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FCC Backs a Tiered Internet
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 23, @10:36AMfrom the more-money dept.

Going to be extorted writes ""FCC Chief Kevin Martin yesterday gave his support to AT&T and other telcos who want to be able to limit bandwidth to sites like Google, unless those sites pay extortion fees. Martin made it clear in a speech yesterday that he supports such a a "tiered" Internet." Could this be the end of internet innovation?"

ok, I was going to devote this post to the effect of the capital oligarchy and the technological feudalism that is pandemic in America. I was going to follow up on the the phrase "Open Source Society". I was going to point out that in other parts of the world mobile phones and mobile phone services are far less costly and that there are phones that are NOT imported or sold in the USA because they are too cheap. I was going to make the case that telecommunications is the last bastion of the Old Guard, the "legacy agenda" of feudal ownership and the control of population through the control of resources (in this case, communications and the internet). then I stumbled accross this link....so I guess I did. Imagine a world where the channels of information are freed up and business is done the old fashion way. The current stranglehold on internet and data access is akin to owning the streets and the town and extorting from the shopkeepers to open in the morning and from the customers to walk there and shop. It is crippling business NOT enabling it. Pyramid Economic Theory, Quantum Consciousness, multi-dimensional space/time, these are little more than humans reaching out for a larger universe to live in. Yearning to escape the walled, feudal village and run free and find out just whets out there. Remember that next time you consider Linux. Funny, Huh?

www.centos.org - The Community ENTerprise Operating System

http://www.centos.org/

CentOS stands for "Community ENTerprise Operating System. The goal is "Our purpose is to provide stable Linux solutions for organizations and individuals who do not need strong commercial support to achieve successful operation." essentially an enterprise level Open Source OS. Interestingly enough one of the key technologys is the self updating feature. As members of the CentOS community produce updates (as I understand it), the OS will self update, Not patch.
* easy maintenance
* self hosting distribution (one that can build on itself)
* suitability for long term use in production environments
* friendly environment for users and package maintainers
* long-term support of the core
* active development
* community infrastructure
* open management
* open business model
* commercial support - offered by partner vendors

It would appear that we are moving (in spite of the Corporate over-masters) toward an open source Social model. I say this in light of Ebay's purchase of Skype, AOL's purchase of ICQ and the latest news...Yahoo's announcement of the release of a VOIP service intended to undercut skype. we're talking long distance @ 0.02 per minute or less and incoming calls for 29.95 per year or 2.99 a month. the last strangle hold is the cell phone companies control of mobile connectivity...

Where have I been

Over a year, like I was abducted and dropped off. I quit smoking 4 times a year. I quit drinking twice. I quit, I don't remember how many times. I need to stop quitting and start finishing what I start.
I intent to begin again