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Internet Routes Around South African Gov't
Mister B writes: "In an end-run around the South African government's plans to seize control of the .za domain, administrator Mike Lawrie took pre-emptive action and moved the primary .za zone file offshore. Revealing their naivete, parliamentary committee chairman Nkenke Kekana accused him of destabilising the net! Then again, the opposition think he's a hero. :-) More details on MSNBC."
Geeks created the internet and Geeks should control it.
Computer Geeks tend not to be to concerned with politics they have a higher standard "Network Integratiy"
sorry for any typos Ive been drinking
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...how are we going to route packets to Lesotho? This country is completely surrounded by South Africa!
Satellite
May we never see th
How about Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
How about Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
That'd never work - with rampant poverty in SA, your datagrams will be eaten by starving africans.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
We take a page from B5, being geeks and all, and create an extra-governmental organization dedicated solely to the sanctity and security of the 'net.
:)
Considering the US fathered the net, it'll be comprised of mostly US geeks to start, but we'll include a large number of Japanese geeks just so we can get katanas and manage to horribly mangle ourselves while our comrades emit Homer-esque cries of, 'Doh!'. However, geeks of any nationality are welcome to join the organization.
If a country needs help with their 'net infrastructure, we will help them. If, however, they try to do something stupid, we'll know about it - and so will everyone else. We will offer aid and assistance only as long as the country requests it.
Our creed?
"I am an administrator. We write the dark scripts that no one else dares call. We hog system resources, and no user may compile. We live for the net, we die for the net!"
Okay, okay, I admit, I just really, really, really want a workstation in a self-healing bio-organic case.