While the practice of blocking ports is evil and customers should avoid any ISP that engages in it, I don't think personal web servers is a solution. Just like you cannot expect majority of car owners to be their own mechanics (which was the norm early on, btw), you cannot expect moms and pops maintaining private web services. Even if it was easy to do (like plugging in a tivo-like appliance that does webmail), you give up a number of advantages that only an operation benefiting from economies of scale has.
I think there may be some parallels to history of farming and food production. In the olden days, most people grew/raised their own food. It was difficult and expensive process but it gave you complete control over quality of the food you ate. New technology allowed more centralized production of food and most people gave that control up for convenience and lower cost. While it is arguable whether they also gave up the quality, there is at least a standard of quality that is being enforced through governmental regulation (FDA in the US).
I think we will see an equivalent of that in the services industry - a regulation body setting and enforcing privacy laws. And before somebody says that we already have those, no, we do not, at least nowhere near the scope and form that they are going to be. All we have now is businesses essentially self-policing each other with empty promises ("privacy policies"). Most security issues are swept under the rug.
You mean in the sense pork industry makes life easier for hogs? I mean - yay, free food!
I know the humanity is still trying to get out of an age where the struggle for physical survival leaves privacy concerns far behind. But that balance is changing. In 20-30 years, when early idealists within Google are long gone and beancounters have taken over, your data is still there. Near its sunset, Google has the potential of being 100x more evil than Microsoft could ever hope to be.
Move from desktop apps to web services has many advantages that I won't bother repeating. A lot of those advantages are only possible because of shift of control from end user to the service provider. Like any new technology, this is a double-edged sword.
or d) People moved on to other platforms - which, as mind-boggling as it may seem - is still more likely to happen than either a), b) or c) in my opinion. In fact I think it is virtually guaranteed to happen within 15 years or so.
Could it be that the hardware improvements made over the last 12 years may have made library-level emulation unnecessary? Device-level (eg, vmware) and architecture-level (eg, virtual pc) are both simpler and more robust.
Sure, I imagine a hundred years ago the fact that incandescent bulb gave 2800K to candle's 1200K really hindered its adoption. Because candles were what people came to expect.
No, the sibling poster is right - daylight is the real measuring stick here, not 100-year old human technology.
What rights are you referring to? This is a SERVICE. You are free to CHOOSE not to use the service.
Talk to you in 50 years when your simulated brain is running on a Google Brain(tm) cluster, a SERVICE. And if you don't like their privacy policy that sells your thoughts to the highest bidder, you free to CHOOSE not to use it and die, as you naturally would have had a decade earlier.
And they will be able to do all that within their own jurisdiction/TLD. Since when is one government is allowed to impose its rules on the rest of the world? (Hmmm, on a second thought, this may not be the best way to argue for the US side.)
Why not just setup contry-controlled 'root' DNS for each country-specific suffix? Leave the incumbent com/net/gov/mil/us to the US. So instead of being configured with a list of a dozen or so root servers today, each DNS will have to know of 100+. I don't think it's a big problem.
P.S. I hope Iraq has enough iq to manage.iq (heh, sorry, ok, i'm leaving now)
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While the practice of blocking ports is evil and customers should avoid any ISP that engages in it, I don't think personal web servers is a solution. Just like you cannot expect majority of car owners to be their own mechanics (which was the norm early on, btw), you cannot expect moms and pops maintaining private web services. Even if it was easy to do (like plugging in a tivo-like appliance that does webmail), you give up a number of advantages that only an operation benefiting from economies of scale has.
I think there may be some parallels to history of farming and food production. In the olden days, most people grew/raised their own food. It was difficult and expensive process but it gave you complete control over quality of the food you ate. New technology allowed more centralized production of food and most people gave that control up for convenience and lower cost. While it is arguable whether they also gave up the quality, there is at least a standard of quality that is being enforced through governmental regulation (FDA in the US).
I think we will see an equivalent of that in the services industry - a regulation body setting and enforcing privacy laws. And before somebody says that we already have those, no, we do not, at least nowhere near the scope and form that they are going to be. All we have now is businesses essentially self-policing each other with empty promises ("privacy policies"). Most security issues are swept under the rug.
You mean in the sense pork industry makes life easier for hogs? I mean - yay, free food!
I know the humanity is still trying to get out of an age where the struggle for physical survival leaves privacy concerns far behind. But that balance is changing. In 20-30 years, when early idealists within Google are long gone and beancounters have taken over, your data is still there. Near its sunset, Google has the potential of being 100x more evil than Microsoft could ever hope to be.
Move from desktop apps to web services has many advantages that I won't bother repeating. A lot of those advantages are only possible because of shift of control from end user to the service provider. Like any new technology, this is a double-edged sword.
Considering how many get chronically ill in the first place
or d) People moved on to other platforms - which, as mind-boggling as it may seem - is still more likely to happen than either a), b) or c) in my opinion. In fact I think it is virtually guaranteed to happen within 15 years or so.
Which in the US is 21. Looks like we'll have to wait 9 more years.
Could it be that the hardware improvements made over the last 12 years may have made library-level emulation unnecessary? Device-level (eg, vmware) and architecture-level (eg, virtual pc) are both simpler and more robust.
Sure, I imagine a hundred years ago the fact that incandescent bulb gave 2800K to candle's 1200K really hindered its adoption. Because candles were what people came to expect.
No, the sibling poster is right - daylight is the real measuring stick here, not 100-year old human technology.
You forgot to remind us - with all forceful disdain you can muster - to LOOK IT UP!
That pretty much leaves lawyers in a league of their own.
I considered it, but it's not a common vernacular
http://google.org/ does resolve and it just might mention cancer one day
call for mega lawsuits!
Cool! Your browser was able to send the 'NO CARRIER' message *after* it dropped the connection. Does this only work in php?
Wait until next year and it'll be something else.
No need to wait. It's already something else this year - Java^H^H^H^HECMAScript.
Hmm, I thought regular exercise helped calm the nerves. The number of caps in your post proves that wrong.
What rights are you referring to? This is a SERVICE. You are free to CHOOSE not to use the service.
Talk to you in 50 years when your simulated brain is running on a Google Brain(tm) cluster, a SERVICE. And if you don't like their privacy policy that sells your thoughts to the highest bidder, you free to CHOOSE not to use it and die, as you naturally would have had a decade earlier.
Sure it is based on logic. Unfortunately for you that logic does not consider your interests.
You are likely to get mugged by a Grue.
whole bunch of new oil deposits get formed in the lowlands
It's PEOPLE! It's made of PEOPLE!
If only they made it a little longer, say, 42,000 km. And also up instead of sideways.
How is changeable newspaper different from web pages? If you want to preserve the record, use Save As, Print or archive.org
What file format are they going to use?
:)
The file name is world.200412.3x86400x43200.bin.gz
Clearly they went with the bin format
The best way to enjoy NASA's blue marble is through Celestia.
And they will be able to do all that within their own jurisdiction/TLD. Since when is one government is allowed to impose its rules on the rest of the world? (Hmmm, on a second thought, this may not be the best way to argue for the US side.)
Why not just setup contry-controlled 'root' DNS for each country-specific suffix? Leave the incumbent com/net/gov/mil/us to the US. So instead of being configured with a list of a dozen or so root servers today, each DNS will have to know of 100+. I don't think it's a big problem.
.iq (heh, sorry, ok, i'm leaving now)
P.S. I hope Iraq has enough iq to manage