Comment It's Not a Standard - Yet (Score 2) 31

by SAH on Monday June 01, 2026 @06:48AM (#66169146) Attached to: AI Agents Get Their Own Directory Built Atop DNS

The text of the article says that "The standard was originally developed by Infoblox". It's important to note that this approach isn't a standard yet. It's currently described in an Internet-Draft document that's being discussed on the IETF's dnsop mailing list. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/a... Anyone can join that list and participate in the discussion. Having running code to demonstrate the concept is a great idea, but it has a long way to go before becoming a Proposed Standard RFC.

Comment Drupal and Contributed Modules (Score 1) 46

by SAH on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @08:24AM (#58181592) Attached to: Drupal 7 Will Reach End-of-Life in November of 2021

I have several web sites running Drupal 7. The biggest issue that prevents me from migrating to Drupal 8 is the status of several contributed modules that I depend on. If they don't have a Drupal 8 version available (and there are many that don't), I have to either update them myself or find an alternative. The most common reaction I get from the developers of these modules when asked about their plans for Drupal 8 is silence...

Comment Re:Oldest still held by same company is XEROX.COM (Score 1) 48

by SAH on Friday March 13, 2015 @05:54PM (#49252975) Attached to: Oldest Dot-com Domain Turning 30

One of the benefits of getting in on the ground floor like that was big blocks of IPv4 addresses - apple.com still controls a /24 block, I think.

...and Xerox has (or maybe had) 13/8.

Comment Re:I don't like the sound of this (Score 3, Informative) 155

by SAH on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @07:13AM (#44110465) Attached to: ICANN Working Group Seeks To Kill WHOIS

What we need is a standard format for WHOIS responses. What we don't need is some monopoly gatekeeper.

There's IETF work under way to develop standard formats for whois-like queries and responses: http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/weirds/charter/

Woman Trademarks Name and Threatens Sites Using It 273

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 20, 2010 @10:33AM from the keep-my-name-out-of-your-mouth dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Be careful mentioning Dr. Ann De Wees Allen. She's made it clear that she's trademarked her name and using it is 'illegal... without prior written permission.' She even lists out the names of offenders and shows you the cease-and-desist letter she sends them. And, especially don't copy any of the text on her website, because she's using a bit of javascript that will warn you 'Copyright Protect!' if you right click on a link."

Man Builds His Own Subway 174

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @11:53AM from the everyone-needs-a-hobby dept.

jerryjamesstone writes "Everybody is into rail these days; it is the greenest way to get around next to a bike. Leonid Mulyanchik has been into it for years since before the Berlin Wall fell, since before the first Macintosh, building his own private underground Metro railway system. English-Russia says that he has been doing it with his pension, that it is all legal and approved and that he is still at it. Gizmodo calls it 'Partly the traditional, inspiring, one man against all odds type of persistence, but more the obsessive, borderline insane persistence.'" Update: 06/02 07:33 GMT by T : And if you're the type to visit Burning Man, you can actually ride a home-made monorail this summer, too.

Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites 319

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @10:52AM from the here's-to-you-mrs-robinson dept.

teh31337one writes "Google is refusing to advertise CougarLife, a dating site for mature women looking for younger men. However, they continue to accept sites for mature men seeking young women. According to the New York Times, CougarLife.com had been paying Google $100,000 a month since October. The Mountain View company has now cancelled the contract, saying that the dating site is 'nonfamily safe.'"

Valve's Battle Against Cheaters 336

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 19, 2010 @04:13AM from the busting-punks dept.

wjousts writes "IEEE Spectrum takes a look behind the scenes at Valve's on-going efforts to battle cheaters in online games: 'Cheating is a superserious threat,' says [Steam's lead engineer, John] Cook. 'Cheating is more of a serious threat than piracy.' The company combats this with its own Valve Anti-Cheat System, which a user consents to install in the Steam subscriber agreement. Cook says the software gets around anti-virus programs by handling all the operations that require administrator access to the user's machine. So, how important is preventing cheating? How much privacy are you willing to sacrifice in the interests of a level playing field? 'Valve also looks for changes within the player's computer processor's memory, which might indicate that cheat code is running.'"

Dinosaur Feather Color Discovered 219

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @05:28PM from the horsefeathers-still-a-mystery dept.

anzha writes "Do you remember being a kid and told we'd never know what colors the dinosaurs were? For at least some, that's no longer true. Scientists working in the UK and China have closely examined the fossils of multiple theropods and actually found the colors and patterns that were present in the fossilized proto-feathers. So far, the answer is orange, black and white in banded and other patterns. The work also thoroughly thrashes the idea that fossils might not be feathers, but collagen fibers instead. If this holds up, Birds Are Dinosaurs. Period. And colorful!"

PS3 Hacked? 296

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 25, 2010 @07:35AM from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

Several readers have sent word that George Hotz (a.k.a. geohot), the hacker best known for unlocking Apple's iPhone, says he has now hacked the PlayStation 3. From his blog post: "I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of reversing ahead of me, as I now have dumps of LV0 and LV1. I've also dumped the NAND without removing it or a modchip. 3 years, 2 months, 11 days...that's a pretty secure system. ... As far as the exploit goes, I'm not revealing it yet. The theory isn't really patchable, but they can make implementations much harder. Also, for obvious reasons I can't post dumps. I'm hoping to find the decryption keys and post them, but they may be embedded in hardware. Hopefully keys are setup like the iPhone's KBAG."

Scientists To Breed the Auroch From Extinction 277

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 21, 2010 @12:18AM from the back-by-popular-demand dept.

ImNotARealPerson writes "Scientists in Italy are hoping to breed back from extinction the mighty auroch, a bovine species which has been extinct since 1627. The auroch weighed 2,200 pounds (1000kg) and its shoulders stood at 6'6". The beasts once roamed most of Asia and northern Africa. The animal was depicted in cave paintings and Julius Caesar described it as being a little less in size than an elephant. A member of the Consortium for Experimental Biotechnology suggests that 99% of the auroch's DNA can be recreated from genetic material found in surviving bone material. Wikipedia mentions that researchers in Poland are working on the same problem."