Issues for the Internet Society

DenOfEarth writes "The Economist has published a series of articles detailing some of the issues facing our current society and the technological leaps and bounds that are leading to the future internet society. They include: Protection of Privacy, Constant internet connectivity, Copyright 's Role in the Future, Technology-based Democratic Process, Government Authority, and Social and Political Ramifications. There's a good deal of information to waste one's time with here, but some good discussion is bound to come out of it."

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ONCE AGAIN, FUCK YOU MICHAEL!

[Anonymous Coward]

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MICHAEL! The most despised Slashdot editor! You are a goddamn, motherfucking, shit-snorting, baby-raping, piece of ass hypocrite! I want you to fucking commit suicide! Do us all a favor!

Testing out your new friend-whore Slashkode patch this morning, eh? You want people to befriend you? Then how about you become a good editor for once! You goddamn fucker, the only way you can get your friend list to above zero is to force people on it if they want to comment! You FUCKER! How fucking lame is that? Just admit the fact that you are a rampant homosexual and you want attention! Just come out and admit you'd prefer to suck anonymous cock rather than spend another minute alone dealing with your pathetic existance!

I'd love to see some random slashbot punch you in what you would call a nutsack because of your faggotry! Holy shit, you fag, can you suck any more? If you could suck cock like you suck on this website, you'd be a homosexual LEGEND! Millions of fags would line up at your doorstep to be vacu-whored by your divine, cock-trained tongue! You'd never have to eat again, what with all that manjizz occupying your stomach! Free "food", the attention you crave, and sexual satisfaction is all within your faggoty grasp, if only you'd just post a story on Fagdot indicating your true preference!

In conclusion, michael, code slashkode all you want, but we all know what you are really after: Hot, gay, underage, pulse-pounding cocks spewing GNU/jizz down your pro-censorship throat! Quit wanking to pics of Richard Stallman and just come out! We all want you to!!!

ALSO, COMMIT SUICIDE, YOU GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKER!!

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[Anonymous Coward]

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THE BIG ISSUE

[Anonymous Coward]

The usa are still polluting bastards. They go around in their 1 mpg 10 tonne suvs causing global warming and the only reason why their going after Iraq is to sieze the oil fields. There are other, much more corrupt nations than iraq, but no geogre "wanker" bush wants the oil all to himself so he can buy more pretzals to choke himself with.

The rest of the world hates the usa. McDonalds has finally got the ass rape it deserved, and you all deserved to stuff yourselves.

When your all paying $5 a gallon like we do for your gas, you will scrap that fucking piece of shit you call an "suv" and get a nice clean small energy efficent car.

Capitalism : destroying the world for profit.

Re:THE BIG ISSUE

[Amsterdam Vallon]

They go around in their 1 mpg 10 tonne suvs causing global warming and the only reason why their going after Iraq is to sieze the oil fields.

A few clarifications, Sir:

The average SUV gets around 14 miles per gallon, not 1

The average SUV weighs between 2 and 3 tons, not 10. A 20,000 lb. vehicle would probably sink into the ground or something.

The temperature today in Miami, Florida was in the single digits, which shaterred all previous low temperature records. Where I live, it hasn't been above 20 degrees Fahrenheit for at least two weeks. What was that about global warming again?

I don't care even if Bush does have oil interests in the Middle East. If you're willing to defend a maniac killer like Saddam Hussein and argue that he should live a long, happy life, I think it's reasonable for you to support the US in their war against the real terrorists.

Re:THE BIG ISSUE

[stratjakt]

Feds just mandated 22 mpg for SUVs starting in 2005 (I think, pretty sure about the 22 mpg, not so about 2005 but it's soon enough). I recently bought a newer model Jimmy which gets 18 city, 21 hwy. Most modern SUVs are more station wagon than truck.

Also of note is the fact that there is more oil in Alaska than in Iraq. Iraq relatively has shit for oil, that's why they invaded Kuwait in the first place.

Mexico and Canada are also exceedingly oil rich, that'll be where we take our shopping in the future.

Oh, and it's not well known, but they have SUVs in other countries too. I saw Crocodile Hunter driving around the outback in one. And he calls himself a nature lover.

In Soviet Russia...

[-1bynextweek]

The future was NOW!!! Er, THEN!!!

(Also, prognosticating economists were sent to the gulag...as is only right)

everybody knows

[Anonymous Coward]

linux is SOOOO much better than micro$oft!!!

Re:everybody knows

[Anonymous Coward]

no way! microsoft [windows] is SOOO much better than linux!!!

fanboy

[Anonymous Coward]

if I ever MEEPT you, this will be you

Issues for the Slashdotters

[Amsterdam Vallon]

Unlimited moderation points for editors, which often leads to the so-called "bitchslapping" of comments into oblivion

Development testing of the Slash code on a live site, which results in lots of reboots and downtime

No story queue/voting

No poll queue/voting

No forum

Six years of the same hugely HTML-intensive and table-heavy code

As for the puke green color scheme, I've kinda taken a liking to that ;-)

Check out *nix.org , a dynamic, informative, and fun portal for fans of BSD, Linux, OS X, & Solaris!

~bv~ hi Psycho Les =)

[Anonymous Coward]

*smooch*

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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This article sucks...

[Anonymous Coward]

Mod PARENT up...

Re:My that's a long list

[Anonymous Coward]

give up advertising your stupid website its useless