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We are running out of internet!
GameGrrl
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So Nemertes research is reporting that we're going to run out of internet, and soon there will start being 'brownouts' if you nasty people don't stop downloading all your bit torrents and youtubes and itunes:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6169488.ece
Damn you 'net hogs'! Stop ruining my internet!
But this is the more interesting story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/suckered-by-astroturf_b_73483.html
All of which has me wondering what will happen with Net Neutrality. It seems like the telcos want to gain far more control over content delivery, and move everyone to metered pricing. I live in Canada, where that's already happened and it's already made some broadband services impossible to use.
So aside from massive cleavage girl, does anyone know what's likely to happen with Net Neutrality in the States and Canada?
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6169488.ece
While the net itself will ultimately survive, Ritter said that waves of disruption would begin to emerge next year, when computers would jitter and freeze. This would be followed by “brownouts†– a combination of temporary freezing and computers being reduced to a slow speed.
Ritter’s report will warn that an unreliable internet is merely a toy. “For business purposes, such as delivering medical records between hospitals in real time, it’s useless,†he said.
“Today people know how home computers slow down when the kids get back from school and start playing games, but by 2012 that traffic jam could last all day long.â€
Engineers are already preparing for the worst. While some are planning a lightning-fast parallel network called “the gridâ€, others are building “cachesâ€, private computer stations where popular entertainments are stored on local PCs rather than sent through the global backbone.
Telephone companies want to recoup escalating costs by increasing prices for “net hogs†who use more than their share of capacity.
Damn you 'net hogs'! Stop ruining my internet!
But this is the more interesting story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/suckered-by-astroturf_b_73483.html
The Roots of Astroturf
In this case, Lieberman might have told readers that Nemertes is a research group funded by the Internet Innovation Alliance, an "Astrtoturf" group underwritten by AT&T.
"The IIA has been pushing the idea of a looming 'exaflood' for some time, with the primary goal being industry deregulation," writes Karl at Broadband Reports. "The argument being that if these companies don't get exactly what they want from lawmakers in Washington, the entire Internet collapses and we're back to using soup cans and string."
The USA Today story leaves readers with the impression that Nemertes reached its conclusion for the good of the public interest and not simply by following a script that was pre-ordained by the telcos.
All of which has me wondering what will happen with Net Neutrality. It seems like the telcos want to gain far more control over content delivery, and move everyone to metered pricing. I live in Canada, where that's already happened and it's already made some broadband services impossible to use.
So aside from massive cleavage girl, does anyone know what's likely to happen with Net Neutrality in the States and Canada?
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also I like the phrase astroturfing
he's already on air force one, flying down to the internet to assess the situation first hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t89WwcsOj9U&feature=channel
that shit is mad gay, aight
Hopefully he has plenty of ammunition with him. Shit's gonna get brutal.
I thought that only some of them were? I knew that the republican party got on board and was trying to get involved as much as possible, but thought that a good many of them actually were locally organized.
meet me around some day and maybe i'll teach you a few astroturfing tricks
seriously, I saw an ad on tv for that service and of course my area is not in service
fortunately the glass is not bullet proof. sir.
a) makes you format your address in a nonsensical way
b) if they don't have service in your area, it doesn't tell you this but simply says it couldn't recognize your address
Welcome to astroturf.
Study: Internet could run out of capacity in two years
From Nov 19, 2007
They didn't know what they were signing up for.
so you've moved on from granny fanny porn?
it's even done by the same group!
Just add more tubes/buy more trucks
So you're not into bondage then?
You probably won't. Probably.
Or do they smoke astroturf?
It's such an artificial high.
They?
Yeah, them. Whoever. The guys that want to reduce my access to porn. Maybe that old Alaska Governor Senator guy.
I would win at that.
HO HO HOOOOO