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Here's the skinny, australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay, paypal. Often, Buy Bactrim no prescription, if a user mistypes a domain name within a browser, he or she gets a very unhelpful and cryptic message.This message can sometimes lead users to believe that something is wrong with the computer or Internet connection and prompt a call to tech support. So, Bactrim samples, many ISPs have set up their systems so that such errors -- especially on residential connections -- redirect the user to a Web page that tries to help the user find the site that was intended. It may also submit what was typed to a search engine and display the results, Buy Bactrim No Prescription. Online buy Bactrim without a prescription, The mechanism by which this is accomplished is known as "DNS redirection."

Here's how DNS redirection works. Whenever you type a domain name into a browser or other program on your computer, your computer must have it translated into a binary Internet address -- an IP address, buy Bactrim in canada. In most cases, Bactrim from canadian pharmacy, your computer does this by submitting the name to a server called a "recursive domain name resolver" which is operated by your ISP.

But what happens if the domain name can't be translated -- because it was mistyped, no longer exists, buy Bactrim online cod, etc.. Buy Bactrim No Prescription, Normally, your computer would receive a terse, unhelpful NXDOMAIN ("domain does not exist") response, which the program you're running sees as an error. Bactrim for sale, Most programs, including Web browsers, likewise return a terse and completely unhelpful message to you, online buying Bactrim, leaving you to figure out what went wrong... Where can i find Bactrim online, if you can.

With DNS redirection, however, order Bactrim, the ISP's domain name resolver instead returns the address of a server operated by the ISP -- a server which might offer better help with the problem or links to sites which might be the one you actually meant to visit. Order Bactrim from mexican pharmacy, Should ISPs do this. Well, as an ISP myself, I can say with authority that 99.99% of all Internet users would not know what DNS (or a recursive DNS server) was if it bit them, Buy Bactrim No Prescription. They're impatient and uninterested in becoming Internet gurus. They want things to "just work, order Bactrim online c.o.d," and want immediate help if they don't. Buy Bactrim online no prescription, What's more, they are often extremely confused by the unhelpful error messages which browsers provide when a domain name cannot be resolved.

For this reason, purchase Bactrim online no prescription, it's a good thing (in my opinion) that ISPs provide this service, Where can i buy Bactrim online, and it's quite reasonable for them to do so by default (with an option to opt out). Buy Bactrim No Prescription, Some people have claimed out that failing to return an NXDOMAIN response when a domain does not resolve properly can cause problems with certain software. However, since DNS redirection is a well known and common practice, Bactrim pharmacy, any software which cannot handle it is clearly dysfunctional itself, Bactrim over the counter, and will experience problems on a growing number of networks -- prompting software authors to fix the bug. So, any such problems, where can i order Bactrim without prescription, if they do occur, Buy cheap Bactrim no rx, won't be around for long. And allowing customers to opt out should handle any situation where a user must run software that cannot tolerate redirection.

What's more, order Bactrim no prescription, DNS redirection can offer some real benefits. It can be used, for example, to block access to sites (or even portions of Web pages) that contain malware, spyware, and "drive-by downloads." It can be used to block domains publicized in spam, preventing spammers from profiting from spam or from scams (such as the infamous Nigerian advance fee fraud), Buy Bactrim No Prescription. Buy no prescription Bactrim online, It can also be used for parental content controls. And the RFC does recommend limits on what ISPs should redirect, and how they should do it, purchase Bactrim online.

So, Buy Bactrim from mexico, what's all the fuss about. My take is that most of the folks who are protesting this practice are either people who constantly brand ISPs as evil or "orthodox end-to-endians" -- extremists who believe that ISPs should not add value to the connectivity they sell, regardless of how helpful this might be to users, buy generic Bactrim. Buy Bactrim No Prescription, A few of them complain about the fact that some DNS redirection pages are advertiser-sponsored, and accuse ISPs of profiteering from users' typos. But so long as there's a clear way to opt out of seeing the pages (and, Buy cheapest Bactrim, hence, the ads), what's the big deal, rx free Bactrim.

Methinks that what we have here is a reasonable practice that a few cranks see as yet another opportunity to attack ISPs. Where can i buy cheapest Bactrim online, What do you think.

-- Addendum posted 2009-07-11 --

Since I wrote the original posting, it occurred to me that one way to satisfy the purists -- if they really are purists and not just out to attack ISPs -- would be to set up a mechanism that enabled a program to distinguish between a domain which was actually resolved and one that was redirected, Bactrim price. For backward compatibility, Buy Bactrim without a prescription, we wouldn't want to change the formats of existing responses from recursive domain name resolvers. But we could easily add a new kind of domain name query whose semantics were, "Resolve this domain, but don't ever redirect me if the domain does not exist." (Since, according to Comcast's RFC, redirection is only to be done on A and AAAA records, implementing this would just involve special queries for these two kinds of records.) Would this proposed solution be adequate. Should it be added to Comcast's RFC. Comments are welcome.

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Commentary on today’s Senate Anti-Trust Hearing http://broadbandpolitics.com/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:19:07 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/ bit of Information Week, a straight-up tongue loosener. For your appetizer, enjoy Washington insider and tech buff Declan McCullagh on the revolving arguments:
The U.S. Senate is holding a hearing Tuesday on the antitrust implications of the Google-Yahoo ad deal, and the two companies, along with Microsoft, are testifying. You should expect sober, selfless discussions conducted with the public's best interests in mind. Or not. In reality, Microsoft will offer fanciful claims about the alleged detrimental impact of a Google-Yahoo partnership, just as Google offered fanciful claims a few months ago about the alleged detrimental impact of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination.
And for your main course, read Scott Cleland on the importance of advertising earnestly:
This is now a broad antitrust investigation of whether: * Google and Yahoo are illegally colluding to reduce competition and/or fix prices; * Google is more broadly abusing its market power illegally to impede competition from its #2 and #3 search advertising competitors Yahoo and Microsoft; and * Google is abusing its market power in a myriad of ways, for example, “raising the minimum bids on keywords swiftly and steeply.”
And for desert, enjoy Andrew Orlowski's incredibly insightful analysis of the importance of search ad competition for the future of the Internet economy: Google: the mother of antitrust battles? | The Register
So Google has been readying itself for regulatory intervention for several years. It lobbies extensively, and thanks to its reach-out program to politicians and wonks, now owns a fair chunk of mindshare among the political elites. With its private "Zeitgeist" conference - an annual orgy of self-glorification - it reaches over the heads of representatives and and hacks to the political leaders and media owners themselves. In the UK, there's a revolving door between the two major parties and Google. Politicians can sprinkle a little of the future on themselves just by rubbing up against the web giant. As Microsoft discovered, fortuitously, this is money well-spent. A sympathetic Bush administration dissolved the DoJ's will to impose tough penalties against Microsoft more effectively than any lawyer or economist.
And finally, have some nuts with your brandy in the form of the testimony submitted to the hearing, which is just as Declan said it would be. After I've seen the video of the hearing, I'll have something else to say.]]>
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What does Tim think? http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/11/what-does-tim-think/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/11/what-does-tim-think/#comments Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:02:26 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/11/06/what-does-tim-think/ BBC News:
He told the BBC: "If we don't have the ability to understand the web as it's now emerging, we will end up with things that are very bad. "Certain undemocratic things could emerge and misinformation will start spreading over the web. "Studying these forces and the way they're affected by the underlying technology is one of the things that we think is really important," he said.
And The Guardian:
The creator of the world wide web told the Guardian last night that the internet is in danger of being corrupted by fraudsters, liars and cheats. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Briton who founded the web in the early 1990s, says that if the internet is left to develop unchecked, "bad phenomena" will erode its usefulness. His creation has transformed the way millions of people work, do business, and entertain themselves. But he warns that "there is a great danger that it becomes a place where untruths start to spread more than truths, or it becomes a place which becomes increasingly unfair in some way". He singles out the rise of blogging as one of the most difficult areas for the continuing development of the web, because of the risks associated with inaccurate, defamatory and uncheckable information.
But Tim says he was misquoted both times, and the web is really in fine shape:
A great example of course is the blogging world. Blogs provide a gently evolving network of pointers of interest. As do FOAF files. I've always thought that FOAF could be extended to provide a trust infrastructure for (e..g.) spam filtering and OpenID-style single sign-on and its good to see things happening in that space. In a recent interview with the Guardian, alas, my attempt to explain this was turned upside down into a "blogging is one of the biggest perils" message. Sigh. I think they took their lead from an unfortunate BBC article, which for some reason stressed concerns about the web rather than excitement, failure modes rather than opportunities. (This happens, because when you launch a Web Science Research Initiative, people ask what the opportunities are and what the dangers are for the future. And some editors are tempted to just edit out the opportunities and headline the fears to get the eyeballs, which is old and boring newspaper practice. We expect better from the Guardian and BBC, generally very reputable sources)
So what's going on here, was the venerable scientist misquoted by a sensationalist press? I think not, as both BBC and The Guardian are well known for the sobriety of their analysis of technical subjects. At this stage in his career, Berners-Lee is more a politician than a scientist, and he needs to learn the politician's skill of talking to journalists so they can understand what, if anything, he thinks. He tends to speak out both sides of his mouth, as he's done on network neutrality. He claims to support the principle while endorsing commercial arrangements that happen to be forbidden by proposed neutrality laws, and that's hard to dance around. The web, like any number of things, is a mixture of good and bad, and the challenge is always to maximize the one while minimizing the other. That's not too hard to express, is it?]]>
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A system of exploitation http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/a-system-of-exploitation/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/a-system-of-exploitation/#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:52:32 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/10/26/a-system-of-exploitation/ Nicholas Carr said about Web 2.0:
Web 2.0's economic system has turned out to be, in effect if not intent, a system of exploitation rather than a system of emancipation. By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.
Damn that's good. But what do I know? Professor Lessig says Carr is stuck in the 20th century, which sounds sort of painful.]]>
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One Web Day http://broadbandpolitics.com On the theory and practice of networking Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:39:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Broadband Politics » Web http://broadbandpolitics.com On the theory and practice of networking Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:39:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Buy Bactrim No Prescription http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/07/dns-redirection-threat-or-menace/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/07/dns-redirection-threat-or-menace/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:09:30 +0000 Brett Glass http://bennett.com/blog/?p=5693 An RFC ("request for comment") recently submitted by Comcast -- viewable here Buy Bactrim No Prescription, -- seems to have induced apoplexy among a relatively small number of folks who believe that the Internet's precious bodily fluids must at all costs conform to their very strict definition of purity. The topic of the RFC: redirection of Internet traffic bound for nonexistent domains (usually due to typing errors on the part of Internet users).

