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Do We Need a New Internet?
Richard.Tao and a number of other readers sent in a NYTimes piece by John Markoff asking whether the Internet is so broken it needs to be replaced. "...[T]here is a growing belief among engineers and security experts that Internet security and privacy have become so maddeningly elusive that the only way to fix the problem is to start over. What a new Internet might look like is still widely debated, but one alternative would, in effect, create a 'gated community' where users would give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety. Today that is already the case for many corporate and government Internet users. As a new and more secure network becomes widely adopted, the current Internet might end up as the bad neighborhood of cyberspace. You would enter at your own risk and keep an eye over your shoulder while you were there." A less alarmist reaction to the question was blogged by David Akin: "If you build a new Internet and you want me to get a license to drive on it, sorry. I'm hanging out here in v.1."
A World without Anonymous Cowards? I thought I'd never see the day!
Do we need a new internet? Yes, absolutely. My wife informs me that "the internet is down" probably two or three times a week on average.
#DeleteChrome
I, Mr. Anonymous Coward, hereby give up my anonymity. Now excuse me while I browse fake porn/warez malware sites with unpatched IE6 - after all, I am now safe!
A "gated community" with fewer abilities for users? Why not call it "Access Owned by Large corporations" or AOL for short?
This comment was thought up very late at night and does not necessarily reflect my views at a more reasonable hour.
I propose the new internet be named the patriot net.
Look at the bright side - no more tracking cookies needed if you surf from: firstname.lastname.age.sex.city.phone.address.com
Nooooooooooooooooo.
Maybe. Sometimes though, I think a more appropriate response for the French military would be to just give up.
I have left slashdot and am now on Soylent News. FUCK YOU DICE.
That works pretty well, but maybe for the next generation they could introduce T fittings.
In my opinion the French military should rather develop its own national operating system.
Of course, they could use the Linux kernel. And they could call it 'Maginot Linux'!
*ducking*
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give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety
so I'll be safer by exposing myself?
factor 966971: 966971
It is! And it is needed.
The current Internet is too hard to control. Just about anyone can get on and say anything. There is no class structure, no censorship, options for extracting money from users are limited and getting a cohesive message across to everyone who uses it is downright impossible.
What is needed is a tightly regulated Internet where only those with enough good wealth are able to control what is being said and payment is extracted in an easy and orderly fasion. One which all information is available to the right people who can use it to control the unruly mob and masses of the underclasses.
In the past couple centuries the ruling elites have been lax in their duties and the lower classes have risen, creating a "middle class" and fostering the wrongheaded idea that every man is equal. With a new Internet combined with other mass media such wrong ideas can be properly quashed.
It will also catch some pedophiles so it is for the children and anyone who doesn't want it to be this way is obviously a perverted child molester and unpatriotic coward.
I'll build my OWN internet...with blackjack...and hookers. In fact forget the internet and blackjack part.
I have seen deserts in high summer which were not nearly as dry as the sarcasm in your post. I think you have created a new form of desiccant.
Every mans' island needs an ocean; choose your ocean carefully.
A new internet? But I haven't even beaten the old one yet!
How is the dead horse beating business treating you? Well, at least you're not a quitter.
As opposed to...?
While you're at it, instruct people to stop acting stupid in traffic, always have safe sex, don't go into debt, keep their weight healthy, and so on.
Let's face it: a large part of the general population is too stupid for words. You'll never be able to properly educate them, even if they DID want you to. Which they don't.
/var/run/twitter.sock is a twitter socket puppet.
For sale: 1 French Rifle
Never Fired. Dropped Once.
To quote my Criminal Justice Professor "Thankfully most criminals are idiots, and those who aren't idiots are usually whitecollared."
I don't preview or spellcheck.
Soft, chewy interiors. Not much else to say about gated communities, except that they sound like incredibly sterile, boring places to live.
Expanding a vast wasteland since 1996.
Actually, we do. I think it's something called the internet. I'm not so sure about it, but so far people have been saying great things. . . .
Keep your eyes to the sky.
There are always people who ask, "Why do you post those trollish words? Do you have insecurities involving blacks and homosexuals?"
The answer is, yes. We're Southern Baptist closet faggots who happen to have a homoerotic envy of the nigger-man's masculinity, huge penis, and reproductive success.
Fortunately, somebody created a support group for people with homosexual nigger issues. That support group is known as the Gay Niggers Association of America. We toil endlessly to make aware others of our plight. Homosexually worshipping while simultaneously envying and even sometimes hating the powerful nigger-beast is a big deal. We respect negroes as we respect horses: They are a symbol of wild, bestial strength which have even human women wanting a taste of the endless flow of hay-flavored semen gushing from the massive dong's meatus.
We artificially inseminate black women so that our legacies may live on in blackness. Sow blacks are perfectly cool with this because they know that whites take care of their offspring(even dung beetles take better care of their offspring than niggers do) and the icing on the cake is that their offspring won't look like bonobo chimplets.
I will take Internet 1.0 with all of these assholes any day over a safe/secure sterilized Internet. Long live the Anonymous Coward! But please, watch your fucking language here, okay? There are mindless sheeple that may take offense to your goatse shit. Cunts.
How refreshing to see an original, well-thought-out, literate GNAA troll such as yours.
With citations, even!
Mad propz to you, good sir.