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Submission + - Open Source Drug Discovery Prompts a Fundamental Heart Failure Breakthrough (sciencecodex.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02, 2013 @12:29PM

An anonymous reader writes: Case-Western researchers, led by Saptarsi Haldar MD., have made a fundamental discovery that could prevent heart failure after reviewing the "chemical recipe" for a cancer-treating molecule made open source by Jay Bradner MD. (whose TED Talk articulates the open source approach to drug discovery: http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_bradner_open_source_cancer_research.html) This cross-discipline discovery, which was published in the August 2013 issue of CELL, is a fundamental breakthrough in heart failure research, and highlights the value of an open source approach outside of software development. Now, if only drug companies could be held to the same ideals!

Submission + - Slashdot killed my Kickstarter campaign

Submitted by agizis on Thursday May 30, 2013 @02:05PM

agizis writes: Alex from Connectify here. I wanted to say thanks to all of you who commented on the Slashdot story about our Kickstarter campaign It was super-educational discussing Switchboard with all of you: you wanted your own servers, and we weren’t doing enough to communicate what was so special about Switchboard. Based in a large part on your feedback, we blew up our Kickstarter campaign, and changed almost everything. Thanks, Slashdot. This isn’t reddit, but ask me anything.

Submission + - Seamless Channel Bonding (engadget.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @10:10AM

An anonymous reader writes: Channel bonding over the Internet is a notoriously hard problem, with even the best tools in Linux just using round robin to combine identical connections. But that might be changing, as Connectify, the spook backed networking software company has announced new channel bonding software that claims to use bandwidth, latency and reliability metrics to perfectly bond any Internet connections together. Engadget has tried it and said their "test of the beta software on our end has worked seamlessly so far, requiring just a software installation and two or more internet connections (two ADSL lines in our case)."

Submission + - Making Wireless Carriers Play Together 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: Ok, so the idea of opening all Wi-Fi networks in a misthought utopian vision didn’t go over so well. But no one discussed the best part of open Wi-Fi networks: bonding different Wi-Fi and mobile carriers to get the best price and decent performance. We could save money and avoid lock in by bouncing to whoever gives us the best rate, and, when we need speed, jump on all of them at once for a network bonded boost.

Comment Routers that do this are pretty expensive (Score 1) 4

by lush.vida on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @12:31PM (#41069371) Attached to: 10 Internet Connections at Same Time

Pretty awesome that it works. Mushroom Networks makes a hardware router with the same functionality, but it's $3,000. http://www.mushroomnetworks.com/home.aspx

Submission + - 10 Internet Connections at Same Time (connectify.me) 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @12:20PM

An anonymous reader writes: As a follow up to the story about Verizon being forced to allow tethering, the engineers at Connectify climbed on the roof and made a video showing an 85Mbps download rate through a combination of a tethered Verizon mobile phone and ALL of the available open Wi-Fi networks. It’s a darn shame that they cancelled the unlimited 3G on the Kindle, tether 20 of those bad boys and you could have had a real Internet connection.

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