The real irony is that content companies have nothing to worry about. Telecom and cable companies will never have the leverage that content companies fear, because content is king, not pipes. It is content that customers care about, not wires. Network operators won't ever be able to use content as leverage to block or degrade the content their customers want because their customers would reject it, their competitors would pounce on it and the market won't tolerate it.
Telecoms should beware. Google, Microsoft and Ebay are king and the law protects the Telecom and Cable companies -- not the content provider.
Telecoms want to charge more for higher bandwidth services. Fine...lets assume they do so and charge Google, Microsoft and Ebay more.
Ebay screams bloody murder. Cuts off all access to IP address from said Telecom. Their users (and anyone going through their pipes) can't reach Ebay. An economic hit for Ebay as they lose customers (who struggle to find new internet providers) and the Telecoms drop their ISP connections to customers and provide only Trunk services.
The Telecoms chortle with glee. They're making more and not having to deal with customers anymore (less cost).
Then Google demands access at 1/3 cost. Telecoms are agast! Cut costs for Google?
Microsoft announces Micro-Fiber...a new backbone connecting several major ISPs (AOL, MSN and Earthlink) -- which incidently match the current Telecoms backbone. (Microsoft has how much cash on hand?)
Google recontacts the Telecoms. 1/6 profit is better than no profit (which is what they face if Google goes with Micro-Fiber...and is thinking of it). Telecoms pray for a turf war between Microsoft and Google....but Ebay and Google both decide that Micro-Fiber is far cheaper (and Google is considering their own Goo-Fiber if costs increase too much)
3 years later, Telecoms backbone is known for a high speed connection to a collection of poorly run p0rn sites and hacker-wares. The Government is called in to clean up these sites and a judge determines that if Telecoms can be fined if they don't clean up their act.
[...]Echelon all existed under Clinton. Moreover, he and his administration were big pushers of Echelon (quite likely bigger pushers of it than the current administration).
Obtaining classified information on our intelligence practices and reporting them to the public has always been a crime. [...]
Actually, Echelon has existed for a quite a while. I remember original references back to Harvester. (Much more than just Bush and Clinton.)
Furthermore, Eschelon and others listened to international calls...not internal US call.
And I can't see how reporting classified information is a crime. If it was, whomever published about Valerie Plame would be in jail (They're not) and I wouldn't know about Eschelon and others.
Nope...this admistration is just a little bit different.
The Internet makes solutions a little more difficult. Some BBS used to use a call-back routine to verify that you had a known good phone number. Better ones would call you personally....giving a known voice to the number as well.
Trouble is that calling Austrialia or Japan or even England from the US can get expensive. But then you could validate that there was a live person at the other end. (Validating a person's identity is nearly impossibly - witness the explosive growth of identity theft).
However, in my opinion, the problem issue isn't validating an identify...it's showing that anonymousity on the BBS is gone. (Behave yourself...and who cares if what name your care to call yourself. Be bad...and we start digging.)
I used to run Linux on a 486 as just a file server. Sure Gnome and KDE would bring it to it's knees, but as I was running a file server, I didn't run a GUI at all.
Their argument is based around Office Application. (Which no one, to my knowledge, has claimed that Linux's office apps would run on older software) Further their argument is disingenious - as someone else pointed out, WinXP will NOT run on that 486, regardless of configuration.
Shrug...it's Microsoft's FUD of the Week, is anyone surprised anymore? (Although I'm surprised this got by eWeek's Editors....must be a slow news day)
Of course, in re-reading this, we would be thanking Microsoft.
Usually they argue that Linux has no Office Applications. Now, they're admitting it does.:-)
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Are we talking about authors who are geeks, or authors who write about geeks?
Don't get wrong, I love Neuromancer. But Gibbons isn't a geek. Verne wrote a story (20,000 leagues under the sea) and include LONG (boring?) passages of every known fish as they travelled the world's oceans. Like Heinlein, they both wrote stories based in Mathmatics (Verne calculated escape velocity).
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the Taylor Aerocar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerocar
One is for sale on ebay at $3.5 million.
Let's at LEAST get the line right.
(2) People who can't cook have no business eating (free) food and complaining when it makes them puke.
what prevents Google (or Ebay, or Microsoft) from slowing their internet connections to anyone who goes through the AT&T pipe?
