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rviana writes: Intellectual Property Watch has a story discussing ICANN's "need" for more generic top-level domains. On Thursday, ICANN posted a summary of the 18 comments received during their month-long comment period, which ended on September 7th The comments noted that the auction model, or the use of the money from the auction were not adequately described. Read the full story from ip-watch here, and read ICANN's proposal here.
(Full Disclosure, my wife works for IP-watch and covered this story.)
Julie188 writes: "Experts keep screaming that the IPv4 sky is falling. Three such experts were recently asked point blank to state an irrefutable business case for moving to IPv6 now and their answer was more plausible than the old excuse (the lack of addresses and a yet-to-be-seen killer IPv6 app). They said that there isn't a business case. No company that is satisfied with all of its Internet services will need to move, even in the next few years. They also pointed out that Microsoft is a unique position in the industry both causing adoption through its IPv6 support in its OSes and hindering adoption by not extending IPv6 support into very many of its apps. (That's classic for Microsoft, aye?)"
frenetic3 writes: "Dropbox came out of private beta today and finally made its Linux client available for download. It's kind of like rsync and svn but totally seamless and integrated into nautilus, and also lets you sync/share folders with other people (including on Windows or Mac.) Perfect if you're sick of hacking cron scripts to push files around or carrying USB drives."
HighWizard writes: America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field that could potentially make America Energy Independent and until now has largely gone unnoticed. Thanks to new technology the Bakken Formation in North Dakota could boost America's Oil reserves by an incredible 10 times, giving western economies the trump card against OPEC's short squeeze on oil supply and making foreign threats of disrupted supply irrelevant.
I'm guessing this would allow me to make people slow down on my street by simply making them "think" there is a speed trap there. Not a terrible idea, if enough people use it. Though how many false positives will it take before confidence in the system is shot?
HighWizard writes: US actor Roy Scheider, best known for playing the police chief in the Jaws movies and as Captain Nathan Bridger on SeaQuest DSV, has died at the age of 75.
lb746 writes: Thane Heins a backyard scientist has possibly developed a device that can do the unthinkable, perpetual motion. Currently the machine is being shown to multiple universities with the intent to debunk and figure out what is really happening. MIT was just shown the device and currently has no initial claims if it's really true or explanations of how it's happening.
Velmont writes: "The community surrounding Cinelerra, one of the premier non-linear video editors for Linux, has decided to strike off in its own direction and rewrite Cinelerra under a new codebase. According to Hermann Vosseler from the Cinelerra-CV community, "Chances are that by simply continuing as we always did, Cinelerra will suddenly be really outdated. Some other free tool with many effect plugins, bangs, and whistles — but delivering only amateur quality — will eventually take most of the user base, leaving the (obviously small number of) people needing professional grade quality with no free alternative to the commercial video editing solutions". In the "already coding, but pre-alpha stage" the community is now brainstorming for a new name."
This move called "The Commons" is also a call to the world community to give access to countless files and records from all organizations in a common effort to preserve information and historical evidence.
Nom du Keyboard writes: As reported on Fox News and The New York Times, some Muslims are attempting to censor Wikipedia because of images of Muhammad contained in the article about him. So does one religion get to tell the rest of the world how they must behave because they'll be offended otherwise, or does the Internet represent all views, even when that view may be offensive to some particular minority?