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Comment It is 4G (Score 1) 306

Guys, I dunno how to break it to you but at least on AT&T it is 4G as it has been redefined. A 3G phone is incapable of doing more than 128kbps upstream on AT&T's network. When you negotiate your network connection, you set a hspa version. The iPhone 4 and the 4G Android phones negotiate the same way. They get the same transfer speeds.

Blame the FCC for allowing this to become so goddan murky. Reminds me of the old days when USB 1.1 got relabeled USB 2.0 Full-Speed, vs USB 2.0 Hi-Speed which was way faster than Full-Speed.

Comment Re:Meanwhile, in Japan (Score 1) 611

bzzt, wrong. 'Broadband' is a technical term that does not change in meaning. "[Broadband is] a term used to describe a network that can transmit a wide range of signals, including audio and video. Broadband networks are especially useful in the Networked World, as they can carry many signals at once, resulting in faster data transmission"

Words get new meanings over time. Organic has been supplanted to mean something other than "life". Get with it, because as much as I hate organic it is here to stay. So is broadband as a synonym for "big pipe"...

Comment Re:Wow! (Score 1) 153

Nah, its standard practice.

$ host download.microsoft.com
download.microsoft.com is an alias for download.microsoft.com.nsatc.net.
download.microsoft.com.nsatc.net is an alias for mscom-dlc.vo.llnwd.net.
mscom-dlc.vo.llnwd.net has address 208.111.161.113
mscom-dlc.vo.llnwd.net has address 208.111.161.89

Privacy

Warehouse or No, UK's Expensive Net Spying Plan Proceeds 134

Vincent West writes with this excerpt from The Register: "Spy chiefs are already spending hundreds of millions of pounds on a mass internet surveillance system, despite Jacqui Smith's announcement earlier this week that proposals for a central warehouse of communications data had been dumped on privacy grounds. The system — uncovered today by The Register and The Sunday Times — is being installed under a GCHQ project called Mastering the Internet (MTI). It will include thousands of deep packet inspection probes inside communications providers' networks, as well as massive computing power at the intelligence agency's Cheltenham base, 'the concrete doughnut.'"

Comment Re:Seriously... (Score 5, Insightful) 693

i seriously doubt that an email which can be easily changed in a file can be used as the sole grounds for pressing charges. It ma however bolster a case where a user has been tracked by IP and the files have his email too.

As we're talking about purchased music, all Apple would have to do is lookup the record of the credit card used to purchase the song.

So unless you always use iTunes redeemable gift cards, it's probably fairly easy to track a user definitively.

Comment Re:Still making 32 bit? (Score 4, Interesting) 641

I agree. Nobody is selling 32-bit processors anymore.

Intel's Atom processor is 32-bit.

Linux can handle 32-bit applications on 64-bit OSes. Surely MS can do the same?

It's the proprietary drivers that make it hard for MS to do the same. In Linux the vast majority of drivers are maintained in source, so this isn't as much of a problem.

Music

Submission + - RIAA vs Noor Alaujan, who's defending herself

newtley writes: "It's virtually unheard of for a judge to request an amicus brief. But in 2004 noted liberal activist judge Nancy Gertner did so in Capitol Records vs Noor Alaujan, with Harvard Law School's Berkman Center responding. Equally unusually, briefs were handed in by the Motion Picture Association of America and a group comprising musician and songwriters' societies. Now in the Alaujan case, judge Gertner has denied the RIAA demand for Summary Judgment, ruling it served notices to admit prematurely. "I've never had a situation like this before, where there are powerful plaintiffs and powerful lawyers on one side and then a whole slew of ordinary folks on the other side," said Gertner of other RIAA lawsuits at the time."
It's funny.  Laugh.

Submission + - SysAdmin/Developer Rivalry

DA-MAN writes: I've been a SysAdmin for about ten years now. During this time I have gone from working at a small organization to a much larger organization. I work hand in hand with developers to debug, find bottlenecks and in general assist. During this time I have never had any issues with developers, in fact one lead developer went to management and had me issued a monetary award for my "work" on his project. In the much larger organization, I am one of many sysadmins but I see that my peers also have good working relationships with the developers they work with. My question is, does the sysadmin/developer rivalry still exist? Has it gotten better in the past few months or am I and every sysadmin I've worked with "one of the good ones"?

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