<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:01 PM, David Nicol <<a href="mailto:davidnicol@gmail.com">davidnicol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Arthur Pemberton <<a href="mailto:pemboa@gmail.com">pemboa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> My fellow RoadRunner using geeks have no doubt noticed this themselves<br>
> by now, but for everyone else, an article is up on Slashdot:<br>
> <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/26/1741253" target="_blank">http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/26/1741253</a><br>
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</div>thanks, slashdot! laughing until it hurts.<br>
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<a href="http://ww23.rr.com/index.php?origURL=http://our.own.ass.with.both.hands" target="_blank">http://ww23.rr.com/index.php?origURL=http://our.own.ass.with.both.hands</a><br>
<div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>The initial 2 questions raised are Motive and Ethics.2 sub elements each.<br>With some ominous potential apparent when one expands the issues a bit.<br>If you feel me alarmist do please recall that history is being written by how we handle issues like this one. The internet is unarguably now a part of our lives.<br>
Control of the internet thus becomes a control of our lives! Oh, my questions?<br><br>Is it a profit motive of picocredits per typo cash flow, or some motive where breaking something in DNS as preparation to net anti-neutrality directs this.<br>
<br>Is it ethical to break established de facto practices for self serving reasons?<br>And is it ethical to alter the responses of a customer's software by literal misdirection!<br><br>That last one is the most potentially abusive. Consider the history lesson of how we got dial telephones. Almon Strowger was losing bodies to a rival undertaker when human telephone operators "redirected" his calls. Is DNS any different of a "redirection?" Or consider it as social /religious /political agenda.<br>
<br>THINK HARD on the next implied endpoints Type in X issue expecting truth and be directed to profitable lies. But of course truth is the enemy of some profits.<br><br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Oren Beck<br>
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