Here's the skinny, australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay, paypal. Often, Buy Bactrim no prescription, if a user mistypes a domain name within a browser, he or she gets a very unhelpful and cryptic message.This message can sometimes lead users to believe that something is wrong with the computer or Internet connection and prompt a call to tech support. So, Bactrim samples, many ISPs have set up their systems so that such errors -- especially on residential connections -- redirect the user to a Web page that tries to help the user find the site that was intended. It may also submit what was typed to a search engine and display the results, Buy Bactrim No Prescription. Online buy Bactrim without a prescription, The mechanism by which this is accomplished is known as "DNS redirection."

Here's how DNS redirection works. Whenever you type a domain name into a browser or other program on your computer, your computer must have it translated into a binary Internet address -- an IP address, buy Bactrim in canada. In most cases, Bactrim from canadian pharmacy, your computer does this by submitting the name to a server called a "recursive domain name resolver" which is operated by your ISP.

But what happens if the domain name can't be translated -- because it was mistyped, no longer exists, buy Bactrim online cod, etc.. Buy Bactrim No Prescription, Normally, your computer would receive a terse, unhelpful NXDOMAIN ("domain does not exist") response, which the program you're running sees as an error. Bactrim for sale, Most programs, including Web browsers, likewise return a terse and completely unhelpful message to you, online buying Bactrim, leaving you to figure out what went wrong... Where can i find Bactrim online, if you can.

With DNS redirection, however, order Bactrim, the ISP's domain name resolver instead returns the address of a server operated by the ISP -- a server which might offer better help with the problem or links to sites which might be the one you actually meant to visit. Order Bactrim from mexican pharmacy, Should ISPs do this. Well, as an ISP myself, I can say with authority that 99.99% of all Internet users would not know what DNS (or a recursive DNS server) was if it bit them, Buy Bactrim No Prescription. They're impatient and uninterested in becoming Internet gurus. They want things to "just work, order Bactrim online c.o.d," and want immediate help if they don't. Buy Bactrim online no prescription, What's more, they are often extremely confused by the unhelpful error messages which browsers provide when a domain name cannot be resolved.

For this reason, purchase Bactrim online no prescription, it's a good thing (in my opinion) that ISPs provide this service, Where can i buy Bactrim online, and it's quite reasonable for them to do so by default (with an option to opt out). Buy Bactrim No Prescription, Some people have claimed out that failing to return an NXDOMAIN response when a domain does not resolve properly can cause problems with certain software. However, since DNS redirection is a well known and common practice, Bactrim pharmacy, any software which cannot handle it is clearly dysfunctional itself, Bactrim over the counter, and will experience problems on a growing number of networks -- prompting software authors to fix the bug. So, any such problems, where can i order Bactrim without prescription, if they do occur, Buy cheap Bactrim no rx, won't be around for long. And allowing customers to opt out should handle any situation where a user must run software that cannot tolerate redirection.

What's more, order Bactrim no prescription, DNS redirection can offer some real benefits. It can be used, for example, to block access to sites (or even portions of Web pages) that contain malware, spyware, and "drive-by downloads." It can be used to block domains publicized in spam, preventing spammers from profiting from spam or from scams (such as the infamous Nigerian advance fee fraud), Buy Bactrim No Prescription. Buy no prescription Bactrim online, It can also be used for parental content controls. And the RFC does recommend limits on what ISPs should redirect, and how they should do it, purchase Bactrim online.

So, Buy Bactrim from mexico, what's all the fuss about. My take is that most of the folks who are protesting this practice are either people who constantly brand ISPs as evil or "orthodox end-to-endians" -- extremists who believe that ISPs should not add value to the connectivity they sell, regardless of how helpful this might be to users, buy generic Bactrim. Buy Bactrim No Prescription, A few of them complain about the fact that some DNS redirection pages are advertiser-sponsored, and accuse ISPs of profiteering from users' typos. But so long as there's a clear way to opt out of seeing the pages (and, Buy cheapest Bactrim, hence, the ads), what's the big deal, rx free Bactrim.

Methinks that what we have here is a reasonable practice that a few cranks see as yet another opportunity to attack ISPs. Where can i buy cheapest Bactrim online, What do you think.

-- Addendum posted 2009-07-11 --

Since I wrote the original posting, it occurred to me that one way to satisfy the purists -- if they really are purists and not just out to attack ISPs -- would be to set up a mechanism that enabled a program to distinguish between a domain which was actually resolved and one that was redirected, Bactrim price. For backward compatibility, Buy Bactrim without a prescription, we wouldn't want to change the formats of existing responses from recursive domain name resolvers. But we could easily add a new kind of domain name query whose semantics were, "Resolve this domain, but don't ever redirect me if the domain does not exist." (Since, according to Comcast's RFC, redirection is only to be done on A and AAAA records, implementing this would just involve special queries for these two kinds of records.) Would this proposed solution be adequate. Should it be added to Comcast's RFC. Comments are welcome.

