I understand the need for mass replication of the DNS root servers and appreciate both the cultural and technical needs to spread them fairly evenly throughout the world but is it really necessary for China to replicate F, I and J at the root level? Would performance and the world perception of a US controlled internet really suffer if China was denied access to the root level? Let them replicate all 13 for their internal use but remove any server's root status if the server is hosted in China... Maybe I'm missing something here but is this not a reasonable stance on preventing this type of collateral damage?
I also seem to remember Neil blaming most of the uproar on Disney. Paraphrasing - "if they hadn't named that darned dog Pluto nobody would have cared".
It's hard to tell with Neil how serious he was on that one.:-)
Let me guess, "The National Legal and Policy Center" is a non-profit organization able to accept donations without needing to reveal the donors, isn't it? Probably with absolutely no political agenda.
I bet they get most of their funding from Mark Zuckerburg.
Yeah it sucks. And it's slow (CPU intensive). And I can't get back to the classic (plain text) index even though I've un-checked and checked it multiple times.
Yeah, off topic I know, but absof'inglutely! No one likes a smart ass check box that toggles itself when you hit f'ing "Save". Pissed me off all afternoon.
... I had to boot ubuntu on a samsung laptop to backup someones files before they formatted, and it couldn't find the network card (though windows 7 had no problem).
but the buttons for such windows are small compared to the rest of the screen and hard to hit with clumsy fingers (especially mine)
It looked like the user was using gestures for those things in the video, not the window control buttons. Swipe the window to the top for Maximize, move to the center for restore, etc...
Not positive about this as I have not used it but that's the way it appears in the video and IMHO mitigates the issues you mention.
As long as I can download and install a free OS for my computer from any number of sources I consider Linux (on the Desktop) alive and kicking. News of its demise has luckily not reached my Desktop and it is chugging along just fine.
Sure when you write it out as gooo it just sounds disgusting but what's wrong with go-oo as in Go OpenOffice? I think it's kind of catchy. But then again there is probably a good reason I'm not in marketing. Most of the mainstream stuff seems stupid to me (What does clay used for making houses have to do with manipulating photos?) so when an FOSS product comes up with some clever acronym/metaphor for a name I generally appreciate the humor behind it and become interested in learning more about it.
On one hand you have the government, parents and everyone saying that marijuana is not good for you.
No, "everyone" is not saying that. As with most political subjects in the US right now a very vocal minority is saying it's bad and a very vocal minority is saying it should be legal. In this case however there are plenty of facts to back up what those who want it legal are advocating. The side that wants to continue prohibition are the same shrill minority that claim gay people are going to hell for their sins. Hell, even many conservative politicians are starting to see the wisdom in legalization ( less crime, taxes, less resources spent on imprisoning citizens for non-violent crimes, etc).
Google does not claim everything is open. They are quite clear on when you are OK using their trademarks, copyrighted apps and patented technology and when your rights to do so cease. Just as with Apple they don't want their name/reputation sullied by bad third party products.
And if Motorola had a contractual obligation to use Skyhook then they should have started with the base OS, rolled their own apps and then integrated Skyhook. One can read TFA article and take Skyhook's word that Google strong armed Motorola or it's equally possible that once Motorola realized what they were in for if they didn't use Google's stack they shrugged and said "Oh well Skyhook, sorry, we're going with Google".
As I stated in other posts I'm not saying Google is definitely in the right here, I'm just open to both sides of the story and for now I'm leaning toward defending Google because, according to an update to TFA, they haven't been served yet and can't/won't comment.
The core OS is open, the Android Market and the Google Apps are not. Just because most of the big phone manufacturers seem too lazy to try and compete with Google's complete stack doesn't preclude the fact that they are welcome to take the Android OS, do whatever they want to it short of using the Google name and apps, and sell that instead. You can build on OS on Darwin and give it away or sell it but you can't call it Mac X or Apple This. That doesn't make Darwin any less open.
But doesn't that show that Google isn't doing anything to stop the use of Skyhook in its OS? Layar works fine... I'm sure other apps would too.
That's my take on it. Just because they don't integrate Skyhook into the phone doesn't mean Skyhook can't get in on the Android Marketplace. I'm reserving judgment for now but as far as I'm concerned TFA was basically a Skyhook PR + editorial comment in favor of Skyhook. I've no doubt Google (*cough* Eric Schmidt) is capable of dirty, say evil, business practices but just because another company says so doesn't make it so.
They haven't been found guilty yet. Totally agree with the sentiment of your post mind you, I just think it's worth taking a wait and see approach on this one...
It's pretty complicated stuff. I don't think he was trying to get on the cover of a pamphlet on corn-syrup activism. This is/., we know how to use Google so sometimes it's OK to be a bit vague and still be on topic and interesting.
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If China has the legitimate* right to host three replicas of the root servers they would need the KSKs, no?
Which in my mind would lead to more potential for abuse as even the technical among us think "It's OK, I'm using DNSSEC!".
* which according TFA they do now...
I understand the need for mass replication of the DNS root servers and appreciate both the cultural and technical needs to spread them fairly evenly throughout the world but is it really necessary for China to replicate F, I and J at the root level? Would performance and the world perception of a US controlled internet really suffer if China was denied access to the root level? Let them replicate all 13 for their internal use but remove any server's root status if the server is hosted in China... Maybe I'm missing something here but is this not a reasonable stance on preventing this type of collateral damage?
