The Next Internet-Crashes Rumor

[Rob Lister]

Hi gang. I don't play much in the CT forum but I've noticed of late that we haven't had many gloom and doom rumors about the Internet crashing. AUP posted something about Email spam, and there was a recent article on BBC, but nothing anyone could really sink their teeth into.

Can't we do better? Our rumor should contain very high-level political players along with technological susceptibilities. The transition to IPV6 should be a key part of it. Bush and Kophi should too...and Blair!

We can develop it here and post it at a few CT forums.

P.S. I have the day off from real work, thus this.

[Gravy]

I had to look up why IPV5 isn't next, so I guess I'm going to be a crashee and not a crasher. :(

[Rob Lister]

We need to put in something about that too. And Microsoft's secret meeting with Cisco and Intel -- I here Chaney was there for at least part it.

[Donal]

And AT&T and Verizon. And tha Jooooooooos. Can't forget them. what is a worldwide conspiracy without tha Joooooooooos?

[Stellafane]

The Internet will crash when it decides the time is right to do so.

I would say more, but the Internet is watching my every move...

[Roger_Harris]

I here Chaney was there for at least part it.

With maps of the internets and the google spread on the table, now doubt.

[NickUK]

I hope the internet doesn't crash.

I really can't be bothered again with having to go to the newsagents to buy my 'special adult interest' magazines again.

That was SO 1995.

[Ripley Twenty-Nine]

Oh, you definately want to include Net Neutraility (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality)in there. The big ISPs are trying to make the Internet not 'neutral' by favouring certain websites and types of traffic over others (Depending on how much these websites pay them). The fear is that if ISPs are allowed to do this, they can censor information by crippling any website they choose.

..The only problem with using this in a CT, is that the U.S Government is actually trying to stop ISPs from doing this... So they're kind of the 'good guys' in this scenario.

But who do you think controls all of the major ISPs in the U.S? Yup, you guessed it: Teh joooooooooooos.

[defaultdotxbe]

i hope the interent doesnt crash into me, my insurance is high enough as it is

[defaultdotxbe]

Oh, you definately want to include Net Neutraility (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality)in there. The big ISPs are trying to make the Internet not 'neutral' by favouring certain websites and types of traffic over others (Depending on how much these websites pay them). The fear is that if ISPs are allowed to do this, they can censor information by crippling any website they choose.

..The only problem with using this in a CT, is that the U.S Government is actually trying to stop ISPs from doing this... So they're kind of the 'good guys' in this scenario.

But who do you think controls all of the major ISPs in the U.S? Yup, you guessed it: Teh joooooooooooos.
actually a lot of tech forums are goign nuts over net neutrality because they have it backwards, they think the act will ALLOW the ISPs to discriminate against free services like hotmail, yahoo, youtube, google video, etc and make you pay for their own services

i beleive it originated with a desire to create a "fastlane" to give priority bandwidth for streaming video and such, while throttling less bandwidth-intensive services like chat and text-based web pages, which woudl allow for smoother surfing for everyone

however some people realized ISPs could use this to throttle competing services, so NN was drafted to force ISPs to speedup/slowdown content by TYPE, not provider, meaing if you give priority bandwidth to your companies IP phone service, you have to give it to ALL IP phone services, thus creating "neutrality" among "net" speeds

[alfaniner]

Any day now. MS is pushing out IE7.

[defaultdotxbe]

Any day now. MS is pushing out IE7.
it became a critical update tuesday or wednesday of this week

[Rob Lister]

it became a critical update tuesday or wednesday of this week

Indeed, I've been 'directed' to install it, even though I use FF almost exclusively. IE7 appears to be a poor mirror image on FF2

But that's NOT THE TOPIC!

I need a rumor and I need it quick.

Somebody...

Anybody...

I don't have the buzzwords handy to make a good rumor.

[Roger_Harris]

Any day now. MS is pushing out IE7.

And what's up with this "Vista" thing (code word, maybe?), and what the @#!$% is it doing that it practically needs a supercomputer to run? Hmmm...

[defaultdotxbe]

And what's up with this "Vista" thing (code word, maybe?), and what the @#!$% is it doing that it practically needs a supercomputer to run? Hmmm...
the codeword for Vista was Longhorn

PS the codeword for the next windows AFTER Vista is Vienna

PPS the codeword for XP was Whistler, XP SP2 was Springboard

so we have longhorn, such as the texas longhorns, whos hand gesture is also a satanic gesture, vienna is the captial of austria, which was one of hitlers early conquests in WW2, a "whistler" could be someone being conspicuously inconspicuous

so we have the "whistler" "springboarding" to "longhorn" (satan) to end up at "vienna" and the 4th reich....

[uk_dave]

What about 'whistler's mother' eh?
I've always found that to be sinister.