Down with gaia! It's a waste of a perfectly good Internet.
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Anonymous2007-06-17 18:50 ID:kpoj/mBe
It's called "Let's scrape every fucking buck we can out of an old system and not put any more $$$ into it for over 10 years. No one will notice"
Question is why the fuck WE should pay for it?! What I haven't been paying for internet already?! Fuck this, I'm going back to BBS' and starting CHANNET since UseNet is full of fucking lamers...
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Anonymous2007-06-18 17:09 ID:9G01ZYEX
The Internet is not going to "die".
Thats the kind of mindless propaganda bullshit that pisses me off. There are millions of web based corporations and companies, ISPs, networking firms etc etc, and I can't help but assume that they won't let the single largest source of revenue in the world "die".
Seriously, if anyone REALLY thinks this will happen, they shouldn't be allowed near the 'net in the first place.
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Anonymous2007-06-19 4:21 ID:cFW7GlJi
Can someone tell me what the hell is going on about this "Death of the Internet" thing?
I've been hearing it everywhere but I don't get why the internet would die.
Copper wires cant support the amount of data that optical fibre sends to them, routers cant process as much information as they receive, the infrastructure of backbones and branches can be destroyed by natural disasters.
You name it, the Internet will die from it. I'm surprised no one has mentioned computer cancer.
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Anonymous2007-06-19 6:38 ID:BBcYIBQh
>>8
You know it. But even fiber optic won't be enough in the long run. Lazers!!
CHARGIN...
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Anonymous2007-06-19 9:55 ID:tgjWRayw
not this bullshit again.
btw. shoop da whoop
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Anonymous2007-06-21 2:57 ID:aJcpP2lB
If I say "Death of the Internet", I actually mean "Death of Pirating Shit". Now is it fine? =/
The cost of badnwidth might increase, we'll have to use it less, and sites will be forced to streamline to reduce download size more, but I don't think it's the end. Maybe it'll be the end of the internet as something popular, but that just means less Myspace losers to deal with. Maybe less spam too.
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Anonymous2007-06-22 5:00 ID:3TnnhlfW
MEGAGIGS
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Anonymous2007-06-23 14:19 ID:SE3cdWye
relax , light a cigar and imagine all the wow kids suiciding
The end is always nere fuck tard, it's just always late and very very lazy
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Anonymous2007-06-28 8:48 ID:piUFzxTL
Worse yet, it is getting nearer.
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Anonymous2007-06-28 13:27 ID:1ri8ERTX
Why is nobody discussing wireless? Can't we just beam the internet around the world, like we do with TV? Then the physical restrictions of fiber-optics and copper aren't an issue.
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Anonymous2007-06-28 13:55 ID:piUFzxTL
>>21
It is done but is still too expensive for mass use. Yes, the receivers are getting cheaper, but if this hits big we will need many more satellites to keep up with the demand.
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readabook2007-06-28 23:30 ID:KSqIYVY9
wireless? like out the TV? because it need to be 2-way mainly. imagine 1-way internet! you would have to watch so much porn you went dry before even seeing a roflcat!
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Anonymous2007-06-30 9:29 ID:o9drkWWV
the internet is a series of boobs
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Anonymous2007-06-30 22:37 ID:iTqvZp9G
>>21
the problem is that there is no universal, inexpensive, and _reliable_ method of distributing wireless signal over many miles, much less creating a wan out of it. reliability is incredibly necessary in an application like that and currently wireless signals cannot bring that sort of stability. achieving that stability, while certainly possible, is understandably a difficult task.
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Anonymous2007-07-02 22:53 ID:Vv97Szr+
they hit a problem with city wireless, which is that it gets blocked by buildings, so it works in your garden but in your house, no signal. plus it works by having a transmitter every 100 yards.
Other problem is that, although there are kind of ways round it (ultrawideband), its like everyone in a cell is sharing the same wire, so if your neighbour is torrenting porn, your porntube connection fucks up.
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Anonymous2007-07-02 22:55 ID:Vv97Szr+
the internet wont collapse, all the gear at either end of the fibre gets upgraded every year, and we'll have fibre to home soon
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Anonymous2007-07-08 11:11 ID:j0auC8Y7
i wouldnt worry about this too much, the BBC arent the most reliable source for technical information anyways. as and when this really does become a problem a solution will already be underway.
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Anonymous2007-07-15 23:28 ID:wupEAeMu
Who will profit from this?
And by how much?
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Anonymous2007-07-16 19:54 ID:ZyUYD1Qs
maybe when 801.11n officially comes out this may be more feasable since it doesn't operate in the 2.4GHz range.