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Auerbach on Internet Cruft
Captain Beefheart writes "Karl Auerbach has a story on CircleID in which he declares '...Between spam, anti-spam blacklists, rogue packets, never-forgetting search engines, viruses, old machines, bad regulatory bodies, and bad implementations, I fear that the open Internet is going to die sooner than I would have expected.' The Balkanization of the 'Net appears to be upon us."
Right after Usenet, *BSD, Stephen King, etc.
I can't say that I don't give a fuck. I've just run out of fuck to give.
"I feel that the Internet is our last source of un-censored and un-biased information."
I think you're forgetting about Fox News...
Do they count slashdottings as 'cruft'? Either way, this isn't going to increase their opinion of the internet now, is it?
Google cached copy of article.
Feel that power? That's mah MOUSING FINGER
The Internet is no longer the simple playground it was in the late 80s! Waah, no fair! I have to learn something new and deal with a giant, heterogeneous mass of losers, hackers, cluebies and porn stars instead of a half-dozen geeks futzing with the rack of 3 dusty 3B2s in the basement running on AUX ethernet taps.
Geesh, get over it pal, nothing is static.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
You either deal with the online idiots, or abandon the internet. The pros of the internet FAR outweigh the cons, IMO.
Frankly I dont see the spams and ddos attacks and blah blah that you all get so worked up over as much of a big deal. I get little spam, on the order of a couple dozen a year. Big ddos attacks on commercial sites have never really bothered me. Whoopty do.
There are jerks at the mall, but its still the best place in town to buy a new pair of pants.
"Elitist jackass thinks we need to abandon internet because he's offended by penis-enlarging spam". Big boo-hoo deal. You run off and start your own internet then. Those of us with balls (or a reasonable equivalent) will stick around here, thanks. Because it really isnt that bad.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
you misspelled 'faux' there. common mistake.
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
His server certainly died sooner that I expected.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Anyone manage to get the text of the article before the server died?
Read other comments much?
Computing survived 8088 processors running at 4.77 MHz, with only 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for storage. If computing can survive that, the Internet can survive anything.
1) (*)BSD is dying.
2) The Internet was built on BSD.
3) The Internet is dying.