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South Korea Plans National 100 Mbps Network
prostoalex writes "Korean Ministry of Information and Communication is planning to wire the entire country with high-speed 50-100 Mbps network. A total of $80.4 billion will be spent on the project that's expected to be completed in 2010."
As if those Zerg weren't fast enough already...
"It never got weird enough for me." - HST (RIP)
I'm convinced.
Selfish Koreans, they could have liberated an entire other country and freed them from an oppressive dictator and his sadistic cronies, giving future generations a chance to live in a decent world with some sense of empoerment. Instead they'll just be watching pr0n and spewing spam.
I'm sure the koreans are not that stupid, wiring everything with 100mbit meaning they'll probably put cat5 cables with 8 wires, which means the transition to 1000mbit will be easy.
And when in 2010 a korean kid will packet you with a 1gb connection, we'll see who's laughing.
By the way, i'm not korean.
KEKEKEKEKEKKEKEKEKE KTHX.
Dan.
Welcome, this is Sesame Street and today we'll learn the difference between North and South...
...and not to be out done, North Korean President Kim Jong Il has asserted that his country can compete with the decadent capitalist South by establishing the Socialist Communication Organization (SCO) to provide tin cans and string to 1 out of every 100 loyal members to the party.
-Crolis
Spam at the speed of light!
My mailbox can't wait!
Will more Koreans get first post, before even your hastily scribed ditty?
Classical Liberalism: All your base are belong to you.
Cute korean cam girls in superior definition and framerate video is what you should be thinking about.
With a network like this - that trend is going to continue.
sigs are natural, sigs are good, not everybody has one, but everybody should...
it's a small country...
2 1337 4 u!
It was a joke ;) ... and I meant Iraq not the US should get the ethernet.
I'd rather mod you 'arrogant'.
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In a surprise move, the North-Korean government has decided to counter this technological threat by, in turn, establishing a similar high-transfer network.
"We can not let ourselves be overwhelmed by capatalistic technocrat-pigs" said Kim, the leader of the country, in a speech directed at his communistic party. "We will therefor establish an ultra-modern network comprising of 56K modems, which will link all 5 computers in our country!"
You know, that's really the best thing about the U.S.A. We're a selfless honorable country that wants what's best for the rest of the world and is willing to put our money and lives on the line to ensure the world is a better place. Not many other countries in the world would be willing to sacrifice all that the U.S. has offered over the past 100 years to the cause of promoting global freedom. Non-Americans should feel damn lucky this country is around or they'd be goose-stepping to the tune of the Third Reich or the evil Soviet empire right about now. Instead the U.S. offers democracy with no expectation of payback. We single-handedly rebuilt all of Europe with the Marshall plan and do we ever get any credit from the Europeans and their revised history? Hell no.