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- Turambar, on 12/17/2007, -2/+46only thing that's gonna harm our internet speeds is our telecom companies, with their government-gifted local monopolies and lack of encouragement for innovation (read: competition). i say we call off war for a year, and give that money to hire all of South Korea and get them to set this place up like it is over there.
- Nougat, on 12/17/2007, -0/+20It won't flood the internet because the internet is made of tubes, which provide adequate drainage.
- DCMarkie, on 12/17/2007, -0/+191024 not 1028
- missingnoh4x, on 12/17/2007, -0/+15Summary of this article: No, it won't.
- LeRenard, on 12/17/2007, -0/+12When Mosaic was starting to gain some ground, there were posts on usenet and chicken little's on IRC claiming the network would collapse. "The network was not designed for images! The bandwidth usage will ruin everything!" .. But it's that same bandwidth jump (and the jump of shockwave, flash, and streaming audio) that caused the development of broadband for the masses. Now I have a faster than T1 connection to my home, something that was only a pipedream in 1990. The same thing will be said 10 years from now.
- aliengoods, on 12/17/2007, -0/+11Actually its like a blackout, but *****.
- 47f0, on 12/17/2007, -0/+10This is a little backwards - it suggests that supply doesn't follow demand.
The Intertweb will never be clogged, for one fundamental, financial, and very non-technical reason - it's all toll-roads, baby.
How many of us can seamlessly switch from a dozen streaming HD movies online today? Neither can I. So the Intertubes, by some definition, are already clogged, right? But they've always been clogged, and I've been networking since 300 baud modems were hot. The Internet was clogged then, it's clogged now, and it will be clogged when you want your full 3D, multi-sensory immersive link to your buddy on the Moon.
But it's only clogged in the sense that you can't afford to do everything you want to do right now. Technology and infrastructure will continually ratchet your network dollar's power, and the stuff you'll be able to do in fifteen years will make today's bandwidth seem like old 300 baud stuff.
And the Internet will still be clogged - or not - depending on how you look at it. - intekra, on 12/17/2007, -1/+11Because the poster knows how to use proper grammar, perhaps?
- treed, on 12/17/2007, -1/+9It is not. The IEC, IEEE, NIST and many others have all rebuked using binary meanings for the prefixes. They have a new set for that.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
Also, you meant 1024. - inactive, on 12/17/2007, -2/+9Uhm, if you READ the Article you'd have seen that the point of the article is to debunk the fear mongering. You just sounded about as intelligent as someone who is accusing Rush Limbaugh of having a Liberal bias.
- Neiby, on 12/17/2007, -0/+6Except that it is.
- wolferz, on 12/17/2007, -1/+7'Cause people like being afraid. Especially if they don't have to make any effort to figure out what to be afraid of themselves.
...and because digg is overflowing with asshats like me who have an opinion on *****... - aliengoods, on 12/17/2007, -9/+15THE SKY IS FALLING! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
Why is it that fear-mongering assclowns get so much airtime, even on Digg? - treed, on 12/17/2007, -0/+6A brownout is like a blackout, but it has to do with too much demand for a service, rather than the lines going dead or something.
- opticsnake, on 12/17/2007, -0/+6Except for the fact that in this case, it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_capitalizati ...
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/ ...
It refers to the collaborative communication device as a whole and as such, there is only one of them (kind of like THE Ohio State University). When the word internet is used as an adjective, like "internet-based research company" it uses a lower-case letter. - j3one, on 12/17/2007, -4/+10Internet access should be free and fast.
- missingnoh4x, on 12/17/2007, -1/+7Because he's gotten more than enough coverage from spammers on unrelated articles?
- Kamael, on 12/17/2007, -0/+5So should be women.
- Dubbsacc, on 12/17/2007, -1/+5"Brownouts"?
- PueSi, on 12/17/2007, -0/+4because it's serious business
- missingnoh4x, on 12/17/2007, -0/+4Yeah, I noticed my typo but got an error when I tried to edit my comment. Stupid broken comment system on Digg.
