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Online Population now Half Billion
mattvd writes "According to CNN, the number of people with Web access at home by the end of 2001 was 498 million." Not surprisingly, Asia is growing the fastest. It's amazing
that in only 10 years or so, the net has exploded so far, so fast, and now touches 10% of the earths population.
Just let me be the first to say, "Who else likes wood?"
Bullshit.
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wonder what's the online troll population by now
...and now touches 10% of the earths population.
That should be "now cause 10% of the earths popultion to touch themselves."
The Asian tendency toward unprotected sex and nonstop propagation is the real phenomenon. Big deal.
Do you expect to receive mod points for this?
A little known factoid about the linux kernel. It has an additional 'development' mode, known as 'exec' mode. Basically what this does is search through a binary whenever you start a new program, and pre-caches files it's likely to access. There were a few stability problems initially, which is why it's not on by default (kernels from 2.4 onwards have this support). /etc/profile.
To enable it, simply add the line 'exec true' to your
It should be enabled in global files, to allow all users to gain the benefit.
Just when I think I've seen every abuse of apostrophes possible here on Slashdot, I find a new one! Bravo!
AC
Internet for shopping? Surfing? C'mon.. They're all using it for pr0n!!
--sj
600 million chinese won't get online until it's free of cost, free of liberty and free of democracy.
Only 100 million indians can afford to eat 3 meals a day, how are 300 million starving indians going to care about the internet?
There isn't 40-50 million white or rich people living in africa, 10 million is more realistic.
Nobody needs the internet if they are censored or starving, there are more important things to worry about.
- Kaos games and encryption systems developer
D'oh...I guess virii aren't really spams...need more coffee. Crap! :)
But what does my opinion matter, I just vote here. It's not like I have any money or anything.
- all trolling aside - how many of those people will have access to goatse.cx? Porn. Nazis. KKK. Scientology. The Catholic church. Seriously. We take things like that for granted. Sure there's half a billion people online but without true freedom of information - there will be no online revolution.
No wonder we're getting so much Spam.
Have you ever said something you thought was funny and then the more you thought about it the more obvious it became that it wasn't... I extend my deepest apologies.
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Heck, this may be offtopic - but is the world getting richer? Is this a side effect of a more balanced globe?
I recently read that obesity is now a bigger world health problem than starvation. Maybe this is linked to big fat fibre optics becoming more common than shitty little modems.
Heck, half the US is now apparantly broadband. Despite all the negative publicity recently, it does feel like the net is a big old snowball that just wont stop rolling.....
I am a veteran and am availible for hugging, assorted stroking, or fondling at most any time.
Speaking of loose, I heard Sandra Bullock was in that movie.
Are we talking American billions or British billions ;)
;) )
British billion = one million million
US billion = one thousand million
Probably US billions. You'd think that this sort of thing would be standardised. (No, not standardized, standardised
who said it was, you fuckin' eurotrash
aint Euro =)
dude,
learn to use paragraphs.
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