From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Joe Barr"  wrote in message
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>
> > http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0106.barr.html
>
> You missed a few obvious ones.
>
> The music industry will realize that they are in a much deeper hole than
> they ever imagined, I've never know a company (or industry) who could piss
> off all their customers and not get in a hole.
>

Private jails? 


> The pendulum is going to swing back on copyright holders, they pushed, now
> it has no where else to go. Only question here is how far back. It's
already
> begun but I think this one is to become pretty much a world wide event.
>

Watch for the socialist countries in the WTO. It is a public good remember
& once the pendulum starts to swing (esp in a time of US economic
weakness)........

> the war on terror is going to further silence the security community. A
> major attempt by terrorists (unsuccessful attempt) to take down the
internet
> using dozens of known exploits will probably be the cause.
>

I think the security of the US will just end up in foreign hands (EU,
Russia, India, China) where security will stay an interesting & non
criminal line of enquiry. The Russians for instance take the stance that
having skillfull patriotic Russian crackers is a national security asset.


> A major backbone will begin providing IPv6 connections.
>
> laptop sales will outpace desktop sales for the first time in history.
(ok,
> maybe 2004)
>

Cough splutter....welcome to the dark side Geo......& shell will start
using clustered psx3'es for oil exploration 

adam

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