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Mark Chisholm writes:
HDNet Chairman and Dallas Maverick owner Mark Cuban wrote in support of Comcast's P2P Blocking on his blog:
"BLOCK P2P TRAFFIC , PLEASE. As a consumer, I want my internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my internet service down are P2P freeloaders. Thats right, P2P content distributors are nothing more than freeloaders. The only person/organization that benefits from P2P usage are those that are trying to distribute content and want to distribute it on someone else's bandwidth dime."
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maximus1 writes:
The former CEO of Enron Broadband, Kenneth Rice, was sentenced to more than two years in prison and ordered to cough up about $15 million, according to this article. Rice pleaded guilty in July 2004 to a securities fraud charge, and the $15 million will go to victims of the fraud at Enron Corp.
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janoc writes:
Apparently not only China is censoring Flickr. Flickr has recently introduced filters to filter out images deemed inappropriate. Unfortunately, the filters are now forced also on the German users (together with Singaporeans and Korean users). Photos marked "moderate" or "restricted" are invisible even to their own authors if they happen to be in one of the restricted countries. However, users from elsewhere can still see them just fine if they disable the "Safe search" feature in preferences — this option is not available to Germans anymore. There is a large discussion about this issue going on here: link.
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SchlimpyChicken writes:
In an apparent attempt to "one-up" DirecTV's announcement that it will have over 100 HD channels online this year, Comcast cable announced it will have 400 "HD Channel Choices" by the end of the year and a total of 800 by the end of 2008. On first blush it sounds too good to be true — apparently with good reason. The article at Audioholics reports that the problem is that Comcast has completely redefined what an "HD Channel" is — and the end result is that their claim is not much more than smoke and mirrors.
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CowboyRaver writes:
Mars, the rugged Red Planet, may have once been blue according to new research that suggests massive ancient oceans once covered a third of its surface.
The discovery was made by a joint Canada-U.S. research team that says it has uncovered evidence of the shorelines of ancient seas.
The team's findings are set to be released in the journal Nature on June 14.