I understand. The others answered my original question in addition to the question I knew not how to ask without knowing the answer.. anyways.. thanks for the response:-)
Ok, I suppose a lot of good questions offer more than a lot of poorly researched replies to the original article.. So here's to being productive!
Let me know if i am correct: Why is it that black holes cannot be detected? Is it because any light that would otherwise escape indicating its presence is consumed?
Also: What are some good books on black holes that one of a mind uneducated as far as black holes are concerned might be able to read wiht little trouble?
and we can't correct what has already been done, but when creating new tld's it is crucial that we establish rules for those tlds so that the problems of the already established naming system don't roll over into new systems. i guess i'm saying that we should create a new system, not copy the existing system.
I like a good organized hierarchy, but the most difficult problem that I've yet to witness anybody solve is how best to do cross referencing such as telling the person "this site leads to that site and you're going there now."
This is the niche the Yahoo! Directory filled. Yahoo! could not change the way the domain system worked, but it was able to change the way people look for things under the current system. With how the current DNS system works, I believe there are many problems with a hierarchial system based on business activities conducted or where those businesses are located, since most large businesses occupy many locations and offer many products of many different names. To classify everything would be a big mess, though Yahoo! has done a good job of making sense of this mess.
exactly! if somebody registers a trademarked name and the trademark owner sues, the trademark owner shouldn't be suing for rights to that domain, but making a formal request that the domain "owner's" registration for that domain be withdrawn! we shouldn't outlaw squatting, because then, only the outlaws will squat, i suppose. we would benefit more by making it more difficult and less attractive to squat on domains!
let's say microsoft hasn't registered microsoft.com.us.
I want the microsoft.com.us domain.
I decide to obtain a licence to operate a business selling sponges, which I will call microsoft sponge, inc.
I supply proof that I have a license to operate my sponge-selling business and sign some sort of afidavit indicating that my lawyers could find no evidence of the "microsoft" trademark being owned by anybody (of course this would not be overlooked, because of microsoft being a well known name, so let's assume microsoft is not a large company, but a small consulting firm in washington).
Microsoft decides that it wants to register microsoft.com.us.
It sees that microsoft sponges, inc has registered it.
If microsoft supplies proof documenting that it owns the microsoft trademark, then microsoft is entitled to dispute the legitimacy of the current microsoft.com.us owner's original registration, since the company that registered the domain indicated that he was not aware of any such trademark. At least the domain registrar has documentation that the applicant was aware that he could not register such a trademarked domain so that microsoft could cause microsoft.com.us to be unregistered so that they may reregister it.
Such documentation is essential in preventing the registrar from being liable for the original registrar's negligence.
things like this clearly need to be established at the start so as to prevent any issues being brought up in our already cluttered courts!
It is for this reason that businesses should be encouraged to register trademarks representing their business name.
I appologize for not being clear (i was in a hurry:). What I should have said was that we must make sure to distinguish between the commercial and non-commercial entities. Where commercial would be any -- wait a sec.. I suppose.com.us should be enforced such that only registered businesses may register such domain names.
And of course, registered not-for-profit organizations would go under.com.us and individuals could register under, as I've said.pc.us . Sure, you could sell your couch, but not represent a business from your.pc.us domain. If you are interested in running a business, get a license and register a.com.us domain, but make sure.pc.us is kept for your own personal use. If you're always auctioning things on ebay or yahoo auctions, but you don't have any formal business, use.pc.us to help advertise your auctions, so long as your transactions are not representing a full-fledged business.. if your site is to be used strictly for auctioning, consider obtaining a business license and register a.com.us domain!
There is no doubt that there are flaws with my ideas, but I have answered many of the questions that would have greater potential to be asked.
To answer your questions specifically:
If you decide to sell a game you wrote from your site, great. But if you primarily write games to be sold (i mean licensed;), then maybe it might be more appropriate to at least obtain a licence to run your business so that you may register a.com.us domain.
I've answered the couch question above
If you beome an amazon.com affiliate.. depends on what your site is all about. If you are a business as an amazon affiliate, there is no doubt that you should be.com.us if you are an individual, you are not a business...pc.us for you!
better idea! answering this question below!
same as the previous point
What if only *individuals* could register.pc.us domains?; but the naming scheme would have to be consistent!
