A corporation may be legally registered and operating in dozens of countries
Exactly my point.
If one can be legally registered in dozens of countries, they should get a domain name on a per country basis. The only exception I see are the UN and similar organisations.
Well this war has been fought over before. Remember Adidas and the three stripes?
The only difference now is the Arena. In a time where branding is everything, the value of one's name, and its association with one's web presence is tremendous.
However, the current domain name registration system is haphazard to say the least. On the one hand you get the country specific top level domains, which applies to all the countries except US (Thought the.US does exist). There's.com and.org to differentiate between commercial and non-commercial organisations, but nobody takes that distinction seriously..net (not the MS platfrom) is yet another completely different story.
I think the first task of the day is to get this anarchical hierarchy into some order. We must get US to use it's TLD, and get rid of.com,.org,.net etc completely.
Then, there should be clear guidelines as to who gets.com.?? and.net.?? etc. PEople have made these disticntions for tax purpose, why not do it for domain name purposes?
Then there should be a new second level domain, such as.ind.?? for individuals to register their names. It should follow the first name surname pattern. Of course mary.brown.ind.uk is going to be a problem, and a resolution scheme must be found.
The first-come first-server free for all messy domain registration system does not bode well for making the internet any less complicated.
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I believe this is a step in the right direction as far as dividing the gap between information "haves" and "have nots" go.
For example, I knew a Pakistani family in London who had relatives in the remote Karakorum region of Gilgit. The only way to get internet there was to use satellites, but this was beyond the means of many. So the London family had to rely solely on snail mail.
Thanks to the sheer inefficiency of both Royal Mail and PAkistani mail, letters took months, yes, months to get to the destination. However, if the messages travelled over wires as far they could, then both the costs and delays could have been reduced significantly.
BitTorrent is based on Kazaa, and the rights to the source code of Kazaa itself will soon be contested in
court according BBC news.
The Romanian programmer is suing Kazaa for a cool US$25 million,
claiming he owns the code. If you remember, Kazaa sued Mr. Toader last
year. The court
record can be found here.
This surely must be music to the ears of the RIAA.
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I felt that the drilling Sedna story was quite funny, and I wanted more people to read it. I have noticed how utter troll comments get Modded +5 on Slashdot, and I was wondering, if I attached that story to a piece of news - drilling Europa in this case - and addes some psuedo-scientific rant, it JUST might get approved.
and LO and BEHOLD, it did! I tried submitting this to other/. like sites, and they just lauged it off.
Long Live Slashdot
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Simpson's will jump the shark when:
"ONCE EVERY CELEBRITY IN THE UNIVERSE MADE A GUEST APPEARANCE."
according to this comment
P.S. And if the new planet is teeming with intelligent life, have can you call it earth like????
The issue at hand is not whether Warez is legal or not. It is about whether a criminal, which according to the books he is, should be extradited or not.
Both these subjects need cross-jurisdiction law enforcing. It's one thing to fight the monopoly of software giants by promoting free software. But Warez is just plane criminal.
Physical boundaries mean nothing in cyberspace. Hence, jurisdiction based on such boundaries become meaningless.
I believe that fear of US sanctions have worked well to bring some countries to crack down.
But sometimes this is not enough. It is not a case of hijacking Australian law.
I am usually don't condone the strong arm techniques of the US government. And I do support open source. But Warez is a crime. And it should be punished.
Cross jurisdiction policing is the only way to fight spammers. It is the only way to stop intellectual property theft. But more importantly it is the only way to fight terrorism.
(I do understand that terrorism means different things to different people. But whatever the reasons terrorist have for doing what they do, KILLING INNOCENT CIVILIANS is immoral. Full stop.)
5. Your basement will be the biggest in town
4. You could have your own nuclear reactor
3. You can hide from militant feminists
2. The best place to be when millennium bug II (somewhere around 2047 I guess) comes around.
1. You can dodge the special skills draft
On the one hand, we want to use IP for our voice communications. On the other, we want to use our mobile phone for surfing the web (and installing Linux but that's another story).