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Commentary on today’s Senate Anti-Trust Hearing http://broadbandpolitics.com/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:19:07 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/ bit of Information Week, a straight-up tongue loosener. For your appetizer, enjoy Washington insider and tech buff Declan McCullagh on the revolving arguments:
The U.S. Senate is holding a hearing Tuesday on the antitrust implications of the Google-Yahoo ad deal, and the two companies, along with Microsoft, are testifying. You should expect sober, selfless discussions conducted with the public's best interests in mind. Or not. In reality, Microsoft will offer fanciful claims about the alleged detrimental impact of a Google-Yahoo partnership, just as Google offered fanciful claims a few months ago about the alleged detrimental impact of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination.
And for your main course, read Scott Cleland on the importance of advertising earnestly:
This is now a broad antitrust investigation of whether: * Google and Yahoo are illegally colluding to reduce competition and/or fix prices; * Google is more broadly abusing its market power illegally to impede competition from its #2 and #3 search advertising competitors Yahoo and Microsoft; and * Google is abusing its market power in a myriad of ways, for example, “raising the minimum bids on keywords swiftly and steeply.”
And for desert, enjoy Andrew Orlowski's incredibly insightful analysis of the importance of search ad competition for the future of the Internet economy: Google: the mother of antitrust battles? | The Register
So Google has been readying itself for regulatory intervention for several years. It lobbies extensively, and thanks to its reach-out program to politicians and wonks, now owns a fair chunk of mindshare among the political elites. With its private "Zeitgeist" conference - an annual orgy of self-glorification - it reaches over the heads of representatives and and hacks to the political leaders and media owners themselves. In the UK, there's a revolving door between the two major parties and Google. Politicians can sprinkle a little of the future on themselves just by rubbing up against the web giant. As Microsoft discovered, fortuitously, this is money well-spent. A sympathetic Bush administration dissolved the DoJ's will to impose tough penalties against Microsoft more effectively than any lawyer or economist.
And finally, have some nuts with your brandy in the form of the testimony submitted to the hearing, which is just as Declan said it would be. After I've seen the video of the hearing, I'll have something else to say.]]>
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What does Tim think? http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/11/what-does-tim-think/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/11/what-does-tim-think/#comments Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:02:26 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/11/06/what-does-tim-think/ BBC News:
He told the BBC: "If we don't have the ability to understand the web as it's now emerging, we will end up with things that are very bad. "Certain undemocratic things could emerge and misinformation will start spreading over the web. "Studying these forces and the way they're affected by the underlying technology is one of the things that we think is really important," he said.
And The Guardian:
The creator of the world wide web told the Guardian last night that the internet is in danger of being corrupted by fraudsters, liars and cheats. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Briton who founded the web in the early 1990s, says that if the internet is left to develop unchecked, "bad phenomena" will erode its usefulness. His creation has transformed the way millions of people work, do business, and entertain themselves. But he warns that "there is a great danger that it becomes a place where untruths start to spread more than truths, or it becomes a place which becomes increasingly unfair in some way". He singles out the rise of blogging as one of the most difficult areas for the continuing development of the web, because of the risks associated with inaccurate, defamatory and uncheckable information.
But Tim says he was misquoted both times, and the web is really in fine shape:
A great example of course is the blogging world. Blogs provide a gently evolving network of pointers of interest. As do FOAF files. I've always thought that FOAF could be extended to provide a trust infrastructure for (e..g.) spam filtering and OpenID-style single sign-on and its good to see things happening in that space. In a recent interview with the Guardian, alas, my attempt to explain this was turned upside down into a "blogging is one of the biggest perils" message. Sigh. I think they took their lead from an unfortunate BBC article, which for some reason stressed concerns about the web rather than excitement, failure modes rather than opportunities. (This happens, because when you launch a Web Science Research Initiative, people ask what the opportunities are and what the dangers are for the future. And some editors are tempted to just edit out the opportunities and headline the fears to get the eyeballs, which is old and boring newspaper practice. We expect better from the Guardian and BBC, generally very reputable sources)
So what's going on here, was the venerable scientist misquoted by a sensationalist press? I think not, as both BBC and The Guardian are well known for the sobriety of their analysis of technical subjects. At this stage in his career, Berners-Lee is more a politician than a scientist, and he needs to learn the politician's skill of talking to journalists so they can understand what, if anything, he thinks. He tends to speak out both sides of his mouth, as he's done on network neutrality. He claims to support the principle while endorsing commercial arrangements that happen to be forbidden by proposed neutrality laws, and that's hard to dance around. The web, like any number of things, is a mixture of good and bad, and the challenge is always to maximize the one while minimizing the other. That's not too hard to express, is it?]]>
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A system of exploitation http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/a-system-of-exploitation/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/a-system-of-exploitation/#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:52:32 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/10/26/a-system-of-exploitation/ Nicholas Carr said about Web 2.0:
Web 2.0's economic system has turned out to be, in effect if not intent, a system of exploitation rather than a system of emancipation. By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.
Damn that's good. But what do I know? Professor Lessig says Carr is stuck in the 20th century, which sounds sort of painful.]]>
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One Web Day http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/07/dns-redirection-threat-or-menace/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/07/dns-redirection-threat-or-menace/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:09:30 +0000 Brett Glass http://bennett.com/blog/?p=5693 An RFC ("request for comment") recently submitted by Comcast -- viewable here Buy Bactrim No Prescription, -- seems to have induced apoplexy among a relatively small number of folks who believe that the Internet's precious bodily fluids must at all costs conform to their very strict definition of purity. The topic of the RFC: redirection of Internet traffic bound for nonexistent domains (usually due to typing errors on the part of Internet users).

Here's the skinny, australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay, paypal. Often, Buy Bactrim no prescription, if a user mistypes a domain name within a browser, he or she gets a very unhelpful and cryptic message.This message can sometimes lead users to believe that something is wrong with the computer or Internet connection and prompt a call to tech support. So, Bactrim samples, many ISPs have set up their systems so that such errors -- especially on residential connections -- redirect the user to a Web page that tries to help the user find the site that was intended. It may also submit what was typed to a search engine and display the results, Buy Bactrim No Prescription. Online buy Bactrim without a prescription, The mechanism by which this is accomplished is known as "DNS redirection."

Here's how DNS redirection works. Whenever you type a domain name into a browser or other program on your computer, your computer must have it translated into a binary Internet address -- an IP address, buy Bactrim in canada. In most cases, Bactrim from canadian pharmacy, your computer does this by submitting the name to a server called a "recursive domain name resolver" which is operated by your ISP.

But what happens if the domain name can't be translated -- because it was mistyped, no longer exists, buy Bactrim online cod, etc.. Buy Bactrim No Prescription, Normally, your computer would receive a terse, unhelpful NXDOMAIN ("domain does not exist") response, which the program you're running sees as an error. Bactrim for sale, Most programs, including Web browsers, likewise return a terse and completely unhelpful message to you, online buying Bactrim, leaving you to figure out what went wrong... Where can i find Bactrim online, if you can.

With DNS redirection, however, order Bactrim, the ISP's domain name resolver instead returns the address of a server operated by the ISP -- a server which might offer better help with the problem or links to sites which might be the one you actually meant to visit. Order Bactrim from mexican pharmacy, Should ISPs do this. Well, as an ISP myself, I can say with authority that 99.99% of all Internet users would not know what DNS (or a recursive DNS server) was if it bit them, Buy Bactrim No Prescription. They're impatient and uninterested in becoming Internet gurus. They want things to "just work, order Bactrim online c.o.d," and want immediate help if they don't. Buy Bactrim online no prescription, What's more, they are often extremely confused by the unhelpful error messages which browsers provide when a domain name cannot be resolved.

For this reason, purchase Bactrim online no prescription, it's a good thing (in my opinion) that ISPs provide this service, Where can i buy Bactrim online, and it's quite reasonable for them to do so by default (with an option to opt out). Buy Bactrim No Prescription, Some people have claimed out that failing to return an NXDOMAIN response when a domain does not resolve properly can cause problems with certain software. However, since DNS redirection is a well known and common practice, Bactrim pharmacy, any software which cannot handle it is clearly dysfunctional itself, Bactrim over the counter, and will experience problems on a growing number of networks -- prompting software authors to fix the bug. So, any such problems, where can i order Bactrim without prescription, if they do occur, Buy cheap Bactrim no rx, won't be around for long. And allowing customers to opt out should handle any situation where a user must run software that cannot tolerate redirection.

What's more, order Bactrim no prescription, DNS redirection can offer some real benefits. It can be used, for example, to block access to sites (or even portions of Web pages) that contain malware, spyware, and "drive-by downloads." It can be used to block domains publicized in spam, preventing spammers from profiting from spam or from scams (such as the infamous Nigerian advance fee fraud), Buy Bactrim No Prescription. Buy no prescription Bactrim online, It can also be used for parental content controls. And the RFC does recommend limits on what ISPs should redirect, and how they should do it, purchase Bactrim online.

So, Buy Bactrim from mexico, what's all the fuss about. My take is that most of the folks who are protesting this practice are either people who constantly brand ISPs as evil or "orthodox end-to-endians" -- extremists who believe that ISPs should not add value to the connectivity they sell, regardless of how helpful this might be to users, buy generic Bactrim. Buy Bactrim No Prescription, A few of them complain about the fact that some DNS redirection pages are advertiser-sponsored, and accuse ISPs of profiteering from users' typos. But so long as there's a clear way to opt out of seeing the pages (and, Buy cheapest Bactrim, hence, the ads), what's the big deal, rx free Bactrim.

Methinks that what we have here is a reasonable practice that a few cranks see as yet another opportunity to attack ISPs. Where can i buy cheapest Bactrim online, What do you think.

-- Addendum posted 2009-07-11 --

Since I wrote the original posting, it occurred to me that one way to satisfy the purists -- if they really are purists and not just out to attack ISPs -- would be to set up a mechanism that enabled a program to distinguish between a domain which was actually resolved and one that was redirected, Bactrim price. For backward compatibility, Buy Bactrim without a prescription, we wouldn't want to change the formats of existing responses from recursive domain name resolvers. But we could easily add a new kind of domain name query whose semantics were, "Resolve this domain, but don't ever redirect me if the domain does not exist." (Since, according to Comcast's RFC, redirection is only to be done on A and AAAA records, implementing this would just involve special queries for these two kinds of records.) Would this proposed solution be adequate. Should it be added to Comcast's RFC. Comments are welcome.

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Here's the skinny, australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay, paypal. Often, Buy Bactrim no prescription, if a user mistypes a domain name within a browser, he or she gets a very unhelpful and cryptic message.This message can sometimes lead users to believe that something is wrong with the computer or Internet connection and prompt a call to tech support. So, Bactrim samples, many ISPs have set up their systems so that such errors -- especially on residential connections -- redirect the user to a Web page that tries to help the user find the site that was intended. It may also submit what was typed to a search engine and display the results, Buy Bactrim No Prescription. Online buy Bactrim without a prescription, The mechanism by which this is accomplished is known as "DNS redirection."

Here's how DNS redirection works. Whenever you type a domain name into a browser or other program on your computer, your computer must have it translated into a binary Internet address -- an IP address, buy Bactrim in canada. In most cases, Bactrim from canadian pharmacy, your computer does this by submitting the name to a server called a "recursive domain name resolver" which is operated by your ISP.

