What do *I* think? I think this is one of the stupidest ideas I have ever heard (or seen). An ISP is in the business of providing bandwidth to backbone internet. Why would they start blocking websites? Censorship for a paid package is one thing, but making everyone pay to see sites? Thats just plain stupid. Who is going to catagorize sites? There are just too many to think of. You can always get around this, it would just be a matter of time before people starting writing programs to get through these firewalls, and even making them easy enough so the AOLer can use them. Another thing, you would have to get EVERY ISP to get in on this, that will not happen. My ISP is in the business of providing untouched bandwidth, they don't give a shit what you do with it, as long as your not spamming. Paying extra for "premium" sites is a horrible idea. Bleh. -- Nate
So, if the.com's wanted to fix this debate, all they'd have to do is block *ALL* of india's ISP's except for one. People would move ISP's, overcrowd that one, and everyone would lose.. Maybe just do this "project" for a week, it'd be really funny to see what would happen. It would have to be quite a few big.com's to get together to do this though, otherwise it wouldn't be a big deal. The chances of getting them all together is slim too.
When are people going to get the clue that clock speeds don't really matter unless your comparing clock speeds of a CPU from the same family? I mean, a P4 1.7GHz is way slower than the PowerPC G4-867 or whatever they are up to. Here is a link to a little tidbit that John Rubinstein from Apple Computer gave at MacWorld NY the MHz Myth.
http://www.apple.com/g4/myth/
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What do *I* think? I think this is one of the stupidest ideas I have ever heard (or seen). An ISP is in the business of providing bandwidth to backbone internet. Why would they start blocking websites? Censorship for a paid package is one thing, but making everyone pay to see sites? Thats just plain stupid. Who is going to catagorize sites? There are just too many to think of. You can always get around this, it would just be a matter of time before people starting writing programs to get through these firewalls, and even making them easy enough so the AOLer can use them. Another thing, you would have to get EVERY ISP to get in on this, that will not happen. My ISP is in the business of providing untouched bandwidth, they don't give a shit what you do with it, as long as your not spamming.
Paying extra for "premium" sites is a horrible idea. Bleh.
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Nate
So, if the .com's wanted to fix this debate, all they'd have to do is block *ALL* of india's ISP's except for one. People would move ISP's, overcrowd that one, and everyone would lose.. Maybe just do this "project" for a week, it'd be really funny to see what would happen. It would have to be quite a few big .com's to get together to do this though, otherwise it wouldn't be a big deal. The chances of getting them all together is slim too.
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Nate - nhart@NObonez.SPAMnet
When are people going to get the clue that clock speeds don't really matter unless your comparing clock speeds of a CPU from the same family? I mean, a P4 1.7GHz is way slower than the PowerPC G4-867 or whatever they are up to. Here is a link to a little tidbit that John Rubinstein from Apple Computer gave at MacWorld NY the MHz Myth. http://www.apple.com/g4/myth/