I support this idea. Having only ccTLD would give visitors a certain amount of legal security.
At the moment, if amazon.ca doesn't play nice (in regards to taxes, refund policies, bootleg, etc.) against Canadian laws, the local authorities can step in. If this principle were extended and non-cc TLDs are discontinued, citizens would know when they are visiting (relatively) safe sites and to be careful when venturing onto sites that aren't controlled by their country. Can the average visitor tell that tvdvdstore.net operates out of China and ships bootleg?
For multinational companies, acquiring a domain name in another country is probably one of the easiest things they need to do before entering the country's market.
Eliminating non-ccTLDs would also eliminate many other problems such as trademarks. You want to buy walmart.ca? Do you own the trademark in Canada, since it is already registered?
However, when I think of this, I start thinking of how it compares to sleeping. When you fall asleep, that instant of consciousness ceases to be, like above. When you wake up, there's a new instant of consciousness and it doesn't have any recollection of the previous one having end, also like above.
The part I'm undecided on is whether or not the middle stage of above applies to sleeping which depends on whether or not "you" and "dying" is talking about a single instance of consciousness or the series of consciousnesses...
I case you're wondering, I haven't slept in 473 days.
The only thing that announcements like this do, is get the attention of MPAA et al. When they see this, they choose to put their content in that format since it will be better "protected".
We realize that it is nearly impossible to say what computers can do in 10 years. If the DRM is NOT cracked within 10 years, it might never be... a new format will obsolete this one and will gain the attention of crackers.
Therefore, announcements like this increase the quantity of content available for the format while its "protection" because of a bigger target.
"However, it might be reasonable to make major release upgrades through an automated process of torrenting an ISO, mounting it, and doing the update."
Already (partially) possible. Download the Ubuntu alternate ISO, mount it to your file system, and add the mount directory to your APT sources.list. You are now ready to apt-get update and dist-upgrade.
Better yet, why don't you just put the whole computer into the display, which would eliminate the problem altogether. Oh wait, http://www.apple.com/imac/design.html
For so many features I'm told to "get a plugin", which often isn't being maintained to the same high standard as the rest of the browser.
Have Mozilla develop and support important extensions to they have the same high standards. This way the download manager can be moved to a default extension that can be replaced for one that supports.torrents if the user desires them. The same can be done with the "view source" window, and other parts of the current browser that can be considered bloat.
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I support this idea. Having only ccTLD would give visitors a certain amount of legal security.
At the moment, if amazon.ca doesn't play nice (in regards to taxes, refund policies, bootleg, etc.) against Canadian laws, the local authorities can step in. If this principle were extended and non-cc TLDs are discontinued, citizens would know when they are visiting (relatively) safe sites and to be careful when venturing onto sites that aren't controlled by their country. Can the average visitor tell that tvdvdstore.net operates out of China and ships bootleg?
For multinational companies, acquiring a domain name in another country is probably one of the easiest things they need to do before entering the country's market.
Eliminating non-ccTLDs would also eliminate many other problems such as trademarks. You want to buy walmart.ca? Do you own the trademark in Canada, since it is already registered?
I share your method of thought.
However, when I think of this, I start thinking of how it compares to sleeping. When you fall asleep, that instant of consciousness ceases to be, like above. When you wake up, there's a new instant of consciousness and it doesn't have any recollection of the previous one having end, also like above.
The part I'm undecided on is whether or not the middle stage of above applies to sleeping which depends on whether or not "you" and "dying" is talking about a single instance of consciousness or the series of consciousnesses...
I case you're wondering, I haven't slept in 473 days.
The only thing that announcements like this do, is get the attention of MPAA et al. When they see this, they choose to put their content in that format since it will be better "protected".
We realize that it is nearly impossible to say what computers can do in 10 years. If the DRM is NOT cracked within 10 years, it might never be... a new format will obsolete this one and will gain the attention of crackers.
Therefore, announcements like this increase the quantity of content available for the format while its "protection" because of a bigger target.
"However, it might be reasonable to make major release upgrades through an automated process of torrenting an ISO, mounting it, and doing the update."
Already (partially) possible. Download the Ubuntu alternate ISO, mount it to your file system, and add the mount directory to your APT sources.list. You are now ready to apt-get update and dist-upgrade.
Once you downloaded the ISO, you can do:
Although APT will still need to download some files, it should get everything it can from the ISO.
Better yet, why don't you just put the whole computer into the display, which would eliminate the problem altogether. Oh wait, http://www.apple.com/imac/design.html
Aren't a lot of external devices now power with USB? I would rather have a cable connecting my device to my tower rather than depend on batteries.
For so many features I'm told to "get a plugin", which often isn't being maintained to the same high standard as the rest of the browser.
Have Mozilla develop and support important extensions to they have the same high standards. This way the download manager can be moved to a default extension that can be replaced for one that supports .torrents if the user desires them. The same can be done with the "view source" window, and other parts of the current browser that can be considered bloat.