Slashdot Mirror

Thought Experiments at http://www.bryanappleyard.com/ - stuff that makes you think by the writer and journalist Bryan Appleyard. Feed = http://www.bryanappleyard.com/atom.xml
Nigeness - http://nigeness.blogspot.com/ - acute observation and a connoisseur of many forms of art, a welcome port in the verbiage-strewn seas of the net. Feed = http://nigeness.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
The Lumber Rood at http://elberry.wordpress.com/ - why moan about the end of the world and the collapse of civilization when you can enjoy them instead? This blog will show you how. Feed = http://elberry.wordpress.com/feed/
Oie de Chine at http://chine.blog.lemonde.fr/ - a photo-blog of daily life in China from a hugely talented French photographer. Feed = http://chine.blog.lemonde.fr/feed/

Thought Experiments at http://www.bryanappleyard.com/ - stuff that makes you think by the writer and journalist Bryan Appleyard. Feed = http://www.bryanappleyard.com/atom.xml
Nigeness - http://nigeness.blogspot.com/ - acute observation and a connoisseur of many forms of art, a welcome port in the verbiage-strewn seas of the net. Feed = http://nigeness.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
The Lumber Rood at http://elberry.wordpress.com/ - why moan about the end of the world and the collapse of civilization when you can enjoy them instead? This blog will show you how. Feed = http://elberry.wordpress.com/feed/
Oie de Chine at http://chine.blog.lemonde.fr/ - a photo-blog of daily life in China from a hugely talented French photographer. Feed = http://chine.blog.lemonde.fr/feed/

I'll leave out really common feeds and a few that won't interest many people, but here are the top 25% or so of my feeds:

A Gentleman's C http://gentlemansc.blogspot.com/rss.xml
An Angry Professor gripes about stuff

Armchair Generalist http://armchairgeneralist.typepad.com/my_weblog/index.rdf
Blog by a moderate-left military analyst

Arts & Letters Daily http://aldaily.com/rss/rss.xml
Three interesting links every day (actually usually one or two INTERESTING ones)

Breaking News (History News Network) http://hnn.us/roundup/rss_full/41.xml
Stories about History with a slight conservative bias

Consumerist http://consumerist.com/excerpts.xml
Shoppers bite back.

indexed http://indexed.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Note card humor, usually featuring Venn diagrams

Inside Higher Ed http://feeds.feedburner.com/insidehighered/OxmP
Stories from academe, with fairly grumpy comments

Junk Charts http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/rss.xml
Redraws charts to make data analysis easier

Obscure Store and Reading Room http://obscurestore.typepad.com/obscure_store_and_reading/index.rdf
Well-known wierd news site with comments

PostSecret http://postsecret.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Secrets on postcards, every Sunday. Fascinating.

ReelViews New Reviews http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReelviewsNewReviews
My favorite currently-active film reviewer

SCOTUSblog http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/index.xml
Get the skinny on the latest Supreme Court actions

Slashfood http://www.slashfood.com/rss.xml
Because I love food

Slate Magazine http://www.slate.com/rss/
The best of the online political mags; lefty bias

Spluch http://spluch.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Always something interesting. Similar material to the extremely popular Boing Boing, but with fewer posts per day.

The Monkey Cage http://www.themonkeycage.org/atom.xml
Analysis from political scientists. Much better than the usual partisan approach.

The Onion http://feeds.theonion.com/theonion/daily
Most of the humor is usually contained in the headlines, so I seldom read more

I'll leave out really common feeds and a few that won't interest many people, but here are the top 25% or so of my feeds:

A Gentleman's C http://gentlemansc.blogspot.com/rss.xml
An Angry Professor gripes about stuff

Armchair Generalist http://armchairgeneralist.typepad.com/my_weblog/index.rdf
Blog by a moderate-left military analyst

Arts & Letters Daily http://aldaily.com/rss/rss.xml
Three interesting links every day (actually usually one or two INTERESTING ones)

Breaking News (History News Network) http://hnn.us/roundup/rss_full/41.xml
Stories about History with a slight conservative bias

Consumerist http://consumerist.com/excerpts.xml
Shoppers bite back.

indexed http://indexed.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Note card humor, usually featuring Venn diagrams

Inside Higher Ed http://feeds.feedburner.com/insidehighered/OxmP
Stories from academe, with fairly grumpy comments

Junk Charts http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/rss.xml
Redraws charts to make data analysis easier

Obscure Store and Reading Room http://obscurestore.typepad.com/obscure_store_and_reading/index.rdf
Well-known wierd news site with comments

PostSecret http://postsecret.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Secrets on postcards, every Sunday. Fascinating.

