Ok. I'm just thinking out loud here. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the U.S. government create the foundation for the Internet back in the 1960s (ARPANET)? It was to be a communications system for the military and other government agencies. Then the government decided to open it up to colleges and unversities. Then the first email program was developed and soon after that TCP/IP. Almost 10 years passed before the University of Wisconsin developed DNS. From there private companies in the U.S. started replacing the 50kbps lines with T1s and T3s.
As soon as the early-mid 1990s we were no longer relying on government backbones, but instead we were using private backbones provided by MCI, AT&T, etc...
With as much as the US government invested into the Internet why would they want to give up "control". (I use the word control loosly because there are very few restrictions, if any). I seriously doubt that if any other country had developed it, that they would give it up. So far, no one has given a valid reason why the U.S. should give up control. The U.S. doesn't and can't regulate what other countries make available on the net. Plus there are root DNS in almost every developed country in the world. What else is there?
-Nick
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"but a better solution is to allow other countries to bear the brunt of backbone costs/mainentance"
The U.S. government doesn't pay for any maintenance of backbones. All of the backbones in the US are owned by private companies (MCI, ATT, Sprint, L3, etc).
"This would allow them control, as well as decentralize the net even more."
The Internet is already about as decentralized is it's going to get (I assume we talking about placements of the DNS root servers). Here's a list of cities/countries that have a root server: Ottawa; Palo Alto; San Jose CA; New York City; San Francisco; Madrid; Hong Kong; Los Angeles; Rome; Auckland; Sao Paulo; Beijing; Seoul; Moscow; Taipei; Dubai; Paris; Singapore; Brisbane; Toronto; Monterrey; Lisbon; Johannesburg; Tel Aviv; Jakarta; Munich; Osaka; Prague; Amsterdam; Barcelona; Nairobi; Chennai; London.....just to name a few. For a complete list go to http://www.root-servers.org/.
"The largest logistic in this endeavour would be an accepted system of standards which would have to be adhered to and enforced by a coalition of countries, so that again no one country was in complete control."
I'd like to know what country has complete control right now? There isn't any. There's ICANN, but that's not apart of any government. ICANN does have people from all over the world.
The people that are demanding "control" of the Internet don't even know what they want control of.
I block several countries at my business: Korea, China, Brazil, Russia and Japan.
However, I do have an automated response that tells the sender they've been blocked by my blacklisting service and that they should contact me (by phone) to resolve the issue. My company has no reason to be in contact with those countries so it is a relatively safe practice. I also use Spamhaus.org. I have only had 2 or 3 incidents in the 8 months of usage.
After blocking those countries and using Spamhaus, my spam went down by 65-70%. Not too bad.
"In this age of cheap commoditized consumer electronics and advanced mobile technology, why can't all the people of a city make contact during an emergency? Cell phone circuits filled up during 9/11 attacks and in the wake of hurricane Katrina very few victims can make contact with their families, despite the fact that they have all those mobile phones."
Holy crap, think about what you're saying.
- Cell phones NEED cell towers to operate. They are not walkie talkies.
- Cell towers need equipment to process and route calls. This equipment is under 20 feet of water.
- This equipment also needs power to run. The power cables and stations are under 20 feet of water.
- Mobile devices also fall prey to wind. Not many poles and towers can stand sustand winds of 140+ MPH.
The number one misunderstanding that people have about communications (mobile or land based) is that it will be available in an emergency. You would think that after 100 years of the opposite that they would learn. There is no guarantee that your cell phone will work in perfect weather, let alone in a hurricane. Have you ever tried to make a cell phone call at a sporting event with over 50,000 people in the same place? Good luck getting through.
Even using portable cell towers won't work if the rest of the infrastructure is severely damaged.
Well, not exactly never. Does anyone remember reading an article about some executives at Intel (or some huge Tech company) saying that they didn't want their kids using computers at school? It kind of made sense. They want their children to learn to do things on their own before they have a computer do it for them.
