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Who Will Fix the Internet? No One, Apparently
blackbearnh writes "It seems like everyone focuses on the latest and greatest killer Internet applications, but the underlying infrastructure that all of them run on is showing its age. That's the claim made by a recent article in the Christian Science Monitor. IPv4 is relatively ancient, and even stalled improvements like IPv6 aren't significant enough to matter, according to some researchers. With no one 'in charge' of the Internet, it's almost impossible to get any sweeping technical improvements made, especially since there's no financial incentive on the part of the ISPs and telecoms to invest in basic infrastructure. CalTech Professor John Doyle puts it this way: 'To the extent I've been working in this field for the last 10 years, I've been mostly working on band-aids. I'm really trying to get out of that business and try to help the people, the few people, who are really trying to think more fundamentally about what needs to be done.'"
http://www.csmonitor.com/aboutus/about_the_monitor.html Is 7 Pulitzer Prizes, including one for uncovering the death camps in Bosnia, serious enough?
Here, let me find the wiki page for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Science_Monitor
"Despite its name, the Monitor is not a religious-themed paper, and does not promote the doctrine of its patron church. However, at its founder Eddy's request, a daily religious article has appeared in every issue of the Monitor."
Planning to be moderated ± 1: Bad Pun.
It's a religion that has existed longer since you've been alive. They come up quite regularly in popular entertainment as the most respectable group who believe in "faith healing" and avoid surgery etc.
Independently from their oddities, they've published a very highly regarded news source called the Christian Science Monitor for many decades. They are respected for their independent voice, accurate reportage, and even handed investigation.
This is all common knowledge. Read about something that isn't a computer sometime?
-josh
He won't be the last great man who also had done something horrible in his past.
Do you know they're building a billion-dollar library to a guy who lied to start a war that killed 4000+ Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis?
Ted Kennedy certainly didn't do right by Mary Jo, but there are millions of people who owe him a great deal, not the least of which is the Americans with Disabilities Act, the voting rights and civil rights legislation of the 90's and thousands of other small bills that helped people in need. You want to curse the guy because of what he did in Chappaquidick, but I bet it has more to do with his politics. If somebody would just come out and pass legislation to deport every illegal and burn every homosexual, end all environmental regulation, stop Social Security and unemployment insurance, maybe start a few more pointless wars, you'd probably forgive him a lot worse than accidental manslaughter. As long as he said he was a good Christian.
You are welcome on my lawn.
No, it has NOTHING to do with my political views. The fact is that we need to demand better of ALL of our politicians, of every political stripe. If they lie under oath (Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton), then why should we trust them? If they treat the Constitution and other laws of the land as not applying to them (Bush, Nixon), why should we trust them?
Also, I'm an atheist and believe that religion shouldn't have any place in the formulation of public policy, and as a Canadian I am proud that my country supports gay marriage and has a public health plan that covers everyone, that our leaders publicly chided Bush over the invasion of Iraq and told him to go it alone after his veiled threat of "Either you're with us or you're against us", that we have more than 2 parties so we can effectively punish our leaders when they piss us off, and I recycle and think that products like the Swiffer and Hummer should be banned because they're not environmentally friendly.
Almost all your leaders subsequent to Eisenhower have lacked a sense of shame over their hypocrisy. John Kennedy cheated on his wife and lied to the public (Bay of Pigs, false flag ops against Viet Nam), Lyndon Johnson lied to the public and conducted a secret war, Richard Nixon ... Watergate and the Pentagon Papers, HMOs, (Ford was never elected president, so we'll skip him), Ronald Reagan help set the stage for both the Savings and Loan crisis and the current bank crisis with massive deregulation and attacked the middle class via Reaganomics, did the weapons for hostages thing, etc, George Bush Sr. continued to chop away at the middle class by continuing Reaganomics, and sold WMDs to Iraq, Bill Clinton lied under oath, and to his wife and family, and the public, and cheated on his wife, over and over, George Bush Junior lied about pretty much everything while trampling over everyone's rights, and completed the squeezing of the middle class into debt hell.
So really, in all those decades, the only elected president who you could say had a developed sense of decency was Jimmy Carter. The rest were politicians first and foremost, a bunch of lying manipulative scoundrels who each are responsible for helping further tarnish the office of the president, to the point that it's so "low-expectation mother-fuckahs" that Sarah "I can see Russia from my porch" Palin is seen by a large portion of the population as a credible candidate.
What is wrong with you people anyway? You could probably do better picking a homeless person at random as your president - they'd be less ambitious, so less likely to steal as much or pass as much along to their homies.
Ted Kennedy spent most of his career attempting to subvert the constitution of these United States either directly (all control of small arms and light weapons violates the second amendment o the US constitution) or indirectly (Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/the Public option are end-runs around the tenth amendment by making a government run private corporation to do that which the government cannot legally do).
In addition to whatever he did in his personal life, he is guilty of (at best) violation of his oath of office and (at worst) treason.