We're all doomed. Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooomed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Deja Q]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5512037.html

Good grief. They've been saying for YEARS how easy it'll be to shut the internet(s) down.

And if it crashes for good, I'll miss it, but you know what? Life goes on. Well, human life. Corporate life depends on the internet as another means of making a fast buck. They can die, however, as they kill everything they touch. Karma is a poetic chameleon. O8)

The Internet has withstood major assaults to bring the system crashing down, but each new cyberattack raises the specter of a doomsday scenario.
What if terrorists launched a physical attack in combination with a major cybersalvo aimed at bringing the Internet to its knees? Because of the increasing overlap between the various energy, electrical and communications grids, the potential risk is no longer theoretical.

It's a chief concern for VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos, whose company is the leading provider of domain name registrations. Currently, VeriSign processes more than 14 billion daily queries, on average, in its operation of the .com and .net infrastructure. The company's new ATLAS system-- short for Advanced Transaction Lookup and Signaling System--is designed to accept more than 100 billion queries per day and 25,000 updates per second.

[Borgnine]

1. Dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomed!

n/t

[Susang]

2. Lets all sing the doom song!

Doom, doom, doom, doom, doomedy, doom......

[Patsy Stone]

3. Oh... I was hoping this was a doomsday astronomy thread! N/T :)

[BlueJazz]

4. Maybe An Asteroid will hit the INTERNET?

:)

[Patsy Stone]

6. Dooooomed. Doooomed. :) n/t

[Deja Q]

10. Which one? Dumbya says there are many internets.

:evilgrin:

[brainshrub]

5. Doooooooooomed!

Quick Robin! To the Doom-mobile! Doomy-doomy-doom-doom.

[Redneck Socialist]

7. You're mixing your continuities there

For shame! :crazy: :)

[brainshrub]

9. Dr. Doom was my favorite super-villain of all time.

It's not often that I get an excuse to use him in a post.

[Redneck Socialist]

12. I was more of a DC comics reader

but Dr. Doom's cool. :)

[neuvocat]

8. The issue is moooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Deja Q]

11. You mean they found a solooooooooooooooooooution to the problem?

:cry:

[koneko]

13. ummm, my computer went nutty

when I was reading this post. A browser that's been minimized for 40 of the 45 minutes I've been logged on just maximized in the screen. I wasn't touching the keyboard, or mouse.

Hmmmmm, coincidence? I think not! :silly: