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Broadband Access Leading to Internet Breakdown?
"Spam, adware, worms and viruses are now able to propagate much faster than ever before. Worms are also growing bigger, more advanced, as it's possible to transfer more viral code in less time. It's as if slow dial-up lines acted as a kind of immune system that prevented effective propagation of worms and made DDoS attacks so much less significant.
I'm not only worried about viruses and spam levels. Part of the reason the MPAA and RIAA are taking such an interest in Internet activity is that file sharing has become so much easier with the availability of broadband, and as usual there are murmerings of regulation. Before the broadband revolution, the involvement of the MPAA and RIAA in Internet affairs was small, and their argument was less convincing.
As broadband grows, will regulation become necessary not just to prevent illegal distribution of copyrighted material but more likely to protect Internet users from themselves (we're already seeing ISPs adding spam e-mail filtering to their default services, for example)? Will the Internet fall in popularity as it becomes more and more frustrating and dangerous to use, or will we simply see a massive improvement in coding practices and more secure software?"
That's all I have to say.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
I need to verify this, but it appears that users with a very low uid can move their post above other posts. Mods then go through and mod comments below this upgraded comment that say something similar as Redundant. This causes this low uid person to appear as if they thought of the idea and get the visibility and mod points for it, but in fact THEY STOLE THE COMMENT! Has anyone else found this to be the case?
There is also a group of idiot mods running over the threads modding anything they dont understand as Troll. There have been some very intelligent comments recently that have been modded as Troll, purely because the mods either didnt get the joke, or the post does not follow the slashbot groupthink.
How many others have been experiencing the above mod abuses recently?
Are slashdot editors bias?
Yes, they love linux.
Yes, they hate microsoft.
No, it just seems that way because Linux is awesome!
No, it just seems that way because... because I said
Pull the plug now! We can't let Skynet take over.
that must be the greatest poll service i've ever seen. (no joke)... 3 clicks all together, and it gives you the code.
took me 20 seconds to make this poll:
Who's the hottest editor?
Cum Taco
Michael
Timothy
CowboyNeal
Other
Looks like your poll got Slashdotted, bucko.
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Re:Standards? Anyone?
Re:Standards? Anyone? (Score:1)
by wfberg (24378) on 06:49 PM March 18th, 2004 (#8604734)
(http://huizen.dds.nl/~wfberg/)
So answer the question. Why gets to decide what the standard is and why should one group get total control over the market?
Some reasons, historically abound;
1. They're a monopoly already
2. They're the ones allowing porn on the format
3. They're the ones with the patents
4. They're everybody, and everybody can join in
1) is the ITU way
2) is the VHS way
3) is the CD way (philips/sony)
4) is the ISO way
But you're missing the real point; obviously if everybody involved in making higer-capacity-than-CD optical media could just come up with a single, future-proof standard, there would be no confusion among consumers, and everybody would be competing on a level playing field. Standards aren't about excluding competitors - at least, not by definition. That only happens when smart asses throw in a lot of patents to rake in the money.
So that would be
5. People get fed up with factions, the peace pipe is smoked, and a single standard is decided upon to make sure the technology works and SELLS.
that would be
5) the way of the screw.
The way things are going with DVD, the Chinese stand a good chance to come up with a better, less encumbered, and more standardized format. And not because they're communists, but because they're cheap asses who don't want to spring for the MPEG4/ACC/CSS/Dolby/etc. patents.
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Taking a site down is still a Slashdot effect, if you ask me.
Good job with the knee jerk claim of anti-Americanism.
The guy was responding to the comment's point of "US NOCs" - he didn't say global NOCs.