PERMANENTLY BREAK THE INTERNET!!!

[Avvesione]

I saw this article in the Seattle PI (the worst Seattle newspaper there is) and I rofl'd at the quote in the beginning...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/ ... net02.html

[Unklemonkey]

Lol, wtf? I like how they repeated "Break the internet forever" like 3-4 times lol.

[Charla]

Article: there are over 6000 languages in the world

me: and most of them aren't written languages. Some of the rest share character sets.

Article: browsers might not even recognize the website!

me: you do know there's more to the internet than web browsers, right?

Now, it might be true that domain suffixes are still restricted to ASCII characters, and trying to use non-ASCII characters might cause problems. But there's a big difference between a few new websites screwing themselves over and "breaking the internet".

Conclusion: article doesn't know what it's talking about.

[Senoska]

BREAK THE INTERNET ROFL

[Devek]

Actually, it kind of does.

[BRP]

CALL THE PLUMBER!

(2 posts til 4000 ;o )

[GRT]

all you need is a lottery ball rolling through to make everything work again

[Devek]

This kind of is serious issue, and for the layman it doesn't make a lot of sense why its a big deal.

Besides.. non technical issues aside, wanting a domain with non standard characters is pretty stupid.

I bet its fun having a @可愛い.com email address where half the world can't reach you...

a-Z and 0-9 are on every keyboard for every computer in the entire world, its good stuff.

The way its gonna work out is that 可愛い.com will actually be kawaii.com but there will be a system so if someone tries to access 可愛い.com it will be the equivilant of trying to access kawaii.com, but there needs to be rules and lots of shit needs to be thought of ahead of time so it doesn't end up being a big fuckup like the lol .eu domain.

Its just gonna take time.. and people that would be hasty and alter dns systems to rush this sort of thing need to be die in a fire.

Some of the stuff in that article is like wtf..

Adama Samassekou, president of the African Academy of Languages in Mali, said improving access to technology does little if its users can't use it to communicate in native languages.

So there are stupid African people who don't have keyboards with a-z on them and they can't memorize sequences to type on them to reach addresses?

No one is forcing anyone to use English.. its like a phone, if you wanna reach someone you dial them by punching in a series of letters.

I call bullshit on this. I doubt there is anyone on the planet who owns a computer, has electricity, and doesn't know what letters are.

[Lawls]

So there are stupid African people who don't have keyboards with a-z on them and they can't memorize sequences to type on them to reach addresses?

Word.

[Stilgar]

So there are stupid African people who don't have keyboards with a-z on them and they can't memorize sequences to type on them to reach addresses?

No one is forcing anyone to use English.. its like a phone, if you wanna reach someone you dial them by punching in a series of letters.

I call bullshit on this. I doubt there is anyone on the planet who owns a computer, has electricity, and doesn't know what letters are.

You'd be surprised. Living for a few years in Japan, where the roman alphabet is fucking everyfuckingwhere, I saw a lot of Japanese people who couldn't reliably reproduce certain letters given a pad and a pen. For them it's more a case of writing (more like drawing, to someone who doesn't use Roman script regularly) being harder than reading. For people in backwoods fucking Africa? Yeah, I'm going to have to go with the opinion of Adama Samassekou, president of the African Academy of Languages in Mali, on this one.

[Zigma]

reading the article, it is a serious issue but the way they said "break the internet" is not in the way where it's going to make it...break, but to put it so the usefulness and the way it is set up now (which is very good and organized) will be fucked up forever.

It makes sense.

[Daahan]

reading the article, it is a serious issue but the way they said "break the internet" is not in the way where it's going to make it...break, but to put it so the usefulness and the way it is set up now (which is very good and organized) will be fucked up forever.

It makes sense.

i agree

"permanently clogging the internet tubes" would have been a more plausible statement.

[SephYuyX]

Sweet Mother of Jesus, Mary and God the Father, this with integrating IPv6 will surely bring chaos and mayhem to the Internets.