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- dracostimpy, on 11/21/2007, -3/+151Peak Internet is coming... everyone start stockpiling bandwidth now!!!
- joemofo214, on 11/21/2007, -3/+108Solution?
Do away with myspace - ChromaVita, on 11/21/2007, -4/+80I'll just email my mom and ask her for moew... oh wait.
Nvm I'll just call her from my VOIP pho... *****.
I'll drive to her house. Let me just hit up Mapquest and.......
OH MY GOD WE'RE *****. - shlolz, on 11/21/2007, -2/+75We need to upgrade from tubes to dump trucks.
- EvanVolm, on 11/21/2007, -2/+59Brown-out? Is that the best they could come up with?
- ConAmoreEFuoco, on 11/21/2007, -4/+60Mom! I ran out of tubes! Mom?!
- graviplana, on 11/21/2007, -2/+57This is inaccurate. Buried. In my opinion, this is an attempt to set the stage for a Tiered Internet.
- vroom101, on 11/21/2007, -1/+45An "out of capacity" Internet is like the "DIGG killer " ( http://www.google.com/search?q=DIGG+killer ): Momentary-Attention-Grab with no hope of actually happening.
- AshamedAmerican, on 11/21/2007, -2/+43well it IS completely full of *****.
- monkeestylee, on 11/21/2007, -0/+39nope. they'll always find room for more porn.
- AshamedAmerican, on 11/21/2007, -1/+37This sounds like an Onion story.
- MrKrinkleDude, on 11/21/2007, -1/+36They said the same thing 2 years ago. $100 says that they'll be saying the same thing in 2 more years.
- inactive, on 11/21/2007, -3/+25Nice to know, but much of the Internet has already been slashdot-ed and dugg to death.
- SuperMoses, on 11/21/2007, -0/+20Digg needs to fix the bug that cuts URLs when editing a comment
- inactive, on 11/21/2007, -3/+22dear god, THE TUBES ARE GETTING CLOGGED
- weeeezzll, on 11/21/2007, -0/+16They also need to fix that bug that inserts too many line breaks when the comment is first posted. I always edit my comments to reduce the verticle size of my post
This wasn't edited... - BodomX, on 11/21/2007, -1/+16"Macworld.com"
Sigh. - NickUrsis, on 11/21/2007, -0/+15I've been hearing this for the last 12 years, ever since I got in the biz in '95....
- CandidateZero, on 11/21/2007, -2/+16Total comment abuse, but I think it's important: http://digg.com/tech_news/The_$200_Billion_Broadba ...
If the telcos ask for billions in subsidy money, Congress needs to remember the $200 billion in tax dollars they already gave and make the AT&Ts pay up instead. - chingy1788, on 11/21/2007, -2/+15most diggers would probably stockpile pron
- SilverBlade2k, on 11/21/2007, -1/+14Just a ploy to charge consumers more money for measly speeds. We need to follow Korea...fibre straight to the home...no problem then.
- randysouth, on 11/21/2007, -1/+13I blame it all on the Lolcats
- Catgofire, on 11/21/2007, -3/+13The group ... has been warning people of the coming “exaflood” ... that could clog its pipes. So is Ted Stevens behind this, just so he can finally be vindicated?
- antoniuk, on 11/21/2007, -2/+12it will not run out numbnuts, it will just cost more. And who takes macworld serious?!?
- DirkBelig, on 11/21/2007, -2/+12No kidding. "The Mac Experts" talking about anything seriously computer-related would be like NAMBLA Monthly rating Pamela Anderson sex tapes.
- joshrice, on 11/21/2007, -1/+10ex-squeeze me? baking powder? did you just misquote Wanye's World?
"and monkeys might fly out of my butt" - sporg, on 11/21/2007, -2/+11Oh noes fiber optics is clogged !
- Smight, on 11/21/2007, -2/+11Think of how much more porn they could fit if they dumped those useless projects like SETI and Folding@home.
