The Internet's three virtues

POINT – 8. The Internet’s three virtues

http://www.worldofends.com/

Taken from; ‘World of Ends’ – What the Internet Is
by Doc Searls and David Weinberger

In a Nutshell – The Nutshell -

1. The Internet isn’t complicated
2. The Internet isn’t a thing. It’s an agreement.
3. The Internet is stupid.
4. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value.
5. All the Internet’s value grows on its edges.
6. Money moves to the suburbs.
7. The end of the world? Nah, the world of ends.
8. The Internet’s three virtues:
a. No one owns it
b. Everyone can use it
c. Anyone can improve it
9. If the Internet is so simple, why have so many been so boneheaded about it?
10. Some mistakes we can stop making already

For those without the TIME – READ; Scroll-Down and Read (Especially Point 8, 8a, 8b, 8c)

INTERESTING POINTS:
“The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it,”

POINT – 8. The Internet’s three virtues
(I have ‘Re-Worded’ this just a little for my own interpretation)

8.a Nobody owns it
It can’t be owned, even by the companies whose “pipes” it passes through, because it is an agreement, not a thing. The Internet not only is in the public domain, it is a public domain.

8.b Everyone can use it
The Internet was built to include everyone on the planet.
You don’t need a system administrator to let you participate. The Internet purposefully leaves permissions out of the system.

8.c Anybody can improve it
Anyone can make the Internet a better place to live, work and raise up kids. It takes a real blockhead with a will of iron to make it worse.
In the same way the agreement about how to encode images on paper enabled fax machines to use telephone lines without requiring any changes to the phone system itself.
The creators of these services (email and newsgroups) didn’t simply come up with end-based applications, and they sure didn’t tinker with the Internet protocol itself.

net-neutrality

net-neutrality; TAGED under ‘GNU License’ (My perspective – nobody owns the Internet -and nobody should own it – especially big business that already make HUGE profits) – OBVIOUSLY; It is more complicated than that, .. (As usual, – the more I dig around, the more complicated this gets, and the fuzzy-bits intrude) – [MORE fuzzy-bits]

THIS EXPLIANS (In part) >>> Best video yet on Net Neutrality <<<

THE FCC (and what role they play?)
The Second Computer Inquiry is the second proceeding in the FCC trilogy The Computer Inquiries, which created the FCC’s policy of regulating the way in which telecommunications carriers’ networks are opened up and made available to enhanced services (aka computer networks).

Some background information on this topic; As I have often questioned, (As an interested observer) ‘Is the Internet already tiered?’ – Meaning; Should carriers be able to sell multi-tiered access to heavy users? OR; They are already doing this!

From the laymans point of view – It already IS multi-tiered, for those prepared to PAY-MORE, they get a FASTER connection.

THIS-DEBATE; ‘Net Neutrality’ – is MORE about the users ability to upload their own content, and THAT RIGHT is under threat from the like of big telco companies (AT&T verizon, and Cablevision) wanting to take away that ability, and turn the Internet into a ‘One-directional-medium’, more LIKE radio and TV.

PASTED BELOW; Is an outline from opposingviews.com – which points to ‘summer-2005′, as being [QUOTE] “The separation of the physical communications layer from the content and applications layers was a cornerstone of telecommunications law–putting control of the Internet in the hands of the users at the edges“

[THE IMPORTANT BIT - QUOTE Cont'd] , .. “but in the summer of 2005 — under intense pressure from phone and cable lobbyists — the FCC removed this cornerstone.”

ARTICLE; Net Neutrality is the Internet’s First Amendment
Save the Internet (Most of it pasted below – but not all)

Almost 40 years ago, the Federal Communications Commission was confronted with the question of how to handle the transmission of data over telecommunications networks. When a federal court broke up Ma Bell in 1982, it required the Baby Bells to provide nondiscriminatory interconnection and access to their networks. These decisions to require the communications network to treat information service in a nondiscriminatory manner was the key building block of the Internet — it’s First Amendment.

Under these protections, the physical wires over which data and information flow were treated differently than the data and information themselves. When network owners can’t mess with the content, the content market remains free and vigorously competitive. This separation of the physical communications layer from the content and applications layers was a cornerstone of telecommunications law–putting control of the Internet in the hands of the users at the edges but in the summer of 2005 — under intense pressure from phone and cable lobbyists — the FCC removed this cornerstone.

