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Comment Re:I know the one I want... (Score 1) 85

by kkansas on Monday October 08, 2012 @05:58PM (#41590867) Attached to: Sprint Now Offering Vanity Phone Numbers Aliases With **Me Service

>I have Verizon (the service which during a recent trip to Travis Air Force Base really sucked big time), I think Iâ(TM)ll ask for âoeFuckMeRawâ.

Did you type this on a phone? What's up with the funky encoding?

Submission + - 15Mbps Satellite Internet. Too good to be true? (yourlocalinstaller.com)

Submitted by

celery_guy

on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:29AM

celery_guy writes: "For years satellite internet has been, well, horrible. Don't get me wrong, it's better than a 56K modem. Now HughesNet says they have a satellite internet service that allows download speeds up to 15Mbps. If this works as well as I hope it will even challenge the rural DSL and cable companies."

Comment Re:Optical fiber link to every desk (Score 1) 422

by kkansas on Monday October 01, 2012 @12:53PM (#41514853) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building?

> Do yourself a favor and run fiber to every machine, not every desktop

Could you please elaborate on this? How would you get fiber to every machine?

Submission + - Gartner report throws cold water on uber-hyped OpenStack project (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Monday October 01, 2012 @12:46PM

alphadogg writes: A scathing report about OpenStack from research firm Gartner warns businesses to beware of considerable hype and says misconceptions about the open source cloud computing project are leading to "dangerous myths" that are impacting IT adoption and investments. OpenStack is a nascent technology driven by a group of self-serving vendors who are pushing their own agendas over the usability of the cloud management platform, argues Lydia Leong, the author of the report and a research VP at Gartner who focuses on cloud computing. As OpenStack hype continues to build, she says vendors are associating themselves with the project for marketing reasons, but are reticent about contributing significant resources to the broader goals of the project. OpenStack backers naturally disagree, and issued point-by-point counterarguments.

Submission + - To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets 2

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens writes

on Monday October 01, 2012 @11:20AM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Elisabeth Rosenthal writes that in the United States the notion that bike helmets promote health and safety by preventing head injuries is taken as pretty near God’s truth but many European health experts have taken a very different view. "Yes, there are studies that show that if you fall off a bicycle at a certain speed and hit your head, a helmet can reduce your risk of serious head injury," writes Rosenthal. "But such falls off bikes are rare — exceedingly so in mature urban cycling systems." On the other hand, many researchers say, if you force people to wear helmets, you discourage them from riding bicycles causing more health problems like obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Bicycling advocates say that the problem with pushing helmets isn’t practicality but that helmets make a basically safe activity seem really dangerous. which makes it harder to develop a safe bicycling network like the one in New York City, where a bike-sharing program is to open next year. The safest biking cities are places like Amsterdam and Copenhagen, where middle-aged commuters are mainstay riders and the fraction of adults in helmets is minuscule. “Pushing helmets really kills cycling and bike-sharing in particular because it promotes a sense of danger that just isn’t justified — in fact, cycling has many health benefits,” says Piet de Jong. “Statistically, if we wear helmets for cycling, maybe we should wear helmets when we climb ladders or get into a bath, because there are lots more injuries during those activities.”"

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