EU: Intel vs AMD Antitrust, Listing Oil Rig--Gulf of Mexico, Listing Freedom--Internet CONTROL!

EU antitrust regulators raid Intel offices

European antitrust regulators raided Intel Corp. offices Tuesday, two weeks after rival U.S. chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices filed a lawsuit claiming Intel used its market dominance to bully computer makers away from using AMD chips. [. . . . ]

BP works to right huge U.S. drilling platform -- Thunder Horse facility listing in deepwater Gulf after Hurricane Dennis

Thunder Horse, the largest platform in the Gulf of Mexico, is the center of the Thunder Horse field, located about 150 miles southeast of New Orleans in about 6,000 feet of water. Until the accident, BP expected it to begin producing oil — as much as 240,000 barrels per day — in late 2005. Exxon Mobil Corp. is a partner in the project.

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Will the U.N. run the Internet? -- An international political spat is brewing over whether the United Nations will seize control of the heart of the Internet July 11, 2005, Declan McCullagh, MSN News

U.N. bureaucrats and telecommunications ministers from many less-developed nations claim the U.S. government has undue influence over how things run online. Now they want to be the ones in charge.

While the formal proposal from a U.N. working group will be released July 18, it's already clear what it will contain. A preliminary summary of governmental views claims there's a "convergence of views" supporting a new organization to oversee crucial Internet functions, most likely under the aegis of the United Nations or the International Telecommunications Union [. . . . ]

Digression: The U.N. thinks about tomorrow's cyberspace

The ITU, a United Nations agency, would like to change that. "The whole world is looking for a better solution for Internet governance, unwilling to maintain the current situation," Houlin Zhao, director of the ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, said last year. Zhao, a former government official in China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, has been in his current job since 1999.

[. . . . ] CNET News.com recently spoke with Zhao about the ITU's increased interest in the Internet and its involvement in a series of meetings that will conclude in November with a U.N. World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia. [. . . . ]

People talk about whether we should have a new agency rather than give it to an existing agency. But if ICANN, ITU, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) see each other as complementary and try to work together, we don't need to have a special (Internet regulatory) agency to be established.

[. . . . ] The nuclear option could create a Balkanized Internet where two computers find different Web sites at the same address.

Beyond the usual levers of diplomatic pressure and public kvetching, Brazil and China could choose what amounts to the nuclear option: a fragmented root. That means [. . . . ]

Now, look at what countries the government and Canada Trade Missions have been courting. (Scroll down for more today on the Industry Department and Team Canada Missions abroad) Is there any connection between Brazil, China and the fact that our leaders--those with the most influence in most areas--in Canada are from the one province that is psychologically and philosophically, IMHO, more connected to France than to the English speaking world and the US? Mais, non! How could you suggest . . . ?

How many trade missions have there been to the English speaking areas of the world? How many English speaking immigrants are coming to Canada? Strangely, I have heard complaints that those wishing to immigrate to Canada cannot because the quota is too small; it must be, compared to that allotted other non-Anglo nation quotas.

Any monkey business going on . . . or is my cynicism working overtime? Perish the thought. There would be no connection between this and the movement of Canada's government ever closer to the European--actually, Paris style management and central control--in several areas. Think of those who tend to group themselves together in the UN for various votes against the US. No connection.



Hackers:

These %$^&#&!!! love control but transparency and disclosure--who they are and what their purpose is, is deeply hidden.

High rated hacks from hackers within these IP blocks, all within a few hours:

inetnum: 222.184.0.0 - 222.191.255.255
netname: CHINANET-JS
descr: CHINANET jiangsu province network
descr: China Telecom
country: CHINA


inetnum: 220.88.0.0 - 220.95.255.255
netname: KORNET
descr: KOREA TELECOM
country: KOREA


203.150.*.*
Thailand (high) [City: Bangkok, Krung Thep Mahanakhon]


66-160-*.*.
OrgName: Maryland Jockey Club
(Maybe they were interested in my gambling--sorry, gaming--posts?)
OrgID: MJC-1
Address: 3600 Fort Meade Road
City: Laurel
StateProv: MARYLAND
PostalCode: 20725
Country: US


210.109.*.*
Korea-KR [City: Seoul, Kyonggi-Do]
Normally, every IP must have a reverse DNS entry; however . . .
Reverse DNS "Reports that no PTR records exist" -- Response from the authoritative name server: ns2.epidc.co.kr.


How would you like to trust the Internet to a group under the aegis of the UN and currently led by China, whose businessmen / government principals are, apparently, interchangeable -- a group and spurred on by some of the world's most controlling regimes?

Can world government be far behind?

Think of free speech, the free-wheeling exchange of opinion and everything else, the innovation spurred on by collaboration and the spread of information. We may not like it all but I'll take that over the alternative. It will all be done "for the good of the children" and to end the spam ads touting dates, porn and that appendage which I lack. Well I can press "delete" faster than I can get rid of overweaning government, the corrupt and corruptible UN and Far Eastern / Third World control -- "for the good of us all". In a pigs eye!

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