I agree... the customization factor is pimp... but Joe Sixpack can't pull it off. Its not an easy customization, its a deep internal one. Therefore, not a mainstream one.
I thought the left-wing meme was all about how America has too much wealth. How we are too priveledged or too smart.
What Bush is doing to ruin science should be praised, because it will allow other less fortunate countries to show off some scienctist strength, right?
Don't tell me you are obsessed with America remaining the undisputed ruler of the free world in science? Can it be slashdot?
The example of.NAZI includes ANY hate speech. So lets call it.TROLL.
Certainly, there is a large audience of people who WANT to hear negative comments, angry comments, etc. This could be huge. So you believe if I get a critical mass of supporters,.TROLL should be a reality?
There are also.GUN.GOD and.GAY. Lots of people like guns. Lots of people like god. Lots of people like gays.
Now, we just subdivide the internet into.GOD.GUN and.GAY and its easily customized to fit the tolerance and political correctness of the user, right? Just adjust your browser threshold value.
Well, you raise some good points. But it does come down to.xxx is a government endorsement of a pr0n category.
I would not want the government to endorse a.VIOLENT or.GAY category regardless of popularity or audience size.
ICANN is the puppet of many things. Certainly not the people. I see no value in it subjecting us to its "judgement". At least as a government puppet, I can vote for new direction in ICANN. As a shadow puppet, I have no control over ICANNs operations.
Hehe... but riddle me this, batman. We as a society might someday want to filter hate speech as well as pr0n, so should we create a.NAZI TLD and have everyone who posts hateful or hurtful or rude comments have to use the.NAZI or.TROLL extension?
Well said! I feel great! Everything is well again in UTOPIA. The land where all content is easily categorized! The land where everyone obeys the rule of law while online! The land where information can be controlled!
Thats a straw man.... that Bush is against it because he is on some anti-porn jihad.
He's against the special treatment of porn. Pandering to porn by giving it its own TLD.
He might be against a.gay domain, or a.nazi domain also, just because the current internet infrastructure can handle gay and nazi type websites without highlighting and celebrating and holding ICANN meetings about it.
Think about it... it makes no sense to have a.xxx Are 99% of.NET domains ISPs? Not even... filtering software will not get better than the 99% it already filters.
Your comment is neither here nor there in this debate. It is a venemous reactionary response to Bush and Technical Experts being on the same page.
First of all, its idiotic....
Do you create a.nazi domain so that you can easily filter hate sites?
Now, what happens to all the pr0n on the.com sites. What if you post an image to imageshack.us and its slightly pornographic? So that doesn't get filtered, or do you employ "handlers" to monitor this and decide?
So at best, its ineffective and a big waste of time and money.
What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with what you can say, or which pictures you can post.
This is about whether or not to create a special.xxx domain.
Obviously anyone can see, there is plenty of pr0n on the internet. No one thinks this will change. But does it make sense to try and force all content of a certain type into a certain domain extension?
Why don't you stick to the issue?
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It sounds like this is just a general lashing out at big corporations. "We're taking our free software away from you" type mentality.
Well, bravo. Push the big corporations back into Microsofts waiting arms.
Set up "JUDGES" to will decide who in society can use GPL and who cannot.
And then the hackers will just come up with REALLY FREE software when Linux becomes to burdened with legal and governmental restrictions.
I agree... the customization factor is pimp... but Joe Sixpack can't pull it off. Its not an easy customization, its a deep internal one. Therefore, not a mainstream one.
I thought the left-wing meme was all about how America has too much wealth. How we are too priveledged or too smart.
What Bush is doing to ruin science should be praised, because it will allow other less fortunate countries to show off some scienctist strength, right?
Don't tell me you are obsessed with America remaining the undisputed ruler of the free world in science? Can it be slashdot?
My god... lots of pent up emotions being unleashed in the slashdot assylum today.
Wake me up when our GDP goes below 10 trillion.
I disagree... what is the difference between a car with open source software in the AM/FM stereo and a car with FREE software in the AM/FM stereo?
"Hey dude, who cares? I don't go inside the stereo anyway." is the likely response...
I'm sorry to violate orthodoxy but,
The average user does not care about open source. They care about FREEWARE.
Thats not to say I don't care about open source... its just not as compelling to Joe Sixpack.
Exactly... its not ironic, this pretentious article comment is trying to claim ownership of all "roots". Whatever.
The example of .NAZI includes ANY hate speech. So lets call it .TROLL.
.TROLL should be a reality?
.GUN .GOD and .GAY. Lots of people like guns. Lots of people like god. Lots of people like gays.
.GOD .GUN and .GAY and its easily customized to fit the tolerance and political correctness of the user, right? Just adjust your browser threshold value.
Certainly, there is a large audience of people who WANT to hear negative comments, angry comments, etc. This could be huge. So you believe if I get a critical mass of supporters,
There are also
Now, we just subdivide the internet into
Well, you raise some good points. But it does come down to .xxx is a government endorsement of a pr0n category.
.VIOLENT or .GAY category regardless of popularity or audience size.
I would not want the government to endorse a
ICANN is the puppet of many things. Certainly not the people. I see no value in it subjecting us to its "judgement". At least as a government puppet, I can vote for new direction in ICANN. As a shadow puppet, I have no control over ICANNs operations.
Right... in a perfect world.
.NAZI TLD and have everyone who posts hateful or hurtful or rude comments have to use the .NAZI or .TROLL extension?
"Somewhere... over the rainbow..."
Hehe... but riddle me this, batman. We as a society might someday want to filter hate speech as well as pr0n, so should we create a
That would keep kids safe too....
Is it easy to find ISPs by searching through .NET domains?!
*Applause*
Well said! I feel great! Everything is well again in UTOPIA. The land where all content is easily categorized! The land where everyone obeys the rule of law while online! The land where information can be controlled!
Thats a straw man.... that Bush is against it because he is on some anti-porn jihad. He's against the special treatment of porn. Pandering to porn by giving it its own TLD. He might be against a .gay domain, or a .nazi domain also, just because the current internet infrastructure can handle gay and nazi type websites without highlighting and celebrating and holding ICANN meetings about it.
Think about it... it makes no sense to have a .xxx Are 99% of .NET domains ISPs? Not even... filtering software will not get better than the 99% it already filters.
Your comment is neither here nor there in this debate. It is a venemous reactionary response to Bush and Technical Experts being on the same page.
OK, great, lets also set up a .NAZI site for hate filtering...
.NAZI because of some of the hate that gets posted here... right?
And of course, slashdot will have to move to
First of all, its idiotic.... Do you create a .nazi domain so that you can easily filter hate sites?
Now, what happens to all the pr0n on the .com sites. What if you post an image to imageshack.us and its slightly pornographic? So that doesn't get filtered, or do you employ "handlers" to monitor this and decide?
So at best, its ineffective and a big waste of time and money.
What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with what you can say, or which pictures you can post. This is about whether or not to create a special .xxx domain.
Obviously anyone can see, there is plenty of pr0n on the internet. No one thinks this will change. But does it make sense to try and force all content of a certain type into a certain domain extension?
Why don't you stick to the issue?