Most of the people who are gone wouldn't be too concerned with a Wifi network in the first place.
You don't need a huge city with a tremendous bustling population to have wi-fi networks. The city of Flagstaff, Arizona, has lots of free wi-fi, and the population is only around 65,000,... Though it helps to have a major, state-supported University in town, combined with a pretty healthy hotel/hospitality industry,...;-)
Heck, the hotel & restaurant industry supports the vast majority of Flagstaff's free wi-fi! No tax dollars necessary. You would think that, with all of the tourism in New Orleans, they wouldn't have a need for the government to fund a wi-fi project, either,...
/still waiting for a big WI-MAX antennae to be placed on the top of Humphrey's Peak at 12,633 feet!:-)
I personally can see the benefits of a.xxx domain. It's actually a good idea in principle, but IMHO needed to have been put in place as one of the original TLDs in order to be effective. Plus, I like the idea of.xxx a helluva lot better than some of the other completely useless TLDs that ICANN has actually approved, like.biz,.museum, and.aero! WTF?!?!
The main reason that we'll never see a.xxx TLD is for these reasons:
The box is already open. P0rn site operators have operated for years with.coms, and there's no way you're going to get every single one of them to voluntarily transfer their registrations to.xxx (and pay a higher fee for additional maintenance and additional rules). If you want this to happen, someone has to actually force them to go there and automatically transfer their.coms over to.xxxs.
The problem with #1 is that if you actually force these people to go to.xxx, who gets to decide? The U.S. government has no right or jurisdiction to force Russian or Albanian p0rn site operators to move to.xxx. And if the Christian "Right" (I have a hard time calling them the "Christian Right," when 99.9% of the time, they are wrong) is in charge of this, they're going to force all sorts of people to move over there. Sites like Victoria's Secret, Sports Illustrated, and even Wikipedia are going to be forced to register as.xxx sites! Heck, somebody's probably going to force McDonald's to register as a.xxx site because their hamburgers are "damaging" to the children (remember, it's all about the children, folks).
So today, we've basically got a huge can of worms with this situation, that no one wants to touch. Sure, if.xxx existed originally, I think most p0rn site operators would have registered in that domain (it makes sense). But nobody's going to go back.
The real reason that we'll never see a.XXX domain is because they're trying to add it way too late. If.XXX had been a part of the original TLDs back in the 1980s or so, I think we'd see most porn site operators opting for that vs..COM. Instead, we never had this as an option, combined with the fact that the.COM registrars will give a domain to just about anybody that can breath and has DNA!!
In other words, they opened Pandora's box long ago and now there's a huge mess of p0rn all over the place. Good luck trying to clean this shiat up!
Unfortunately, it doesn't matter too much what the right-wing, religious fanatics in this country consider to be porn or not. The real root of the issue is that fact that they're proposing a.xxx TLD, which now gets into the international community. What is considered porn in the U.S. may be considered perfectly fine in places like, say, Sweden, for example,... And of course, what we consider pretty tame is considered hard core porn in places like Iran or Kuwait, where women can't even be seen in public without being covered from head to toe.
Well, I'm not impressed. This thing crashed my Firefox window within a minute. All I did was open the document, look at the sample file it had in there, open the File:Save options to see what options I had, which crashed the program (and my entire Firefox application). And this being on a P4 3.8 GHz with something around the lines of 4 GB RAM.
So maybe somebody typing some letter to Grandma or something might be able to put up with this type of shoddy programming, but for mission critical stuff, you're better off sticking with something like Micro$oft Word (or even OpenOffice). Hell, Windows NotePad is better than this piece of junk!
Just the mere fact that she even has a MySpace account ought to be grounds for not hiring her in the first place! I swear, MySpace has got to be the, "back-end" of the internet, if the internet even has a "back-end." Who taught these people web design?!?!
Will non-supercomputer users even be able to take advantage of that much dataflow? I can't imagine even being able to write all of that out to a HD, much less the overhead required for packet management.
You are apparently not familiar with the bandwidth and data transfer requirements of Windows Vista bloatware,...
my question to/.ers is this: should we be focusing so much on mars or should we be looking toward other possible outposts/life harboring worlds like europa.
Didn't HAL (or Dave Bowman, or whomever the aliens were) tell us, "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE."?
6-Online Sales ?7?-Games?? (is this a possibility down the line) A large sector with big potential
The next big news story to come out about Google will be when they announce that they're purchasing Duke Nukem Forever. Then, the game really will be in Beta forever!
I call shenanigans on this one! No one from University College Dublin would even be remotely interested in ever consuming nor producing anything even close resembling Budweiser!!!!
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You don't need a huge city with a tremendous bustling population to have wi-fi networks. The city of Flagstaff, Arizona, has lots of free wi-fi, and the population is only around 65,000,... Though it helps to have a major, state-supported University in town, combined with a pretty healthy hotel/hospitality industry,... ;-)
Heck, the hotel & restaurant industry supports the vast majority of Flagstaff's free wi-fi! No tax dollars necessary. You would think that, with all of the tourism in New Orleans, they wouldn't have a need for the government to fund a wi-fi project, either,...
Who cares! I want one with OMG PINK PONIES!
The main reason that we'll never see a .xxx TLD is for these reasons:
So today, we've basically got a huge can of worms with this situation, that no one wants to touch. Sure, if .xxx existed originally, I think most p0rn site operators would have registered in that domain (it makes sense). But nobody's going to go back.
FOR THE RECORD: Not all Christians think this way.
Actually, shouldn't your message read: "THIS IS WHAT CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS ACTUALLY BELIEVE."
Because Al Gore said so back when he created the Internet! Duh! :-)
And NO, there WON'T EVER be pictures of CowboyNeal naked. Period.
Don't even think about it.
In other words, they opened Pandora's box long ago and now there's a huge mess of p0rn all over the place. Good luck trying to clean this shiat up!
Some people would even argue that certain parts of Wikipedia constitute pornography. Do we force an encyclopedia into .xxx, too?
Unfortunately, it doesn't matter too much what the right-wing, religious fanatics in this country consider to be porn or not. The real root of the issue is that fact that they're proposing a .xxx TLD, which now gets into the international community. What is considered porn in the U.S. may be considered perfectly fine in places like, say, Sweden, for example,... And of course, what we consider pretty tame is considered hard core porn in places like Iran or Kuwait, where women can't even be seen in public without being covered from head to toe.
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So maybe somebody typing some letter to Grandma or something might be able to put up with this type of shoddy programming, but for mission critical stuff, you're better off sticking with something like Micro$oft Word (or even OpenOffice). Hell, Windows NotePad is better than this piece of junk!
I thought not being able to spell, "cylon," was automatic grounds for losing all of your geek points to begin with, right?
Just the mere fact that she even has a MySpace account ought to be grounds for not hiring her in the first place! I swear, MySpace has got to be the, "back-end" of the internet, if the internet even has a "back-end." Who taught these people web design?!?!
You are apparently not familiar with the bandwidth and data transfer requirements of Windows Vista bloatware,...
Didn't HAL (or Dave Bowman, or whomever the aliens were) tell us, "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE."?
Yeah! Imagine what a beowulf cluster of these things could do?
I don't know,... I think I'd much rather have a LAPP dance than a LAMP dance?
The next big news story to come out about Google will be when they announce that they're purchasing Duke Nukem Forever. Then, the game really will be in Beta forever!
We don't need bacteria to excrete Guinness. The process of making beer is primarily done by yeast (another single-celled organism).
I call shenanigans on this one! No one from University College Dublin would even be remotely interested in ever consuming nor producing anything even close resembling Budweiser!!!!