Cisco Systems, a popular wide area networking company from the United States provided China with the technology to build the firewall. A top Chinese network engineer who wishes to remain anonymous5, claims Cisco developed a device specifically designed for the governments telecom monopoly we have the capability to look deep into the packet. He also reports that the Chinese government has purchased many thousand of the devices from Cisco at approximately $20,000 each (Gutmann, 2002, p1-2).
The article cited in the student's paper is from the Weekly Standard (Who Lost China's Internet? 2/25/02, pp. 2-3), one of many publications to chronicle Cisco's and other American companies' profiteering in the electronic enslavement of the Chinese people.
They provided consulting services and customized firmware to the PRC for the Great Firewall. That's more than the Chinese having just bought an off-the-shelf product, and is a crime against humanity.
I've always said that the CEOs of Cisco and other companies that have aided and abetted the censorship regime in China should be taken in chains to the Hague, tried, found guilty, and hanged for crimes against humanity.
Probably has something to do with the degree the politicians and their buds are drooling over the Chinese market. That, and that taking on a nuclear power with over a billion people isn't such a bright idea in any case.
China could show footage of Communist Party officials nailing Christians to trees through their eyeballs on CNN and the administration would look the other way, so long as they're buying from the campaign contributors.
Spam revenues are probably one of the largest sources of hard currency for the PRC, based on the amount I receive that originates from or points to Chinese IPs. Fortunately, blackholes.us includes a nice blacklist that includes Korea, as well.
Shareware market? Good riddance. Linux doesn't need a kawkazillion authors writing trivial little programs and trying to sell them for $19.95. Reminds me too much of the Mac, pre-OS X.
The dead-tree newspaper is just about given away-subscription fees are nowhere near the cost of reporting, printing, and delivery. Charging for web access, provided it doesn't outright kill all but the biggest sites, will allow them to sell the eyeballs of "paid subscribers," which will be worth more in the ad market.
The 'admissions officers' are in effect used car salesmen working in education. You should see the pandering and wheedling they do to grab students (they work on commission, you see).
If they're taking federal financial aid funds, the admissions officers can't be paid on commission, strictly speaking:
Section 487(a)(20)
of the HEA provides that, as part of its program participation agreement, an institution will not provide any commission, bonus, or other incentive payment based directly or indirectly on success in securing enrollments or financial aid. The only significant addition to the statutory requirements in the current regulations is a provision that exempts from the incentive payment restrictions token gifts of less than $25.
Of course, there are ways around this--selective promotion based (but not so stated) on body count is one.
With the exception of legitimately classified information necessary to protect lives or national security (e.g. operational plans, composition of elite units such), the public has a right to know whose salaries it is paying and to which units those soldiers, saliors, marines, and airmen are attached.
Perhaps in the future, it would be wise for companies to include a clause in their ISP contracts that allows the company to break the contract without penalty should the ISP be listed in SPEWS for some period of time.
Not entirely. I used to work as the sole sysadmin for a small ISP. As such, I was not only the sysadmin, but the assistant security admin, the mail admin, the user admin, the webmaster, part time tech support, and in charge of hardware purchases. There arent enough hours in the day to do everything (hell, mail administration alone can be a full time job) and not all ISPs can afford to hire multiple admins to perform each function.
That situation is proof positive that that small ISP didn't give two shakes about stopping spam. If it got them blacklisted because you weren't given the resources to handle it, the system worked.
Your ISP supports spammers. Get another one, or live with the block. SPEWS doesn't force anyone to use its block list; there is nothing you can do but change ISPs. This is by design, so that ISPs that support spam, like NAC apparently is, lose legitimate business and are forced by the marketplace to either reject spamming and spam support or go out of business.
I am quite surprised that a forum dedicated to broadband telecommunications can't or won't understand hat.
And there is the argument for making open source imaging tools illegal--they are merely a tool to circumvent lawful software's restrictions against counterfeiting.
Employers have no "power" over their employees -- both can end the contract at any time.
With all due respect, that's a line of crap. Because of the asymmetry between employer and employee, employers hold nearly all the power in these "contracts." Without collective bargaining, the "contract" is "work on our terms or starve." And restaurants don't typically have collective bargaining units.
Whoops -- replied with my troll ID. Seriously, though, capped throughput might fly in some markets, but, like the market for telephony, people prefer an "all-you-can-eat" model. The majors can provide that without going bankrupt, unlike the mom and pop carriers. Sure, Comcast will try cutting off the top talkers, but it's already costing them business (and not just Kazaa freaks) in markets where they have competition.
I don't believe you. Unless you have engaged in illegal collusion with your competition, or non actually exists--or, more likely, you're not affiliated with an ISP at all and trolling me, you wouldn't survive even in a small Missouri backwater like Columbia offering a service with caps. But since you won't name names, I don't believe this ISP actually exists.
If you're saying you cap at 10GB a month, and you still have business, I assume you have a monopoly. The companies I have issue with are the ones like Comcast, which impose a limit, but won't say exactly what that limit is--and in fact, vary the limit to their liking. What company is it that you work for?
