I've said it before and I'll say it again. The only way to preserve this illusion (note that I didn't use the word "freedom") is to split the net up into two or so parts that may or may not share bandwidth.
Sex Net, as a "subNet" of Corporate Net and Free Net, incorporates this idea nicely.
Corporate Net is taxed, is regulated, and nobody cares since they're happy to be taxed for services that they actually pay for. Since there is a transaction, the user will be happy to stay up to their asses in legality designed to prevent them from being ripped off or offended. ASP's go here, too.
Free Net, on the other hand, is today's internet but faster and without anything you have to pay for. Anything goes - no money changes hands. Nobody can stop anything. Of course, access will be denied in most parts of the world - but we know how well that will go down, don't we? And how easy it will be to enforce?
By using this rudimentary classification (ie. money or no money) the world can be a happy, shiny place once more. Even lawyers can rest assured of a piece of the action.
Too buzzwordy, doesn't really say much on the topic of CT, or NBC for that matter. We know it's serious. It's not like nobody's doing anything about it.
"... super, ultra, and macro-type catastrophic terrorism"?! Wow. That... doesn't really say much. Sounds pretty biblical, actually.
No example of the depths to which it could be utilised. Think stock exchange. Think power grid. Don't do the missile defence/"War Games" stuff.
Also think about the level of security already in place in the first world, and the amount of security being put in as we speak by the Z80 and Commodore 64 generation. Who made it necessary.
I wouldn't publish that in JIR in present form. More likely Readers Digest.
The patent that was granted yesterday was filed in 1996. More than three years ago. Is it me, or does the technology world jump ahead by leaps and bounds in matters of weeks? This new patent doesn't give any new clue on what they might be up to, only what they were thinking of doing way back when. Who knows what they've cooked up in the past three years?!
E-biomed sounds just like slashdot for Biomedical Science and Medicine.
Anyone can post almost anything, but the gems are reviewed by, say, people with serious credentials selected at random.
Further, (potentially at least) the good stuff is given higher scores to let it filter to the top...
CmdrTaco oughta email Dr V. this URL... or did he already model his idea on slashdot, but with a bit more seriousness? Not that slashdot's not a serious publication.
Slashdot Mirror
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The only way to preserve this illusion (note that I didn't use the word "freedom") is to split the net up into two or so parts that may or may not share bandwidth.
Sex Net, as a "subNet" of Corporate Net and Free Net, incorporates this idea nicely.
Corporate Net is taxed, is regulated, and nobody cares since they're happy to be taxed for services that they actually pay for. Since there is a transaction, the user will be happy to stay up to their asses in legality designed to prevent them from being ripped off or offended. ASP's go here, too.
Free Net, on the other hand, is today's internet but faster and without anything you have to pay for. Anything goes - no money changes hands. Nobody can stop anything. Of course, access will be denied in most parts of the world - but we know how well that will go down, don't we? And how easy it will be to enforce?
By using this rudimentary classification (ie. money or no money) the world can be a happy, shiny place once more. Even lawyers can rest assured of a piece of the action.
-j
Too buzzwordy, doesn't really say much on the topic of CT, or NBC for that matter. We know it's serious. It's not like nobody's doing anything about it.
"... super, ultra, and macro-type catastrophic terrorism"?! Wow. That... doesn't really say much. Sounds pretty biblical, actually.
No example of the depths to which it could be utilised. Think stock exchange. Think power grid. Don't do the missile defence/"War Games" stuff.
Also think about the level of security already in place in the first world, and the amount of security being put in as we speak by the Z80 and Commodore 64 generation. Who made it necessary.
I wouldn't publish that in JIR in present form. More likely Readers Digest.
-j
The patent that was granted yesterday was filed in 1996. More than three years ago. Is it me, or does the technology world jump ahead by leaps and bounds in matters of weeks? This new patent doesn't give any new clue on what they might be up to, only what they were thinking of doing way back when. Who knows what they've cooked up in the past three years?!
-j
E-biomed sounds just like slashdot for Biomedical Science and Medicine.
Anyone can post almost anything, but the gems are reviewed by, say, people with serious credentials selected at random.
Further, (potentially at least) the good stuff is given higher scores to let it filter to the top...
CmdrTaco oughta email Dr V. this URL... or did he already model his idea on slashdot, but with a bit more seriousness? Not that slashdot's not a serious publication.