So which way are we headed?
It's quite ironic that the internet spread as rapidly as it did because people were able to use internet over dialup, and today, the discussion is about how to replace the existing PSTN architecture with VoIP.
However, I think sooner, or later, people will make ALL there phone calls using internet enabled mobile phones. So what protocol are they going to use? Or is it going to be a mix of protocols, say, if a Canadian were to talk to a friend in Australia?
This has been going on in Israel for decades. As a result, Isreal has produced some of the best computer programmer's in the world. Most of the developers end up in VERY high paying jobs once they are released from military duty.
Of course, if you don't like the draft, you could always migrate to India India.
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Linux has created two classes of people. Those who can, and those who can't
It is not a problem with Linux per se. It is a problem with the culture. The Geeks spend too much time trying to show non-Geeks how uncool using Windows is, instead of trying to spread gospel, so to speak.
Today, the schism between these two classes is so great one views the other with hostility and mistrust. This is not how a society should evolve.
What should be done in the next ten years?
De-mystify Linux
Understand that Linux is superior to Windows, but Linux users are not superior to Windows users.
Stop saying how bad windows is. Say how good Linux is.
Billions of records: The trouble with MATRIX, said Calbrese, is the volume of data it contains, much of which was purchased unbeknown to states by Seisint Inc. Seisint is the Florida information-technology company that developed the idea for MATRIX and landed a $1.6 million contract with that state's Department of Law Enforcement to pilot it.
I am guessing Mr. Ashcroft pay this out of his own pcoket. So this tax payer's money.
Is this going to make you any safer? Doubtful.
Is this going to make you poorer? Yes, Indirectly.
Is this going to make Seisinit richer? Sure.
Is this going to violate your privacy? Most Definitely.
So you are basically paying Seisinit to take away your privacy. This is a bit like this story here. But that one is a bit more believable.
I thought this was something about the democratic nominations, but then saw Kerry was missing.
Flippancy apart, I think using CSS to make IE7 W3C compliant is a really brilliant idea. However, the browser itself is a small part of the equations. Very few websites are W3C compliant. Vast majority of them are geared to a certain browser, depending on the whim and fancy of the designer.
For my part, I run my sites thru Anybrowser to make sure they will render on, well, as the name suggests, any browser.
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Exactly my point.
If one can be legally registered in dozens of countries, they should get a domain name on a per country basis. The only exception I see are the UN and similar organisations.
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And then Civilisation, though it is not that classic. Prince of Persia is cool too.
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The only difference now is the Arena. In a time where branding is everything, the value of one's name, and its association with one's web presence is tremendous.
However, the current domain name registration system is haphazard to say the least. On the one hand you get the country specific top level domains, which applies to all the countries except US (Thought the .US does exist). There's .com and .org to differentiate between commercial and non-commercial organisations, but nobody takes that distinction seriously. .net (not the MS platfrom) is yet another completely different story.
I think the first task of the day is to get this anarchical hierarchy into some order. We must get US to use it's TLD, and get rid of .com, .org, .net etc completely.
Then, there should be clear guidelines as to who gets .com.?? and .net.?? etc. PEople have made these disticntions for tax purpose, why not do it for domain name purposes?
Then there should be a new second level domain, such as .ind.?? for individuals to register their names. It should follow the first name surname pattern. Of course mary.brown.ind.uk is going to be a problem, and a resolution scheme must be found.
The first-come first-server free for all messy domain registration system does not bode well for making the internet any less complicated.
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has obviously led him to make this move.
For example, I knew a Pakistani family in London who had relatives in the remote Karakorum region of Gilgit. The only way to get internet there was to use satellites, but this was beyond the means of many. So the London family had to rely solely on snail mail.
