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Words for the Day  Hegemony  Public Domain  Perpetuity

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“I like words – I lick them.” James Cavanaugh

Hegemony Leadership, predominance, preponderance; esp. the leadership or predominant authority of one state of a confederacy or union over the others: originally used in reference to the states of ancient Greece, whence transferred to the German states, and in other modern applications. -OED - the domination of one state over its allies or… Natives Immigrants Natives

 Who Owns the Internet  What is the Internet?  DARPA  Ma Bell  Circuit v Packet Technology

High Tech - Back in the day!

Packets in action  What is a packet and why should I care?

Ping  Packet Internet Groper. Send an Internet control message protocol (ICMP) echo request and waiting for a response. (Also called packet internet gopher). [ rwasher]$ ping PING ( ) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from : icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time=298 ms 64 bytes from : icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=293 ms 64 bytes from : icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=285 ms 64 bytes from : icmp_seq=3 ttl=241 time=302 ms ping statistics packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 4993ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = / / /6.347 ms, pipe 2

Traceroute [ rwasher]$ traceroute traceroute: Warning: has multiple addresses; using traceroute to ( ), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets ( ) ms ms ms ( ) ms ms ms ( ) ms ms ms 4 sl-gw21-rly-3-0.sprintlink.net ( ) ms ms ms 5 sl-bb21-rly-3-0.sprintlink.net ( ) ms ms ms 6 sl-bb25-rly-11-0.sprintlink.net ( ) ms ms ms 7 sl-bb23-sj-9-0.sprintlink.net ( ) ms ms ms 8 sl-bb24-sj-14-0.sprintlink.net ( ) ms ms ms 9 sl-bb20-ana-1-0.sprintlink.net ( ) ms ms ms ( ) ms ms ms 11 sl-st20-la-13-0.sprintlink.net ( ) ms ms ms 12 sl-internap-95-0.sprintlink.net ( ) ms ms ms 13 border20.po2-bbnet2.lax.pnap.net ( ) ms ms ms 14 myspace-2.border20.lax.pnap.net ( ) ms ms ms

Who Makes the Laws?  Wild Wild West!  Evolution of law  Driver’s licensing

Timeline of catch up!  The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 2000  The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986  Wire Fraud Act 1952  Communications Act of 1934  Mail Fraud Act of 1872

What does this have to do with ME!

STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS Students may also be disciplined for acts committed away from school property and outside school hours if the conduct is detrimental to the interest of the school or adversely affects school discipline or if the conduct results in a criminal charge or conviction. Regulation P, Page 12

 Smyth v. Pillsbury,

In the News The publication noted in a February 3, 2006 editorial that, "reporter Matt Donegan was fired this week for writing off-color and racially insensitive comments on his personal blog. He was off work at the time."

Right or Wrong? Other bloggers and defenders of free speech jumped to defend him. The American Civil Libertiesdeclined to do so because of Delaware's right-to-fire law.  Mr. Donegan worked for Mr. Flood (Editor), and part of his employment agreement is being an acceptable public representative of the Dover Post Co. Mr. Donegan violated that work agreement.

Paul Forbes from All Things Considered January 20, 2006 You know those classic words spoken by countless vice principals, I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record, well our records, all of them are permanent now. Besides, it's just so easy and efficient to keep track of everyone using big databases. Databases want to be merged. They cry out to be mined and turned into money or knowledge.

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