They're socialist morons, anyway.
There's already an Internet 2. It's a super-high-speed network used to link laboratories, research groups, and some universities.
Yes, the students at the universities have downloaded mp3s. Yes, the RIAA sued them. Some things never change.
The cause of Internet malware is 50% Windows' insecurity, 50% dumb users taking advantage of that insecurity. Pure and simple.
This is fix for too much unfiltered information.
We can thank Bill Gates and Microsoft for that.
Wanna bet M$ tries to propose a new Internet standard?
Congress needs to focus on increasing and applying penalties to those who abuse the internet, and, applying incentives to those who ensure safety and security.
I know I spend a great deal of every single day of computing taking care of security issues and managing website spammer and otherwise hack attempts. It's very time consuming and seems nearly endless in intensity and troubles.
I agree that the internet is akin to a Sixties Flower Child mentality, in that there IS an expectation that if one is nice and well behaved, that all will go reasonably well. It's the farthest thing from the truth there is.
Spamming today has taken on the proportions of terrorism. It's no longer about getting or selling goods/services but about harassing sites and site authors, as in the blogger spammer/trackback/comment/referral spamming issues, which are substantially difficult to meet and overcome. The onslaught in those efforts is being done by only a few extremely terrible sources and yet they have managed to ruin about thirty/forty percent of most site resources each and every day for everyone who maintains a blog, or offers commenting features, much moreso publishes an email address.
And, they remain without penalty or even reprimand. I'll never understand how such a huge problem can remain without so much as a request to cease/desist by some form of government or another. It's tragic that it even takes place, much more so can remain as virulent as it is and yet never be penalized for all the damages ongoing.
I run a mailserver which handles email for about 100 active domains, and it is simply ridiculous the extent to which the spammers' network of compromised machines circles the globe.
I saw the same piece of spam from the same spammer being attempted to be delivered to a user - one IP was in Japan, one IP was in the US, and one was in Poland. (All were rejected.)
I hope the new version comes with cupholders.
The Internet Protocol is fairly sound. The problems stem from how it is actually used, not how it has to be used. You could completely swap out that layer with something else and this problem would not go away. And as it happens, a lot of the backbone networks that the Internet runs on are Layer-2 anyway -- no IP in sight.
We need a government agency to review and approve all internet transmissions.
2 solutions: A. Make the deliberate spreading of these thing punishable by 10 years in prison. Countries that don't prosecute get punished. B. Get a Mac.
Who the heck ever said it was supposed to improve society? If anything, the misuse of the Internet should be held up as an example of human nature at its most raw and basic.
BMFL