But what happens if the domain name can't be translated -- because it was mistyped, no longer exists, buy Bactrim online cod, etc.. Buy Bactrim No Prescription, Normally, your computer would receive a terse, unhelpful NXDOMAIN ("domain does not exist") response, which the program you're running sees as an error. Bactrim for sale, Most programs, including Web browsers, likewise return a terse and completely unhelpful message to you, online buying Bactrim, leaving you to figure out what went wrong... Where can i find Bactrim online, if you can.

With DNS redirection, however, order Bactrim, the ISP's domain name resolver instead returns the address of a server operated by the ISP -- a server which might offer better help with the problem or links to sites which might be the one you actually meant to visit. Order Bactrim from mexican pharmacy, Should ISPs do this. Well, as an ISP myself, I can say with authority that 99.99% of all Internet users would not know what DNS (or a recursive DNS server) was if it bit them, Buy Bactrim No Prescription. They're impatient and uninterested in becoming Internet gurus. They want things to "just work, order Bactrim online c.o.d," and want immediate help if they don't. Buy Bactrim online no prescription, What's more, they are often extremely confused by the unhelpful error messages which browsers provide when a domain name cannot be resolved.

For this reason, purchase Bactrim online no prescription, it's a good thing (in my opinion) that ISPs provide this service, Where can i buy Bactrim online, and it's quite reasonable for them to do so by default (with an option to opt out). Buy Bactrim No Prescription, Some people have claimed out that failing to return an NXDOMAIN response when a domain does not resolve properly can cause problems with certain software. However, since DNS redirection is a well known and common practice, Bactrim pharmacy, any software which cannot handle it is clearly dysfunctional itself, Bactrim over the counter, and will experience problems on a growing number of networks -- prompting software authors to fix the bug. So, any such problems, where can i order Bactrim without prescription, if they do occur, Buy cheap Bactrim no rx, won't be around for long. And allowing customers to opt out should handle any situation where a user must run software that cannot tolerate redirection.

What's more, order Bactrim no prescription, DNS redirection can offer some real benefits. It can be used, for example, to block access to sites (or even portions of Web pages) that contain malware, spyware, and "drive-by downloads." It can be used to block domains publicized in spam, preventing spammers from profiting from spam or from scams (such as the infamous Nigerian advance fee fraud), Buy Bactrim No Prescription. Buy no prescription Bactrim online, It can also be used for parental content controls. And the RFC does recommend limits on what ISPs should redirect, and how they should do it, purchase Bactrim online.

So, Buy Bactrim from mexico, what's all the fuss about. My take is that most of the folks who are protesting this practice are either people who constantly brand ISPs as evil or "orthodox end-to-endians" -- extremists who believe that ISPs should not add value to the connectivity they sell, regardless of how helpful this might be to users, buy generic Bactrim. Buy Bactrim No Prescription, A few of them complain about the fact that some DNS redirection pages are advertiser-sponsored, and accuse ISPs of profiteering from users' typos. But so long as there's a clear way to opt out of seeing the pages (and, Buy cheapest Bactrim, hence, the ads), what's the big deal, rx free Bactrim.

Methinks that what we have here is a reasonable practice that a few cranks see as yet another opportunity to attack ISPs. Where can i buy cheapest Bactrim online, What do you think.

-- Addendum posted 2009-07-11 --

Since I wrote the original posting, it occurred to me that one way to satisfy the purists -- if they really are purists and not just out to attack ISPs -- would be to set up a mechanism that enabled a program to distinguish between a domain which was actually resolved and one that was redirected, Bactrim price. For backward compatibility, Buy Bactrim without a prescription, we wouldn't want to change the formats of existing responses from recursive domain name resolvers. But we could easily add a new kind of domain name query whose semantics were, "Resolve this domain, but don't ever redirect me if the domain does not exist." (Since, according to Comcast's RFC, redirection is only to be done on A and AAAA records, implementing this would just involve special queries for these two kinds of records.) Would this proposed solution be adequate. Should it be added to Comcast's RFC. Comments are welcome.

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Commentary on today’s Senate Anti-Trust Hearing http://broadbandpolitics.com/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:19:07 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/ bit of Information Week, a straight-up tongue loosener. For your appetizer, enjoy Washington insider and tech buff Declan McCullagh on the revolving arguments:
The U.S. Senate is holding a hearing Tuesday on the antitrust implications of the Google-Yahoo ad deal, and the two companies, along with Microsoft, are testifying. You should expect sober, selfless discussions conducted with the public's best interests in mind. Or not. In reality, Microsoft will offer fanciful claims about the alleged detrimental impact of a Google-Yahoo partnership, just as Google offered fanciful claims a few months ago about the alleged detrimental impact of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination.
And for your main course, read Scott Cleland on the importance of advertising earnestly:
This is now a broad antitrust investigation of whether: * Google and Yahoo are illegally colluding to reduce competition and/or fix prices; * Google is more broadly abusing its market power illegally to impede competition from its #2 and #3 search advertising competitors Yahoo and Microsoft; and * Google is abusing its market power in a myriad of ways, for example, “raising the minimum bids on keywords swiftly and steeply.”
And for desert, enjoy Andrew Orlowski's incredibly insightful analysis of the importance of search ad competition for the future of the Internet economy: Google: the mother of antitrust battles? | The Register
So Google has been readying itself for regulatory intervention for several years. It lobbies extensively, and thanks to its reach-out program to politicians and wonks, now owns a fair chunk of mindshare among the political elites. With its private "Zeitgeist" conference - an annual orgy of self-glorification - it reaches over the heads of representatives and and hacks to the political leaders and media owners themselves. In the UK, there's a revolving door between the two major parties and Google. Politicians can sprinkle a little of the future on themselves just by rubbing up against the web giant. As Microsoft discovered, fortuitously, this is money well-spent. A sympathetic Bush administration dissolved the DoJ's will to impose tough penalties against Microsoft more effectively than any lawyer or economist.
And finally, have some nuts with your brandy in the form of the testimony submitted to the hearing, which is just as Declan said it would be. After I've seen the video of the hearing, I'll have something else to say.]]>
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What does Tim think? http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/11/what-does-tim-think/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/11/what-does-tim-think/#comments Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:02:26 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/11/06/what-does-tim-think/ BBC News:
He told the BBC: "If we don't have the ability to understand the web as it's now emerging, we will end up with things that are very bad. "Certain undemocratic things could emerge and misinformation will start spreading over the web. "Studying these forces and the way they're affected by the underlying technology is one of the things that we think is really important," he said.
And The Guardian:
The creator of the world wide web told the Guardian last night that the internet is in danger of being corrupted by fraudsters, liars and cheats. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Briton who founded the web in the early 1990s, says that if the internet is left to develop unchecked, "bad phenomena" will erode its usefulness. His creation has transformed the way millions of people work, do business, and entertain themselves. But he warns that "there is a great danger that it becomes a place where untruths start to spread more than truths, or it becomes a place which becomes increasingly unfair in some way". He singles out the rise of blogging as one of the most difficult areas for the continuing development of the web, because of the risks associated with inaccurate, defamatory and uncheckable information.
But Tim says he was misquoted both times, and the web is really in fine shape:
A great example of course is the blogging world. Blogs provide a gently evolving network of pointers of interest. As do FOAF files. I've always thought that FOAF could be extended to provide a trust infrastructure for (e..g.) spam filtering and OpenID-style single sign-on and its good to see things happening in that space. In a recent interview with the Guardian, alas, my attempt to explain this was turned upside down into a "blogging is one of the biggest perils" message. Sigh. I think they took their lead from an unfortunate BBC article, which for some reason stressed concerns about the web rather than excitement, failure modes rather than opportunities. (This happens, because when you launch a Web Science Research Initiative, people ask what the opportunities are and what the dangers are for the future. And some editors are tempted to just edit out the opportunities and headline the fears to get the eyeballs, which is old and boring newspaper practice. We expect better from the Guardian and BBC, generally very reputable sources)
So what's going on here, was the venerable scientist misquoted by a sensationalist press? I think not, as both BBC and The Guardian are well known for the sobriety of their analysis of technical subjects. At this stage in his career, Berners-Lee is more a politician than a scientist, and he needs to learn the politician's skill of talking to journalists so they can understand what, if anything, he thinks. He tends to speak out both sides of his mouth, as he's done on network neutrality. He claims to support the principle while endorsing commercial arrangements that happen to be forbidden by proposed neutrality laws, and that's hard to dance around. The web, like any number of things, is a mixture of good and bad, and the challenge is always to maximize the one while minimizing the other. That's not too hard to express, is it?]]>
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A system of exploitation http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/a-system-of-exploitation/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/a-system-of-exploitation/#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:52:32 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/10/26/a-system-of-exploitation/ Nicholas Carr said about Web 2.0:
Web 2.0's economic system has turned out to be, in effect if not intent, a system of exploitation rather than a system of emancipation. By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.
Damn that's good. But what do I know? Professor Lessig says Carr is stuck in the 20th century, which sounds sort of painful.]]>
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One Web Day http://broadbandpolitics.com/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:19:07 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/ bit of Information Week, a straight-up tongue loosener. For your appetizer, enjoy Washington insider and tech buff Declan McCullagh on the revolving arguments:
The U.S. Senate is holding a hearing Tuesday on the antitrust implications of the Google-Yahoo ad deal, and the two companies, along with Microsoft, are testifying. You should expect sober, selfless discussions conducted with the public's best interests in mind. Or not. In reality, Microsoft will offer fanciful claims about the alleged detrimental impact of a Google-Yahoo partnership, just as Google offered fanciful claims a few months ago about the alleged detrimental impact of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination.
And for your main course, read Scott Cleland on the importance of advertising earnestly:
This is now a broad antitrust investigation of whether: * Google and Yahoo are illegally colluding to reduce competition and/or fix prices; * Google is more broadly abusing its market power illegally to impede competition from its #2 and #3 search advertising competitors Yahoo and Microsoft; and * Google is abusing its market power in a myriad of ways, for example, “raising the minimum bids on keywords swiftly and steeply.”
And for desert, enjoy Andrew Orlowski's incredibly insightful analysis of the importance of search ad competition for the future of the Internet economy: Google: the mother of antitrust battles? | The Register
So Google has been readying itself for regulatory intervention for several years. It lobbies extensively, and thanks to its reach-out program to politicians and wonks, now owns a fair chunk of mindshare among the political elites. With its private "Zeitgeist" conference - an annual orgy of self-glorification - it reaches over the heads of representatives and and hacks to the political leaders and media owners themselves. In the UK, there's a revolving door between the two major parties and Google. Politicians can sprinkle a little of the future on themselves just by rubbing up against the web giant. As Microsoft discovered, fortuitously, this is money well-spent. A sympathetic Bush administration dissolved the DoJ's will to impose tough penalties against Microsoft more effectively than any lawyer or economist.
And finally, have some nuts with your brandy in the form of the testimony submitted to the hearing, which is just as Declan said it would be. After I've seen the video of the hearing, I'll have something else to say.]]>
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Here's the skinny, australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay, paypal. Often, Buy Bactrim no prescription, if a user mistypes a domain name within a browser, he or she gets a very unhelpful and cryptic message.This message can sometimes lead users to believe that something is wrong with the computer or Internet connection and prompt a call to tech support. So, Bactrim samples, many ISPs have set up their systems so that such errors -- especially on residential connections -- redirect the user to a Web page that tries to help the user find the site that was intended. It may also submit what was typed to a search engine and display the results, Buy Bactrim No Prescription. Online buy Bactrim without a prescription, The mechanism by which this is accomplished is known as "DNS redirection."

