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on Saturday June 04 2016, @07:58PM
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from the getting-the-up-or-down-on-big-or-small dept.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/03/capitalize_internet_or_not/
Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet
internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet
Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet
What say you?
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PARDON me, am I speaking ENGLISH?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Tork on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:00PM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:06PM
Badger badger
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:46PM
SNAKE, IT'S A SNAKE.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 05 2016, @03:57AM
I have had it with these mothefucking snakes on this motherfucking Internet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 05 2016, @04:00AM
badger badger badger BADGer badger badger badGER badger badger
(Score: 2) by rts008 on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:59PM
bacon Bacon ...Hmmm, BACON!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by driverless on Sunday June 05 2016, @01:29AM
Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet
internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet
Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet
What say you?
Developers developers developers developers developers developers.
Developers developers developers developers developers developers.
Developers developers developers developers developers developers.
(Thrown chair).
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:06PM
How to tell whether internet of clouds or internet of things?
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:07PM
If it's in the middle of a sentence, don't capitalize it anymore than you'd capitalize 'frying pan'.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 5, Insightful) by GungnirSniper on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:12PM
There's only one Internet, but many frying pans.
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:15PM
There are two Internets: the IPv4 and the IPv6.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:28PM
There are two Internets: the IPv4 and the IPv6.
Don't forget Internet 2 [internet2.edu]
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:33PM
Does that mean that if a node has both IPv4 and IPv6 stacks being publicly routed, then it's got Multiple Interpersonality Disorder?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday June 04 2016, @11:47PM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 05 2016, @01:27AM
I think you mean "Frying Pan"
(Score: 3, Funny) by tynin on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:08PM
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @10:16PM
police state police state police state police state
State Police State Police State Police State Police
police state police state police state police state
State Police State Police State Police State Police
police state police state police state police state
State Police State Police State Police State Police
...which do you see?
[seen at a protest in the early 1980s, I might have the caps and lower case messed up from the original]
(Score: 2, Disagree) by frojack on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:08PM
If preceded by the word "The", just about anything should be capitalized.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:27PM
the sentence above is the pits.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:45PM
The Sun is lighting up The House from behind The Clouds.
(Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 05 2016, @06:57AM
He didn't write "The" should always be capitalized, therefore your sentence, according to his rules, should read:
The Sun is lighting up the house from behind the clouds.
I just wonder how the tabloid does that. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by zocalo on Saturday June 04 2016, @10:18PM
So, the question really boils down to whether or not we should treat the Internet as a proper noun. Since it's clearly a unique entity (IPv4 and IPv6 are protocols that run *on* the Internet, and Internet2 is generally considered as either a second entity in its own right or as an experimental subset *of* the Internet), I'm going with that it deserves the capital I.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 05 2016, @01:50AM
wHO tHE fUCK aRE yOU, E E gOINGS?
(Score: 2, Funny) by greatbigfatcattats on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:09PM
My vote: lnternet
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:13PM
I vote for a Poll.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:11PM
I miss the internets of intranets. Those were the good old days, when nobody pushed automatic updates onto anything because disconnected operation was still useful and expected.
(Score: 2) by BK on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:23PM
I'm not sure if it is useful. It is still expected in some places [wikipedia.org].
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:30PM
The Great Firewall is still connectivity, just like the tiny firewall I'm behind right now. I'm thinking disconnected machines that have no TCP/IP stack at all, are only reachable by LAN protocol or sneakernet. Today we call such machines old-school doorstops.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:11PM
if its a technical term refering to a network inbetween two other networks then its a "internet".
however if talking about THE Internet, the internet every other network tries to connect
to, then i'd spell it "Internet".
obviously the Internet is a typ of internet.
(Score: 3, Touché) by BK on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:26PM
Even then, it would be _an_ internet. Especially it we're being technical.
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:17PM
There is no internet. All is web.
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Saturday June 04 2016, @11:53PM
My gopher disagrees.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 05 2016, @07:04AM
Wrong. E-mail is not web (even the mail you send using a web interface is not transferred to the recipient via http, even if the recipient uses a web mail interface as well). Bittorrent is not web. Skype is not web. And if you're playing a multiplayer game that is not browser based, it most likely doesn't use the web either.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:25PM
And said, "meh."
It seems to me that if your are referring to a group of interconnected networks (often, but not always, private), that's an internet (short for 'internetwork'). If you're referring to the global set of interconnected publicly addressable networks, thats the Internet.