An off-the-cuff comment, or something more?
How about wishful thinking?
I also seem to remember Neil blaming most of the uproar on Disney. Paraphrasing - "if they hadn't named that darned dog Pluto nobody would have cared".
It's hard to tell with Neil how serious he was on that one. :-)
Let me guess, "The National Legal and Policy Center" is a non-profit organization able to accept donations without needing to reveal the donors, isn't it? Probably with absolutely no political agenda.
I bet they get most of their funding from Mark Zuckerburg.
Personally I hate the "no enter button" thing, ...
Although I hated for years I now search from the address bar as it avoids this nonsense.
Did Al Gore invent Agile as well or something?
RTFA
Without consulting the passengers in his minivan — "there was no time to take a vote" — Innes kicked into engineer mode .
Yeah it sucks. And it's slow (CPU intensive). And I can't get back to the classic (plain text) index even though I've un-checked and checked it multiple times.
Yeah, off topic I know, but absof'inglutely! No one likes a smart ass check box that toggles itself when you hit f'ing "Save". Pissed me off all afternoon.
Really? I had to use vi through a remote terminal. But I think my professor may have been a sadist.
You say it likes it a bad thing, that's how I work everyday.
... I had to boot ubuntu on a samsung laptop to backup someones files before they
formatted, and it couldn't find the network card (though windows 7 had no problem).
Maybe Samsung should do something about that...
but the buttons for such windows are small compared to the rest of the screen and hard to hit with clumsy fingers (especially mine)
It looked like the user was using gestures for those things in the video, not the window control buttons. Swipe the window to the top for Maximize, move to the center for restore, etc...
Not positive about this as I have not used it but that's the way it appears in the video and IMHO mitigates the issues you mention.
As long as I can download and install a free OS for my computer from any number of sources I consider Linux (on the Desktop) alive and kicking. News of its demise has luckily not reached my Desktop and it is chugging along just fine.
Sure when you write it out as gooo it just sounds disgusting but what's wrong with go-oo as in Go OpenOffice? I think it's kind of catchy. But then again there is probably a good reason I'm not in marketing. Most of the mainstream stuff seems stupid to me (What does clay used for making houses have to do with manipulating photos?) so when an FOSS product comes up with some clever acronym/metaphor for a name I generally appreciate the humor behind it and become interested in learning more about it.
On one hand you have the government, parents and everyone saying that marijuana is not good for you.
No, "everyone" is not saying that. As with most political subjects in the US right now a very vocal minority is saying
it's bad and a very vocal minority is saying it should be legal. In this case however there are plenty of facts to back
up what those who want it legal are advocating. The side that wants to continue prohibition are the same shrill minority
that claim gay people are going to hell for their sins. Hell, even many conservative politicians are starting to see the
wisdom in legalization ( less crime, taxes, less resources spent on imprisoning citizens for non-violent crimes, etc).
To name a few:
Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Gary Johnson
Tom Tancredo
That's what I remember reading here in Chapter 1: For Want of a Printer.
Stallman had subsequently written a large number of GNU tools, but the license was his most important contribution.
Says the vi user who never wrote a line of code in his life! ;-)
You might want to check for prior art.
Apparently, not necessarily.
Google does not claim everything is open. They are quite clear on when you are OK using their trademarks, copyrighted apps and
patented technology and when your rights to do so cease. Just as with Apple they don't want their name/reputation sullied by
bad third party products.
And if Motorola had a contractual obligation to use Skyhook then they should have started with the base OS, rolled their own
apps and then integrated Skyhook. One can read TFA article and take Skyhook's word that Google strong armed Motorola or it's
equally possible that once Motorola realized what they were in for if they didn't use Google's stack they shrugged and said
"Oh well Skyhook, sorry, we're going with Google".
As I stated in other posts I'm not saying Google is definitely in the right here, I'm just open to both sides of the story and
for now I'm leaning toward defending Google because, according to an update to TFA, they haven't been served yet and can't/won't
comment.
The core OS is open, the Android Market and the Google Apps are not. Just because most of the big
phone manufacturers seem too lazy to try and compete with Google's complete stack doesn't preclude
the fact that they are welcome to take the Android OS, do whatever they want to it short of using
the Google name and apps, and sell that instead. You can build on OS on Darwin and give it away or
sell it but you can't call it Mac X or Apple This. That doesn't make Darwin any less open.
But doesn't that show that Google isn't doing anything to stop the use of Skyhook in its OS? Layar works fine... I'm sure other apps would too.
That's my take on it. Just because they don't integrate Skyhook into the phone doesn't mean Skyhook can't
get in on the Android Marketplace. I'm reserving judgment for now but as far as I'm concerned TFA was basically
a Skyhook PR + editorial comment in favor of Skyhook. I've no doubt Google (*cough* Eric Schmidt) is capable
of dirty, say evil, business practices but just because another company says so doesn't make it so.
Don't know much about 4) per se but pertaining to your desire:
Layar
Just quickly scanned, not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for...
They haven't been found guilty yet. Totally agree with the sentiment of your post mind you, I
just think it's worth taking a wait and see approach on this one...
I believe he means the Maillard reaction (PDF)
It's pretty complicated stuff. I don't think he was trying to get on the cover of a pamphlet on corn-syrup /., we know how to use Google so sometimes it's OK to be a bit vague and still be on topic
activism. This is
and interesting.
Thanks, had no idea. Looks intriguing.