There is no way to hack SSL to do this. What we need is a complete reintergration of http/https/tls(ssl). Without this a see no way of doint it. http is an application-level protocol and tls is connection level (i'm simplyfying).
For normal (http) virtual web sites, hostname based virtuality is OK. But it isn't OK for https (SSL secured) web servers. A web server certificate is issued for name and IP and you can't have two of those on one IP.
I think moving to name-based virtual servers is a good idea in general, but the https problem needs to be resolved first.
It makes sense to impose geographic ordering of the web. At least separating international and national entities. Take for example iaps.org domain. It is a Indiana personnel agency. There is no need for them to have international domain. And there is International Association of Physics Students (which is really international) and was forced to take iaphys.org domain while well known organization name is IAPS, not IAPhys.
The domains aren't about the Web. The domains are about working Internet.
IMHO Three-letter TLDs shoudl be international (.gov equivalent to.int) with liquidation of.com,.net reserved for intercontinental operators,.org for international organizations,.mil for the Blue Helmets (UN military task forces). Everything else should be in a national domain, after all, Amazon or BN aren't multinational bookstores, they are US bookstores (and bookstore chains).
How about games for defunct platforms? I agree that 5 years MAY BE too short but look at games that run on Amiga or Commodore64 or Atari. I'd say - 5 years since the publisher stopped supporting the platform.
So, please Mr Legalist tell me where I can legally buy a copy of Frontier. Or Elite. Or "Psi5 Trading company". Or "Supremacy". They are "out of print". If a bok is out of print, I can go to the library and LEGALLY (at least in my country) photocopy it. It is called fair use and as you speak with a lawyer's firmness, you're probably aware about this revolutionary concept.
It depends on definition of fair use. For instance, in my country, faiur use does include copying for friends and close acquintances, and is perfectly legal.
Nokia cell phones already have games (don't know if there's tetris (I own a Motorola GSM, but AFAIK the evergreen 'snakes' even in IrDA duel mode and some more).
"Dowod osobisty", a small government-issued booklet containing photo, name, date of birth, maritial status (with maiden name if appropriate), registered children, and some other info (like officially registered permanent residence). It has a serial number. This is issued when you reach 18 (maturity)
everybody is issued a PESEL number (Common Electronical System of People/Population Identification - centralized government files). Access to PESEL databases is allowed only to governement above voivoidship (province) level.
everybody who earns anything is issued NIP (Tax identification Number). This is used on commercial contracts, tax forms and so on. If you misspel your NIP, you get in deep excrement.
There are some laws reducing requirements of ID. You are forced by law to show your 'dowod osobisty' only to police and governement officials. No one else may require you to show it (I often show my "Press" ID - it contains only my name, photo and info on the small magazine I cooperate with). To avoid mistakes, people are identified in the files by first names of their parents like "Jan [this is MALE name] Kowalski, son of Roman and Barbara". This reduces risk of mistake. Furthermore, there is law against 'data hoarding' - if an private institution gathers any data on you, you can go to them and say - I want you to delete all your data on me (of course if you do this at the bank, they drop you as a client) and they are obliged by law to do so.
So, in general I'd say that the situation is slightly better - there is unified system of ID (PESEL) at least.
Sure, we aren't criminals. Bu this depends on definition of the criminal. You may become a criminal for linking to DeCSS (OK, I know that this hasn't been outlawed, yet), for breaking shrinkwrap license you could not read before accepting and so on. My point is that once we can become criminals for thing that werent forbidden a day ago. Running anonymous remailer. Possessing a debugger. Using Gnutella, Project Eternity or Freenet. And you would not be able to do anything about it. of course you always could comply to the regulations.
I make my living off an intelectual property I produce. But I'm against all this stuff going for 'protection of intelectual property'. Because it is not protecting MY rights. Itis protecting only the rights of those who employ me and make big bucks on my work. Sure, they pay me so much that I won't leave. But where I would leave to ? Another place where I will be only a producer of intelectual merchandise ?
Of course, i can become a conslutant (this is not a typo). A mercenary. A shadowrunner in corporate world. Be free and hope to find the next contract to pay my bills. Using illegal tricks (I work in network security and it is starting to be illegal to posess breakin tools (i.e. a portscanner - a basic tool in this trade)). With this, I see no difference between current situation and Shadowrun (though I prefer Delta Green.
The hardware costs you a lot of money and if you can easily break it physically, its a design flaw.
I once lost a 1.6 GB data by accidentally dropping a harddisk from the height of a chair. This made me to purchase a few precautions - without hard case my new PalmVx woul be dead after a month (a cow-orker) accidentally dropped it off my desk and stuff). If would ptobably not withstand gunfire but it is safer for the data to be in hard case.
The same for other hardware. When you purchase a brand-new notebook for $3000 you would want to be able to break it by accidentally dropping. Not to mention data loss.
