Re: how the internet works : the official explanation

You know, you all/we all are speaking of this in a highly rarified environment. WE understand that there is more than one family of computer processing chips; WE know that (a) there is more than one operating system, and (b) what an operating system is. Unlike a frightening number of my non-CS maj

Re: how the internet works : the official explanation

Someone is on some serious meds here... or needs some @;-) I think I'm gonna have to bookmark this one for next semester's course on "Computers & Society" -- and some of the bozos who regulate the same. And there are clearly rather alot of people who think of it as a major dumping space... Judy

Re: how the internet works : the official explanation

Sorry Andre , Having initially noticed your caveat about super intelligence, I decided not to write about the pigeons but the next day I'd forgotten that and I wrote it. Anyway I think people who do not understand pigeon behaviour and might take your ideas too seriously should be glad of your ex

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Hey Barry, I said that my pigeons were SUPER CLEVER I know about homing pigeons, but, my pigeons have a disfunctional personality and think they have more then one home... you just go like: OWNER: "now, you're steve, and you home is in cupertino" PIGEON: "Gurl! Gurl!" OWNER: "repeat

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The pigeon - airplane metaphore was certainly well contrived by Andre but care should be taken in copying it literally (n.b. Peter and Dan). Pigeons CANNOT make round trips or even deliver outgoing messages! If you want one to carry a message you must first take the bird to the starting point (

Re: how the internet works : the official explanation

This guy certainly have some laughable sound bites, but is his understanding of the issues really THAT bad? I know it's funny for him to say that "the internet" took days to get to him, or that it's a bunch of tubes, however... the fact is that widespread VOIP and streaming video _does_ threate

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That's true, they should leave this to senators who understand it, but with age comes seniority :-) I don't think it's really possible for him to get "up to speed" though, and not because he's an idiot. He isn't - nobody who reaches that level of political success is an idiot (whether you agree wi

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Boy I have no reservations. If this idiot actually tries to pass laws about something for me, at least he should do some research, and not base his ideas on his own lame experience. Internet stuff is not rocket science to understand - and these guys are also behind the funding ALL technical s

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You should probably take his age into account. My dad is younger than Ted Stevens and he knows even less about the internet. I recently set up an old Windows 98 computer for him to play his casino games. All he knows is casino games and MSN hotmail - and if the Internet Explorer homepage shows any

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This is not funny; this is tragic. This is from the same thinking that created the 'record every click in the net ' concept. sqb For a hilarious explanation of how the internet works, check out: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499 "And again, the internet is not something

how the internet works : the official explanation

For a hilarious explanation of how the internet works, check out: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499 "And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes." -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]