Migrate slowly the current US involvement into a larger UN organization to oversee the Internet as a whole. Allow so many tech types from each country to be a working part of the organization.
With regard to say China's statement regarding the ability to filter content, the UN org implements a base system to allow that functionality on a per country basis if needed for filtering. The filtering country would be resposable for it past that point. I do not see this as a good solution myself because I do not believe in filtering the net but if a country wishes to do that it would be their option. I dont think this would hurt the backbone of the internet but I could be very wrong.
It would be a long and I am sure not smooth operation but something will need to be done because even though "it aint broke dont fix it" works now, it will not hold up for the long haul.
I rank real world experience and self-taught knowledge 100 times higher than certs or degree's from some big name school or college.
Real world exp. is the real certification in my book, show me someone who has been up for 72 hours working on team or alone to fix a server or network issue who resolves the issue. That individual or team that tackles problems like that will get a job working with me before anyone who has a degree or cert.
Self-taught knowledge shows me that the person took on the challenge of learning on there own and did not require someone to hold their hand and teach them stuff from a book that is so far off the day to day path that its a waste of a good tree.
Don't get me wrong, I applaud anyone who has successfully completed any certs or degrees, it takes a lot of time and effort to do that. I just don't feel that the weight that seems to be put on them is justified.
My 2 pennies, now all the folks with degrees and certs can assault me.:)
As part of the testing phase when I design a new web site I have to point out that the majority of my time is spent "tweaking" the site to display correctly in IE. While on the other hand I can take the same site and test it in Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror, Safari, Netscape, etc. on various platforms (Linux, Mac, and Windows). I don't see why all browser developers can not or will not just design browsers to be equally compliant. With all the market share MS already has in my opinion they should, as atleast an act of good faith, build IE to conform with standards. I can not see any reason not to, I mean come on how difficult is it.
Ok, people have been copying and pirating (which I like to call "Sharing with my friends") for years. Granted, with the internet it makes it a lot easier to traffic or "Share" media with others lets really look at this. How many companies have went out of business due to "Sharing" media via the internet. It all boils down to the those whom are already rich wanting to just get richer and the creator of the media does not (from what I know) get anything from fines or penalties incured by those who have already been penalized. Unless the creator of the media is in a position where they actually get paid for sales of the media instead of from live performances and memorabelia sales.
I have an idea, as a beta test for whatever apps that homeland security comes up with to monitor everyones activity use only politicians. Then once they work the bugs out and after they have really scared some of our gov. officials see how soon they use this on the public.
I agree 100%, BG is the best in a long time. Now if they would do the same thing with some of the other older series. Dr. Who maybe, I thought I heard something about a new show for Dr. Who but I have not seen anything yet.
I took an old laptop hard drive (10 gig) out of a boke down machine I found at a garage sale for $15, then purchased and external usb 2.0 enclosure (Echo Star 2.5 External Box) for $35. Put the hard drive in, tightened the screws, plugged in the included usb cable which includes an adapter (why I still dont know). I use it on my Debian machine and my Win XP machine with no trouble at all. I just created a mount point on my Debain machine in fstab and that was it. XP recognized it right off. The case also comes with a drivers disk if needed.
So for $50 I have a multi-platform external hard drive for all my personal stuff.
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Migrate slowly the current US involvement into a larger UN organization to oversee the Internet as a whole. Allow so many tech types from each country to be a working part of the organization.
With regard to say China's statement regarding the ability to filter content, the UN org implements a base system to allow that functionality on a per country basis if needed for filtering. The filtering country would be resposable for it past that point. I do not see this as a good solution myself because I do not believe in filtering the net but if a country wishes to do that it would be their option. I dont think this would hurt the backbone of the internet but I could be very wrong.
It would be a long and I am sure not smooth operation but something will need to be done because even though "it aint broke dont fix it" works now, it will not hold up for the long haul.
I rank real world experience and self-taught knowledge 100 times higher than certs or degree's from some big name school or college.
:)
Real world exp. is the real certification in my book, show me someone who has been up for 72 hours working on team or alone to fix a server or network issue who resolves the issue. That individual or team that tackles problems like that will get a job working with me before anyone who has a degree or cert.
Self-taught knowledge shows me that the person took on the challenge of learning on there own and did not require someone to hold their hand and teach them stuff from a book that is so far off the day to day path that its a waste of a good tree.
Don't get me wrong, I applaud anyone who has successfully completed any certs or degrees, it takes a lot of time and effort to do that. I just don't feel that the weight that seems to be put on them is justified.
My 2 pennies, now all the folks with degrees and certs can assault me.
As part of the testing phase when I design a new web site I have to point out that the majority of my time is spent "tweaking" the site to display correctly in IE. While on the other hand I can take the same site and test it in Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror, Safari, Netscape, etc. on various platforms (Linux, Mac, and Windows). I don't see why all browser developers can not or will not just design browsers to be equally compliant. With all the market share MS already has in my opinion they should, as atleast an act of good faith, build IE to conform with standards. I can not see any reason not to, I mean come on how difficult is it.
Ok, people have been copying and pirating (which I like to call "Sharing with my friends") for years. Granted, with the internet it makes it a lot easier to traffic or "Share" media with others lets really look at this. How many companies have went out of business due to "Sharing" media via the internet. It all boils down to the those whom are already rich wanting to just get richer and the creator of the media does not (from what I know) get anything from fines or penalties incured by those who have already been penalized. Unless the creator of the media is in a position where they actually get paid for sales of the media instead of from live performances and memorabelia sales.
I have an idea, as a beta test for whatever apps that homeland security comes up with to monitor everyones activity use only politicians. Then once they work the bugs out and after they have really scared some of our gov. officials see how soon they use this on the public.
I agree 100%, BG is the best in a long time. Now if they would do the same thing with some of the other older series. Dr. Who maybe, I thought I heard something about a new show for Dr. Who but I have not seen anything yet.
I took an old laptop hard drive (10 gig) out of a boke down machine I found at a garage sale for $15, then purchased and external usb 2.0 enclosure (Echo Star 2.5 External Box) for $35. Put the hard drive in, tightened the screws, plugged in the included usb cable which includes an adapter (why I still dont know). I use it on my Debian machine and my Win XP machine with no trouble at all. I just created a mount point on my Debain machine in fstab and that was it. XP recognized it right off. The case also comes with a drivers disk if needed.
So for $50 I have a multi-platform external hard drive for all my personal stuff.
Also works on OSX.