The Internet: The Alaskan Perspective

[Leisure Suit Lurie]

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499

This man's inane gibberish is one of the few things that makes me grateful to live in New Jersey.

[StealthyCoin]

Why the hell are people who have ABSOLUTLY NO CLUE about how the internet works, be allowed to decided on something that will effect a lot of people?

[imikedaman]

Why the hell are people who have ABSOLUTLY NO CLUE about how the internet works, be allowed to decided on something that will effect a lot of people?
Didn't one of them say the internet was too slow, like "someone sent me the internet this morning and it didn't arrive until late at night"?

EDIT: After reading the page, I see that it's the same person. Holy freaking crap.

[EvolPenguin]

http://www.savetheinternet.com

Alex

[unknown]

You are all just jelous because Ted Stevens is winning at the internet.

[Achenar]

at the one someone sent him home?

[Carlos Camacho]

Daniel,

I think most people in Congress don't use the Internet. But take away their Blackberries... and all hell would break lose! Maybe some crackers will leave me alone and work on viruses for those things.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
When they get filled, you call the Rotor-Router man. (spell?) "And all your bits just go down the drain." (Anyone old enough to remember that CM?)

Now that Bill Gates is retired, he ought to spend money on educating everyone over 37 (I just turned 37) about how the Internet works. Have some guest speakers like Amazon CEO, Steve Jobs, DanLabs, etc. Maybe take field trips to go see some of those "tubes." (Not to be confused with the subway :D )

I'm afraid that while the US Congress debates such matters, Japan and South Korea will start offering 1,000GBps (not a typo) FTTH to consumers. :D

FedEx Commercial circa 2037:
"Mr. Suzuki, why wasn't my 1TB texture map delivered today? You did use Internet 3.0 right?"
"I thought to save money and so used the tubes in the US."
Voice-over: "Next time, your data needs to arrive before you can say Akihabara, make sure to use FedEx."
Disclaimer line: "FexEx is a subsidiary of Akamai"

I'm wondering... can anyone put this debate in context as though we were at the start of the telephone revolution? And these people were debating, Pony Express, Telegram and this darn new gadget called the Telephone? That maybe could make it easier to understand. :lol:

Well, it is only a matter of time until Senator Palpatine rises and does away with all this needless democracy (Congress) ;) See you all on Tatioone.

[EvolPenguin]

All your tubes are belong to us.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Alex

[Leisure Suit Lurie]

I beat the internet. The guy at the end was tough.

[Cochrane]

This guy not only has no clue about how the internet works or what it is, but his analogies also seem flawed. I've yet to see a truck that you can dump anything on that you want (at least one that will still drive after you did so).

[akb825]

Wow, doesn't know how the internet works and can't write fluent English that makes sense. Glad he's not my senator.

[Leisure Suit Lurie]

Maybe sane people just refuse to live in Alaska.

[EvolPenguin]

I'm not sure the writing is his though, could just be a bad transcriptor.

Alex

[jamn]

Maybe sane people just refuse to live in Alaska.

Hey! We have all kinds living here. Anyhow I am for more and bigger tubes.

-Jim

[Dan Potter]

Maybe sane people just refuse to live in Alaska.

My wife and I have a good friend from there, who goes back up each year to help her family with their fishing business. I have to agree with that statement. :sneaky: Every time she's over we hear a new story about something they set on fire, home-made napalm, whatever.. you name it..

[AnotherJake]

When they get filled, you call the Rotor-Router man. (spell?) "And all your bits just go down the drain." (Anyone old enough to remember that CM?)
Sadly, yes ... and away goes trouble down the drain, roto-rooter ... They do internet pipes now? Roto-Rooter Service & Plumbing Co. 1-800-438-7686. Operators standing by. Call now!

That reminds me of a joke: What does the plumber say to the customer? `Hey, it may be your shit, but it's my bread and butter buddy!'

[funkboy]

I think we really need people making laws to be technology people... the vast majority of tech people who truly understand the tech, though, are young. Not all of them... but the older people who understand tech very well are actually creating it at companies, I think. Those older people need to take the political reigns, be it as judges or congress people.

Does anyone know any really technically competent or even proficient people who are in a political or judging position? I think the lack of tech people in those decision-making positions is due to the endless committees and meetings involved in them. Many tech people I know do not want to sit in more meetings - in fact, they are fairly adverse to them. (I'm not, not yet anyway, so I think I would do a good job... and really hope to be a judge or political person with a strong knowledge of technology someday)

[Najdorf]

Google for president!

[PowerMacX]

I think we really need people making laws to be technology people...
Google for president!

Stephen Byerley for president! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_(Asimov)) :D

From Wikipedia:
Once all physical means are exhausted, Susan Calvin indicates that they must turn to the psychological side. If Byerley is a robot, he must obey the Three Laws of Robotics. Were Byerley to violate one of the Laws, he would clearly be a human, since no robot can contradict its basic programming. However, if Byerley obeys the Laws, he is by no means a robot, since the Laws were invented with human morality in mind. "He may simply be a very good man," observes Dr. Calvin.
To be a legitimate politician — i.e., human and not mechanical — Byerley must prove himself capable of harming a human being. (This low-key and indirect satire is characteristic of Asimov's more political stories, another prime example being "The Martian Way" and its attack upon McCarthyism.)

[StealthyCoin]

I read that again... I can't even follow most of it because its so insanly wrong. Didn't anyone correct him? Like a cantaloupe or a stoned teenager?

If we cant get tech people in there, at least have them advised by inteligent people before they make their vote. Or before they spew garbage like that.

Edit: On a sidenote, Ed our personal internets are very close together. We should not post in the same threads or we might get our personal internets tangled up.

Edit Edit: I kind of would like this guy to explain wireless access to me, he would have my attention at least.

[EvolPenguin]

Chuck Norris for president!
We should create a techno-advisor group for Politicians. I would love for this man to write to a PC-Bible or something, I would buy it just for entertainement. "Then, remember, when you open an application, the robot has to fly into the tube and bring it to you, so don't tire out your robot"

Alex

[Nick]

I'm not sure the writing is his though, could just be a bad transcriptor.

Alex
Not his writing, but sure not a bad transcriptor (Audio (http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/497)).

I don't see why the American Congress feels it has some sort of jurisdiction over the internet, something that can be viewed and altered from (almost) anywhere in the world.

[Dan Potter]

...the older people who understand tech very well are actually creating it at companies, I think. Those older people need to take the political reigns, be it as judges or congress people.

They have been taking the political reigns... :cry:

MPAA, RIAA, Bill Gates, ...

Occasionally their "better-than-normal-human" desires coincide with ours (e.g. many content providers and net neutrality) but just as often they do not (many content providers and DRM laws)

[Leisure Suit Lurie]

In a related story: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32770

[Leisure Suit Lurie]

And he even gets his own music video now:
http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=2094

[Josh]

And he even gets his own music video now:
http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=2094
Surprisingly catchy...

[PowerMacX]

I guess he didn't see the instructional video (http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail152.html). Actually, maybe he did. ;)