You don't feel that a device allowing you to utilize the service is in and of itself a service? Fine, I will use a different word to help you. Google, you are a product provider. Please focus on what your consumers want and not your own goals for the network.

Google: You are a service provider, it is not up to you to determine what is or is not a service. Apple: Please give me the option to simply autorespond to this garbage with "The user who have messaged can not receive messages from this device."

At first, I was reading this and thinking "where is all this sunspot activity taking place?". Glad I checked the Subject heading again.

It was a cool video, but the title leads me to think: Do you want Death Stars? Because that's how you get Death Stars. Before you reply, it's just a joke. Please breathe.

I suppose eating them and getting their genes MIGHT pass as Lamarckism (not really, but close) - but that's not Darwinism's mechanism. Insightful - is it though?

Capitalism itself is inherently Darwinistic, however what we experience is corporatism. Bailouts, writeoffs etc... allow businesses to flex in ways that are not inherently productive and as such this theory actually makes good sense.

Awesome image choice.

Cisco is not mentioned because Iran would not have bought there 1990s implementation of DPI. Nokia and Siemens are leaders at this, Cisco routes and tells it board that it does all things. We all know otherwise, Cisco routes, oh yeah and they can switch. Iran could not control the (Iranian) internet without Nokia.

the harder it's wound, the more likely it is to snap.

I thought it was "The more you tighten your' grip, the more Star Systems will slip through your' fingers."

A quick google search for "Big, Monopolistic Search Engines who crush competition" comes up with one response:
www.bing.com

My iPhone is obsolete again.... sigh

I agree about the topic being poison and it being a little too early for the administration to risk any poison. Obama has the chance to change the worlds view of America, but he must have political capital to do so. Yes, legalizing pot would gain him capital from some, but they would be people who buy,sell or smoke it and for the most part do not even pay taxes on it. Touching that issue would be to squander his ability to affect change, I for one am glad that he does not touch it at this time.

As last weeks story pointed out, the Iranians have created a single choke point for traffic. TOR traffic can be recognized by flows and even easier by an application aware firewall/IDS. The points where the TOR traffic comes into the country, each of those nodes risks physical detection. It is not known how much monitoring of internal traffic goes on, so perhaps it is safe for this but not for traffic outside the country.
The worst thing about this is that if internal traffic is well monitored they can map networks of TOR operators. The government creates an event worth mass twittering and watches the traffic going to the egress TOR routers, that helps them identify 1 layer away from the border. They then repeat that with each new host found until they have an accurate map of the TORosphere.

Now if I could only find a way to get management to read it.
Get it published in e-Week or some other "respected" trade publication.

My first cool computer job involved BBx code and gourmet food. One tasted really good, the other was over processed :-)