The reason I'm asking is cause, as the article points out, I don't pay $$$ for a fat pipe, I pay $$$ for a fat pipe to these sites.
And if necessary, I'll pay someone else $$$ for a fat pipe.
So...if we lose net neutrality, what prevents Google (or others) from extorting AT&T?
Pipes for free? Hell, before we're done, we'll charge AT&T to use their pipes!
Telecoms should beware. Google, Microsoft and Ebay are king and the law protects the Telecom and Cable companies -- not the content provider.
Telecoms want to charge more for higher bandwidth services. Fine...lets assume they do so and charge Google, Microsoft and Ebay more.
Ebay screams bloody murder. Cuts off all access to IP address from said Telecom. Their users (and anyone going through their pipes) can't reach Ebay. An economic hit for Ebay as they lose customers (who struggle to find new internet providers) and the Telecoms drop their ISP connections to customers and provide only Trunk services.
The Telecoms chortle with glee. They're making more and not having to deal with customers anymore (less cost).
Then Google demands access at 1/3 cost. Telecoms are agast! Cut costs for Google?
Microsoft announces Micro-Fiber...a new backbone connecting several major ISPs (AOL, MSN and Earthlink) -- which incidently match the current Telecoms backbone. (Microsoft has how much cash on hand?)
Google recontacts the Telecoms. 1/6 profit is better than no profit (which is what they face if Google goes with Micro-Fiber...and is thinking of it). Telecoms pray for a turf war between Microsoft and Google....but Ebay and Google both decide that Micro-Fiber is far cheaper (and Google is considering their own Goo-Fiber if costs increase too much)
3 years later, Telecoms backbone is known for a high speed connection to a collection of poorly run p0rn sites and hacker-wares. The Government is called in to clean up these sites and a judge determines that if Telecoms can be fined if they don't clean up their act.
Things go downhill from there for the Telecoms.
(Think I could work for a think-tank?)
"Please...somebody buy out them out....I love my Blackberry!"
your ISP is being currently being blocked because they're trying to extort higher fees from us.
Feel free to complain to or change your ISP.
(When will BellSouth, AT&T and Verizon realize they are *NOT* content generators?)
Actually, Echelon has existed for a quite a while. I remember original references back to Harvester. (Much more than just Bush and Clinton.)
Furthermore, Eschelon and others listened to international calls...not internal US call.
And I can't see how reporting classified information is a crime. If it was, whomever published about Valerie Plame would be in jail (They're not) and I wouldn't know about Eschelon and others.
Nope...this admistration is just a little bit different.
ask anyone from the BBS days.
The Internet makes solutions a little more difficult. Some BBS used to use a call-back routine to verify that you had a known good phone number. Better ones would call you personally....giving a known voice to the number as well.
Trouble is that calling Austrialia or Japan or even England from the US can get expensive. But then you could validate that there was a live person at the other end. (Validating a person's identity is nearly impossibly - witness the explosive growth of identity theft).
However, in my opinion, the problem issue isn't validating an identify...it's showing that anonymousity on the BBS is gone. (Behave yourself...and who cares if what name your care to call yourself. Be bad...and we start digging.)
I choose Woz.
KSC is actually on Merritt Island and everyone I knew worked (either directly or indirectly) for KSC.
We were pretty positive there was political pressure. I'm not surprised that they couldn't find anything specific after the shuttle incident....but...
I used to run Linux on a 486 as just a file server. Sure Gnome and KDE would bring it to it's knees, but as I was running a file server, I didn't run a GUI at all.
:-)
Their argument is based around Office Application. (Which no one, to my knowledge, has claimed that Linux's office apps would run on older software) Further their argument is disingenious - as someone else pointed out, WinXP will NOT run on that 486, regardless of configuration.
Shrug...it's Microsoft's FUD of the Week, is anyone surprised anymore? (Although I'm surprised this got by eWeek's Editors....must be a slow news day)
Of course, in re-reading this, we would be thanking Microsoft.
Usually they argue that Linux has no Office Applications. Now, they're admitting it does.
Are we talking about authors who are geeks, or authors who write about geeks?
Don't get wrong, I love Neuromancer. But Gibbons isn't a geek. Verne wrote a story (20,000 leagues under the sea) and include LONG (boring?) passages of every known fish as they travelled the world's oceans. Like Heinlein, they both wrote stories based in Mathmatics (Verne calculated escape velocity).