ReelViews New Reviews http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReelviewsNewReviews
My favorite currently-active film reviewer

SCOTUSblog http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/index.xml
Get the skinny on the latest Supreme Court actions

Slashfood http://www.slashfood.com/rss.xml
Because I love food

Slate Magazine http://www.slate.com/rss/
The best of the online political mags; lefty bias

Spluch http://spluch.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Always something interesting. Similar material to the extremely popular Boing Boing, but with fewer posts per day.

The Monkey Cage http://www.themonkeycage.org/atom.xml
Analysis from political scientists. Much better than the usual partisan approach.

The Onion http://feeds.theonion.com/theonion/daily
Most of the humor is usually contained in the headlines, so I seldom read more

I'll leave out really common feeds and a few that won't interest many people, but here are the top 25% or so of my feeds:

A Gentleman's C http://gentlemansc.blogspot.com/rss.xml
An Angry Professor gripes about stuff

Armchair Generalist http://armchairgeneralist.typepad.com/my_weblog/index.rdf
Blog by a moderate-left military analyst

Arts & Letters Daily http://aldaily.com/rss/rss.xml
Three interesting links every day (actually usually one or two INTERESTING ones)

Breaking News (History News Network) http://hnn.us/roundup/rss_full/41.xml
Stories about History with a slight conservative bias

Consumerist http://consumerist.com/excerpts.xml
Shoppers bite back.

indexed http://indexed.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Note card humor, usually featuring Venn diagrams

Inside Higher Ed http://feeds.feedburner.com/insidehighered/OxmP
Stories from academe, with fairly grumpy comments

Junk Charts http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/rss.xml
Redraws charts to make data analysis easier

Obscure Store and Reading Room http://obscurestore.typepad.com/obscure_store_and_reading/index.rdf
Well-known wierd news site with comments

PostSecret http://postsecret.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Secrets on postcards, every Sunday. Fascinating.

ReelViews New Reviews http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReelviewsNewReviews
My favorite currently-active film reviewer

SCOTUSblog http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/index.xml
Get the skinny on the latest Supreme Court actions

Slashfood http://www.slashfood.com/rss.xml
Because I love food

Slate Magazine http://www.slate.com/rss/
The best of the online political mags; lefty bias

Spluch http://spluch.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Always something interesting. Similar material to the extremely popular Boing Boing, but with fewer posts per day.

The Monkey Cage http://www.themonkeycage.org/atom.xml
Analysis from political scientists. Much better than the usual partisan approach.

The Onion http://feeds.theonion.com/theonion/daily
Most of the humor is usually contained in the headlines, so I seldom read more

I'll leave out really common feeds and a few that won't interest many people, but here are the top 25% or so of my feeds:

A Gentleman's C http://gentlemansc.blogspot.com/rss.xml
An Angry Professor gripes about stuff

Armchair Generalist http://armchairgeneralist.typepad.com/my_weblog/index.rdf
Blog by a moderate-left military analyst

Arts & Letters Daily http://aldaily.com/rss/rss.xml
Three interesting links every day (actually usually one or two INTERESTING ones)

Breaking News (History News Network) http://hnn.us/roundup/rss_full/41.xml
Stories about History with a slight conservative bias

Consumerist http://consumerist.com/excerpts.xml
Shoppers bite back.

indexed http://indexed.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Note card humor, usually featuring Venn diagrams

Inside Higher Ed http://feeds.feedburner.com/insidehighered/OxmP
Stories from academe, with fairly grumpy comments

Junk Charts http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/rss.xml
Redraws charts to make data analysis easier

Obscure Store and Reading Room http://obscurestore.typepad.com/obscure_store_and_reading/index.rdf
Well-known wierd news site with comments

PostSecret http://postsecret.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Secrets on postcards, every Sunday. Fascinating.

