Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Issues for the Internet Society

Posted by michael on from the if-only-enough-people-cared dept.

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."

5 of 132 comments (clear)

  1. FUCK YOU, MICHAEL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    *_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_
    g_______________________________________________g_ _
    o_/_____\_____________\____________/____\_______o_ _
    a|_______|_____________\__________|______|______a_ _
    t|_______`._____________|_________|_______:_____t_ _
    s`________|_____________|________\|_______|_____s_ _
    e_\_______|_/_______/__\\\___--___\\_______:____e_ _
    x__\______\/____--~~__________~--__|_\_____|____x_ _
    *___\______\_-~____________________~-_\____|____*_ _
    g____\______\_________.--------.______\|___|____g_ _
    o______\_____\______//_________(_(__>__\___|____o_ _
    a_______\___.__C____)_________(_(____>__|__/____a_ _
    t_______/\_|___C_____)/______\_(_____>__|_/_____t_ _
    s______/_/\|___C_____)michael|__(___>___/__\____s_ _
    e_____|___(____C_____)\______/__//__/_/_____\___e_ _
    x_____|____\__|_____\\_________//_(__/_______|__x_ _
    *____|_\____\____)___`----___--'_____________|__*_ _
    g____|__\______________\_______/____________/_|_g_ _
    o___|______________/____|_____|__\____________|_o_ _
    a___|_____________|____/_______\__\___________|_a_ _
    t___|__________/_/____|_________|__\___________|t_ _
    s___|_________/_/______\__/\___/____|__________|s_ _
    e__|_________/_/________|____|_______|_________|e_ _
    x__|__________|_________|____|_______|_________|x_ _
    *_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_e_x_*_

    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!!!

  2. I AGREE WITH THE FIRST POST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Michael is a homo.

  3. What We Can Learn From BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What We Can Learn From BSD
    By Chinese Karma Whore , Version 1.0

    Everyone knows about BSD's failure and imminent demise. As we pore over the history of BSD, we'll uncover a story of fatal mistakes, poor priorities, and personal rivalry, and we'll learn what mistakes to avoid so as to save Linux from a similarly grisly fate.

    Let's not be overly morbid and give BSD credit for its early successes. In the 1970s, Ken Thompson and Bill Joy both made significant contributions to the computing world on the BSD platform. In the 80s, DARPA saw BSD as the premiere open platform, and, after initial successes with the 4.1BSD product, gave the BSD company a 2 year contract.

    These early triumphs would soon be forgotten in a series of internal conflicts that would mar BSD's progress. In 1992, AT&T filed suit against Berkeley Software, claiming that proprietary code agreements had been haphazardly violated. In the same year, BSD filed countersuit, reciprocating bad intentions and fueling internal rivalry. While AT&T and Berkeley Software lawyers battled in court, lead developers of various BSD distributions quarreled on Usenet. In 1995, Theo de Raadt, one of the founders of the NetBSD project, formed his own rival distribution, OpenBSD, as the result of a quarrel that he documents on his website. Mr. de Raadt's stubborn arrogance was later seen in his clash with Darren Reed, which resulted in the expulsion of IPF from the OpenBSD distribution.

    As personal rivalries took precedence over a quality product, BSD's codebase became worse and worse. As we all know, incompatibilities between each BSD distribution make code sharing an arduous task. Research conducted at MIT found BSD's filesystem implementation to be "very poorly performing." Even BSD's acclaimed TCP/IP stack has lagged behind, according to this study.

    Problems with BSD's codebase were compounded by fundamental flaws in the BSD design approach. As argued by Eric Raymond in his watershed essay, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, rapid, decentralized development models are inherently superior to slow, centralized ones in software development. BSD developers never heeded Mr. Raymond's lesson and insisted that centralized models lead to 'cleaner code.' Don't believe their hype - BSD's development model has significantly impaired its progress. Any achievements that BSD managed to make were nullified by the BSD license, which allows corporations and coders alike to reap profits without reciprocating the goodwill of open-source. Fortunately, Linux is not prone to this exploitation, as it is licensed under the GPL.

    The failure of BSD culminated in the resignation of Jordan Hubbard and Michael Smith from the FreeBSD core team. They both believed that FreeBSD had long lost its earlier vitality. Like an empire in decline, BSD had become bureaucratic and stagnant. As Linux gains market share and as BSD sinks deeper into the mire of decay, their parting addresses will resound as fitting eulogies to BSD's demise.

  4. THIRD TIME'S A CHARM! FUCK YOU, MICHAEL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    *_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_
    g_______________________________________________g_ _
    o_/_____\_____________\____________/____\_______o_ _
    a|_______|_____________\__________|______|______a_ _
    t|_______`._____________|_________|_______:_____t_ _
    s`________|_____________|________\|_______|_____s_ _
    e_\_______|_/_______/__\\\___--___\\_______:____e_ _
    x__\______\/____--~~__________~--__|_\_____|____x_ _
    *___\______\_-~____________________~-_\____|____*_ _
    g____\______\_________.--------.______\|___|____g_ _
    o______\_____\______//_________(_(__>__\___|____o_ _
    a_______\___.__C____)_________(_(____>__|__/____a_ _
    t_______/\_|___C_____)/______\_(_____>__|_/_____t_ _
    s______/_/\|___C_____)michael|__(___>___/__\____s_ _
    e_____|___(____C_____)\______/__//__/_/_____\___e_ _
    x_____|____\__|_____\\_________//_(__/_______|__x_ _
    *____|_\____\____)___`----___--'_____________|__*_ _
    g____|__\______________\_______/____________/_|_g_ _
    o___|______________/____|_____|__\____________|_o_ _
    a___|_____________|____/_______\__\___________|_a_ _
    t___|__________/_/____|_________|__\___________|t_ _
    s___|_________/_/______\__/\___/____|__________|s_ _
    e__|_________/_/________|____|_______|_________|e_ _
    x__|__________|_________|____|_______|_________|x_ _
    *_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_e_x_*_

    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!

  5. Re:THE BIG ISSUE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    > 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.
    You belive everything the media tells you?
    Sadam isnt the bad guy pictured by Bush - he's just as bad as Bush. If you remove one - remove the other one as well.
    He was put in charge and supported by the US regime and when he finally decided to no longer help them make more money and control the world they made a bad guy out of it. The media just reprints everything the CIA releases as a goverment agency never lies.
    What you belive in is just political marketing.
    Think anyone would support the war if Bush said that the war is just to make his militaly and oil industry buddies some money?

    When Bush talks about the New World Order its sound remarkably like Hitler talking about the Great Third Reich.
    The Germans didnt notice Hitlers true intentions at first - as Americans do not notice Bush's true intentions now.