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Government Finishes Internet Study -- 7 years late
djp928 writes "A study commisioned by Congress in 1998 to report on internet traffic has finally been published -- 7 years, two presidents, and one internet boom/bust later.
Some of their findings include "DNS is good" and "We should probably have some more TLDs""
This internet thing is just a fad.
- Big
- Complicated
- Busy
- Using Electrons
- Full of pornography
We won't be able to really relax our collective guard until they add unregulatable to this list."I have never won a debate with an ignorant person." -Ali ibn Abi Talib
I hear that they also just finished their study on electricity.
Findings include: "AC good for long distance" and that "devices that use this new technology may sometime exist throughout a common home"
just asked Al Gore. He could have filled them in a lot quicker.
Without DNS, domain spoofing would've been kinda impossible...
Assembling etherkillers for fun an profit
Ahhh. Good to see another tie-in story...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Unfortunately, this has rarely happened in our society and in the end sadly, money rules the day.
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Your statement is kind of ironic with a link in your sig trying to get people to sign up for your pay service.
Coincidence? I think not!
Underholdning.info
Sorry everyone, it's my fault. You know how you get some directive from management and you just throw it on your desk and forget about it? Well, eventually it gets buried under everything else I was working and quickly forgotten about. (Didn't we just have a previous post about how 95% of software projects are late?) Anyway, I was doing some spring cleaning last week and found it.
Again, my apologies. It won't happen again.
That's the sound of millions of dollars going down the drain!
This reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon. Dilbert writes a memo, made up of three points:
1 Oxygen is good.
2 Competition is bad.
3 I like jelly.
And then the pointy-haired boss would tell him to take out the part about competition...
Is Dilbert working for the US gov't?
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
What I want to know, does it say that Al Gore invented it?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I think maybe they took "next generation" a bit too literallly...
would Walmart really have to buy walmar.biz twice?
Free MacMini
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
The "need for more TLDs" reminds me of an old SNL fake commercial:
...clownpenis.fart.
...clownpenis.fart.
...clownpenis.fart.
...at www.clownpenis.fart.
[Scene of father helping son ride a bicycle for the first time, then, cut to the living room of their house]
Father: Trust, an important part of building a family, and an important part of building his future. That's why I rely on Dillon/Edwards and Company. For nearly a century, investors on Wall Street have trusted Dillon and Edwards with their financial future. And now all of the resources from America's oldest investment firm are available on-line. [Father is at the computer as the website appears, along with web address] Dillon and Edwards on the Internet, at www.clownpenis.fart. A lot of investment companies rushed onto the Internet, but Dillon and Edwards took their time. Sure, when they were ready, there was one web address left, but it's one you can count on.
Announcer #1: For mutual funds, count on...
Announcer #2:
Announcer #1: Online brokerage...
Announcer #2:
Announcer #1: Retirement and tuition planning...
Announcer #2:
[Caption: Dillon/Edwards Investments-www.clownpenis.fart]
Announcer #1: Dillon and Edwards Investments...
Announcer #2:
After 7 years the learned that 90% of internet traffic was caused by dancing baby and hampster websites.
Don't blame me, I voted for Cthulhu.
... ah nevermind, too easy.
If it wasn't for porn, they'd have an answer in 1 year.
"Lawmakers had demanded the $1 million federal study, ultimately called "Signposts in Cyberspace," under a 1998 federal law, the Next Generation Internet Research Act."
Thats a bargain. It took between $6 and $10 million to figure out Clinton got head from a fat girl.
lmfao
that was dumb but the ???? -> profit make me almost spit out my coffee laughing.
Let us be definitive, once and for all.
If you can spank to it then it is porn.
Then NBC would have to sue the guys that squat on clownpenis.fart once the domain is available. And yes, I did say "squat on clownpenis." Better post this anonymousl...whoops.
[UID-HeinzIntel]
After much careful thought and consideration, the government has decided to instate a new domain system represented by numbers instead of characters. The reason for this is that characters are much more difficult to organize into a hierarchy. The new DNS system implements a series of four 3-digit numbers seperated by '.'s. One official was quoted as saying, "We're trying to make the system more like the telephone numbering scheme, which has been around for decades, and which everyone is quite familiar with." Each DNS capable machine will include a "contacts" list similar to a cell phone that links the associated DNS number with a name specified by the user.
ok, now I only have to create a country and name it so it will have the .pron TLD. and profit!
(no ???? step needed)
There are a few incorporated pornography companies that I'm sure would come up for many productive uses of .sux :)