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VoIP, WiFi and the Future of Traditional Telecom
PetiePooo writes "Those of us in the telecom industry have been watching it wither and die in the past few years. Here's why. The Register has an article about the future of mobile communications using VoIP on WiFi. From the article: "... voice over IP would gradually come to be a prime driver of mobile Internet." VoIP has been considered by many for a while now to be the future of traditional telephony. Combining VoIP and WiFi makes a compelling argument for the convergence of voice and data services over a single platform. Here's a previous slashdot discussion on industry's efforts to make this happen."
I'm in favor of natural selection. If you can't live in your current condition without prolonged medical aid, you can go on and die. This includes: people in comas, people who are too fat to move (remember that Jerry Springer?), and Keith Richards.
I'm in favor of people's right to throw away their lives however they want to. If people want to do heroin or race their cars down deserted mountain roads without seatbelts, let 'em. The government has no right to tell people how they can and cannot die.
I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. See above.
I'm in favor of corrupting the youth. Might as well go on and get it over with. Has to happen sometime.
I'm in favor of sex and violence on TV. I like to watch people get beat up. I like to watch scantily clad women cover each other in canola oil. Sue me.
I'm in favor of eating whatever you want in whatever amount you want whenever you want. Every time someone tells me "Oh, that's not good for you!" or "Murderer! You killed that [insert animal here]," I feel like screaming, "I'm the top of the food chain, baby! I'll eat what I want!"
I'm in favor of the brutal beating of Joel Schumaker, but that's another story.
I'm in favor of the death penalty. I think it should be televised. You could make serious money by putting that on pay-per-view. That money could go towards paying back for the untold thousands of dollars that was wasted by keeping that waste of skin in a nice prison cell for a dozen years or more.
I'm completely in favor of making a mockery of things that most people hold dear. I try to make a mockery of at least one highly revered thing each day. Nothing is sacred. Nothing. I reserve the right to make fun of anything or anyone for any reason, just as I will respect other people's right to make fun of me for whatever reason they choose.
I'm in favor of any group that pushes at the bounds of reasonable society. I may not personally approve of their beliefs or their methods, but these groups keep society from becoming stagnant. Stagnation of a civilization is a deadly thing, and it should be avoided at all costs.
I'm in favor of change.
I'm in favor of people who think for themselves. I'm in favor of doubt and questioning. Never take anything for granted. Never accept what you are told. Doubt, think, question everything. This is the only way that you can ever truly call yourself free. If you take things as they are given to you at the word of others, then you are enslaving yourself to the thoughts of others.
I'm in favor of sex. Well, I would be if I could get any...
I'm in favor of opposing the man.
I'm opposed to oppression of any form.
I'm opposed to stupidity. If you're stupid, learn something! Anything! Honestly people...
I'm opposed to the senseless beating of Joel Schumaker by a band of masked hooligans. I should be allowed to do it.
I'm opposed to me having children. I don't like children. I really, really don't.
I'm not Seth.
It is official -- Slashdot is now reporting that circuit switching is dying.
One more crippling bombshell crushed the already beleaguered circuit-switching community when slashdot.com community didn't care that the use of circuit switches has dropped yet again. Coming on the heels of a recent Usenet survey which plainly states that circuit switches are boring, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Circuit switch use is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in the recent Cowboy Neal polls.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict circuit switching's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Circuit switching faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for circuit switching because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for circuit switching. As many of us are already aware, the circuit switch continues to lose relevence. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Fact: Nobody cares Michael
I'm not Seth.
Without a new theme you have no future. Go here to see the future of yesterday.
This story doesn't have anything to do with SCO! Come on, where's today's SCO story? This isn't funny, man, I need my fix!
the parent has goatse.cx issues. follow that
link at your own risk.
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
The aforementioned "parent" is a harmless picture of a fully-clothed man holding a road cone between his legs (not up his arse though). I thought it was a funny parody of the original goatse but i guess some people just have no sense of humour.