Since it is not in the summary, here's a direct link to the Controllable Christmas Lights for Celiac Disease.

And here's an overly long, but complete history of 'em: part1 and part2.

Here's the 3 page article on one ad-free page.

They are claiming it will handle 54 Tbps of network traffic ... up from the Vancouver games four years ago that was only 4 Tbps. One interesting tidbit is the ratio of wired to wireless traffic was 4-to-1 back then ... they expect that ratio to be reversed this time ... with 2,000 802.11n access points!

That a bit more bandwidth than this Christmas website has ... HO-HO-HO! ;-)

From the article:

It's estimated central pressure is 899 mb but it could be lower. The lower the pressure the stronger the storm. Since 1987, there have been only four storms in the western Pacific with a central pressure below 899 mb (Megi in 2010, 885 mb; Flo in 1990 890 mb; Ruth in 1991 895 mb; and Yuri in 1991 895 mb)

Doesn't say anything about things being different for uploading, but if you are running an Internet facing video camera (or three as seen here) you will easily blow through that 5GByte/month bandwidth cap.

NCTA calls is "Fair Broadband Pricing" ... for the industry perhaps?!? ;-)

I used Snort quite a few years ago when Marty was just starting to commercialize it. Great product back then (I'm sure now) and Marty put a TON of time into it ... so I say he deserves every penny for all the hard work that he has done.

Related/recent /. article

From TFA: "Engineers later confessed that system resets had occurred during pre-flight tests. They put these down to a hardware glitch and returned to focusing on the mission-critical landing software"

Very surprised by this ... even if a hardware glitch, wouldn't you want to track that down before launch? Especially since in the harsh space environment (bit flops even with hardened RAM/CPU), you want your hardware to be as reliable as possible.

The Sydney Morning Herald article may have been sparked by Anil Dash's recent Blog Post - The Web We Lost ... which was discussed on /. last week.

Anil also wrote a followup titled "Rebuilding the Web We Lost" that may be worth reading.

Speaking of the "lost web", we no longer see as many offbeat websites like this one ... HO-HO-HO! ;-)

Us old farts will remember something similar called the Ping-O-Death! ;-)

Contrast Mark Cuban's "personal responsibility" position with that of the New York Times which "blamed" the Facebook CFO.

Let me guess which one is a Republican and which one is a Democrat?!? ;-)