When our elected officials are called upon to vote or decide upon an issue, it is assumed that they are well informed on said issue; however, it is difficult to understand the ins and outs of a field they barely comprehend. It's my hope that one day there people that can make decisions for the good of the populous that are informed.
I fail to see how internet addressing and numbering is directly related to the NSA (and GCHQ, which Neelie Kroes fails to mention) spying on individuals. Also the argument of agility seems a bit off too. Once you start adding a multitude of (governments) stakeholders to any project, things tend to slow down not become more agile.
The larger problem here is motivation of software developers, white hats, and black hats. The developers; whether it be open source or proprietary, tend to code towards a particular functionality and usually with deadlines. The white hats are preforming a job function to the best of their ability usually no more than 40-50 hours a week in teams. Whereas, the black hat is playing a game or solving a puzzle for personal enjoyment reasons. Now, I'm not saying that there is any weakness to any of the aforementioned groups, but when people do things for enjoyment, it tends to yield a higher chance of success especially when the black hat needs only to find a single point of attack in a system that largely extends from the digital realm or job functions of the software developer or the infosec ops.
I've been without windows (in my boot manager) since '99, but yet still run a copy of 7 and XP in VMs. The problem with ridding myself completely of the OS is one of routine of other users. The demand that I submit or view documents in the latest Word format for work or school requires proprietary software. While Libre/OpenOffice can open these documents, when it comes to margins and other subtle features, OSS differs (likely due to following standards, but I digress). Clearly, gaming is always an issue, but I believe that most users are just so set in their ways that they do not want to be bothered with the hassle of installing another operating system.
On a side note, I had a user bring in their netbook last week. Their Win7 OS had been corrupted (deleted system files...). I replaced it with Ubuntu. It installed cleanly without the need for additional drivers, configuration, or any of the other complaints that MS users typically throw out there. I told her it was like Android and she came back today telling me how great it was working and how her kids want to use the netbook instead of the desktop now. So, I am extremely skeptical of the Windows users that complain about the configuration/installation/maintenance complaints because some distros have become so much like Windows that I'm transitioning to be free of Linux (moving back to Warp;p ) in the next two years.
Does he have cell phone service at his home? He could purchase a fixed wireless terminal and use the cell phone network to connect to the internet.
Granted this won't be as quick as broadband, but it can reach speeds around 200kbps with a GSM/Edge based cell network, it's doubtful that he has 3G in his area yet.
Then all he would have to do is get a SIM chip and pay the cell phone company for a plan that includes unlimited data transfers.
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When our elected officials are called upon to vote or decide upon an issue, it is assumed that they are well informed on said issue; however, it is difficult to understand the ins and outs of a field they barely comprehend. It's my hope that one day there people that can make decisions for the good of the populous that are informed.
I fail to see how internet addressing and numbering is directly related to the NSA (and GCHQ, which Neelie Kroes fails to mention) spying on individuals. Also the argument of agility seems a bit off too. Once you start adding a multitude of (governments) stakeholders to any project, things tend to slow down not become more agile.
Multi-million dollar lawsuits and having to speak with a lawyer every morning for three years because he cannot grasp the concept of a jar file.
The larger problem here is motivation of software developers, white hats, and black hats. The developers; whether it be open source or proprietary, tend to code towards a particular functionality and usually with deadlines. The white hats are preforming a job function to the best of their ability usually no more than 40-50 hours a week in teams. Whereas, the black hat is playing a game or solving a puzzle for personal enjoyment reasons. Now, I'm not saying that there is any weakness to any of the aforementioned groups, but when people do things for enjoyment, it tends to yield a higher chance of success especially when the black hat needs only to find a single point of attack in a system that largely extends from the digital realm or job functions of the software developer or the infosec ops.
On a side note, I had a user bring in their netbook last week. Their Win7 OS had been corrupted (deleted system files...). I replaced it with Ubuntu. It installed cleanly without the need for additional drivers, configuration, or any of the other complaints that MS users typically throw out there. I told her it was like Android and she came back today telling me how great it was working and how her kids want to use the netbook instead of the desktop now. So, I am extremely skeptical of the Windows users that complain about the configuration/installation/maintenance complaints because some distros have become so much like Windows that I'm transitioning to be free of Linux (moving back to Warp ;p ) in the next two years.
Does he have cell phone service at his home? He could purchase a fixed wireless terminal and use the cell phone network to connect to the internet.
Granted this won't be as quick as broadband, but it can reach speeds around 200kbps with a GSM/Edge based cell network, it's doubtful that he has 3G in his area yet.
Then all he would have to do is get a SIM chip and pay the cell phone company for a plan that includes unlimited data transfers.