[52223] in Cypherpunks
Re: Jump Start ecash With IPhone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (eggplant)
Sat Mar 16 03:10:52 1996
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 02:08:37 -0600
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: eggplant@inlink.com (eggplant)
>>(deleted)
>
>Granted. Of course it is quite a jump to claim that a software program is a
>"Long Distance Carrier." If I run Winsock on my machine and a Winsock
>application like Iphone, if anyone is the LD carrier, *I* am because I am
>digitizing my voice and doing the first part of the switching necessary to
>send the packets on their way. Maybe the FCC should bust *me* for
>practicing telecommunications without a license. It would make for an
>interesting case.
>
>DCF
So is telecommunications defined as voice transmision? Couldn't Cu-Seeme be
defined as telecommunications also? Or how about the transmission of
digital data in general since that's one place where telecom companies are
investing.
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didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came
for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak
up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for
Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me-and by that time no one was left to
speak up..." Pastor Martin Niemoller
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