I'm afraid that if we introduce computers to children too early that they will lose the ability to be creative, think for themselves, and troubleshoot.
The FCC gave cell phone providers over 10 years to figure out 911 services. Now they want VoIP companies to do the same thing in 10 months? You would think that the FCC, of all government agencies, would understand the problems that VoIP has to overcome.
From TFA: "OGG support is very limited and glitches regularly. A major drawback for audiophiles. I can only hope iRiver will fix the glitches in a future firmware version."
Since when do audiophiles care about compressed audio? I'm not aware of any true audiophiles who would use devices to playback compressed audio.
"Typically, if you use the Blackberry, it doesn't last very long. I'm sure that's where the 10 hours comes from. I know from experience the batteries don't last very long when used...which is common sense."
Yeah, you're probably right. I'm sure if I actually used the BB 7750 it wouldn't last very long. I mean I only use it for corporate email, weather reports, contacts, calendar, Google services,... oh yeah and a phone!
Holy crap people RTFA! The last time I checked the Senate Intelligence committee doesn't pass bills. Congress does. This is only a committee and doesn't mean that anything has been put into law. There's plenty of time to contact Reps and Senators and tell them that this is a bad idea.
"Someone said it when they were using Word for Windows, flummoxed by the myriad of controls: "Good lord, I don't need to launch a Space Shuttle--I just want to write a letter!""
So it's too hard to turn on the computer, click on Word and start typing? How is it supposed to be any easier?
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Anyone who pays for a cell phone ringer is severely retarded. Give the money to me instead and I'll kick you in the pants. You'll get the same result.
-Nick
Everyone in the Senate has a BB. The VP has one as well as the President's entire cabinet. Basically everyone has a BB except the President.
-Nick
"Logged in with Administrator rights"
I guess that means that no one from my company will be listening to DRM'd CDs. I don't even let my users have "power user" rights.
-Nick
Ok. I'm just thinking out loud here. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the U.S. government create the foundation for the Internet back in the 1960s (ARPANET)? It was to be a communications system for the military and other government agencies. Then the government decided to open it up to colleges and unversities. Then the first email program was developed and soon after that TCP/IP. Almost 10 years passed before the University of Wisconsin developed DNS. From there private companies in the U.S. started replacing the 50kbps lines with T1s and T3s.
As soon as the early-mid 1990s we were no longer relying on government backbones, but instead we were using private backbones provided by MCI, AT&T, etc...
With as much as the US government invested into the Internet why would they want to give up "control". (I use the word control loosly because there are very few restrictions, if any). I seriously doubt that if any other country had developed it, that they would give it up. So far, no one has given a valid reason why the U.S. should give up control. The U.S. doesn't and can't regulate what other countries make available on the net. Plus there are root DNS in almost every developed country in the world. What else is there?
-Nick
PC*MILER is at version 19.
-Nick
The U.S. government doesn't pay for any maintenance of backbones. All of the backbones in the US are owned by private companies (MCI, ATT, Sprint, L3, etc).
"This would allow them control, as well as decentralize the net even more."
The Internet is already about as decentralized is it's going to get (I assume we talking about placements of the DNS root servers). Here's a list of cities/countries that have a root server: Ottawa; Palo Alto; San Jose CA; New York City; San Francisco; Madrid; Hong Kong; Los Angeles; Rome; Auckland; Sao Paulo; Beijing; Seoul; Moscow; Taipei; Dubai; Paris; Singapore; Brisbane; Toronto; Monterrey; Lisbon; Johannesburg; Tel Aviv; Jakarta; Munich; Osaka; Prague; Amsterdam; Barcelona; Nairobi; Chennai; London.....just to name a few. For a complete list go to http://www.root-servers.org/.
"The largest logistic in this endeavour would be an accepted system of standards which would have to be adhered to and enforced by a coalition of countries, so that again no one country was in complete control."
I'd like to know what country has complete control right now? There isn't any. There's ICANN, but that's not apart of any government. ICANN does have people from all over the world.
