"potentially triggers an automatic payment system that could be changed moment to moment by the content distributor"
So basically, a file could cost 10 cents one minute, and 20 the next? What if you happened to download the file as it was being repriced, and you end up paying more than you expected?
Telephones - main lines in use: 4.4 million (1998)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 2.17 million (1998)
Telephone system: international service good
domestic: good intercity service provided on Peninsular Malaysia mainly by microwave radio relay; adequate intercity microwave radio relay network between Sabah and Sarawak via Brunei; domestic satellite system with 2 earth stations
international: submarine cables to India, Hong Kong, and Singapore; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 56, FM 31 (plus 13 repeater stations), shortwave 5 (1999)
Radios: 9.1 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 27 (plus 15 high-power repeaters) (1999)
The internet should NEVER be controlled by anyone. I don't even think we need to worry about this though, because if you think about it, controlling something as vast as the internet is downright impossible.
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"potentially triggers an automatic payment system that could be changed moment to moment by the content distributor" So basically, a file could cost 10 cents one minute, and 20 the next? What if you happened to download the file as it was being repriced, and you end up paying more than you expected?
I agree. However, the US may be fighting for control of the internet in due time...
"mostly trying to prevent the free exchange of ideas IMHO."
I concur. The internet has evolved from a simple experiment into, as you adequatley put, the free exchange of ideas all over the world. Except China.
Communications in Malaysia
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Telephones - main lines in use: 4.4 million (1998)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 2.17 million (1998)
Telephone system: international service good domestic: good intercity service provided on Peninsular Malaysia mainly by microwave radio relay; adequate intercity microwave radio relay network between Sabah and Sarawak via Brunei; domestic satellite system with 2 earth stations international: submarine cables to India, Hong Kong, and Singapore; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 56, FM 31 (plus 13 repeater stations), shortwave 5 (1999)
Radios: 9.1 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 27 (plus 15 high-power repeaters) (1999)
Televisions: 3.6 million (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 8
*snickers* Source: http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_in_M
someone that at least represents the people that they are going to 'govern'?? So send some middle school nerd with acne.
The internet should NEVER be controlled by anyone. I don't even think we need to worry about this though, because if you think about it, controlling something as vast as the internet is downright impossible.