814187
submission
FsG writes
"In the first 24 hours that it was available, eight people bought a completely useless iPhone app for $1,000 a pop. This app does nothing except alert onlookers that you have a lot of money. Apple has, since then, yanked the application, while the inventive programmer walked away with $5,600."Link to Original Source
539514
submission
FsG writes
"When Pakistan ordered that YouTube be blocked within the country, a Pakistani ISP called PieNet went a little too far in their efforts, and abused BGP in a way that rendered YouTube inaccessible to the global Internet. The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan's traffic, PCCW, responded to this abuse by taking the entire nation offline."Link to Original Source
264331
submission
FsG writes
"Wouldn't it be useful if you could make images smaller by selectively removing the least important pixels? New research in computer science makes it possible to do just that, thereby shrinking images without either distorting them or making the important elements too small."Link to Original Source
258157
submission
FsG writes
"Over the past few weeks, more and more Comcast users have reported that their BitTorrent traffic is severely throttled and they are totally unable to seed. Comcast doesn't seem to discriminate between legitimate and infringing torrent traffic, and most of the BitTorrent encryption techniques in use today aren't helping. If more ISPs adopt their strategy, could this mean the end of BitTorrent?"Link to Original Source
