I was under the impression that the DoC was in official control of ICANN, but then again, I am not really that informed on these issues . . . I just love commenting because I see so many people even more ignorant than myself shooting off. =) Sorry for thinking you were one of them.
The location of the root servers do not matter to the people who are making these decisions, only who controls them. It is the case that all of the root servers are controlled by a corporation (ICANN) which itself is controlled by the US DoC, so I don't know exactly what you're trying to say. It does not matter where they are located, only who they are controlled by.
That's how animation was done back in the day at Disney. Factories of "in-betweeners" filling in the details between frames drawn by more advanced animators, who themselves were modelling their work off of storyboards and drawings done by the person in charge. All for the sake of the dream of becoming that guy who leads everyone else.
Yeah, people will still do the work, and they will like it. Perhaps not for the work itself, but for what it can bring.
At my school comp for CS majors is $50K on average right out of school. If you work 40 hours a week with no vacation for a year this is $23/hr. Video game companies generally pay above average wages because they require above average talent. So . . . yeah.
Newsflash: nobody cares about the "Spirit of the UN." They only have the right if the US gives it to them or if they can take it, and since neither of those things look like they will happen, they have no right to the DNS servers, only a DESIRE to have them.
I think the best way for everything to work would be to have the root name servers be controlled internationally, but have every page prefixed by the country in which it resides. For instance, to the rest of the worlds, all pages would be http:us//www.google.com or something like that (I'm not sure of the appropriate way to fit that into the current naming system.). This would be a lot like our modern country code stuff.
If it were so easy to make the US collapse, why hasn't anyone done it yet?
Face it. Your doomsday/new world order predictions? None of them will ever happen. The US may/probably will not remain the most powerful nation in the world forever, but if it fails, it will not be because of outside forces, just the way the fall of Rome was not due to the barbarians, but rather to the rot that occurred within its own borders.
All right, let's be clear on one thing. All of our government's debt, it is imaginary, if you really think about it. If at any time everyone decided to demanded payment of that great sum of money and we could not pay, we would simply default on it and that would be the end of that. Poof. All the debt is gone.
Sure, it would make it hard to borrow money for a while, but the question you have to ask yourself is, "Who would be hurt more?" I think that you can probably guess the answer to that question. You understand, I hope, that in a situation where money is lent, both the lender and the borrower profit.
England controls its own telephone system, just like the US controls its own as well. If you want to have a separate internet with separate names, it's fine with us. We will all still be able to access the real one.
The only difference is that the world wide web requires no root servers. So it doesn't really matter who "controls it," in fact, control is a misnomer. You run a program on your server that receives requests and responds to them. That is what the world wide web is, a series of concepts. What is important is the root DNS servers that control what text string translates to which IP address and the assignment of those IP addresses, which actually does have to be administered separately.
It's not actually encryption unless there is a secret key involved somewhere, and is really breakable, by just one guy even. Only one person needs to figure out how that decoder chip in the TV works, and he can write an algorithm that anyone can use to fix their files. You can never stop this until you can get everyone running on a managed virtual machine that doesn't allow editing of binary files or creation of new ones, and this will never happen (Not unless they outlaw linux, I mean!).
What could they do about it if they did, though? That is the beautiful part. The better still, Microsoft provides a product which facilitates the cracking of these DRM schemes i.e. WinDbg, with which you can read assembly code and "fix" it or write something that performs the same operations in reverse. =D The irony is lovely.
Uh. He said PDF. That seems specific enough that there should be no reason why we need to branch into ridiculous speculations about lawsuits in a scenario that is very obviously contrary to reality.
Lay off the Microsoft Is Evil pills man . . . they are making you see things that aren't there.
On top of that, I don't get the sense from reading the article that the author knows how any of this stuff works either. How is he any different from us except that he was around when some current techs didn't exist?
The state of reality is clearly portrayed in your post. I like it a lot -- it's helped me understand some of the things I haven't been able to reconcile in open source for a long time.
--James Aguilar (SAT score: 1560, Verbal: 800, Nonverbal:760) (AP: 5's: 6, 4's: 2) (Credit hours at start of Junior year: 90 -- 6 graduate level) (Internships: 1) (Research assistanceships: 2) (In major GPA [Comp Sci]: 3.9).
Those stats I put down may not be my actual stats, but if they were, do you see how my saying all that wouldn't make me right? The same applies to what you put down. Your manner of argument alone is enough to discredit whatever opinion you have on the issue.
I heard this factoid the other day. Microsoft has enough money that if they stopped selling completely tomorrow, they could continue producing at their current level for FIVE YEARS before they had to lay anyone off.
LOLOLOLOL Microsoft has almost as much money as God. I think Bill Gates is in it for the fun of the game or perhaps just power now.
Even if both are moving at the speed of light away from some constant point of reference, relative to eachother, they are also only moving at the speed of light. The laser would not do its job, but it would also do no worse than staying a constant distance behind its target. This is what the laws of special relativity are all about.
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Psh as long as they're using ASCII it's all good. =)
I was under the impression that the DoC was in official control of ICANN, but then again, I am not really that informed on these issues . . . I just love commenting because I see so many people even more ignorant than myself shooting off. =) Sorry for thinking you were one of them.
