i think computers and telephones are similar...
they are just from 2 different technical eras..
basicly both are units installed in some ones home ..ect ,for the use of comunication...
point to point? telephones have been able to do conference calls for 15 yrs or so now and the call travels thru several exchanges to get to its destination.....ok thats not a network...but
for all the diferences in HOW they both work
i can see many similar patterns in how they look
the roles they serve in a home or office...
to me it seems like the computer wants to be a replacement for the telephone......
it wont be long before telephone companys stop installing telephones and people will get computer phones that do every thing your latest p4 does now....in 10 or 15yrs maybe
and that privacy on one should be different to another seems like bad kama to me...
but good for the law makers the want to swing things in the corporations favor
MALK
in some way i think this maybe some kind of natrual law
of file share:
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"If you don't know who you're trading with you assume a level of risk. If you are comfortable with that level, trade away. If not, come up with something better".......Malk-a-mite
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im sure that is doesnt' have much to do with it
but for some reason i found it relevent...
reminded me of life b4 the internet....
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from: where wizards stay up late
In 1969, ARPA awarded the contract to build the most integral piece of this network -- a computerized switch called the Interface Message Processor, or IMP -- to Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), a small Cambridge, Massachusetts company. A half-dozen engineers at BBN, who called themselves the IMP Guys, knew it was possible to do what larger companies -- including AT&T and IBM -- had dismissed as impossible. But making computer networking possible required inventing new technologies. Working around the clock, the IMP Guys met a tight deadline, and the first IMP was installed at UCLA nine months after the contract award. A nationwide network called the ARPANET grew from four initial sites. Protocols were developed, and along the way a series of accidental discoveries were made, not the least of which was e-mail. Almost immediately, e-mail became the most popular feature of the Net and the "@" sign became lodged in the iconography of our times. The ARPANET continued to grow, then merged with other computer networks to become today's Internet. In 1990, the ARPANET itself was shut down, fully merged by then with the Internet it had spawned.
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some one let me know if they have read this book....might have to search the local library
(geeze ...i had almost forgotten about them)