Or – The Havenots become the Haves. Preamble It’s a well known fact that when placed under restricting circumstances, all animals will look for an escape or release from the restriction. “The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.” – John Perry Barlow. ——————————————————————————————————————————– The Article IRC stands for [...]
The new episode of House returned to Fox TV on Monday night at 8:00 PM after a two week hiatus in the US for the World Series. For us down-under (according to Nicky at Channel Ten Programming department,) we will have to wait for an as yet unspecified return date - Next year, but [...]
As regular visitors to this blog would know, we have a keen interest in how networking tools and technologies are being used to aid communication. One of the principal tools that we have watched and undertaken extensive research in is how P2P is used in conjunction with content of all kinds. The positioning of the [...]
Today we present a point of view that will offend many, please few, but will attempt balance the mainly conservative viewpoints and opinions that Perceptric strives for. “Conservative? Hah!” I can hear from the peanut gallery. “Conservative my arse! Koltai you’re nothing but a leftwing Bolshevist commie agitator.” Thank-you. You are right on [...]
Errata: It's been pointed out to me that Facebook just passed the three hundred million user mark and not the four hundred million. – Which obviously indicates early signs of dementia perhaps, on my part. – Hat-tip to David Goldstein from Link. Facebook has done more for détente and political stability than any other single [...]
I used to be a regular reader of the Australian Financial Review, known affectionately in Australia as the AFR. The AFR put up their website in late 1994 – making sure they didn’t miss the rush. Today, I compared this blog site with the readership of the AFR, So even though we don’t [...]
Part 1. – P2P is threatening the US Monetary system It took humanity 25,000 years to create the “perfect financial system” and less than a hundred years to destroy it. Perfect? Well that depends on who you are talking too. For sometime, we at Perceptric have been saying that the world needs [...]
Over the last six months, I have seen more countries agree to put up barriers against free speech, censorship, and political freedom than since the 50's. I refuse to believe that this is not an internationally organised, Government-to-Government co-ordinated action. I am concerned that when the public do realise that their legislators have sold [...]
The world is shrinking. The tyranny of distance has all but disappeared. And, as the world shrinks, the population becomes denser yet decidedly more insular. Not surprisingly, they have learnt that it costs money to breathe fresh air (Tokyo Oxygen shops), drive anywhere (road tolls), go to the beach (parking). Every time they turn [...]
War throughout the ages has been traditionally declared for the acquisition by one sovereign state (or Warlord) of another’s (sovereign state or Warlords') possessions. The legitimacy of the process is provided for by the Charters and Constitutions of nearly all of the World Governments.Censorship, introduced by those Governments has traditionally been in force to prevent [...]