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Putting Multiple Root Nameserver Issue to Rest

• Comment posted Jun 29, 2005 2:32 pm PDT — by Anonymous Coward
  I cannot understand why this has such a negative tone. In my experience with Unix/Linux/BSD doing multiple roots is a simple task in a configuration file. Maybe the frustration seething from this article comes from being locked into the monopolists…

Objections to .XXX, Attention in High Places

• Comment posted Sep 09, 2005 9:00 am PDT — by Anonymous Coward
  Hi. Even assuming it is good to add a domain to specify adult content, I still disagree with the use of *.xxx (1) What does *.xxx really mean? Probably it means to be something bad or very bad (so there're…

Ask Vint Cerf: The Road Ahead for Top-Level Domains

• Comment posted Jan 17, 2006 7:22 am PST — by Anonymous Coward
  DNSSEC. When. Or are you looking at other methods?

Old New Telco Thinking

• Comment posted Nov 22, 2008 12:49 am PST — by Anonymous Coward
  The use of RST packets is a longstanding and very effective method of administratively terminating connections. Of course, in the case of P2P, it doesn't stop the transfer; it just cuts off some of the hydra's heads. (BitTorrent and many…

• Comment posted Nov 20, 2008 1:47 am PST — by Anonymous Coward
  It happened in my neighborhood. A group of kids went on a downloading spree and everyone's access was bogged down all day, because P2P keeps running 24 x 7. It took complaints and a letter from the cable company to…

• Comment posted Nov 20, 2008 1:37 am PST — by Anonymous Coward
  It's relevant to comment on Kevin's 2006 posting because now, in 2008, he's on the Obama transition team and will be instrumental in determining (among other things) who will chair the FCC. As for the FCC decision against Comcast: it…

• Comment posted Nov 18, 2008 10:44 pm PST — by Anonymous Coward
  Usage-based pricing is a bad idea. Users hate watching the meter, and will be deterred from doing things because they know it's running. However, broadband providers have been forced into metering by the recent FCC ruling, which slapped Comcast for…

P2P as a New Spam Medium, Moving From PoC to Full Operations

• Comment posted Dec 05, 2006 1:57 pm PST — by Anonymous Coward
  Well, for torrent networks, i guess the torrent lists will be moderated. Or that submissions are marked using a karma-system. I fail to see that it will be a problem.

Network Solutions Responds to Front Running Accusations

• Comment posted Jan 10, 2008 12:36 am PST — by Anonymous Coward
  Right, I guess we'll see about that "We will continue to reserve...domains searched from our homepage" thing. Because my guesses are, you're going to have a few (hundred?) people fired from your company… either that, or hopefully it follows you…

• Comment posted Jan 09, 2008 5:22 pm PST — by Anonymous Coward
  From Slashdot: by schmiddy: I Just followed the link to uselessdomain0001.com. Check out the blue globe logo at the top.. now check out this CC licensed SVG image on Wikipedia: Applications-internet.svg. Looks like someone "accidentally" forgot to include the Creative…

Introductory Remarks from Innovation '08

• Comment posted Jun 15, 2008 10:31 pm PDT — by Anonymous Coward
  While I have only a layman's understanding of the technical aspects behind network management practices and the needs of different types of software, these concerns are not quite what network neutrality is meant to address. A quick explanation of net…

ICANN Board Approves Sweeping Overhaul of Top-level Domains

• Comment posted Jul 12, 2008 4:10 am PDT — by Anonymous Coward
  Now if someone registered a gTLD of .coke, they could then have their domain be www.coke, and what is Coke suppose to do about that?  The onlything I think possibly preventing squatters would be if the price for a gTLD…

Comcast and the Internet

• Comment posted Aug 03, 2008 12:39 am PDT — by Anonymous Coward
  Yes, this was a "good" day for Washington lobbyists such as "Free" Press, who are seeking to expand their power base by having the Internet regulated as they see fit. But it was a bad day for the rest of…

FCC's Comcast Ruling Inconsistent and Incoherent

• Comment posted Aug 06, 2008 4:07 am PDT — by Anonymous Coward
  How about natural gas? Electricity? Gasoline? Whaddaya mean, they cost money to produce?

• Comment posted Aug 03, 2008 12:30 am PDT — by Anonymous Coward
  The FCC's actions today were illegal, because it not only exceeded its authority but directly violated Federal law. The law, at 47 USC 230(b), says that the Internet must be "unfettered by Federal or State regulation." Ironically, the 3-2 majority…

Hunting Unicorns: Myths and Realities of the Net Neutrality Debate

• Comment posted Aug 06, 2008 4:12 am PDT — by Anonymous Coward
  Your puppet masters at Free Press, the big rich lobbying group in DC, have said all of those things.

Net Neutrality Advocates: Wireless Carriers' Network Management Must Be 'Reasonable'

• Comment posted Nov 20, 2008 1:54 am PST — by Anonymous Coward
  The "network neutrality" crusaders obviously aren't willing to unlimber their wallets and put down millions of dollars for wireless spectrum. Spectrum is expensive, and downloaders and P2Pers will eat it alive if they are not kept in check. Letting them…

If Obama Gets His Way, All Americans Would Have Broadband Internet Access

• Comment posted Nov 20, 2008 2:01 am PST — by Anonymous Coward
  Unfortunately, Obama has also come out in favor of extremely heavy regulation of the Internet, and in particular in favor of "network neutrality," which is an extreme form of Internet regulation that prevents Internet providers from managing their networks or…

Susan Crawford, Kevin Werbach Named Obama's FCC Review Team Leads

• Comment posted Nov 21, 2008 3:52 am PST — by Anonymous Coward
  They are heavily funded by Google, which—as you might expect—prompts them to push so-called "network neutrality" legislation which isn't neutral at all.... It favors Google and its corporate agenda. And in any event, a lobbyist is a lobbyist. Hiding behind…

• Comment posted Nov 20, 2008 5:59 pm PST — by Anonymous Coward
  It's the specific policy of the Obama transition team that lobbyists should not be on it—at least not influencing the subject areas on which they have lobbied. Susan Crawford is part of the lobbying group Public Knowledge, which has done…