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Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the your-govt-at-work dept.

sanermind writes "Sensing Senators don't have the stomach to try and pass a stand-alone bill in broad daylight that would give the President the power to shut down the Internet in a national emergency, the Senate is considering attaching the Internet Kill Switch bill as a rider to other legislation that would have bi-partisan support."

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  1. Re:Governmental Fail by IICV · · Score: 2, Funny

    What! This cannot be! Surely the country's most handsome politicians wouldn't fail so thoroughly at a test of practical skill?

  2. Re:Governmental Fail by jgagnon · · Score: 2, Funny

    What! This cannot be! Surely the country's most handsome politicians wouldn't fail so thoroughly at a test of practical skill?

    Why not? They fail so thoroughly at everything else! :p

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  3. Re:Why now? by MrEricSir · · Score: 3, Funny

    They can always say the internet is wanted for Sweden for rape.

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  4. Re:This is why by jgagnon · · Score: 4, Funny

    More support for Capitol Punishment! Punish everyone in the capitol!

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  5. Re:Governmental Fail by lowrydr310 · · Score: 3, Funny
    There's also IPoAC, IP over Avian Carriers.

    IPoAC has been successfully implemented, but for only nine packets of data, with a packet loss ratio of 55% (due to user error[1]), and a response time ranging from 3000 seconds(~54 minutes) to over 6000 seconds(~1.77 hours). Thus, this technology suffers from poor latency. Nevertheless, for large transfers avian carriers are capable of high average throughput when carrying flash memory devices.

    Bird is the word!

  6. Re:Governmental Fail by dangitman · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's also IPoAC [wikipedia.org], IP over Avian Carriers.

    Highly vulnerable to shotgun-in-the-middle attacks, though.

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