The people that are demanding "control" of the Internet don't even know what they want control of.
-Nick
I block several countries at my business: Korea, China, Brazil, Russia and Japan.
However, I do have an automated response that tells the sender they've been blocked by my blacklisting service and that they should contact me (by phone) to resolve the issue. My company has no reason to be in contact with those countries so it is a relatively safe practice. I also use Spamhaus.org. I have only had 2 or 3 incidents in the 8 months of usage.
After blocking those countries and using Spamhaus, my spam went down by 65-70%. Not too bad.
-Nick
Holy crap, think about what you're saying.
- Cell phones NEED cell towers to operate. They are not walkie talkies.
- Cell towers need equipment to process and route calls. This equipment is under 20 feet of water.
- This equipment also needs power to run. The power cables and stations are under 20 feet of water.
- Mobile devices also fall prey to wind. Not many poles and towers can stand sustand winds of 140+ MPH.
The number one misunderstanding that people have about communications (mobile or land based) is that it will be available in an emergency. You would think that after 100 years of the opposite that they would learn. There is no guarantee that your cell phone will work in perfect weather, let alone in a hurricane. Have you ever tried to make a cell phone call at a sporting event with over 50,000 people in the same place? Good luck getting through.
Even using portable cell towers won't work if the rest of the infrastructure is severely damaged.
-Nick
This is what I've been waiting for: private companies providing free access instead of tax payers paying for it.
Capitalism does work!
-Nick
Well, not exactly never. Does anyone remember reading an article about some executives at Intel (or some huge Tech company) saying that they didn't want their kids using computers at school? It kind of made sense. They want their children to learn to do things on their own before they have a computer do it for them.
I'm afraid that if we introduce computers to children too early that they will lose the ability to be creative, think for themselves, and troubleshoot.
-Nick
The FCC gave cell phone providers over 10 years to figure out 911 services. Now they want VoIP companies to do the same thing in 10 months? You would think that the FCC, of all government agencies, would understand the problems that VoIP has to overcome.
-Nick
I don't know about everyone else, but I want fiber to the house and that requires digital signalling (baseband).
It really amamzes me that we (including so called computer geeks) bastardized the real meaning of the word "broadband".
-Nick
I agree completely. If ever there where a time for DUPES, this would be one of them!!!
-Nick
Since when do audiophiles care about compressed audio? I'm not aware of any true audiophiles who would use devices to playback compressed audio.
Just an observation.
-Nick
Yeah, you're probably right. I'm sure if I actually used the BB 7750 it wouldn't last very long. I mean I only use it for corporate email, weather reports, contacts, calendar, Google services, ... oh yeah and a phone!
-Nick
I constantly get 3 days of battery life on my BB 7750. I don't know where your 10 hours of battery life is coming from.
-Nick
Holy crap people RTFA! The last time I checked the Senate Intelligence committee doesn't pass bills. Congress does. This is only a committee and doesn't mean that anything has been put into law. There's plenty of time to contact Reps and Senators and tell them that this is a bad idea.
-Nick
I haven't used a laptop computer in 5-10 years. However, I do own a 1 year old Gateway notebook computer.
Lets keep up with the times people. Laptops are those huge this that people used to lug around. Notebooks are those nice, thin new computers.
-Nick
Sorry but that's not the case. I'm not aware of any major manufacturer that sells laptops.
These companies sell notebooks:
Dell
Gateway
HP
Compaq
IBM
the list goes on and on.
-Nick
You would think that people in the industry would know the difference between a laptop and a notebook.
-Nick
So it's too hard to turn on the computer, click on Word and start typing? How is it supposed to be any easier?
-Nick
Wow, 5 years? That's interesting because it's only been available for 4 years and 2 two months.
-Nick
But the Nightly News keeps telling me the opposite. How can they be wrong?!?!?
Apparently the people who are complaining about the "ban" don't want to know the truth.
-Nick
I agree 100%.
-Nick
It is *only* 43 years old.
-Nick