You can bet that the issue is being examined very closely by MS and will not happen the same in the future.
No, you can bet your company on that one. Not me.
Besides, they've had extended and/or pervasive outages like this before, due to poor planning and/or lack of foresight, and did not seem to learn a thing from them. If they did learn something, it didn't help them avoid this week's outage.
"Shit happens" is not an excuse, nor is it an explanation. "Shit happens" is what the incompetent cry when the competent call them on it.
Don't you people understand why a single root IS required?
A single namespace is required. Each root zone operator can decide what TLDs to publish delegations for. But ICANN confuses the namespace with their own version of the root zone file. So do you.
What happens when this new organization puts in an entry for slashdot.org that points somewhere else?
What happens when the sole root operator decides slashdot.org is subversive, and yanks the domain altogether?
Now, I do agree that ICANN should be moving faster in granting new domains. They've had a hard time creating policies, and frankly creating policies that work for a VERY diverse group of people is extremely tough.
But they are creating policies for moneyed interests, not a diverse group. The operators of the other roots are operating on behalf of a diverse group, precisely because they are themselves a diverse group.
But people should try to understand the TECHNICAL issues instead of just bashing on ICANN as a new form of government.
But they are trying to be a new form of government. They are trying to assert authority where none has been granted to them. Their charter calls for them to create technical policies aimed at maintaining internet stability. Yet they themselves loaded a colliding.biz TLD, which has now created a fractured namespace. They are responsible for introducing ambiguity, not Atlantic Root. Their.biz has been in operation since before ICANN was chartered, and ICANN's board knew it when they approved the plan to usurp it.
If ICANN is a governmental agency, then the previous registrants and registry under the pre-existing.biz are entitled to compensation under the doctrine of emminent domain. Yet nothing of the sort is forthcoming from ICANN. This is not governance, this is not stability, this is capricousness and tyranny.
It may interest you to know that OpenNIC has recently called for a vote to determine which.biz to carry in the root zone they operate. Atlantic Root's.biz is winning by a wide margin. The same sort of deliberations are taking place in other root-zone-operating organizations.
I'd like to see a distributed DNS system based on cryptographically signed keys. Hmm. I'll have to think about how one would implement one of those...
Dan Bernstein is working on something like that. See his website for his ideas on how to do it, at the end of the page following his rant about DNSSEC.
The idea is simply to give each computer a name that includes the computer's nym, a fingerprint of the computer's public key. Other computers then discard DNS records for these names if the records aren't accompanied by signatures under the corresponding public keys.
My top priority for djbdns is to support nym-based security.
It's been a while since I ready it, but I don't remember having imagined Louis Wu as an Asian when reading Ringworld, so Chow Yun-Fat would seem pretty out of place to me. By the time Known Space is upon us, the human race is pretty much homogenized from inter-racial breeding, and there are no more distinguishing racial features to speak of.
Despite the novel's characterization of him as looking like a 20-something, I imagined Louis Wu's appearance as sort of a bronze-skinned, dark-haired Anglo man who looked artificially young, so I'd choose someone who looked like George Hamilton to play him.
Best chance of getting the case thrown out is likely to be demonstrating a that running a crack program is considered acceptable academic behaviour at most universities.
That's my favorite line in your post. Can I quote you out of context elsewhere?
Reminds me of PinkDot -> PDQuick -> PinkDot
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So Los Angeles used to have this cool delivery service called PinkDot. They were overpriced, had surly order takers and even more surly delivery guys (what up with middle east immigrants not knowing about deoderant?). But goddammit they got your shit to you in under a half hour. The delivery fleet was a bunch of rehabilitated pink polka-dotted VW Bugs - the old skool bugs, not the new ones. PinkDot is/was an LA institution, one of the reasons it's so cool to live here. They only stocked 7-11 stuff; you know, sodas, chips, pizza, toothpaste; and they had some deli sandwiches and some pasta dishes. Oh, you could also get your movie rentals, even pr0n, from PinkDot. It's been like that in LA for the past 15 years.
So the dot-com bubble inflated, and last year some VC came along and bought PinkDot, renamed it to PDQuick (YUCK), and announced all kinds of plans to expand nationwide. The next thing to go was the pink-polka-dot bugs. Then delivery times escalated to 45 minutes, then an hour, the selection dwindled, the deli sandwiches went away, and so did the hot pasta dishes.
