Internet Safety

[Gesslar]

This is a good article on some videos geared towards teens on the reality of the internet.

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-972...=2547-1_3-0-20

[Rosuav]

The internet community is, paradoxically, both completely anonymous and completely nonanonymous - there's both perfect privacy, and no privacy. But one thing's for sure... once you send information out, there's no recalling it. And this is not peculiar to the internet, either. It's just that this spiderweb of electric wires lets you send that information all over the world in less time than it takes to make one phone call to pass on the latest piece of verbal gossip. And in an enhancement of the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words, today's digital snaps contain a wealth of information that you might not have wanted to release.

[Gesslar]

Originally posted by Rosuav
It's just that this spiderweb of electric wires

You mean series of tubes, of course.

[Rosuav]

Oh of course, I forgot. Bigger tube = more bandwidth. Security will need a whole new set of machines.

[Savaric]

Originally posted by Rosuav
Oh of course, I forgot. Bigger tube = more bandwidth. Security will need a whole new set of machines.

Tubes? I'm sorry some of us are noobs in the area of information technology. Is this referring to fiberoptics?

[Aristotle]

Enjoy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

[...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. 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 it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

[Savaric]

*chuckle*

That's funny. Crazy old man.

[Grantref]

Oh Noes! U filled my intertubes!

[Iridia]

Hmm, considering that most politicians are absolutely non-technicians...

I'd not chuckle so much about him. He at least understood some of the problems on the internet. And what's wrong with using metaphors?

Security is another thing, but there IS definitely misuse in forms of massively using up bandwidth's we could better use for wanted services (SPAM).

Even if I suspect that guy probably meant other uses.

[Rosuav]

Originally posted by Iridia
Hmm, considering that most politicians are absolutely non-technicians...

A quote from "Yes Minister" says it better than any real life politician ever will (at least, ever will in public, no matter how true it may be):

Jim Hacker: "Ministers are not experts. They are chosen expressly because they know nothing."
Sir Wally McFarlane: "You admit that?"
Jim Hacker: "Nothing about technical details."

Politicians aren't technical. That's fine. The only problem is, some of them think they're qualified to knock something down on technical grounds.