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13 Jul 2012
Last week I looked at a lawsuit filed against
Yahoo in Federal court in California, a class action claiming that Yahoo
is wiretapping their users' mail, and noted that reports said that two
other suits were filed in state court in Marin county.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/sutton.html
Bing is Microsoft's newish search engine, whose name I am reliably
informed stands for Bing Is Not Google.
A couple of months ago, as an experiment, I put up a one page link farm
at wild.web.sp.am.
As should be apparent after about three seconds of clicking on the
links there, each page has links to 12 other pages, with the page's
host name made of three names, like http://aaron.louise.celia.web.sp.am.
The pages are generated by a small perl script and a database of
a thousand first names.
All the pages have the same IP address, although there could be
about a billion (1000 cubed, since there are three names in each
page name) possible domains.
I forgot about it until earlier this week, when the disk with
my web logs filled up.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/sillybing.html
10 Jul 2012
Press reports say that three recently filed lawsuits
claim that Google and Yahoo are illegally spying on
the incoming mail of their webmail users. Two
of the suits, Diamond vs. Google and Sutton et al. vs. Yahoo,
are filed in Marin county court, the third, Penkava vs.
Yahoo is in Federal court in San Jose.
I only have copies of the Penkava case, since the county
court documents aren't online, but
according to press reports all three make the same
argument that the defendants are spying illegally on
incoming mail, under the California Invasion of Privacy
Act (CIPA.) So let's see how persuasive Penkava's
arguments are.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/penkava.html
03 Jul 2012
A few days ago
I opined that if several
people want the same TLD and can't come to terms otherwise,
they should arrange a private auction. It would be an odd
sort of auction, since the buyers and sellers are the same
people, so unlike normal auctions, the goal is not
to maximize the selling price. How might it work?
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/tldauction2.html
02 Jul 2012
Ideas is a consistently interesting program on the CBC.
On the June 11th show, host Barbara Nichol asked "Where is the Internet?"
I can say that she's an excellent interviewer because one of the people
she interviewed was me. Listen to the show, including quite a lot of that interview,
on
their web site here.
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/cbcideas.html
01 Jul 2012
The process for ICANN's new TLDs says that if there are several equally
qualified applicants for a TLD, and they can't agree which one gets it,
ICANN will hold an auction to decide.
Recently some people
have suggested
that the applicants could use a private auction instead.
Well, of course.
In a situation like this, the question isn't whether there will be an auction, but
only who will keep the money.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/tldauction.html
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