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Posted by samzenpus from the horse-power dept.
He's the best mechanic in the county and he works for apples.

Comment Re:They want control but should not have it. (Score 1) 173

by rocca (#24050451) Attached to: ISPs Experimenting With New P2P Controls

Not enough people willing to pay the true costs of having 5Mbps connections running full out 24x7. The rates we pay now are based on a specific usage pattern. When that pattern changes disproportionately based on a handful of users, there are three options. 1) Raise rates, 2) Implement caps, 3) Implement throttling.

Feed Sony intros VAIO RM1N HD editing workstation (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Desktops


Sony looks to have heeded the calls of those bemoaning the single Core 2 Duo processor powering its otherwise top-end VAIO RM HD editing workstation, as its now taken things all the way up to a Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor in its latest RM1N model. As before, this one boasts a dual-box design, with the main PC components housed in one box, and the optical drives (including a Blu-ray one), hard drives, and memory card reader stuffed in the other. In addition to that new quad-core processor, the RM1N also gets a new NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS graphics card, along with the same 2GB of DDR2 memory and dual 500GB 7200rpm SATA hard drives as before. Also getting a boost is the price, with it now running just shy of $5,000.

[Via Reg Hardware]

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Submission + - Google's new lobbying power in Washington

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*SECADM writes: Learning from Microsoft's error, Google is builds a lobbying power house in Washington. "... Two years ago, Google was on the verge of making that Microsoft-like error. Davidson, then a 37-year-old former deputy director of the Center for Democracy & Technology, was the search-engine company's sole staff lobbyist in Washington. As recently as last year, Google co-founder Sergey Brin had trouble getting meetings with members of Congress. To change that, Google went on a hiring spree and now has 12 lobbyists and lobbying-related professionals on staff here — more than double the size of the standard corporate lobbying office — and is continuing to add people."
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Submission + - FAA plan looks to clean up the skies (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie writes: "On top of its recently announced plan to reduce flight delays, Federal Aviation Administration officials today launched what they hope will be pan U.S. and European Union joint action plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft. Specifically the group announced the Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions or AIRE — the first large-scale environmental plan aimed at uniting aviation players from both sides of the Atlantic.A couple things the alliance will work on: -Trajectory-based operations on the ground to minimize aircraft flight time. -Collaborative oceanic trajectory optimization, which promises major fuel reduction at cruise. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1652 7"

Biggest Obstacle of Nuclear Fusion Overcome? 444

Posted by Hemos from the baby-steps-to-clean-energy dept.
Yetihehe writes "Nuclear fusion could become a more viable energy solution with the discovery of way to prevent super-hot gases from causing damage within reactors. The potential solution, tested at an experimental reactor in San Diego, US, could make the next generation of fusion reactors more efficient, saving hundreds of millions of euros a year."

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