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Submission + - The world and the Internet - A BitTorrent View (northwestern.edu)

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An anonymous reader writes: In the wake of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, as well as political unrest in Egypt and Libya, researchers at Northwestern University are analyzing data that provides unique insight into the effects of these crises on the Internet using data from approximately 1.4 million BitTorrent users.

Submission + - Help The FBI (fbi.gov)

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An anonymous reader writes: Coded message to hard for the FBI's Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU) and the American Cryptogram Association to crack, how about Slashdot?

Submission + - Japan may have lost race to save nuclear reactor (guardian.co.uk)

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bstender writes: ""The indications we have, from the reactor to radiation readings and the materials they are seeing, suggest that the core has melted through the bottom of the pressure vessel in unit two, and at least some of it is down on the floor of the drywell," Lahey said. "I hope I am wrong, but that is certainly what the evidence is pointing towards.""
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Submission + - iCorrect Lets Celebrities Set the Record Straight

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Has your name been smeared by unfounded rumors, half-truths or an inaccurate Wikipedia entry? Switched reports that a new web site will allow celebrities and other public figures can post rebuttals to any rumors or lies that have spread across the Web helping famous people refute "obvious misinterpretations, misinformation and what some might call total lies." For an annual fee of $1,000, high-profile users like Michael Caine, Naomi Campbell, Sienna Miller, Bianca Jagger, Tommy Hilfiger and Stephen Fry have already begun to post their responses alongside whatever item they're looking to debunk, making it easy for visitors to get both sides of a story. The new venture has been greeted with some skepticism in the British media world, in part because some people thought at first that it was a joke, and in part because many journalistic commentators are not naturally sympathetic to offended celebrities. “As images of human desolation were beamed into our homes this week,” wrote Brian Reade in the Daily Mirror tabloid, referring to the Japanese tsunami, “rich and famous people were hunched over laptops alerting us to the grotesque injuries caused to their reputations.”"

Comment Re:Monopoly? (Score 1) 354

by WonderingAround (#35654412) Attached to: Ma Bell Stifled Innovation, AT&T May Do the Same
I have Rogers and they set me up with an free N8 and a data smartphone plan for $50 a month, whats a US comparison price? Most of Canada is very spread out but with dense population in cities especially in the GTA or Greater Toronto Area and a lot of the news etc is based in Toronto, Buffalo, and New York so we get all American and Canadian News, Snowstorms, Products, Providers, we have Best Buy and Future shop, which I think was some mess of old Radioshack and they're all the same company now, or something. And as someone who's used both the British, Canadian, and American healthcare and customs growing up I've "tried out" the emergency rooms in each country, British is fast but you have to pay a small amount with the government healthcare system, Canadian Doctors are good and you can get an appointment next day and Free Emergency Hospital help with citizenship, American is too expensive and I choose not to take deal with hospitals and doctors until back in Canada.

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