Hi mark,
Yupper, you're a bona fide geek. I can smell it from here. <vbg>
Thanks for the thoughtful reply, all I can say is, I ain't got the religion. I'd rather go climb a local peak or take a long bike ride in the beautiful countryside hereabouts and let the puter take care of itself. As far as all the spoofing, cracking and pranks of the alt.2600 script kiddies and the more malicious types out there, I'd say that they are proving that the Internet has been transformed utterly from the collegial days of NSF.net and that the brave new world we are creating looks a whole lot like society in general, with way too many creeps per thousand. What used to be a noble innovation has now become just another vicious, malicious corner of the human cesspool. (Damn, that's bleak, maybe I should edit it.)
Anyway, I absolutely hate cops & robbers games, so from all you suggest, the Internet is going to become far less useful to humanity (especially this member) in the future than it has been until recently. To be replaced by walled-garden intranets that can be suitably administered, controlled and groomed. Truly, I believe what we are witnessing now is the beginnings of the "tragedy of the commons" of the Internet era. Similar to how we've taken the goodness out of the oceans, collapsing fish stocks in every sea to depletion and now the Internet is being allowed to be mugged by 13 year olds, simply because they can. What a world. Does it ever seem to you that humanity is the greatest metastasis ever on this planet?
Just musing***, Ray
***And trying hard to look at the big picture, as opposed to anally following all the latest instructions on how to avoid the latest attacks of human deviousness to cross the ethersphere. I don't wanna play victim, he whined..... |
