Submission + - BitPass is Dead
The Empiricist writes: BitPass is discontinuing service according to an email sent to BitPass customers. BitPass provided micropayment services, enabling inexpensive micropayment for services such as Pay-As-You-Go conversion of patents to PDF. BitPass provided no explanation as to why it was closing down.
Submission + - Commercial firewalls overpriced for what you get?
Anthony Walters writes: "We recently did some traffic throughput testing on an OpenBSD server firewall using 'nttcp' and I would like to ask slashdot readers firstly if anyone has performed similar tests on commercially available firewalls and what sort of throughput they measured, and secondly if they think that expensive commercial firewalls are overpriced? We found that at worst case on the OpenBSD firewall, with a packetfilter rulebase loaded, we got a throughput of about 850Mb/s. Which means that, when disk I/O and protocol overheads are eliminated as much as possible, an 800MB file would get transferred in under 8 seconds. More details on the test setup and results can be found here"
Submission + - Wii Laptop?
PHPNerd writes: "Now you can take your Wii with you anywhere! Engadget is featuring an article about how someone has created a Wii Laptop. Detailed Instructions on how to build your own are soon to follow. The article lists the laptops specs, has details photos, and even a video of it in action. Car rides and plane trips just got a lot more interesting."
Submission + - Apple wanting single Telco for iPhone in Europe?
LordFocus writes: According to this story (German). Apple is looking for a single telecom provider to carry the iPhone in Europe.
Good business or huge failure?
