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.
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.
But the logic of the internet has a strange way of frustrating such strategies.
For a certain breed of digital utopian, these were always supposed to be irrelevant arguments: eventually, they argued, the inherent logic of the internet would defy all efforts to control it.
Use logic or the internet to know what kind of points different Pokémon gives - Flying-types are usually fast (Speed), Rock-types are sturdy (Defense) etc.
Detour and return to Disney: In 1999, Yanover and a fellow Disney executive left the company to create a start-up called Ceiva Logic, which makes Internet-connected frames for sharing digital photos.
The line's a groaner, perhaps — I heard actual groans in an L.A. theater — but it tracks with the film's logic: life before the Internet, as well as modern-day life offline, is dirtier than life online.
"We only need to have faith that China has its own logic in terms of internet policy and it is made and runs in accordance with the country's fundamental interests," it added.
Perrow was mostly arguing against nuclear power plants, but much of his logic resonates in our Internet software as well.
Significantly, personalization and the ad-driven business logic of today's internet behemoths isn't designed to let the news media flourish on its own terms ever again.
The English version of China's Global Times said the glitch fueled "unnecessary speculation," noting that "we need to have faith that China has its own logic in terms of Internet policy and it is made and runs in accordance with the country's fundamental interests".