The location of the root servers do not matter to the people who are making these decisions, only who controls them. It is the case that all of the root servers are controlled by a corporation (ICANN) which itself is controlled by the US DoC, so I don't know exactly what you're trying to say. It does not matter where they are located, only who they are controlled by.
You missed by an order of magnitude. It's $78,000, not $7,800. 1.56 * 10^7 / 2.0 * 10^2 = .78 * 10^5 = 7.8 * 10^4 = 78,000.
That's how animation was done back in the day at Disney. Factories of "in-betweeners" filling in the details between frames drawn by more advanced animators, who themselves were modelling their work off of storyboards and drawings done by the person in charge. All for the sake of the dream of becoming that guy who leads everyone else.
Yeah, people will still do the work, and they will like it. Perhaps not for the work itself, but for what it can bring.
At my school comp for CS majors is $50K on average right out of school. If you work 40 hours a week with no vacation for a year this is $23/hr. Video game companies generally pay above average wages because they require above average talent. So . . . yeah.
If I could I would mod you funny and insightful right now.
Newsflash: nobody cares about the "Spirit of the UN." They only have the right if the US gives it to them or if they can take it, and since neither of those things look like they will happen, they have no right to the DNS servers, only a DESIRE to have them.
I think the best way for everything to work would be to have the root name servers be controlled internationally, but have every page prefixed by the country in which it resides. For instance, to the rest of the worlds, all pages would be http:us//www.google.com or something like that (I'm not sure of the appropriate way to fit that into the current naming system.). This would be a lot like our modern country code stuff.
I never knew that. Thanks for the insight! =)
If it were so easy to make the US collapse, why hasn't anyone done it yet?
Face it. Your doomsday/new world order predictions? None of them will ever happen. The US may/probably will not remain the most powerful nation in the world forever, but if it fails, it will not be because of outside forces, just the way the fall of Rome was not due to the barbarians, but rather to the rot that occurred within its own borders.
I think he was joking dude. It's called tongue in cheek. Lighten up.
LOLOLOLOL.
All right, let's be clear on one thing. All of our government's debt, it is imaginary, if you really think about it. If at any time everyone decided to demanded payment of that great sum of money and we could not pay, we would simply default on it and that would be the end of that. Poof. All the debt is gone.
Sure, it would make it hard to borrow money for a while, but the question you have to ask yourself is, "Who would be hurt more?" I think that you can probably guess the answer to that question. You understand, I hope, that in a situation where money is lent, both the lender and the borrower profit.
England controls its own telephone system, just like the US controls its own as well. If you want to have a separate internet with separate names, it's fine with us. We will all still be able to access the real one.
The only difference is that the world wide web requires no root servers. So it doesn't really matter who "controls it," in fact, control is a misnomer. You run a program on your server that receives requests and responds to them. That is what the world wide web is, a series of concepts. What is important is the root DNS servers that control what text string translates to which IP address and the assignment of those IP addresses, which actually does have to be administered separately.
It's not actually encryption unless there is a secret key involved somewhere, and is really breakable, by just one guy even. Only one person needs to figure out how that decoder chip in the TV works, and he can write an algorithm that anyone can use to fix their files. You can never stop this until you can get everyone running on a managed virtual machine that doesn't allow editing of binary files or creation of new ones, and this will never happen (Not unless they outlaw linux, I mean!).
What could they do about it if they did, though? That is the beautiful part. The better still, Microsoft provides a product which facilitates the cracking of these DRM schemes i.e. WinDbg, with which you can read assembly code and "fix" it or write something that performs the same operations in reverse. =D The irony is lovely.
Because of this, music industry == pwnt.
Uh. He said PDF. That seems specific enough that there should be no reason why we need to branch into ridiculous speculations about lawsuits in a scenario that is very obviously contrary to reality.
Lay off the Microsoft Is Evil pills man . . . they are making you see things that aren't there.
On top of that, I don't get the sense from reading the article that the author knows how any of this stuff works either. How is he any different from us except that he was around when some current techs didn't exist?
The state of reality is clearly portrayed in your post. I like it a lot -- it's helped me understand some of the things I haven't been able to reconcile in open source for a long time.
I think you are wrong.
--James Aguilar (SAT score: 1560, Verbal: 800, Nonverbal:760) (AP: 5's: 6, 4's: 2) (Credit hours at start of Junior year: 90 -- 6 graduate level) (Internships: 1) (Research assistanceships: 2) (In major GPA [Comp Sci]: 3.9).
Those stats I put down may not be my actual stats, but if they were, do you see how my saying all that wouldn't make me right? The same applies to what you put down. Your manner of argument alone is enough to discredit whatever opinion you have on the issue.
I heard this factoid the other day. Microsoft has enough money that if they stopped selling completely tomorrow, they could continue producing at their current level for FIVE YEARS before they had to lay anyone off.
LOLOLOLOL Microsoft has almost as much money as God. I think Bill Gates is in it for the fun of the game or perhaps just power now.
Good explanation =).
Even if both are moving at the speed of light away from some constant point of reference, relative to eachother, they are also only moving at the speed of light. The laser would not do its job, but it would also do no worse than staying a constant distance behind its target. This is what the laws of special relativity are all about.