chill wrote: > :) > > I spoke too soon regarding the 2-minute updates. After a few hours this > rate also triggered the 'too many in 10 minutes' service denial. So I > guess the acceptable rate might vary depending on the server load. I've > messaged the site to see what's acceptable for a regular update. I > discovered that the person who runs the fourmilab site is also a the > founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD (of which I'm a huge fan) - > wow, a seriously talented individual!
Thanks for the reference chill. Quoting without comment other than, hard to believe this was written in 2003, could have been penned yesterday... https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ wrote: > > Over the last two years I have become deeply and increasingly > pessimistic about the future of liberty and freedom of speech, > particularly in regard to the Internet. This is a complete reversal of > the almost unbounded optimism I felt during the 19941999 period when > public access to the Internet burgeoned and innovative new forms of > communication appeared in rapid succession. In that epoch I was firmly > convinced that universal access to the Internet would provide a > countervailing force against the centralisation and concentration in > government and the mass media which act to constrain freedom of > expression and unrestricted access to information. Further, the > Internet, properly used, could actually roll back government and > corporate encroachment on individual freedom by allowing information to > flow past the barriers erected by totalitarian or authoritarian > governments and around the gatekeepers of the mainstream media. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488
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