Internet an "Unreliable Toy" by 2012

[cletus_slackjawd]

SKYNET... Judgement Day...

 

[D2ModPlayer]

I'm only mentioning this because of everyone else talking about it. Free Porn? Well that's probably 30 percent or more of the traffic online. Eliminate that and we're up and running another few years. Great idea but it would never work.

But really. If all anybody used the internet for was free porn, I honestly don't care if the internet goes down. Maybe it would make the world a better place.

It can't be coincidence that on the same day cable companies abroad unite and state they want to charge for bandwidth and not speed is the same day someone wildly predicts the end of cyberspace in 2012. Am I right or what?

 

[AngryClown]

"The Internet, eh? I hear they have that one computers now" /Homer

The research company did what they were paid to do- don't throw them under a bus. It's what they do, regardless of who signed the check.

Someone mentioned spam- good point. 80-95 of all email traffic is spam. Throw THEM under a bus.

Someone else mentioned that the web is full of crap now. I couldn't agree more. When I do a Google search now, I skip past the first 10-20 pages.

I'm glad to have contributed this little turdnugget to the Intartubez.

 

[bill gates is your daddy]

[citation][nom]AngryClown[/nom]"The research company did what they were paid to do- don't throw them under a bus. It's what they do, regardless of who signed the check.[/citation]

You sir, are an idiot.

It makes all the difference who wrote the check. The "research" was slanted to the views and beliefs of companies like time warner. You don't find it coincidental that time warner tried to impose caps and everyone pushed back and started jumping their ship and going to competitors only to find that those same “test areas” were not going to benefit from docsis 3.0 anymore.

Does the coincidence not continue with we now have stories of how the bandwidth will be gone by 2012 (the powers that be love to keep throwing that date out) and now the American Cable Association wants bandwidth caps. Are you really going to take the stupid stance to believe that the ACA did not purchase that wonderful piece of “research”?

 

[starryman]

Doom and gloom story. Whatever. Eventually any discussion about bandwidth will be long gone. Let's not pretend to think bandwidth is "limited" and needs to be conserved like oil. Bandwidth is throttled and capped for money... In 2012 we may realize there's no need for ISPs since general / public bandwidth will be free. I'm interested in private Internet networks (next evolution of the web)...

 

[llemm]

Oh no! that means no more porn.... Just kill me please.. ^_^

 

[Guest]

I cannot believe how retarded the author of this is.
Get Stuffed.
Seriously, what are you smoking? it's not hash unles he's getting a real bad high from it.
What the author may not realize about the humble tcp/ip protocol is that it is a distributed system. Do you know what distribution is? it's means it's spread out, independantly networked. Sections of the network can collapse without problem. backup servers back up from the main servers and can handle loads if the main fail or need replacement.
Does the author of this piece of trash think that in the twenty six odd years that the internet has been around that the original servers have not failed once? or twice? or more?
If we're still dependant on those original servers than watch out! any day those first servers are going to collapse and WOE BE UNTO US! for the internet shall collapse without them!!!!!
Or... not.
packet switching was developed to prevent network collapse or dependancy of single servers or single backbones. The author of this waste of time should pull his head out of his sensationalist seeking editors ass and do some research before spouting off worthless hot air.

 

[DejaVuBoy]

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