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Commented on Yet another reason McCain's "Internet Freedom Act" is dumb, Net Neutrality is good: national security?
ARPA/DARPA didn't create the Internet, they merely funded this particular research project. Actually, much of the research that eventually led to the Arpanet was developed independently. For example, the first packet-switching network was created in Britain (so much for the...
Commented on Yet another reason McCain's "Internet Freedom Act" is dumb, Net Neutrality is good: national security?
This story about DARPA/ARPA and the Internet being a way to ensure survival after nuclar attack is - sorry to say that - simply wrong. ARPA was founded after the Sputnick-shock to ensure americas technological superiority over the soviets. It...
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Commented on Microsoft's best anti-Apple ad yet
@ 80: VW never really entered the american market. They made a few halfhearted attempts, but nothing compared to their position in europe or south america. Actually, this is one of the reasons why they are doing quite well in...
Commented on Google: the majority of takedown notices are bogus
Why is this something the "world's governments" did? As far as I am informed, just a few countries implemented it or plans to do so. The EU parliamnet for example rejected the idea. But this doesn't count, right? Because the...
Commented on TED2009: Louise Fresco
"Today bread is associated with obesity, which is weird. We have been making it for 10,000 years. The whiter the bread in many countries, the better it is." What is this even supposed to mean? Sorry, I don't get it....
Commented on Australian family caged, detained, starved and deported by US customs
So my girlfriend keeps arguing about a trip to the US, she mainly wants to show SeaWorld in Florida to the kids. I think this is just a terrible idea. I would go alone (and already have several times, although...
Commented on Zack! Zack! He's a LEGO maniac!
@12: Dutch? You probably mean dansih. But no, I very much doubt these were ever shown in Europe....
Commented on Take Jane: a video from NO2ID on the dangers of Britain's burgeoning surveillance state
I don't get it either. I have to admit, I am from a country were we have a national database. But these kinds of problems are extremely rare, because any access to these informations is tightly monitored and can be...
Commented on Joseph Stiglitz: How foreign governments are buying America
Rindan, ever heard the term "illusions of grandeur"? The US tried this policy with Cuba. While it certainly hurt them, it hasn't stopped foreign companies (mainly european, south-american), from investing there....
Commented on North Texas house burns because local authorities switched off hydrants "to fight terrorism"
Oh please, people, vote for McCain, so that this terrorism-madness goes on at least for another four years. News from the US haven never so entertaining. (News from the UK are a close second though)...
Commented on Amazon reviewers clobber Spore DRM
@ 29: Yes it is. "Defective by design" isn't just a pretty slogan, it also sums up nicely my concerns with this game. This is one of features you actually know about even before you have it. I was about...
Commented on Cellphone embedded in road surface
Ahh, the M65. I loved this phone. Had two of them (in black and grey), but unfortunately my temper forces me to destroy things. Nice side-effect: always a new phone......
Commented on Who'll pay $550 for the Treo Pro?
Why would anyone want to buy this? The Nokia E73 has everything the Treo has - o.k. no touchscreen - , (probably) better sound quality, way more RAM, no Windows-Mobile AND is cheaper. Palm is officially dead....
Commented on Road rage filmer writes about his media experience
You guys seem to agree that reporters and journalism in general are ignorant, bad and out to distort the "facts". But you might want to keep in mind, that what you perceive as "fact" is only your view of the...
Commented on Android phones coming to T-Mobile this Fall, says <em>Times</em>
@3: Who says the US will be the first market? Regarding all the other phone, I would even say it is highly unlikely....
Commented on SWAT team raids mayor, shoots family dog because someone mailed them pot
Hey people, what is wrong with you? I am still waiting for the usual phrases: - "were are not getting the whole story here" - "something smells fishy" - "their own fault. when a cop orders you to do something,...
Commented on Any hands-on experience with the Airport Extreme?
I have no experience with the Airport Extreme, but I would always choose a AVM Fritz!Box, preferably the 7270-model. It has everything the Airport has and much, much more....
Commented on Green Machine: Jack Nicholson's hydrogen Chevy from 1978
This car probably worked o.k. The problem never was with the engine, it was - and still is - with storage. There are all kinds of nasty problems when you try to store hydrogen, and always a fair chance it...
