TriNetre - Archive for October 16, 2003
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October 16, 2003
"Great Internet Hijackers" will give notice this time around
[Technology]
@ 05:13 PM
At an unusual gathering of technical experts in Washington, D.C., VeriSign has maintained that their Great-Internet-Hijack called SiteFinder was not creating any security or stability problems and that most issues raised were "minor or inconvenient". And, get this, this time they were condescending enough to give a 30- to 60-day notice before resuming their hijack.
VeriSign's Matt Larson, who spoke at the meeting organized by the Security and Stability Advisory Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), said a poll paid for by his company showed 84 percent of U.S. citizens surveyed had a "preference" in favor of Site Finder.
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But Gomes and Larson, under intense questioning from ICANN committee members, refused to release details about the methodology of the survey such as the questions asked and the responses received. "The actual feedback we got directly from doing the survey is proprietary information," Larson said.
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But Gomes and Larson, under intense questioning from ICANN committee members, refused to release details about the methodology of the survey such as the questions asked and the responses received. "The actual feedback we got directly from doing the survey is proprietary information," Larson said.
Oh yeah? Even I can conduct a survey that shows that Krishnan Nair Srijith is god. I might even be able to get a better result, like 90% or maybe even 100%! You know 1/1 is also 100%
Statistics are like a bikini... what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
- Aaron Levenstein
Time to solve the problems with the Bind DNS patches and prevent a repeat hijack.
Book review - "Scribbles from the Same Island"
[Literature]
@ 10:16 AM
Scribbles from the Same Island by Neil Humphreys continues along the line of Notes from an Even Smaller Island and explores the various "issues" plaguing Singaporean society starting from Sarong Party Girls (SPG) to bar to dancing and even stayer-quitter controversy. This time around though, the Brit-who-hates-fellow-Brits-in-Singapore goes a bit deeper and tackles more sensitive issues pertaining to politics, prostitution (yeah, prostitution exists in Singapore too) and the migration by Singaporeans, all in the same shocking yet funny style as before. Be warned however that you will have to wade through a lot of f*ck, sh*t and other raunchy explicits throughout this book. It does get repetitive and tiring at times.
On related note, Wired covers Singapore's transformation that I have mentioned a couple of times in this blog.
