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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""

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  1. The results are in: by Neil+Blender · · Score: 5, Funny

    This internet thing is just a fad.

    1. Re:The results are in: by Tribbin · · Score: 5, Funny

      We... have... agreed, ...

      That... you... are... not... orks...

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    2. Re:The results are in: by xstonedogx · · Score: 4, Funny

      You're right. Make that "i0x2004F200696d".

  2. Typical government study... by stlhawkeye · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...after spending 10 years and 13 billion dollars of tax payer money, we are proud to announce to the US Department of Bureaucracy has determined that the Internet is:
    • 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.
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    1. Re:Typical government study... by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
      > We won't be able to really relax our collective guard until they add unregulatable to this list.

      "Anything that isn't nailed down is ours."
      "Anything we can pry loose, isn't nailed down."

      "Nothing is impossible to the man who doesn't have to pay for it himself."

    2. Re:Typical government study... by ZerocarboN · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's the pronography that caused the big delay.

      "Dude look, a booby!"

      "That's hot! They're paying us how much to do this?"

  3. New Study by klatty · · Score: 5, Funny

    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"

  4. They should have... by DaFitzMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    just asked Al Gore. He could have filled them in a lot quicker.

  5. DNS is good? by vidarlo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Without DNS, domain spoofing would've been kinda impossible...

  6. more tie-ins by justforaday · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ahhh. Good to see another tie-in story...

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  7. Re:no more TLDs, please by kevin_conaway · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  8. Conspiracy theory! by Underholdning · · Score: 4, Funny

    Coincidence? I think not!

  9. Sorry, it's my fault. by The+Lurker+King · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  10. Re:$1 million by Infinityis · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think maybe they took "next generation" a bit too literallly...

  11. In other news by UnknowingFool · · Score: 4, Funny
    After a 15 year study, NASA confirms Douglas Adams' ground breaking insight:
    Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space...
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  12. Obligatory SNL commercial by mattmentecky · · Score: 5, Funny

    The "need for more TLDs" reminds me of an old SNL fake commercial:

    [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: ...clownpenis.fart.

    Announcer #1: Online brokerage...

    Announcer #2: ...clownpenis.fart.

    Announcer #1: Retirement and tuition planning...

    Announcer #2: ...clownpenis.fart.

    [Caption: Dillon/Edwards Investments-www.clownpenis.fart]

    Announcer #1: Dillon and Edwards Investments...

    Announcer #2: ...at www.clownpenis.fart.

  13. Re:$1 million by hackstraw · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

  14. Just another lawsuit by BancBoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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