Re:Missing one point (Score 2)

Finally some sense in this silly thread. Of course this is not a technical issue -- it's economic. If Joe User sees a benefit in getting his TV, Music, Internet etc. through a single pipe (and hey, it's coming, soon -- just consider the guys over at :Cue:Cat (TM) planning on integrating TV ads with a killer consumer database) the backbone Will Be Upgraded. In our nerdly fasion, we've forgotten that none of this is free -- someone's paying for the net as a whole, and companies are very quickly coming to rely on it as a critical part of their business model -- so the system has a strong impetus to fix the technical probs. And security? well, that'll probably have to melt down before it gets fixed, but that's fixable, too. And there is no particular reason that it has to be super-complex to understand. I wouldn't dream of connecting my house to the power grid by myself, and there's a pretty well established infrastructure that allows this to happen very easily and safely.