9th grade - last day of junior high, next year it's off to the high school for our sophomore year. What better way to celebrate than to bring some bombs made from expired CO2 cartridges and blackpower to school, and set them off? The principal heard the booms, came outside to look around, saw the tree limb our little party favors had severed, then just shook his head and went back into his office with a "kids will be kids" look on his face. No harm done, no police were called, we all went on to high school and no adults ever found out it was us, until much later when we could all laugh about it.
Then there's poor Jimmy, who was really into incendiary devices. He once built a remote controlled robot based on a radio controlled race car chassis. The robot was equipped with a blackpowder cannon that actually worked and could be fired remotely. He brought it to school one day, along with some blanks, and demonstrated it to me and some other friends who liked things-that-go-boom on the grounds out back near the gym and the machine shop classrooms. The shop teacher thought it was cool, just don't bring it inside any buildings. Jimmy died that year from an explosion while handling homemade nitro glycerin.
Junior year, senior friend of mine and some others pulled a prank where we climbed up into the plenum between the ceiling and roof of the school auditorium, and peed all over the top side of the ceiling. Got caught climbing down, were let off with a warning about falling down and hurting ourselves. No one ever went up into the plenum to see what we were doing up there. Piss never leaked through the ceiling. No one thought we were doing anything but being curious and disregarding our safety, as kids sometimes do.
I myself once got caught blowing up somebody's mailbox with a CO2 cartidge bomb. Police were called, I got off with a warning and had to apologize and replace the mailbox, despite the fact that I had committed a felony. I was also once caught testing my new blackpowder pistol, built from a kit, within city limits. Again, despite the seriousness of what I had done, the police recognized that I was a kid and kids do these things sometimes. They only made me confess to my parents, and take the punishment mom and dad applied. Could have been a major offense, but they handled it simply and privately.
The only suspensions I recall happening were for actual offenses, like graffiti or actual property damage to the school facilities. I guess they never considered the trees we blew branches off of to be a school district asset.:)
No one had any problem with boys carrying pocket knives to school. What else is a boy to use for cleaning under his fingernails? I recall seeing the stereotypical Texas pickup truck with rifles and shotguns mounted in the rear window parked in the high school parking lot. Some belonged to students, some belonged to teachers. No one gave them a second thought.
I graduated high school in 1981, in Texas no less. A lot has changed in 20 years.
Is it just me, or is/. becoming a lame version of Yahoo!? This article is the 2nd time today I have seen a verbatim rehash of something posted on Yahoo! two days ago.
Root servers systems - all of them - are somewhat like cable TV or satellite. Every cable TV system and satellite TV system carries HBO, Showtime, Discovery channel, CNN, etc. Whichever one you choose - and in most places you can choose among several - you're going to get the basic channels you expect.
Likewise, the different root server systems all carry.com.net.org and the rest. Some of them carry each other's TLDs, some don't. Some are trying to become commercial operations, others are trying to promote more "public access" channels.
At some ISPs, you can't get the alt.sex.* newsgroups; at others, you can't get de.*. At still others, you might wish they'd get rid of all the foreign-language groups that are cluttering up the list. But this hasn't done any harm to Usenet, and users are free to go to other providers of Usenet to get their missing newsgroups. Usenet is a better service, I contend, because it has fractured. There's a huge diversity of groups to choose from, and if what you're looking for isn't carried at your ISP, you can find other sources.
Likewise, I see little harm, and much benefit, from allowing - even promoting - the root to fracture. Why shouldn't ISPs in Texas band together and offer.texas to their customers? What does it matter if some other group is offering a different.texas without the regional focus? It isn't the.texas that the Texans are interested in! The EU doesn't need to wait for ICANN to approve.eu, they can go ahead and create it now - all they need is a consensus among European network providers and operators and it's a done deal. What does it matter if AOL and Earthlink aren't offering their users access to.eu delegations? If the demand is there, they will; if it isn't, who cares? Some Europeans may wish to keep the Yanks out of their TLD.
Every argument I have heard for avoiding a fractured root, whether the proponent will admit it or not, eventually leads back to the desire for control, power, money. A fractured root works counter to this desire, and that's not a bad thing.
This is just more of the arrogant French attitude that says that the world revolves around them.
Well at least the French recognize that they need to keep reminding the rest of the world that it revolves around them.
The USians take it for granted that everyone knows we're at the center of revolution and that the sun rises in the east, and are genuinely surprised when confronted with opinions to the contrary, as if they had just received a collect call from Alpha Centauri.