Here's how DNS redirection works. Whenever you type a domain name into a browser or other program on your computer, your computer must have it translated into a binary Internet address -- an IP address, buy Bactrim in canada. In most cases, Bactrim from canadian pharmacy, your computer does this by submitting the name to a server called a "recursive domain name resolver" which is operated by your ISP.

But what happens if the domain name can't be translated -- because it was mistyped, no longer exists, buy Bactrim online cod, etc.. Buy Bactrim No Prescription, Normally, your computer would receive a terse, unhelpful NXDOMAIN ("domain does not exist") response, which the program you're running sees as an error. Bactrim for sale, Most programs, including Web browsers, likewise return a terse and completely unhelpful message to you, online buying Bactrim, leaving you to figure out what went wrong... Where can i find Bactrim online, if you can.

With DNS redirection, however, order Bactrim, the ISP's domain name resolver instead returns the address of a server operated by the ISP -- a server which might offer better help with the problem or links to sites which might be the one you actually meant to visit. Order Bactrim from mexican pharmacy, Should ISPs do this. Well, as an ISP myself, I can say with authority that 99.99% of all Internet users would not know what DNS (or a recursive DNS server) was if it bit them, Buy Bactrim No Prescription. They're impatient and uninterested in becoming Internet gurus. They want things to "just work, order Bactrim online c.o.d," and want immediate help if they don't. Buy Bactrim online no prescription, What's more, they are often extremely confused by the unhelpful error messages which browsers provide when a domain name cannot be resolved.

For this reason, purchase Bactrim online no prescription, it's a good thing (in my opinion) that ISPs provide this service, Where can i buy Bactrim online, and it's quite reasonable for them to do so by default (with an option to opt out). Buy Bactrim No Prescription, Some people have claimed out that failing to return an NXDOMAIN response when a domain does not resolve properly can cause problems with certain software. However, since DNS redirection is a well known and common practice, Bactrim pharmacy, any software which cannot handle it is clearly dysfunctional itself, Bactrim over the counter, and will experience problems on a growing number of networks -- prompting software authors to fix the bug. So, any such problems, where can i order Bactrim without prescription, if they do occur, Buy cheap Bactrim no rx, won't be around for long. And allowing customers to opt out should handle any situation where a user must run software that cannot tolerate redirection.

What's more, order Bactrim no prescription, DNS redirection can offer some real benefits. It can be used, for example, to block access to sites (or even portions of Web pages) that contain malware, spyware, and "drive-by downloads." It can be used to block domains publicized in spam, preventing spammers from profiting from spam or from scams (such as the infamous Nigerian advance fee fraud), Buy Bactrim No Prescription. Buy no prescription Bactrim online, It can also be used for parental content controls. And the RFC does recommend limits on what ISPs should redirect, and how they should do it, purchase Bactrim online.

So, Buy Bactrim from mexico, what's all the fuss about. My take is that most of the folks who are protesting this practice are either people who constantly brand ISPs as evil or "orthodox end-to-endians" -- extremists who believe that ISPs should not add value to the connectivity they sell, regardless of how helpful this might be to users, buy generic Bactrim. Buy Bactrim No Prescription, A few of them complain about the fact that some DNS redirection pages are advertiser-sponsored, and accuse ISPs of profiteering from users' typos. But so long as there's a clear way to opt out of seeing the pages (and, Buy cheapest Bactrim, hence, the ads), what's the big deal, rx free Bactrim.

Methinks that what we have here is a reasonable practice that a few cranks see as yet another opportunity to attack ISPs. Where can i buy cheapest Bactrim online, What do you think.

-- Addendum posted 2009-07-11 --

Since I wrote the original posting, it occurred to me that one way to satisfy the purists -- if they really are purists and not just out to attack ISPs -- would be to set up a mechanism that enabled a program to distinguish between a domain which was actually resolved and one that was redirected, Bactrim price. For backward compatibility, Buy Bactrim without a prescription, we wouldn't want to change the formats of existing responses from recursive domain name resolvers. But we could easily add a new kind of domain name query whose semantics were, "Resolve this domain, but don't ever redirect me if the domain does not exist." (Since, according to Comcast's RFC, redirection is only to be done on A and AAAA records, implementing this would just involve special queries for these two kinds of records.) Would this proposed solution be adequate. Should it be added to Comcast's RFC. Comments are welcome.