At least until iCANN starts selling naming rights to all or portions of the 'net (sadly, the way things are going, that's only about half snark). AmazonWebNet? GoogleNet? GEICONet?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:29PM
Could we sticky this for awhile:
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/06/02/214243 [soylentnews.org]
( RMS Responds - GRsecurity is Preventing Others From Redistributing Source Code [UPDATED] )
(Score: 3, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:35PM
Can we start modding these spam? I'd mod it offtopic, but I'm out of points for another few hours.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday June 05 2016, @12:57AM
You wouldn't get mod-banned for it, cause it's a damned close call, but it might get undone.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 05 2016, @02:20AM
Dat shit spam
-Drunkyon
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:38PM
So, these "hundreds and thousands of smaller internets" use IP addresses outside the RFC1918 and RFC 4193 ranges do they? They either use a globally routeable IP address and are part of the Internet, or they are a private network (internet, or perhaps intranet).
It's the whole "deciding to work together" part that makes it a single, named Internet. For example, what the author is saying is that the USA doesn't exist. Instead, there are millions of people who live together in part of North America.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:45PM
It's funny because you don't understand American federalism either. The United States of America is a Union of States in North America that decided to work together for the common defense.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday June 05 2016, @12:59AM
Works in theory. In practice? One word: Obamacare.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 05 2016, @07:10AM
That may have been the original idea. It's not the reality today.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:42PM
Internet = Internet
internet = internet
It's like the diffence between Gallic and gallic, or a Pole and a pole, or an Cuban cigar and a cuban cigar. I don't even know how you would smoke a cigar that shape.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @08:49PM
Facebook or facebook?
(Score: 2) by fishybell on Saturday June 04 2016, @09:26PM
The [amazon.com] facebook.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @09:04PM
...special treatment, why should internet?
LASER, TASER, SCUBA, Kleenex, Escalator, Aspirin, Heroin, etc. More often than not they're all written lowercase and nobody bats an eye. What's so special about the internet that it needs capitilisation?
(Score: 2) by dltaylor on Saturday June 04 2016, @09:45PM
Kleenex is a registered trademark, and, if used in print, rather than "facial tissue" (or whatever), you are likely to hear from the relevant legal team. Companies must defend their trademarks, or they lose them. We have had this fight in the open source world because they will not grant a trademark unless the requester is in trade. The window manager "Sawmill" had to change its name to "Sawfish", and, more recently, "XBMC" became "Kodi".
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Saturday June 04 2016, @09:04PM
seriously, the summary of the story is 100% worthless. you might as well just made this a 303 redirect to the article.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @09:09PM
The summary or the Summary?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 05 2016, @12:57AM
I expected TFS to give me a concise but trenchant overview of this complex topic, without the necessity of reading TFA.
Oh wait.. that's what we got.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday June 05 2016, @09:30AM
Your comment sucks.
The background to this dispute is a curiosity at best.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by snufu on Saturday June 04 2016, @09:32PM
iNternet
(Score: 2) by snufu on Saturday June 04 2016, @09:35PM
or takes Its name in vain shall be called blasphemer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @10:14PM
When referring to Information Technology. Everyone on the Internet knows this.
...Or is that the "internet"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @10:16PM
The Internet. An internet.
(Score: 2) by deadstick on Saturday June 04 2016, @10:21PM
That's how many angels can dance on a pinhead.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 05 2016, @07:16PM
Wrong. Angels cannot dance, therefore no angels can dance on a pinhead.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday June 04 2016, @10:23PM
Internet: Capitalize It?
No, don't capitalize "it."
Really, though, what a summary. Bloody hell. At the very least you could have said why this is a thing at the moment, which is that the Associated Press has changed their style guide to say it should be "internet".
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 05 2016, @12:02AM
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(Score: 1, Redundant) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday June 05 2016, @09:51AM
Utterly irrelevant. That fact doesn't make this summary any less poor.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by inertnet on Saturday June 04 2016, @10:23PM
I call it inertnet.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Saturday June 04 2016, @10:26PM
INTERNET
Information
Network,
Topologically
Exotic,
Resilient,
Now
Extremely
Totalitarian.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by Refugee from beyond on Saturday June 04 2016, @11:43PM
But Should We Really Capitalize It?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 04 2016, @11:57PM
the Tube Series
(Score: 3, Touché) by jdavidb on Sunday June 05 2016, @12:45AM
Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet Internet internet What say you?
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