Do We Need a New Internet? 690
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."
What? (Score:5, Funny)
Easily answered (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Absolutely! (Score:2, Funny)
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!
Gated community? (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm, here's some food for though... (Score:2, Funny)
I propose the new internet be named the patriot net.
Cookies! (Score:3, Funny)
Long Answer (Score:4, Funny)
Nooooooooooooooooo.
Re:as old ben would say (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)
series of tubes (Score:0, Funny)
That works pretty well, but maybe for the next generation they could introduce T fittings.
Re:as old ben would say (Score:2, Funny)
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 [wikipedia.org] Linux'!
*ducking*
nonsense (Score:5, Funny)
give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety
so I'll be safer by exposing myself?
Re:Absolutley Not (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Fine! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Absolutley Not (Score:4, Funny)
The Final Boss (Score:3, Funny)
A new internet? But I haven't even beaten the old one yet!
Re:as old ben would say (Score:1, Funny)
How is the dead horse beating business treating you? Well, at least you're not a quitter.
Re:No way in hell! (Score:1, Funny)
As opposed to...?
Re:Instead of a new internet (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:as old ben would say (Score:2, Funny)
Never Fired. Dropped Once.
Re:No way in hell! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No way in hell! (Score:3, Funny)
Soft, chewy interiors. Not much else to say about gated communities, except that they sound like incredibly sterile, boring places to live.
Re:It isn't broken (Score:3, Funny)
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. . . .
Re:shit (Score:1, Funny)
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. [gnaa.us] 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. [wikipedia.org]
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 [wikipedia.org] 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. [wikipedia.org]
Freedom of Speech! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:shit (Score:1, Funny)
How refreshing to see an original, well-thought-out, literate GNAA troll such as yours.
With citations, even!
Mad propz to you, good sir.