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101 Ways To Save The Internet
captain igor writes "Wired news is running an editorial detailing 101 ways to save the Internet from spammers, crackers and smothering regulation. What does do Slashdot readers think of these suggestions, and what other options should be considered to keep the Internet from falling to evil forces?"
Simple: permit first posting on slashdot.
- Dark Helmet
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
Sex red light district? I know where I'm spending my time for now on.
First, we need to get a big-ass spotlight.
Next, get a big piece of cardboard and make a cutout of Tux. Remove the cutout and place the remaining cardboard over the lens of the spotlight.
Wait for a cloudy night, flip on the light, and wave it randomly around. Viola!
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
Is there no quality control there?
11 Larry Flynt, build a porn browser It should cover our tracks coming and going.
I think we all know that should read "coming and coming".
What do you mean "101 ways to save the Internet from spammers, crackers and smothering regulation"? I can list off twice as many as that without even taking off my socks.
24. Release Episode III on the Net It's going straight to video anyway.
Lets see how long it takes wired to get DOS'ed by the Star Wars geeks of doom.
And why did you staple the trout to the RAM?
Wait a minute, that has been done.
Sure no system is perfect, but it's better than nothing.
The owls are not what they seem
#0. The internet works great! Don't touch it!
But then they'd have to come up with so many more obscure Star Wars references...
Looks like geeks over at the Wired offices started drinking early.
> HTML email is an abomination that must be stopped. It's bigger than necessary, it's ugly and it's the spammer's friend. ...he says, hyperlinking the word "abomination".
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
Wired? This is the same Wired that gave us 101 Ways to Save Apple, with such great suggestions as "Admit it. You're out of the hardware game," "Sell yourself to IBM or Motorola," "Relocate the company to Bangalore," and "Invest heavily in Newton technology." Hilarious. Although there is one prescient thing in the article, which I'm not sure was intended seriously or was menat to be sarcastic (this was 1997 after all) - "It's Netscape we should really worry about."
I set up my filtering system to keep a list of spammers. Then, everytime I get a spam, I forward it to every address on that list. It might not be much, but at least it makes ME feel better.
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Crudely Drawn Games
Yeah! Great idea.
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Of course, with the porn sites easy to find, we wouldn't need the rest of the internet
Just look at the productivity increases slashdot has posted with several million brains collaborating together.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
Instead let's come up with a new, different markup language. No pictures. Everything should be plugins instead. If you need a graphic, use a plugin.
What? Worried that the mail recipient won't have the plugin? No problem. Enhance the e-mail standard such that the plugin executable is included as part of the e-mail message.
What's that you say? Incompatible executable formats? Nonsense. Everyone uses Windows.
The DRM system can keep track of which plugins were used to display your incomming e-mail and charge you accordingly.
This is a great plan....
- A new advanced markup language is created
- No more ugly text only messages!!!! Guaranteed attractive mail!!!
- E-mail messages will look better, therefore they must
- be more important
- have more intelligent content
- Plugin developer's benefit
- Microsoft benefits
- bandwidth providers benefit
- vendors of various parts of the e-mail infrastructure benefit from upgrades
- Spammers benefit
- Spam recipients benefit from more attractive spam
In short, everyone benefits.Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!
I was thinking Linux, but OK, I agree.
psst... we're allowed to swear here, ya fuckin wanker.
"Verbing weirds language." -- Calvin
Its true, the average Joe's understanding of computers is pretty poor. Consider the following actual exchanges I've had with people:
1. Best Buy
Me: Does this [digital] camera come with drivers for Linux?
Clerk: The drivers are for the camera and should work with any operating system.
Me: Goodbye
2. AOL vs. Internet
Name Withheld #1: If I switch from AOL, can I still buy stuff on Amazon.com?
3. A virus
Me: Hello?
Name Withheld #2: Mike, I think my computer has a virus.
Me: Why do you say that?
NW2: It says something about a disk error whenever I turn it on.
Me: Take the floppy out of the A: drive.
NW2: Wow! It works now! Thanks!
4. Giving away my old computer
Me: You can have this old Pentium.
Name Withheld #3: I don't need that part. I just need a screen and a keyboard to type letters and stuff.
Me: Yeah, but this is what makes it all work.
NW3: Oh, right.
Unknown host pong.
And, this guy obviously hasn't actually tried it...
http://www.amazon.com/wolf/wired
Sucker...
1. stop slashdotting helpless websites. :)
#102: Stop splitting up articles over multiple pages for the sole purpose of increasing advertising hits (or link directly to the printer version).