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Comment Re:Huh (Score 1) 421

You may be preaching to the choir, but it's all about the bottom line. Fox news isn't really news - it's entertainment. Fox will continue to sell what people are buying. People think that they are dumb and uninformed, I disagree - I think they are very smart and very informed... about money. All other news outlets are carbon copies of the same formula with a different spin.

Comment Re:So the answer is yes (Score 1) 596

Its also quite arguably libelous claiming or inferring that a competitor is stealing your product. If they actually believe this to be true, why not launch an actual lawsuit. God knows companies love to use their lawyers. Otherwise, I'd just call it competition, and if MS happens to have a better product, Google should be nervous of them.

Comment Re:Maybe I'm missing something? (Score 1) 500

Hardware is always a limitation of what a device can do. That being said, I can download whatever I want outside of the Android app store. The only limitation placed on apps in the Android app store from what I've seen is denying access of malware which seems fairly reasonable IMHO. One of the key points for me is if there's some piece of functionality or software I want, I can develop and install it without inclusion into the app store. As an added bonus, I don't need a specific type of machine (Mac) or software (iTunes) to facilitate any of this.

Comment Re:Learn, folks (Score 2) 104

I only have one gmail address and have reduced my number of spam messages via filtering. I found that a lot of spam content was coming from the same places. A lot of spam gets picked up via gmail's spam filtering.
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Submission + - Puppy cams threaten the Internet (networkworld.com)

stinkymountain writes: Speaking at the 33rd annual Pacific Telecom Council meeting last week in Hawaii, Dr. Robert Pepper, Cisco vice president for global technology policy, presented findings from the company's Visual Networking Index, which showed that global IP traffic is expected to increase more than fourfold (4.3 times) from 2009 to 2014. In fact, global IP traffic is expected to reach 63.9 exabytes per month in 2014. This is equivalent to 766.8 exabytes per year — almost three-quarters of a zettabyte.The most surprising trend is that video traffic surpassed peer-to-peer volumes in 2010 for the first time.

An unexpected driver in this overall growth of Internet traffic is the surge in ambient video. This is so-called "puppy cam" traffic — fixed video sources featuring pets, so-called "nanny cam" child care and health monitoring video streams, and especially security camera applications.

``This a much bigger deal than anyone thought,'' said Pepper. He added that the popular Shiba Inu Puppy Cam site was said to have more Internet viewing hours than all of ESPN online video. In fact, of the top online video sites in Europe last year, "three of the top 20 are ambient video, and these didn't exist a year ago."

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