Too dependent on continuous sources of electricity? The corded phone you use requires electrical power; it just gets it over the phone line instead of the power line. The phone company still needs to work to supply that power with batteries, generators, etc, and it is still subject to failure. You are still depending on a continuous source of electricity; it's just a different source.
While your providers are almost certainly supposed to be following address allocation policies from their address providers, you might be able to get them to issue you a/24 nonetheless. You can show a legitimate need for this amount of address space, even though you don't plan to use it for addressing machines--you want to multihome. Try to get your current provider to listen. If they don't, while shopping around for other providers, (which you will need anyway if you want to multihome), make a/24 a requirement of your contract. Renumbering 16 hosts won't be fun, but its not the worst thing in the world at all.
To me this just once again underscores the need for an Internet archive. Is there any project like this out there? Is it commercial, or non-commercial? Is it international, or national? What parts of the Internet does it archive, who decides, and how does it do them? If the answer is no to the first question, these questions apply to a _possible_ archive. I really think we will kick ourselves in 50 years for having lost all this data.
I personally don't think its sad that the website was a hoax. It seems to me that the addition of Mahir's retraction is one of the best parts of the sites. It makes the whole thing. The fact that these unexpected turn of events for some random man lead to such acceptance and willingness to do good for the world is simply wonderful.
Although the article had many good points, and was well written, I felt like it was often talking about Open Standards (Formats and Protocols), instead of open software, which should probably be seen as a different thing. Open standards are seen differently in the eyes of the law. Once software is open source (at least under GNU), one cannot modify it and make it "their own". A company could, however, take an open standard, extend it, and make it proprietary. This is something we saw a lot of between Netscape and Microsoft during the browser wars. I think the distinction is important, because there is no legal way to prevent people from extending open standards. However, open standards are probably just as, if not more important to what I would like computing to be like as open source.
But the point is that the oil refinement companies which were split off of Standard *are* competitive with one another. The important thing is not the history of various companies' corporate tree's. Its whether or not those companies compete. And the oil refinement companies do compete.
There may be many good reasons not to break up Microsoft, but the example set by Standard and children is not one of them.
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You can't price-fix without at least two parties. Anyone know who the co-conspirator(s) are?
Too dependent on continuous sources of electricity? The corded phone you use requires electrical power; it just gets it over the phone line instead of the power line. The phone company still needs to work to supply that power with batteries, generators, etc, and it is still subject to failure. You are still depending on a continuous source of electricity; it's just a different source.
While your providers are almost certainly supposed to be following address allocation policies from their address providers, you might be able to get them to issue you a /24 nonetheless. You can show a legitimate need for this amount of address space, even though you don't plan to use it for addressing machines--you want to multihome. Try to get your current provider to listen. If they don't, while shopping around for other providers, (which you will need anyway if you want to multihome), make a /24 a requirement of your contract. Renumbering 16 hosts won't be fun, but its not the worst thing in the world at all.
To me this just once again underscores the need for an Internet archive. Is there any project like this out there? Is it commercial, or non-commercial? Is it international, or national? What parts of the Internet does it archive, who decides, and how does it do them? If the answer is no to the first question, these questions apply to a _possible_ archive. I really think we will kick ourselves in 50 years for having lost all this data.
Ah yes, the Blue Top Inn. May it rest in peace.
I personally don't think its sad that the website was a hoax. It seems to me that the addition of Mahir's retraction is one of the best parts of the sites. It makes the whole thing. The fact that these unexpected turn of events for some random man lead to such acceptance and willingness to do good for the world is simply wonderful.
Although the article had many good points, and was well written, I felt like it was often talking about Open Standards (Formats and Protocols), instead of open software, which should probably be seen as a different thing. Open standards are seen differently in the eyes of the law. Once software is open source (at least under GNU), one cannot modify it and make it "their own". A company could, however, take an open standard, extend it, and make it proprietary. This is something we saw a lot of between Netscape and Microsoft during the browser wars.
I think the distinction is important, because there is no legal way to prevent people from extending open standards. However, open standards are probably just as, if not more important to what I would like computing to be like as open source.
But the point is that the oil refinement companies which were split off of Standard *are* competitive with one another. The important thing is not the history of various companies' corporate tree's. Its whether or not those companies compete. And the oil refinement companies do compete.
There may be many good reasons not to break up Microsoft, but the example set by Standard and children is not one of them.