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Comcast Accused of Congestion By Choice 434

An anonymous reader writes "A kind soul known as Backdoor Santa has posted graphs purportedly showing traffic through TATA, one of Comcast's transit providers. The graphs of throughput for a day and month, respectively, show that Comcast chooses to run congested links rather than buy more capacity. Keeping their links full may ensure that content providers must pay to colocate within Comcast's network. The graphs also show a traffic ratio far from 1:1, which has implications for the validity of its arguments with Level (3) last month."
Privacy

Sheriff's Online Database Leaks Info On Informants 185

Tootech writes with this snippet from NPR: "A Colorado sheriff's online database mistakenly revealed the identities of confidential drug informants and listed phone numbers, addresses and Social Security numbers of suspects, victims and others interviewed during criminal investigations, authorities said. The breach potentially affects some 200,000 people, and Mesa County sheriff's deputies have been sifting through the database to determine who, if anyone, is in jeopardy. ... The FBI and Google Inc. are trying to determine who accessed the database, the sheriff said. Their concern: That someone may have copied it and could post it, WikiLeaks-style, on the Internet. 'The truth is, once it's been out there and on the Internet and copied, you're never going to regain total control,' Hilkey said. Thousands of pages of confidential information were vulnerable from April until Nov. 24, when someone notified authorities after finding their name on the Internet. Officials said the database was accessed from within the United States, as well as outside the country, before it was removed from the server."
Hardware

Submission + - Stephen Fry and DVD Jon back USB Sniffer Project (kickstarter.com)

An anonymous reader writes: bushing and pytey of the iPhone DevTeam and Team Twiizers have created a Kickstarter project to fund the build of an open-source/open-hardware high-speed USB protocol analyzer. The board features a high-speed USB 2.0 sniffer that will help with the reverse engineering of proprietary USB hardware, the project has gained the backing from two high-profile individuals Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) and Actor and Comedian Stephen Fry

Comment Missing the point (Score 1) 4

Did he ever even see a Wii ? fine precise control ? nope ... sedentary ? nope ... sold millions ? yup

So WTF is he talking about ?

He's missing the whole point. This is not for assiduous gamers, that is what the normal xbox games are for. This is for the casual gamers, for people who can't be bothered to learn how to use the controllers. For playing with you dad or grandad. This has, or should have, an almost flat learning curve.

Comment Re:7 hours easy, 8 should even be possible (Score 1) 454

You seem to have an understanding of Li-Po batts.

So my question is this, My RC Li-Po charger is huge, it monitors and balances cell charge, charging speed, batt temp, charging time, etc.

Is there that kind of monitoring going on inside the notebook? its not possible "traditionally" but would notebook batts benefit from a balancing from a real charger every once in a while ?

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Having seen a large batt short circuit on a heli crash, and an explosion when charging it i'd love to watch as someone short-circuits one of these with a paper clip :D

Comment I took the opposite view (Score 1) 3

Instead of: "How could this impact the development of GNOME and Mono, knowing that MVPs have special access to Microsoft stuff? Could this special treatment from Microsoft put in jeopardy Miguel's position as an open source developer?"

I thought: Wow this could be great he could get access to development releases of the framework to improve newer releases of Mono ... and ... its excellent than one of the most known open source developers in the world, that have developed an OSS alternative to the M$ framework was recognized like this.

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