Where are the flying cars? No, ones that work and aren't stupid and expsnive?
I can't say I'm really impressed with this "research" and the active cookies is really lame. Stare at SSH long enough, play with it and you'll discover as I have there's already a much better way to do this that doesn't care about IP's or domains. Plus it has the benefit of actually working. Today. With no mods.
If innovation isn't dead it's seriously wounded lying in the corner bleeding from both ends.
"I don't understand why people always associate Hockey with missing teeth."
Uh, because of all the missing teeth?
This story was front page news in the Globe and Mail (Canada's national newspaper) yesterday a with the headline "new hope for hocky players" (or something like that) and had pictures of vintage and current toothless hocky players.
I may be wrong but I'm reasonably certain all residential DSL in Ontario goes through Sympathetico. One advantage to living in a remote (read that as dial up only) area is no DSL and no Sympathetico. The route between my desk and my servers in the US does not go through Sympathetico.
Oh I'm sure IF the bill passed then they MIGHT get around to making my small ISP knuckle under. Like I give a shit. I don't care if the guvmint reads everything I do. They'll find I'm a weird and quite boring person.
But yes, it's the princple of the thing. Geist is dead on when he points out there's no oversight in this proposed law and that current laws seem to work citing the arrest here of 17 terrorists.
I think in a large sense this is much more political than it might appear to the average American. Tradidionally we've had a Liberal party and a Progressive Conservative party and a always-5% ultra left National Democratic Party. Our conservatives are somewhat to the left of the US Republican party.
A few years ago the Conservatives lost. Badly. Very badly. Very very badly. As in "Tories, party of two, your table is ready". A right wing whacko bunch called (spit) "reform" began to make headway and eventually merged the burned ashes of the conservative party and pretend to the tories but are in name only.
The fuckwit that recently got eleced as our current PM and is one of the all time worst PM's if for nothing else, being a Bush ass-kisser. As, in they refer to him as Vice President, not Prime Minister.
As an example of some of his dangerous lunacy the Canadian government has followed suit and like the (spit) Bush administration will no longer allow the arrival home of dead bodies from Iraq to be televised.
Now, we don't have many dead bodies coming back (you yanks running out of bullets?) but it did raise a very large furor here recently when some young lady came back in a box and this was censored.
So, and sure I'm a conspiracy theorist, but I suspect that this stupid proposed law originated in the White House, not in Ottawa.
"Who sits on ICANN? typically, engineers from companies such as HP, Sun, MS,"
Company affiliations notwithstanding, they're lawyers, not engineers. The ones that don't have big company affiliation are lobbyists from the industry.
" but would you mind referencing ANY influential Christian group that was lobbying ICANN"
Yes, I'd mind, and they lobbied the White House, not ICANN. ICANN, if you recall, had already passed this once, sent it up top DoC for the usual and customary rubber stamp and got rejected.
See earleir/. stories on this topic for more details.
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"Six things to do instead of reading this non-story post smart-ass comments on slashdot download pornography search Google images for pictures of cool stuff you remember..."
If you have time try to have sex, read a book, buy a house and have normal kids.
Oh right, none are possible today. Oh well.
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Always be suspicious when there's more google ads than information.
5" floppies? Bah, those were for children. Real men used 8" floppies. They worked. The 5" ones were always flakey.
The first videogame machine I bought was Pong. $300. Sound retarded? Yeah I thought so too. I took it back 2 days later for a refund.
I didn't know anybody with an 8-track car player. They were as stupid then as they seem now. Lots of people has casette decks though which really only became obsolete in fairly recent memory.
The price of things was fairly different. My first decent color monitor did 800x600 and cost $3500 1984 dollars. Yesterday I bought a nearly new 21" Sony 2000xwhatever for $2 in Sally Ann.
Gas was forty four cents a gallon the first time I filled up my $700 two year old Italian sportscar.
Nobody had a portable phone back then. Everybody has a pulse rotary phone. Here in Canada we still pay $2/mo on our phone bill for "pushbutton" service.
Acoustic couplers (300 baud) vs. DSL modems would have been good to include.
A carbon dioxide laser was millions of dollars and 30 feet long. Now they're $1000 on flea-bay and fit in a briefcase.
Tha cancer cure rate hasn't changed since the 60s. We can detect it earlier. Actually that's also true if you compare it to 1902.
