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Yeah, but Drogue, it's not as if the internet belongs to the US, it belongs to those who use it. If we don't visit sites with pop-ups in Chinese, then that's because we only vist US- or Europe-based sites.
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Figures. Damn Eurocoms.Originally posted by Whoha
Most likely taxation.
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Spammers, viruses, bugs, kiddie-porn, the fact that it's policed by a private company who can decide things that are hugely valuable to corporations, and gives a bit of an incentive to not be as "in the interest of the public" as they should be. Plus the problems about the US and Europe stealing all the finite resources so developing countries can't begin to use the internet.Originally posted by OzzyKP
I don't see what their main beef is anyways. What is wrong with how things are running now?
I'd say that's some pretty good reasons to want to be involved, to check what's being done.Smile
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It's not about ownership, it's about control. Some issues need to be addressed and policed by the world, not an individual country.Originally posted by duke o' york
Yeah, but Drogue, it's not as if the internet belongs to the US, it belongs to those who use it. If we don't visit sites with pop-ups in Chinese, then that's because we only vist US- or Europe-based sites.Smile
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But he would think of something
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It's not policed by the private company. Where do you get that? They just assign names and numbers.the fact that it's policed by a private company who can decide things that are hugely valuable to corporationsI came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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As far as internet usage is concerned, China represents the majority of users.
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US edges them out with 135 million to their 100 million for the moment though that will change.Comment
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Yeah, and very soon!Comment
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Originally posted by DanS
It's not policed by the private company. Where do you get that? They just assign names and numbers.Is that just names and numbers? Authority over the master directories that tell browsers how to direct traffic - that couldn't be useful to any corporation trying to get more traffic at their site?At issue is who would have ultimate authority over the Internet's master directories, which tell Web browsers and e-mail programs how to direct traffic.
That role has historically gone to the United States, which created the Internet as a Pentagon project and funded much of its early development. The U.S. Commerce Department has delegated much of that responsibility to a U.S.-based private organization...Smile
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But he would think of something
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yes it is just names and numbers, if you type in an ip you directly bypass the dns server. typing in apolyton.net wouldn't send you to some other server though.Comment
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Yes.Is that just names and numbers?
What do you propose as a scenario where they could do such a thing?Authority over the master directories that tell browsers how to direct traffic - that couldn't be useful to any corporation trying to get more traffic at their site?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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They assign the IP address numbers too.if you type in an ip you directly bypass the dns serverI came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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We invented it. It's ours. We let you use it for free because we're cool.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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ZOMG!!!! DOWN WITH THE EUROTWATS!!!!
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but resolving IP addresses is done by arp rather then the central database.Originally posted by DanS
They assign the IP address numbers too.Comment
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