I am in the ISP business. When people leave their wireless routers open, we see major abuse. Typically it is leeching with extremely bandwidth intensive applications; aka porn torrents, illegal movie downloads, and other shady doings. Usually, the leeches will suck every available inch of bandwidth.
Even if genetics has any part of the ethnic picture, I would feel that its impact on a person's ability to acheive a descent level of socio-economic status will be negligible. What I see in US minority groups, particurarly in the Afro-American community, is a more of a "family" problem. If you look at statistics on single mothers and/or single parent homes amoung Black Americans the number is 2 to 3 times that of everyone else. This raises the question as to why are there over twice as many black children without fathers? I think we can trace this back slavery. During slavery the traders sold families in pieces seperating families from each other; and often masters would sell slave babies soon after they were born. Now this went on for a few hundred years in America. Then in 1862, the Emancipation Proclomation was signed freeing the slaves. But were they really free? They ceased becoming another mans property but were forced to become sharecroppers, which was a harder life than slavery in most cases. Sharecropping was very prevelant up until the 1930's and 40's when there were mass migrations to the cities.
What does all this have to do with anything? I would say quite a lot. Even though slavery ended over 100 years ago, the results of it are still ingrained in the black culture today. The movie "Antoine Fisher" illustrated this point some when it showed young Antoine physically and verbally abused by his step mother. Antoine's mentor(Danzel Washington) explains to him when he is older that some black families physically and verbally abuse their children from a master-slave mentality that has passed down from generation to generation since the time of slavery. Slavery has committed to the breakdown of the family greatly in the Afro-American community. The fact that it could influence a culture over 100 hundred years later might sound "houkie", but it explains the disparity of fatherless sons amoungst blacks compared to others. Discrimination does play a role, but in this day and age, "a minor role." Its easy for us to blame external forces on situations, but problems like these are far more complicated and much deeper.
That still brings us to the question as to what "single parenting" and "fatherlessness" has to do with over-achieving in society? If we took a child from a broken home or even a bastard-born child and then took a healthy nurtured child with a father and mother; I think it doesn't take rocket science to see which child is going to be more resilient and functional in society. There are always exceptions, but the averages will always win.
The good news is that progress is slowly being made and time will heal. The stats on blacks moving into the middle and upper classes are on the rise.
I run a small ISP and we happen to have 3 of their linux boxes on our network. I've never experienced a problem with them before today. For the hack of it we decided to just reboot their servers and now things are working correctly.
For those that were wondering why it would affect DNS; Akamai somehow tinkers with DNS and BGP to redirect content to their edge servers.
As for Akamai being outdated, it still seems to me that its a good idea for Yahoo and some of the high traffic sites on the net. Akamai has thousands of distributed servers colocated with ISPs and NAPs. And they do seem to absorb nasty bursts in traffic (ie Star Report) better than a centralized server farm. But for their own sake, they better hope to not have another repeat of todays events.
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I am in the ISP business. When people leave their wireless routers open, we see major abuse. Typically it is leeching with extremely bandwidth intensive applications; aka porn torrents, illegal movie downloads, and other shady doings. Usually, the leeches will suck every available inch of bandwidth.
Facebooks of the Dead. It does sound scary.
As an owner of an ISP in SBC (ATT) country, you have know idea how much worse SBC is. BellSouth will be taken down to new lows.
You listen to me and listen to me right now!!! I did not have relations!!!
Even if genetics has any part of the ethnic picture, I would feel that its impact on a person's ability to acheive a descent level of socio-economic status will be negligible. What I see in US minority groups, particurarly in the Afro-American community, is a more of a "family" problem. If you look at statistics on single mothers and/or single parent homes amoung Black Americans the number is 2 to 3 times that of everyone else. This raises the question as to why are there over twice as many black children without fathers? I think we can trace this back slavery. During slavery the traders sold families in pieces seperating families from each other; and often masters would sell slave babies soon after they were born. Now this went on for a few hundred years in America. Then in 1862, the Emancipation Proclomation was signed freeing the slaves. But were they really free? They ceased becoming another mans property but were forced to become sharecroppers, which was a harder life than slavery in most cases. Sharecropping was very prevelant up until the 1930's and 40's when there were mass migrations to the cities.
What does all this have to do with anything? I would say quite a lot. Even though slavery ended over 100 years ago, the results of it are still ingrained in the black culture today. The movie "Antoine Fisher" illustrated this point some when it showed young Antoine physically and verbally abused by his step mother. Antoine's mentor(Danzel Washington) explains to him when he is older that some black families physically and verbally abuse their children from a master-slave mentality that has passed down from generation to generation since the time of slavery. Slavery has committed to the breakdown of the family greatly in the Afro-American community. The fact that it could influence a culture over 100 hundred years later might sound "houkie", but it explains the disparity of fatherless sons amoungst blacks compared to others. Discrimination does play a role, but in this day and age, "a minor role." Its easy for us to blame external forces on situations, but problems like these are far more complicated and much deeper.
That still brings us to the question as to what "single parenting" and "fatherlessness" has to do with over-achieving in society? If we took a child from a broken home or even a bastard-born child and then took a healthy nurtured child with a father and mother; I think it doesn't take rocket science to see which child is going to be more resilient and functional in society. There are always exceptions, but the averages will always win.
The good news is that progress is slowly being made and time will heal. The stats on blacks moving into the middle and upper classes are on the rise.
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I run a small ISP and we happen to have 3 of their linux boxes on our network. I've never experienced a problem with them before today. For the hack of it we decided to just reboot their servers and now things are working correctly.
For those that were wondering why it would affect DNS; Akamai somehow tinkers with DNS and BGP to redirect content to their edge servers.
As for Akamai being outdated, it still seems to me that its a good idea for Yahoo and some of the high traffic sites on the net. Akamai has thousands of distributed servers colocated with ISPs and NAPs. And they do seem to absorb nasty bursts in traffic (ie Star Report) better than a centralized server farm. But for their own sake, they better hope to not have another repeat of todays events.