- 89vision, on 11/21/2007, -1/+10SETI could eventually lead to a whole new genre of porn though.
- KewlerKid3, on 11/21/2007, -1/+10This is doubtful. The telco's have been saying this crap for so long. Streaming content and p2p scares them!
- CandidateZero, on 11/21/2007, -0/+9 Rrr... (digg needs a comment deletion function while editing)
- acdcfanbill, on 11/21/2007, -1/+9It could run out of capacity tomorrow if I went around and cut enough buried fiber, however, neither of these is very likely.
- Slugo, on 11/21/2007, -1/+8I call BS ...they are just priming the pump for tiered service ......get ready folks because we are about to get bent over
- badassninja, on 11/21/2007, -3/+9Yeah, if comcast has anything to do with it.
- edebolt, on 11/21/2007, -0/+6yeah duh most people know what a electrical brown out is... I think a term like congestion or sub optimal traffic patterns would be more accurate
- CandidateZero, on 11/21/2007, -0/+5Crap, URL didn't catch. Google "digg broadband scandal" -- first link.
- Grummond, on 11/21/2007, -1/+6Well, they did that in Sweden, the government built a massive fibreoptic backbone through the country, connecting all the major cities.
It was relatively inexpensive because of economies of scale, and Sweden is now known as "bandwidth heaven" where a 100/100 mbit connection is cheaper than most people pay for regular cable everywhere else. That project jumpstarted Sweden's internet adoptance, and is a major contributor to the success their economy is having.
Of course, such a thing could never happen in the US, Libertarians will not allow such a thing to happen :/ - jmpeagle, on 11/21/2007, -4/+9that's an old term juxtaposed with black outs and drop outs when dealing with electricity
Blackout
where power is lost completely. "Load shedding" or a rolling blackout is a common term for a controlled way of rotating available generation capacity between various districts or customers, thus avoiding wide area total blackouts.
Brownout
where the voltage level is below the normal minimum level specified for the system. Systems supplied with three-phase electric power also suffer brownouts if one or more phases are absent, at reduced voltage, or incorrectly phased. Such malfunctions are particularly damaging to electric motors. Some brownouts, called voltage reductions, are made intentionally to prevent a full power outage.
Dropout
where the loss of power is only momentary (milliseconds to seconds).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownout_(electricity ... - polydigm, on 11/21/2007, -5/+10sounds like Y2K all over again !
- Jeffler, on 11/21/2007, -0/+5But it still wont work...*****.
- aramova, on 11/21/2007, -1/+6Two words...
Dark Fiber
Where is all this dark fiber that was put down? It's sitting there. A lot of the Telcos still use legacy fiber modules which could be upgraded to take advantage of the current fiber thats there.
There are a lot of hardware solutions, and we're not even touching on the network layer... that's a whole other can of worms. - meridian300, on 11/21/2007, -2/+7nothing a little draino wouldn't fix
- MutatedNantuko, on 11/21/2007, -1/+5I wonder if any of these figures are real, even. 161 exabytes this year? $42 - $55 billion in the next 3 to five years? Yeah, macworld. Keep whipping out numbers from your ass without any sources.
- Beakerz, on 11/21/2007, -1/+5uh huh.... like big corps are going to let the billions of dollars just fly out the window while saying "Buh bye internet!"
or anyone for that matter. - DontGiveADamn, on 11/21/2007, -1/+5In a sense I am doing that now by downloading all the movies and music I can. Then when the tubes get clogged I have plenty of entertainment.
- LordSkywalker, on 11/21/2007, -2/+6These are those types of stories people look back on with amusement that we could be so wrong. Like the 640K joke or old $10K 1MB hard drives and such.
- blackbeardtron, on 11/21/2007, -1/+5I'm a computer... Stop all the downloads...
- monsterkody, on 11/21/2007, -1/+4Yep
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