Actually, it wasn't the GOP, but Wired.com and Declan McCullagh who first jumped on the idea that Gore claimed to have invented the Net.
Seth Finkelstein has a very thorough debunking of the tale on his site, showing that while Gore was sloppy in his speech, he did lots to promote the Net.
Did any of it make a difference? Discuss among yourselves.
Good point but, alas, those exposures seem to do little. News accounts are filled with tales of corruption, greed and incompetence, much of it entirely true.
Each year sees literally thousands of bills introduced. That same year results in maybe a few dozen new laws, at most. In between, a mere 435 Members of Congress and 100 Senators try to understand "the issues," and fail. With so much activity, one elected official is lucky to understand two or threee issues in depth. The rest they leave to staff, leadership and the rest.
Given all this, it is probably folly to expect government to fix much of anything. The best thing they can do, most days, is leave things alone.
So -- get involved. Write your Member of Congress, Senator, whoever. Call them while you're at it. Tell them why you and your business will suffer. And be polite as you can.
Reps respond when you respond. Had folks who support intervention gotten more involved, and earlier, we might not be having this debate today. Chairman Barton says he will "pop" anyone who steps over the line of neutrality in the real world. He says he just doesn't want to write another law to enforce it.
Well, then, let's take him at his word. Let's look for problems in the networks, and then scream bloody murder if they pop up. If Congress really thinks small business is suffering from aggressive traffic "shaping," they will change their minds. That couldn't be a bad thing...
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Geer and company stated that any uniform and ubiquitous OS could cause similar problems, so it is not as though this is a MSFT-only situation.
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The NSA, meanwhile, used to mitigate the risk by using the same OS (*nix variant) compiled in different ways.
CCIA still has the report on its Website: http://www.ccianet.org/papers/cyberinsecurity.pdf
The report is as true today as ever......
Will Rodger
Actually, it wasn't the GOP, but Wired.com and Declan McCullagh who first jumped on the idea that Gore claimed to have invented the Net.
Seth Finkelstein has a very thorough debunking of the tale on his site, showing that while Gore was sloppy in his speech, he did lots to promote the Net.
Did any of it make a difference? Discuss among yourselves.
Good point but, alas, those exposures seem to do little. News accounts are filled with tales of corruption, greed and incompetence, much of it entirely true.
Each year sees literally thousands of bills introduced. That same year results in maybe a few dozen new laws, at most. In between, a mere 435 Members of Congress and 100 Senators try to understand "the issues," and fail. With so much activity, one elected official is lucky to understand two or threee issues in depth. The rest they leave to staff, leadership and the rest.
Given all this, it is probably folly to expect government to fix much of anything. The best thing they can do, most days, is leave things alone.
Will Rodger
osaia.org
ccianet.org
So -- get involved. Write your Member of Congress, Senator, whoever. Call them while you're at it. Tell them why you and your business will suffer. And be polite as you can.
Reps respond when you respond. Had folks who support intervention gotten more involved, and earlier, we might not be having this debate today. Chairman Barton says he will "pop" anyone who steps over the line of neutrality in the real world. He says he just doesn't want to write another law to enforce it.
Well, then, let's take him at his word. Let's look for problems in the networks, and then scream bloody murder if they pop up. If Congress really thinks small business is suffering from aggressive traffic "shaping," they will change their minds. That couldn't be a bad thing...
Will Rodger
osaia.org
ccianet.org