Gunfire is extremal but hardware should be durable and withstand heavu physical conditions.
Well, thats a stupidest question I have seen for a long time.
I am from a not very wealthy country and when we started into the 'Net (BitNET/EARN then, whole country hang on 9600 bps line for a while in this 1992) it was a poor country at all.
there was no Web, no eBay, no Amazon and no use for it, it seemed.
Bu there was use and we made a good thing of it.
The real power of Internet is not the marketplace.
It is only the power of making money on the Internet (and NASDAQ).
The real power is the knowledge. Using Internet you can get information on almost anything that exists, and I'm disappointed that fellow Slashdotter does not think about it.
Those countries need industry to stop being poor. And the cheapest and best industry in present times is IT. You only need educated people and some hardware. And Internet is the best way of educating people for the industry. They will leard, nad start their companies. Make some money. This will help the countries they live in.
I haven't seen it but being optional gives you a choice (personally I prefer MiniDisc to MP3). And if MP3 was created for GSM, what are those all GSM codecs for, then ? Alex --
It is not the first. Ericsson T28s (GSM Dual Band, avaliable in Europe) has a plugin MP3 player at least since CeBit (my friend, a fanatic of Ericsson GSM phones tested one then). But I'm not sure if it is avaliable on the market now.
Last year, (I was working at Torun District Heating Plant, then) I posted an advertisement about new breakthrough method of Internet access we developed in cooperation with Danfoss (manufacturer of lots of heating equipment). This was internet access thru city-wide heating network. The best part, is, I got a lot of queries about avaliability of this tehcnology...
Re: GnuPG being funded by government - its not completely like this. The German government money came after the long - worked release 1.0, and the project would go without them. The money will pay Windows versions and plugins for various e-mail Win clients, not the core work (as far as I know and Werner states things to developers (anyway it was his reply when I asked If I'll have to localize windows versions also)). - alex
I don't think that IPOs like VA's and money coming from OSS can repel hackers from doing it. And, even if there will be less people doing it, the code remains. All this stuff on Metalab/SunSITE is not going to disappear. I don't do much OSS these days (I've almost burnt my flame out back in the Amiga days), but I'm official translator of GnuPG to Polish language - I did it when this was a lunatic project to write PGP from scratch, (and I was making $100/month as a student), and I'm gonna continue it when it goes as government sponsored project (and I got a Real Job). There is this anecdote about one of the founders of Sun Microsystems (whatwashisname) who as a company president still would come to office to hack compilers at night. When asked why is he doing this - he had hordes of programmers in company's salt mines, he simply said "I like writing compilers". And that's the way it is.
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It is a pre-kernel probably.
Alex
Alex
I doubt it. There is no way to make SSL tell the remote server which hostname he wants to connect to. The http-over-ssl negotiation starts much later.
A.
Alex
I think moving to name-based virtual servers is a good idea in general, but the https problem needs to be resolved first.
Alex
Poles stood against Germans twice (and we got our asses kicked badly). Do you have more respect for us ?
A.
The domains aren't about the Web. The domains are about working Internet.
IMHO Three-letter TLDs shoudl be international (.gov equivalent to .int) with liquidation of .com, .net reserved for intercontinental operators, .org for international organizations, .mil for the Blue Helmets (UN military task forces). Everything else should be in a national domain, after all, Amazon or BN aren't multinational bookstores, they are US bookstores (and bookstore chains).
Alex
You didn't answer my question: where I can get old software legally ? A.
There is a open source remake of Paradroid for Linux. It is called Nighthawk. As usual, debian package listing got helpful. Alex
How about games for defunct platforms? I agree that 5 years MAY BE too short but look at games that run on Amiga or Commodore64 or Atari. I'd say - 5 years since the publisher stopped supporting the platform.
Alex
So, please Mr Legalist tell me where I can legally buy a copy of Frontier. Or Elite. Or "Psi5 Trading company". Or "Supremacy". They are "out of print". If a bok is out of print, I can go to the library and LEGALLY (at least in my country) photocopy it. It is called fair use and as you speak with a lawyer's firmness, you're probably aware about this revolutionary concept.
Have you read 'Snow Crash'?
Alex
Alex
Nokia cell phones already have games (don't know if there's tetris (I own a Motorola GSM, but AFAIK the evergreen 'snakes' even in IrDA duel mode and some more).
Alex
You forgot the window parameters filling part, which was a bit longer, but not much. Alex --
- "Dowod osobisty", a small government-issued booklet containing photo, name, date of birth, maritial status (with maiden name if appropriate), registered children, and some other info (like officially registered permanent residence). It has a serial number. This is issued when you reach 18 (maturity)
- everybody is issued a PESEL number (Common Electronical System of People/Population Identification - centralized government files). Access to PESEL databases is allowed only to governement above voivoidship (province) level.