SCO were assholes for as long as they've been around. So was Bill Gates. And Woz.
A Hasselblad was then and is still the best camera.
Back then you could get stuff repaired. Timex in the 50's invented the "it's cheaper to give you a new one than even look at the defective POS we sold you" philosophy.
Kids grew long hair to rebel. Now they cut their arms.
We lived in fear of nuclear war and flu pandemic. Just like today.
I can't find most of my flashcards. My old flexible diskettes still work amazingly. I have several broken digital cameras. My Canon AE1 still works.
You can buy today, a working, drivable diesel Mercedes for the price of changing the spark plugs on a new gas one.
Popular science was more science and less popular back then. And had a helluva lot more pages.
The price of a neon tetra hasn't changed in 30 years. An S class Mercedes cost 20X what it did 30 years ago. But it's the same price adjusted for inflation.
Windows was a bad idea in the 80's. It's worse now. Unix was cool in the 70's and actually worked.
I really think if somebody had slept for 30 years and woken up today it would take them about 10 minutyes to catch up. And then they'd say "this is IT?!?"
Yabbut... the Porsche and Ferrari have a roof. It's all well and good to make a car that looks like a 1978 formula 1 car but make something you can drive in the rain and take from New York to Florida on two fuel stops and we'll talk..
"...You pull into the "gas" station an automated device pulls the battery rack out of your car..."
And the "gas station" has an array of mirrors, or lots of them and makes its own juice without relying on a "big five" fuel company importing dead dino juice from the middle east.
"Depends mostly on if our elected officials grant this unelected body the right to govern us. Happens all the time through various treaties."
Umm, yes. Look at ICANN.
Created on the face of it to make new top-level-domains it spent 3 years dealing with trademark issues and arguably that's still what it's all about. Jon Postel's dream of "300 new TLDS this year" to dilute Network Solutions power gave way to an organization by, for and of lawyers.
Now you can lose your domain name because some guy in Geneva says so and your local or national court system is simply not in the loop. Read the fine print.
I can only begin to imagine the lobbying going on at the UN and am utterly certain this will pass there and that my country and yours will ratify it thus making it national law.
It was said to me 10 years ago and I didn't believe it and I'll say it now to you and you won't believe it: you have no idea of the reach and determination of the IP lobby.
In a practical sense you will have no idea what they're up to till it's all over. In many cases you'll never find out.
I probably would not hurt to read or re-read Heinlein's "Friday".
About 3 years ago Verizon began rejecting about half the mail from a mailing list I run to it's subscribers there. Normail mail got through 100% of the time but stuff from a mailing list about a certain type of old German cars got nukked.
For two years 3 grey haired polite chaps used to dealing with local governments (successfully) tried to find out WTF and how to fix it.
After two years Verizon told us all to use a different ISP if they expected reliable email.
The issue is not if.xxx should exist or not, there's been a several year process to, in ICANN-ese "measure community consensus" and.xxx was thrown back several times, regrouped and passed every ICANN barrier. ICANN submitted the root server change to the US government... who stepped all over it and said "NO. FUCKING NO. JUST FUCKING NO".
So, the story here is not "is.xxx a good idea" but "Why can't the 16M a year organization who purport to rule the root actually make a change to the root" which harkens back to ideas central to the creation of ICANN wherein world governments thought they should be "in the loop" and nobody else did - world governmentst have their own laws and can influence their own people, but they should not have undue influence over an international system of naming hosts on the network.
Somebody - ICANN or the USG has got other world governments to spak up now against.xxx - never mind 5 years of comment periods they were silent. The USG or ICANN is just trying to rationalise their move. And to be clear, it is absolutley and verifiably the Bush administration that's doing this not "the US government".
Let's pretend the guy behind.xxx does not live in the US and a target audience is say, Germany. WTF does the US have to do with this? Oh wait, we're not pretending.
Get the point now?
The USG determines what names go into the root. Never mind the 7 million utterly vile pornographic named that already exists in.com, run at the time by a US government contractor...
ICANN invited the USG in. "You recognize us, we'll recognize you" a ploy they used with other governments, and now they've managed to put a choke-hold single point of failure on the technical administration of names and numbers of the network.
ICANN cannot do it's job. It simply is unable. Yet everybody with a domain name pays them to do that job. THAT'S the problem, not "how YOU feel about this particular arbitrary string of characters".
