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Ask Dr. Vinton Cerf About the Internet

If anyone can claim to have "invented the Internet," (or at least to have co-invented it) it's Vint Cerf, who never makes this claim himself. But he's certainly had a hand in shaping most of what we call "the Internet" today, and is now working on taking the Internet or something like it to Mars and other planets. A Google Search for "Vint Cerf" brings up thousands of responses, so you should have no trouble coming up with a unique, interesting question for him. (As is usual with Slashdot interviews, we'll send 10 of the top-moderated questions to Dr. Cerf about 24 hours after this post, and publish his answers shortly after he gets them back to us.)

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  1. If this is not the first... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...then this time I will eat my own dick!

  2. Stop Al Gore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Will you please tell Al Gore to stop claiming he invented it then?

  3. Repeat-This Was Done Last Year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Read about the ten top conservative idiots here:
    including our chump-in-charge:

    Top 10 Conservative Idiots

  4. Re:Just Imagen by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Maybe it wouldn't do this when I tried to follow the link:

    Warning: Too many connections in /prod/www/virtual/kerneltrap.com/www/htdocs/includ es/database.mysql.inc on line 7 Too many connections

    My, my, the slashdot effect strikes again...

  5. Re:Early days of the net by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, Gore was a key player all right --- in trying to mandate cryptographic back doors for the Feds!

    You can imagine what sort of Internet we'd have if Gore had invented it.

  6. Re:Answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gore -- you know, the elected President of the United States

    Wow, he won the Electorial College vote? Amazing that I missed that. While I did watch that vote and it was properly presided over by the President of the Senate (if you don't know how Presidential elections work in the US you will have to look that up too) and Al Gore LOST THE ELECTION!

    Just as Richard Nixon LOST THE 1960 ELECTION and he had 2 SLATES OF ELECTORIAL VOTES FROM HAWAII!! The President of the Senate in 1960 (look him up too), took the slate from HI that made Nixon loose.

    I really wish people like you would EITHER learn the underlying principles of what you whine about, OR dry up and blow away.

    "GORE LOST GET OVER IT!"
    --Sean Hannity, Gore supporter (yes he was don't argue about that either until you LOOK IT UP)

  7. Operating Theotan 4? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OT IV RUNDOWN
    Non-Solo
    OT IV Rundown
    Symptoms
    Has completed OT III
    OT IV Warning.
    This is in fact a grade. Therefore to run it without setting
    the case up fully is to waste it.
    Often the case has to:
    (1) Be discharged with a lot of corrective actions and
    (2) OT III must be run on the PC by the auditor or at least
    cleaned up. It might not be uncommon to have to do half
    or more of the C/Ses in the book before doing the OT IV
    Rundown.
    If one holds off and really flies the case, then the person
    (0101)
    winds up at OT Exterior very nicely when one does OT IV.
    If you do OT IV and he's still in his head, all is not lost,
    you have other actions you can take. Clusters, Prep-Checks,
    failed to exteriorise directions.
    OT V and VI are designed for someone already exterior. If a
    person doesn't go exterior after OT IV Rundown you set him up for
    V by then seeing he jolly well does go exterior before going on to
    V.
    __________________________________________

    OT IV Rundown
    Done only by an Auditor on a Case fully set up by various
    Directions.
    (0102)
    2 April 1978
    OT IV SOLO
    The end phenomenon of OT IV is "Certainty of Self as a
    Being". The thing that would make a Being uncertain is the
    possibility of future implants. OT IV Solo is designed to "proof
    up a Being" against any possibility of being re-implanted now that
    he/she has finished running implants with the completion of OT
    The main idea on OT IV Solo is to mock-up (create) each line
    of the Clearing Course (7's, The Basic End Words, The Confusion
    GPM, Objects-Hollow, Objects-Solid) with all the perceptics,
    force, impact, and unconsciousness of the original implant (as
    much as you are able). When the line is mocked up (created or
    recreated), then unmock it, cease creating it, and blow the charge
    you have recreated or mocked up. Do this repetitively with each
    line of the Clearing Course (including lights) to a floating
    needle on each line. Continue until you feel totally free with
    and at cause over this implant sequence; (you may or may not need
    to complete all 5 parts). Do it until you can freely and easily
    mock-up and blow this implant and can confront implants.
    Lastly, scan out all of your auditing early to late adding up
    all the hours in session as you go along.
    (103)
    Come up with a total number of auditing hours for yourself.
    Find and run a havingness process.
    Attest to OT IV
    (1) Rudiments or GF (Green Form) to FIN.
    (2) Rehab Drugs.
    (3) Valence Shifter. "What valence would be safe?"
    (4) Rehab ARC Straight Wire to Grade IV.
    (5) Rehab R6EW - OT II.
    (6) Prepcheck OT Ill.
    (7) Rehab OT V & VI.
    (8) Run "What has been overrun?"
    (9) Run "What can you confront?"
    (IF THE PRE OT DOES NOT EXTERIORIZE, WE WILL DO 7 CASES NEXT
    SESSION AND HANDLE UNTIL HE DOES GO EXTERIOR which is really the
    end phenomena of OT IV Audited only by a Class VIII.)
    (0104)

  8. More importantly: @# +1; Informative #@ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where in the world is Jon Katz?:

    1. Afghanistan: Looking for You-know-who dead
    or alive

    2. In a secured location interviewing President Cheney

    3. In Alaska, harvesting his summer ganja
    crop

    4. Behind The White House, snorting with W

  9. Re:Answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gore -- you know, the elected President of the United States

    -1, Ignorant.

  10. Ha ha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    With ketchup, or without, sir?

  11. outerspace.net by chef_raekwon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey Cerf

    on working on sending the internet to mars:
    Can we call it Terranet?
    or better yet, Terra.net?
    interstellar.net?
    federationstarship. net?
    startrek.net?
    marsuplink.net?

    outernet?

    --
    We're like rats, in some experiment! -- George Costanza
  12. VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION by graybeard · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm having trouble logging on to the Internet. Should I upgrade to AOL 7.0?