I think we could develop a very productive naming system, please email me (i'm more productive when i can discuss things at a more one-to-one level than this generic forum) at:
andyAToreallyDOTnet
To make sense of my email address, please convert the capital letters to the actual symbol they represent, where AT would be @.. etc.. simple!:)
Sounds like a great opportunity for the standard.com.us and.org.us.. and *ENFORCE* it!
And, of course, those with trademarks could not register nor boot others from.org domains.
.org.us would be for those with recognized not-for-profit status
.com.us would be for commercial organizations and those whose registration dates predate any trademarks have priority to the domain.
.gov.us -- hey! maybe we could rid the world of the.gov domain?!;)
.edu.us -- OH! an even better idea than.edu! And people *MUST* be an educational institution!
.net.us would be for internet providers and other public networks. These people should not have.com.us unless they demonstrate that they provide services aside from *ANYTHING* having to do with network services
.pc.us - would be for private citizens to register their own web sites.
.prop.us - Would be for those wishing to spread propaganda. For example, we could have a site designated for MPAA.prop.us . This would make it not only easier for the MPAA to spread propaganda, but for us to identify such material!
We must absolutely distinguish between the private and commercial realms!
Anybody who reads of any language becoming "default" or "standard" should be insulted. Take pride in your language, and have respect for others. If you want me to speak your language, I want you to speak mine! If you want somebody to understand you, LEARN THEIR LANGUAGE! You'll learn more than a language, but all about many cultures!
disclaimer: due to ignorance, this poster requests that those who speak languages other than English translate so that all may hear the wisdom that is Andrew Dvorak;)..
The search engine is the purest environment in which targetted advertising can be offered while still preserving privacy.
Why target somebody with a wine ad who only drank one glass years ago? The more logical way would be to target somebody with a wine ad who is looking for sites featuring wines at this moment in time.
I like how google doesn't make use of graphical ads -- only text, almost like the web used to be like.. anyways.. So long as the ads aren't conveyed as search results, great for Google! I can still enjoy my favorite search engine without the hassle of determining the legitimacy of my search results.
Does the abacus not include Bead Calculation Technology (BCT)? So why must we all mock it? It has an excellent UI that was designed thousands of years ahead of its time. You had the option of programming even in binary (should the bead go to the left or the right?)
It's okay to be skeptical.. I'm sure there were people like you when Microsoft announced plans to port office to MacOS.. anyways..
I'd like to think that you know what you are talking about.. but I am sure that Microsoft has more of a clue than you. This is not only good for Microsoft, but we'll have a few hundred less people unemployed now! Think of it! It *will* benefit the United States. Instead of the employment rate being at 3.023154897%, it will stablize at an amazing 3.023154896%.
I hope people take note of my obvious sarcasm, as I wanted only for people to lighten up!:-)
I don't believe a move as such would suggest that microsoft has given up hope of windows maintaining market share.
Of course there are two ways to look at it:
they want to increase their earning potential by increasing the number of platforms office is available.
they have come to the realization that they now have a fairly large market share for Operating Systems and to capture the difference would require integration with existing systems.
Now I am too lazy to read the whole of the text the judge had written, but I must say that any offenders who have broken the law (ie. DMCA) should be prosecuted. After all, it is a law, and we can't be selective about the laws we say should be enforced and those that shouldn't.
I'm reminded of the "monkey trial" case.. where what's his name taught evolution -- against a written law. He was prosecuted and lost. The judge realized how rediculous the law must have been but also realized that the individual had broken the law. He fined the offender because he broke the law. But at least it was not the maximum which would have been twice as rediculous.
Ok, i have an idea.. we'll get a bunch of people to form a censorware company that specializes in the categorization of sites such as.. 1. nudity protrayed with provocative intent 2. racial hatred 3. sites which attempt to defame our intent and company.. oh wait.. most censorware companies tried that already..
Do I understand correctly that copying most anything for personal use only is legal?.. that's not to say that i support the organized sharing of such property on the gnutella and napster networks...
I find it interesting that most Law schools provide students with an actual legal situation that is happening at the moment and ask them to analyze that situation. Provide a real-world problem that would be at their level and not only let them think about the problems but help them along to solve the problems. Of course you probably do that anyways, since that is what teaching is:)
I'm placing my money on the fact that lots of banks were being robbed at that time. Though I don't see why it was so bad that they had to declare it a landmark city (capital).
There is no doubt that advanced technology developed by any civilization will eventually be what destroys it. In our society where we value our privacy so much, it will be the technology that destroys it. Face it, in our society, money drives all. We can't stop privacy from being taken away -- we can only delay such!
