The Eugene, Oregon NBC affiliate, KTMR, this morning at about 5:45AM aired a story saying that the internet all of a sudden is getting full, and will "need to be replaced soon with one not compatible with the current one"...goodbye lots of up-to-the-minute, state of the art internet devices and laptops, eh?

 

Well, maybe the story was to help DHS and pals "explain" why there might be internet brownouts in the near future..."You knuckleheads, brave, brave, Obahmah and cronies down to your local Mayor are doing the best they can against this scourge caused by an internet simply full, at a time few can afford to re-tool or buy Brave New Internet devices...a condition caused by anyone but government, by the way". Indeed, there is an air today that ANY input is mad riot-inciter talk, or something...and what with so many using internet to yak, ya gotta cut it, and ptoeey to all those who use the IIINNNNNNNTTTTERRRRRNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTT as their sole medium of communion with government agencies, banks, bill centers, etcetera, or pray they'll have enough skills to finally go online and apply to REAL jobs.

 

One thing is sure: the internet was predicted to "be full" and unusable every year in and since 2001; e.g., http://news.cnet.com/ATT-Internet-to-hit-full-capacity-by-2010/2100-1034_3-6237715.html (showing, mind you, all that's needed and was given was capacity expansion), http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/24/AR2007112400807.html , http://internetinnovation.org/library/exaflood/ . Obviously, if the internet and thus e-commerce and e-government stops due to brownouts, wherever government hasn't moved to prevent it the problem does not lie in the minds of the "mere populace" or unavoidable paralysis of any internet.