Comment: Re:yeah, openstreetmap (Score 2, Informative) 46
Then start walking/driving around with a GPS and map your city. OSM is the map that anyone can edit.
Comment: Keypoints.. (Score 5, Informative) 61
Some interesting keypoints:
- "The 100-Gbps trial connects Comcast facilities in Philadelphia and to McLean, Va., running over the operator's metro and long-haul fiber links. Comcast is using preproduction versions of Nortel Networks' 100-Gbps interface cards, running in the vendor's Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 system"
- "It's running live traffic, and the 100-Gbps wavelengths in the Comcast trial are running over the same physical fiber as its existing 40-Gbps wavelengths, which are handled by Cisco Systems gear"
- "It's not on some dedicated facility
- "Comcast believes it's the first test of 100-Gbps wavelengths with reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) photonic components."
Comment: Re:Forgot about Cisco? - Cisco is suing! (Score 1) 539
According to http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2007/corp_011007.ht ml?CMP=ILC-001 Cisco is suing Apple:
Cisco® today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple, Inc., seeking to prevent Apple from infringing upon and deliberately copying and using Cisco's registered iPhone trademark.
Chinese Lasers Blind US Satelites 739
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from the do-not-look-directly-into-laser-beam-with-your-remaining-eye dept.
from the do-not-look-directly-into-laser-beam-with-your-remaining-eye dept.
SniperClops writes, "China has fired high-power lasers at U.S. spy satellites flying over its territory in what experts see as a test of Chinese ability to blind the spacecraft, according to sources." The article mentions the reluctance of the U.S. administration to talk about this "asymmetric" effort by the Chinese military.