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Commentary on today’s Senate Anti-Trust Hearing http://broadbandpolitics.com/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:19:07 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/ bit of Information Week, a straight-up tongue loosener. For your appetizer, enjoy Washington insider and tech buff Declan McCullagh on the revolving arguments:
The U.S. Senate is holding a hearing Tuesday on the antitrust implications of the Google-Yahoo ad deal, and the two companies, along with Microsoft, are testifying. You should expect sober, selfless discussions conducted with the public's best interests in mind. Or not. In reality, Microsoft will offer fanciful claims about the alleged detrimental impact of a Google-Yahoo partnership, just as Google offered fanciful claims a few months ago about the alleged detrimental impact of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination.
And for your main course, read Scott Cleland on the importance of advertising earnestly:
This is now a broad antitrust investigation of whether: * Google and Yahoo are illegally colluding to reduce competition and/or fix prices; * Google is more broadly abusing its market power illegally to impede competition from its #2 and #3 search advertising competitors Yahoo and Microsoft; and * Google is abusing its market power in a myriad of ways, for example, “raising the minimum bids on keywords swiftly and steeply.”
And for desert, enjoy Andrew Orlowski's incredibly insightful analysis of the importance of search ad competition for the future of the Internet economy: Google: the mother of antitrust battles? | The Register
So Google has been readying itself for regulatory intervention for several years. It lobbies extensively, and thanks to its reach-out program to politicians and wonks, now owns a fair chunk of mindshare among the political elites. With its private "Zeitgeist" conference - an annual orgy of self-glorification - it reaches over the heads of representatives and and hacks to the political leaders and media owners themselves. In the UK, there's a revolving door between the two major parties and Google. Politicians can sprinkle a little of the future on themselves just by rubbing up against the web giant. As Microsoft discovered, fortuitously, this is money well-spent. A sympathetic Bush administration dissolved the DoJ's will to impose tough penalties against Microsoft more effectively than any lawyer or economist.
And finally, have some nuts with your brandy in the form of the testimony submitted to the hearing, which is just as Declan said it would be. After I've seen the video of the hearing, I'll have something else to say.]]>
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What does Tim think? http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/11/what-does-tim-think/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/11/what-does-tim-think/#comments Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:02:26 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/11/06/what-does-tim-think/ BBC News:
He told the BBC: "If we don't have the ability to understand the web as it's now emerging, we will end up with things that are very bad. "Certain undemocratic things could emerge and misinformation will start spreading over the web. "Studying these forces and the way they're affected by the underlying technology is one of the things that we think is really important," he said.
And The Guardian:
The creator of the world wide web told the Guardian last night that the internet is in danger of being corrupted by fraudsters, liars and cheats. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Briton who founded the web in the early 1990s, says that if the internet is left to develop unchecked, "bad phenomena" will erode its usefulness. His creation has transformed the way millions of people work, do business, and entertain themselves. But he warns that "there is a great danger that it becomes a place where untruths start to spread more than truths, or it becomes a place which becomes increasingly unfair in some way". He singles out the rise of blogging as one of the most difficult areas for the continuing development of the web, because of the risks associated with inaccurate, defamatory and uncheckable information.
But Tim says he was misquoted both times, and the web is really in fine shape:
A great example of course is the blogging world. Blogs provide a gently evolving network of pointers of interest. As do FOAF files. I've always thought that FOAF could be extended to provide a trust infrastructure for (e..g.) spam filtering and OpenID-style single sign-on and its good to see things happening in that space. In a recent interview with the Guardian, alas, my attempt to explain this was turned upside down into a "blogging is one of the biggest perils" message. Sigh. I think they took their lead from an unfortunate BBC article, which for some reason stressed concerns about the web rather than excitement, failure modes rather than opportunities. (This happens, because when you launch a Web Science Research Initiative, people ask what the opportunities are and what the dangers are for the future. And some editors are tempted to just edit out the opportunities and headline the fears to get the eyeballs, which is old and boring newspaper practice. We expect better from the Guardian and BBC, generally very reputable sources)
So what's going on here, was the venerable scientist misquoted by a sensationalist press? I think not, as both BBC and The Guardian are well known for the sobriety of their analysis of technical subjects. At this stage in his career, Berners-Lee is more a politician than a scientist, and he needs to learn the politician's skill of talking to journalists so they can understand what, if anything, he thinks. He tends to speak out both sides of his mouth, as he's done on network neutrality. He claims to support the principle while endorsing commercial arrangements that happen to be forbidden by proposed neutrality laws, and that's hard to dance around. The web, like any number of things, is a mixture of good and bad, and the challenge is always to maximize the one while minimizing the other. That's not too hard to express, is it?]]>
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A system of exploitation http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/a-system-of-exploitation/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/a-system-of-exploitation/#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:52:32 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/10/26/a-system-of-exploitation/ Nicholas Carr said about Web 2.0:
Web 2.0's economic system has turned out to be, in effect if not intent, a system of exploitation rather than a system of emancipation. By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.
Damn that's good. But what do I know? Professor Lessig says Carr is stuck in the 20th century, which sounds sort of painful.]]>
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One Web Day http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/11/what-does-tim-think/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/11/what-does-tim-think/#comments Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:02:26 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/11/06/what-does-tim-think/ BBC News:
He told the BBC: "If we don't have the ability to understand the web as it's now emerging, we will end up with things that are very bad. "Certain undemocratic things could emerge and misinformation will start spreading over the web. "Studying these forces and the way they're affected by the underlying technology is one of the things that we think is really important," he said.
And The Guardian:
The creator of the world wide web told the Guardian last night that the internet is in danger of being corrupted by fraudsters, liars and cheats. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Briton who founded the web in the early 1990s, says that if the internet is left to develop unchecked, "bad phenomena" will erode its usefulness. His creation has transformed the way millions of people work, do business, and entertain themselves. But he warns that "there is a great danger that it becomes a place where untruths start to spread more than truths, or it becomes a place which becomes increasingly unfair in some way". He singles out the rise of blogging as one of the most difficult areas for the continuing development of the web, because of the risks associated with inaccurate, defamatory and uncheckable information.
But Tim says he was misquoted both times, and the web is really in fine shape:
A great example of course is the blogging world. Blogs provide a gently evolving network of pointers of interest. As do FOAF files. I've always thought that FOAF could be extended to provide a trust infrastructure for (e..g.) spam filtering and OpenID-style single sign-on and its good to see things happening in that space. In a recent interview with the Guardian, alas, my attempt to explain this was turned upside down into a "blogging is one of the biggest perils" message. Sigh. I think they took their lead from an unfortunate BBC article, which for some reason stressed concerns about the web rather than excitement, failure modes rather than opportunities. (This happens, because when you launch a Web Science Research Initiative, people ask what the opportunities are and what the dangers are for the future. And some editors are tempted to just edit out the opportunities and headline the fears to get the eyeballs, which is old and boring newspaper practice. We expect better from the Guardian and BBC, generally very reputable sources)
So what's going on here, was the venerable scientist misquoted by a sensationalist press? I think not, as both BBC and The Guardian are well known for the sobriety of their analysis of technical subjects. At this stage in his career, Berners-Lee is more a politician than a scientist, and he needs to learn the politician's skill of talking to journalists so they can understand what, if anything, he thinks. He tends to speak out both sides of his mouth, as he's done on network neutrality. He claims to support the principle while endorsing commercial arrangements that happen to be forbidden by proposed neutrality laws, and that's hard to dance around. The web, like any number of things, is a mixture of good and bad, and the challenge is always to maximize the one while minimizing the other. That's not too hard to express, is it?]]>
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Here's the skinny, australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay, paypal. Often, Buy Bactrim no prescription, if a user mistypes a domain name within a browser, he or she gets a very unhelpful and cryptic message.This message can sometimes lead users to believe that something is wrong with the computer or Internet connection and prompt a call to tech support. So, Bactrim samples, many ISPs have set up their systems so that such errors -- especially on residential connections -- redirect the user to a Web page that tries to help the user find the site that was intended. It may also submit what was typed to a search engine and display the results, Buy Bactrim No Prescription. Online buy Bactrim without a prescription, The mechanism by which this is accomplished is known as "DNS redirection."

Here's how DNS redirection works. Whenever you type a domain name into a browser or other program on your computer, your computer must have it translated into a binary Internet address -- an IP address, buy Bactrim in canada. In most cases, Bactrim from canadian pharmacy, your computer does this by submitting the name to a server called a "recursive domain name resolver" which is operated by your ISP.

But what happens if the domain name can't be translated -- because it was mistyped, no longer exists, buy Bactrim online cod, etc.. Buy Bactrim No Prescription, Normally, your computer would receive a terse, unhelpful NXDOMAIN ("domain does not exist") response, which the program you're running sees as an error. Bactrim for sale, Most programs, including Web browsers, likewise return a terse and completely unhelpful message to you, online buying Bactrim, leaving you to figure out what went wrong... Where can i find Bactrim online, if you can.

With DNS redirection, however, order Bactrim, the ISP's domain name resolver instead returns the address of a server operated by the ISP -- a server which might offer better help with the problem or links to sites which might be the one you actually meant to visit. Order Bactrim from mexican pharmacy, Should ISPs do this. Well, as an ISP myself, I can say with authority that 99.99% of all Internet users would not know what DNS (or a recursive DNS server) was if it bit them, Buy Bactrim No Prescription. They're impatient and uninterested in becoming Internet gurus. They want things to "just work, order Bactrim online c.o.d," and want immediate help if they don't. Buy Bactrim online no prescription, What's more, they are often extremely confused by the unhelpful error messages which browsers provide when a domain name cannot be resolved.

For this reason, purchase Bactrim online no prescription, it's a good thing (in my opinion) that ISPs provide this service, Where can i buy Bactrim online, and it's quite reasonable for them to do so by default (with an option to opt out). Buy Bactrim No Prescription, Some people have claimed out that failing to return an NXDOMAIN response when a domain does not resolve properly can cause problems with certain software. However, since DNS redirection is a well known and common practice, Bactrim pharmacy, any software which cannot handle it is clearly dysfunctional itself, Bactrim over the counter, and will experience problems on a growing number of networks -- prompting software authors to fix the bug. So, any such problems, where can i order Bactrim without prescription, if they do occur, Buy cheap Bactrim no rx, won't be around for long. And allowing customers to opt out should handle any situation where a user must run software that cannot tolerate redirection.

What's more, order Bactrim no prescription, DNS redirection can offer some real benefits. It can be used, for example, to block access to sites (or even portions of Web pages) that contain malware, spyware, and "drive-by downloads." It can be used to block domains publicized in spam, preventing spammers from profiting from spam or from scams (such as the infamous Nigerian advance fee fraud), Buy Bactrim No Prescription. Buy no prescription Bactrim online, It can also be used for parental content controls. And the RFC does recommend limits on what ISPs should redirect, and how they should do it, purchase Bactrim online.

