Fer Gawd's Sake, do we really need to coin a word as stupid as "weblication"?
If I put my resume on a job site, have I "weblied" for a job? Cripes, this market-ooze makes me want to puke.
ISP's right now can eliminate websites near-realtime when they are used to sell products advertised in spam, which discourages spammers from even trying as their page is taken down almost immediately.
I haven't seen that such policies make any difference at all in the amount of spam I receive. People still spam me with URLs with impunity, and frequency. The policies of some backwoods ISP serving Podunk don't amount to a hill of beans. Spew-Spew Net and their children are the biggest problem (next to the entire country of South Korea:).
What do you mean by "their ads"? Akamai is not an ad banner company. Some ad banner companies use Akamai, but if you're going to block Akamai because of this, you may as well block any ISP who hosts ad banner servers. There really is no difference, except the layer in the ISO model at which either one works - ISP's are at layer 3, Akamai is at layer 4 and 5.
I suppose you never visit Yahoo, CNN, C/Net, or any of the others that use Akamai? I mean, that's your choice and all, but it seems to me you are laboring under a misapprehension of what Akamai does, if you've blocked "their ads".
Every proxy request through Akamai costs them 2X the size of the response; once to get it from the source, once to send it to the client.
Uhhhh, dude - they cache stuff, you know - keep a copy in the proxy so once they have it, they don't have to get it from the origin again until it expires... ever heard of that sort of thing?
Why you are throwing these meaningless political parties into the mix is beyond me.
Why you are throwing these meaningless political labels into the mix is beyond me.
Does it matter who claims to be a true conservative, and who doesn't? Every one of the so-called conservative Republicans who voted for the DMCA, and the CSA, considers themselves a true conservative. The term is meaningless.
I think the term you're looking for is a strict constitutionalist. Those people speak and act as you describe. No one who claims the label conservative believes what your hypothetical true conservatives believe.
And if the kidz have compromised a Sun Sparcstation to mount their DOS, what then?
I realize that the solution is not as simple as this, but it does irritate me that when a potentially valid reason for having a technology around comes up, it's already been bludgeoned to death by people who are either uninformed or jump to conclusions too quickly.
The processor ID can never be a reliable means of identifying a particular computer remotely. Even if one couldn't turn it off, all one needs to do to avoid giving out one's PID is to run software that doesn't support giving out the PID, or run software that returns a user-defined PID.
And it does nothing to address non-Intel systems. These are just the more obvious problems. There are plenty of other problems with it.
It's really only useful for the clueful to take advantage of the clueless.
There is no shortage of money to pay for "internet infrastructure". Besides, why should top-levels be the exclusive province of the rich?
I say what we really need is a TLD expressly for non-commercial purposes. ".free" or something like it. Run by volunteers and a voting membership - not unlike Usenet. Cybersqatters could be voted out of their domains. Spammers are by definition, commercial, and are not eligible. Evidence of commercial activity would be grounds for revocation.
Presumably, Coca Cola would be the registrar for the.cocacola top level, and would probably already be using www.cocacola for their primary website anyway, so it wouldn't be available for a third party.
I like the idea of giving corporations their own top level. This gives some logical leverage to argue for keeping their lawyers out of the other hierarchies.
I'm OK with even allowing Coca Cola to determine the policies for.cocacola, even to the extent of giving them sole discretion on whether to accept registrations from the public at all. It's their top-level.
"But keep your lawyers out of my domain's hierarchy. You have your own now."
I think there's a lot of potential for solving these issues by handing out top levels corresponding to trademarks to the owners of the mark.
I say why not give.yahoo to Yahoo and give.windows to Microsoft? What problems could this cause? The internet has already succumbed to private interests, by the way.
Make it a condition of accepting a proprietary top-level, that only a top-level can be considered to infringe a trademark, based solely on the fact that it exists. And leave the second levels alone.
Trading music files is not comparable to murder, rape and robbery on the high seas. Courtney tells us the record companies behave more like historical pirates than any person who has shared a music file, or a CD burn. Besides, the politically correct term is disenfranchised merchant sailor.
