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Submission + - Mozilla dusts off old servers, lights up Tor relays (theregister.co.uk)

TechCurmudgeon writes: According to The Register:

Mozilla has given the Tor network a capacity kick with the launch of 14 relays that will help distribute user traffic. Engineers working under the Foundation's Polaris Project inked in November pulled Mozilla's spare and decommissioned hardware out of the cupboard for dedicated use in the Tor network. It included a pair of Juniper EX4200 switches and three HP SL170zG6 (48GB ram, 2*Xeon L5640, 2*1Gbps NIC) servers, along with a dedicated existing IP transit provider (2 X 10Gbps). French Mozilla engineer Arzhel Younsi (@xionoxfr) said its network was designed to fall no lower than half of its network capacity in the event of maintenance or failure.

The Polaris initiative was a effort of Mozilla, the Tor Project and the Centre for Democracy and Technology to help build more privacy controls into technology.

Submission + - FCC Reclassifies Broadband (gizmodo.com)

Lokaj writes: FCC officially reclassifies internet from 3/1 Mbps to 25/3 Mbps. Many Cable Providers scramble to change website from "High Speed Internet" to "Internet"

Submission + - LibreOffice gets a streamlined makeover, native alternatives for major Microsoft (pcworld.com)

TechCurmudgeon writes: From PCWorld:
The Document foundation announced availability of the latest version of LibreOffice on Thursday, which it says is the most beautiful version of the open source productivity suite yet. LibreOffice 4.4 also fixes some compatibility issues with files that are saved in Microsoft's OOXML formats. LibreOffice 4.4 has got a lot of UX and design love," Jan "Kendy" Holesovsky, who leads the design team for Libreoffice, said in a statement.

LibreOffice 4.4 is currently available for Windows: https://www.libreoffice.org/do...

Comment Re:I feel sorry for rich people, (Score 1) 339

"you are at least in the top half" but no where close to being rich.
"The income threshold for the top quintile, who many people consider "rich", is $102k" source please. the rich everyone is talking about are the 1%ers... thats about 394K annual individually or assets about 1.5 mil. (forbes) but most of these people are the hard working professionals.

the rich that are "intended" as a target when politically motivated chattering is concerned are the super rich, earning above a million dollar a year. but these are just low level super rich compared to those that "earn" over hundreds of million a year.

the Davos crowd is worried about those low level 1%ers because they havn't been marginalized by the system like the surf class. no one is worried about mid-low income rules are in place to keep them down. the revolution starts at the 1% against the .01%

and now i am off the soap box.

Comment Re:Midrange? (Score 1) 114

"choosing to game at 256" the screen size comes into play. i would play 4k with maybe a 32+ inch screen but then it may be too close for a desktop experience. I output to a 4k projector if I truly need color corrected picture quality, plus my old eyes really appreciate the beauty of high res but at a much bigger screen.

Comment Re:Bye_bye, Blackberry (Score 1) 307

they just want more access to apple's api's to integrate their MDM software and security features in a more user friendly way to stay relevent in mobile devices/messaging/security. the samsung KNOX integration will give them a lot of access to make the user experiance great while providing IT managers control. but unless smae can be achieved for iDevices no one is going to go that route.
IMHO at this point in time the market is finished with their devices and soon maybe finished with their software as well. sounds more like whining than a legit complaint but net neutrality as bait at least it makes past the noise threshold.

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