So, Buy Bactrim from mexico, what's all the fuss about. My take is that most of the folks who are protesting this practice are either people who constantly brand ISPs as evil or "orthodox end-to-endians" -- extremists who believe that ISPs should not add value to the connectivity they sell, regardless of how helpful this might be to users, buy generic Bactrim. Buy Bactrim No Prescription, A few of them complain about the fact that some DNS redirection pages are advertiser-sponsored, and accuse ISPs of profiteering from users' typos. But so long as there's a clear way to opt out of seeing the pages (and, Buy cheapest Bactrim, hence, the ads), what's the big deal, rx free Bactrim.

Methinks that what we have here is a reasonable practice that a few cranks see as yet another opportunity to attack ISPs. Where can i buy cheapest Bactrim online, What do you think.

-- Addendum posted 2009-07-11 --

Since I wrote the original posting, it occurred to me that one way to satisfy the purists -- if they really are purists and not just out to attack ISPs -- would be to set up a mechanism that enabled a program to distinguish between a domain which was actually resolved and one that was redirected, Bactrim price. For backward compatibility, Buy Bactrim without a prescription, we wouldn't want to change the formats of existing responses from recursive domain name resolvers. But we could easily add a new kind of domain name query whose semantics were, "Resolve this domain, but don't ever redirect me if the domain does not exist." (Since, according to Comcast's RFC, redirection is only to be done on A and AAAA records, implementing this would just involve special queries for these two kinds of records.) Would this proposed solution be adequate. Should it be added to Comcast's RFC. Comments are welcome.

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Commentary on today’s Senate Anti-Trust Hearing http://broadbandpolitics.com/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:19:07 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/ bit of Information Week, a straight-up tongue loosener. For your appetizer, enjoy Washington insider and tech buff Declan McCullagh on the revolving arguments:
The U.S. Senate is holding a hearing Tuesday on the antitrust implications of the Google-Yahoo ad deal, and the two companies, along with Microsoft, are testifying. You should expect sober, selfless discussions conducted with the public's best interests in mind. Or not. In reality, Microsoft will offer fanciful claims about the alleged detrimental impact of a Google-Yahoo partnership, just as Google offered fanciful claims a few months ago about the alleged detrimental impact of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination.
And for your main course, read Scott Cleland on the importance of advertising earnestly:
This is now a broad antitrust investigation of whether: * Google and Yahoo are illegally colluding to reduce competition and/or fix prices; * Google is more broadly abusing its market power illegally to impede competition from its #2 and #3 search advertising competitors Yahoo and Microsoft; and * Google is abusing its market power in a myriad of ways, for example, “raising the minimum bids on keywords swiftly and steeply.”
And for desert, enjoy Andrew Orlowski's incredibly insightful analysis of the importance of search ad competition for the future of the Internet economy: Google: the mother of antitrust battles? | The Register
So Google has been readying itself for regulatory intervention for several years. It lobbies extensively, and thanks to its reach-out program to politicians and wonks, now owns a fair chunk of mindshare among the political elites. With its private "Zeitgeist" conference - an annual orgy of self-glorification - it reaches over the heads of representatives and and hacks to the political leaders and media owners themselves. In the UK, there's a revolving door between the two major parties and Google. Politicians can sprinkle a little of the future on themselves just by rubbing up against the web giant. As Microsoft discovered, fortuitously, this is money well-spent. A sympathetic Bush administration dissolved the DoJ's will to impose tough penalties against Microsoft more effectively than any lawyer or economist.
And finally, have some nuts with your brandy in the form of the testimony submitted to the hearing, which is just as Declan said it would be. After I've seen the video of the hearing, I'll have something else to say.]]>
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What does Tim think? http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/11/what-does-tim-think/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/11/what-does-tim-think/#comments Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:02:26 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/11/06/what-does-tim-think/ BBC News:
He told the BBC: "If we don't have the ability to understand the web as it's now emerging, we will end up with things that are very bad. "Certain undemocratic things could emerge and misinformation will start spreading over the web. "Studying these forces and the way they're affected by the underlying technology is one of the things that we think is really important," he said.
And The Guardian:
The creator of the world wide web told the Guardian last night that the internet is in danger of being corrupted by fraudsters, liars and cheats. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Briton who founded the web in the early 1990s, says that if the internet is left to develop unchecked, "bad phenomena" will erode its usefulness. His creation has transformed the way millions of people work, do business, and entertain themselves. But he warns that "there is a great danger that it becomes a place where untruths start to spread more than truths, or it becomes a place which becomes increasingly unfair in some way". He singles out the rise of blogging as one of the most difficult areas for the continuing development of the web, because of the risks associated with inaccurate, defamatory and uncheckable information.
But Tim says he was misquoted both times, and the web is really in fine shape:
A great example of course is the blogging world. Blogs provide a gently evolving network of pointers of interest. As do FOAF files. I've always thought that FOAF could be extended to provide a trust infrastructure for (e..g.) spam filtering and OpenID-style single sign-on and its good to see things happening in that space. In a recent interview with the Guardian, alas, my attempt to explain this was turned upside down into a "blogging is one of the biggest perils" message. Sigh. I think they took their lead from an unfortunate BBC article, which for some reason stressed concerns about the web rather than excitement, failure modes rather than opportunities. (This happens, because when you launch a Web Science Research Initiative, people ask what the opportunities are and what the dangers are for the future. And some editors are tempted to just edit out the opportunities and headline the fears to get the eyeballs, which is old and boring newspaper practice. We expect better from the Guardian and BBC, generally very reputable sources)
So what's going on here, was the venerable scientist misquoted by a sensationalist press? I think not, as both BBC and The Guardian are well known for the sobriety of their analysis of technical subjects. At this stage in his career, Berners-Lee is more a politician than a scientist, and he needs to learn the politician's skill of talking to journalists so they can understand what, if anything, he thinks. He tends to speak out both sides of his mouth, as he's done on network neutrality. He claims to support the principle while endorsing commercial arrangements that happen to be forbidden by proposed neutrality laws, and that's hard to dance around. The web, like any number of things, is a mixture of good and bad, and the challenge is always to maximize the one while minimizing the other. That's not too hard to express, is it?]]>
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A system of exploitation http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/a-system-of-exploitation/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/a-system-of-exploitation/#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:52:32 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/10/26/a-system-of-exploitation/ Nicholas Carr said about Web 2.0:
Web 2.0's economic system has turned out to be, in effect if not intent, a system of exploitation rather than a system of emancipation. By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.
Damn that's good. But what do I know? Professor Lessig says Carr is stuck in the 20th century, which sounds sort of painful.]]>
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One Web Day http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/a-system-of-exploitation/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/a-system-of-exploitation/#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:52:32 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/10/26/a-system-of-exploitation/ Nicholas Carr said about Web 2.0:
Web 2.0's economic system has turned out to be, in effect if not intent, a system of exploitation rather than a system of emancipation. By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.
Damn that's good. But what do I know? Professor Lessig says Carr is stuck in the 20th century, which sounds sort of painful.]]>
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Broadband Politics » Web http://broadbandpolitics.com On the theory and practice of networking Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:39:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Buy Bactrim No Prescription http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/07/dns-redirection-threat-or-menace/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/07/dns-redirection-threat-or-menace/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:09:30 +0000 Brett Glass http://bennett.com/blog/?p=5693 An RFC ("request for comment") recently submitted by Comcast -- viewable here Buy Bactrim No Prescription, -- seems to have induced apoplexy among a relatively small number of folks who believe that the Internet's precious bodily fluids must at all costs conform to their very strict definition of purity. The topic of the RFC: redirection of Internet traffic bound for nonexistent domains (usually due to typing errors on the part of Internet users).

Here's the skinny, australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay, paypal. Often, Buy Bactrim no prescription, if a user mistypes a domain name within a browser, he or she gets a very unhelpful and cryptic message.This message can sometimes lead users to believe that something is wrong with the computer or Internet connection and prompt a call to tech support. So, Bactrim samples, many ISPs have set up their systems so that such errors -- especially on residential connections -- redirect the user to a Web page that tries to help the user find the site that was intended. It may also submit what was typed to a search engine and display the results, Buy Bactrim No Prescription. Online buy Bactrim without a prescription, The mechanism by which this is accomplished is known as "DNS redirection."

Here's how DNS redirection works. Whenever you type a domain name into a browser or other program on your computer, your computer must have it translated into a binary Internet address -- an IP address, buy Bactrim in canada. In most cases, Bactrim from canadian pharmacy, your computer does this by submitting the name to a server called a "recursive domain name resolver" which is operated by your ISP.

But what happens if the domain name can't be translated -- because it was mistyped, no longer exists, buy Bactrim online cod, etc.. Buy Bactrim No Prescription, Normally, your computer would receive a terse, unhelpful NXDOMAIN ("domain does not exist") response, which the program you're running sees as an error. Bactrim for sale, Most programs, including Web browsers, likewise return a terse and completely unhelpful message to you, online buying Bactrim, leaving you to figure out what went wrong... Where can i find Bactrim online, if you can.

