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Fun fact: Because of this phrase (In German „Datenautobahn“) the German digital ministry is docked to the ministry of transport…

sn41 4y ago
This makes sense. Cloud computing should be part of the Meteorology department!
- photochemsyn 4y ago
  The Department of Agriculture would beg to differ - clearly the oversight of server farms should be their responsibility.
  - boole1854 4y ago
    Unless the servers are doing machine learning, in which case that falls under the Department of Education.
    - RedShift1 4y ago
      Are these servers communicating internationally? The department of foreign affairs would like to have a word.
      - Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
        Department of Labor might have had something to say about crypto mining.
        therein 4y ago
        How about OSHA? Mines fall under our purview.
aspyct 4y ago
OMG this is... quite the misunderstanding -_-'
peteradio 4y ago
That's amazing, I don't even care if its true.
- instance 4y ago
  Check it out: https://www.bmvi.de/EN/Home/home.html https://www.bmvi.de/EN/Home/home.html "Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport"
  - mr_mitm 4y ago
    Doesn't confirm the "Because of this phrase" part of the claim.
  - mtmail 4y ago
    It got its current name 2013. It was a merger 1998 of "Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building" and the one responsible for transport. The urban development department was responsible for internet infrastructure not the transport one.
    - mcv 4y ago
      Shouldn't it be the ministry for infrastructure?
- kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
  Reminiscent of how New York transferred responsibility for the state canal system to the electric power authority because of NYSDOT mismanagement.
  - jamiek88 4y ago
    In Texas the railroad commission is super powerful and responsible for oil and gas leases.
mseepgood 4y ago
Shouldn't it be linked to the agricultural department because of the phrase "Neuland"?
gaius_baltar 4y ago
But it can only manage policies for Layer 4 and above, right? :)
Eduard 4y ago
Heavy "citation needed" here.
dredmorbius 4y ago
I recently learned that one of the major competition regulators in Germany is called the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur or BNetzA), which oversees electricity, gas, telecommunications, post, and railway markets. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Network_Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Network_Agency> Given my own relatively recent realisation that virtually all industrial monopolies can be considered (sometimes with some mental gymnastics) as networks, this is an interesting bit of confirmation.

sn41 4y ago

This makes sense. Cloud computing should be part of the Meteorology department!

photochemsyn 4y ago
The Department of Agriculture would beg to differ - clearly the oversight of server farms should be their responsibility.
- boole1854 4y ago
  Unless the servers are doing machine learning, in which case that falls under the Department of Education.
  - RedShift1 4y ago
    Are these servers communicating internationally? The department of foreign affairs would like to have a word.
    - Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
      Department of Labor might have had something to say about crypto mining.
      - therein 4y ago
        How about OSHA? Mines fall under our purview.

aspyct 4y ago

OMG this is... quite the misunderstanding -_-'

peteradio 4y ago

That's amazing, I don't even care if its true.

instance 4y ago
Check it out: https://www.bmvi.de/EN/Home/home.html https://www.bmvi.de/EN/Home/home.html "Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport"
- mr_mitm 4y ago
  Doesn't confirm the "Because of this phrase" part of the claim.
- mtmail 4y ago
  It got its current name 2013. It was a merger 1998 of "Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building" and the one responsible for transport. The urban development department was responsible for internet infrastructure not the transport one.
  - mcv 4y ago
    Shouldn't it be the ministry for infrastructure?
kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
Reminiscent of how New York transferred responsibility for the state canal system to the electric power authority because of NYSDOT mismanagement.
- jamiek88 4y ago
  In Texas the railroad commission is super powerful and responsible for oil and gas leases.

mseepgood 4y ago

Shouldn't it be linked to the agricultural department because of the phrase "Neuland"?

gaius_baltar 4y ago

But it can only manage policies for Layer 4 and above, right? :)

Eduard 4y ago

Heavy "citation needed" here.

dredmorbius 4y ago

I recently learned that one of the major competition regulators in Germany is called the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur or BNetzA), which oversees electricity, gas, telecommunications, post, and railway markets. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Network_Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Network_Agency> Given my own relatively recent realisation that virtually all industrial monopolies can be considered (sometimes with some mental gymnastics) as networks, this is an interesting bit of confirmation.