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Submission + - FCC Wants Net Neutrality Suits Stopped

adeelarshad82 writes: The FCC moved to dismiss the net neutraliy challenges filed by MetroPCS and Verizon, claiming they were "filed prematurely." Verizon and MetroPCS have both sued the FCC, arguing that the commission did not have the authority to hand down its December net neutrality rules. The FCC maintains that it does indeed have the right to regulate broadband, thanks to provisions in the Communications Act.
Businesses

Journal Journal: So I'm watching the tanks roll through Cairo

It was kind of bizarre. They were stopping at the intersections to let regular traffic through, and for pedestrians.. The translation of Mubarak's speech was as comedic as the speech itself. It sounded eerily similar to Obama's state of the union speech with a touch of "I feel your pain" thrown in.

Google

Google To Push WebM With IE9, Safari Plugins 413

surveyork writes with this "new chapter in the browser wars: 'Google in a defense of its decision to pull H.264 from Chrome's HTML5 revealed that it will put out WebM plugins for Internet Explorer 9 and Safari. Expecting no official support from Apple or Microsoft, Google plans to develop extensions that would load its self-owned video codec. No timetable was given.' So Google gets started with their plan for world-wide WebM domination. They'll provide WebM plugins for the browsers of the H.264-only league, so in practice, all major browsers will have WebM support — one way or the other. Machiavellian move?"

Comment For me.... (Score 1) 1

I frequently use C#/.NET as such XML is the fastest and easiest for me. However I'm a firm believer in using what's best for the project, however I shy away from proprietary formats because they are hard to recover data from later.

Submission + - R.I.P. Bill Zeller (gizmodo.com)

kantos writes: Bill Zeller a programmer who on many occasions contributed to Gawker media sites Gizmodo and Lifehacker, took his life two days ago. His last agonizing words can be found HERE
Intel

Submission + - Intel Insider DRM Risks Monopoly Investigations (thinq.co.uk)

Blacklaw writes: Intel's Sandy Bridge line of processors is impressing the tech community with its power, but a sneaky little feature designed to appease Hollywood has some concerned about Intel's intentions: Intel Insider.
If a major video streaming service, such as Lovefilm or the US-based Hulu, were to implement Intel Insider technology on their movie streams — as a way of convincing Hollywood to release films sooner and in high definition without worrying about piracy — it would mean that only those who use Intel's very latest Sandy Bridge CPUs would be able to stream movies. Not only would those using older Intel chips that don't support the technology be cut off from the service, but those on systems featuring CPUs from rival manufacturers such as AMD and low-power specialist VIA would also be excluded.

Intel

45 Years Later, Does Moore's Law Still Hold True? 214

Velcroman1 writes "Intel has packed just shy of a billion transistors into the 216 square millimeters of silicon that compose its latest chip, each one far, far thinner than a sliver of human hair. But this mind-blowing feat of engineering doesn't really surprise us, right? After all, that's just Moore's Law in action isn't it? In 1965, an article in "Electronics" magazine by Gordon Moore, the future founder of chip juggernaut Intel, predicted that computer processing power would double roughly every 18 months. Or maybe he said 12 months. Or was it 24 months? Actually, nowhere in the article did Moore actually spell out that famous declaration, nor does the word 'law' even appear in the article at all. Yet the idea has proved remarkably resilient over time, entering the zeitgeist and lodging like a stubborn computer virus you just can't eradicate. But does it hold true? Strangely, that seems to depend more than anything on whom you ask. 'Yes, it still matters, and yes we're still tracking it,' said Mark Bohr, Intel senior fellow and director of process architecture and integration. 'Semiconductor chips haven't actually tracked the progress predicted by Moore's law for many years,' said Tom Halfhill, the well respected chip analyst with industry bible the Microprocessor Report."
Censorship

Submission + - China to ban non state-controlled VoIP services. (wsj.com)

ferongr writes: The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has decided that VoIP services in mainland china are illegal unless they are provided by China Telecom Corp. and China Unicom Ltd. This could affect Skype and Google Voice and limit the freedom of Chinese users.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Research takes on Go (i-programmer.info)

mikejuk writes: Microsoft Research has used F# and AI to implement a consumer-quality game of Go — arguably the most difficult two-person game to implement.
They have used an interesting approach to the problem of playing the game which is a pragmatic cross between tree search with pruning and machine learning
to spot moves with a "good shape". The whole lot has been packaged into an XNA based 3D story based game.

Comment Re:Anyone who asks this question should not be in (Score 1) 450

Using thin clients in an enterprise or small to medium business environment gives you a lot of benefits to the long term bottom line. From a security perspective, you cut the "attack surface" of your network very sharply - from dozens if not hundreds or even thousands of desktops that each need antivirus, security updates, administration, and security monitoring, down to a handful of servers that you can lock down pretty tightly. From a support perspective, you are no longer managing all those desktops, you are now managing a handful of servers.

BULLSHIT From that statement alone I can only surmise that you have never ever worked in IT, the client is ALWAYS part of the equation, a thin client still has firmware and connectivity issues. Not to mention that rolling out any sort of network upgrade goes from being a minor project, to a critical time sensitive operation. Furthermore there is some benefit to having the infrastructure distributed, if your central server fails (and it will) then you're entire company can continue to work locally while you repair or rebuild.

Now, once you've gotten your THICK client computer, running your THIN client setup (wait... is it Windows 7? Is that thin client possible? Or is it "thin" client possible?).

Technically with Windows 7 enterprise you can set up a client to boot from a VHD (I have seen this implemented as this is how Windows deployment services works), and in-fact to use network licenses of software(office etc.) however I've never actually seen this implemented. That said you could in theory go for a medium client? if that is a term? where the software is run locally but is based on network licenses. Personally I wouldn't want to try it, but that's me

Comment Re:Send the wah-mbulance. (Score 1) 481

There is one and ONLY one reason the DRM code wasn't released to Mono, and that reason is called the MPAA. The MPAA is scared shitless of linux and open source, which is why both the flash and silverlight DRM modules have never been released. So if you want to complain complain about that.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 2) 275

I talked to the IT department at my company recently about this... all of our infrastructure supports IPv6... only one little bit that doesn't... our upstream provider... so until ViaWest gets their act together... we won't have IPv6.

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