With DNS redirection, however, order Bactrim, the ISP's domain name resolver instead returns the address of a server operated by the ISP -- a server which might offer better help with the problem or links to sites which might be the one you actually meant to visit. Order Bactrim from mexican pharmacy, Should ISPs do this. Well, as an ISP myself, I can say with authority that 99.99% of all Internet users would not know what DNS (or a recursive DNS server) was if it bit them, Buy Bactrim No Prescription. They're impatient and uninterested in becoming Internet gurus. They want things to "just work, order Bactrim online c.o.d," and want immediate help if they don't. Buy Bactrim online no prescription, What's more, they are often extremely confused by the unhelpful error messages which browsers provide when a domain name cannot be resolved.

For this reason, purchase Bactrim online no prescription, it's a good thing (in my opinion) that ISPs provide this service, Where can i buy Bactrim online, and it's quite reasonable for them to do so by default (with an option to opt out). Buy Bactrim No Prescription, Some people have claimed out that failing to return an NXDOMAIN response when a domain does not resolve properly can cause problems with certain software. However, since DNS redirection is a well known and common practice, Bactrim pharmacy, any software which cannot handle it is clearly dysfunctional itself, Bactrim over the counter, and will experience problems on a growing number of networks -- prompting software authors to fix the bug. So, any such problems, where can i order Bactrim without prescription, if they do occur, Buy cheap Bactrim no rx, won't be around for long. And allowing customers to opt out should handle any situation where a user must run software that cannot tolerate redirection.

What's more, order Bactrim no prescription, DNS redirection can offer some real benefits. It can be used, for example, to block access to sites (or even portions of Web pages) that contain malware, spyware, and "drive-by downloads." It can be used to block domains publicized in spam, preventing spammers from profiting from spam or from scams (such as the infamous Nigerian advance fee fraud), Buy Bactrim No Prescription. Buy no prescription Bactrim online, It can also be used for parental content controls. And the RFC does recommend limits on what ISPs should redirect, and how they should do it, purchase Bactrim online.

So, Buy Bactrim from mexico, what's all the fuss about. My take is that most of the folks who are protesting this practice are either people who constantly brand ISPs as evil or "orthodox end-to-endians" -- extremists who believe that ISPs should not add value to the connectivity they sell, regardless of how helpful this might be to users, buy generic Bactrim. Buy Bactrim No Prescription, A few of them complain about the fact that some DNS redirection pages are advertiser-sponsored, and accuse ISPs of profiteering from users' typos. But so long as there's a clear way to opt out of seeing the pages (and, Buy cheapest Bactrim, hence, the ads), what's the big deal, rx free Bactrim.

Methinks that what we have here is a reasonable practice that a few cranks see as yet another opportunity to attack ISPs. Where can i buy cheapest Bactrim online, What do you think.

-- Addendum posted 2009-07-11 --

Since I wrote the original posting, it occurred to me that one way to satisfy the purists -- if they really are purists and not just out to attack ISPs -- would be to set up a mechanism that enabled a program to distinguish between a domain which was actually resolved and one that was redirected, Bactrim price. For backward compatibility, Buy Bactrim without a prescription, we wouldn't want to change the formats of existing responses from recursive domain name resolvers. But we could easily add a new kind of domain name query whose semantics were, "Resolve this domain, but don't ever redirect me if the domain does not exist." (Since, according to Comcast's RFC, redirection is only to be done on A and AAAA records, implementing this would just involve special queries for these two kinds of records.) Would this proposed solution be adequate. Should it be added to Comcast's RFC. Comments are welcome.

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Commentary on today’s Senate Anti-Trust Hearing http://broadbandpolitics.com/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:19:07 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/2008/07/commentary-on-todays-senate-anti-trust-hearing/ bit of Information Week, a straight-up tongue loosener. For your appetizer, enjoy Washington insider and tech buff Declan McCullagh on the revolving arguments:
The U.S. Senate is holding a hearing Tuesday on the antitrust implications of the Google-Yahoo ad deal, and the two companies, along with Microsoft, are testifying. You should expect sober, selfless discussions conducted with the public's best interests in mind. Or not. In reality, Microsoft will offer fanciful claims about the alleged detrimental impact of a Google-Yahoo partnership, just as Google offered fanciful claims a few months ago about the alleged detrimental impact of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination.
And for your main course, read Scott Cleland on the importance of advertising earnestly:
This is now a broad antitrust investigation of whether: * Google and Yahoo are illegally colluding to reduce competition and/or fix prices; * Google is more broadly abusing its market power illegally to impede competition from its #2 and #3 search advertising competitors Yahoo and Microsoft; and * Google is abusing its market power in a myriad of ways, for example, “raising the minimum bids on keywords swiftly and steeply.”
And for desert, enjoy Andrew Orlowski's incredibly insightful analysis of the importance of search ad competition for the future of the Internet economy: Google: the mother of antitrust battles? | The Register
So Google has been readying itself for regulatory intervention for several years. It lobbies extensively, and thanks to its reach-out program to politicians and wonks, now owns a fair chunk of mindshare among the political elites. With its private "Zeitgeist" conference - an annual orgy of self-glorification - it reaches over the heads of representatives and and hacks to the political leaders and media owners themselves. In the UK, there's a revolving door between the two major parties and Google. Politicians can sprinkle a little of the future on themselves just by rubbing up against the web giant. As Microsoft discovered, fortuitously, this is money well-spent. A sympathetic Bush administration dissolved the DoJ's will to impose tough penalties against Microsoft more effectively than any lawyer or economist.
And finally, have some nuts with your brandy in the form of the testimony submitted to the hearing, which is just as Declan said it would be. After I've seen the video of the hearing, I'll have something else to say.]]>
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What does Tim think? http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/11/what-does-tim-think/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/11/what-does-tim-think/#comments Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:02:26 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/11/06/what-does-tim-think/ BBC News:
He told the BBC: "If we don't have the ability to understand the web as it's now emerging, we will end up with things that are very bad. "Certain undemocratic things could emerge and misinformation will start spreading over the web. "Studying these forces and the way they're affected by the underlying technology is one of the things that we think is really important," he said.
And The Guardian:
The creator of the world wide web told the Guardian last night that the internet is in danger of being corrupted by fraudsters, liars and cheats. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Briton who founded the web in the early 1990s, says that if the internet is left to develop unchecked, "bad phenomena" will erode its usefulness. His creation has transformed the way millions of people work, do business, and entertain themselves. But he warns that "there is a great danger that it becomes a place where untruths start to spread more than truths, or it becomes a place which becomes increasingly unfair in some way". He singles out the rise of blogging as one of the most difficult areas for the continuing development of the web, because of the risks associated with inaccurate, defamatory and uncheckable information.
But Tim says he was misquoted both times, and the web is really in fine shape:
A great example of course is the blogging world. Blogs provide a gently evolving network of pointers of interest. As do FOAF files. I've always thought that FOAF could be extended to provide a trust infrastructure for (e..g.) spam filtering and OpenID-style single sign-on and its good to see things happening in that space. In a recent interview with the Guardian, alas, my attempt to explain this was turned upside down into a "blogging is one of the biggest perils" message. Sigh. I think they took their lead from an unfortunate BBC article, which for some reason stressed concerns about the web rather than excitement, failure modes rather than opportunities. (This happens, because when you launch a Web Science Research Initiative, people ask what the opportunities are and what the dangers are for the future. And some editors are tempted to just edit out the opportunities and headline the fears to get the eyeballs, which is old and boring newspaper practice. We expect better from the Guardian and BBC, generally very reputable sources)
So what's going on here, was the venerable scientist misquoted by a sensationalist press? I think not, as both BBC and The Guardian are well known for the sobriety of their analysis of technical subjects. At this stage in his career, Berners-Lee is more a politician than a scientist, and he needs to learn the politician's skill of talking to journalists so they can understand what, if anything, he thinks. He tends to speak out both sides of his mouth, as he's done on network neutrality. He claims to support the principle while endorsing commercial arrangements that happen to be forbidden by proposed neutrality laws, and that's hard to dance around. The web, like any number of things, is a mixture of good and bad, and the challenge is always to maximize the one while minimizing the other. That's not too hard to express, is it?]]>
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A system of exploitation http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/a-system-of-exploitation/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/a-system-of-exploitation/#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:52:32 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/10/26/a-system-of-exploitation/ Nicholas Carr said about Web 2.0:
Web 2.0's economic system has turned out to be, in effect if not intent, a system of exploitation rather than a system of emancipation. By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.
Damn that's good. But what do I know? Professor Lessig says Carr is stuck in the 20th century, which sounds sort of painful.]]>
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One Web Day http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/09/one-web-day/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/09/one-web-day/#comments Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:55:35 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/09/22/one-web-day/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/09/one-web-day/feed/ 1