There is no scaling problem related to the number of TLDs in the roots. What scaling problems there are come from the number of queries they must handle. There are 250-some-odd TLDs in the roots. There are millions upon millions of 2LDs under.com. The gTLD servers are the ones that have scaling problems. The roots handle a fraction of the traffic. They merely delegate to the appropriate TLD authorities.
The only reason a.root-servers.net needs to be hosted on a pair of IBM RS/6000 machines, is because it is ALSO a gTLD server for.com.net and.org. Take away the gTLD traffic, and a much smaller machine will do (much smaller). It is only because of.com that the DNS server for it requires a 64bit address space. The root zone itself is only about 30K in size.
So in practice, it is the scarcity of top-level domains that creates scaling problems for particular TLD servers.
A friend who attended the meetings in Marina Del Rey this week told me that the ccTLD registries are this >< close to splitting off from ICANN altogether, to form their own root server system and TLD registry.
It's a very disappointing list..coop is the only one that really makes sense, and.museum seems to be a bone thrown to the hoi polloi to make them forget that it was the ICANN/NSI (now VGR) people who taught us that.com is also spelled.org.
.aero - Why does the aerospace industry need their own TLD? What are they doing online (besides operating their own TLD registry) that merits a TLD more than, say, the banking industry? Why not also.convenience-store and.icky-swedish-furniture? This one also seems ripe for out-of-charter registrations for marketing purposes, because.aero is such a sleek, modern word - just what marketdroids like.
.name - is there anything in DNS that isn't a name? Might as well call it.tld - which I think is a better gTLD than.name.
.pro - does anyone seriously think that this one will remain restricted for any length of time? It has a cool ring to it, the market types will pick up on it immediately, and begin using it for purposes outside the charter as soon as its available for registration. Mark my words.
.biz - This one will likely be disputed. ORSC and other parties have been operating.biz for years, and the.bz registry is even claiming rights to top-level names resembling.bz. Whether any claims to it are valid or recognized by whatever authority decides the disputes that will result, I think this one is still-born.
DNS has many RR types that could substitute for whois. RP for instance - that's the Responsible Party RR type. Even a TXT record would do. Why does there need to be a separate protocol to disseminate this information?
I've been an IE user for a while now mainly because Netscape has been losing the feature war.
While I'm certainly not a Microsoft fan, I like Netscape and I like standards conformance (which
Netscape has typically been better at), I use a browser a lot and I want to use what makes me feel
most comfortable and lets me work the best.
Netscape is terrible at standards conformance, compared to IE, especially when it comes to Javascript. Check out the browser test for the JetTrade screen at online broker RJT.com. IE4 and IE5 pass with flying colors (even the Solaris versions). Netscape 4.73 Solaris fails the tests. I don't run Netscape on Windows (what's the point), but I imagine its just as bad.
I was going to try to post a version of the root zone containing delegations for almost all of the alternate TLDs that different groups have started operating, but the lameness filter kicked in big time. So let's try just this: a list of them. I can show you where to get delegations for each and every one, and in fact, have put together a root zone that has delegations for all of these TLDs. Most are pretty freaking lame, if you ask me, and as it turns out, most are pretty freaking empty of 2nd level delegations, too.
But they're there!;)
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I'm not skilled enough to figure out the filesys format myself, but what progress has been made by others to figure it out?
I'm waiting for the day when I can hack my DirecTiVo to offer SMB or NFS shares of recorded MPG files. If SciFi channel repeats the series again, I want to save the entire run of Babylon5 on VCD.:) If the filesys hasn't been hacked by 2nd run on SciFi, I plan to hack my DirecTivo for more disk space, so I can keep all 110 episodes on it.
Wonder how much a Tivo with all 110 Bab5 episodes could fetch on eBay?:)
(1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
If you can circumvent it, it's not very effective now, is it? Looks like there was nothing to worry about after all, since according to the DMCA, any controls that are no longer effective, are not covered by the anti-circumvention clauses.
You misunderstand. People "out there" who run ZoneAlarm report to ME at our abuse@ address, that WE have been scanning THEM. The "scans" always come from port 80 or port 443. DUH!
There are two explanations for this, and ZoneAlarm provides no info to determine which one happened (it fails to log TCP flags).
The "scans" are in fact replies from our web servers to browsing sessions initiated by the person making the "report". ZoneAlarm is simply in error flagging these packets as scans.
The reporting user has a dialup or dynamic IP, and the packets coming in from our web servers are intended for the previous user of their IP address, who was likely dropped offline in mid-session with our web servers. The packets ZoneAlarm sees are remnants of the previous dialup user's session with us.
