- Kindle in the news. Can it save the newspapers?
- Blackberry outselling iPhone. Meanwhile RIM doing deal with Cisco.
- Nine-Inch Nails has a beef with Apple.
- EU wants to take over the Internet.
- Windows Vista going to get killed by Win 7 say experts.
- Google hires goats and gets attention.
- IBM will pay you to ditch Sun servers.
- Wolfram will not give me a beta.
- Apple going big into games?
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The Cisco IP phones are everywhere. They’re the phones that CTU uses on 24. Anyone who works in a large office, almost anywhere in the worrld, that has IP phones, has a Cisco phone on their desk.
Life would be good if the EU ‘took over’ the internet, it would be culturally more diverse with better support for other languages and maybe we would then find there is life outside of the USA. As an EU citizen I may also then be able to more easily buy domain names that are not native to my country.
What’s up with the birds?
And Trent Reznors response slamming both Apple and Walmart is awesome.
http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?9,651569,651569#msg-651569
I have been complaining about Walmarts double standard and for media for years. My first thought about Apple was “but wait they sell that album in the iTunes store.
Also in a later post the developer points out that the content has always been in the app and this point upgrade was simply a bug fix for Europe. In other words the content was and still is in the approved version of the app. http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?9,651569,651866#msg-651866
@#2 I hope for /sarcasm tag…
Internet is already completely open, mainly due to USA laws and Constitution. Any diversity wanted/needed is present and thriving. Any website can be made in any language of choice of its owner. Any viewpoint is protected by the Constitution.
Problems that exist and are hinted by zealous lawmakers all originate from nation-states meddling in these freedoms. In many European countries I couldn’t buy a domain name, as I am not citizen. At the same time as long as you can pay GoDaddy or such company you can get USA domains from anywhere on the planet. No citizenship requirement. At least so far censorship and spying are not allowed on Internet by USA laws while countries like China and EU both do censorship and want spying (ex. Germany, UK,…).
When EU gets Constitution that grants freedom of speech and privacy rights, try again without sarcasm tag.
John,
next time you go into a bank, look at the desk phones. chances are good that they are Cisco.
love the show, keep it coming!
-Tyler
Loved the birds. Did you record this in the back yard?
#2 – Ian Mayman
You deserve dvorak.org/blog’s The Clueless Clown Award.
#3 – Dusan – At least so far censorship and spying are not allowed on Internet by USA laws while countries like China and EU both do censorship and want spying (ex. Germany, UK,…).
LOL
Building Blackberry network services into Cisco switch equipment, could be interesting.
Adam Curry for Internet President (he has the best hair)
Jack Bauer (sponsored by Cisco) for IVP. Watch 24 and you know what I mean. Cisco is EVERYWHERE on that show.
John C. Devorak as General Muckity Muck and head Crank!
Per usual, no one here actually reads the proposal they offer opinions on. Which would be a G12 board with 12 votes – ICANN head would be non-voting member. EU would have 2 votes. NA would have 2 votes.
Way too democratic and representative of nations around the globe for “libertarian” Americans to support. Folks in the GOUSA are always supporters of democratic participation – unless there’s a chance of losing an election.
The Internet is US territory. Love it or leave it.
Cyberspace is a big place. Start your own global network.
Actually, US government control of ICANN ends this year. It becomes a private corporation. The discussion is about ICANN is not “control” of the Internet.
Cripes. Is this dummy central?
Nowhere in the proposal of the European Commission can I read they ‘want to take over’. Not that I think the solution they’re proposing is a good one — to make Icann a private company, and let a G12 of national governments make the policy decisions — but that’s a far cry from what mr. Dvorak mentioned in his spoken column.
I think it’s a good idea to spread the control of the internet over more than just one nation. Why not? It protects us all.
# 17 Johan said, “I think it’s a good idea to spread the control of the internet over more than just one nation. Why not? It protects us all.”
I really don’t have a problem with countries that have a Constitution & Bill of Rights as strong as ours joining in control. Just let me know when you find one…
Those were “woo-hoooooooooooo” birds!
Apple is identical to Deviantart in many ways.
For one they’re loaded with homos and their loyal homos are filling the place with pictures of barely legal “men” and just to make it sound like art and not porn they photoshop cheesy sci-fi fantasy ornaments around the lolitos.
@ Angel H. Wong
Ay papi. Why chu wanna be so stoopid? Stoopid!
@pedro
Hard to have a mind when you are imaginary.
Come and get it, you bastards!
re: EU, ICANN and Internet Control
ICANN wants a new generic top-level domain system that allows organizations to have their own gTLDs. For example, .Ziff, .GE, or .Greenpeace. Maybe even .Crank. This new system will also allow considerably more characters for domain names. This will probably relate to the adoption of IPv6.
Right now, only uppercase and lowercase letters of the Roman alphabet, numerals and hyphen are allowed. Chinese and Cyrillic are already mentioned. Bulgaria has applied for its URL in Cyrillic. Transliteration of Chinese names is a BIG issue for web searches.
The present system will change over time. Imagine one country controlling the format and international designations for all telephone numbers.
“Jägermeister”, You say I deserve The Clueless Clown Award and yet it is you in comments above that calls Europe a country.
There is no such country called Europe. There is however continent called Europe with far more people than are in America.