- missingnoh4x, on 12/17/2007, -3/+6I'm no fan of Ron Paul, but I have to step in here and say that you're full of *****.
- LeRenard, on 12/17/2007, -0/+3Really? Get to work on that and let us know how you get along.
- trollick, on 12/17/2007, -0/+2Because, as everybody knows, they don't make bandwidth anymore. It is a non renewable resource.
- Topher06, on 12/17/2007, -2/+4why? Food should be free.
- Dubbsacc, on 12/17/2007, -0/+2Win
- DarkLance, on 12/17/2007, -0/+2thats kinda weak, we geeks get it enough as it is, now we're all gonna sound like a bunch of teletubbies?
I think we should use mega death byte, so it would become;
ki-DEATH-byte, me-DEATH-byte, gi-DEATH-byte, te-DEATH-byte, pe-DEATH-byte, ex-DEATH-byte, ze-DEATH-byte, yo-DEATH-byte - botvis, on 12/17/2007, -0/+2Brownout implies a drop in line voltage due to overdemand, not a complete failure of power.
Not a very healthy thing for many electrical appliances. - RonBurgundy76, on 12/17/2007, -0/+2He helps liberals by the very act of being his pompous, fatass self.
- luciferin, on 12/17/2007, -0/+2Sorry, but that article is baseless.. I actually read it all. The same thing can be found for any candidate:
Hillary Clinton, for instance:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Anti-Semitic+hilary ... - Scheissen, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1Commie.
- aqualung857, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1blar!
- Tenoq, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1Epic fail.
- krusader3z, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1Call me George Clooney
- AQUANETA, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1Gibikibimibi!!!
- LokitheComplex, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1OMG look out behind you!
- wolferz, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1actually... it's not. I had it wrong too but 1024 bytes does not equal 1 kilobyte (duno where you got 1028 from). it equals 1.024 kilobytes. Apparently some one didn't understand scientific notation and accepted terminology when they started designing the first computers.
1024 bytes = 1 kibibyte (2^10 bytes). 1024 kibibytes = 1 mebibyte (2^20 bytes). Kilo-Binary-Byte and Mega-Binary-Byte respectively.
Meanwhile 1000 bytes = 1kilobyte (10^3 bytes). 1000 kilobytes = 1 megabyte (10^6 bytes). Yeh... it's a bitch. - inactive, on 12/17/2007, -1/+2Thank you for the article idea. These "Oh noes she's a lesbian" attacks are boring.
- Tenoq, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1Pwned.
- Agrajag, on 12/17/2007, -3/+4M-M-M-MONSTER FAIL
- jhshukla, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1free as in beer or as in speech?
- domokunt, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1Bittorrent has already happened, and if that can't bring the internet down, nothing else is likley to generate enough traffic to. We've all seen how much traffic p2p hogs.
- krusader3z, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1obviously some of you havent seen oceans 13 or else this would have 6000 diggs
- MrPig, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1If anything; it would clog the internet.
- 2oonhed, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1Gibberish....pure gibberish.
- ucg1, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1Agree. I think that internet traffic will always increase to fill what capacity is available. Same thing goes for many other things. Hard drives keep getting bigger, yet I'm always running out of room, because now I'm doing video and my video files are only going to get bigger because I'm going to get an HD camera at some point and people on P2P networks are sharing bigger files than they used to. You build bigger highways, and that often means more cars will come to fill it up with traffic.
So with the internet, the more bandwidth we have available, the more we use it. The amount of overall bandwidth available on the internet trickles down to the ISP's and then to us as users. The ISP's have some problems to deal with in this regard, especially if they are oversubscribing, but its nothing to get too worried about. - Neuticals, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1Agreed. Won.
- Jason4000, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1We haven't clogged the tubes yet. Trying our best not to disappoint. Soon we'll need to invent the digital plunger.
- DemonWasp, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1High-pressure intertubes?
- OmegaWolf, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1I think we might see slowdowns in the coming years, but not complete outages. If upgrades need to be done, they will be done.
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