Even if there has been no growth in DSL usage, 100,000 modems represents 0.3% of all DSL users.
BUT, this 100,000 number is world wide modems that have been compromised. That makes the actual percentage of modems affected so small that it hardly seems worth the time to calculate it.
Turn the "bad" DNS off, and most tech support lines will not even notice the increase in support calls.
Why not take up the debate head on? It seems many people want to dismiss it out of hand rather than answer the call to discuss it thoroughly.
For instance, what makes the design so intelligent anyway? What kind of God designs a system where Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin can massacre millions of people?
Free will has its price you say. Granted. But what kind of diety causes the human misery of last year's tsunami (pick your natural disaster)?
The Intelligent Design theory is not arguing for a proof of God based on creation per se, but if we grant the theory for the sake of argument, the God behind it is not nice.
Yes - it is going on elsewhere - try right in the good old US. I do some work for a rural phone company (30,000 lines) that has an entirely packet switched network. They did not make any big announcements, and I bet that 99.99% of their customers don't know or care. Because the telco can control the QoS, the quality is at least equal to the traditional infrastructure.
Many of the rural telcos adopt these types of technology more quickly than the baby bells. How? You and I are paying for it every time we pay our phone bill - Universal Service Fees have subsidized a tremendous improvement to rural telephone service.
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In 2009, there were 32 million DSL modems in the United States. http://www.internetworldstats.com/am/us.htm
Even if there has been no growth in DSL usage, 100,000 modems represents 0.3% of all DSL users.
BUT, this 100,000 number is world wide modems that have been compromised. That makes the actual percentage of modems affected so small that it hardly seems worth the time to calculate it.
Turn the "bad" DNS off, and most tech support lines will not even notice the increase in support calls.
Why not take up the debate head on? It seems many people want to dismiss it out of hand rather than answer the call to discuss it thoroughly.
For instance, what makes the design so intelligent anyway? What kind of God designs a system where Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin can massacre millions of people?
Free will has its price you say. Granted. But what kind of diety causes the human misery of last year's tsunami (pick your natural disaster)?
The Intelligent Design theory is not arguing for a proof of God based on creation per se, but if we grant the theory for the sake of argument, the God behind it is not nice.
Full Disclosure: Practicing Catholic.
Yes - it is going on elsewhere - try right in the good old US. I do some work for a rural phone company (30,000 lines) that has an entirely packet switched network. They did not make any big announcements, and I bet that 99.99% of their customers don't know or care. Because the telco can control the QoS, the quality is at least equal to the traditional infrastructure.
Many of the rural telcos adopt these types of technology more quickly than the baby bells. How? You and I are paying for it every time we pay our phone bill - Universal Service Fees have subsidized a tremendous improvement to rural telephone service.