...is not if.xxx is a good thing to do, the real story is that ICANN, once it's approved the tld to be included in the root zone (like it did LAST YEAR) cannot actually get the domain past the US government.
In other words we have poeple in "charge" of the root zone that cannot actually do the job. The EU and Australia are old cronies of ICANN, part of the "deal with the devil" made upon ICANN's creation. You'll notice a year ago when ICANN approved and submitted the TLD for inclusion to its overseer the EU and Australia didn't say a thing/ Nor did they object in the TEN YEARS leading up to its approval.
No, the US Bush Administration stepped on it, thereby embarassing ICANN and suddenly ICANN's old friends, the EU and AUS NOW think maybe it's a bad udea. Oh puh-leeze.
Expect as time goes on more countried may object.
Never mind ICANN is supposed to "measure community consensus" implement the results. It is not supposed to create policy.
Never mind Governments of the world holds the technical administration of names and numbers by the nuts.
Never mind you can think of the most vile name, slap a.com after it and you'll find it most likely already exists.
Never mind ICANN gets paid $16M a year to not be able to do its job.
"maybe ORSN might even decide to become ICANN-incompatible"
It's a little known historic fact that.DOT was the first alternaitve TLD and I've been trying to convince poeple that the name slash.dot is a good thing.
Slashdot Mirror
Where are the flying cars? No, ones that work and aren't stupid and expsnive?
I can't say I'm really impressed with this "research" and the active cookies is really lame. Stare at SSH long enough, play with it and you'll discover as I have there's already a much better way to do this that doesn't care about IP's or domains. Plus it has the benefit of actually working. Today. With no mods.
If innovation isn't dead it's seriously wounded lying in the corner bleeding from both ends.
"I don't understand why people always associate Hockey with missing teeth."
Uh, because of all the missing teeth?
This story was front page news in the Globe and Mail (Canada's national newspaper) yesterday a with the headline "new hope for hocky players" (or something like that) and had pictures of vintage and current toothless hocky players.
I may be wrong but I'm reasonably certain all residential DSL in Ontario goes through Sympathetico. One advantage to living in a remote (read that as dial up only) area is no DSL and no Sympathetico. The route between my desk and my servers in the US does not go through Sympathetico.
Oh I'm sure IF the bill passed then they MIGHT get around to making my small ISP knuckle under. Like I give a shit. I don't care if the guvmint reads everything I do. They'll find I'm a weird and quite boring person.
But yes, it's the princple of the thing. Geist is dead on when he points out there's no oversight in this proposed law and that current laws seem to work citing the arrest here of 17 terrorists.
I think in a large sense this is much more political than it might appear to the average American. Tradidionally we've had a Liberal party and a Progressive Conservative party and a always-5% ultra left National Democratic Party. Our conservatives are somewhat to the left of the US Republican party.
A few years ago the Conservatives lost. Badly. Very badly. Very very badly. As in "Tories, party of two, your table is ready". A right wing whacko bunch called (spit) "reform" began to make headway and eventually merged the burned ashes of the conservative party and pretend to the tories but are in name only.
The fuckwit that recently got eleced as our current PM and is one of the all time worst PM's if for nothing else, being a Bush ass-kisser. As, in they refer to him as Vice President, not Prime Minister.
As an example of some of his dangerous lunacy the Canadian government has followed suit and like the (spit) Bush administration will no longer allow the arrival home of dead bodies from Iraq to be televised.
Now, we don't have many dead bodies coming back (you yanks running out of bullets?) but it did raise a very large furor here recently when some young lady came back in a box and this was censored.
So, and sure I'm a conspiracy theorist, but I suspect that this stupid proposed law originated in the White House, not in Ottawa.
Not that we'll EVER know the truth, mind you.
7 paragraphs saying how lazy we all are?
Would you have written 7 paragraphs on this in the pre-internet era?
"I'd be willing to bet their false positive rate is pretty low."
Your guess, which could be wild-assed or educated, notwithstanding, when it happens to you it's truly evil.
BTDT.
"Something like $6 or $7 per domain?"
$6 last time I checked.
" TFA: Yahoo and eBay said they do not expect the partnership to have a material impact on their financial results this year.
:-)"
Expect a statement soon from Google saying they agree
Translation: Aww goog, just buy us, it's better than rolling your own. Please?
