Top 10 Internet Threats : Internet Threat 10: Swine Flu
By Kate Gammon , published on November 8, 2009 at 10:10 PM
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Hamthrax. Wilburculosis. Whatever you want to call it, swine flu may do a lot of harm this year – to the Internet. The Government Accountability Office released a report last week outlining the possibilities if millions of schoolkids are home from school playing online games, while millions of workers are trying to work from home. The GAO says it doesn’t want everyone’s Internet transactions to slow down but that private Internet providers don’t have measures to prioritize pushing through work traffic while making video-game-hungry kids wait their turn. In any case, if millions of people are stuck at home sick this winter, the increase in traffic will be noticed by the rest of us. |
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Hahaha...Love that first pic Kate!
Hey Kate, was number 10 a veiled confession perhaps?
Al Gore should be proud of his creation
What if kids playing video games was more important than adults working from home?
I mean, you don't know that.
My MacPadd will protect me from swine flu.
Top 10 internet threats (to humanity):
1) 4chan's /b/ board
2) Goatse
3) XBOX LIVE gamers
4) Twitter
5) ppl who rite lyk dis!!!11!!
6) World of Warcraft
7) Youtube video comments
8) Trolls
9) Trolls who know how to use google
10) Myspace bands
Since when is computer virus "a recent invention"?
Wasn't the first "Bug" an actual moth that got stuck between some tape drums or something like that causing the computer to stop or crash and throw an error. Gotta check on that one but it sounds familiar
Oh and biggest threat to the internet IMHO censorship!! much like what was mentioned with china, if the internet is allowed to be censored based on what one panel of people feel is appropriate for it's citizens how long would it be till they controled the e-commerce of that country?
Internet addiction. Can't close the browser. Trying. Just can't.
If your kid is home sick, they should be resting, not f-ing around on the internet. Take the modem with you to work, if not the entire computer. If your kid is well enough to concentrate on a dungeon raid in WoW, they can probably get some homework done with that same energy. I know whenever I stayed home sick, mom would make a strict no-TV rule. Sick days aren't simply extra weekends, and we shouldn't raise kids to think of them that way.
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Now, hopefully I'll have enough free bandwidth to catch up on some shows on Hulu. I do feel a little "under the weather" today
hey whats written on the Victoria's Secret thumbnail on the front page that links to this artile. I cant tell what the hell it is.
hey whats written on the Victoria's Secret thumbnail on the front page that links to this artile. I cant tell what the hell it is.
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this is a very good article. It combines aspects of reality and comedy.
Sometimes funny, sometimes frustrating. It's been 40 years and we're still having problems. I don't think anyone imagined how big the net would get.
Its the Government ACCOUNTABILITY Office (GAO) :-)
Spam already has the internet crawling. Spamming needs to be a capital offense on first conviction if any deceptive practice (e.g. spoofing, deliberate misspellings, bogus "opt-out" link) is involved, since it was clearly deliberate wrongdoing. GAME OVER.
Another threat to the internet is Advertisements. Think of how much bandwidth is used for all of the crap ads that are placed around web pages. I know the money has to come from some where, but everyday sites even TH is gettings as bad as the ad spam sites that people tried to avoid.
What if kids playing video games was more important than adults working from home?I mean, you don't know that.
I agree. ISPs won't care if all their customers pay equally. What if a given ISP's largest and highest paying demographic is online gamers? Who does the GOA think they are to dictate higher priority traffic?
This article would have been more useful if it had contained any information at all.