By 2012, our TV's will be computers. So you most probably wont even have to have both a cable/satellite and internet.

Actually, by 2012, I'm pretty sure that televisions, computers, and telephones will all be linked together into 0ne device.

Also, wireless will be so advanced that underground hackers will make their own wireless internet network.

If wireless doesn't work, then im almost 100% certain that hackers can turn the power lines into a huge interconnected network too. This has already been proven to work by using a different frequency much like DSL uses a different frequency of your phone line.

"Hackers" believe that all information, and all things digital should be free. You will not stop them no matter what. We will make our own ISP's.

I highly doubt anyone will let this happen anyway.

Starred and flagged. Every internet user should be aware of what's looming on the horizon. From what I have gathered so far this new server blows big time and I'm sure the ISP KNOW IT. As such, it is foreseeable that during the 'switch' they will try to eliminate the possibility for the customer to revert to the old, slow, primitive system.

Users beware!! The internet as I see it is the last bastion of free speech, if we lose this fight, the uphill battle is going to get A LOT steeper.

This is just fear mongering, the idea is for tiered internet service, it has nothing to do with censoring free speech. The worst thing that will come of this is a new quota based system that will charge you if you go over your bandwidth quota...but as I'm sure many know the internet's bandwidth is increasing...thus quotas will also. This theory considers that if everything happens exactly as they say then it will happen...but it won't. The "free market" won't allow it, and the government won't allow it. That's two thumbs down.

One line post!!

Vote with you finger tips - you feel your ISP is shafting you, another one will be more than happy to take your money

ALLis0NE

www.hackaday.com Does appear very interesting indeed. Guess I can
ask them to lock up the computers at work too. 

The only reason I could ever see this 2012 ISP crap happening, is because some greedy bastard wants to monopolize the internet. OR, they have big plans on upgrading their connection speeds and they need a new way to charge people.

You are right on target here. It’s my understanding that both are soon to take place.
When this happens I guess I can go back writing letters the old fashioned was and investing in an Xbox.



West Coast

Thank you for the video. It's an interesting look at one possibility of the technology of the haves vs have nots in the coming years.






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as for the net being turned into a taxed medium and controlled just like televison....


Ohhh they have no idea at just how damned sneaky some people can be - and how determined they are not to be caught in this web of media BS that the TV spins.

Where did this article go (the one from blacklistednews.com)? Nothing on the website and it's not in the google cache? The other "related" articles are there.


Edit:

I think this might just be some strange archiving system they have... Sorry.

Actually.. Is this the correct name of the original article? I think it has found its way into oblivion.

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This deffinately wont happen. Who in thier right mind is going to go from having everything the net has to offer, to having a few select sites they can visit. it's bad for business. they'd drive consumers away and wouldn't get their money. and its all about the benjamins baby...

Realize this: TPTB have just recently realized what a mess they created when they allowed the internet to flourish.

They thought it would be "bread and circuses" to the geeks. What they didn't realize was that the geeks found a way to make money giving it to the masses. Now they are faced with a medium over which they have very little control. (By this, I mean the content, not the physical/logical connections)

When your internet goes down, and I mean down for a couple days or a week at a time, and everyone you know has their internet go down too, know that martial law is not far behind. (BTW, this means other than a natural disaster/industrial accident that wipes out electricity for a large area.)

The internet is the last bastion of true information. Granted, a LOT of information on the net is false, misinformation, outright lying, or mere supposition, but it is STILL better at showing the truth than the MSM.

They MUST eliminate (or severely restrict) this means of communication. I believe they have already tested this. About 1 1/2 months ago, my internet went down partially for 24 hours. By partially, I mean that just about any website west of Denver would not display, nor could you tracert or ping them. My ISP blamed it on DNS issues. I asked how DNS could cause me not to be able to ping certain websites when I didn't use THEIR DNS SERVERS. They couldn't respond to that.

Now, it could have been messed up routing protocols I suppose. But every time I did a trace, it landed in Patterson NJ, and would go no further. If you understand how the internet works, and have done ANY router work at all, you will know why this incident was so weird.

Another thing totally off topic. I believe some of my cell phone calls are being monitored. Why do I say this? Well, I started hearing weird echoes in my cell phone, my own voice repeated back to me with about a 1/2 second delay. Normally, I would chalk this up to being hypersensitive (and paranoid! ) except for one VERY weird anomaly. When I would call my mom, and she would answer, I would say something like "Hi Mom, it's me. How are you doing?" As soon as I finished the "Hi Mom, it's me" part, the echo would disappear and not return. THIS HAPPENED ON EVERY SINGLE PHONE CALL I MADE TO HER. Make another phone call after that, and the echo would be back. Call my mom again, and the echo would disappear. This went on for probably 6 or 8 months. Know when it quit? When I started telling people this story over the phone, especially the like-minded conspiracy theorist friends. Coincidence? Maybe.

Originally posted by DaRAGE
This deffinately wont happen. Who in thier right mind is going to go from having everything the net has to offer, to having a few select sites they can visit. it's bad for business. they'd drive consumers away and wouldn't get their money. and its all about the benjamins baby...

Its all about control. Think about it.

if your in OZ and they fire upon protesters you can youtube it quicker than CNN can get it up - THATS IF CNN WANT TO EVEN RUN IT!

This is all about control over the little people - keeping us in our catatonic aspartame induced semi comas.

Its not about money, they make enough from war and oil not to give a damn, this is control.