From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44CA19B5.4060505@village.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:05:41 -0400 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com References: <6585c39236c2e3f2ad32986b228e84f1@quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <6585c39236c2e3f2ad32986b228e84f1@quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 91f62d66-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 erik quanstrom wrote: > there wasn't any spam. =20 Ah yes, that's one thing the immigrants from our commercial online=20 services brought with them. Spam. Al Gore may have invented the Net, but=20 our users invented spam. > i don't think the evolution of the net (or computers for that matter) i= s a story=20 > of the good old days and constant regression or the converse. i think = it's a story > of (slightly? how pessamistic are you?) more advances than regressions= . > =20 I agree, but I'm real pessimistic about the next 5 years. Then after the fraud and anarchy force the world to institute a=20 universal ID-PKI with privacy protection, things will get better. --=20 Wes Kussmaul CIO The Village Group 738 Main Street Waltham, MA 02451 781-647-7178 My uncle likes to say that the world=92s biggest troubles started when th= e serpent said, =93Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people co= llectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it=92s the = same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.=94 I don=92t get the= serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a = bit obscure.=20 P.K. Iggy _How I Like Fixed The Internet_ (Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009 and the prosperity that followed)