On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Matthew Petach <mpet...@netflight.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jim Popovitch <jim...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:06 PM, John Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote: >> > In article <ee045d19-797d-4346-8793-b854e528f...@email.android.com> you >> > write: >> >>The balkanizing of the Net? >> >> >> >> >> >>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/11/01/how-anti-nsa-backlash-could-fracture-the-internet-along-national-borders/ >> > >> > I expect we'll hear lots of pontification, quietly fading away when >> > someone explains to the pontificators just how expensive it would be >> > to do what they want, and ask where the money is coming from. >> > >> > It would be swell if Brazil routed its Internet traffic somewhere >> > other than Miami, for purely technical reasons of resilience and >> > shorter routes. But that would require a cable to other places >> > (Africa and Europe.) They can do that any time, so long as they pay >> > for it. >> >> I can't be the only one to have been following this 12.8TB of neat-o-ness: >> >> http://www.bricscable.com/ >> >> >> -Jim P. >> > > I wince for the copy-editor that missed the typo > in this headline: > > http://www.bricscable.com/blog/brics-scale-black-plan-to-challenge-west/ >
Yeah. I reported that to them over the Summer... hopefully their cable laying crew is more attentive to detail. ;-) -Jim P.