Commented on Alton Brown profiled by <em>Chemical & Engineering News</em>
I don't know. Altons Show may be interesting, and yes, I learned a few things - but there was never ever a recipe where I thought: I must try that. He is all about the science of cooking, but none...
Commented on Critical Mass bicyclist knocked over by NYPD
@ minTphresh: You may want to reconsider your proposal, since I am from Berlin which would make you a german citizen - not dutch. (still interested? ;-) ) The Netherlands are in my opinion way ahead of everyone else in...
Commented on Critical Mass bicyclist knocked over by NYPD
O.k., now I am convinced. The cop had to have some reason to attack the cyclist, otherwise he wouldn't have reacted the way he did. After all, the USA is a very bicycle-friendly country and unprovoked aggressions against cyclists -...
Commented on Critical Mass bicyclist knocked over by NYPD
@ Antinous: Thanks a for your comment, made my day....
Commented on Critical Mass bicyclist knocked over by NYPD
@111: Oh, right, a stolen purse is a good enough to risk killing someone?! Reminds me why I vowed never to visit the USA again. I got family. It is just too... risky....
Commented on Critical Mass bicyclist knocked over by NYPD
Just wait a couple of years, until the barrel goes up to 500$. Then there will be a Critical Mass every day. Everywhere. All the time....
Commented on Critical Mass bicyclist knocked over by NYPD
I don't know what I find more astounding - this brutal assault (no other way to call it) on a cyclist or the vitriolic comments here. As I understand it - from the other side of the pond - Critical...
Commented on Jasmina Tešanović: My neighbor Radovan Karadzic (essay)
@ #7: Just like most Nazis were just people. Sorry, but until Serbia faces its past and admits responsibility, they cannot be part of the EU. Most Serbs I have talked to consider them self as victims of an international...

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MysticMisfit commented on Yet another reason McCain's "Internet Freedom Act" is dumb, Net Neutrality is good: national security?
Wasn't one of Obama's concerns about internet security due to our national electric supply grids being heavily dependent on/interwoven with the internet? Wasn't there a case of sabotage in CA last summer that caused a blackout? And more recently, this summer, attempts at hacking those systems that came from North Korea? to say that our national security in its totality, from our financial systems to utilities, is not dependent on the internet in any way we need to worry wbout, is somewhat shortsighted. THE INTERNET IS INFRASTRUCTURE at this point. We rely on it for everything....
MysticMisfit commented on Yet another reason McCain's "Internet Freedom Act" is dumb, Net Neutrality is good: national security?
Also, very much have to agree with previous anonymous post on how Repubs would love to own the net the way they have taken over radio and all you hear is their point of view as if it's mainstream. Rupert Murdoch himself has recently "waged war on the internet" and its confounded free content. I don't think his timing is accidental. One bright spot is, like McCain, Murdoch too has no idea about the culture or mindset of even the average internet user, as evidenced by the way he's bought and tanked Myspace....
teapot commented on Yet another reason McCain's "Internet Freedom Act" is dumb, Net Neutrality is good: national security?
It is exactly the lack of centralized control that made the Internet able to grow as it did. It is the most successful exercise in collaborative anarchy in history, created by one of the largest top-down hierarchies in history. Isn't irony beautiful? ...So beautiful...
MadRat commented on Yet another reason McCain's "Internet Freedom Act" is dumb, Net Neutrality is good: national security?
The Republican argument goes like this: If the FCC regulates the Internet then it could abuse its power in regulating what's being said and done on the Internet. If EITHER ruling party attacks radio and TV news to eliminate criticism then what's to prevent it from eliminating criticism from blogs as well? Is this nothing but a slippery slope argument? Is it a straw man argument confusing regulation of bandwidth with regulation of free speech? I'm not really sure which side is right on this. I'm less concerned about Republicans trying to make bandwidth more expensive and far more concerned...
dan_nisbet commented on Yet another reason McCain's "Internet Freedom Act" is dumb, Net Neutrality is good: national security?
I love that book he mentions, really well written accounts. Bring's the whole story to life....

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