How does it all end? I bet you can see this one coming: Last month, PDQuick declared bankruptcy and halted operations. For about a day. Luckily, the previous owner of PinkDot - the one who made a mint selling the operation to the VC bubble boys a year earlier - had some cash on hand to buy back his business at a fraction of the price that he was paid for it just a year earlier. PinkDot returns!! Yee haa!! The prices are just as high as before, but now the deliver times are back under a half hour.
Why am I telling this tale, and what does it have to do with Webvan? I dunno, I'm just glad to have my PinkDot back, goddammmit!!
Dune is just too ambitious for TV or even full length feature movies. There's not enough time even in a Roots-length mini-series, let a lone a mere six hours, to cover all the nuances adequately. Big chunks of it must be left out, so I don't know why anyone who has read and admired the series would want to intentionally butcher it for the small screen.
I'd like to see some other classic Sci-Fi adapted for TV before another installment in the Dune series. How about Stranger in a Strange Land? Are "we" (US-ian "we") ready for that? I'd guess so, seeing how well QAF is doing on Showtime.
How about Ringworld and its sequels/prequels? There's a hard-core yarn that special effects technology is finally ready to render spectacularly, and the story is as straightforward as any movie-of-the-week. Heck, most of Niven/Pournelle's joint efforts would suit me fine: Footfall, Thor's Hammer, The Mote in God's Eye. These stories are very much more adaptable to TV or motion pictures than anything Herbert has written.
A pop-up ad is equivalent to your reading an article in the newspaper being interrupted by a passerby who grabs the paper away from you to show you this weekend's sale at Macy's.
If it's rude to grab my newspaper away from me to show me an ad, then it's rude to grab mouse/keyboard focus away to do the same thing. Both are equivalently rude acts.
Pop up ads are the equivalent of having your reading of a newspaper article interrupted rudely by a co-worker who grabs the paper away from you to show you this weekend's sale at Fry's.
The two hour telefilm is titled Babylon 5: To Live and Die in Starlight. The new series it is the pilot for is titled Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers.
Dylan Neal (The Sweetest Thing / Hyperion Bay), Alex Zahara (Dark Angel), and Myriam Sirois (B5: To live and Die in Starlight / Ranma ½), Dean Marshall, Warren T Takeuchi, Jennie Rebecca Hogan, David Storch, Enid-Raye Adams, Gus Lynch are the ensemble cast of B5: The Legend of the Rangers 2 hour telefilm. Also cast are Mackenzie Gray and Andreas Katsulas (B5, The Fugitive) who will reprise his role as G'Kar from Babylon 5. - emphasis is mine
What is this B5 title I have never heard of: B5: To Live and Die in Starlight. Is Hyperion Bay related to B5? Probably not...
Since there is no claim that dot-eu is a ccTLD, this point is moot. The only revelant point is whether any and all two-letter TLDs must be reserved for ccTLDs, and whether or not all ISO country codes must be issued corresponding ccTLDs.
The RFCs are silent on both points, though there is a internet draft that mentions reserving two-letter strings so as to prevent collisions with ISO namespace. But even if this were spelled out explicitly in a published RFC, the RFCs are not standards and are not enforceable except by consensus. There are plenty of examples of code or protocols or procedures that blatantly violate one or more RFCs. All it takes to destroy either "tradition" is for one two-letter TLD to be issued that is not a ISO code. Dot-eu stands the best chance of being that TLD.
OK, so I send Nader's opt-out letter to all my financial institutions.
What now?
How do I determine that one of them has violated the law, if and when that happens? It's not like the marketdroid who calls during dinner is going even know, much less tell me where his company got my information.
There's really only one commercial Unix worth yakking about in terms of market share - Solaris. Although the license for Solaris that ships with each system is technically a two-user license, there is nothing in the software to prevent more users than that from using the system. They actually do have a server license for unlimited users, which isn't really unreasonably priced (a couple thou at most, it's been a while since a Sun rep thrust a license price sheet in my face). Sun does not seem inclined to police their customers, as long as they are still buying Sun hardware.
I imagine is it the same with HP/UX, Irix and any other Unix that runs on proprietrary hardware. Actually, I should say any other Unix that enables proprietary hardware to do useful stuff.
The first sentence in the article renders the rest of the article, and Caldera's plans, moot:
Caldera has changed the license on its OpenLinux Workstation product for the newest version (3.1) to require one license per system the distribution is installed on.
