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Thread ID: 110481 2010-06-18 23:15:00 So, who are the terrorists then? feersumendjinn (64) PC World Chat
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1111449 2010-06-19 10:40:00 The global internet as a US national asset?

I have two BIG fingers right here for Obama and his ilk.

i dont think it was proposed by Obama, it is proposed by Joe Lieberman, who is chairman of the US Homeland Security committee, regardless of who the president is.
ronyville (10611)
1111450 2010-06-19 10:44:00 I'm trying and failing to think of an emergency where such an ability would even be useful!
I think it was one scheme to be able to notify Americans of nuclear attack so they could get to their bunkers......whilst in Britain the government advice in case of nuclear attack was to put a brown paper bag over your head.....:banana
Terry Porritt (14)
1111451 2010-06-19 10:47:00 I think it was one scheme to be able to notify Americans of nuclear attack so they could get to their bunkers......whilst in Britain the government advice in case of nuclear attack was to put a brown paper bag over your head.....:banana
I thought it was to put your head between your knees.
mikebartnz (21)
1111452 2010-06-19 10:48:00 And put your head between your knees and kiss your arse goodbye.
:)
Trev (427)
1111453 2010-06-19 10:54:00 i dont think it was proposed by Obama, it is proposed by Joe Lieberman, who is chairman of the US Homeland Security committee, regardless of who the president is.
Well then, two BIG fingers for this moronic yank Bieberman.
qazwsxokmijn (102)
1111454 2010-06-19 11:30:00 This is stupid.

Sure, a lot of the big sites are located in the US, as are a few other important servers (namely the DNS root). Oh boo hoo, you can't get to facebook!

So long as ISP's keep good DNS caches, and avoid what happened when some country (iran? iraq? israel?) blocked out youtube, and ended up blocking it out over most of the world.

I sorta forgot where I was heading with this post... but it reminds me of this article: www.cracked.com
ubergeek85 (131)
1111455 2010-06-19 12:19:00 I love some of the stuff that cracked.com comes up with! Chilling_Silence (9)
1111456 2010-06-19 22:32:00 BBC Asia Pacific are showing a doco about this now. The main person they are interviewing is from Nortons. :clap

If you mess with Russia it could be a problem news.bbc.co.uk
rebels181 (14841)
1111457 2010-06-19 22:39:00 The Estonians deserve everything they get, they are hassling ethnic Russians and trying to revoke their citizenship.
Dont know why Russia does not invade the 3 Baltic states and incorporate them back into Russia.
prefect (6291)
1111458 2010-06-19 22:43:00 sad sack, I think the picture of him describes his decision, retarded static.stuff.co.nz I propose that we confiscate all american internet related technology to save them from themselves and hide it all on Steward Island... shotgun the first 3D TV that comes in.

I can see what will happen if this does get passed though, they well have random "tests" to make sure it works, screw up the world and when they actually need it, it wont work. or Obama will post some embarrassing pics of his drunken party on Facebook and wake up with a hangover and take down the internet until he can get rid of them. either that or some 21 year old Chinese guy will hack it and threaten the world by taking the internet down casually during the live streaming of world cup football
The Error Guy (14052)
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