1995-09-20 Sender: Michael Boyle <•••@••.•••> On Sat, 16 Sep 1995 •••@••.••• wrote: > > Sender: •••@••.••• (Don Porter) > >Sender: Heidi Howard <•••@••.•••> > >[…snipped – about access issues…] The issue of access to network services and what that might look like is one that is relatively better developed here in Canada, IMO. It has … Read more…
1995-09-20 Sender: •••@••.••• (Kurt Guntheroth) Subject: re: capitalism and the internet >Sender: •••@••.•••, Connie Page >I have always been suspicious of capitalism because it is fueled by >greed This is a common misconception about capitalism. A buyer and a seller enter into commerce because it makes both better off than they would be without trade. … Read more…
1995-09-19 Sender: •••@••.••• (Off the edge ) >In an online vote, the polls can be open for days or weeks before >election day. People can vote at their leisure and change their votes >when a new scandal is exposed. The server won’t divulge the tally >until the vote closes. Continual voting like this stimulates >discussion … Read more…
1995-09-19 Sender: •••@••.••• Craig A. Johnson” wrote: >Without knowing all the details, I think we can cautiously applaud >this bust by the Feds. While I would have to applaud the apprehension of anyone who abuses children, I hope we don’t get carried away and miss the zinger at the end of the times article and … Read more…
1995-09-19 Sender: Gary Weston <•••@••.•••> With regard to the idea that deregulation and competition in the telecom business will be a boon to consumers, I’d like to point out a tiny bit in the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat (owned by the NYT) today. Both Pacific Bell and GTE have filed for increases in local telephone rates. … Read more…
1995-09-19 Pointer from moderator: Mark Stahlman has sent a message on the subject “Technocrats and the Mind” which, because of its length, I’ve put on our ftp site. I’ve learned better than to summarize it. It’s in the Essays directory as Stahlman-Technocrats. Andy @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Sender: •••@••.••• (Richard K. Moore) Subject: Web Review on Aspen PRESS … Read more…
1995-09-19 Sender: “Craig A. Johnson” <•••@••.•••> On 14 September Kurt Guntheroth wrote: > “Free market” capitalism has the same advantage as the internet; distributed > control. Nobody makes central decisions about load or content on the > internet. Nobody makes central decisions about price in the market. > What, pray tell, is “distributed control?” The … Read more…
1995-09-16 Sender: •••@••.••• (Off the edge ) >Did anyone else hear about Microsoft and others (IBM and maybe apple as >well as other software companies) teaming up to look into creating some >sort of policing effort for the web and other internet services? Does >anyone else have more details. It was a quick sound bite … Read more…
1995-09-16 Sender: •••@••.••• (Don Porter) On Sep 14, 1995 01:11:18, ‘Cyber Rights <•••@••.•••>’ wrote: >Sender: Heidi Howard <•••@••.•••> > >In discussions of universal access, I have rarely heard anyone say that >it would be a bad thing if everyone who wanted to get info from the >internet could do so- the question is therefore, What … Read more…
1995-09-16 Sender: •••@••.••• (Kurt Jaeger aka PI) Hi! Looks like I did the foolish thing to accept writing a paper on crypto for a soon-to-be-established committee at the german federal parliament on crypto issues. It will be part of a larger “reader” on info society issues, which is the topic of the committee itself. So, … Read more…