I don't need to read the rest, but I imagine it goes on to describe the certificates of authenticity, and some specifics of the EULA, and probably some kind of disclaimer that while Linux is GPL, Caldera adds proprietary software that justifies the new license, and blah blah blah.
But it doesn't matter, all that matters is the bullet in the foot, which will prove to be a fatal wound, making the rest of the happy horse shit irrelevant.
If ACME Widgets sets up shop at 123 Maple Street, what wrong have I done if I accept business from customers who mistakenly drive to my ACE Widget store on 123 Marple Street?
I don't see what the difference is between this scenario, and typographical-error domain names.
iI believe the laws in the online world should be no different then those in the physical world.
Oh yeah? What law prevents a person from profiting when a potential customer of ACME Widgets on 123 Maple Street mistakenly drives their car to 123 Marple Street?
Can you imagine walking into a brick and mortar store and deciding that you did not like the products. You turn to walk out the door and are physically restrained and required to browse the store once more just in case there actually was something you liked. Then when you finally make it out the front door you realize that it is just a worm hole to the back door and you just can't seem to get out!
But you can always shoot yourself in the head (turn off the computer), so nobody has any cause for complaint if this happened in meatspace.
This is an OTC stock, aka Bulletin Board stock, aka pink sheet stock, aka penny stock.
NASDAQ requires listed companies to maintain share prices of at least a dollar. Yahoo says their symbol was changed to XBOX.OB, probably when they were de-listed from the NAS. The shares were trading at just under $5 in June of 1996, and have been on the decline since then.
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No, you can bet your company on that one. Not me.
Besides, they've had extended and/or pervasive outages like this before, due to poor planning and/or lack of foresight, and did not seem to learn a thing from them. If they did learn something, it didn't help them avoid this week's outage.
"Shit happens" is not an excuse, nor is it an explanation. "Shit happens" is what the incompetent cry when the competent call them on it.
A single namespace is required. Each root zone operator can decide what TLDs to publish delegations for. But ICANN confuses the namespace with their own version of the root zone file. So do you.
What happens when this new organization puts in an entry for slashdot.org that points somewhere else?
What happens when the sole root operator decides slashdot.org is subversive, and yanks the domain altogether?
Now, I do agree that ICANN should be moving faster in granting new domains. They've had a hard time creating policies, and frankly creating policies that work for a VERY diverse group of people is extremely tough.
But they are creating policies for moneyed interests, not a diverse group. The operators of the other roots are operating on behalf of a diverse group, precisely because they are themselves a diverse group.
But people should try to understand the TECHNICAL issues instead of just bashing on ICANN as a new form of government.
But they are trying to be a new form of government. They are trying to assert authority where none has been granted to them. Their charter calls for them to create technical policies aimed at maintaining internet stability. Yet they themselves loaded a colliding .biz TLD, which has now created a fractured namespace. They are responsible for introducing ambiguity, not Atlantic Root. Their .biz has been in operation since before ICANN was chartered, and ICANN's board knew it when they approved the plan to usurp it.
If ICANN is a governmental agency, then the previous registrants and registry under the pre-existing .biz are entitled to compensation under the doctrine of emminent domain. Yet nothing of the sort is forthcoming from ICANN. This is not governance, this is not stability, this is capricousness and tyranny.
It may interest you to know that OpenNIC has recently called for a vote to determine which .biz to carry in the root zone they operate. Atlantic Root's .biz is winning by a wide margin. The same sort of deliberations are taking place in other root-zone-operating organizations.
Dan Bernstein is working on something like that. See his website for his ideas on how to do it, at the end of the page following his rant about DNSSEC.
Despite the novel's characterization of him as looking like a 20-something, I imagined Louis Wu's appearance as sort of a bronze-skinned, dark-haired Anglo man who looked artificially young, so I'd choose someone who looked like George Hamilton to play him.
That's my favorite line in your post. Can I quote you out of context elsewhere?
So the dot-com bubble inflated, and last year some VC came along and bought PinkDot, renamed it to PDQuick (YUCK), and announced all kinds of plans to expand nationwide. The next thing to go was the pink-polka-dot bugs. Then delivery times escalated to 45 minutes, then an hour, the selection dwindled, the deli sandwiches went away, and so did the hot pasta dishes.