Whatever the explanation, we aren't scanning random people from port 80 and 443. Yet ZoneAlarm "accuses" us of doing so, and I have to deal with the reports to our abuse@ and hostmaster@ addresses.
Please stop doing that. ZoneAlarm is prone to false alarms, I get 3 or more reports of false alarms regarding "scans" from my network every week. It's downright depressing to think people use and trust crap like this. For God's sake, scans coming from port 80 or 443 right after having visited our site, are flagged as scans by this ZoneAlarm POS, according to the misguided abuse reports I get. If I have to explain TCP handshaking to another @home clueless newbie, I am going to scream.
False alarms from ZoneAlarm have plagued me to no end. I am lead administrator for a large dot-com, and the ZoneAlarm users send me email all the time complaining about "scans" coming from my network, all with source ports 80 and 443. I usually have to ask the person reporting the "scan" what the source ports are - ZoneAlarm does not tell them that LOGS are important when reporting abuse. Furthermore, it does not log the TCP flags, so I sometimes have a hard time convincing some users that ZoneAlarm is wrong - but usually a paragraph or two about TCP handshaking will make them go away.
I should bill the ZoneAlarm vendor for all the time I have spent supporting their users.
I fear that ZoneAlarm and lame Windows firewalls like it will only increase in use with time - and more articles like this.
Costs us a bundle. I am the one who (among other things) answers the abuse@ email box for my company, and ZoneAlarm generates an awful lot of false alarms, and my salary is not exactly entry-level. I should charge them for my time.
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9th grade - last day of junior high, next year it's off to the high school for our sophomore year. What better way to celebrate than to bring some bombs made from expired CO2 cartridges and blackpower to school, and set them off? The principal heard the booms, came outside to look around, saw the tree limb our little party favors had severed, then just shook his head and went back into his office with a "kids will be kids" look on his face. No harm done, no police were called, we all went on to high school and no adults ever found out it was us, until much later when we could all laugh about it.
Then there's poor Jimmy, who was really into incendiary devices. He once built a remote controlled robot based on a radio controlled race car chassis. The robot was equipped with a blackpowder cannon that actually worked and could be fired remotely. He brought it to school one day, along with some blanks, and demonstrated it to me and some other friends who liked things-that-go-boom on the grounds out back near the gym and the machine shop classrooms. The shop teacher thought it was cool, just don't bring it inside any buildings. Jimmy died that year from an explosion while handling homemade nitro glycerin.
Junior year, senior friend of mine and some others pulled a prank where we climbed up into the plenum between the ceiling and roof of the school auditorium, and peed all over the top side of the ceiling. Got caught climbing down, were let off with a warning about falling down and hurting ourselves. No one ever went up into the plenum to see what we were doing up there. Piss never leaked through the ceiling. No one thought we were doing anything but being curious and disregarding our safety, as kids sometimes do.
I myself once got caught blowing up somebody's mailbox with a CO2 cartidge bomb. Police were called, I got off with a warning and had to apologize and replace the mailbox, despite the fact that I had committed a felony. I was also once caught testing my new blackpowder pistol, built from a kit, within city limits. Again, despite the seriousness of what I had done, the police recognized that I was a kid and kids do these things sometimes. They only made me confess to my parents, and take the punishment mom and dad applied. Could have been a major offense, but they handled it simply and privately.
The only suspensions I recall happening were for actual offenses, like graffiti or actual property damage to the school facilities. I guess they never considered the trees we blew branches off of to be a school district asset. :)
No one had any problem with boys carrying pocket knives to school. What else is a boy to use for cleaning under his fingernails? I recall seeing the stereotypical Texas pickup truck with rifles and shotguns mounted in the rear window parked in the high school parking lot. Some belonged to students, some belonged to teachers. No one gave them a second thought.
I graduated high school in 1981, in Texas no less. A lot has changed in 20 years.
Is it just me, or is /. becoming a lame version of Yahoo!? This article is the 2nd time today I have seen a verbatim rehash of something posted on Yahoo! two days ago.
Of course we know Lem.
It's still just a cartoon and I don't care about karma, so mod away.
Likewise, the different root server systems all carry .com .net .org and the rest. Some of them carry each other's TLDs, some don't. Some are trying to become commercial operations, others are trying to promote more "public access" channels.
At some ISPs, you can't get the alt.sex.* newsgroups; at others, you can't get de.*. At still others, you might wish they'd get rid of all the foreign-language groups that are cluttering up the list. But this hasn't done any harm to Usenet, and users are free to go to other providers of Usenet to get their missing newsgroups. Usenet is a better service, I contend, because it has fractured. There's a huge diversity of groups to choose from, and if what you're looking for isn't carried at your ISP, you can find other sources.
