Actually, I'm not expecting much at all. The loudest headline I saw on the subway today was "Judge to Gov: Spring Pervs." Dunno what it was about exactly but the first line mentioned "sex fiends."
"Beurocrats Preserve Intertron Status Quo" doesn't have the same ring.
Seriously though, while the "rest of the world" may not want to rape and murder the internet (there are cash money incentives to openness), their bid for control is about just that, control. The U.S. has been pretty laiz es faire(sp?) about it. That said, there is no reason that ICANN should not be made independant as was originally planned. Look for this from the next administration.
Why can't every country run their own Internet type network
The siblings are missing something here. This only makes sense if you abandon the philosophy upon which the internet is built. The founding principle of openness is just as important as the fundamental technology.
How much hubub has been raised around China trying to sensor its part of the internet? Perhaps not enough, but the paradigm you suggest would allow a state such as China to choose not to make any peering agreements and flood the local "intronet" with its own propaganda. It would become just another state run news outlet.
Or require that the patented technology be implimented in a product available from the patent holder. This would prevent trolls from making money off their portfolios alone. Patents should only protect those who are putting themselves at legitimate risk to bring a product to market and who need some guarantee of return on investment.
But I'm still left without any understanding of what this "Legislation" is. Vint Cerf has read it apparently, but as it stands this is nothing but an ominous portent. What is actual content of this proposed law?
There are so many great comic artists who have been ignored for so long for the likes of Garfield (yawn) and Family Circus (shoot me). What a shame that they're going for the only genre that produces more cheap overdramatic and entirely unsubtle crap than Fox.
There is some irony in the growing embrace of manga by americans though. The style was inspired by american cartoons after all. The only difference is that here we continue to treat comic art as kid stuff while in asia manga grew out of control like worms at chernoble.
Actually, the real question is whether they are going to actually stop using the rootkit, or if they are releasing this "service pack" safe in the knowledge that only about ten people will use it before the press becomes disinterested and drops the story.
Another example of DRM restricting casual users and rolling over for the persistant violator. They have essentially killed their entire investment in this technology. I hope they didn't pay too much.
"I'd say the stupidity and arrogance of disconnecting from the internet and making your own, whether out of principle or some perceived need to have a new top level domain, trumps any stupidity and arrogance of the internet's original creator and caretaker retaining control..."
Which, in turn, is trumped only by the arrogance and narrowness of vision of this statement itself. What you are implying is that without content from the U.S. of A the Internet is worthless and crippled. Have a slice of humble pie while you contemplate the creative potential of the billions of people who aren't between the right and left coast. If they choose fragmentation it will not mean imminent death.
"The United States Government intends to preserve the security and stability of the Internet's Domain Name and Addressing System (DNS)."
As long as it fits with U.S. values and fulfillsU.S. needs. the.xxx domain shows clearly that at least the current administration can't help itself when it comes to contentious issues at ICANN. They cannot be trusted to remain hands off. There are no treaties or international accords that prevent the U.S. from meddling, and even if their were when you're the world's only superpower no treaty is sacred unless someone else violates it.
ICANN should remain, and it should be free of government control. No "international bodies" or U.N. review or U.S. censorship because the christian right is more afraid of kids seeing boobies at a.xxx domain than at a.com domain.
Thanks for posting a perfect illustration of the quality issues at Wikipedia.
Don't you think that article is sort of a cursory treatment given the importance of tier ones? Also clearly written by someone with some kind of grudge about big telcos.
There's still no word on a Mac realease and you're griping that they waited two days for a Linux client?!
Every game in the series, including Doom 3, which is the engine its built on, was released for Mac and they put out a Linux client first.
thank you for that...uuh...Jesus.
I can't seem to summon the right onomatopoeic text to go with the shivers I am experiencing right now. I'm afraid if Thompson saw it he would want to declair war with Japan or start some kind of video game trade embargo.
Maybe I'm asking for too much, but I though Mirrormask was visually stunning, really really gorgeous, but its plot managed to seem both hackneyed and non existant at the same time and the acting was a serious wet blanket on the whole experience.
It was basically Labyrinth turned inside out sans Jennifer Connely and David Bowie.
I still think they are taking a very narrow approach to the uses for this technology. The reasdon is probably that they want to get the most obvious industry for its deployment (advertising) excited early, but I don't think that this is the real place that this will be used.
Imagine a magazine reader instead. Its a two sided pallete that knows when you flip it over. Flip it one way, the page turns forward, flip it the other and the page turns back. It could be an eighth of an inch thick. Why use the material in the magazine when you can bring the magazine to the material.
I hear plenty of hate lobbed at Fox, but I certainly don't hear much praise being lobbed at CNN. IMO they're the same. The only difference is that I see a lot more coverage of murder/rape type shit on Fox. I guess they're counting on the "slack jawed rubber-necker" demographic.
