Weekly Axis Of Easy #66 This week’s quote: “In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.” By ???? Last Week’s Quote was “The only permanent truth in finance is that people will get bullish at the top and bearish at the bottom.” It was James Grant. Multiple people guessed Warren Buffet, which was in the […]
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Lessons Learned from the Namejuice/DROA/DROC Outage
Last week an ICANN registrar, Namejuice, went off the air for the better part of the day – disappearing off the internet at approximately 8:30am, taking all domains delegated to its nameservers with it, and did not come back online until close to 11pm ET. That was a full business day and more of complete […]
[AxisOfEasy] Google Wants To Get Rid Of The URL
Weekly Axis Of Easy #65 This week’s quote: “The only permanent truth in finance is that people will get bullish at the top and bearish at the bottom.” by ???? Last Week’s Quote was “Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Big undreamed-of things — the […]
[AxisOfEasy] Yahoo: Still Datamining Your Email For Fun And Profit
Weekly Axis Of Easy #64 This week’s quote: “Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Big undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first. “ by ???? Last Week’s Quote was “An entirely new and unique and dense sort of ignorance will be manufactured by a combination of […]
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) Integration Now Live on Mainnet.
Shortly after last year’s first Ethereum Name Service (ENS) Workshop in London, UK; ENS Working Group lead Nick Johnson released an implementation of ENS integration for the ropsten test network. Since then, the ENS WG has been working with the .XYZ registry and easyDNS to implement live ENS integration for .XYZ domains on the Ethereum […]
Escape from the BUMMER machine
(A long overdue review of Jaron Laniers’ “10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now“) In 1978 a former public relations and advertising exec, Jerry Mander wrote “Four Arguments For the Elimination of Television”. Mander in essence argued that “the problems with television are inherent in the medium and technology itself, and thus […]
