World Telecommunication Day 62
Paul McCord writes "The International Telecommunication Union is asking everyone to join in for World Telecommunication Day 2003, Saturday, May 17. The ITU suggests that this is 'an excellent opportunity to launch public campaigns and advocacy activities in favour of greater access to [information and communication technology] and how the work of ITU helps all of the world's people to communicate.' It may be a bit late to join in on some of the official activities, but awareness if nothing else will help to serve the day's purpose. See the WTD2003 site or this Google News query for information, links."
A little notice? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:A little notice? (Score:2)
Re:A little notice? (Score:2)
I only posted it because I read of the "holiday" on the UN web site, and I realized that I knew nothing about it, so I figured most Americans didn't. In any case, I acknowleged that the story was late getting to the public, but at least we might be prepared next year.
(And let's not underestimate the oversh
Re:A little notice? (Score:2)
This was not intended to be a troll, I'm an American. This is how my co-workers think. Ya dig?
Hmm (Score:3, Interesting)
Day taken! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Day taken! (Score:2)
Re:Day taken! (Score:1)
Celebrate World DRM Day 2003! (Score:1, Funny)
This is great and all (Score:1, Interesting)
Long live global capitalism then eh?
Re:This is great and all (Score:1)
Capitalism is where the money is
Re:This is great and all (Score:1)
Better idea (Score:4, Funny)
*shrug* (Score:2)
Re:*shrug* (Score:2)
Depending on your broadband carrier, the $10 or $20 difference may go a long way towards paying for that broadband connection.
-Rusty
Re:Better idea (Score:2)
Re:Better idea (Score:1)
cool ! (Score:2)
Re:cool ! (Score:1)
Is this really sanctioned? (Score:2)
When we all have telecommunications like North Korea, Cuba and soon-to-be Venezuela then the workers [workers.org] struggle will be complete!
Ooops! Sorry, forgot one. (Score:2)
Telecom is dead (Score:2)
Re:Telecom is dead (Score:2)
Nice to meet you, I live in Reston, VA, home of another of your empty buildings, along with plenty of empty Teleglobe buildings scattered about.
However, Nextel has a nice "new" building, right down the street from all of AOL's IP addresses (on Sunrise Valley Dr) and along the same road as several Sprint facilities.
Also, the defense contractor that I work for is taking over one of the many empty MCI buildi
Wellllll... (Score:4, Insightful)
field day? (Score:3, Insightful)
respond to sig: (Score:1)
Every Day is World Telecommunication Day for me! (Score:3, Funny)
(Please don't mod me as a troll. I'm sorry)
Re:Every Day is World Telecommunication Day for me (Score:2)
Who is the more trollish? The troll, or the troll who lives like him?
article incase of slashdotting (Score:2, Informative)
Today's telecommunication world would not be what it is without the untiring efforts of the ITU to help countries harmonize their national policies, bridge technological differences, foster interconnectivity and interoperability of systems on a global scale. Anytime, anyone makes a phone call, checks their email, watches television or surfs the Web, they benefit from the work of the world's first universal organization: ITU. For over 135 years, ITU has been he
ICANN (Score:5, Interesting)
Perhaps World Telecommunications Day would be a good opportunity for the ITU to put this agenda forward.
ITU is anti-democracy, anti-access to technology (Score:3, Interesting)
I for one could not imagine anything worse.
The ITU takes every available opportunity to put itself between enabling technologies and the people who could benefit from them.
Here's what the intern
Re:ITU is anti-democracy, anti-access to technolog (Score:2)
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[tom@cougaarforge tom]$ telnet www.itu.int 80
Trying 156.106.192.163...
Connected to www.itu.int.
Escape character is '^]'.
get / http / 1.0
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 20:25:29 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_jk/1.2.1 PHP/4.0.6
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
400 Bad Request
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
The request line contained invalid characters following the protoc
heh (Score:1)
The same ITU that refuses to drop the Morse Code requirements for ham radio licenses under 30Mhz?
Re:heh (Score:1)
Code (Score:1)
My code sucks, but it still always gives me a thrill to get through clearly when SSB is just a wispy modulation on the noise.
Telecommunications day? (Score:3, Insightful)
73 DE KE6ISF
Re:Heh (Score:1)