Goog: We only buy things that work. Go away.
"Who sits on ICANN? typically, engineers from companies such as HP, Sun, MS,"
Company affiliations notwithstanding, they're lawyers, not engineers. The ones that don't have big company affiliation are lobbyists from the industry.
" Nevermind that it seems absurd that some goofy little branch of the department of Commerce holds -any- sway over ICANN"
.xxx during a Bush administration although I'd loved to be proved wrong.
Legally it works out like this: icann was formed with oversight by DoC/NTIA. Congress has natural oversight over this.
The US government is a monolith. Bits and pieces of it can't just do what they want. Oh they do, but that's why there's oversight.
None the less I don't expect anything to happen to
"You can protect against a government arranging an attack on its own people with tin foil? Sweet!"
Are you saying it never happens, ever?
" but would you mind referencing ANY influential Christian group that was lobbying ICANN"
/. stories on this topic for more details.
Yes, I'd mind, and they lobbied the White House, not ICANN. ICANN, if you recall, had already passed this once, sent it up top DoC for the usual and customary rubber stamp and got rejected.
See earleir
"Nobody disses the Woz!"
You've never actually met him, have you?
"Six things to do instead of reading this non-story
post smart-ass comments on slashdot
download pornography
search Google images for pictures of cool stuff you remember..."
If you have time try to have sex, read a book, buy a house and have normal kids.
Oh right, none are possible today. Oh well.
Always be suspicious when there's more google ads than information.
5" floppies? Bah, those were for children. Real men used 8" floppies. They worked. The 5" ones were always flakey.
The first videogame machine I bought was Pong. $300. Sound retarded? Yeah I thought so too. I took it back 2 days later for a refund.
I didn't know anybody with an 8-track car player. They were as stupid then as they seem now. Lots of people has casette decks though which really only became obsolete in fairly recent memory.
The price of things was fairly different. My first decent color monitor did 800x600 and cost $3500 1984 dollars. Yesterday I bought a nearly new 21" Sony 2000xwhatever for $2 in Sally Ann.
Gas was forty four cents a gallon the first time I filled up my $700 two year old Italian sportscar.
Nobody had a portable phone back then. Everybody has a pulse rotary phone. Here in Canada we still pay $2/mo on our phone bill for "pushbutton" service.
Acoustic couplers (300 baud) vs. DSL modems would have been good to include.
A carbon dioxide laser was millions of dollars and 30 feet long. Now they're $1000 on flea-bay and fit in a briefcase.
Tha cancer cure rate hasn't changed since the 60s. We can detect it earlier. Actually that's also true if you compare it to 1902.
SCO were assholes for as long as they've been around. So was Bill Gates. And Woz.
A Hasselblad was then and is still the best camera.
Back then you could get stuff repaired. Timex in the 50's invented the "it's cheaper to give you a new one than even look at the defective POS we sold you" philosophy.
Kids grew long hair to rebel. Now they cut their arms.
We lived in fear of nuclear war and flu pandemic. Just like today.
I can't find most of my flashcards. My old flexible diskettes still work amazingly. I have several broken digital cameras. My Canon AE1 still works.
You can buy today, a working, drivable diesel Mercedes for the price of changing the spark plugs on a new gas one.
Popular science was more science and less popular back then. And had a helluva lot more pages.
The price of a neon tetra hasn't changed in 30 years. An S class Mercedes cost 20X what it did 30 years ago. But it's the same price adjusted for inflation.
Windows was a bad idea in the 80's. It's worse now. Unix was cool in the 70's and actually worked.
I really think if somebody had slept for 30 years and woken up today it would take them about 10 minutyes to catch up. And then they'd say "this is IT?!?"
Yabbut... the Porsche and Ferrari have a roof. It's all well and good to make a car that looks like a 1978 formula 1 car but make something you can drive in the rain and take from New York to Florida on two fuel stops and we'll talk..
"...You pull into the "gas" station an automated device pulls the battery rack out of your car..."
And the "gas station" has an array of mirrors, or lots of them and makes its own juice without relying on a "big five" fuel company importing dead dino juice from the middle east.
Jah.
"Depends mostly on if our elected officials grant this unelected body the right to govern us. Happens all the time through various treaties."
Umm, yes. Look at ICANN.