I think these statistics held by the RIAA are less about both distribution control and about artist control, as Courtney Love explained quite well.
Tools like napster loosen the recording industry's control over which artists will eventually make it to the top, thus making the companies the most money. The recording industry knows that the more control they wield over the artists, the more revenue they can generate for themselves. The digital revolution may be what gives the individual artist the exposure that the recording companies once offered so exclusively.
I see, now, how this will obsolete not only the record companies' business model, but their business, as well.
Seriously, anybody who doesn't inspect all of their bills for errors doesn't deserve to have a credit card. Heck half the people in the USA don't even deserve credit cards to begin with. Credit may offer wonderful benefits, but most people are too ignorant to harness and control them and, instead, abuse them.
Given my experience with Slashcode, I have noticed that the moderator interface for posting submissions allows the moderator to select which items are most worthy to appear on the "front" page. If the moderator chooses not to place the submission on the front page, the only way to discover the post's existence would be to monitor the slashbox for that particular topic.. or monitor that topic's main page.
Slashdot Mirror
Great! Interestingly, I've had this book for a good number of years yet I forgot I had it! Thanks!!! :-)
I understand. The others answered my original question in addition to the question I knew not how to ask without knowing the answer .. anyways .. thanks for the response :-)
Ok, I suppose a lot of good questions offer more than a lot of poorly researched replies to the original article.. So here's to being productive!
Let me know if i am correct: Why is it that black holes cannot be detected? Is it because any light that would otherwise escape indicating its presence is consumed?
Also: What are some good books on black holes that one of a mind uneducated as far as black holes are concerned might be able to read wiht little trouble?
I clarified that statement in the post to http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/08/29/03562 46&threshold=0&comme ntsort=3&mode=thread&pid=241#324. This will be of interest to yourself.
and we can't correct what has already been done, but when creating new tld's it is crucial that we establish rules for those tlds so that the problems of the already established naming system don't roll over into new systems. i guess i'm saying that we should create a new system, not copy the existing system.
I like a good organized hierarchy, but the most difficult problem that I've yet to witness anybody solve is how best to do cross referencing such as telling the person "this site leads to that site and you're going there now."
This is the niche the Yahoo! Directory filled. Yahoo! could not change the way the domain system worked, but it was able to change the way people look for things under the current system. With how the current DNS system works, I believe there are many problems with a hierarchial system based on business activities conducted or where those businesses are located, since most large businesses occupy many locations and offer many products of many different names. To classify everything would be a big mess, though Yahoo! has done a good job of making sense of this mess.
exactly! if somebody registers a trademarked name and the trademark owner sues, the trademark owner shouldn't be suing for rights to that domain, but making a formal request that the domain "owner's" registration for that domain be withdrawn! we shouldn't outlaw squatting, because then, only the outlaws will squat, i suppose. we would benefit more by making it more difficult and less attractive to squat on domains!
It is for this reason that businesses should be encouraged to register trademarks representing their business name.
I appologize for not being clear (i was in a hurry :). What I should have said was that we must make sure to distinguish between the commercial and non-commercial entities. Where commercial would be any -- wait a sec .. I suppose .com.us should be enforced such that only registered businesses may register such domain names.
And of course, registered not-for-profit organizations would go under .com.us and individuals could register under, as I've said .pc.us . Sure, you could sell your couch, but not represent a business from your .pc.us domain. If you are interested in running a business, get a license and register a .com.us domain, but make sure .pc.us is kept for your own personal use. If you're always auctioning things on ebay or yahoo auctions, but you don't have any formal business, use .pc.us to help advertise your auctions, so long as your transactions are not representing a full-fledged business.. if your site is to be used strictly for auctioning, consider obtaining a business license and register a .com.us domain!
There is no doubt that there are flaws with my ideas, but I have answered many of the questions that would have greater potential to be asked.
To answer your questions specifically:
What if only *individuals* could register .pc.us domains?; but the naming scheme would have to be consistent!
I think we could develop a very productive naming system, please email me (i'm more productive when i can discuss things at a more one-to-one level than this generic forum) at:
To make sense of my email address, please convert the capital letters to the actual symbol they represent, where AT would be @ .. etc .. simple! :)
Sounds like a great opportunity for the standard .com.us and .org.us .. and *ENFORCE* it!
We must absolutely distinguish between the private and commercial realms!