Likewise, I see little harm, and much benefit, from allowing - even promoting - the root to fracture. Why shouldn't ISPs in Texas band together and offer .texas to their customers? What does it matter if some other group is offering a different .texas without the regional focus? It isn't the .texas that the Texans are interested in! The EU doesn't need to wait for ICANN to approve .eu, they can go ahead and create it now - all they need is a consensus among European network providers and operators and it's a done deal. What does it matter if AOL and Earthlink aren't offering their users access to .eu delegations? If the demand is there, they will; if it isn't, who cares? Some Europeans may wish to keep the Yanks out of their TLD.
Every argument I have heard for avoiding a fractured root, whether the proponent will admit it or not, eventually leads back to the desire for control, power, money. A fractured root works counter to this desire, and that's not a bad thing.
We don't like your boring historical set pieces anyway.
Well at least the French recognize that they need to keep reminding the rest of the world that it revolves around them.
The USians take it for granted that everyone knows we're at the center of revolution and that the sun rises in the east, and are genuinely surprised when confronted with opinions to the contrary, as if they had just received a collect call from Alpha Centauri.
"You're calling from where ?"
How about stsci.edu? Not that I have anything against the Space Telescope Science Institute, but I don't think they grant degrees...
The only reason a.root-servers.net needs to be hosted on a pair of IBM RS/6000 machines, is because it is ALSO a gTLD server for .com .net and .org. Take away the gTLD traffic, and a much smaller machine will do (much smaller). It is only because of .com that the DNS server for it requires a 64bit address space. The root zone itself is only about 30K in size.
So in practice, it is the scarcity of top-level domains that creates scaling problems for particular TLD servers.
I say, it's about time.
Incorrect. This is the third or fourth time new TLDs have been added. It is the first time new TLDs have been added in over a decade, I'll grant that.
DNS has many RR types that could substitute for whois. RP for instance - that's the Responsible Party RR type. Even a TXT record would do. Why does there need to be a separate protocol to disseminate this information?
Oh yes it does. MSN icon appears on desktop after any IE installation or upgrade/service pack. The installer even asks you to sign up.
Netscape is terrible at standards conformance, compared to IE, especially when it comes to Javascript. Check out the browser test for the JetTrade screen at online broker RJT.com. IE4 and IE5 pass with flying colors (even the Solaris versions). Netscape 4.73 Solaris fails the tests. I don't run Netscape on Windows (what's the point), but I imagine its just as bad.
Font handling is also pretty poor in Netscape.
But they're there! ;)
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I'm waiting for the day when I can hack my DirecTiVo to offer SMB or NFS shares of recorded MPG files. If SciFi channel repeats the series again, I want to save the entire run of Babylon5 on VCD. :) If the filesys hasn't been hacked by 2nd run on SciFi, I plan to hack my DirecTivo for more disk space, so I can keep all 110 episodes on it.
Wonder how much a Tivo with all 110 Bab5 episodes could fetch on eBay? :)
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I can't comment on the rest of your "post" because I am too busy tossing my cookies over this statement.
DMCA was passed by voice vote. Don't ya love it?
I forgot: this is The Law, where words do not mean what they mean. Sorry for the stupid post preceding. But IANAL. I only understand English.
If you can circumvent it, it's not very effective now, is it? Looks like there was nothing to worry about after all, since according to the DMCA, any controls that are no longer effective, are not covered by the anti-circumvention clauses.
There are two explanations for this, and ZoneAlarm provides no info to determine which one happened (it fails to log TCP flags).
Whatever the explanation, we aren't scanning random people from port 80 and 443. Yet ZoneAlarm "accuses" us of doing so, and I have to deal with the reports to our abuse@ and hostmaster@ addresses.
Please stop doing that. ZoneAlarm is prone to false alarms, I get 3 or more reports of false alarms regarding "scans" from my network every week. It's downright depressing to think people use and trust crap like this. For God's sake, scans coming from port 80 or 443 right after having visited our site, are flagged as scans by this ZoneAlarm POS, according to the misguided abuse reports I get. If I have to explain TCP handshaking to another @home clueless newbie, I am going to scream.
I should bill the ZoneAlarm vendor for all the time I have spent supporting their users.
I fear that ZoneAlarm and lame Windows firewalls like it will only increase in use with time - and more articles like this.
Costs us a bundle. I am the one who (among other things) answers the abuse@ email box for my company, and ZoneAlarm generates an awful lot of false alarms, and my salary is not exactly entry-level. I should charge them for my time.