Erik S

I figured something like this had to happen. - Erik S

"I don't understand the DNS issue. Why can't scripting.com be a CNAME? That sounds like a shortcoming of a DNS hosting service. There is one root domain, "." Everything else is a subdomain of that. Ask EasyDNS why scripting.com can't be a subdomain." - Erik S

"Commercial pressures never ever make vendors emphasize details that are unimportant to 90% of their customers. Oh, wait they do." - Erik S

"Commercial pressures never ever make vendors emphasize details that are unimportant to 90% of their customers. Oh, wait they do." - Erik S

"No, they are buying goodwill. To think otherwise is to be willfully ignorant of the way "gifts" influence people." - Erik S

"No, they are buying goodwill. To think otherwise is to be willfully ignorant of the way "gifts" influence people." - Erik S

"I think it would be harder to shut down the Internet in the US, but I'd still assume that it either could be shutdown, or under so much surveillance as to be useless. I think we need to look at alternatives to TCP/IP sockets. I think it would be a store and forward protocol, like UUCP, or Fidonet, with a layer of crypto to provide secrecy when needed, and verify the origin of public information. Smartphones and other mobile devices would be important nodes in the network. Data could flow via short range wireless, like WiFi or Bluetooth as nodes of the network pass each other in peoples pockets. TCP/IP could transport such data when available, particularly for local distribution." - Erik S