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New Top-Level Domains Approved by ICANN

• Comment posted Jun 20, 2011 5:54 am PDT — by Anonymous Coward
  If Canon can end their domain with .canon, it removes the need for .com.  This is big for brands.  You'll no longer goto apple.com, you'll goto home.apple and ipad.apple. The category specific domains are pretty short of being successful.  There…

Wikileaks DDoS of Spamhaus: Political Activism at Its Dumbest

• Comment posted Dec 19, 2010 5:39 am PST — by Anonymous Coward
  1) Russian criminals have control over the wikileaks.org and wikileaks.info domains and are distributing malware. The current real wikileaks website is wikileaks.ch. 2) Spamhaus has been telling people about (1). 3) The Russian criminals are now retaliating by using their…

Cloud Consortium Releases Security Compliance Tools

• Comment posted Nov 29, 2010 5:15 am PST — by Anonymous Coward
  www.qualys.com does this already. No mention?

A Look at the Facebook Privacy Class Action (Beacon) Settlement

• Comment posted Dec 09, 2009 11:40 pm PST — by Anonymous Coward
  Beacon Settlement OPT OUT group on Facebook now exists!

• Comment posted Dec 08, 2009 4:45 pm PST — by Anonymous Coward
  This settlement provides no relief for me, or anyone else in the covered class.  I am opting out.  If 1500 opt out, the whole settlement can be rescinded.  That is my hope. This settlement will only serve to enrich the…

Why US Broadband Service Continues to Stagnate - Some Simple Numbers to Drive the Point Home

• Comment posted May 13, 2009 11:34 pm PDT — by Anonymous Coward
  and it's coming from the private sector, not the public sector. Which is better.

Obama's Missed Opportunity

• Comment posted Mar 29, 2009 10:37 pm PDT — by Anonymous Coward
  Firstly, Susan Crawford is not qualified for this post. She is not a technologist and has no technical training; she is, rather, a lawyer and lobbyist. Many of the policy recommendations she has published have reflected a complete lack of…

Latest Cybersquatting Stats from WIPO

• Comment posted Mar 17, 2009 2:01 am PDT — by Anonymous Coward
  Scarlett Johansson "actress"actually is a clone from original person,who has nothing with acting career.Clone was created illegally using stolen biomaterial.Original Scarlett Galabekian last name is nice, CHRISTIAN young lady.

Gaza Conflict Spilling Over Into the Internet, Cyberwar Underway

• Comment posted Jan 11, 2009 1:45 pm PST — by Anonymous Coward
  This does not compare very well to other cyberwar attempts. http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6840/cyberwarwrongwp6.jpg

One Good Outcome from the Wall Street Journal: Google Flap

• Comment posted Dec 28, 2008 5:21 am PST — by Anonymous Coward
  Google is starting to engage in behavior that ought to rile “network neutrality” advocates — at least those that are not shills for Google. Network neutrality advocates — especially the most extreme ones, such as Free Press — claim that…

Lawrence Lessig: FCC Beyond Repair, Should be Abolished

• Comment posted Dec 28, 2008 5:15 am PST — by Anonymous Coward
  Lessig first says that there should be "minimum intervention" in markets. But then, he turns around and advocates "network neutrality" — an agenda which is so interventionist that it demands that Internet providers not be able to charge more for…

Does Your House Need a Tail?

• Comment posted Nov 27, 2008 10:42 am PST — by Anonymous Coward
  All new communities ive seen the developer lays cable when they develop it, as a developer laying cables while in construction, when you already are laying power is really, really easy, And as it would act like cable and telephone…

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…

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…

• 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…

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…

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…

Old New Telco Thinking

• 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…

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.

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?

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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?

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…

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…