Any US citizens should be interested in this. Please write your officials.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-indus...e-internet-931
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Any US citizens should be interested in this. Please write your officials.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-indus...e-internet-931
I don't worry too much about these things. AT&T, Sprint, Comcast, They all have SLA's with their customers. In the end, the bureaucrats will argue that they will loose billions if the internet is shut off and the government must be prepared to re reimburse... Their will be conspiracy ideas, fingers pointing, lawyers gearing up for financial gain. More THE ECONOMY WILL FAIL fear tactics will be used.
So in the end there will be a department of dumbasses in charge of turning off the internet, governed by the department of homeland stupidity, with an oversight committee ran by three little old ladies in a corn field in Iowa. (who's only governance is which quilt should be displayed in the front office)
Now even if the government could get ICANN to shut down all 13 root servers, and all ISP's to kill their routers. I still don't see how you could shut down the public Internet.
Kill all the border routers, satellite communications, someone is going to have to run around and turn off a shitload of hardware.
So how does one disable a global communication system?
Oh yea, I too do not believe in black helicopters - nor do I own a tinfoil hat. BUT. I do own two CB and one short wave radio. Just in case.
Well what you have to remember is that republicans are the do nothing party. Not two days ago they voted agianst extending unemployment benefits. And the things they actually vote for have no real purpose or relivance toward improvement.
Let them pass this... we can knock out communication in certian states and have a huge concession agianst the tea-bagger neocons if needed be.
:rofl::rolleyes:............... does this guy have a real brain, or is it rented?Quote:
would require that private companies -- such as "broadband providers, search engines, and software firms -- immediately comply with any emergency measure or action" put in place by the Department of Homeland Security, or else face fines.
Nice to know that other nations have elected delta-minus sub-morons as legislators :D
Errr..................I am not an American, so please forgive me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that when the President declares a state of national emergency, all bets are off, and even the Constitution goes out the window?..................errrr.................thermonuclear weapons?... DEW lines?.........errrr..............??????????????????:confused: If you cannot shoot within 4 minutes you are dead in Europe. You guys may get a bit longer depending on their deployment of ballistic submarines, and the efficiency of our hunter-killers.
HEADS UP! for all US politicians:
When the next World War kicks off, you won't have two years to decide whether to join in (WWI started in 1914, and WWII in 1939...........your history books are wrong ;)), you will have less than 30 minutes................
I would be extremely suspicious of this proposed legislation, as its subject already seems to be well covered..............so what is the little slimeball really up to???????????????????? :eek:
Rag-heads and Hajjies have cut themselves off from civilization and have been at war with the entire world for a thousand years. The question then becomes... would anyone even notice if a few middle eastern domains where no longer registering?
I doubt it.
When Johnny comes marching home?
My people :D
Modems again!!! Yesh! I liked it better when I had to dial long distance on my boxed line into a BBS one state over, anyway....
Writing to the representative of my district? Why bother? Won't do anything...
"you're one vote can make the difference" is a bunch of crap spewed out to make people feel like they matter, imo.
Also, nihil, I agree with you 100%! Probably because you're right. More than likely, it's just some way of divvying up taxes, or some tarrif from the intertubes to go into the pockets of corp amer....
*Looks at the name of this domain and snickers*
I could only dream of a world where google vans had no servers to upload images to.
Where cellphones stop sending text messages.
Where CNN reporters stop mentioning their blogs and twitter accounts.
And where... teenagers get molested the old fashioned way instead of putting it out there on myspace and facebook.
There is already a way to shut down the internet.
They shut down Google and the net gets overloaded with everyone tweeting about it.
LOL