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on Saturday June 04 2016, @07:58PM
from the getting-the-up-or-down-on-big-or-small dept.
from the getting-the-up-or-down-on-big-or-small dept.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/03/capitalize_internet_or_not/
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What say you?
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(Score: 2) by Whoever on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:38PM
So, these "hundreds and thousands of smaller internets" use IP addresses outside the RFC1918 and RFC 4193 ranges do they? They either use a globally routeable IP address and are part of the Internet, or they are a private network (internet, or perhaps intranet).
It's the whole "deciding to work together" part that makes it a single, named Internet. For example, what the author is saying is that the USA doesn't exist. Instead, there are millions of people who live together in part of North America.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:45PM
It's funny because you don't understand American federalism either. The United States of America is a Union of States in North America that decided to work together for the common defense.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday June 05 2016, @12:59AM
Works in theory. In practice? One word: Obamacare.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 05 2016, @07:10AM
That may have been the original idea. It's not the reality today.
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