The LA Times and other major newspapers ran an ad today sponspored by Artists Against Piracy. Some well-known and not-so-well-known bands and performers have their names printed in the ad. I suggest the web site is due for a nasty Slashdotting. If they have a contact email address, that inbox should be filled up with your thoughts on the accusation they are making by the very name they chose for the organization (I can't tell if there is a contact email address on the site because it requires Shockwave, for which there is no Solaris plugin).
I am seeing huge demand for Java programmers even here in the midwest (which usually lags the coasts in addopting technology). Supprisingly, java has found a very strong niche in the middleware arena.
This is old news Ohio-boy. The coasts have already dumped their Java middle-ware because it doesn't scale (DUH!) and are going back to Apache, mod_perl, PHP, MySQL and the like. You'll discover the same problem in about 18 months and do the same as we did - DUMP THAT BITCH!!
It was complete with indents and ">" characters, as shown... Funny thing is, I don't recall that the business account agreement makes us liable for non-payments of our customers. Not that it matters, since we pay domain fees anyway as part of our service.
From: Business Account <BusinessA@netsol.com> Subject: Please Read: Important Announcement from NSI to Business Account Members
> Dear Premier/Business Account Program Members: > > Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) is implementing a new practice that could > eliminate, or at least reduce, your obligation to pay us for your > customers that have failed to pay for our domain name registration > services. As you are aware, pursuant to the terms of your > Premier/Business Account Agreement with us, you are liable to us for > delinquency fees for the unpaid registrations of customers that you refer > to us. Effective immediately, we are providing your domain name > registration customers with an opportunity to satisfy their payment > obligation to us by placing their delinquent registration in our new > auction site. If such actions result in a transfer to a new registrant > through the auction site, the proceeds we receive from the transfer (up to > the full amount of the registration fee) will be retained by us to satisfy > your customer's registration fee. In such event, you will no longer have > the obligation to pay the delinquent registration fee. > > We believe this to be a sound and reasonable course of action for > customers who register domain names, but refuse to pay for services > rendered. We also believe that these actions will alleviate the payment > burden from our partners. Generally, we have learned that if we have not > been paid, it is likely that our partners have not either. > > So that you clearly understand the process leading up to this action we > offer the following information: > > * We have sent the registrant three prior billing notices: > 1. Original invoice > 2. Late notice > 3. Notice of deactivation > > The customer has still not paid for our domain name > registration services. > > * On Thursday, June 22, the administrative contact for such > registrants will receive an e-mail from NSI requesting payment for such > domain name(s). This means that if a registrant has registered multiple > domain names and has not paid for them, he/she will receive a separate > e-mail for each unpaid name. > > * The administrative contact will be given three options. > 1. Pay the registration fee electronically by June 28, 2000. > 2. Instruct NSI to delete the name by June 28, 2000. > 3. If the domain name is not paid for or is deleted by June 28, > 2000, it will be entered on the NSI auction site. Any proceeds from the > sale of the name (up to the full amount of the registration fee) will be > retained by NSI and the domain name will be transferred to the successful > bidder. > > There will be no exceptions or exemptions from this e-mail as it is > extremely important that these registrants be given one final chance to > pay. > > We thank you for your cooperation. Please direct any questions to your > Partner Relations or Business Support team. > > Sincerely, > > Thomas E. van Gorder > Vice President, Sales and Business Development >
Free QNX (as in beer), free Plan 9 (as in speech), cheap Inferno (as in about what I spend on games in a year) -- I will have the most awesome geeky triple boot system in the world!!
That's very good. And very worthwhile. And three or four years behind the current "state of the art."
It's the one gripe I have with PayMyBills.com - no downloading from within Quicken itself. I must take the extra steps of downloading the QIF from the website, and then launch Quicken, import the file, and merge it by hand to my checking account (duplicates seem to creep in every time I do this, maybe I'm doing something wrong, like forgetting the last period I downloaded from PMB)
My bank, credit cards, and brokerage accounts are updated in one step from within Quicken - download, import, merge is handled with no muss, no fuss. And I have yet to see any duplicates.
I know, I know, I'm too demanding.:) But thanks for pointing out the QIF import feature. I will give GNUcash a look-see.
