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Comment Recent visit to Korea (Score 1) 402

I was recently working in Korea for a few weeks, staying south of Seoul, in Kumi. In the hotel I was staying at I did a speed test, and was really shocked, on a wired connection at the hotel I got the following speeds 82.67 down and 18.87 up on my laptop. Also received speeds like that everywhere there. So doing a bit of investigation, I could see they were using wireless to back haul to a mountain point. I dont know what frequency they were using, it would not show up in anything I had to scan with.

News

Submission + - WikiLeaks Leaves Amazon (huffingtonpost.com) 1

akeeneye writes: Amazon dumps Wikileaks that is. The Huffington Post reports:
"Amazon.com Inc. forced WikiLeaks to stop using the U.S. company's computers to distribute embarrassing State Department communications and other documents"
I'm embarrassed to be an Amazon customer at this point.

Comment Goverment would love this (Score 1) 561

Our government in the pursuit of efficiency is pushing and funding this I am sure. Just think, they do not even have to go to your house to pick you up for ummm say questioning. Just lock the doors and redirect you, look no intervention! Just drive you right inside the yard... Na... I will pass. Right now,

Microsoft

Microsoft To Issue Emergency Fix For Windows .LNK Flaw 112

Trailrunner7 writes "Microsoft will issue an out-of-band patch on Monday for a critical vulnerability in all of the current versions of Windows. The company didn't identify which flaw it will be patching, but the description of the vulnerability is a close match to the LNK flaw that attackers have been exploiting for several weeks now, most notably with the Stuxnet malware. The advance notification from Microsoft on Friday said that the company is patching a critical vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild and affects all supported Windows platforms. The LNK flaw in the Windows shell was first identified earlier this month when researchers discovered the Stuxnet worm spreading from infected USB drives to PCs. Stuxnet has turned out to be a rather interesting piece of malware as it not only uses the LNK zero day vulnerability to spread, but it had components that were signed using a legitimate digital certificate belonging to Realtek, a Taiwanese hardware manufacturer."

Comment Re:How Sad... (Score 1) 191

Currently working on a display for older tanks, price is somewhere in the 100K range for the first 10 units, the price drops on additional ones. We had to redesign everything to meet the old spec.

We could have done it for half the cost if they would have changed the system feeding the information to the display.

The old display was not near a crisp as the new display, and was made with obsolete parts.

But this is better than buying a new tank, so in the end, repair may be cheaper than a whole new system.

Submission + - From litigation hell (SCO LOOSES) (groklaw.net)

WillRobinson writes: Being reported in the Salt Lake Tribune and of course where we all been watching at Groklaw SCO's stock had dropped to a penny, guess they will sue the justice system for their drop in stock price. A federal jury Tuesday found that Novell Inc., and not The SCO Group, owns the copyrights to the Unix computer operating systems used by many businesses. The decision ends a long-running legal battle between the two companies and between Lindon-based SCO and IBM. It also likely means the end of SCO, which already is teetering in bankruptcy court. Lawyers for SCO had contended Novell owed it millions of dollars for lost sales revenue and that it was due punitive damages on top of that. SCO claimed it lost as much as $215 million as a result of Novell's actions, which stretch back to 2003. After a three-week trial and closing arguments from each side before presiding Judge Ted Stewart, the jury filed out of the courtroom to begin deliberations Friday. The jury went home 4½ hours later and reconvened this morning.

Comment Re:50-fold savings? (Score 2, Interesting) 305

I agree, we had no servers. And I will tell you the access time to any students records was guaranteed to be less than the time it takes to log in. The gall if it! We actually used folders, and paper! Humm can we sue Microsoft for prior art? I mean folder, and object inside like Pictures and documents! When my kids ask what our generation did, I tell them where do you think the computers and internet came from? You think Al Gore invented it? Pufft

PC Games (Games)

EA Shutting Down Video Game Servers Prematurely 341

Spacezilla writes "EA is dropping the bomb on a number of their video game servers, shutting down the online fun for many of their Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 games. Not only is the inclusion of PS3 and Xbox 360 titles odd, the date the games were released is even more surprising. Yes, Madden 07 and 08 are included in the shutdown... but Madden 09 on all consoles as well?"

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