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Am 30.03.2013 16:11, schrieb Kevin Chadwick: |
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> On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:06:16 +0100 |
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> Norman Rieß <norman@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> As we all know everything works better and cheaper when things are |
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>> privatized |
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> Actually No it's not so simple at all. |
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> You get incompetence in private and public and you may be more likely |
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> to get away with it for longer in a public service than in a market with |
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> competition but there are many examples where things simply get worse. |
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> In the UK, water companies were privatisied and fat cats made lots of |
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> money letting the pipes deteriorate for future generations. |
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> British Telecom, well that's a mixed bag but it is certainly a |
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> tiny shadow of it's original self. |
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> We know ideals and theory hardly ever work but theoretically public |
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> should be much better when well managed. |
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> I wonder if ISPS wouldn't be handling things like TalkTalks |
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> Homesafe in such a stupid manner (across the board is where it is |
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> stupid, even for non users of the service) where they redirect all the |
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> http traffic through an undoubtedly insecure layer 7 handling huawei |
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> device with less commercial pressures or analysing bandwidth at layer |
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> 7 when they should be doing so more safely and completely at layers 3 |
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> and 4 leading me to believe they are not just thinking about bandwidth |
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> usage. Why does it matter if you download 1000Gb via torrents or http. |
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> ACKs can be managed in any case. |
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> I'm glad open source is beginning to make strides into public services |
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> as it should help put an end to expensive interoperability issues (if |
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> we stay away from non posix things like systemd, though even then |
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> shouldn't be too bad ;-)). |
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I think, you did not spot the sarcasm in what i said :-). |