flynn23 wrote:
] ] Its justification for existence was weak 70 years ago,
] ] but advances in technology since then have eliminated
] ] whatever arguments remained. Central planning didn't work
] ] for the Soviet Union, and it's not working for us. The
] ] FCC is now an agency that does more harm than good.

I halfway agree with this article. I strongly reject the notion that spectrum should be owned outright like land. I think software
defined radio may be the way ... all of the devices in a given
area can collectively divide up the spectrum. Given the
entrenched FCC licencees, I'm afraid its a pipe dream, though.

RE: Why the FCC should die

]
] "Competitive Bidding for new gTLDs" is the focus of part
] three of a three-part series based on a study prepared by
] Karl M. Manheim, Professor of Law at Loyola Law School
] and Lawrence B. Solum, Professor of Law at University of
] San Diego. Special thanks and credit to Hastings
] Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 25, p.
] 317, 2004.

The more I read of this, the more I think its a *bad idea*...
DNS is not a directory service or "internet keyword" service ...
its function is to say "the machine named 'foo' has network address
'bar'" We really need another layer of name/keyword/directory service to provide these features.

An Economic Analysis of Domain Name Policy - Part III

] Internet domain-name registrations reached an all-time
] high in the first quarter of 2004, with some 4.7 million
] new IDs recorded, according to a study conducted by
] VeriSign . The figure is the highest quarterly number
] ever recorded for new registrants.

Sigh ...

Also, parts 2 and 3 of the "economic analysis of domain name policy" are up on circleid, now.

Domain-Name Registration Soars

]
] The majority of spam %u2013- as much as 80 per cent of
] all unsolicited marketing messages sent -- now emanates
] from residential ISP networks and home user PCs. This is
] due to the proliferation of spam trojans, bits of
] surreptitious malware code embedded in residential
] subscriber PCs by worms and spyware programs.

In case you hadn't heard...

80% of Spam Originating from Home PCs

] A New York man convicted of using the network of Internet
] service provider EarthLink to send out hundreds of
] millions of unsolicited commercial (spam) e-mail was
] sentenced to between three-and-a -half and seven years in
] prison Thursday, according to Brad Maione, a spokesman
] for New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

Buffalo spammer gets 3.5 to 7 years

] Every year numerous illegitimate patent applications make
] their way through the United States patent examination
] process without adequate review. The problem is
] particularly acute in the software and Internet fields
] where the history of prior inventions (often called

EFF's Patent Busting Project

] Anti-spam organisation Spamhaus is opening up operations
] in China with the launch of a new site, Spamhaus.cn, this
] week.

Spamhaus assaults 'Great Wall of Spam'

] Binc IMAP is a well designed, modular IMAP server for
] Maildir. Its goals are to be secure, stable, and fast,
] yet flexible and easy to maintain.

"Binc is not Courier!" I've been using this with QMail for awhile now. Its written in C++ and the authors are less "politically fussy" than Courier's.

BincIMAP

Decius wrote:
] ] by Kurt Vonnegut
] ]
] ] Many years ago, I was so innocent I still considered it
] ] possible that we could become the humane and reasonable
] ] America so many members of my generation used to dream
] ] of. We dreamed of such an America during the Great
] ] Depression, when there were no jobs. And then we fought
] ] and often died for that dream during the Second World
] ] War, when there was no peace.
] ]
] ] But I know now that there is not a chance in hell of
] ] America's becoming humane and reasonable. Because
] ] power corrupts us, and absolute power corrupts
] ] absolutely. Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy
] ] drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are
] ] power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the
] ] morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle
] ] East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot
] ] to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like
] ] toys a rich kid got for Christmas
]
] (No, I don't "agree" with this essay. But it is Kurt Vonnegut.
] And it is entertaining.)

Agreed.

RE: Cold Turkey

] per capita income in the period prior to
] the late 1950s was right around number three in the
] world, behind the United States and Canada. But by 1984,
] its per capita income had sunk to 27th in the world,
] alongside Portugal and Turkey. Not only that, but our
] unemployment rate was 11.6 percent, we’d had 23
] successive years of deficits (sometimes ranging as high
] as 40 percent of GDP), our debt had grown to 65 percent
] of GDP, and our credit ratings were continually being
] downgraded. Government spending was a full 44 percent of
] GDP, investment capital was exiting in huge quantities,
] and government controls and micromanagement were
] pervasive at every level of the economy. We had foreign
] exchange controls that meant I couldn’t buy a
] subscription to The Economist magazine without the
] permission of the Minister of Finance. I couldn’t buy
] shares in a foreign company without surrendering my
] citizenship. There were price controls on all goods and
] services, on all shops and on all service industries.
] There were wage controls and wage freezes. I couldn’t pay
] my employees more – or pay them bonuses – if I wanted to.
] There were import controls on the goods that I could
] bring into the country. There were massive levels of
] subsidies on industries in order to keep them viable.
] Young people were leaving in droves.

Lessons from New Zealand.

Rolling Back Government