Thanks to the sheer inefficiency of both Royal Mail and PAkistani mail, letters took months, yes, months to get to the destination. However, if the messages travelled over wires as far they could, then both the costs and delays could have been reduced significantly.
tsk... tsk...
BitTorrent is based on Kazaa, and the rights to the source code of Kazaa itself will soon be contested in court according BBC news. The Romanian programmer is suing Kazaa for a cool US$25 million, claiming he owns the code. If you remember, Kazaa sued Mr. Toader last year. The court record can be found here.
This surely must be music to the ears of the RIAA.
and LO and BEHOLD, it did! I tried submitting this to other /. like sites, and they just lauged it off.
Long Live Slashdot
"ONCE EVERY CELEBRITY IN THE UNIVERSE MADE A GUEST APPEARANCE."
according to this comment
P.S. And if the new planet is teeming with intelligent life, have can you call it earth like????
The issue at hand is not whether Warez is legal or not. It is about whether a criminal, which according to the books he is, should be extradited or not.
Both these subjects need cross-jurisdiction law enforcing. It's one thing to fight the monopoly of software giants by promoting free software. But Warez is just plane criminal.
I believe that fear of US sanctions have worked well to bring some countries to crack down.
But sometimes this is not enough. It is not a case of hijacking Australian law.
I am usually don't condone the strong arm techniques of the US government. And I do support open source. But Warez is a crime. And it should be punished.
Cross jurisdiction policing is the only way to fight spammers. It is the only way to stop intellectual property theft. But more importantly it is the only way to fight terrorism.
(I do understand that terrorism means different things to different people. But whatever the reasons terrorist have for doing what they do, KILLING INNOCENT CIVILIANS is immoral. Full stop.)
5. Your basement will be the biggest in town 4. You could have your own nuclear reactor 3. You can hide from militant feminists 2. The best place to be when millennium bug II (somewhere around 2047 I guess) comes around. 1. You can dodge the special skills draft
So which way are we headed?
It's quite ironic that the internet spread as rapidly as it did because people were able to use internet over dialup, and today, the discussion is about how to replace the existing PSTN architecture with VoIP.
However, I think sooner, or later, people will make ALL there phone calls using internet enabled mobile phones. So what protocol are they going to use? Or is it going to be a mix of protocols, say, if a Canadian were to talk to a friend in Australia?
At the same time, if the country is in grave danger, say for example she's being invaded, I would gladly volunteer.
If I have to dodge the draft, I will escape to Thailand, India or Mars
This has been going on in Israel for decades. As a result, Isreal has produced some of the best computer programmer's in the world. Most of the developers end up in VERY high paying jobs once they are released from military duty.
Of course, if you don't like the draft, you could always migrate to India India.
It is not a problem with Linux per se. It is a problem with the culture. The Geeks spend too much time trying to show non-Geeks how uncool using Windows is, instead of trying to spread gospel, so to speak.
Today, the schism between these two classes is so great one views the other with hostility and mistrust. This is not how a society should evolve.
What should be done in the next ten years?
I am guessing Mr. Ashcroft pay this out of his own pcoket. So this tax payer's money.
Is this going to make you any safer? Doubtful.
Is this going to make you poorer? Yes, Indirectly.
Is this going to make Seisinit richer? Sure.
Is this going to violate your privacy? Most Definitely.
So you are basically paying Seisinit to take away your privacy. This is a bit like this story here. But that one is a bit more believable.
Here's an online vacancy.
The view of earth would look like this , according to this slashdot story.
Flippancy apart, I think using CSS to make IE7 W3C compliant is a really brilliant idea. However, the browser itself is a small part of the equations. Very few websites are W3C compliant. Vast majority of them are geared to a certain browser, depending on the whim and fancy of the designer.
For my part, I run my sites thru Anybrowser to make sure they will render on, well, as the name suggests, any browser.
And what can you do with 800GB? More pr0n I guess...
I am going to ask my friend at AIT Times to try it out.