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Submission + - Who is WirelessForAmerica? (youtube.com)

Submitted by hawguy on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @12:04PM

hawguy writes: I came across a video for WirelessForAmerica today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyyDIk8W6Kw

It warns of an impending wireless spectrum shortage (only 24 months until the disaster hits!), and how they have just the answer, but of course it's being derailed by special interests.

It came off a pure political video — warning of an impending disaster if nothing is done, their solution uses American Ingenuity, will create jobs, etc.

So what's the real story behind WirelessForAmerica? Are we running out of mobile bandwidth? Is their solution really the best alternative? From what I've gleaned from their WirelessForAmerica.org website, they want to use frequencies that are so close to existing GPS frequencies that nearly all existing GPS receivers would need to be replaced and future receivers would need to be designed to better reject neighboring frequencies.

Submission + - Windows 8 To Remove Constant Restarts After Updati (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1 on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @11:35AM

Orome1 writes: I don't know a single Windows user who isn't annoyed at the number of times the operating system requires a restart, and especially annoyed when the request follows an automatic update. This behavior of automatic restarts has some unintended consequences for the user. Restarts can occur without notice, and might occur monthly or even more often if there is an out-of-band update. Windows 8 will hold off all restarts until the monthly security release — "Patch Tuesday", which is scheduled for the second Tuesday of every month. The users will also be notified of the imminent restart of the computer 3 days before it.

Submission + - House Judiciary Committee SOPA Hearings Stacked 5 (techdirt.com)

Submitted by

Adrian Lopez

on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @02:17PM

Adrian Lopez writes: "Techdirt reports that 'apparently, the folks behind SOPA are really scared to hear from the opposition. We all expected that the Judiciary Committee hearings wouldn't be a fair fight. In Congress, they rarely are fair fights. But most people expected the typical "three in favor, one against" weighted hearings. That's already childish, but it seems that the Judiciary Committee has decided to take the ridiculousness to new heights. We'd already mentioned last week that the Committee had rejected the request of NetCoalition to take part in the hearings. At the time, we'd heard that the hearings were going to be stacked four-to-one in favor of SOPA. However, the latest report coming out of the Committee is that they're so afraid to actually hear about the real opposition that they've lined up five pro-SOPA speakers and only one "against."'

Demand Progress is running an online petition against such lopsided representation."

Comment Re:That's what happens... (Score 3, Informative) 247

by TMW2N on Saturday November 12, 2011 @08:45AM (#38034102) Attached to: Brits Rejecting Superfast Broadband

That's odd, since virgin don't limit download with the 50 meg service, and only throttle upload in areas with faster uploads

Comment Re:Hehe, so much for cooperating (Score 1) 165

by TMW2N on Thursday June 30, 2011 @05:35AM (#36620408) Attached to: Movie Industry Files Injunction Against UK ISP

to be fair Virgin's "limit" is at peak times, when you're probably going to find things are a bit slow anyway. I'm on Virgin, and downlod more than that most months, mostly overnight, and I've never had their warning letter.
Virgin are pretty up front about their peak time monitoring, and afaict have only recently come up with a figure for triggering their sending of a letter.
(for disclosure reasons i work for a company who work for virgin, but have no interest in promoting their services, i'm just giving my experiences)

Comment Re:MP3 players, too. (Score 1) 347

by TMW2N on Saturday April 09, 2011 @02:51AM (#35765834) Attached to: Magical Chinese Hard Drive

there's ebid. a friend is doing a lot of selling on there, and hasnt had any issues. or if she has, she hasn't whined at me about them the same way she did with ebay.

From Doom To Dunia — the History of 3D Engines 117

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @06:24AM from the looking-forward-to-tech-5 dept.

notthatwillsmith writes "It's difficult to think of a single category of application that's driven the pace of desktop hardware development further and faster than first-person shooters. Maximum PC examined the evolution of FPS engines, looking back at the key technologies that brought games from the early sprite-based days of Doom to the fully 3D-rendered African Savannah as rendered by Far Cry 2's Dunia engine. It's truly amazing how far the state of the art has moved in the last 16 years."

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