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Internet Power Struggle Reaching Climax
Fredden wrote to mention a BBC piece discussing the U.S.'s poor image when it comes to Internet management. From the article: "It has even lost the support of the European Union. It stands alone as the divisive battle over who runs the internet heads for a showdown at a key UN summit in Tunisia next month. The stakes are high, with the European Commissioner responsible for the net, Viviane Reding, warning of a potential web meltdown. " We've previously covered this story.
DNS be damned 66.35.250.150 forever!
"Imagine the Brazilians or the Chinese doing their own internet. That would be the end of the story.
No, it would be the end of spam!
Just put Google in charge. It'll be that way in 5 years at the current rate.
... I'm going back to running a Wildcat BBS on a USR Courier 14.4 modem & a 386... who wants a login?
It demonstrates the poor history Europe has in managing new resources. Can't you at least log in? As an anonymous coward ironically you are not relevant.
ignorance is bliss. googlefiberatx.com
oooOOOoooo!!! oooOOOOOOO!!! uuUUGGGGGGRRRGHH!
Wait? That's not the kind of climax you meant?
Sorry. My mistake.
Great, you've just slashdotted 66.35.250.150.
The UN, where every crackpot dictator and totalitarian asshole is given a voice alongside the democratically elected crackpots and assholes?
Best description of the UN ever!
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
I think the UN should just take it over. And in doing so, create their own internet, and sever any links that connect the US from the rest of the world.
I mean hey, that would take care of all the issues with the chinese people seeing all those websites about freedom and democracy.
Me being a USian wouldn't really have a probelm with it. Yeah, there are some nice bbc.co.uk articles worth reading. New Zealand and Australia have some nice things every now and then, but other than that I won't notice. I'd go as far as saying that 90% of the americans on the internet wouldn't really notice if the rest of the world left us.
NO, WAIT I'M WRONG! We WOULD notice. Our levels of Spam would suddenly become a fraction of what it is now. No more spam from russia and china. Sounds GREAT TO ME!
And as a sysadmin, this would really take care of our ipv4 issues. Now we can get all those IP's back that we gave to the rest of the world. We won't have to move to IPv6 anytime soon.
Sure, some companies may do business overseas, so the big ISP's can build a 'gateway' product. Let them pay per meg to use it. All international traffic can go through there. Those can be run by EU/UN friendly companies.
So, bring it on world. Cut us off. See if we care! The South shall rise again!
(Yeah, I just wanted to say that last part)
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
Then why don't you come and try and take the internet from us. *cracks knuckles*
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
When the hell did John Bolton start posting on Slashdot?
"Internet Power Struggle Reaching Climax"
Oh geez. Why don't they both get a vibrator, and leave us alone?
Then canada would create the .eh top level domain... eh????
I like it! That way, news.com.com's URL will be news.com.com.us, making it even stupider! FABU!
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
Germany runs the name services for .dk
Poor Denmark!
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
Here is a photo of Al Gore as he addresses the rest of the world over the poor image they have of the USA and its Internet policies. Caption included.
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I understand that may have been tried in Ireland. Only problem was, they were going to use a phased approach - on day 1 have all the cars switch sides, then the following week have the light trucks switch, followed finally by the 18-wheelers on the 3rd week.