Yay, a 'bandwidth limit' is buried in the four point type of the TOS. If the large print giveth and the small print taketh away, that's deceptive advertising. They know they don't dare admit they're cappers, or they'll lose grandma who only checks her email and looks at knitting websites to their competition--they want to have their cake and eat it too. Comcast and their apologists like yourself are the ones who should "put up or shut up."
Except that rolling one's own PVR doesn't involve handling oil, getting dirty, or laying on the ground. That, and it doesn't have to be done every three months or three thousand shows.
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Great idea. Free speech for those who can afford to pay an attorney to act as an agent.
Darn it--I meant to use the Google cache link for the paper, but linked to the .DOC instead. The cached link is here.
The article cited in the student's paper is from the Weekly Standard (Who Lost China's Internet? 2/25/02, pp. 2-3), one of many publications to chronicle Cisco's and other American companies' profiteering in the electronic enslavement of the Chinese people.
They provided consulting services and customized firmware to the PRC for the Great Firewall. That's more than the Chinese having just bought an off-the-shelf product, and is a crime against humanity.
Touche'.
I've always said that the CEOs of Cisco and other companies that have aided and abetted the censorship regime in China should be taken in chains to the Hague, tried, found guilty, and hanged for crimes against humanity.
China could show footage of Communist Party officials nailing Christians to trees through their eyeballs on CNN and the administration would look the other way, so long as they're buying from the campaign contributors.
Spam revenues are probably one of the largest sources of hard currency for the PRC, based on the amount I receive that originates from or points to Chinese IPs. Fortunately, blackholes.us includes a nice blacklist that includes Korea, as well.
Shareware market? Good riddance. Linux doesn't need a kawkazillion authors writing trivial little programs and trying to sell them for $19.95. Reminds me too much of the Mac, pre-OS X.
. . . . . . Intel rats out AMD to the BBB for misrepresenting processor speeds with PR ratings.
Does it only let you write about a tenth of the program, then let you finish the rest after you've forked over for a subscription or read some ads?
The dead-tree newspaper is just about given away-subscription fees are nowhere near the cost of reporting, printing, and delivery. Charging for web access, provided it doesn't outright kill all but the biggest sites, will allow them to sell the eyeballs of "paid subscribers," which will be worth more in the ad market.
If they're taking federal financial aid funds, the admissions officers can't be paid on commission, strictly speaking:
Of course, there are ways around this--selective promotion based (but not so stated) on body count is one.Microsoft Access. You see, ALL of Office isn't on the Mac. And no, that's not a piece of shareware I wrote myself :).
With the exception of legitimately classified information necessary to protect lives or national security (e.g. operational plans, composition of elite units such), the public has a right to know whose salaries it is paying and to which units those soldiers, saliors, marines, and airmen are attached.
Perhaps in the future, it would be wise for companies to include a clause in their ISP contracts that allows the company to break the contract without penalty should the ISP be listed in SPEWS for some period of time.
That situation is proof positive that that small ISP didn't give two shakes about stopping spam. If it got them blacklisted because you weren't given the resources to handle it, the system worked.
I am quite surprised that a forum dedicated to broadband telecommunications can't or won't understand hat.
And there is the argument for making open source imaging tools illegal--they are merely a tool to circumvent lawful software's restrictions against counterfeiting.
With all due respect, that's a line of crap. Because of the asymmetry between employer and employee, employers hold nearly all the power in these "contracts." Without collective bargaining, the "contract" is "work on our terms or starve." And restaurants don't typically have collective bargaining units.
Whoops -- replied with my troll ID. Seriously, though, capped throughput might fly in some markets, but, like the market for telephony, people prefer an "all-you-can-eat" model. The majors can provide that without going bankrupt, unlike the mom and pop carriers. Sure, Comcast will try cutting off the top talkers, but it's already costing them business (and not just Kazaa freaks) in markets where they have competition.
I don't believe you. Unless you have engaged in illegal collusion with your competition, or non actually exists--or, more likely, you're not affiliated with an ISP at all and trolling me, you wouldn't survive even in a small Missouri backwater like Columbia offering a service with caps. But since you won't name names, I don't believe this ISP actually exists.
If you're saying you cap at 10GB a month, and you still have business, I assume you have a monopoly. The companies I have issue with are the ones like Comcast, which impose a limit, but won't say exactly what that limit is--and in fact, vary the limit to their liking. What company is it that you work for?
Yay, a 'bandwidth limit' is buried in the four point type of the TOS. If the large print giveth and the small print taketh away, that's deceptive advertising. They know they don't dare admit they're cappers, or they'll lose grandma who only checks her email and looks at knitting websites to their competition--they want to have their cake and eat it too. Comcast and their apologists like yourself are the ones who should "put up or shut up."
Except that rolling one's own PVR doesn't involve handling oil, getting dirty, or laying on the ground. That, and it doesn't have to be done every three months or three thousand shows.