I think it was parallel development in multiple countries.
Follow their regulations much?
Regulations? No. Design, yes.
Why should the contry of origin of an invention decide something everyone uses
Paper was invented in China, but they aren't dominant in the paper trade. So it's not just country of origin.
It's that the Internet grew quite large in the US compared to the relatively few University hot spots in the rest of the world. And the research was mostly paid for by the US government. So, naturally, the major controlling organizations were founded and led by people in the US.
However, when ICANN starts fucking up worse than a controlled-by-the-EU-or-UN ICANN would fuck up, then I'll support moving control to a multinational organization.
growing trend of gun-shooting angry Rush Limbo-only-listen zombies continues to grow to such an extent that it creates social upheavals,
Jesus H Frickin' Christ... When you make such inflammatory comments, back it up with some facts (like how often abortion clinics get bombed, or doctors and Democrat politicians get shot at). Otherwise, you're just an ignorant left-wing blowhard so far up Keith Olbermann's ass you tickle his tonsils.
You'd be surprised at the kind of protection of religion that goes on in a continent
Have those Danish newspapers ever published editorial cartoons mocking Catholic priests or the Church for their complicity in the child sex scandals? (Or is that just a US phenomenon?)
Ummm, no. The first two computers in the nascent Internet were linked in 1969, and Cerf and Kahn didn't start designing TCP until 1973.
things could have moved on by now considering North America only contains 5% of the World's population.
So... majority rule? Give the most control to India (with more religious factionalism and caste poverty than you can shake a stick at) and the PRC (which is a paragon of tolerance and enlightenment if there ever was one)?
AQ has been doing that for quite a while. It gives them double benefit. It makes their targets suspicious of the media and gives them an in on their targets.
For example, Ahmad Shah Massoud of the Northern Alliance was assassinated with a camera bomb by two Al Qaeda operatives pretending to be (immigrated from Morocco) Belgian journalists.
We can take and put ~1 year of continuous nightly backups on a data domain, and have it instantly retrievable.
Are these tiny incremental filesystem backups?
We'd have to restore a few TB of database, and the bandwidth requirements would be too onerous for the occasional bursts needed. Anyway, we could set up "hot standby" databases, but the cost is higher than what the clients want to pay for.
I used to work for a large defense contractor that also did work for state governments. Maybe the reason we were so expensive is because we ran proper data centers, staffed 24x364 with operators to feed the tape silos and send and receive tapes off-site...
Our backup data isn't encrypted (how many hackers have Alpha OpenVMS servers with tons of disk space and lots of tape drives in their basement, plus RDBMSs that cost $25,000 per CPU?), but the tapes are in secure lock boxes.
Slashdot Mirror
Hordes of basement-dwelllers have nothing better to do but to recompile the same software over and over again.
I can't remember the last time I had to compile from source. It was a long, LONG time ago.
And Germany created cars.
I think it was parallel development in multiple countries.
Follow their regulations much?
Regulations? No. Design, yes.
Why should the contry of origin of an invention decide something everyone uses
Paper was invented in China, but they aren't dominant in the paper trade. So it's not just country of origin.
It's that the Internet grew quite large in the US compared to the relatively few University hot spots in the rest of the world. And the research was mostly paid for by the US government. So, naturally, the major controlling organizations were founded and led by people in the US.
However, when ICANN starts fucking up worse than a controlled-by-the-EU-or-UN ICANN would fuck up, then I'll support moving control to a multinational organization.
Until then, don't fix what isn't broken...
Targeting people who think they are smart with money doesn't seem a bad business model.
There, fixed that for you...
growing trend of gun-shooting angry Rush Limbo-only-listen zombies continues to grow to such an extent that it creates social upheavals,
Jesus H Frickin' Christ... When you make such inflammatory comments, back it up with some facts (like how often abortion clinics get bombed, or doctors and Democrat politicians get shot at). Otherwise, you're just an ignorant left-wing blowhard so far up Keith Olbermann's ass you tickle his tonsils.
It's more business/academic oriented
But that just narrows the market size by 90%, which doesn't seem very bright.
It doesn't stop people from buying $500 smartphones and $300 MP3 players
But that just demonstrates the stupidity and lemming-like nature of hip, cool, trendy people.
they are cheap enough that people won't worry about ruining them at the beach or by dropping them onto the floor.
since technology from other networks was used to link up
The Internet is based on TCP/IP. How much work did the French, Brits or Swiss do in designing TCP/IP?
You'd be surprised at the kind of protection of religion that goes on in a continent
Have those Danish newspapers ever published editorial cartoons mocking Catholic priests or the Church for their complicity in the child sex scandals? (Or is that just a US phenomenon?)
The kind where a state judge can order domains ceased because they violate local laws?
Gambling has never been considered "speech". Otherwise, all conspiracy laws would be invalid.
That was way back in 1958
Ummm, no. The first two computers in the nascent Internet were linked in 1969, and Cerf and Kahn didn't start designing TCP until 1973.
things could have moved on by now considering North America only contains 5% of the World's population.
So... majority rule? Give the most control to India (with more religious factionalism and caste poverty than you can shake a stick at) and the PRC (which is a paragon of tolerance and enlightenment if there ever was one)?
STOP SMOKING THAT ADULTERATED WEED!!!!!
That second internet isn't going to be very big.
Good. It will be be a return to the days before the Eternal September, and before Usenet was nothing but spam and viruses.
group of nations which all have a constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech.
Like France, Germany and England, all of which have speech restrictions which I find disturbing?
fear that they will anger ... Christians
Do they really give a rat's ass about angering Christians? I didn't think so either...
So there seems to be a solution without a problem.
Power-grabbing bureaucrats trying to fix what's (imperfect but) not broken? I'm shocked!!!!
I've always wondered... How such an important function was run by a single country.
Simple: that's the country that created the Internet.
AQ has been doing that for quite a while. It gives them double benefit. It makes their targets suspicious of the media and gives them an in on their targets.
For example, Ahmad Shah Massoud of the Northern Alliance was assassinated with a camera bomb by two Al Qaeda operatives pretending to be (immigrated from Morocco) Belgian journalists.
We can take and put ~1 year of continuous nightly backups on a data domain, and have it instantly retrievable.
Are these tiny incremental filesystem backups?
We'd have to restore a few TB of database, and the bandwidth requirements would be too onerous for the occasional bursts needed. Anyway, we could set up "hot standby" databases, but the cost is higher than what the clients want to pay for.
Not everything is a sign of government incompetence. Sometimes it's just a case of everyone getting off Christmas Day.
Hiring a defense contractor to do all your IT...
I used to work for a large defense contractor that also did work for state governments. Maybe the reason we were so expensive is because we ran proper data centers, staffed 24x364 with operators to feed the tape silos and send and receive tapes off-site...
all the backup data in encrypted
Our backup data isn't encrypted (how many hackers have Alpha OpenVMS servers with tons of disk space and lots of tape drives in their basement, plus RDBMSs that cost $25,000 per CPU?), but the tapes are in secure lock boxes.
Don't these jackasses know what Iron Mountain is, and what tape drives are for???????
The faster we can get a strong secular leader in power there, the better the odds of Iran returning to the peaceful international fold.
Which is why it was probably stupid of the NYT to expose the ability to circumvent censorship...
Is this to the tune of 'O Caaaanada'?
Reminds me of "O Andy Tannenbaum".
because i've disabled the close button
How do you disable that button?