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al-Qa'bong
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posted 09 July 2003 10:59 PM      Profile for al-Qa'bong   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
English lit. majors never run into problems like this.

Whack!


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Michelle
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posted 09 July 2003 11:32 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Wow! This is so cool! What an interesting guy!

BTW, he's clearly dating the wrong grils if they all stare at the ceiling when he talks about his dissertation.


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DrConway
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posted 10 July 2003 01:20 AM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
"This is why CEOs of major power companies don't sleep well these days," Derrick said, flattening the pages with his fist. "Why in the world have we been so stupid as a country to have all this information in the public domain? Does that openness still make sense? It sure as hell doesn't to me."

This pisses me right off. Where the hell do people get off using the battering ram of terrorism to get rid of the free flow of information?

Don't the capitalists always moan on and on about how information needs to flow more freely and in more directions than ever before so they can make more profit?


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Willowdale Wizard
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posted 10 July 2003 08:56 AM      Profile for Willowdale Wizard   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
the article was illuminating.

a) for a while, there has been a literature on chokepoints for oil shipments, places like Suez, Panama, the Straits of Malacca.

this fellow is extending that, and the fact that corporate leaders tolerate energy chokepoint information in the public domain, but not fibreoptic chokepoints, indicates a shift from industrial to informational economy as much as anything i've seen.

b) it's this paradox that the Internet was designed to re-route around blockages/disruptions in the system, so that even if part of the system was disrupted, brought down, obliterated by nuclear bomb, that things would continue. a good metaphor for the Internet is electricity generating stations to the plug in the wall in your house. it goes from massive hydro towers, to smaller pylons, to electric stations in cities, to those fake-houses-but-they-are-transformers, to backyard power lines, to you. this fellow is tracking where people enter the Internet and the possible choke points at various steps up to the Internet "backbone", and only 13 servers route that backbone Internet traffic. those 13 have already suffered an october 2002 attack that temporarily crippled 7 of them.

[ 10 July 2003: Message edited by: Willowdale Wizard ]


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