At 7:46 AM -0500 11/29/06, rayservers wrote:
Yes, and until the mixmaster nodes start to *charge* anonymous digital gold tokens for routing, and lets nodes gets into competition with each other to create a robotic free market, the Internet will be a baby eaten alive by Mighty Big Brother and mixmaster will be overrun by the tragedy of the commons...
Ahhhh... it smells like springtime in here. Somebody must have opened the crypt door and let some air in. Amen. The 'tragedy' of the commons is that nobody *owns* the commons. So, *sell* the fucking commons. :-) Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'