of machines here but only one is used by people directly. I use it to work on and my two kids play on it from time to time. For some reason *cough* none of that IM shit seems to work on this machine (sorry darlings, it just won't load right. Life's a mystery).
My ex wife is more liberal with her machine and the kids IM like mad there. She has tons of bestiality porn all over it now.
Life doesn't end with no IM. They find other ways to talk to other miscreants.
And do you really want to talk to anybody that can't ssh to a server and use ntalk (1) ?
"Not even close to true, although it is the only current operating system with those characteristics and frankly, if you're installing XPSP2, that's not true either, because you're firewalled by default."
Not my experience. From July to November lasy year I tried using XP albeit on a dialup and had "all th right stuff" to keep it safe. Once a month it was taken out. I simply gave up and keep that pig off the net now. I need it for one thing anc am happy to use a thumbdrive to copy data on and off. It's been fine since xmas now.
"Your idiot boss? Who's more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows him?"
Viruses were fairly uncommon in '89. And he was the one that was always babbling about them. I'd never seen one, ever. So it seemed natural to assume this disk, straight from a manufacturor was clean. Oopsie. Not hard to fix on a brand new 386 though. All it was used for was editing and running this assembler.
But other than that XP debacle that was the last infection I'd ever seen.
I don't get popups, spyware or any of the crud I read about here and run totally unprotected. Perhaps YMMV but this is what I see here. Dialup is a different world and it seems to me malware either needs or looks for XP.
"You are well outside the bell curve in your experience with Win98 and viruses."
Perhaps. But then so is mosy of this county. I live a rural area and half of the computer stores here won't touch XP. They give you an option of installing 98 or taking it someplace else. Literally everybody I know has had problems with XP and I *think* I know of one machine that became infected that was running 98.
Keep in mind this area is primarily dialup and in that situation you can spend 50% of your time waiting for the various anti-virus/spryware/firewall-whathave you to update. Without any of that crus 98 has run literally for years around here. It aint just me.
All this crap only applies to Windows XP. While is is true that MS-DOS, 3.1 and 98 can be infected by explicitly running an infected program (rare), XP is the only thing you can install, hook up to the net and expect it to be infected withing hours if not minutes.
For the one machine I have at home that has to use winbloze I use 98 and have since, well, 98. Although it has in typical MS fashion shit itself a few times it has NEVER become infected. Not once.
Other than an ill fated XP experiment here briefly the last virus I saw was when my idiot boss in 1989 said "here you need this new assembler" and it was infected with the stoned virus.
"AOL bought Netscape for so much money primarily because of its netscape.com portal site, which at the time was one of the most popular sites on the Internet."
Ironically that's because it was the default page for Netscape to open up to. Absent some action by a user to exlpicitly set it somewhere else (and where else was there) the outcoe could be nothing else.
"And to add device drivers, or define a new terminal, or increase any system parameter, you have to re-assemble the whole OS, which takes 8 to 12 hours, and usually ends in pages of unintelligible macro error messages that only remotely hint at the actual problem."
Unlike, say, today when to add device drivers, or define a new terminal, or increase any system parameter, you have to re-assemble the whole OS, which takes 8 to 12 hours, and usually ends in pages of unintelligible macro error messages that only remotely hint at the actual problem.
"The number one biggest achievement was the creation of a family of microcode-based computers that allowed the same software to run on everything from an entry level System 360 Model 20 through a supercomputer 360/195"
Ok I/m confused. If memory serves the 360/67 (?) was the only microprogrammable 360 and the other models just had more DMA channels as the number after the slash got bigger.
It's 23 bytes in x86 assembly. I remember a day when an email client, tcp/ip stack, ftp and telnet fit on a floppy. And Netscape fit on the other floppy.
And now "hello world" is 7 megs.
I hope that some day people will actually go back to figuring out how a computer actually works.
"our lifetimes would not suffice to learn all of music theory."
Nonsense. You clearly don't watch enough MTV. You can learn enough to be a gaziilionare - look at them jokers that's the way you do it - in about 2.7 minutes.
"Your sig says it all... but the answer is, the US will be immaterial to a violent culture with a long history of extremism.
To quote syriana: We think a hundred years ago you were living out here in tents in the desert chopping each others head's off, and that's exactly where you're going to be in another hundred."
Did you watch the same _Syriana_ I did?
The point of the film was that the US destabilizes the middle east for oil profits not that Arabs are a backwards or hostile people. Remember Timbuktu university...
"better make sure the wood you are sawing isn't damp"
An interesting guess but wet wood (which you REALLY shouln'd be curtting) isn't going to have the same electrical properties as wet salty flesh which is MUCH more conductive.
There's lots of this stuff. In 1974 an unauthorized letter was leaked showing that Nixon bought $1M worth of Chinese weopans and diverted them through Russia to the Kurdish rebels.
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"Would this work?
