From: jon@fourwinds.com (Jon Steinhart)
Subject: [TUHS] V7 Addendem [ really lawyers and AT&T consent decree ]
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:58:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201712061858.vB6IwcB8032748@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfo6Dyu3oULy+e+FpYqq5m+QuVVgk-dbMqMY=kYwFjjZxg@mail.gmail.com>
Warner Losh writes:
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Jon Steinhart <jon at fourwinds.com> wrote:
> >
> > During the primaries when Ted Cruz would stand up and hold a dial phone
> > and say "this is what government regulation got you" I always thought
> > "Yeah, give me more of that. It's 60 years old, still works better than
> > what you can get today, and if you hurl it across the room it'll still
> > work which is more than you can say for anything made post-split."
> >
>
> We traded reliability for cat videos and any kind of porn you'd ever want
> (and sever you wouldn't!)
>
> Warner
Exactly. I remember Dick Hause (?) doing a nice graphical demo on the Glance
G that showed how the phone system routed around faults and was able to because
of the "there shall be a minimum of three paths out of any exchange" rule. A
while back my long distance went out because someone hit a phone pole 40 miles
away. Couldn't even call to report it because support was in Seattle and there
was no path there from here; that was the only route.
Something to keep in mind with the internet. While TCP/IP is great for routing
around trouble it can only do so when there are alternate routes. Seem to be
fewer and fewer of these.
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-06 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-06 0:33 [TUHS] V7 Addendem Warner Losh
2017-12-06 1:07 ` Warren Toomey
2017-12-06 16:11 ` Random832
2017-12-06 16:15 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-12-06 18:39 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-06 18:49 ` [TUHS] V7 Addendem [ really lawyers and AT&T consent decree ] Jon Steinhart
2017-12-06 18:53 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-06 18:58 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2017-12-06 18:54 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-06 19:20 ` William Pechter
2017-12-07 14:26 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-06 19:23 ` William Corcoran
2017-12-06 20:30 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-12-06 23:59 ` George Michaelson
2017-12-07 14:03 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-07 15:34 ` William Corcoran
2017-12-07 5:08 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-12-07 15:09 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-11 18:17 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-11 18:39 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-12 0:27 ` Steve Johnson
2017-12-12 1:05 ` [TUHS] V7 Addendem [ really lawyers and AT&T consent decree ] [ and besides it's "Addendum" ] Jon Steinhart
2017-12-12 1:45 ` [TUHS] MERT? Larry McVoy
2017-12-12 2:09 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-12-13 17:09 ` [TUHS] V7 Addendem [ really lawyers and AT&T consent decree ] Jason Stevens
2017-12-13 17:05 ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-11 20:11 ` William Cheswick
2017-12-11 23:26 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-12-11 19:23 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 16:04 ` Random832
2017-12-12 1:28 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 1:42 ` George Michaelson
2017-12-12 2:04 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 2:17 ` George Michaelson
2017-12-12 13:59 Noel Chiappa
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