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Comment Australia beats my connection / price on.. (Score 1) 161

by Fireking300 (#37576246) Attached to: Australia's National Broadband Network Officially Open For Business
Australia beats my connection / price on everything except Data caps. I currently have Timewarner Wideband Internet in Dallas, Texas. I currently have 50 Mbps Down and 5 Mbps Up as my selected tier package. Which costs $99.99(USD) a month. I see that it would cost a Australian with iiNet only $99.95($99.95 Australian Dollars = 97.0015 US dollars) for Twice the speed with a 1 TB Cap. They have me beat on pricepoint. But Timewarner has no Data caps in my area.

Submission + - Quantum optical link sets new time records (nanowerk.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Quantum communication could be an option for the absolutely secure transfer of data. The key component in quantum communication over long distances is the special phenomenon called entanglement between two atomic systems. Entanglement between two atomic systems is very fragile and up until now researchers have only been able to maintain the entanglement for a fraction of a second. But in new experiments at the Niels Bohr Institute researchers have succeeded in setting new records and maintaining the entanglement for up to an hour. The results are published in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters.
The Internet

Submission + - Tens of thousands flee from BT and Virgin (itpro.co.uk)

Submitted by
twoheadedboy
twoheadedboy writes: "The two biggest ISPs in the UK are losing thousands of customers. Earlier this week Virgin reported it had lost 36,000 cable broadband customers. BT, meanwhile, has seen around 125,000 active consumer line customers flee this quarter. With that many customers leaving, where are they going?"

Submission + - Chromebooks available for use on Virgin America (virginamerica.com) 1

Submitted by Fireking300
Fireking300 writes: From July 1 to September 30 Google has partnered with Virgin America to allow guests on select routes to check out a Chromebook at their departure gate and take it on board.
You can try out a new Chromebook from San Francisco, Dallas-Fort Worth, Boston, and Chicago, exclusively on Virgin America.
It will be Internet connected powered by "Gogo Inflight" for free on Chromebooks.
Security

LulzSec Announces That It Is Done 412

Posted by timothy from the oh-they-all-say-that dept.
MaxBooger writes "LulzSec, the notorious hacker group that's been on a rampage, just announced that it's disbanding. This follows 50 days' chaos during which time it took down several websites (including CIA.gov at one point), exposed passwords, exposed documents of the Arizona penal system, and at one point threatened to hit Too Big To Fail banks. Obviously, it's possible that the group will not abide by its promise to quit. Nobody knows."

Submission + - Swedish Pirate Party Launches ISP (sydsvenskan.se) 1

Submitted by WillDraven
WillDraven writes: Torrentfreak is reporting that The Swedish Pirate Party has launched an ISP. Starting with 100 residents in the housing organization LKF (Swedish) in the city of Lund, Pirate ISP hopes to gain 5% of the market in Lund before spreading to other markets. Headed by longtime Pirate Party member Gustav Nipe, seen giving an English interview about the ISP here, the company aims to provide internet service with the sort of guarantees one would expect from the Pirate Party. Most notable of these are the promises to keep no logs of subscriber activity and provide no data to law enforcement or private corporations. The original Swedish report on Sydsvenskan can be found here.

Submission + - .CO Domain Launches Today (bybits.info)

Submitted by barnabasnagy
barnabasnagy writes: .CO Internet S.A.S launches its general registry process for the brand new .CO domain today. It’s a very good possibility to get superb domains that were unavailable with the overcrowded .COM domain.
Google

Submission + - Google.com missing closing HTML tags? Standards? (w3.org)

Submitted by yosofun
yosofun writes: From a quick viewsource, any casual user can easily see that Google.com is missing the closing HTML and BODY tags (Load up the page. View Source. Use the Find feature in your browser, and search for "</html>" or "</body>"). Why?

W3C Validator shows 35 errors and 2 warnings for google.com. Similar validation crawls for Microsoft.com, Apple.com, Yahoo.com show errors as well. There are web designers who would strive inhuman hours to achieve standards-compliant perfection, and yet the trend with the sites visited most by folks on the Internet is to ignore standards. What does this mean — are standards worth all that prissiness?
Science

Submission + - Solar Sail Tested Successfully in Space (space.com)

Submitted by
Tisha_AH
Tisha_AH writes: "A common theme in science fiction has passed a practical test aboard the Ikaros spacecraft launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. A solar sail provided a minute but measurable level of thrust once unfurled from the spacecraft. This will set the foundation for future designs of space sails to be launched in the future by the Planetary Society.

We will soon see the day when spacecraft will get a helping hand from the gentle pressure of outflowing gas and particles from the sun. This has the potential to provide a significant amount of velocity for probes intended for the outer solar system.

The main article is at: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/solar-sail-successfully-flies-on-sunlight-100712.html
A description of the solar sail experiment is at the Planetary Society web site: http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/solar_sailing/20100625.html
The next solar sail project that will be launched by the Planetary Society can be found at: http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/innovative_technologies/solar_sailing/"

Comment Hope not (Score 1) 1

by Fireking300 (#32888892) Attached to: Windows XP support extended to 2020
I hope this isn't true because we all need to adapt to newer Operating Systems. Sure XP still does mostly everything we need, if not everything. But there is alot of benefits for upgrading, Except for the fact the OS requires a Faster CPU and more RAM to operate.

Submission + - Windows XP support extended to 2020 (tgdaily.com) 1

Submitted by Dega704
Dega704 writes: "Microsoft originally said that new owners of Windows 7 who wanted to downgrade to XP would only have until 2011 to do so, but now the company has changed its mind and extended support for the old operating system until 2020. That's right. Windows XP, an operating system that is already almost 10 years old, will apparently still be relevant for another 10 years. "We have decided to extend downgrade rights to Windows XP Professional beyond the previously planned end date at Windows 7 SP1," wrote Microsoft in an official blog post. "Going forward, businesses can continue to purchase new PCs and utilize end user downgrade rights to Windows XP or Windows Vista until they are ready to use Windows 7."

I hope this is a hoax because I for one am not looking forward to another full decade of servicing XP machines.

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