Slashdot Mirror
Wouldn't you want it in front of the rover?
My personal assistant manages all my typing thanks.
"Beurocrats Preserve Intertron Status Quo" doesn't have the same ring.
Seriously though, while the "rest of the world" may not want to rape and murder the internet (there are cash money incentives to openness), their bid for control is about just that, control. The U.S. has been pretty laiz es faire(sp?) about it. That said, there is no reason that ICANN should not be made independant as was originally planned. Look for this from the next administration.
The siblings are missing something here. This only makes sense if you abandon the philosophy upon which the internet is built. The founding principle of openness is just as important as the fundamental technology.
How much hubub has been raised around China trying to sensor its part of the internet? Perhaps not enough, but the paradigm you suggest would allow a state such as China to choose not to make any peering agreements and flood the local "intronet" with its own propaganda. It would become just another state run news outlet.
whats with the CD logo? Are discs without it unreliable?
Or require that the patented technology be implimented in a product available from the patent holder. This would prevent trolls from making money off their portfolios alone. Patents should only protect those who are putting themselves at legitimate risk to bring a product to market and who need some guarantee of return on investment.
but they're re-making the wheel to limit liability. Bit-torrent needs to address issues like this if it wants to get a piece of this pie.
let the editor flambe begin
But I'm still left without any understanding of what this "Legislation" is. Vint Cerf has read it apparently, but as it stands this is nothing but an ominous portent. What is actual content of this proposed law?
hierarchically
There are so many great comic artists who have been ignored for so long for the likes of Garfield (yawn) and Family Circus (shoot me). What a shame that they're going for the only genre that produces more cheap overdramatic and entirely unsubtle crap than Fox. There is some irony in the growing embrace of manga by americans though. The style was inspired by american cartoons after all. The only difference is that here we continue to treat comic art as kid stuff while in asia manga grew out of control like worms at chernoble.
Another example of DRM restricting casual users and rolling over for the persistant violator. They have essentially killed their entire investment in this technology. I hope they didn't pay too much.
here's a closer view of a single cabinet, apparently almost completely assembled.
This one shows the overall design concept for the installation. Here again in a much sexier view
And here is a bluish picture of Gene Simmons which popped up also.
Of course their ambition is to bigger than Google in search. Their "ambition" has always been to be bigger than X at Y.
Which, in turn, is trumped only by the arrogance and narrowness of vision of this statement itself. What you are implying is that without content from the U.S. of A the Internet is worthless and crippled. Have a slice of humble pie while you contemplate the creative potential of the billions of people who aren't between the right and left coast. If they choose fragmentation it will not mean imminent death.
As long as it fits with U.S. values and fulfillsU.S. needs. the .xxx domain shows clearly that at least the current administration can't help itself when it comes to contentious issues at ICANN. They cannot be trusted to remain hands off. There are no treaties or international accords that prevent the U.S. from meddling, and even if their were when you're the world's only superpower no treaty is sacred unless someone else violates it.
ICANN should remain, and it should be free of government control. No "international bodies" or U.N. review or U.S. censorship because the christian right is more afraid of kids seeing boobies at a .xxx domain than at a .com domain.
Just ICANN and the marketplace.
I just checked and it has improved to what I would call a satisfactory degree. I'm sure the Slashdot exposure played a role there.
Thanks for posting a perfect illustration of the quality issues at Wikipedia.
Don't you think that article is sort of a cursory treatment given the importance of tier ones? Also clearly written by someone with some kind of grudge about big telcos.
Is this the first time this has happened? Is it too early to start talking about re-thinking the way this is put together?
Seriously, breakout would be welcome compaired to this shit.
There's still no word on a Mac realease and you're griping that they waited two days for a Linux client?! Every game in the series, including Doom 3, which is the engine its built on, was released for Mac and they put out a Linux client first.
thank you for that...uuh...Jesus.
I can't seem to summon the right onomatopoeic text to go with the shivers I am experiencing right now. I'm afraid if Thompson saw it he would want to declair war with Japan or start some kind of video game trade embargo.
And what games allow the player to virtually commit sexual assault??
It was basically Labyrinth turned inside out sans Jennifer Connely and David Bowie.
Imagine a magazine reader instead. Its a two sided pallete that knows when you flip it over. Flip it one way, the page turns forward, flip it the other and the page turns back. It could be an eighth of an inch thick. Why use the material in the magazine when you can bring the magazine to the material.
I hear plenty of hate lobbed at Fox, but I certainly don't hear much praise being lobbed at CNN. IMO they're the same. The only difference is that I see a lot more coverage of murder/rape type shit on Fox. I guess they're counting on the "slack jawed rubber-necker" demographic.