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Will World Cup Streaming Cause Internet Meltdown?
MetaNick writes "It seems with every worldwide sporting event, e.g., Olympics, World Cup, we hear warnings of a "meltdown" as more and more broadband users attempt to stream video of the event to their browsers. And such predictions have just begun for the World Cup just getting underway: World Cup streaming to cause network meltdown, World Cup by broadband endangers networks. Has this ever really happened? Will it happen with this the World Cup just getting underway? I tend to doubt it. I looked for articles discussing how predictions of meltdowns did NOT come to pass, but I couldn't find any."
There won't be much streaming going on since most Americans don't know what this whole "World Cup" thing is about.
Much like any other sport really, but it makes a change from fighting in the street. Unfortunately my countrymen like to do that after the match, so they get all the fun of both.
Miri it is whil Linux ilast...
The world cup is only slightly, slightly more destructive.
I think it will be fine.
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Is it the wiggles?
The bigger question is, if porn were to choke the internet, would the internet like it?
Just give it a good old fashioned slashdotting....
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Yes. But that's OK because Slashdot looks like crap now and nobody is going to use it. It should all balance out.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
And its not barney..
Maybe not for you...
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you play football.
In the US, Soccer plays you! At least, things are heading that direction.
Q: What did the comedian say to the crowd?
A: If I knew, this joke would be funny.
He is using quotes to make sure the reader knows he is referring to the game where actual 'feet' are used when interacting with the 'ball', rather than the game sharing the same name where 'hands' are primarily used.
Obviously it is the former needs the quotes to avoid confusion, rather than the latter, which is much more widespread and popular.
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Last Olympics, it was very obvious.
... a hell, I'm off for a lemonade, this too darn hot in here". Serious Tennessee Williams shit goin' on!
You'd be browsing some porn site, and the chicks nipples would be down around her ankles. Next thing you know her face was melting. Then you'd be on Slashdot, and someone would be half-way through dissing M$ for something and they'd trail off "... so
${YEAR+1} is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!
Or more like this: "GOOOOOO...buffering, 23%, 45%, 67%...OOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!!"
By the way you do realize that "world" in world series is a cruel joke right?
Oh, we know. Every year we invite you foreign buttholes, try to make nice, put all our differences aside for a friendly game, but do you show up? No. We just sit here all by ourselves with our "Go France" foam fingers and cry into our beer that no one showed up for our party, so we scrimmage and go home, and then you guys wonder why we bomb the shit out of you.
Real nice, World. Real nice.
1. If you see a big bright mushroom of smoke rise outside your window, stop immediately streaming video.
2. If it doesn't work, stop also downloading pr0n and war3z through p2p.
3. If it still doesn't work, duck a-a-and cover.
4. Don't forget to turn on your pr0n and war3z downloads as soon as its over, or severe health and brain damage effects might manifestate.
The world's best baseball players play in the USA.
The world's best [American] football players play in the USA.
Probably because these are sports that aren't really played that much outside the US (and Japan).
A clue in return: We called baseball "rounders" at school. And it was a girl's game.
So what you're saying is...to take down the internet, we need...a World Pornography Championship...
Someone get on that.
I can almost see the lines:
"World Cup event will cause shortage on electromagnetic waves, due to the high amount of TV devices turned on at the same time.
The massive number of TVs turned on for the upcoming World Cup will cause electromagnetic waves to be drained by billions of antennas worldwide. Specialists affirm that the huge demand for signal will suck up the waves from the transmitting antennas in the TV stations, causing an overload on those towers. 'Those circuits will eventually burn to ashes' says Dr. Doom a very known authority in the field.
That's not all: it is also speculated that even the satellites will get toasted and fall from their orbits. 'The deaths it can cause will make the Ragnarok look like a bathroom accident' Doom adds, despite the fact that 3/4 of the planet's surface if covered by water.
Few scientists go even further, by claiming that the TVs will also suck the magnetic field of the planet, triggering the series of events popularized in the movie The Core.
'No matter what we do, we're all just doomed by our own TVs.'"
- Please, ignore everything written above.