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Comment Re:Comcaast usage policy: Pay more, get less (Score 1) 578

by CSMastermind on Thursday May 08, 2008 @01:39PM (#23340246) Attached to: Comcast Floats a 250GB Monthly Bandwidth Limit

No he didn't start tracking until the 20th of January so that month's number is low. And it's not the end of the month yet so May's number is low.

If you consider 11 days in January = 61.67 GB that's ~5.6 GB per day. So if that was an accurate of per day bandwidth the entire month it would be about 174 GB for the month, much closer to his February number. We can do the same thing with May and find 7.715 GB per day and a projected 239.165 GB for this month.

Overall if you were to plot the numbers it shows a steady increase in usage from January to now. So if anything you should have left out the "and got her back in May" part because that would imply he's slowly sinking deeper into the world of the internet after February.

Submission + - Finding Municipal Wi-Fi Success (wordpress.com)

Submitted by

sbrown3820

on Monday September 10, 2007 @05:31PM

sbrown3820 writes: "Listening to the news over the last few weeks with Earthlink rethinking its business model for providing municipal Wi-Fi services and several major cities declaring their wireless program sinking ships (Chicago and San Fran most notably), you'd think the world of muni-wireless had come to an end." With all these examples of Wi-Fi Failure where are the examples of success? "Google recently took a moment to do something surprising: congratulate itself on a year of successful citywide Wi-Fi in its own hometown of Mountain View. The success of municipal WiFi is not just limited to one city."

Seven Wonders of the IT World 170

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 10, 2007 @05:25PM from the random-stats dept.

C.G. Lynch writes "The computer closest to the North Pole. The most intriguing data center. The biggest scientific computing grid. The little kernel that rocked the world. CIO.com has compiled a list of Seven Wonders of the IT World, some of the most impressive and unusual systems on the planet (and beyond)."

Submission + - Today is World Suicide Prevention Day (scienceblogs.com)

Submitted by

grrlscientist

on Monday September 10, 2007 @04:38PM

grrlscientist writes: "Nearly everyone will experience the loss of a colleague, friend, co-worker, family member or neighbor to suicide .. learn what you can do to save a life.

Today was designated as World Suicide Prevention Day, to raise public awareness of this problem, to encourage discussion and increase understanding about suicide. The goal is to remove the stigma associated with depression and suicidality because this powerful social taboo prevents people from seeking the help they need and especially places men at great at risk for completed suicide. Includes how to identify when a person is considering suicide and what you can do to help prevent this person from following throough with it."

Submission + - Skype worm infects Windows PCs (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

walterbays

on Monday September 10, 2007 @04:34PM

walterbays writes: "Skype Ltd. warned its users today that a worm targeting Windows PCs is spreading through the service's instant messenger... After hijacking contacts from an infected machine's Skype software, it sends messages to those people that include a live link. Recipients who blithely click on the URL — which poses as a JPG image but is actually a download to a file with the .scr extension — wind up infected."

Submission + - Standards post-OOXML, and what about PDF? (adobe.com)

Submitted by davemc on Monday September 10, 2007 @04:24PM

davemc writes: Jim King, Adobes PDF Architect, has a blog entry up that compares the standardization efforts of PDF (through ISO) and OOXML. It's a very informative look at what makes a worthwhile standard, and well worth reading, especially in the aftermath of OOXML. Given the number of PDFs in the world, it's also a topic we should be aware of.

http://blogs.adobe.com/insidepdf/2007/09/fast_tracking.html

Web OS, ajaxWindows Launched 211

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 10, 2007 @04:02PM from the then-your-internet-connection-dies dept.

BigRedFed writes "Michael Robertson, of mp3.com fame, Linspire.com fame (or infamy depending on your view point) and more recently, ajax13.com has released another interesting piece of web software. ajaxWindows they are calling it and it's an almost full fledged web based OS that you can use to transport around your documents and mp3 collection to any device with an internet connection and a full web-browser."

Submission + - Arcor, german ISP censors Pornsite

Submitted by

sango

on Monday September 10, 2007 @03:44PM

sango writes: "The german ISP Arcor censored the access to some porn and adult sites like sex.com, youporn.com or privatamateure.com
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/95758 (german)
Some think its about the large amount of traffic these sites produce. Some think, its because the video-on-demand sites from arcor itself are not used enough. Arcor itself talk about legal problems like age verification. I think, it is pure censorship with financial intrest and no moral decision."

Submission + - Free Pascal 2.2 has been released (freepascal.org)

Submitted by

Daniel Mantione

on Monday September 10, 2007 @03:24PM

Daniel Mantione writes: "Free Pascal 2.2 has been released. Several new platforms are supported, like the Mac OS X on Intel platform, the Game Boy Advance, Windows CE and 64-Windows. Free Pascal is now the first and only free software compiler that target 64-bit Windows. These advancements were made possible by Free Pascal's internal assembler and linker allowing support for platforms not supported by the GNU binutils. The advancement in internal assembling and linking also allow faster compilation times and smaller executables, increasing the programmer comfort. Other new features are stabs debug support, many new code optimizations, resourcestring smartlinking and more.

