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GENI To Replace Internet, Gets $12M Funding
Postglobalism writes "A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two major research organizations. Many researchers want to rethink the Internet's underlying architecture, saying a 'clean-slate' approach is the only way to truly address security and other challenges that have cropped up since the Internet's birth in 1969."
Do we have enough porn for an entirely new Internet?
Those who believe the Internet is private,
find their privates are on the Internet.
Typical. I've only just finished printing out the current Internet.
Invest in Tubes Industry.
They will need a lot of those.
How about cutting wellfare in half and have ten times the money. Exactly how many poor people do we really need anyway?
Alright, you guys make this whole "new internet" thing, and we're you're done we'll just all switch to it all at the same time OK? We just need to schedule a date for when to switch to that new Internet thing. We should do it during a quiet time of the year, the month of December sounds appropriate, and I reckon it should take you guys quite a few years..
How does December 21st, 2012 sound? I have nothing in my schedule for *that* day... Too apocalyptic maybe?
You just got troll'd!
New internet has DRM built in! It's for your own protection. Really.
Oscar Goldman:
The Internet, A network barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic internet. GENI will be that internet. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, harder, deeper, faster.
We are Dead Stars looking back Up at the Sky
True. The hard part is staying on that tiny horse.
...all those series of tubes? I wonder what they're gonna use instead?
You don't think enough... therefore you better not be!
You need to check those numbers. I know the budget is not necessarily the exact same as what the president asked for, but for 2008 Bush requested $324 billion for welfare, plus $608 billion for social security, $386 billion for medicare, and $209 billion for medicaid. Domestic spending far outpaces the military, though it is clearly not 10x.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget%2C_2008
People will flock to it in droves, buy HD routers with HD cables and HD service plans.
The problem you were having with that server was due to excessive use of plain text protocols on an untrusted network.
I hate printers.
I telnet into Nethack Online, you insensitive clod!
(and hey, if anyone steals my password, maybe they'll actually ascend!)