--[It's not going to make me stop reading this site, but could you please, please, PLEASE stop accepting comments from PHYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART VON DRASHEK M.D.?]--

His comments are so funny. I usually read them about twice and still don't have a clue what he's talking about!

You forget to mention the wonderful success of electricity privatization and deregulation. You know, the exercise that caused rolling brownouts and soaring costs for any state that tried it.

Despite the u.s. worship of private industry all evidence points to a complete lack of ability for industry to build infrastructure in a mature market.

Been using the net for a while now, and it seems to me there's some prediction of doom every couple of years or so and it's not happened yet. The biggest looming crisis is the IPv4 address space exhaustion, and that's fixable if only the will to switch to V6 can be found. 

Of course with so much net traffic being spam I'd bet we could buy ourselves a few years if we just had all the spammers marched out in front of a firing squad. :)

Yes there is room for improvements and/or optimization for the way the internet works. But it's not all doom and gloom. I've seen some interviews with him before and find that it's convenient that the solution to all our problems is the same one he's selling. He might be right, but something to think about.

Quote from article: 
"I believe that the solution is flow routing. [Ed. note: Dr. Lawrence Roberts is the founder and CEO of Anagran Inc., a flow-based routing company.]"

It's akin to someone telling you he's fixed global warming.......just pay me and It'll all be better.

I know a person who spams. It is amazing to see how much just one person can impact the internet and particularly Google. Its kind of insulting.

You know how to stop spammers???:
DON'T BUY THEIR PRODUCT!
Theres a reason this person does it: concrete bins of money.

Tell everyone to stop being stupid and buying boner pills. 

Get those idiots at Truth /WHADAFXUP (the anti-smoking zealots) to use their ill-spent monies on Anti Spam Education instead of driving bright yellow trucks full of morbid body bags and dumping them all over the place and acting like they somehow enlightened the world. Instead of just disgusting people and pissing them off.

Yeah, whatever. Have some faith in the industry to cope with new problems. We hit the process shrinkage "wall" years ago too remember? Look at where we are today.

It really is sad no one is trying to take pro active steps to help stem this issue. I guess we have to wait until the internet breaks under its own weight.

If we kill spam, adware and other unwanted crapola of all sorts how much lease on life dies that give the Internet? Various schemes do accomplish all of these goals are all around us. We do not want to implement them for some strange reason. The simplest thing to do would be to charge a very tiny amound for each email. That way people who were too dumb to secure their computers from zombie organizations would either pay or be banished from the internet when they could not manage their ISP bills. I believe the Russians still have a number of underutilized prison camps in Siberia which would be good relocation centers for convicted malware creators. They could perform useful work while being isolated from any internet connections. Other people probably have more humanitarian suggestions for managing malware. best, Art

Come on embrace the chaos and inevitability! Intentional, avoidable meltdowns are the american way!

From the mortgage crisis, to Iraq, to hurricane Katrina, to the collapse of the value of the US dollar ... All these were forseen, ignored, allowed to meltdown for the short term gain of the people in power.

Mortages: - no regulations requiring that mortages be issued only to those that could afford them. DUH! The banks tried to screw the people giving them mortgages that they could forclose on fast ... but ignored the possibility that property values could drop.

Iraq: - outright lies by Bush about WMD's and the existance of any ties between Hussein and 911 has led to more US deaths than 911 itself, and the deaths of far more Iraqi civilians than Hussein ever killed. Now that's liberty!

Hurricane Katrina: - the effects of such a storm were predicted many years before, it was well known that New Orleans needed it's protections upgraded, but the US government feels that black americans aren't worth as much as white americans, so that region was allowed to melt down.

Collapse of the US Dolloar: - All the above plus Bush dropping taxes while spending more than ever, creating the biggest deficits and debt the world has ever seen. Unsustainable federal debts, much of it owned by China, which may soon melt down into the total economic collapse of the USA. Bin Laden has done to the US what the US helped Bin Laden to do to the Soviets in the 80's.

The collapse of the Internet Infrastructure is just another symptom of how ignorant, narrow minded and greedy the American people are.

Enjoy the ride!

Think Of Million V2 at St. Paul,Mn. Sure too many, yet How MANY Cities are Size of St. Paul, LOTS. 

They all can handle huge load of DATA right now, Yet SOON, as all have telephones hoping for call from Radio Station & all have TV, as its Free & all have Cable due to Funny Monkies on it.So Traffic on Computer to all sorts of WILD Places is about to Really Become UNIMAGINEABLE in numbers of running Units Worldwide.

IP6? ?Probably IP8 soon enough.Copper Plant Gone Molecular.Bandwidth:RADAR.

Signed:PHYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART VON DRASHEK M.D.


Well, looking at how business is done nowdays and how little is thought about the long run, I guess that it will have to come to that - meltdown. The cost of changing HW infrastructure, and thus the SW infrastructure is so big that no one will want to do it until it is absolutely necessary.

No matter that we all know it is better to do it now than later, it'll still be done later :)

It'll be interesting to see who will survive and who will bite the dust...

It's not going to make me stop reading this site, but could you please, please, PLEASE stop accepting comments from PHYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART VON DRASHEK M.D.?

I do have sympathy for people who speak a foreign language and have trouble with English, but this dude needs some major practice before he posts again.