I rely on Quicken to do the dirty work of entering most of my transactions in the ledger. I have switched my accounts to banks, brokers, credit cards that support this feature, because it relieves me of most of the work to balance my accounts with my statements. One click, enter a password, and my accounts are updated over the 'net.
No support for that, no sense in trying it out. I reordered my entire financial life around this feature. If it weren't for this, and for games, I'd be 100% non-Windows on my home PC.
GPL is a hack of copyright law (hence, "copyleft"). It turns the existing state of affairs back on itself. Instead of restricting others from using your code or profiting from it, it requires others who use your code or profit from it, to also share their derivative work, and pass along your code as well (or novel, editorial, any IP work can be GPL'd).
In a world without copyright, the GPL is not needed.
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You're right, the ones that hail from outside the bible-belt are not rednecks.
Fer Gawd's Sake, do we really need to coin a word as stupid as "weblication"? If I put my resume on a job site, have I "weblied" for a job? Cripes, this market-ooze makes me want to puke.
I haven't seen that such policies make any difference at all in the amount of spam I receive. People still spam me with URLs with impunity, and frequency. The policies of some backwoods ISP serving Podunk don't amount to a hill of beans. Spew-Spew Net and their children are the biggest problem (next to the entire country of South Korea :).
I suppose you never visit Yahoo, CNN, C/Net, or any of the others that use Akamai? I mean, that's your choice and all, but it seems to me you are laboring under a misapprehension of what Akamai does, if you've blocked "their ads".
Explain the security hole. I don't see it.
Every proxy request through Akamai costs them 2X the size of the response; once to get it from the source, once to send it to the client.
Uhhhh, dude - they cache stuff, you know - keep a copy in the proxy so once they have it, they don't have to get it from the origin again until it expires... ever heard of that sort of thing?
Do you actually see any content at all while surfing? I wonder....
Of course, blocking advertisements is as futile an effort as blocking pr0n. I should create the un-blockable ad banner software and make a mint.
Any VC's reading this? :)
Why you are throwing these meaningless political labels into the mix is beyond me.
Does it matter who claims to be a true conservative, and who doesn't? Every one of the so-called conservative Republicans who voted for the DMCA, and the CSA, considers themselves a true conservative. The term is meaningless.
I think the term you're looking for is a strict constitutionalist. Those people speak and act as you describe. No one who claims the label conservative believes what your hypothetical true conservatives believe.
I realize that the solution is not as simple as this, but it does irritate me that when a potentially valid reason for having a technology around comes up, it's already been bludgeoned to death by people who are either uninformed or jump to conclusions too quickly.
The processor ID can never be a reliable means of identifying a particular computer remotely. Even if one couldn't turn it off, all one needs to do to avoid giving out one's PID is to run software that doesn't support giving out the PID, or run software that returns a user-defined PID.
And it does nothing to address non-Intel systems. These are just the more obvious problems. There are plenty of other problems with it.
It's really only useful for the clueful to take advantage of the clueless.
I say what we really need is a TLD expressly for non-commercial purposes. ".free" or something like it. Run by volunteers and a voting membership - not unlike Usenet. Cybersqatters could be voted out of their domains. Spammers are by definition, commercial, and are not eligible. Evidence of commercial activity would be grounds for revocation.
I like the idea of giving corporations their own top level. This gives some logical leverage to argue for keeping their lawyers out of the other hierarchies.
I'm OK with even allowing Coca Cola to determine the policies for .cocacola, even to the extent of giving them sole discretion on whether to accept registrations from the public at all. It's their top-level.
"But keep your lawyers out of my domain's hierarchy. You have your own now."
I think there's a lot of potential for solving these issues by handing out top levels corresponding to trademarks to the owners of the mark.
Make it a condition of accepting a proprietary top-level, that only a top-level can be considered to infringe a trademark, based solely on the fact that it exists. And leave the second levels alone.
He's the band member who is best at public speaking.
Oh, they have a Solaris plugin now... Damn, that's the first time Netscape's plugin finder has ever worked for me... :)
The LA Times and other major newspapers ran an ad today sponspored by Artists Against Piracy. Some well-known and not-so-well-known bands and performers have their names printed in the ad. I suggest the web site is due for a nasty Slashdotting. If they have a contact email address, that inbox should be filled up with your thoughts on the accusation they are making by the very name they chose for the organization (I can't tell if there is a contact email address on the site because it requires Shockwave, for which there is no Solaris plugin).
