It makes sense when it's something like old issues or fancy posters, but sense isn't really what eBay is all about, so I guess, according to internet-logic, it's only natural that someone would scavenge some bricks from the building where we were having our annual Vice Kills Texas and pretend they're of any monetary worth.
The Internet has a logic, a tempo, an idiom, a color scheme, a politics and an emotional sensibility all its own.
Re "Gaining Freedom by Modem" (Op-Ed, Jan . 28: Robert Wright argues that "resistance to the Internet's political logic will plainly be futile within a decade or two".
But the Internet has no political logic of its own; its logic is created by its users, administrators and regulators.
To byte the hand that feeds America v the world Financial misstatements I'm modified, buy me ReprintsThe Internet has turned that logic on its head.
Three decades later, with more and more vital computer systems linked up to the internet, could enemies use logic bombs to, say, turn off the electricity from the other side of the world?
Unlike networks run by, say, MCI or AT&T, which consist of routers connected by high-speed links, PlanetLab is an overlay network, one that runs on top of the Internet by way of logic and software.
No law of economics, no deep logic of Internet gestalt decrees that bandwidth must be paid for at my end of the line rather than at Google's.
"The greatest growth driver is the rapid public acceptance of the Internet," says Wilfred Corrigan, LSI Logic's lsi chairman, who oversaw the study for the industry association. "The electronic highway is paved with silicon chips".
In my article I wrote, 'Somebody has to teach the internet companies some basic logic -- anonymity and free speech are incompatible -- and Arianna is in a position to do it.' As many people don't seem to understand this point, I had better explain.
In the year after the law was enacted, less than seven per cent of spam complied with the requirements of the legislation, according to MX Logic, an Internet-security firm.
