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75% of Network Connections Not From Browsers
Trailwalker writes "An article at BigBlueBall.com states that 75% of web connections do not use a browser. IM and P2P applications are used instead." While surprising, this is probably more indicative of how instant messaging has been able to complement and/or replace email in recent times.
How often do you get pr0n/anime/music/movies over http? That's what I thought.
My life's goal is to get a score of +3!
...to browse the web without using a web browser.
Well,
My 4000 song lawrence welk collection just got found out....
I thought I was doing the music world a favor, renaming song , and artists like shaggy with welk tunes behind em...
Guess Ill have to go back to spam for a living....
After 'bigblueball.com' gets /.'ed I think their 75% claim will change a little.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein
That probably gets balanced a bit by the HTTP connections from people still infected with Code Red.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I beg to differ.
Come on, let me differ!
Well we get the ocassional straggler at my place of employment, but if you scan the network, call the customer up and tell them to fix their machine it gets rid of the problem. Guess thats not an option if you a no frills ISP though.
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Well, obviously its sending all your personal information back to Redmond. This enables Microsoft to better understand their user base. It also presumably allows the government to determine who's a terrorist. If WMP plays a lot of Toby Keith, you're a good American, but if you are listening to REM, you are potentially a suvbersive terrorist type and they are going to be keeping an eye on you. That is why I wear this tinfoil hat and run only GNU Hurd on my computer. "The next fifty years will be like the last fifty years, only replace commun- with terror-"
Unknown host pong.
Which worm is the one responsible for all the ARP who-has spam I'm still getting?
And what's with this HTTP nonsense? Why would anyone use anything but Gopher?
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I think someone needs a hug!
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main backbone server? what the hell is that suppose to be?
I've still got the logs on my machine, and I'm thinking about putting them up in a section on my web page.
Here's an excerpt from a good one:Or this one...Thankfully, it's stopped... but it was entertaining for a while.
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Is there anyone out there that doesn't use at least one of; email, ftp, irc, IM, streaming media, news or ssh outside of a browser at some time...
After performing an in-depth study of the article summary, I estimate that 24% of people don't do any of these things.
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dude, what kind of family and friends do you have? You must have mentioned at least 20 acronyms alone in your post...
The other 75% of the people are telnetting to port 80 and entering the GET and POST commands by hand.
;)
Well, maybe not ALL of those people are doing that, but the cool ones are
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
If smoking dope was any good for you they'd call it brilliant!
or by making them fail the Turing test.
:)
snuglybaer493 (1:40:12 AM): cool. i was just hangin out. kinda bord.. kinda horny
kwabla78 (1:40:27 AM): are you horny like a rosebush?
snuglybaer493 (1:40:33 AM): should i take that as a yes?
kwabla78 (1:40:34 AM): or wait... was that "thorny"
So... which one is the bot?
I'd say that email was UnDead... it's like an evil zombie that wants to eat your brains.. and increase your penis size.
I don't know what the main backbone server is either, but it better have one mother of a UPS or the whole Internet could go down in a power outage ...
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