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Contact your senators and tell them to just say no to S. 3804: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-3804 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd

by devmonk 16y ago

Contact your senators and tell them to just say no to S. 3804: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-3804 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-3804 http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/How_to_contact_senators.htm http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/How_to_contact_se... No good can come of the gov't trying to control what domains can be accessed, and it won't stop those that wish to do us harm or take advantage of us, because they'll just use another domain.

SageRaven 16y ago
Unfortunately, one of my senators is the infamous Senator Hatch of the Napster Hearing fame. Besides, I doubt I'd get much traction in the reddest state on the election map. Still, things like this make me wonder if the alternative root servers would gain any traction. Of course, those are not free of their own problems and politics. That, or somehow obsolete DNS altogether. I've often thought of setting up a site without DNS to see if I could get it ranked on the first page or two with only a bare IP address. I still use a handful of bare public IPs from places I worked at ten years ago. Surely, if the need arose, people could learn to memorize groupings of numbers again. Then again, once IPv6 rolled out in a big way, raw IPs would be a real bitch to just type in, nevermind remember.
- jerf 16y ago
  This isn't a "red vs. blue" thing, as evidenced by the senators who voted for this. It's more a "people who want power" (the government) vs... uh... well... nobody, actually, just people who want power. At best a handful of Republicans made a feeble twitch towards cutting back the government's power this election and only time will tell whether that manifests as anything other than an election platform, when they stand against so many peoplewhowantpower.
- devicenull 16y ago
  The problem with doing this via IP is it somewhat ties you to your hosting provider. I believe it's somewhat difficult to find places that will let you bring your own IPs.

by devmonk 16y ago

SageRaven 16y ago

Unfortunately, one of my senators is the infamous Senator Hatch of the Napster Hearing fame. Besides, I doubt I'd get much traction in the reddest state on the election map. Still, things like this make me wonder if the alternative root servers would gain any traction. Of course, those are not free of their own problems and politics. That, or somehow obsolete DNS altogether. I've often thought of setting up a site without DNS to see if I could get it ranked on the first page or two with only a bare IP address. I still use a handful of bare public IPs from places I worked at ten years ago. Surely, if the need arose, people could learn to memorize groupings of numbers again. Then again, once IPv6 rolled out in a big way, raw IPs would be a real bitch to just type in, nevermind remember.

jerf 16y ago
This isn't a "red vs. blue" thing, as evidenced by the senators who voted for this. It's more a "people who want power" (the government) vs... uh... well... nobody, actually, just people who want power. At best a handful of Republicans made a feeble twitch towards cutting back the government's power this election and only time will tell whether that manifests as anything other than an election platform, when they stand against so many peoplewhowantpower.
devicenull 16y ago
The problem with doing this via IP is it somewhat ties you to your hosting provider. I believe it's somewhat difficult to find places that will let you bring your own IPs.