ReelViews New Reviews http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReelviewsNewReviews
My favorite currently-active film reviewer

SCOTUSblog http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/index.xml
Get the skinny on the latest Supreme Court actions

Slashfood http://www.slashfood.com/rss.xml
Because I love food

Slate Magazine http://www.slate.com/rss/
The best of the online political mags; lefty bias

Spluch http://spluch.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Always something interesting. Similar material to the extremely popular Boing Boing, but with fewer posts per day.

The Monkey Cage http://www.themonkeycage.org/atom.xml
Analysis from political scientists. Much better than the usual partisan approach.

The Onion http://feeds.theonion.com/theonion/daily
Most of the humor is usually contained in the headlines, so I seldom read more

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/ - The Sartorialist is a a photographer for GQ, Vogue, etcetra who publishes his photos of well dressed people he meets on the street for all to see.

http://www.idiotcomics.com/ - Idiot Comics is a spot on webcomic sometimes, but lately its been a little slow.

http://waiterrant.net/ - A blog written by a waiter who has spent a long time in the restaurant business. Source municipal is a pretty good read.

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ and PostSecret of course...

The best ones I read I pull together with Liferea's web scraping support and some Perl to generate an RSS feed either by building one from scratch or gutting the description tag and replacing it with HTML from the site to get the whole article. The Mother 3 Fan Translation, The Onion, McSweeney's Letters, the New York Times, and the Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA all fall under this category. Snownews has a repository for these scripts at http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/snowscripts/. I'd submit mine but I could never log in.

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/ - The Sartorialist is a a photographer for GQ, Vogue, etcetra who publishes his photos of well dressed people he meets on the street for all to see.

http://www.idiotcomics.com/ - Idiot Comics is a spot on webcomic sometimes, but lately its been a little slow.

http://waiterrant.net/ - A blog written by a waiter who has spent a long time in the restaurant business. Source municipal is a pretty good read.

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ and PostSecret of course...

The best ones I read I pull together with Liferea's web scraping support and some Perl to generate an RSS feed either by building one from scratch or gutting the description tag and replacing it with HTML from the site to get the whole article. The Mother 3 Fan Translation, The Onion, McSweeney's Letters, the New York Times, and the Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA all fall under this category. Snownews has a repository for these scripts at http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/snowscripts/. I'd submit mine but I could never log in.

http://www.chaosmanorreviews.com/rss.xml (Jerry Pournelle, author etc, sort of tech diary)

http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default (Fake Steve Jobs, 'interesting views')

I've got more but I thought these were less obvious, yet as 'must-have' as theregister and slashdot.

for starters i watch /.feeds, others are ecogeek http://feeds.feedburner.com/EcoGeek, idmtrade http://idmtrade.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss and UK indymedia http://indymedia.org.uk/en/newswire.rss these are my regulars of sort. enjoy

and why not http://www.acetonestudio.blogspot.com/ for when your sticky key melodica needs repair?

My list of feeds:
Slashdot main : http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot
Obvious Reasons

Linux.com : http://www.linux.com/feature/?theme=rss
Useful tips for using Linux on a daily basis and for my sysadmin job

Lifehacker : http://lifehacker.com/excerpts.xml
Tips for life in general

Hack a Day : http://www.hackaday.com/rss.xml
Stuff I wish I had the motivation to do

Google Open Source Blog : http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Keeping current with The Goog's OSS efforts

Google Summer of Code Blog : http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoogleSummerOfCodePodcasts
Seeing the State of the Program

The Art of Manliness : http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheArtOfManliness
Do you really have to ask?

Statement of Barack Obama supporting Hoyer FISA bill

Well shit.

Tim Moss (lead on the first two God of War games) for one, he was in the Lost Boys demo group and did a few games

"covers anybody who 'intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access').""

Someone didn't look up what "access" means.

http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2006/02/access.html

"Allen was charged, essentially, with gaining "access" to Southwestern Bell's computers without authorization. The State's evidence showed that, in this era of dial-up connections, Allen had been wardialing, i.e., had used his computer to repeatedly call Southwestern Bell modems that could let a caller "enter" the Southwestern Bell computer system. The evidence also showed that if a call went through, the computer determined if it was answered by a modem or by a person, after which it terminated the connection.

