We're talking about ICANN here... why does everyone keep calling it a UN agency? I have never before now heard anyone refer to it in that way and I honestly don't think its accurate.

I get what you are saying, but here is the thing. If you (RonPaul.com) start a business solely based on the promotion of another person without formalizing a legal contract with that other person and don't expect any trouble further down the road... then it is YOU who does not understand capitalism and you should probably just get a job somewhere because you aren't suited to run a business.

I am a bit of a Ron Paul fan I have never heard him say anything specifically regarding domain name ownership.

He isn't trying to change legislation to get ownership of the domain. You can't call someone a hypocrite for following the same rules everyone else is currently following. This is a typical straw man argument against a libertarian minded politician. Create some questionable libertarian standard and then say that they aren't following it.

I'm not an expert in intelectual property law but I he might have a good case and he would be a fool not to at least try to get ownership of RonPaul.com. This isn't a case of some other guy named Ron Paul who had the site first. This is a case of individuals making money from a website dedicated to Ron Paul and in my layman's opinion it isn't totally absurd to question if Ron Paul himself has any legal advantage in this situation.

Too bad the people who work there won't be allowed to use their cell phones during an outage. They'll be running back and forth to their IP phone relaying messages. Its bad enough that many data centers officially do not allow cell phone usage but everyone does it anyways because its just not feasible not to use your cell phone. But in a wireless data center it would be strictly enforced. It would be a nightmare trying to get work done there.

Why is anything PETA does even news? The media portrays PETA like its some kind of official organization that matters. "PETA condemns" LAF

Don't applaud Microsoft. They aren't doing this in the interest of the consumer. Microsoft envisions a world where everyone uses a MS Live or some such ID to do just about anything on the Internet.What they are really up to here is cornering the market on consumer data. If web servers won't let send a tracking cookie then you can't discover this information for yourself. Only a company like Microsoft that has people tracked by IDs would be able to obtain this valuable consumer data.

I think we should really trust the wisdom of the ASF. They have been a critical component in the free nature of the internet since the beginning.

DNT won't work if it is the default... Apache is trying to save DNT

People calling ASF evil bewilders me, they are a non-profit organization. I've never understood what the big deal is with tracking cookies. People act like a tracking cookie is a virus when it's pretty harmless by itself. They are a part of how browsers work, we all know this.

If you think MS is doing something that will help the Internet with this decision I think you are not seeing the big picture. ASF's actions show a clear understanding of how things need to go down if we actually want DNT to be implemented in a way that actually works

That reminds me of something I heard the other day that Apple recently sued a company for making a laptop that was too thin. So Apple invented the concept of thinness?!

This trial represents a deeper much more important issue. Will we allow companies like Apple to set a precedent of killing innovation and forcing people to purchase their products when we clearly don't want them

What is the difference between the iPhone and the Galaxy Nexus? I don't want an iPhone, wouldn't take one if you gave it to me for free. Does that say anything?! All I know is that IN AMERICA I went to the Verizon store to buy a Galaxy Nexus and they couldn't sell it to me by court order. Stop, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down.

We will not find truth or facts of any kind in the courtroom because all of these "facts" are irrelevant. The only TRUTH is that Apple didn't invent any of the components that make up the iPhone they simply assembled a phone using the technologies available at the time.

Apple didn't invent touch screens and rectangles. It's not like nobody ever considered a touch screen smart phone before Apple came along, it's just that the components to make that phone weren't available yet. (There were lots of Palm and Windows phones with stylus touchscreens way before the iPhone, and they had keyboards because stylus typing was too hard. Take away the need for a stylus and you take away the need for a keyboard DUH!) When the components needed were available Apple used its manufacturing power and connections to be the first company to release that type of phone. I don't see any reason why they should be granted the SOLE RIGHTS to create touchscreen rectangular phones.

We are looking at an abuse of the patent system. This type of behavior is killing innovation.

I would think you have no choice in the matter. However it is my opinion that the role of IT needs. to be redefined. I am a network engineer for an ISP and our IT department seems to think that devices that are not on their network belong to them also... it causes a lot of controversy here. IT should have complete control and authority over all business system's. however in today's world where many departments are capable of managing their own solutions that are not enterprise wide there should be a way for departments to operate outside of the IT domain like external networks. this would require a lot of thought to be implimented correctly in any orginization.. in the medical field you always need to consider HIPA or w/e but I can thinking of a few different ways to achieve this.

Ya TFA is pretty misleading and uninformative talking about things like TLDs and SSL. DNS has nothing to do with this it's purely a BGP thing. Most likely someone screwed up a BGP config. I can envision solutions in the not to distant future that incorporate something like "trust management" into BGP routers so when ISPs peer with each other they have better failsafes in place and have a better logical representation of the topology of the internet so that obviously incorrect AS paths or whatever you call it aren't accepted from peers.

Cyber warfare is just a bunch of hype (aside from Stuxnet) that politicians are going to use to implement draconian internet restrictions. This article was obviously twisted to "keep fear alive"

Simpsons did it

Ya cuz for years they charged people $9 a month for shitty email. when i was in my door to door computer fixer days I came across tons of people who had broadband but still paid AOL for providing no service other than a stupid home page and email

They should have taken the deal when M$ offered it. Bing is already more popular than Yahoo lol. Then again, who cares what the retarded half of the internet uses.