From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.inka.de)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 05:45:27 MST
<alexboko@umich.edu> wrote:
> Could it be that we were all wrong about the degree to which
> modern communication technology is resistant to centralized control?
Much of the Internet is not robust at all. The core may feature
multiple redundancy but most of the fringe passes through (multiple)
single points of failure. Redundancy is expensive.
> Has ANYBODY succeeded in getting either stills or video of the POW broadcast
> aired by the enemy TV network?
I'm under the impression that these were actually aired all over
the world, with the exception of the USA. German TV reported the
footage wasn't shown on US TV to spare the relatives of US servicemen
the humiliation to learn about their fate in the news but that one
"conservative" newspaper (the Washington Post, IIRC) had printed
stills on their front page.
I haven't even looked for online pictures, but I notice that the
Russian site I pointed to last night happens to have some stills:
http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news076.htm
(This site does have intermittent connectivity problems from my part
of the world, but that is not unusual for hosts in Russia.)
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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