End of the (cyber) world in 2012?

The TIME magazine article is not out yet. If you google the reporter's name, Dylan Pattyn, you get the I Power website and his digg profile which was only created two days ago. The only source the I Power guys reference is a page about pay per content for mobile phone internet by a Telus, a Canadian provider - hardly a cabal. Furthermore the page actually says the websites are pay per use unless you have one of their SPARK packages, which gives you unlimited internet access for $15+/month on top of regular charges.

If it were just that I would say this stems from a disgruntled employee or customer, but upon further examination it looks like blatant viral marketing. If you read I Power's end user license agreement it talks about contributing code, blog posting, and video uploads. It seems that they are trying to create a new version of MySpace and to do it fast they need a bunch of profiles by desperate internet people.

The whole idea of pay per site internet conspiracy theory does not seem probable at all. You could imagine the big sites joining up for somekind of toll gateway, but then little sites would spring up doing what they do for free. If big ISPs joined up then little ISPs would spring up in their place.

The whole idea about save Net Neutrality is mostly hyperbole. Yes the network companies want to charge the biggest bandwidth users (whether it be YouTube or the person downloading from it), but blocking off that content (as long as it is legal content) just isn't on the bargaining table. The most they talk about is throttling some of that content down so it takes longer to download.
 
Did anybody else notice the same group is busy posting about other conspiracy theories like the effects of flouridised water?

They're spreading conspiracy theories with a melodramatic backdrop (mostly the music in their videos -- makes it feel important, doesn't it?), that's all.

Also, what ionizer said. If the big companies do something as stupid as turning to a subscription model, small companies will fill the gap and take over in the long run. Unless you control both, the physical network and access to it, you can't form a monopoly like that -- and even then there'd be independent networks within less than a decade and they'd replace the original network.

Besides, how would non-WWW parts of the web work if the access were restricted like that? The WWW is only port 80 (generally speaking), there's tens of thousands of other ports that are used for various other purposes, many of which have little to do with offering services to end users.
 
Ashmo said:
Did anybody else notice the same group is busy posting about other conspiracy theories like the effects of flouridised water?
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Not that that particular website isn't full of shit, the harmful effects of fluoridated water are as much a conspiracy theory as the whole "second-hand smoke causes cancer" thing.


Enjoy the bone cancer :ok:
 
Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude said:
Ashmo said:
Did anybody else notice the same group is busy posting about other conspiracy theories like the effects of flouridised water?
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Not that that particular website isn't full of shit, the harmful effects of fluoridated water are as much a conspiracy theory as the whole "second-hand smoke causes cancer" thing.


Enjoy the bone cancer :ok:
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I just read this morning that "Flip-flops cause foot cancer". AKA: What doesn't cause Cancer these days?
 
even cancer medicine causes cancer. what world we live in.

thanks for the heads-up though. right now i am downloading the internet. i guess when it really comes to that, we WILL have data havens (as described in "cryptonomicon", great read, neal stephenson iirc) that will offer unlimited access.
 
The effects of second-hand smoking are vastly exaggerated. I'm much more prone to catch lung cancer from living in a city full of cars with industrial areas nearby than from having grown up in a smoker household.

The conspiracy theory about water fluoridation isn't about the health benefits alone, but mostly about it making your brain softer and more susceptible for advertising, subliminal messaging and brainwashing -- THAT's the difference between a health activist and a tinfoil-hat-wearing nut-job.

Not that most health activist even know what the fuck they're protesting. The day you swallow your own propaganda is the day you cease thinking and join the cattle.
 
Ashmo said:
The conspiracy theory about water fluoridation isn't about the health benefits alone, but mostly about it making your brain softer and more susceptible for advertising, subliminal messaging and brainwashing -- THAT's the difference between a health activist and a tinfoil-hat-wearing nut-job.
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Thats insane, who'd believe crazy shit like that....?













*puts on robe and tinfoil wizard hat*
 
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