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For a while now I’ve been hearing about a “war” between MPLS and Carrier Ethernet proponents. Sometimes it’s framed as an IETF versus IEEE debate. Sometimes it’s framed as the incumbent carriers versus next-generation service providers. And so on. Take for instance a blog post by Nortel’s CTO, John Roese, discussing The Future of the [...]

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From John Mauldin’s Outside the Box: The Geopolitics Of China:
China has placed itself in a position where it has to keep its customers happy. It struggles against this reality daily, but the fact is that the rest of the world is far less dependent on China’s exports than China is dependent on the rest of [...]

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I just signed the Digistan Hague Declaration at http://www.digistan.org/hague-declaration:en.

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Ok, this is kind of cool. The Huffington Post FundRace search entry for my name shows that I’ve donated to the Obama campaign. I can even search for others at my company, in my zip code, etc. Sort of voyeuristic.
And of course it shows that I’m a cheapskate… ;-)

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From the BBC, by way of Greenpeace, I stumbled across this scary graphic:

Just looking at the graph, that’s about a 50% growth in the proportion of young ice versus older ice. The graphic doesn’t portray absolute figures, just percentages. But since we know the ice cover is shrinking overall this means that older ice is [...]

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Recently, President Bush vetoed the Intelligence Authorization bill because it made it illegal for the CIA to use waterboarding as an interrogation technique. Tomorrow the House of Representatives is expected to vote in an attempt to overturn that veto.
Please contact your Congressional Representative tonight and ask for their support overturning Bush’s veto. Below is the [...]

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“Maybe netizens are too busy enjoying the new social and cultural freedoms offered by the internet to care about politics.”
-from The Economist, as quoted in this post to the Intelligent People mailing list

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There is an interesting article on the Great Firewall of China, dubbed the “Golden Shield Project”, at http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/chinese-firewall. It’s not very technical but it does go into the various techniques used.
It’s especially interesting to consider that these techniques are often used in “network management” in the US, and that the techniques employed by P2P protocols [...]

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In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell

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