There is a domain not registered. Someone registers it to cybersquat. This person plans on reselling it later on for a huge profit. However, let us introduce a new rule. A $30 additional fee aimed at preventing cybersquatting. 10 years"
No.
Some registrars have a "prepay for 100 years" policy.
Next.
"Yes, it really is necessary. That domain name has a real market value, the only question is, who is making the money: ICANN who can hopefully use them to enhance the infrastructure of the Internet"
Can't happen. Icann has a narrow charter to "coordinate names and numbers". While I'd love them to give me a grant to pay me for doing my tropical fish websites that probbaly isn't appropriate either.
The "real market value" stuff is only appealing until your own domain is seen as valuable.
Keep in mind the domain stuff is a way to identify computers on the network. It is not a virtual real estate MLM plan (and yes I realize some people get away with this. This does not mean, I think, we should redesign the system so all of it is that way)
"ICANN needs to publically itemize each and every thing they spend money on."
As if.
Karl Aurbach was elected as a director of the corporation and he had to sue icann just to be able to se the books.
This might be considered a little unusual in a normal organization. Usually directors have access to the corporations accounting to know what's going on. Even more weird for an organization like icann that keeps blathering on about being "open and transparent".
"Yes, but they can simply raise the CEO's pay to stay nonprofit."
The non-profit org scam is just disgusting. For profit corporations are accountable to their shareholders which is a nice control mechanism.
Non-profits with memebers can sometimes be ok.
If you look carfully you'll see the USG's original intention up formation of icann was that it be a membership organization.
You'll notice there are still no members.
The reason for this is they do not want members to sue the corporation and change policy. Under California law where icann is chartered, memebrs of a non-profit can use the organization and use it's own money to do so.
So no members. God forbid those pesky net people get in the way of big business interests - you'll also note who runs icann now. Trademark attornies by and for large three lettered organizations.
Jon Postel in 1996 had a vision of 300 new tlds. Somewhere along the line this technical enhancement of the internet got a little subverted.
"The ICANN organization, the one that has to do with dot-org, dot-biz, and dot-info, needs money to keep themselves running."
Keep in mind Jon Postel used to get a $15K/yr grant from DARPA to do this as a part time task - and Joyce Reynolds did most of the actual work.
Contrast that to the 15+ million dollar budget of today with trips around the world and five star hotels.
"The first job of any organization is to survive." - Don Mitchell, NSF programme manager for the old interNIC.
Apparantly the second is to find jobs for all your friends.
What's on the surface is bad enough. If you folk knew what I did there's be an armed revolt.
"Shouldn't these be non-profit"
.net registrations for year to be complient and what happened was people who really wanted one that didn't deserve one were persistance enough to get one while people who did actually deserve one had to jump through hoops and experience all sorts of delays. So they gave up.
.org was "non profits and other things that don't fit into .com and .net" and in that sense it was a catch all.
.org name. This is in keeping with the letter of the law but probably not the spirit.
Nah.
In 1986 the relevant RFC said so but even then it wasn't exactly law and right out of the gate people ignored it. Right or wrong? That's a personal interpretation and there is not 100% consensus on this.
Netsol tried very hard to enforce
While the idea of having strict taxonomy - or more correctly, ontology - per TLD is a nice idea the legacy ones cannot be brought into line. New ones with a strict policy AND some mechanism for enforecment can.
At at any rate the original charter for
Even if it were held to be strinctly for non profits, what good does that do? I know a small yacht club with a
The notion you can assign everything on the interent to a small handful of "buckets" that make sense uniformly is insane. They're just arbitrary character strings used for human convenience to computers can find each other on the network. Any definition beyond that is sbuject to problems.
"When did slashdot become a catch-all?"
You're really gonna hate http://dating.slashdot.org then.
"The entire East Coast has been eating -- ME!"
I saw that ad on craigslist too.
"Note: I do eat meat, but that's because I am spoiled and like how it tastes."
As a vagitarian I... oh never mind.
"You have to admit the idea of a slab of beefing growing in a nutrient vat is pretty fucking creepy though"
Compared to what? I know a place where you can go right now and see cut out hearts of animals, plus other of their body parts, hacked to bits and put in plastic ready to take home and eat.
That's not creepy?
"We are seeing organic & "air-chilled", "premium" chicken breasts advertised on TV "
Don't be daft. In Amerika there are no breasts on TV.
", I have to admit, after my initial posting, I did have a think about IP addresses."
The IP addess identifies the machine, not the user.
I have a bunch of machines here but only one is used by people directly. I use it to work on and my two kids play on it from time to time. For some reason *cough* none of that IM shit seems to work on this machine (sorry darlings, it just won't load right. Life's a mystery).
My ex wife is more liberal with her machine and the kids IM like mad there. She has tons of bestiality porn all over it now.
Life doesn't end with no IM. They find other ways to talk to other miscreants.
And do you really want to talk to anybody that can't ssh to a server and use ntalk (1) ?
I mean really...
