Comment Re:What's good for the goose (Score 1) 301
Exactly, if companies can vote with money, their employees should decide where this money goes (and not the board).
Submission + - Net Giants Propose Anti-Phishing Protocol (techweekeurope.co.uk)
judgecorp writes: "Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Facebook and others have proposed DMARC, or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance, an email authentication protocol to combat phishing attacks. Authentication has been proposed before; this group of big names might get it adopted."
Comment Re:When did it actually start? (Score 1) 289
Vint co-invented the Internet, was co-founder of ISOC, first ICANN chairman, and I don't think Google tells him what he should say, Google has him on staff to help him pursue _his_ work. TCP/IP is an open standard at a time where there was only proprietary protocols, the whole IETF is based on equal participation by all. In a way this is what inspired the Open-Source movement.
He is also listened by all the world leaders.
But Vint biggest trick, he is an enabler of people and can inspire many and has inspired many.
So yes he has indisputable respect from the Internet community.
He is not always right, like any human being, but he is very well respected.
PS: fun fact, the architect in the matrix is taken as a model from him, another form of respect.
He is also listened by all the world leaders.
But Vint biggest trick, he is an enabler of people and can inspire many and has inspired many.
So yes he has indisputable respect from the Internet community.
He is not always right, like any human being, but he is very well respected.
PS: fun fact, the architect in the matrix is taken as a model from him, another form of respect.
Comment Re:To mainstream lit, sci fi is like comic books (Score 4, Funny) 292
And they were able to make us love the world of Star Trek: A militarist state where money does not exist, but all is planned for the benefit of the people.
Also known as USSR.
Also known as USSR.
Comment What did they say... (Score 1) 366
What did they say to the North Korean Soldiers?
That's a more interesting point.
Comment It will teach him... (Score 2) 158
..not to let his computer unlocked at the office when he goes to have a piss!
Comment Re:ICANN is open? (Score 1) 27
Wouldn't things be much better and open if instead of ICANN or IETF we just had joint agreements between Comcast, ATT, Verizon, Time-Warner, and maybe Level3? I guess I should be international and include a few other "key players" in that list, too.
It is called the ITU!
Submission + - IETF celbrates 25th aniversary (networkworld.com)
FranckMartin writes: Little known to the general public the Internet standard body, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) celebrates its 25th birthday on the 16th January. DNSSEC, IDN, SIP, IPv6, HTTP, MPLS,.. all acronyms that were codified at the IETF. But little known, one can argue the IETF does not exist, it just happens that people meet 3 times a year in some hotel around the world and are on mailing lists in between. The openness of the IETF and its structure has inspired the way ICANN is run as well as the way the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has been open to the civil society.
Submission + - Google to push WebM with IE9, Safari plugins (electronista.com) 1
surveyork writes: A new chapter in the browser wars:
"Google in a defense of its decision to pull H.264 from Chrome's HTML5 revealed that it will put out WebM plugins for Internet Explorer 9 and Safari. Expecting no official support from Apple or Microsoft, Google plans to develop extensions that would load its self-owned video codec. No timetable was given."
So Google gets started with their plan for world-wide WebM domination. They'll provide WebM plugins for the browsers of the H.264-only league, so in practice, all mayor browsers will have WebM support –one way or the other.
Machiavellian move?
"Google in a defense of its decision to pull H.264 from Chrome's HTML5 revealed that it will put out WebM plugins for Internet Explorer 9 and Safari. Expecting no official support from Apple or Microsoft, Google plans to develop extensions that would load its self-owned video codec. No timetable was given."
So Google gets started with their plan for world-wide WebM domination. They'll provide WebM plugins for the browsers of the H.264-only league, so in practice, all mayor browsers will have WebM support –one way or the other.
Machiavellian move?
Submission + - Tomcat 7 finalized (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: The volunteer developers behind Apache Tomcat have released version 7.0.6 http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi of the open-source Java servlet container.
"This is the first stable release of the Tomcat 7 branch," developer Mark Thomas wrote in an e-mail announcing the release on various Tomcat developer mailing lists.
While not a full application server, Tomcat implements the functionality described in the Java Enterprise Edition Web profile specifications. Most notably, it supports version 3.0 of the Servlet API (application programming interface) and version 2.2 of JavaServer Pages, both part of the recently ratified JEE 6. A servlet container manages Java-based applications that can be accessed from a Web browser.
One big area of improvement is in configuration management for Web applications. Previous versions required all Web app configuration changes to be entered in a central file called web.xml, a process that led to unwieldy web.xml files as well as security risks.
"This is the first stable release of the Tomcat 7 branch," developer Mark Thomas wrote in an e-mail announcing the release on various Tomcat developer mailing lists.
While not a full application server, Tomcat implements the functionality described in the Java Enterprise Edition Web profile specifications. Most notably, it supports version 3.0 of the Servlet API (application programming interface) and version 2.2 of JavaServer Pages, both part of the recently ratified JEE 6. A servlet container manages Java-based applications that can be accessed from a Web browser.
One big area of improvement is in configuration management for Web applications. Previous versions required all Web app configuration changes to be entered in a central file called web.xml, a process that led to unwieldy web.xml files as well as security risks.
Comment Hadopi and copy tax... (Score 2) 227
What I don't understand, you pay a tax on any digital media to compensate for artists loss of revenue and then you go after people for copying materials via hadopi.
I think we should have one, but not both?
Sounds to me like double jeopardy.
What do you think?
I think we should have one, but not both?
Sounds to me like double jeopardy.
What do you think?
Comment What is exactly the problem? (Score 2) 945
The problem is that there is not enough bandwidth in the USA, so people, instead of throwing more bandwidth at the problem, try to define ways to control the current bandwidth.
I'm sure we have already spent more money in Network Neutrality issues than if we had put more bandwidth.
Note this problem is not much felt in other part of the world, because there is sufficient bandwidth for current services. In USA, rural America is still much under dial-up...
If the government wants to help: bring broadband in all corners of the USA.
I'm sure we have already spent more money in Network Neutrality issues than if we had put more bandwidth.
Note this problem is not much felt in other part of the world, because there is sufficient bandwidth for current services. In USA, rural America is still much under dial-up...
If the government wants to help: bring broadband in all corners of the USA.
Comment Re:Too little, too late... (Score 0) 406
check your facts: http://www.google.com/ipv6 it is native on Google...
And there is a quite active IPv6 forum in Australia, and AARNET is IPv6 for a long time...
And there is a quite active IPv6 forum in Australia, and AARNET is IPv6 for a long time...
Comment Vendor sales answer (Score 1) 406
"That's funny, this is the first time someone ask."
wash, rince, and reuse
Comment let's defend ourselves (Score 1) 342
by carrying guns in airplanes!
