Wow, people being upset that the "unclean" haven't "earned" their bandwidth. Hmmm, last time I checked, you didn't earn bandwidth you bought it.
Lets do a quick check. How many of us only need a 33.6 modem, a small program and a bunch of poorly setup networks to take down your grandma's home page, Hackerz-R-kewlio.net and CNN.com? I bet a lot of people can do it. The bandwidth isn't the real issue now is it?
Remember the following three things.
1. Last mile bandwidth doesn't not mean "Internet Bandwidth"
2. A smart, capable network engineer can minimize abuses of high bandwidth connectivity. (How is the subject of another post if you really doubt it can be accomplished:)
3. The more performance drops on any network connectivity the more likely users will go to another form of connectivity that "feels faster".
(I see cable modem users defecting to DSL here, but cable modems have more bandwidth)
The more important questions to ask are?
How many smart network admins are there really? How many users don't use a personal firewall? How elitist can you get?
Bring and the bandwidth baby, I want to watch bootleg DVDs from borneo!
Well you know something, everyone was pretty ill prepared for a nulcear war also. Come on give me a break "ill prepared". Lets look at this rationally for a second (hard I know, this thing pushes EVERYONE'S buttons)
1. If a terrorist wants to make his/her own biological weapon with a known virus it is not technically hard to do. 2. People that want to do this will pretty much ignore all laws, and try and thwart all security, they are after all terorists. 3. People that DO prepare themselves (dig their own wells, keep medical other survival equipment etc) are considered militia members, or extremists.
Reports like this highlite SOME relavant facts. The also are generally used by BIG govt. to take away your freedom. par example "Everyone needs to carry ID cards because one of us might be a terrorist trying to get a nasty virus into the drinking water." Things like this. In the end there are some common sense steps that govt. can take to help prepare for such a disaster. These steps will be ignored in favor of goon squads roaming the streets paid with millions of your tax payer dollars "looking" for terrorists. (see also "the war on drugs")
The new hit FOX television show "Tear Unit" We ride with real life anti-terrorist units as they roam America looking for wrong doers and people without ID cards!
Look out people, America is soon to change it's spelling to AmeriKKa. Land of the Free to live how we tell them to!
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Lets do a quick check. How many of us only need a 33.6 modem, a small program and a bunch of poorly setup networks to take down your grandma's home page, Hackerz-R-kewlio.net and CNN.com? I bet a lot of people can do it. The bandwidth isn't the real issue now is it?
Remember the following three things.
1. Last mile bandwidth doesn't not mean "Internet Bandwidth"
2. A smart, capable network engineer can minimize abuses of high bandwidth connectivity. (How is the subject of another post if you really doubt it can be accomplished :)
3. The more performance drops on any network connectivity the more likely users will go to another form of connectivity that "feels faster".
(I see cable modem users defecting to DSL here, but cable modems have more bandwidth)
The more important questions to ask are?
How many smart network admins are there really?
How many users don't use a personal firewall?
How elitist can you get?
Bring and the bandwidth baby, I want to watch bootleg DVDs from borneo!
1. If a terrorist wants to make his/her own biological weapon with a known virus it is not technically hard to do.
2. People that want to do this will pretty much ignore all laws, and try and thwart all security, they are after all terorists.
3. People that DO prepare themselves (dig their own wells, keep medical other survival equipment etc) are considered militia members, or extremists.
Reports like this highlite SOME relavant facts. The also are generally used by BIG govt. to take away your freedom. par example "Everyone needs to carry ID cards because one of us might be a terrorist trying to get a nasty virus into the drinking water." Things like this. In the end there are some common sense steps that govt. can take to help prepare for such a disaster. These steps will be ignored in favor of goon squads roaming the streets paid with millions of your tax payer dollars "looking" for terrorists. (see also "the war on drugs")
The new hit FOX television show "Tear Unit" We ride with real life anti-terrorist units as they roam America looking for wrong doers and people without ID cards!
Look out people, America is soon to change it's spelling to AmeriKKa. Land of the Free to live how we tell them to!