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Television provider. Joining us on the communicators this week is representative greg walden, a republican from oregon, former chairman of the energy and commerce committee. Now, the Top Republican on that committee which sees a lot of telecommunications legislation. Our guest reporter, chris mills rodrigo of the hill. Congressman, youre retiring. Why . Rep. Walden i have had a great run. I have been at this 22 years in the u. S. House, the oregon legislature. Im not one of those members leaving cranky and angry. Democracy is built to be messy. Ive had a good run, ive enjoyed it, but it is time for somebody new to step in. My wife and i are ready to go take on some new challenge, of what i have no idea yet. I have been so busy, but it has been a great run. We got a lot done, so i am pleased with what weve done. Peter speaking of that, you are regarded as one of the Te ....
Republican from oregon, former chairman of the energy and commerce committee. Now, the Top Republican on that committee which sees a lot of telecommunications legislation. Our guest reporter, chris mills rodrigo of the hill. Congressman, youre retiring. Why . Rep. Walden i have had a great run. I have been at this 22 years in the u. S. House, the oregon legislature. Im not one of those members leaving cranky and angry. Democracy is built to be messy. Ive had a good run, ive enjoyed it, but it is time for somebody new to step in. My wife and i are ready to go take on some new challenge, of what i have no idea yet. I have been so busy, but it has been a great run. We got a lot done, so i am pleased with what weve done. Peter speaking of that, you are regarded as one of the Telecommunications Experts in the congress because of your background in radio and being on th ....
Well, i think the data i showed, especially that curve, pretty clearly demonstrates that that we can identify the vast majority but not all cases within 21 days. So when were talking about declaring a country free of disease, then twice that, 42 days is the criteria that w. H. O. Issues. And i think intuitively you can run the graph out there and you can see there are no new cases at the far end. So it seems to me that thats, that additional safety precaution is clear . No . Obviously not. One more response, yes. What would you say to that second little hunt when you looked at your very nice geometric distribution, roundabout 14 days, it looks like there was a small second peak . And i wonder, if an alert reporter were to ask you, does that suggest that the time point one should be later and that the true doubling is to take care of unexpected, unrecognized second outbreaks . Or is it really the doubling of the that, you know . Thats a good observation and i think you need to just keep ....
Cyberspace. It is a vast expanse of cyberspace, the fact that it touches everyone and soon it will touched almost everything and changes how people are going to think about it. When the internet was first built, infrastructure was not connected to it and didnt rely upon it. End users dont worry about the underlying security of the code, only that it worked. Governments didnt understand and didnt see why they should care about it. Nobody particularly care that the technologist set up the internet to be governed in a highly decentralized function outside of government based structures and they didnt incorporate strong security. But not everyone cares about these things, at least to some degree. Governments are waking up to the fact that they really need to care about what happens on the internet and how it works. For all sorts of reasons both good and bad. Companies are waking up to this fact and citizens are waking up to this fact. So as a result, what used to be able to be decided on a ....