The Kansas statute (like some state statutes in effect today) defined "access" as "to approach, instruct, communicate with, store data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use of" a computer. Kansas Statute Annotated section 21-3755. The state argued that, at a minimum, Allen had "approached" the Southwestern Bell computers, but the Kansas Supreme court disagreed. It agreed with a U.S. Department of Justice report which concluded that this use of "access" was unconstitutionally vague because it did not provide sufficient notice of what is forbidden; as the DOJ report pointed out, this interpretation of "access" would criminalze mere physical proximity to a computer... It therefore upheld the lower court's dismissal of the charge against Allen.

Real smart, Jimmy. And he was a 'Nucular Engineer'!

I was surprised at this statement and tried to check it out. Here is a nice text on the myth that J.C. was a nucular engeneer.

http://atomicinsights.blogspot.com/2006/01/picking-on-jimmy-carter-myth.html

If we was one, nuclear would probably have a better reputation in the USA.

2. More like zero risk. It is physically impossible for a modern pebble-bed reactor to melt down. You can yank the control rods, cut off the coolant, and it'll just power down with zero intervention and no fancy systems. They showed this off by doing exactly that with a test reactor in Germany.

3. A lot less storage for a lot less time is needed if we ditch that stupid Carterism of "breeder reactors encourage nuclear proliferation". This also helps a lot with problem 1.

4. Certainly. Mining is generally a pretty messy business, though how does uranium mining compare to coal mining or oil drilling?

You remind me of a certain blogger

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Antarctica (having about 70% of the worlds ice) is actually growing in terms of volume and area of ice (Though very slowly, nearly steady state).

There is also arguments that a world without ice would have more useful land. For example Iceland and Greenland would have vastly more habitable land and Antartica would be livable too.

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/environment/waterworld.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Post-Glacial_Sea_Level.png

Average sea levels are raising but at a much much slower raise than several thousand years. The challenge is to prove that the rate of change is different than would be expected at this point in the freeze/thaw cycle and that it is caused by man and not just slight variations "this time around".

They are actually advertising Firefox in Japan. I never thought I would see the day a free, open source, program was advertised on TV.

I use Windows firefox because I am on FreeBSD and there is no flash player for FreeBSD.

I was talking about the AOL online service client, not AOL instant messager. That is AOL 9.0.
http://daol.aol.com/software/90vr

I use Windows firefox because I am on FreeBSD and there is no flash player for FreeBSD.

I was talking about the AOL online service client, not AOL instant messager. That is AOL 9.0.
http://daol.aol.com/software/90vr

Componentization is a time-honored tradition in the hardware industry where it has been a huge success for decades. Componentization is the key to reusability. It is based on plug compatibility and makes drag-and-drop software construction possible, thereby openning programming to the masses. The reason that the same has not happened in the software world is that software is inherently sequential whereas hardware is parallel and signal-based. We need to go beyond the Turing ideal of sequential computing and adopt a computing model that is inherently parallel and signal-based. For more info on this topic see Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It. See also Parallel Computing: The End of the Turing Madness, although I would not recommend the latter to Turing worshippers as they might take offence.

No webcrawler I know of would do something insane like submitting forms

Nevermind, I found the answer to my own question... Google Browser Sync is going to be discontinued. Waaaaaah!

vista guide

Not sure about transcoding, but if you're running KDE under Linux, K3B comes preinstalled and is capable of DVD ripping and copying. Otherwise, a simple trip to the package manager will do it. http://poisonerbg.blogspot.com/2007/01/howto-easy-dvd-ripping-in-linux-with.html

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/06/no-new-oil-refineries-since-1976.html
Oil companies have not opened any new refinery since 1976. But they have continuously added small amounts of capacity to the existing refineries.
This is what you do when you are not finding any new oilfields, but you make minor discoveries in existing reserves / technological improvements or when some more of your oil becomes marketable because of price increase.

The task of this piece on the front page of today's Washington Post is to establish the believe that Iran has a nuclear weapon design.

An international smuggling ring that sold bomb-related parts to Libya, Iran and North Korea also managed to acquire blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon, according to a draft report by a former top U.N. arms inspector that suggests the plans could have been shared secretly with any number of countries or rogue groups.

The drawings, discovered in 2006 on computers owned by Swiss businessmen, included essential details for building a compact nuclear device that could be fitted on a type of ballistic missile used by Iran and more than a dozen developing countries, the report states.

The Swiss 'businessmen', Friedrich Tinner and his two sons, are alleged to have sold several nuke related stuff to Lybia and other countries.

