From the Guardian here: Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing' - excerpt: Tim started work on a project that was, then, not even called "the Internet" way back in the mid-to-late 1980s. He was at the "CERN" in Geneva trying to find a way to manage the immense amounts of documented reporting that the lab generated. He was, as I recall, employing "alphabetizer" software that puts the words of a document into alphabetical-order and thus allows anyone searching for it to find the document in which it appears. Add a bit of logic to the searching method for multiple words and you have more-or-less "Google" - and numerous other such sites that evolved at the same time. Which did come along in the early 1990s with their on-line version. Getting it "on-line" was then the most important part of the fledgling "Internet", which was (at the time) not much more than a Defense Department computer network then called ARPANET amongst entities conducting research for the DoD. Tim worked on the fledgling "Internet" along with others to produce today what is (perhaps) the most important technical evolution of mankind. (Yes that comment is worth another debate somewhere!) Today Tim is the director of the World-Wide-Web Consortium run out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Tim is not naturally (I think) a worry-wort. But when he rings a bell, we all should be listening ...
No, I do not buy into all that sky is falling rot. The Internet warts and all is property of the common man and needs no Pretorian guard other than to identify and tag the bloody scoundrels / malware hackers and thrash them thrice daily lol...
And what you evidently know about the internet would fit a thimble. Some dunderheads need a first-class Internet-scam that is costly personally to them in order to see the light. Like any Replicant government, the Internet is being "bought" with this administration. I hope your internet speed drops to zero, which is the only way thick-heads understand what is happening around them. When it happens to them personally - because they have no foresight whatsoever. Come out of your cave to see the daylight, DocteurFou ...
Piss off Mate, I was galavanting around the Internet probably before you stopped soiling yourself. The needed financial protection is not in place thanks to Estupid Banking practices that protect not the consumers, and allow anonymous monetary and other transactions sans verification of parties involved. These issues cam be solved, Prosecution of Hackers and Thieves that pillage people's bank accounts and credit cards etc... Make them serve serious prison time.
A fuse may cost pennies, yet it protects valuable equipment. The point being, until Banking is forced to avail itself of readily available technologies to protect consumers, such fraud will continue to occur. Real Prosecution of such offenders would be of help. " Simpleton reasoning " And there you have it, when logic fails, resort to common insults..
