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- JanYpe, on 04/06/2008, -7/+119Reason #11: The Internet will finally buckle under the weight of crap articles like this.
- tehbored, on 04/06/2008, -4/+76For the last ***** time, the LHC will NOT kill us all!
- inactive, on 04/06/2008, -2/+39lol what a pathetic list.
proof: "a really good virus"
the writer doesn't even know what a computer is. - revjustin2, on 04/06/2008, -3/+28what a crappy "article". I was hoping it would be some kind of window into all the cool things the internet could become, Instead, I got another ***** top 10 list that counts all the ways the internet will get ***** up. They couldn't even think of a decent 10. That last one is pretty lame. Buried for lameness.
- nationalist, on 04/06/2008, -3/+22forgot no.11...the SUPER-MEME!!!
- Zarokima, on 04/06/2008, -2/+21AND ***** ICEMOREBUTTS!
- Hockey13, on 04/06/2008, -9/+2611. Y2k
- cnot3, on 04/06/2008, -5/+22What if the tubes get clogged?
- suo97119, on 04/06/2008, -4/+20John Connor?
- CarStan, on 04/06/2008, -1/+14like this Giant Enemy Chuck Norris, doing OVER 9000 Barrel rolls while singing 'Never gonna give you up', the 4chan scientists are currently working on?
- doshindude, on 04/06/2008, -0/+12The RROD...The Rick Roll of Death.
- inactive, on 04/06/2008, -1/+11it's like a scape... but for nets
- desuexmachina, on 04/06/2008, -1/+10Man, I loved Y2K. We made a boatload of money patching up old servers, our crazy friends hoarded massive amounts of loot and we had a great party on New Years Eve. When it was over, we went to our friend's hide-away and drank all their hoarded booze. Good times man. We should do it again.
- kenvsryu, on 04/06/2008, -2/+10wtf the digg is broked
- cvxdes1, on 04/06/2008, -1/+91999 called, they want their scare tactic back.
- bratterscain, on 04/06/2008, -0/+8lol, http://www.google.com/search?q=ICEMOREBUTTS&ie=utf ...
Man, you really shouldn't use your nick on digg for everything else. Especially if you're using it for purposes of hate. - geobay, on 04/06/2008, -1/+9Much higher energy collisions occur in the upper atmosphere on an ongoing basis. The black hole issue is just fear mongering by people with little to no physics education.
- bratterscain, on 04/06/2008, -0/+8You're the little kid who continually ***** up any freedom we got in school by being an asshat and getting us all in trouble, right?
- Yuska, on 04/06/2008, -2/+10I, for one, welcome our new Giant Enemy Church Norris overlords.
As long as he doesn't steal mah bukket, anyway. - Veni_Vidi_Vici, on 04/06/2008, -0/+7We'll just have to buy more trucks to dump the clogs on.
- manitoba98xp, on 04/06/2008, -0/+7AOL is an Internet Service Provider, not a browser (though their client software does act as a browser, it's essentially IE). Netscape was originally a web browser, and arguably the most popular one. It enjoyed significant success, but mostly died when Microsoft began bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Netscape was eventually picked up by AOL, and the code was later released as open-source: this was the genesis of the Mozilla Foundation, and eventually, the now-popular Firefox web browser. The Netscape browser was only recently officially killed off. Though the Netscape brand continues to exist, it's currently pretty much an AOL web portal ( http://netscape.aol.com/ ).
- 4d669, on 04/06/2008, -0/+7If you want to be pretentious on the internet, stick to real books instead of wikipedia articles and google searches. When you read a bit on the subject you'll wish you could erase comments.
- sarge96, on 04/06/2008, -1/+8Neither will any of this stuff, except maybe the net-neutrality one. At least in the near future.
- inactive, on 04/06/2008, -0/+6INTERNET WILL NEVER DIE/.
- sgtpppr, on 04/07/2008, -0/+5Yeah, this article is some serious chicken little worrying. I'm not sure why they didn't add meteors, alien attacks, jeff goldblum uploading a virus, or angelina jolie's ex-husband hacking the gibson.
- jlhoben, on 04/06/2008, -1/+6#1 The global police state coming to a town near you.
- luke374, on 04/06/2008, -0/+5God help us if somebody Googles Google.
- jbfdiggs, on 04/06/2008, -1/+5Internet is free. If it dies, the only reason behind is our finding of a new better medium to communicate.
- ultrafez, on 04/06/2008, -0/+4Alright then bozo, light is a kind of energy, therefore it can't be destroyed - and by your logic it can't be created either. So how come we have it then? It depends on your interpretation of the word "create": energy can't be created, but it can be converted from form to form.
- bullsfan03, on 04/06/2008, -1/+5Zing?
