Baloney...well, mostly baloney. There are times when it makes sense to do things in house and there are times where it very much does not make sense. Why hire full time employees for project management, development, QA, etc for an 12 month project? Does you organization have the expertise to run such an effort? What do you do with everyone once the project is over? Yes, you will want your own technical staff to be part of the process. Yes, it may make sense to do the maintenance / support in house. Yes, you should never do time and materials but instead fixed bid with penalties (this does mean you will need to have a very good spec up front). Yes, you should get several bids and do your homework on the companies providing the bids. However, none of this precludes using an outside contractor.

Sorry, you have things very wrong. 18Mbps MPEG2 is not very much bandwidth for 1080i60 or 720p60. It is quite compressed. I work in the video broadcast industry and the providers, if they are using MPEG2 video, typically push the HD video around at 100Mbps or higher for the core feeds. Not that 18Mbps HD video is bad...with the right equipment it actually can look quite good. But it is lossy. Bluray usually uses H.264 at 40Mbps, i.e. a significantly better algorithm for bandwidth / quality, at twice the data rate and even that is somewhat lossy.

The nature of a DOS attack (overwhelming your bandwidth / router with traffic) means it pretty much has to be handled upstream. Your ISP should be able to filter the traffic at their routers where they have the bandwidth / processing power to do so. Even if you get a super router it doesn't change the fact that they are using up your bandwidth with dud requests.

Otherwise known as the Otis style jail.... Not sure that it really exists outside of Mayberry though.

I appreciate that what they are doing is scary but the video doesn't seem to indicate what they had to do in order to get that level of power. It seems that they have wires hooked up between the laptop and dash so, for all we know, they could be feeding bad sensor data into the computers. Is there things that could be done to mitigate the risk....sure. But if that is really how they are messing with things (by tearing apart the dash and rewiring everything) it would seem cutting the break lines would be nearly as dangerous and a lot easier.

From Wikipedia:

EMC Corporation is an American multinational corporation that offers data storage, information security, virtualization, and cloud computing products and services which enable businesses to store, manage, protect, and analyze massive volumes of data. EMC's target markets include large FORTUNE 500 companies as well as small business across various vertical markets.[2] It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

EMC Page

They did 20 billion in revenue last year so they are not exactly an unheard of entity....especially with the large amount of IT folk that frequent slashdot.

If, and only if, they do offer IPv6 services to their customers than I am pretty cool with this. Realistically IPv4 is done. There is no real other option for the ISPs than to move to this type of setup for backwards compatibility and push IPv6 for full compatibility.

Netflix just wants peering agreements. Assuming the service provider doesn't have to build out to the carrier hotel then the cost is minimal.

In a wonderful, magical world of perfect programmers that would be true. Unfortunately, regressions are reality. Maybe google is changing their export class interfaces, or they looked at the fact that you can support docx format back to Office 2003 and decided the maintenance / QA effort was not worth it.

We run a small business and I can say that our IT group was quite happy when we moved away from blackberry devices. Not because of the phones themselves but instead because of the server side software. It is very likely things have changed since we stopped using their phones but I can tell you that we would be constantly losing device sync between the server side and the phones and would have to manually resync the connections. If that software is still in use I can see how companies the size of Yahoo would want to not have to support the additional infrastructure that is needed for the blackberry devices.

Ultimately, an employee on drugs is a liability to the company. Whether that be due to dangerous situations that drugs can introduce (i.e. fork lift driver under the influence) or simply that the employee could be arrested for possession, it is not unreasonable for a company to proactively setup a certain standard when it comes to drug use.

It will probably depend on implementation...certain chipsets may be faster then others.

However, anandtech recently reviewed a WD hard drive with a USB 3.0 connector and it was actualy ~20% faster then the eSATA port.

WD 3TB External HD Review

I'm sure others will note this as well, but if you multiply the width and height by 2x you receive a total of 4x resolution. (i.e. you could fit 4 1920x1080 screens into one 4k x 2k screen). Another way to say it is that by multiplying the height and width by 2 you have 4x the number of pixels.

You're assuming that there is no ongoing cost associated with this. The service will take money to be online, support the hardware / travelers, etc. However, I would guess it will still be a good money maker for the airlines.

Guess I am going to buck the trend here but I could see this being useful for kiosk / terminal applications. How many applications does that computer for looking up books run at your local library for instance.

Obviously this would not be good for you average desktop user but I see no issue for specific usage situations to save a few bucks.