Created on the face of it to make new top-level-domains it spent 3 years dealing with trademark issues and arguably that's still what it's all about. Jon Postel's dream of "300 new TLDS this year" to dilute Network Solutions power gave way to an organization by, for and of lawyers.
Now you can lose your domain name because some guy in Geneva says so and your local or national court system is simply not in the loop. Read the fine print.
I can only begin to imagine the lobbying going on at the UN and am utterly certain this will pass there and that my country and yours will ratify it thus making it national law.
It was said to me 10 years ago and I didn't believe it and I'll say it now to you and you won't believe it: you have no idea of the reach and determination of the IP lobby.
In a practical sense you will have no idea what they're up to till it's all over. In many cases you'll never find out.
I probably would not hurt to read or re-read Heinlein's "Friday".
No, it's not news it's a Microsoft plant. Google was the last one to get into this game and nowhere near the leader. Nice try, asshats.
I misread that as "Deep brain simulation".
About 3 years ago Verizon began rejecting about half the mail from a mailing list I run to it's subscribers there. Normail mail got through 100% of the time but stuff from a mailing list about a certain type of old German cars got nukked.
For two years 3 grey haired polite chaps used to dealing with local governments (successfully) tried to find out WTF and how to fix it.
After two years Verizon told us all to use a different ISP if they expected reliable email.
Apparantly is IS rocket science.
What kind of features require TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS to add?
You're all missing the point here.
.xxx should exist or not, there's been a several year process to, in ICANN-ese "measure community consensus" and .xxx was thrown back several times, regrouped and passed every ICANN barrier. ICANN submitted the root server change to the US government... who stepped all over it and said "NO. FUCKING NO. JUST FUCKING NO".
.xxx a good idea" but "Why can't the 16M a year organization who purport to rule the root actually make a change to the root" which harkens back to ideas central to the creation of ICANN wherein world governments thought they should be "in the loop" and nobody else did - world governmentst have their own laws and can influence their own people, but they should not have undue influence over an international system of naming hosts on the network.
.xxx - never mind 5 years of comment periods they were silent. The USG or ICANN is just trying to rationalise their move. And to be clear, it is absolutley and verifiably the Bush administration that's doing this not "the US government".
.xxx does not live in the US and a target audience is say, Germany. WTF does the US have to do with this? Oh wait, we're not pretending.
.com, run at the time by a US government contractor...
The issue is not if
So, the story here is not "is
Somebody - ICANN or the USG has got other world governments to spak up now against
Let's pretend the guy behind
Get the point now?
The USG determines what names go into the root. Never mind the 7 million utterly vile pornographic named that already exists in
ICANN invited the USG in. "You recognize us, we'll recognize you" a ploy they used with other governments, and now they've managed to put a choke-hold single point of failure on the technical administration of names and numbers of the network.
ICANN cannot do it's job. It simply is unable. Yet everybody with a domain name pays them to do that job. THAT'S the problem, not "how YOU feel about this particular arbitrary string of characters".
...is not if .xxx is a good thing to do, the real story is that ICANN, once it's approved the tld to be included in the root zone (like it did LAST YEAR) cannot actually get the domain past the US government.
.com after it and you'll find it most likely already exists.
In other words we have poeple in "charge" of the root zone that cannot actually do the job. The EU and Australia are old cronies of ICANN, part of the "deal with the devil" made upon ICANN's creation. You'll notice a year ago when ICANN approved and submitted the TLD for inclusion to its overseer the EU and Australia didn't say a thing/ Nor did they object in the TEN YEARS leading up to its approval.
No, the US Bush Administration stepped on it, thereby embarassing ICANN and suddenly ICANN's old friends, the EU and AUS NOW think maybe it's a bad udea. Oh puh-leeze.
Expect as time goes on more countried may object.
Never mind ICANN is supposed to "measure community consensus" implement the results. It is not supposed to create policy.
Never mind Governments of the world holds the technical administration of names and numbers by the nuts.
Never mind you can think of the most vile name, slap a
Never mind ICANN gets paid $16M a year to not be able to do its job.
For more details see my comment of a couple of days ago.
"maybe ORSN might even decide to become ICANN-incompatible"
.DOT was the first alternaitve TLD and I've been trying to convince poeple that the name slash.dot is a good thing.
It's a little known historic fact that
Ahem.
".XXX? Why not .CUM?"
Because XXX means the same thing in every langauge.