A college roommate of mine had the "Amazing Stories" issue (or was it "Astounding?") where Robert Heinlein and L. Ron Hubbard debate get-rich-quick schemes. Hubbard proposed founding a cult-church and exploiting its tax immunity and first amendment protections. Scientologists have bought these issues up and destroyed them. I wonder what a copy is worth today. Heinlein's scheme was speculating on corner lots that would be valuable for gas stations. I understand he made more money doing that than writing.
So if we get the mandated "net neutrality" I read about at Freepress.net, am I still allowed to block traffic from all those spambots? Is my ISP? Is his transit provider? What if the ISP hosting the spambot doesn't want to disconnect it?
Until March I worked for a startup that fancies itself the next Juniper Networks. The standard desktop for new-hires was a slightly customized Red Hat. When I left, there were less than a dozen MSWindoze boxes around, and hundreds of Red Hats.
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A college roommate of mine had the "Amazing Stories" issue (or was it "Astounding?") where Robert Heinlein and L. Ron Hubbard debate get-rich-quick schemes. Hubbard proposed founding a cult-church and exploiting its tax immunity and first amendment protections. Scientologists have bought these issues up and destroyed them. I wonder what a copy is worth today. Heinlein's scheme was speculating on corner lots that would be valuable for gas stations. I understand he made more money doing that than writing.
So if we get the mandated "net neutrality" I read about at Freepress.net, am I still allowed to block traffic from all those spambots? Is my ISP? Is his transit provider? What if the ISP hosting the spambot doesn't want to disconnect it?
Until March I worked for a startup that fancies itself the next Juniper Networks. The standard desktop for new-hires was a slightly customized Red Hat. When I left, there were less than a dozen MSWindoze boxes around, and hundreds of Red Hats.
They're at almost 300 employees now.
Cameron