How to save the Net

Paul Boutin pens an amusing and pointedly snarky list of 101 Ways to Save the Internet for Wired magazine.

By my count, 13 of the items have to do with spam; eight with security and privacy issues; seven with copyrights -- with four dealing specifically with P2P/music downloading issues -- and four with expanding the reach of Wi-Fi networks. (Some items fell into more than one category.)

My personal favorite idea is on a sub-list of suggestions for Microsoft:

54 Ship antivirus wizard Why can't the paper clip guy tell us something important, like "This message is infected with Sobig"?