"Not even close to true, although it is the only current operating system with those characteristics and frankly, if you're installing XPSP2, that's not true either, because you're firewalled by default."
Not my experience. From July to November lasy year I tried using XP albeit on a dialup and had "all th right stuff" to keep it safe. Once a month it was taken out. I simply gave up and keep that pig off the net now. I need it for one thing anc am happy to use a thumbdrive to copy data on and off. It's been fine since xmas now.
"Your idiot boss? Who's more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows him?"
Viruses were fairly uncommon in '89. And he was the one that was always babbling about them. I'd never seen one, ever. So it seemed natural to assume this disk, straight from a manufacturor was clean. Oopsie. Not hard to fix on a brand new 386 though. All it was used for was editing and running this assembler.
But other than that XP debacle that was the last infection I'd ever seen.
I don't get popups, spyware or any of the crud I read about here and run totally unprotected. Perhaps YMMV but this is what I see here. Dialup is a different world and it seems to me malware either needs or looks for XP.
"You are well outside the bell curve in your experience with Win98 and viruses."
Perhaps. But then so is mosy of this county. I live a rural area and half of the computer stores here won't touch XP. They give you an option of installing 98 or taking it someplace else. Literally everybody I know has had problems with XP and I *think* I know of one machine that became infected that was running 98.
Keep in mind this area is primarily dialup and in that situation you can spend 50% of your time waiting for the various anti-virus/spryware/firewall-whathave you to update. Without any of that crus 98 has run literally for years around here. It aint just me.
All this crap only applies to Windows XP. While is is true that MS-DOS, 3.1 and 98 can be infected by explicitly running an infected program (rare), XP is the only thing you can install, hook up to the net and expect it to be infected withing hours if not minutes.
For the one machine I have at home that has to use winbloze I use 98 and have since, well, 98. Although it has in typical MS fashion shit itself a few times it has NEVER become infected. Not once.
Other than an ill fated XP experiment here briefly the last virus I saw was when my idiot boss in 1989 said "here you need this new assembler" and it was infected with the stoned virus.
"AOL bought Netscape for so much money primarily because of its netscape.com portal site, which at the time was one of the most popular sites on the Internet."
Ironically that's because it was the default page for Netscape to open up to. Absent some action by a user to exlpicitly set it somewhere else (and where else was there) the outcoe could be nothing else.
"And to add device drivers, or define a new terminal, or increase any system parameter, you have to re-assemble the whole OS, which takes 8 to 12 hours, and usually ends in pages of unintelligible macro error messages that only remotely hint at the actual problem."
Unlike, say, today when to add device drivers, or define a new terminal, or increase any system parameter, you have to re-assemble the whole OS, which takes 8 to 12 hours, and usually ends in pages of unintelligible macro error messages that only remotely hint at the actual problem.
"The number one biggest achievement was the creation of a family of microcode-based computers that allowed the same software to run on everything from an entry level System 360 Model 20 through a supercomputer 360/195"
// this, bitch.
Ok I/m confused. If memory serves the 360/67 (?) was the only microprogrammable 360 and the other models just had more DMA channels as the number after the slash got bigger.
No?
"Anybody that includes all that obscure stuff and doesn't include BIND on the list..."
You seem to be confused.
This is a list of the best software, not the worst.
Nice try, Paul.
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It's 23 bytes in x86 assembly. I remember a day when an email client, tcp/ip stack, ftp and telnet fit on a floppy. And Netscape fit on the other floppy.
And now "hello world" is 7 megs.
I hope that some day people will actually go back to figuring out how a computer actually works.
"our lifetimes would not suffice to learn all of music theory."
Nonsense. You clearly don't watch enough MTV. You can learn enough to be a gaziilionare - look at them jokers that's the way you do it - in about 2.7 minutes.
"Your sig says it all... but the answer is, the US will be immaterial to a violent culture with a long history of extremism.
To quote syriana: We think a hundred years ago you were living out here in tents in the desert chopping each others head's off, and that's exactly where you're going to be in another hundred."
Did you watch the same _Syriana_ I did?
The point of the film was that the US destabilizes the middle east for oil profits not that Arabs are a backwards or hostile people. Remember Timbuktu university...
"better make sure the wood you are sawing isn't damp"
An interesting guess but wet wood (which you REALLY shouln'd be curtting) isn't going to have the same electrical properties as wet salty flesh which is MUCH more conductive.
Mmmmm... wet salty flesh...
" but I know Windows 3.1 was in the MarchMay '92 timeframe"
I don't think so. I remember my boss playing solitaire in late 89 or early 90 and I just laughed when he said "no, this 3.1 version actually works".
Keep in mind I'd been exposed to versions 1,2 and 3. They were unbelivably unusable.
"Holy shit."
There's lots of this stuff. In 1974 an unauthorized letter was leaked showing that Nixon bought $1M worth of Chinese weopans and diverted them through Russia to the Kurdish rebels.