In the years since then, these network owners have openly declared that they intend to build business models based on discrimination, extorting money from online content and applications providers and favoring the Web sites and services that they own or with whom they strike special deals. This plan violates the fundamental principle of nondiscrimination that has been law for generations, and which gave us a free-flowing Internet that allows the best ideas to emerge on their own merits.

From a technical prepective; http://www.worldofends.com/  (A nice simple approach to the Internet)

Advocates of Net Neutrality are not promoting new regulations. We are attempting to restore tried and tested consumer protections and network operating principles that made the Internet a great engine for free speech and innovation. By passing Net Neutrality legislation we’re restoring under law the open Internet’s most fundamental principle.

Remote Exploit – Penatration TOOLs

THIS – DESCRIPTION FROM HERE
BackTrack is the most top rated linux live distribution focused on penetration testing. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes.

It’s evolved from the merge of the two wide spread distributions – Whax and Auditor Security Collection. By joining forces and replacing these distributions, BackTrack has gained massive popularity and was voted in 2006 as the #1 Security Live Distribution by insecure.org. Security professionals as well as new-comers are using BackTrack as their favorite toolset all over the globe.

Download BackTrack from HERE

There is an alternative in the form of a vmware applicance HERE (BT3 658MB dl)

AND; There is a vm BackTrack BETA Ver4 HERE (About 1100 MB dl)

Linux – Splashtop comes with the S10e

THIS LINUX OS; Is the one used on the NSW – DET Ideapad

Splashtop is an instant-on commercial Linux distribution targeting PC motherboard vendors and other device manufacturers.  It is developed by DeviceVM. It uses Bootsplash[5], SquashFS, Blackbox, SCIM, and the Linux kernel 2.6

Concept [The Wikipedia Overview]

Splashtop is intended to be integrated on a read-only device and shipped with the hardware, rather than installed by the user. It does not prevent the installation of another operating system for dual booting. It boots in about 5 seconds, and is thus marketed as “instant-on.”

MORE >>> Other products featuring Splashtop
Lenovo IdeaPad S9e, S10, S10e, S10-2, S12, which rebrands Splashtop as “Lenovo Quick Start”

MORE URLs (Pasted below)

With Splashtop, you can access the Internet and your favorite applications seconds after turning on your PC.

Linux Distro – Linpus

WIKIPEDIA-INFO: >>> Linpus Linux is a Fedora based operating system created by the Taiwanese firm Linpus Technologies Inc.[1] Linpus was designed specifically to fully support the Asian market, with full Unicode support for the Chinese and Japanese languages. A special version, Linpus Lite, was written to run on devices with lower-cost hardware such as netbooks. It has both an icon and tab-based “Simple mode”, designed for new users; and, a conventional style “PC mode” for those wanting a more Microsoft Windows-like interface. It is targeted at handheld devices with smaller screens, and supports resolutions as low as VGA (640×480).[2] <<<

http://www.linpus.com/ | Download – Limpus-Lite = 700 MB

HERE IS WHAT I WANTED: (Linpus QuickOS – sometimes Loaded the S10e, maybe always, I have not bought one yet) The marketing blurb is pasted below – with a link to the download url for this distro.

With Linpus QuickOS you don’t have to wait for Windows to start enjoying your online life. Linpus QuickOS isn’t designed to replace your Windows, but give you more choice to access key applications quickly. It combines breakthrough technology, hardware cooperation, and Linpus’ open source expertise and experience to create the most complete product in this space.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: (Features might be BETTER description for this)

* Linux operating system targeted at low cost computer market;
* Icon interface
* low power hardware requirements

As described on the ‘Linpus QuickOS’ site.

ANOTHER-NOTE; It seems that Linpus Lite, AND Linpux QuickOS, are ‘one-&-the-same’ distro. (The usual marketing spin -  designed to sell stuff, adding to the busy clang of technology hype , .. so much fun)

THE ACTUAL FEATURE LIST IS EXTENSIVE: Here is the url

There are also Desktop and Media Centre versions of this OS;
* LINPUS – Linux Desktop = 3.6 GB Download
* LINPUS – Linux Media Centre = 4.5 GB Download

GNU License

Open Source Initiative OSI – The GPL:Licensing

Tue, 2006-10-31 04:56 — nelson

The GNU General Public License (GPL)

Version 2, June 1991

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Preamble

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software–to make sure the software is free for all its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation’s software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.

When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.