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Comment Re:Focus on country code. (Score 1) 489

by mrjeffreya (#23910961) Attached to: The Beginnings of a TLD Free-For-All?

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?

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Posted by timothy from the do-the-pokey-pokey dept.
eldavojohn writes "Scientists have been busy in Ottawa using lasers to manipulate chemical reactions. While this may not seem like an impressive feat, the implications this has for quantum mechanics is quite large. From the article, "According to Albert Stolow, the NRC team leader, the tool used to alter molecular landscapes has implications beyond the control of chemical reactions. One example already mentioned is in the area of quantum information either to directly encode molecular scale information or to control molecular scale switches. Another application is in developing novel forms of optical microscopy of live cells, where quantum control methods can be used to sharpen images, enhance sensitivity and perhaps even perform molecular scale surgery on individual cells. The electric interaction underlying the NRC technique is an essential tool on the quantum mechanic's workbench. Its application to science and technology could reach deep into the quantum world of the ultrasmall." The article in science was where I caught this initially though it doesn't seem to be free anywhere online. The final words of the summary are "suggesting broad applicability" but only time will tell how far our imaginations will use this research."

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