- zwaldowski, on 04/06/2008, -0/+4I'm sorry, can you read? Y2K38 is not a software problem. Since Unix-like systems render times and dates (e.g., timestamps and system clocks) as seconds relative to the Unix epoch point (1 Jan 1970), 19 Jan 2038 would bring around a time where 32-bit processors can't store the number anymore. 64-bit processors fix this, though. The only problem: think of the systems banks have used since the 70's/80's... those were 16-bit. They're just now moving toward 32-bits.
- metalclay, on 04/06/2008, -0/+4Conan O'Brien: ASS Stamp =)
- Snakedal337, on 04/06/2008, -0/+4They will infect the routers!! And we will be unable to reach them! Or drive to the data center, unplug them, and install new ones! We cannot do it!! WORLDS WILL END!
- inactive, on 04/06/2008, -0/+4THE TUBES WILL CLOG.
well, in such a pathetic list, you might as well add jokes. - inactive, on 04/06/2008, -0/+4idk... i'm pretty sure this author took CS III. Just take a look at any one of these gems here, like no. 3, someone could just start to cut all the cables and the internet would like die!
(lol wow, TCP/IP (teh internet) = designed to withstand attacks from WMDs). - bdbr, on 04/06/2008, -0/+4A lot of the article was about that: lawyers, loss of net neutrality, and the final observation: "The Internet has already morphed from its initial aspirations of open academia to a commercial platform controlled by corporations and carriers."
- jetsetter883, on 04/06/2008, -0/+3i dont buy the net neutrality thing being a threat. i mean, no one's really going to 'subscribe' to Google as premium content. people would simply leave the internet, or just not use Google. there'd be way too much backlash.
- jstowell, on 04/06/2008, -0/+3Ya, we should worry about that, but maybe put that just below the LHC.
Burried - Whackly, on 04/06/2008, -1/+3Actually, you were being ironic.
How do you know you can have comments removed? Done it? Seems to me the only reason to have a comment removed is to:
1 avoid admitting your comment was wrong.
2 avoid looking like an idiot; even someplace as pointless and anonymous as a digg comment.
If you are uncomfortable with the 1st you will have a hard life.
If you are uncomfortable with the 2nd you shouldn't use the internet. - bratterscain, on 04/06/2008, -0/+2Summer 2008!
Red Button Day!
B...b.....b..eeee therrrreeeee!!! - Nanobe, on 04/06/2008, -0/+2He was misquoted. He never claimed to have invented either the Internet or the Web. In truth, he was instrumental in organizing the efforts to create the Web, and people like Tim Burners-Lee (the actual inventor of the Web) and Marc Andreessen (the inventor of the first popular web browser) have credited Al Gore for his work in getting the whole thing going.
- inactive, on 04/06/2008, -0/+2no more 9/11 truths...
- bratterscain, on 04/06/2008, -0/+2RIP Netscape. You were the birther of my gateway to por.....ugh, freedom.
- thirteenthcor, on 04/06/2008, -0/+2This is just not how the mechanics of something like the internet works. Anyone can create a network of computers, and share almost any sort of data they feel like it. this is a state of mind, a thought, an idea, not something that can simply be controlled. its like moonshine. prohibition happens; take it to the mountains. all a network needs is a dedicated group of users willing to submit and share information.
the internet is only a broad term encompassing this entire mindset/ideal/philosophy. those networks can also be private, run by private owner/operators, because all it really needs is capital. consider darknets for instance. so no, i disagree, the "internet as we know it" is here to stay, in whatever fashion. networking is networking is networking.
and as for corporations making a power grab, its pretty hard to hold sand in your fists for too long, and the more you squeeze, the more you lose... seriously how many analogies does it take? there is nothing for them to hold onto! business wont let other businesses take profit out of their own hands. comcast tries to charge google for usage, google offers its own net with an agreement between other websites.... simple
"You can't stop the signal, Mel" - inactive, on 04/06/2008, -0/+2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhLxnlNcxv8
- Sabot, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2This is total garbage. Please bury it.
- grimward, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2This is the only time I've actually dugg up a rick roll, because it's actually relevant ... go figure :O
- soulpiercer7, on 04/07/2008, -2/+4we will run out of IP addresses. IP version 4 will destroy the internet. without the world upgrading to Ip version 6, the internet will fall apart.
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3605 ... - desuexmachina, on 04/06/2008, -0/+2It was designed to survive EMP. A section goes down others take up the packets. Oh sure, your internet might be broken but it'll be just like you didn't pay your bill. It's still there you just can't use it.
- CheeseburgerBro, on 04/06/2008, -0/+211. By promoting to popularity vapid pieces of trash fauxnalism like the exemplary selection of fermented Yak jizz this submission happens to be.
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