Further, Free Pascal has become extremely powerfull in developing portable software over the last years. The release article explains why."

Spotlight on Facebook Groups Affects Microsoft 150

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 10, 2007 @03:17PM from the hate-to-be-in-the-marketing-managers-shoes dept.

NewsCloud writes "After Slashdot reported Facebook Exposes Advertisers To Hate Speech, the company removed its F**k Islam group for a day (it's back up now). According to the New York Times, 'Facebook declined to comment on Friday on the subject of hate speech or on what steps had been taken.' It turns out that Microsoft is the digital advertising provider for Facebook serving up ads for companies such as NetFlix, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon and Coca Cola. But for now, the Microsoft-served ads for all Facebook group home pages (even those complying with Facebook's Terms of Use) appear to have been taken off the site. For its part, NetFlix told me to address any concerns about its own ad placement along obscene speech with Facebook. T-Mobile said they would look into it."

Submission + - Broadcasters launch ads opposing wireless internet

Submitted by kaufmanmoore on Monday September 10, 2007 @03:03PM

kaufmanmoore writes: According to an AP report, The National Association of Broadcasters is launching ads to target lawmakers over a push by a consortium of technology giants including Google, Intel, HP and MSFT who want to use unused and unlicensed TV spectrum for wireless broadband. Broadcasters are airing concerns about the devices creating interference with broadcast television and in a statement NAB chairman Alan Frank takes a swipe at technology companies saying, "While our friends at Intel, Google and Microsoft may find system errors, computer glitches and dropped calls tolerable, broadcasters do not."

New Wonder Weed to Fuel Cars? 484

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 10, 2007 @02:34PM from the be-a-great-shift-in-the-balance-of-power dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "Jatropha, an ugly, fast-growing and poisonous weed that has been used as a remedy for constipation, may someday power your car. The plant, resilient to pests and resistant to drought, produces seeds with up to 40 per cent oil content that when crushed can be burned in a diesel car while the residue can be processed into biomass for power plants. Although jatropha has been used for decades by farmers in Africa as a living fence because its smell and taste repel grazing animals, the New York Times reports that jatropha may replace biofuels like ethanol that require large amounts of water, fertilizer, and energy, making their environmental benefits limited. Jatropha requires no pesticides, little water other than rain and no fertilizer beyond the nutrient-rich seed cake left after oil is pressed from its nuts. Poor farmers living close to the equator are planting jatropha on millions of acres spurred on by big oil companies like British Petroleum that are investing in jatropha cultivation."

Submission + - Web search for bomb recipes should be blocked: EU

Submitted by the_insult_dog on Monday September 10, 2007 @02:02PM

the_insult_dog writes: Internet searches for bomb-making instructions should be blocked across the European Union, the bloc's top security official said on Monday .

Internet providers should also prevent access to any site giving instructions on how to make a bomb, EU Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini said in an interview.

Frattini said there would be no bar on opinion, analysis or historical information but operational instructions useful to terrorists should be blocked.

Submission + - Arecibo Observatory Funding in trouble (sciencedaily.com)

Submitted by MadMonkD on Monday September 10, 2007 @01:51PM

MadMonkD writes: According to the Puerto Rican Newspaper El Nuevo Dia (in Spanish) and The Washington Post , The NSF (National Science Foundation) has stated that if half of the $8 million budget needed for running the Arecibo Observatory is not found by 2011, they will need to close down the facility. This Observatory is responsible for the SETI project, space climate investigation and is the only one sensitive enough to track asteroids. Unlike the New Mexico or the West Virginia Observatories who have been in financial crisis before, the Arecibo Observatory does not have enough political clout in Congress to get financial backing, since Puerto Rico has no senators in Washington and its single representative has no vote. But that doesnt mean that the people running it dont have a backup plan: "Arecibo site director Robert B. Kerr says rather than count on Congress, he is trying to get creative when it comes to funding sources. One idea: selling naming rights to a private corporation, much the way sports venues do.

Submission + - Magnetic Waves Boost Ethanol Production (sciencedaily.com)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Monday September 10, 2007 @01:09PM

eldavojohn writes: "Research in Brazil has shown that 'extremely low frequency magnetic waves' applied to yeast-based fermentation of sugar cane resulted in a two hour shorter process and a boosted 17 percent more ethanol produced. They say it can easily be produced on an industrial scale but do not mention how much 'net' energy after accounting for energy used to create the field for whole duration of the fermentation process."

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