The Will to Code

2005-10-10 Thread David M. Berry
Also available at: http://www.noemalab.org/sections/ideas/ideas_articles/berry_will_to_code.html --- The Will to Code: Nietzsche and the Democratic Impulse - David M. Berry & Lee Evans Department of Media and Film/Dept of International Relati

Re: Notes on Netporn

2005-10-10 Thread John Young
The operator of the war porn site Dery cites has been arrested: http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm6544_20051008.htm The ex-cop's web site, NowThatsFuckedUp.com, continues to offer cutting edge repugnant carnage ribaldry of the kind popularized by lit and flic of crime-war-faith fantasies wor

Re: Who will own and control the Internet's infrastructure?

2005-10-10 Thread Florian Cramer
Alex: > DNS is entirely unnecessary for the functioning of distributed > networks such as the internet. It is simply a convenience: people > prefer to read addresses as words rather than as numbers. This is not the only function of DNS. I would even argue that it's the less important one. More i

Re: Who will own and control the Internet's infrastructure?

2005-10-10 Thread Ronda Hauben
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Alexander Galloway wrote: I want to agree with Alexander that we want news articles that alert people to actual technical problems and that is what I set out to do with the article about what is happening at the international level with regard to who will control the Internet'

Re: Who will own and control the Internet's infrastructure?

2005-10-10 Thread Alexander Galloway
> The struggle over who will control the Internet's infrastructure > escalated last > week at a meeting in Geneva. Following is an article describing > what is happening. > It would be good to see discussion about this as it is a > significant development. > > [...] > >