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Death of Internet Predicted: Film at 11
Remik writes "The Register has a piece analyzing several threads of Lawrence Lessig's blog, and concluding that the Internet as we know it is dying. For anyone who reads the majority of YRO posts, Lessig's blog is one of the most important sites on the net." Another submitter summed it up well: 'Lessig is predicting that the days of the Commons of the Internet are over, and that as a result of FCC deregulation, the concentration of digital rights in the hands of just a few large media companies will kill the internet for good. Even former FOX and Vivendi executive Barry Diller has criticised the move.' We joke, but there are large elements of truth to Lessig's dour predictions.
Virus Myths by Rob
This website talks about hype on the Internet and the worst of the fear mongers.
Why slashdot? Why not?
This has really become as distorted as the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit. Please read this for the lowdown behind the wisecracks.
Modus Ponens has the following form:
P
If P then Q
Therefore Q.
Your argument did not contain a conditional (an "If P the Q" statement) so it cannot be an instance of Modus Ponens.
In fact your argument is an instance of the fallacy of composition (mistakenly transfering a property of a part to the whole).
"al gore never claimed to have invented the internet"
He sure did. His quote is "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet". In this context, invent = create (bring into being). In actual Internet history, it was created by 1973: 3 years before Gore got into Congress (and people had been working on it since the 1960s).
This has nothing to do with Republican smears. It has everything to do with what happened and when and what Gore said.
Actually WiFi IS capable of supporting hundreds of users. What it is NOT capable of doing is providing 100, 10 or even 1 MB of throughput to hundreds of users simultaneously.
If you combind multiple technologies with multiple channels spanning multiple sites you would be surprised the number of users that can be supported in any given area.
en masse
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1. Go here and have them remove your name. Don't give them money -- get out an index card, slap a 23 cent stamp on it, and mail it in. Same results, they get less money. It ain't perfect, but it will help.
2. Call your credit card companies. Ask them to be placed on their highest level of privacy list. Nearly all have one; you just gotta ask.
3. Do the same for your utilities, especially phone service.
4. Wait 3 months, and hten begin send back shredded crap in the postage paid envelopes.
For all you non-Americans... figure it out yourself.
Support a few technologists in Washington.
In Lessig's story he calls WiFi a lemon , and says the online experience is poor for most users .
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I think it is because AOL had 30+ million users
Spam sucks but it does not deter me in the least
Anything worth having is worth fighting for in my opinion
The 7-11 want it now, with homer simpson simplicity, does not
work well with the evolving creature that is the net
The average (l)user does not want to "learn" they want it served to them,
and do not want to download the latest plug-in or patch to make the newest coolest thing work
Our society has become lazy, and I have worked with these
"lazy" ppl as well, and they disgust me
Looking for any excuse to shrug off something they should
proactively take care of rather than reactively
Ppl often spend twice the energy pissing and moaning about
something, than the amount of time it would take a "informed"
user to make it happen
Back to WiFi, community Wireless LAN's where ppl share files, will take off
Rural communities with "zero" broadband can take 2 strands of
single mode long haul, and spray it from their water tower to
their whole small town
I am setting one of them up myself in a small town
I am setting it up as a Coop, the more ppl that sign up the
cheaper it gets because bandwidth is cheaper by unit
as it increases
A squid box to cache common sites, and monitoring to find
abusers , and rate limiting thru QoS if it is needed
A good BSD firewall to save shelling out a small fortune to Crisco
An ATM PCI card to bring in the pipe
This is happening in other places too, and will spread worldwide
802.11b is not going to redefine the net, or the world, but
it is going to make a super cheap last mile solution
We will not free outselves of the long haul carriers
for awhile, but bandwidth gets cheaper in bigger bundles
Coop's bypass the corporate cash cow collectors
www.cantenna.com is a sign of the changes to come
With better antennas, it will go further than a mile too , Ex.: Grid Antennas
Multiple yagi's pointing every 10 degrees, with sidelobe
shielding will provide plenty of bandwidth
After all the cell providers love to use water towers
for their antennas
Well I have rambled on enough
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"
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I am helping set one of these up in a small rural community
as a test bed for further expansion
It is going to be a Coop, which means as the # of users go up,
the cost goes down, and bandwidth is cheaper by the unit the more
of it you buy
Chk my lengthy post on it
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=64459&cid=5
WiFi may not save the internet, but it sure as hell is
about to change the last mile
Even the register says so ( big grin )
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/26
Peace !
Ex-MislTech
google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"