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Network Neutrality Is Law In Chile 180

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 29, 2010 @07:25PM from the muy-bien-tal-vez dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Chile is the first country of the world to guarantee by law the principle of network neutrality, according to the Teleccomunications Market Comission's Blog from Spain. The official newspaper of the Chilean Republic published yesterday a Law that guarantees that any Internet user will be able to use, send, receive or offer any content, applications or legal services over the Internet, without arbitrary or discriminatory blocking."

Windows 95 Turns 15 461

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @09:43AM from the i-remember-when dept.

An anonymous reader writes "15 years ago on this day, Microsoft's then new Windows 95 was released. Among other things it moved users away from the archaic file manager and program manager to Windows explorer and the start menu. Compared to today's 'social desktop,' I'd much rather have the simpler and more sparse (pre-Internet Explorer integrated) Windows Explorer, though I do not like the (lack of) stability that Windows 95 offers. Of course if you were alive then, you've probably seen the commercials." I fondly recall downloading build after build and installing them. But within months of the official release, I switched to Linux.

Microsoft Claims 'We Love Open Source' 464

Posted by Soulskill on Monday August 23, 2010 @05:16PM from the admiral-ackbar-unavailable-for-comment dept.

jbrodkin writes "Everyone in the Linux world remembers Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's famous comment in 2001 that Linux is a 'cancer' that threatened Microsoft's intellectual property. While Microsoft hasn't formally rescinded its declaration that Linux violates its patents, at least one Microsoft executive admits that the company's earlier battle stance was a mistake. Microsoft wants the world to understand, whatever its issues with Linux, it no longer has any gripe toward open source."

Look For AI, Not Aliens 452

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 23, 2010 @10:35AM from the i'd-rather-a-good-reuben dept.

krou writes "Writing in Acta Astronautica, Seti astronomer Seth Shostak argues that we should be looking for 'sentient machines' rather than biological life. In an interview with the BBC, he said, 'If you look at the timescales for the development of technology, at some point you invent radio and then you go on the air and then we have a chance of finding you. But within a few hundred years of inventing radio — at least if we're any example — you invent thinking machines; we're probably going to do that in this century. So you've invented your successors and only for a few hundred years are you... a "biological" intelligence.' As a result, he says 'we could spend at least a few percent of our time... looking in the directions that are maybe not the most attractive in terms of biological intelligence but maybe where sentient machines are hanging out.'"

Comment Re:Supporting citizens vs supporting a platform (Score 1) 393

by tian2992 on Thursday July 08, 2010 @06:44PM (#32845534) Attached to: No iPhone Apps, Please — We're British

Yes It's called JavaME, and almost all smartphones, (Symbian, Android, BlackBerry, MeeGo, and more) are capable of running, except the iPhone.

Comment Re:undocumented commands I've seen: (Score 1) 288

by tian2992 on Friday April 02, 2010 @02:04AM (#31704668) Attached to: XKCD Deploys Command Line Interface

WOW, that was awesome, i tried it on my terminal, and BLAM! :D

Comment Re:What a great idea! (Score 1) 95

by tian2992 on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @10:25PM (#31353672) Attached to: Bloggers Now Eligible For Press Passes In NYC

That is like saying that because so many politicians have made speeches, 'I have a Dream' and 'The Gettysburg Address' are ruined by that. All Persons have Free Speech, their quality has nothing to do with the crap others say. This is simply an extension of it.

Comment Re:Why the obsession with javascript? (Score 1) 143

by tian2992 on Saturday February 13, 2010 @12:14PM (#31127540) Attached to: Opera 10.50 Beta Out, With Competitive JavaScript

Yeah, it's quite common to only check the JS numbers, so many benchmarks to choose from. I remember an old webpage that tested both JS, HTML and CSS performance; Opera kicked ass in all except JS (this were pre-Chrome, Firefox 3.5 times)... So Opera has classically had quite good performance on HTML rendering on really large webpages, or crooked HTML, nested tables or stuff like that.

Recreating the Matrix In Legos 21

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 30, 2009 @03:42PM from the better-than-the-sequels dept.

LoneHighway writes "Salon.com has a write up of what is being called an epic feat of Nerdity, the "Trinity, Help!" scene from The Matrix has been recreated using only Legos. It took 440 hours for Trevor Boyd and Steve Ilett to create Lego Matrix Trinity Help, which is a perfect shot-by-shot remake of a short but memorable scene from the Wachowski Brothers’ masterpiece, executed via stop-motion animation and a nearly infinite amount of Legos. They even provide a split screen comparison to the original. Very cool!"

LHC Reaches Over One Trillion Electron Volts 305

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 30, 2009 @02:54PM from the zzzzzzzzzzot dept.

The LHC has become the world's highest-energy particle accelerator, weighing in at over one trillion electron volts. "Until now the LHC had been operating at a relatively low energy of 450 billion electron volts. On Sunday, engineers increased the energy of this 'pilot beam,' reaching 1.18 trillion electron volts at 2344 GMT. The previous record of 0.98 trillion electron volts has been held by the Tevatron accelerator since 2001. The LHC is eventually expected to operate at some seven trillion electron volts."

Are Ad Servers Bogging Down the Web? 387

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 30, 2009 @01:25PM from the yes-of-course-they-are dept.

blackbearnh writes "The work of making high-volume web sites perform well is an ongoing challenge, and one that continues to evolve as the nature of web content changes. According to Google Performance Guru Steve Souders, fat JavaScript libraries and rich content are creating new problems for web site tuning, but one of the biggest problems lies outside the control of web site administrators — ad servers. In an interview previewing the upcoming Velocity Online conference run by O'Reilly, Souders talks at length about the real causes of poor web performance today, and in particular, the effect that poorly performing ad servers are creating. 'We adopted a framework of inserting ads, of creating ads, that's pretty simple. And because it's pretty simple, it's not highly tuned. That's one reason why we shouldn't be too surprised that we see performance issues in third party ads. The other reason is that ad services are not focused on technology. Certainly companies like Yahoo and Google and Microsoft, we're technology companies. We focus on technology. So it's not surprising that our web developers are on the leading edge of adopting these performance best practices. And it's also not surprising that ad services might lag two, three or four years behind where these web technology companies are.'"

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