There is more to the Tinner story, but for now let me concentrate on the date. The WaPo says the laptop has been discovered in 2006. But Tinner was under CIA control at least since the 2003 bust of nuclear related stuff on board of the 'BBC China'.

The German magazine Der Spiegel had a big story about this in March 2006:

Two circumstances could prove to be Lerch's undoing: first, the fact that the German ship "BBC China" was intercepted in October 2003 carrying a cargo of containers filled with nuclear technology headed for Libya and, second, that the incident prompted a panicked Gadhafi to disclose the names of all those who had supplied the Libyans with material and expertise for their nuclear program.
...
The authorities caught up with Gotthard Lerch, who Tahir calls his "main contractor," in Switzerland. They also arrested members of the Tinner family -- Friedrich Tinner and his two sons, Urs and Marco -- all on the suspicion of having built parts for Gadhafi's nuclear weapons program in return for 15 to 20 million Swiss francs.

Tinner was flipped by the CIA at least since the 'BBC China' event but likely even earlier. Another man taking part in the alleged smuggling was also turned by the CIA or has worked for the CIA all along.

Indeed it somehow seems like everybody involved in the issue was somehow related to the CIA.

The usual story is that the Pakistani scientist A.Q. Kahn was the one who ran a smuggling network. That may not be true at all. Khan denies having been involved in such. A new book asserts that it was then Prime Minister of Pakistan Bhutto who personally gave Pakistani nuclear secrets to North Korea in exchange for North Korean No Dong missiles for the Pakistani army.

A Dutch court somehow 'lost' legal files about the Khan case and the CIA likely had a hand in this too. The CIA also successfully pressed (link in German) the Swiss government to destroy information it had about the Tinner case. Tinner will thereby never be convicted.

Now please explain to me how people arrested in 2003 and flipped by the CIA at least since then managed to keep nuclear plans on a laptop that were somehow found only in 2006?

This whole story stinks from A to Z

Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2008 4:49 PM
To: Dean Collins;
Subject: Re: And so now it begins......

What motivation would they have to do that? Just dumb or nefarious in this instance?
----

Andrew Cuomo - gets press, and to be seen to be doing something, (probably being advised by people who have 'ulterior motives' and he's too stupid to know the difference).

Verizon - heaps of reasons; far too many - but here's my interpretation.

Usenet is an ancient 'spooky' space on the internet that no one but geeks and porn swapping perverts visit, by blocking 99.7% of UseNet's under the guise of getting rid of kiddy porn Verizon are able to establish a precedent that 'managing' internet access for the betterment of society is a good thing.

The thin edge of the wedge has been struck.

After that it's easy to start blocking off entire country domains, I mean no one has any good reason for reading blogs in Iran correct?

Ok now lets move to something that some people will care about but with 2 sets of prior acts Verizon will be covered. Lets block all P2P traffic, I mean P2P is only used by people swapping pirated music and video's - yes some 5% of the population may complain but most of them will be kids and not voters so we should be able to cover any publicity backlash. ....now lets move onto the juicy bits. - That pesky Vonage traffic is travelling over our users networks and Verizon don't make any money form this, lets start blocking that traffic. ....You like watching video's from Netflix using their Roku internet set-top box, cool we'll just have to charge you for this. .....Listening to a radio station that isn't in the Time Warner 'family', sorry this is tier 2 internet class traffic so the audio might be a little jittery from time to time, sorry about that.....

If you want to hear from people who are far better at explaining this check out http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/net-neutrality.html

Like I said it all started with some dumb politician who had probably never used Newsgroups before and had some carrier stooge whisper something into his ear about 'think of the children'......the rest is history.

As a society we should be strong enough to accept that any technology solution to a society problem will never work and any politicians who suggest otherwise are either too dumb to be making that decision (e.g. swallowed a story from a lobbyist) or is acting in coercion.

But what do I know, I'm just a disgruntled geek.

Cheers,
Dean

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22212833295

I know .... tweaking with Noam is pretty crazy too....

my point about only 8 out of 1000 websites was an analogy.
sorry you didn't get the link.

maybe the post below will help you get the point

Cheers,
Dean

http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/and-so-now-it-begins.html
Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2008 4:49 PM
To: Dean Collins;
Subject: Re: And so now it begins......