Anybody who reads of any language becoming "default" or "standard" should be insulted. Take pride in your language, and have respect for others. If you want me to speak your language, I want you to speak mine! If you want somebody to understand you, LEARN THEIR LANGUAGE! You'll learn more than a language, but all about many cultures!
disclaimer: due to ignorance, this poster requests that those who speak languages other than English translate so that all may hear the wisdom that is Andrew Dvorak;) ..
The search engine is the purest environment in which targetted advertising can be offered while still preserving privacy.
Why target somebody with a wine ad who only drank one glass years ago? The more logical way would be to target somebody with a wine ad who is looking for sites featuring wines at this moment in time.
I like how google doesn't make use of graphical ads -- only text, almost like the web used to be like .. anyways .. So long as the ads aren't conveyed as search results, great for Google! I can still enjoy my favorite search engine without the hassle of determining the legitimacy of my search results.
Does the abacus not include Bead Calculation Technology (BCT)? So why must we all mock it? It has an excellent UI that was designed thousands of years ahead of its time. You had the option of programming even in binary (should the bead go to the left or the right?)
It's okay to be skeptical .. I'm sure there were people like you when Microsoft announced plans to port office to MacOS .. anyways ..
I'd like to think that you know what you are talking about .. but I am sure that Microsoft has more of a clue than you. This is not only good for Microsoft, but we'll have a few hundred less people unemployed now! Think of it! It *will* benefit the United States. Instead of the employment rate being at 3.023154897%, it will stablize at an amazing 3.023154896%.
I hope people take note of my obvious sarcasm, as I wanted only for people to lighten up! :-)
I don't believe a move as such would suggest that microsoft has given up hope of windows maintaining market share.
Of course there are two ways to look at it:
Just a though.
I disagree .. Microsoft wouldn't even think about using GNOME for their software .. they'd just buy out Troll Tech and use that ;-)
Now I am too lazy to read the whole of the text the judge had written, but I must say that any offenders who have broken the law (ie. DMCA) should be prosecuted. After all, it is a law, and we can't be selective about the laws we say should be enforced and those that shouldn't.
I'm reminded of the "monkey trial" case .. where what's his name taught evolution -- against a written law. He was prosecuted and lost. The judge realized how rediculous the law must have been but also realized that the individual had broken the law. He fined the offender because he broke the law. But at least it was not the maximum which would have been twice as rediculous.
Just a thought..
Ok, i have an idea.. we'll get a bunch of people to form a censorware company that specializes in the categorization of sites such as .. 1. nudity protrayed with provocative intent 2. racial hatred 3. sites which attempt to defame our intent and company .. oh wait .. most censorware companies tried that already ..
Do I understand correctly that copying most anything for personal use only is legal? .. that's not to say that i support the organized sharing of such property on the gnutella and napster networks...
I find it interesting that most Law schools provide students with an actual legal situation that is happening at the moment and ask them to analyze that situation. Provide a real-world problem that would be at their level and not only let them think about the problems but help them along to solve the problems. Of course you probably do that anyways, since that is what teaching is :)
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I'm placing my money on the fact that lots of banks were being robbed at that time. Though I don't see why it was so bad that they had to declare it a landmark city (capital).
There is no doubt that advanced technology developed by any civilization will eventually be what destroys it. In our society where we value our privacy so much, it will be the technology that destroys it. Face it, in our society, money drives all. We can't stop privacy from being taken away -- we can only delay such!
I think these statistics held by the RIAA are less about both distribution control and about artist control, as Courtney Love explained quite well.
Tools like napster loosen the recording industry's control over which artists will eventually make it to the top, thus making the companies the most money. The recording industry knows that the more control they wield over the artists, the more revenue they can generate for themselves. The digital revolution may be what gives the individual artist the exposure that the recording companies once offered so exclusively.
I see, now, how this will obsolete not only the record companies' business model, but their business, as well.
Seriously, anybody who doesn't inspect all of their bills for errors doesn't deserve to have a credit card. Heck half the people in the USA don't even deserve credit cards to begin with. Credit may offer wonderful benefits, but most people are too ignorant to harness and control them and, instead, abuse them.
Given my experience with Slashcode, I have noticed that the moderator interface for posting submissions allows the moderator to select which items are most worthy to appear on the "front" page. If the moderator chooses not to place the submission on the front page, the only way to discover the post's existence would be to monitor the slashbox for that particular topic .. or monitor that topic's main page.