Comments on: 101 Ways to Save the Internet

101 Ways to Save the Internet

feelinglistless — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:52:20 -0800

... 102 Stop listlessly posting Wired articles to Metafilter. Oh dagnamit.

By: feelinglistless

feelinglistless — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:54:18 -0800

103 And particular articles which have a massive banner advert telling me I have two messages waiting when I clearly haven't.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:27:49 -0800

#16: Simplify Web publishing: Why can't we post files from our desktop to a Web site in one drag-and-drop move? Um...we can. Or is this some sort of super-secret, Code-Q clearance trick that nobody told WIRED about? Hell, if anything, we need to make it HARDER to publish to the Web...too damn many Freepers and DU-ers and bloggers out there, consarn it! But seriously -- how can WIRED believe that "web publishing" is difficult in the age of blogs, Windows XP file-sharing, etc? In XP Explorer, I can literally drag-n-drop a file from my hard drive to my website.

By: Down10

Down10 — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:35:23 -0800

I think the operative word in #16 is "simplify." I can't say that setting up an entire self-updating blog/publishing site is particularly simple for everyone.

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:48:54 -0800

39 Upgrade to IPv6 The next-gen Internet protocol will improve security and add 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,427,473,244,160 IP addresses - enough for everything, ever. And 640K should be enough for anybody.

By: skallas

skallas — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:54:00 -0800

102. A cheap wireless router that has a firewall and bandwidth throttle so you can share x amount of bandwidth with strangers on port 80 (or whatever else you want to share). Does this thing exist yet? A few issues with the list. He mentions P2P a lot. P2P sucks, its slow and unreliable. I think the success of bittorrent has gotten to his head. I'd hate to make 100+ connections to desktops (running at who knows what speeds or loads) all around the world to download a website. He wants this email/IM uber-app but decries vendor lock-in later on with microsoft. One or the other, Paul. I much prefer seperate apps. Not to mention Outlook XP pretty does this with Exchange using MSN messenger. The "more ads for Centrino than hot spots" line is an instant classic.

By: hattifattener

hattifattener — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:11:49 -0800

Ehhh. This is more a list of "101 things that Paul Boutin is vaguely irritated about today but can't be bothered to think about or investigate". The Centrino quip is humorous, though.

By: ilsa

ilsa — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:49:36 -0800

#2 translates "Sell things below cost and make it up on volume." Frankly that makes more sense sandwiched between "Collect Underpants" and "Profit!" than on ahem a serious list of improvements to the internet.

By: ilsa

ilsa — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:51:41 -0800

Sorry, I felt no need to read past #3.

By: woil

woil — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:00:38 -0800

As for #2: In a digital medium the cost line actually moves with volume: You're not selling physical things here, the only additional costs you'll have is bandwidth. He does go a little hog wild over P2P however, with things like #42 in which he recommends we P2P our network services. (Which is not the answer to life, the universe, or in this case the netowrk services model.) He says we should do this because the client-server model is more vulnerable to attack. That's complete bull. A security hole is a security hole, no matter how many servers the data is stored on.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:07:21 -0800

My first thought when I read that article was "the internet needs saving?"

By: drezdn

drezdn — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:07:51 -0800

My second was, magazines really get lazy with the last issue of the year.

By: digaman

digaman — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:15:48 -0800

Please do stop listlessly posting Wired articles to MeFi. Post them passionately, enthusiastically, or enragedly and defiantly, disputing every line. We, your comrades at Wired, do not support listlessness [grin]. For the record, drezdn, the Boutin piece is in the first issue of 2004, and last year's December issue, on science and religion, was one of the best of the year, in my opinion.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:20:40 -0800

I consider the Jan. issues the last issues of the year, because the Jan issue is the one on sale at the end of the year. Having said that, I did read the article all the way through and finally brought myself around to subscribing to Wired. Magazines in general just seem to get obsessed with lists at the end of the year.

By: McBain

McBain — Thu, 01 Jan 2004 02:05:01 -0800

Foosnark- That number is on the order of 10^38. More than the number of atoms in our solar system. I think it is probably enough static IP's.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 01 Jan 2004 09:53:59 -0800

94 Tell Kelly on Geocities to take down her Macarena tribute page It's over, Kel. -- this one i really liked! (but are some good ideas there) and for January issues of monthly magazines--they're produced in November usually, and the Feb. issues are really the last ones produced in the year before.

By: skryche

skryche — Thu, 01 Jan 2004 10:21:47 -0800

In XP Explorer, I can literally drag-n-drop a file from my hard drive to my website. Whoa... why have I been using this FTP client? Thanks!

By: kindall

kindall — Thu, 01 Jan 2004 11:45:45 -0800

102. A cheap wireless router that has a firewall and bandwidth throttle so you can share x amount of bandwidth with strangers on port 80 (or whatever else you want to share). Does this thing exist yet? SnapGear has a firewall box for under $200 that will do throttling, but you'd still need a wireless access point on top of that. Still, that's a lot cheaper than it used to be.