- everybody who earns anything is issued NIP (Tax identification Number). This is used on commercial contracts, tax forms and so on. If you misspel your NIP, you get in deep excrement.
There are some laws reducing requirements of ID. You are forced by law to show your 'dowod osobisty' only to police and governement officials. No one else may require you to show it (I often show my "Press" ID - it contains only my name, photo and info on the small magazine I cooperate with). To avoid mistakes, people are identified in the files by first names of their parents like "Jan [this is MALE name] Kowalski, son of Roman and Barbara". This reduces risk of mistake. Furthermore, there is law against 'data hoarding' - if an private institution gathers any data on you, you can go to them and say - I want you to delete all your data on me (of course if you do this at the bank, they drop you as a client) and they are obliged by law to do so.So, in general I'd say that the situation is slightly better - there is unified system of ID (PESEL) at least.
Alex
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I make my living off an intelectual property I produce. But I'm against all this stuff going for 'protection of intelectual property'. Because it is not protecting MY rights. Itis protecting only the rights of those who employ me and make big bucks on my work. Sure, they pay me so much that I won't leave. But where I would leave to ? Another place where I will be only a producer of intelectual merchandise ?
Of course, i can become a conslutant (this is not a typo). A mercenary. A shadowrunner in corporate world. Be free and hope to find the next contract to pay my bills. Using illegal tricks (I work in network security and it is starting to be illegal to posess breakin tools (i.e. a portscanner - a basic tool in this trade)). With this, I see no difference between current situation and Shadowrun (though I prefer Delta Green.
Alex
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The physical durability of hardware IS important.
The hardware costs you a lot of money and if you can easily break it physically, its a design flaw.
I once lost a 1.6 GB data by accidentally dropping a harddisk from the height of a chair. This made me to purchase a few precautions - without hard case my new PalmVx woul be dead after a month (a cow-orker) accidentally dropped it off my desk and stuff). If would ptobably not withstand gunfire but it is safer for the data to be in hard case.
The same for other hardware. When you purchase a brand-new notebook for $3000 you would want to be able to break it by accidentally dropping. Not to mention data loss.
Gunfire is extremal but hardware should be durable and withstand heavu physical conditions.
Alex
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You ask what internet is good for poor countries.
Well, thats a stupidest question I have seen for
a long time.
I am from a not very wealthy country and when we started into the 'Net (BitNET/EARN then, whole country hang on 9600 bps line for a while in this 1992) it was a poor country at all.
there was no Web, no eBay, no Amazon and no use for it, it seemed.
Bu there was use and we made a good thing of it.
The real power of Internet is not the marketplace.
It is only the power of making money on the Internet (and NASDAQ).
The real power is the knowledge. Using Internet you can get information on almost anything that exists, and I'm disappointed that fellow Slashdotter does not think about it.
Those countries need industry to stop being poor. And the cheapest and best industry in present times is IT. You only need educated people and some hardware. And Internet is the best way of educating people for the industry. They will leard, nad start their companies. Make some money.
This will help the countries they live in.
And thats why they need Internet and GeekCorps.
Alex
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I haven't seen it but being optional gives you a choice (personally I prefer MiniDisc to MP3). And if MP3 was created for GSM, what are those all GSM codecs for, then ? Alex --
It is not the first. Ericsson T28s (GSM Dual Band, avaliable in Europe) has a plugin MP3 player at least since CeBit (my friend, a fanatic of Ericsson GSM phones tested one then). But I'm not sure if it is avaliable on the market now.
Alex
--
Last year, (I was working at Torun District Heating Plant, then) I posted an advertisement about new breakthrough method of Internet access we developed in cooperation with Danfoss (manufacturer of lots of heating equipment). This was internet access thru city-wide heating network. The best part, is, I got a lot of queries about avaliability of this tehcnology...
Amen, brother...
Re: GnuPG being funded by government - its not completely like this. The German government money came after the long - worked release 1.0, and the project would go without them. The money will pay Windows versions and plugins for various e-mail Win clients, not the core work (as far as I know and Werner states things to developers (anyway it was his reply when I asked If I'll have to localize windows versions also)).
- alex
I don't think that IPOs like VA's and money coming from OSS can repel hackers from doing it. And, even if there will be less people doing it, the code remains. All this stuff on Metalab/SunSITE is not going to disappear. I don't do much OSS these days (I've almost burnt my flame out back in the Amiga days), but I'm official translator of GnuPG to Polish language - I did it when this was a lunatic project to write PGP from scratch, (and I was making $100/month as a student), and I'm gonna continue it when it goes as government sponsored project (and I got a Real Job). There is this anecdote about one of the founders of Sun Microsystems (whatwashisname) who as a company president still would come to office to hack compilers at night. When asked why is he doing this - he had hordes of programmers in company's salt mines, he simply said "I like writing compilers". And that's the way it is.