How does it all end? I bet you can see this one coming: Last month, PDQuick declared bankruptcy and halted operations. For about a day. Luckily, the previous owner of PinkDot - the one who made a mint selling the operation to the VC bubble boys a year earlier - had some cash on hand to buy back his business at a fraction of the price that he was paid for it just a year earlier. PinkDot returns!! Yee haa!! The prices are just as high as before, but now the deliver times are back under a half hour.
Why am I telling this tale, and what does it have to do with Webvan? I dunno, I'm just glad to have my PinkDot back, goddammmit!!
...the article linked to in a Slashdot "news piece" is already purple, or whatever your "visited link" color is set to.
I'd like to see some other classic Sci-Fi adapted for TV before another installment in the Dune series. How about Stranger in a Strange Land? Are "we" (US-ian "we") ready for that? I'd guess so, seeing how well QAF is doing on Showtime.
How about Ringworld and its sequels/prequels? There's a hard-core yarn that special effects technology is finally ready to render spectacularly, and the story is as straightforward as any movie-of-the-week. Heck, most of Niven/Pournelle's joint efforts would suit me fine: Footfall, Thor's Hammer, The Mote in God's Eye. These stories are very much more adaptable to TV or motion pictures than anything Herbert has written.
A pop-up ad is equivalent to your reading an article in the newspaper being interrupted by a passerby who grabs the paper away from you to show you this weekend's sale at Macy's.
If it's rude to grab my newspaper away from me to show me an ad, then it's rude to grab mouse/keyboard focus away to do the same thing. Both are equivalently rude acts.
Pop up ads are the equivalent of having your reading of a newspaper article interrupted rudely by a co-worker who grabs the paper away from you to show you this weekend's sale at Fry's.
You're like the fifteen-zillionth person I've seen suggest that, without even trying it first.
Here is the link to the Usenet post by jms announcing the new series and its pilot movie.
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It was posted on March 20 of this year. Must be a slow day in the submission queue, I guess.
The two hour telefilm is titled Babylon 5: To Live and Die in Starlight . The new series it is the pilot for is titled Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers .
What is this B5 title I have never heard of: B5: To Live and Die in Starlight. Is Hyperion Bay related to B5? Probably not...
The RFCs are silent on both points, though there is a internet draft that mentions reserving two-letter strings so as to prevent collisions with ISO namespace. But even if this were spelled out explicitly in a published RFC, the RFCs are not standards and are not enforceable except by consensus. There are plenty of examples of code or protocols or procedures that blatantly violate one or more RFCs. All it takes to destroy either "tradition" is for one two-letter TLD to be issued that is not a ISO code. Dot-eu stands the best chance of being that TLD.
What now?
How do I determine that one of them has violated the law, if and when that happens? It's not like the marketdroid who calls during dinner is going even know, much less tell me where his company got my information.
The wildfires should not reach us for a few days, we have plenty of time to evac.... YEOWWW!!! My ass is on fire!!
That's funny, I thought VA was an SGI wannabe.
Looks like they are making tremendous progress in that area now.
I imagine is it the same with HP/UX, Irix and any other Unix that runs on proprietrary hardware. Actually, I should say any other Unix that enables proprietary hardware to do useful stuff.
Caldera has changed the license on its OpenLinux Workstation product for the newest version (3.1) to require one license per system the distribution is installed on.
I don't need to read the rest, but I imagine it goes on to describe the certificates of authenticity, and some specifics of the EULA, and probably some kind of disclaimer that while Linux is GPL, Caldera adds proprietary software that justifies the new license, and blah blah blah.
But it doesn't matter, all that matters is the bullet in the foot, which will prove to be a fatal wound, making the rest of the happy horse shit irrelevant.
I don't see what the difference is between this scenario, and typographical-error domain names.
Oh yeah? What law prevents a person from profiting when a potential customer of ACME Widgets on 123 Maple Street mistakenly drives their car to 123 Marple Street?
But you can always shoot yourself in the head (turn off the computer), so nobody has any cause for complaint if this happened in meatspace.
NASDAQ requires listed companies to maintain share prices of at least a dollar. Yahoo says their symbol was changed to XBOX.OB, probably when they were de-listed from the NAS. The shares were trading at just under $5 in June of 1996, and have been on the decline since then.
Graham Chapman is stone cold dead. He is an ex-Python. If his feet weren't nailed to the... oh never mind.