Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-08 Thread Thomas Kernen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:36:09 +0200, Thomas Kernen said: And those of us that live next to the LHC wonder if we will be sucked into a {vortex|wormhole}. You mean like this? http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080406&mode=classic Sounds about right... so m

Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Apr 7, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 20:21:26 +0530 From: "Glen Kent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] says the solemn headline of Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/06/ninternet106.xml Also related to this

Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Fred Baker
That and someone can't tell the difference between a network and an application that runs in a network. On Apr 7, 2008, at 10:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:21:26 +0530, Glen Kent said: says the solemn headline of Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jht

Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:21:26 +0530, Glen Kent said: > > says the solemn headline of Telegraph. > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/06/ninternet106.xml So yoy get higher bandwidth (physical pipe allowing) by downloading from a "grid" of systems. Sounds suspiciously l

Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 20:21:26 +0530 > From: "Glen Kent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > says the solemn headline of Telegraph. > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/06/ninternet106.xml > > Also related to this one, here: > > "Web could collap

Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 7, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Lucy Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://xkcd.com/401/ Also http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080330 and http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080406 I love those! I also lov

Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Glen Kent wrote: > says the solemn headline of Telegraph. > .. and we in Nanog are still discussing IPv6! ;-) It's because we don't have a hadron demolition derby to power our American interwebs: "The power of the gri

RE: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread michael.dillon
> Subject: Superfast internet may replace world wide web > says the solemn headline of Telegraph. Hasn't your mummy told you not to believe everything that you read in the papers? Especially when it involves technology! In any case, there is no new Internet here, just an engineered

Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:36:09 +0200, Thomas Kernen said: > And those of us that live next to the LHC wonder if we will be sucked > into a {vortex|wormhole}. You mean like this? http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080406&mode=classic pgplzlVbya2JN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Apr 7, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Thomas Kernen wrote: Bill Woodcock wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Glen Kent wrote: > says the solemn headline of Telegraph. > .. and we in Nanog are still discussing IPv6! ;-) It's because we don't have a hadron demolition derby to power our American i

Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Jon Lewis
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Glen Kent wrote: says the solemn headline of Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/06/ninternet106.xml So, the internet was created in Switzerland at Cern's particle physics center? Can someone look up Al Gore's passport history and tel

Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Lucy Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Bill Woodcock wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Glen Kent wrote: > >> says the solemn headline of Telegraph. > >> .. and we in Nanog are still discussing IPv6! ;-) > > > > It's

Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Thomas Kernen
Bill Woodcock wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Glen Kent wrote: > says the solemn headline of Telegraph. > .. and we in Nanog are still discussing IPv6! ;-) It's because we don't have a hadron demolition derby to power our American interwebs: "The power of the grid will be unlo

Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Jeroen Massar
Glen Kent wrote: says the solemn headline of Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/06/ninternet106.xml It is always good to see that journalists don't know that "Networks" are also used for other purposes than their daily dose of nonsense (also called the In

Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Lucy Lynch
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Glen Kent wrote: > says the solemn headline of Telegraph. > .. and we in Nanog are still discussing IPv6! ;-) It's because we don't have a hadron demolition derby to power our American interwebs: "The power of the gri

Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Glen Kent wrote: > says the solemn headline of Telegraph. > .. and we in Nanog are still discussing IPv6! ;-) It's because we don't have a hadron demolition derby to power our American interwebs: "The power of the grid will be unlocked this summer with the

Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Glen Kent
says the solemn headline of Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/06/ninternet106.xml Also related to this one, here: "Web could collapse as video demand soars" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/07/nweb107.xml .. and we in Nanog are