What motivation would they have to do that? Just dumb or nefarious in this instance?
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Andrew Cuomo - gets press, and to be seen to be doing something, (probably being advised by people who have 'ulterior motives' and he's too stupid to know the difference).

Verizon - heaps of reasons; far too many - but here's my interpretation.

Usenet is an ancient 'spooky' space on the internet that no one but geeks and porn swapping perverts visit, by blocking 99.7% of UseNet's under the guise of getting rid of kiddy porn Verizon are able to establish a precedent that 'managing' internet access for the betterment of society is a good thing.

The thin edge of the wedge has been struck.

After that it's easy to start blocking off entire country domains, I mean no one has any good reason for reading blogs in Iran correct?

Ok now lets move to something that some people will care about but with 2 sets of prior acts Verizon will be covered. Lets block all P2P traffic, I mean P2P is only used by people swapping pirated music and video's - yes some 5% of the population may complain but most of them will be kids and not voters so we should be able to cover any publicity backlash. ....now lets move onto the juicy bits. - That pesky Vonage traffic is travelling over our users networks and Verizon don't make any money form this, lets start blocking that traffic. ....You like watching video's from Netflix using their Roku internet set-top box, cool we'll just have to charge you for this. .....Listening to a radio station that isn't in the Time Warner 'family', sorry this is tier 2 internet class traffic so the audio might be a little jittery from time to time, sorry about that.....

If you want to hear from people who are far better at explaining this check out http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/net-neutrality.html

Like I said it all started with some dumb politician who had probably never used Newsgroups before and had some carrier stooge whisper something into his ear about 'think of the children'......the rest is history.

As a society we should be strong enough to accept that any technology solution to a society problem will never work and any politicians who suggest otherwise are either too dumb to be making that decision (e.g. swallowed a story from a lobbyist) or is acting in coercion.

But what do I know, I'm just a disgruntled geek.

Cheers,
Dean

my point about only 8 out of 1000 websites was an analogy.
sorry you didn't get the link.

maybe the post below will help you get the point

Cheers,
Dean

http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/and-so-now-it-begins.html
Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2008 4:49 PM
To: Dean Collins;
Subject: Re: And so now it begins......

What motivation would they have to do that? Just dumb or nefarious in this instance?
---

Andrew Cuomo - gets press, and to be seen to be doing something, (probably being advised by people who have 'ulterior motives' and he's too stupid to know the difference).

Verizon - heaps of reasons; far too many - but here's my interpretation.

Usenet is an ancient 'spooky' space on the internet that no one but geeks and porn swapping perverts visit, by blocking 99.7% of UseNet's under the guise of getting rid of kiddy porn Verizon are able to establish a precedent that 'managing' internet access for the betterment of society is a good thing.

The thin edge of the wedge has been struck.

After that it's easy to start blocking off entire country domains, I mean no one has any good reason for reading blogs in Iran correct?

Ok now lets move to something that some people will care about but with 2 sets of prior acts Verizon will be covered. Lets block all P2P traffic, I mean P2P is only used by people swapping pirated music and video's - yes some 5% of the population may complain but most of them will be kids and not voters so we should be able to cover any publicity backlash. ....now lets move onto the juicy bits. - That pesky Vonage traffic is travelling over our users networks and Verizon don't make any money form this, lets start blocking that traffic. ....You like watching video's from Netflix using their Roku internet set-top box, cool we'll just have to charge you for this. .....Listening to a radio station that isn't in the Time Warner 'family', sorry this is tier 2 internet class traffic so the audio might be a little jittery from time to time, sorry about that.....

If you want to hear from people who are far better at explaining this check out http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/net-neutrality.html

Like I said it all started with some dumb politician who had probably never used Newsgroups before and had some carrier stooge whisper something into his ear about 'think of the children'......the rest is history.

As a society we should be strong enough to accept that any technology solution to a society problem will never work and any politicians who suggest otherwise are either too dumb to be making that decision (e.g. swallowed a story from a lobbyist) or is acting in coercion.

But what do I know, I'm just a disgruntled geek.

Cheers,
Dean

There is no such thing as a bad conservative. "Conservative" is a magic word that applies to those who are in other conservatives' good graces. Until they aren't. At which point they are liberals. Get used to the hearing about how the Republicans failed because they weren't true conservatives. Conservatism can never fail. It can only be failed by weak-minded souls who refuse to properly follow its tenets. It's a lot like communism that way.