Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us

sanermind writes "Sensing Senators don't have the stomach to try and pass a stand-alone bill in broad daylight that would give the President the power to shut down the Internet in a national emergency, the Senate is considering attaching the Internet Kill Switch bill as a rider to other legislation that would have bi-partisan support."

Re:Governmental Fail

[IICV]

What! This cannot be! Surely the country's most handsome politicians wouldn't fail so thoroughly at a test of practical skill?

Re:Governmental Fail

[jgagnon]

What! This cannot be! Surely the country's most handsome politicians wouldn't fail so thoroughly at a test of practical skill?

Why not? They fail so thoroughly at everything else! :p

Re:Why now?

[MrEricSir]

They can always say the internet is wanted for Sweden for rape.

Re:This is why

[jgagnon]

More support for Capitol Punishment! Punish everyone in the capitol!

Re:Governmental Fail

[lowrydr310]

There's also IPoAC [wikipedia.org], IP over Avian Carriers.

IPoAC has been successfully implemented, but for only nine packets of data, with a packet loss ratio of 55% (due to user error[1]), and a response time ranging from 3000 seconds(~54 minutes) to over 6000 seconds(~1.77 hours). Thus, this technology suffers from poor latency. Nevertheless, for large transfers avian carriers are capable of high average throughput when carrying flash memory devices.

Bird is the word!

Re:Governmental Fail

[dangitman]

There's also IPoAC [wikipedia.org], IP over Avian Carriers.

Highly vulnerable to shotgun-in-the-middle attacks, though.