There's a teaser for tonight's 6:30 news about "a wesite that publishes pipeline maps and the names and addresses of government employees". The horror. :-) 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'
Can somebody record it in MPEG or DivX, please? :) It's difficult to get ABC News across the Atlantic without a dish. On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
There's a teaser for tonight's 6:30 news about "a wesite that publishes pipeline maps and the names and addresses of government employees". The horror. :-) Cheers, RAH
At 12:49 AM +0200 8/13/04, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Can somebody record it in MPEG or DivX, please? :) It's difficult to get ABC News across the Atlantic without a dish.
I didn't see anything. But, like an idiot, I surfed out of it. ADD's a bitch. :-). Anyone see the whole show? 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'
There a text version of the report on abcnews.com and a video is available to subscribers. To keep the nation secure the web site is not named. Google search appears to do it based on hate mail coming in.
At 03:32 PM 8/12/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
There's a teaser for tonight's 6:30 news about "a website that publishes pipeline maps and the names and addresses of government employees". The horror.
Speaking unofficially for the telecom industry, we're really happy to have the site there showing pictures of cable landings, antennas, etc. I've seen them used in internal training about submarine cables and I think we've probably used them in talks to customers as well. Separately, of course, we have bureaucrats who don't want to publish the addresses of telecom POPs, ignoring the fact that you can't buy physically diverse access to a location if you don't know where it is, and also ignoring the fact that 90% of a certain large 3-1/2-letter-acronym long distance carrier's POPs are in the same buildings as the local telcos so everybody knows where they are anyway, even though everybody's forgotten the derivation of V&H coordinates... ---- Bill Stewart bill.stewart@pobox.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 5:44 PM -0700 8/14/04, Bill Stewart wrote:
the site there showing pictures of cable landings
Wow. Didn't know that. I was *at* Spencer Beach on the Big Island last month, *looking*, :-), and I didn't see *anything*. <V8-autodope-slap> I coulda looked at cryptome </v-a-s>. I was at Morro Bay with Vin and Cyn once, popping over from SLO, but we weren't looking then for what is the other end of several other pipes fulla pan-pacific fiber... There sure isn't much else around Spencer Beach, though, and, besides, the wife likes Hilo anyway. (It's, um, dry there, at Spencer Beach. She hates ABQ's climate, too, where most of my, heh, addressable family lives: "My God!!! It looks like the *moon* out there!!!" she says to the plane window the first time out, "Where are the *trees*???" :-) A shopping trip to Old Town and a Death by Santa Fe Style outfit later she's over the problem. Gotta keep her away from Corpus, though, or I'm doomed. Or maybe I just show her a post-hurricane pic of the "T" and "L" heads, covered in beached yachts...) I was all depressed about maybe retiring to Hilo -- it was my idea we were there to begin with, c'punkly visions in my head about a financial-crypto lab/detox facility, or something -- until I saw the biz/lab-park up above UH-Hilo where all the observatories (except Keck in Waimea/"Kamuela") have their headquarters. Nice fat fiber pipes going in and out. Kewl. I knew there was fiber to Mauna Kea, a ranger named Pablo up there showed me a huge junction box(?); nice they ran it down the other side. I shoulda realized, as the Gemini scopes are all "We're Internet2, donchaknow...". The local "connectivity" providers, who sell WiFi to the touristas for $5/hr (or not, one says WiFi's "not safe", methinks he doth not know his firewall from his elbow), had no idea where the fiber, if any, was on the whole wet side of the island, so they weren't any help. The proximal cause of said depression, that was. Besides having flashbacks of various deep-and-recent past Caribbean Island-Time episodes. Anyway, there's bandwidth with a capital b, and I keep forgetting about the Island Time thing. Something about me and what Beaver called "the imaginary axis". Like a moth and a flame. Cheers, RAH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQSJVQMPxH8jf3ohaEQL+vgCg0Zo1xxbPInOfb40buM1zTxts0/YAn1TN BSV8PdaVmrXaC8Odr5nuk9If =lDFR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- 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'
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