This is old news Ohio-boy. The coasts have already dumped their Java middle-ware because it doesn't scale (DUH!) and are going back to Apache, mod_perl, PHP, MySQL and the like. You'll discover the same problem in about 18 months and do the same as we did - DUMP THAT BITCH!!
From: Business Account <BusinessA@netsol.com>
Subject: Please Read: Important Announcement from NSI to Business Account Members
> Dear Premier/Business Account Program Members:
>
> Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) is implementing a new practice that could
> eliminate, or at least reduce, your obligation to pay us for your
> customers that have failed to pay for our domain name registration
> services. As you are aware, pursuant to the terms of your
> Premier/Business Account Agreement with us, you are liable to us for
> delinquency fees for the unpaid registrations of customers that you refer
> to us. Effective immediately, we are providing your domain name
> registration customers with an opportunity to satisfy their payment
> obligation to us by placing their delinquent registration in our new
> auction site. If such actions result in a transfer to a new registrant
> through the auction site, the proceeds we receive from the transfer (up to
> the full amount of the registration fee) will be retained by us to satisfy
> your customer's registration fee. In such event, you will no longer have
> the obligation to pay the delinquent registration fee.
>
> We believe this to be a sound and reasonable course of action for
> customers who register domain names, but refuse to pay for services
> rendered. We also believe that these actions will alleviate the payment
> burden from our partners. Generally, we have learned that if we have not
> been paid, it is likely that our partners have not either.
>
> So that you clearly understand the process leading up to this action we
> offer the following information:
>
> * We have sent the registrant three prior billing notices:
> 1. Original invoice
> 2. Late notice
> 3. Notice of deactivation
>
> The customer has still not paid for our domain name
> registration services.
>
> * On Thursday, June 22, the administrative contact for such
> registrants will receive an e-mail from NSI requesting payment for such
> domain name(s). This means that if a registrant has registered multiple
> domain names and has not paid for them, he/she will receive a separate
> e-mail for each unpaid name.
>
> * The administrative contact will be given three options.
> 1. Pay the registration fee electronically by June 28, 2000.
> 2. Instruct NSI to delete the name by June 28, 2000.
> 3. If the domain name is not paid for or is deleted by June 28,
> 2000, it will be entered on the NSI auction site. Any proceeds from the
> sale of the name (up to the full amount of the registration fee) will be
> retained by NSI and the domain name will be transferred to the successful
> bidder.
>
> There will be no exceptions or exemptions from this e-mail as it is
> extremely important that these registrants be given one final chance to
> pay.
>
> We thank you for your cooperation. Please direct any questions to your
> Partner Relations or Business Support team.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Thomas E. van Gorder
> Vice President, Sales and Business Development
>
Bwahahahaa!
What's next? Free-as-in-beer VxWorks? Nahhh....
Umm, that's exactly what is being done now. You can thank NSI for that. Now they're branching into ccTLD's.
InterNAP made no such claims to us - you're the first I've heard to say so. Happy customer here, just curious what the hell you're talking about! :)
It's the one gripe I have with PayMyBills.com - no downloading from within Quicken itself. I must take the extra steps of downloading the QIF from the website, and then launch Quicken, import the file, and merge it by hand to my checking account (duplicates seem to creep in every time I do this, maybe I'm doing something wrong, like forgetting the last period I downloaded from PMB)
My bank, credit cards, and brokerage accounts are updated in one step from within Quicken - download, import, merge is handled with no muss, no fuss. And I have yet to see any duplicates.
I know, I know, I'm too demanding. :) But thanks for pointing out the QIF import feature. I will give GNUcash a look-see.
No support for that, no sense in trying it out. I reordered my entire financial life around this feature. If it weren't for this, and for games, I'd be 100% non-Windows on my home PC.
Might not apply if you use a mouse. :)
Is it .VBS?
In a world without copyright, the GPL is not needed.
Yeah, wouldn't that be totally GREAT?
No <blink> no <center> no <font> no frames no nothing. CSS would thrive and websites would actually be readable on all platforms.
Nice dream, but I don't think it's gonna happen.