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Comcast Outlines New Broadband Policy 350

Posted by timothy from the knowledge-is-power dept.
Slatterz writes "US cable provider Comcast has presented its long-term solution for managing broadband traffic. The new system is set at putting to bed a minor scandal that erupted around the company when it was found that Comcast deliberately limited traffic for certain applications. The company said that under its new system, traffic will be analyzed every fifteen minutes. Users who are found to be occupying large amounts of bandwidth will be placed at a lower priority for network access behind users with less bandwidth-intensive traffic. The new system will not replace or be related to the company's earlier installment of bandwidth caps, which limited a user's data intake to 250GB per month."
Announcements

GNOME 2.24 Released 163

Posted by timothy from the ekiga-has-the-best-screenshots dept.
thhamm writes "The GNOME community hopes to make our users happy with many new features and improvements, as well as the huge number of bug fixes that are shipped in this latest GNOME release! Well. What else to say. I am happy." Notably, this release is also the occasion for the announcement of videoconferencing app Ekiga's 3.0 release.

Road to WAR Website Launched 64

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the taking-aim-at-the-entrenched-opponents dept.
Last week Mythic launched their "Road to WAR" website, allowing users to declare their allegiance, recruit friends, gather gold for the fight, and participate in a simple battle for self, state, and realm every week. In addition to the "prestige" of being on the leaderboard, you also have the ability to win in-game items and titles for launch. Looks like they really are hitting the warpath.
Networking

Submission + - Internet Pioneer Unveils Flow Router (theglobeandmail.com)

Submitted by No_Weak_Heart
No_Weak_Heart writes: From this article in the Globe and Mail: "Lawrence Roberts, once part of a group that developed the world's first major computer packet network in the 1960s, started up Anagran Inc. in 2004 with the aim of developing a router that can better handle Internet traffic. The FR-1000 Flow Router, Anagran's first product, uses what the company calls behavioural traffic control, instead of existing methods of delivering data "packets" across networks, to ensure online video and voice services are delivered without interruptions."
Businesses

Submission + - Penalizing for Poor Health 2

Submitted by
theodp
theodp writes: "Perhaps laying the groundwork for Sicko II, Clarian Health announced that starting in 2009, it will fine employees $10 per paycheck if their body mass index is over 30. Even slim-and-trim employees have to worry about their cholesterol, blood pressure, and glucose levels — they'll be dinged $5 for each standard they don't meet. Smokers get a sneak preview of the policy starting next year, when they'll find $5 less in each check. Clarian credited new government HIPPAA rules that became effective July 1st for giving it the courage to follow its penalize-for-poor-health convictions."
Censorship

Submission + - Corporate CEO targets teenage blogger 3

Submitted by
marylouluddite
marylouluddite writes: "A corporate CEO named Patrick Byrne, who runs a company called Overstock.com, has sicced his Director of Communications, Judd Bagley, on a teenage blogger who lampooned him.

The blogger's name is Zac Bissonnette, a college freshman and 19 years old. Zac blogs on stocks at AOL, and also has a parody website, wwww.hedgefunnies.com.

One of his items lampooned Patrick Byrne, and he has also been critical of Byrne in Blogging Stocks. See http://hedgefunnies.com/2007/07/30/patrick-byrne-u nveils-irrefutable-proof-of-naked-short-selling

Byrne struck back by having Bagley attack Zac on Wikipedia, and by threatening to do an item about him in antisocialmedia.net, a website dedicated to attacking critics of Patrick Byrne.

An investigative reporter, Gary Weiss, has the scoop on his blog: http://garyweiss.blogspot.com/2007/08/overstockcom -sinks-to-new-low-targets.html

It's really a shame that a big company is so paranoid and sensitive to criticism that it has to chase after a teenage blogger."
Software

Submission + - Gentoo crisis continues on the -dev mailing list

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Following on from a previous Slashdot comment, Gentoo's main developer list seems to have exploded again.

In a scene that is all too often seen at Gentoo nowadays, an initial subject of whether to continue to allow user's contributions on a developer list blew up five days later with developers saying that they didn't care about the community or users, a developer leaving and users "finding it commonplace" in the Gentoo communication channels.

Is this another nail in the coffin leading to a fork or is Gentoo just losing excess baggage?"
Intel

Submission + - Intel Launches Mobile Linux Project

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Intel has unveiled an ambitious project aimed at developing open source software for mobile devices. The Moblin project comprises a Linux kernel, UI framework, browser, multimedia framework, and embedded Linux image creation tools, along with developer resources such as documentation, mailing lists, and an IRC channel. Intel says it hopes Moblin will serve as a 'point of integration' for multiple sub-projects, and appears eager to see devices such as its Mobile Internet Device design, and chipsets such as its Ultra Mobile Platform 2007 platform be thoroughly supported by Linux. Although all of the projects currently focus on the Intel architecture, the project says it is open to hosting support for other processor architectures.
Privacy

Submission + - A human buffer overflow to defeat printer dots (seeingyellow.com)

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: The Seeing Yellow project wants us to contact printer manufacturers to at last get their statement about the yellow dots that laser printers include to allow tracing of individual printouts. They say one person who did this was paid a visit by the Secret Service!
Space

Tunguska Impact Crater Found? 229

Posted by kdawson from the things-that-go-boom-then-splash dept.
BigBadBus writes in with a claim by an Italian team that they may have found an impact crater resulting from the 1908 Tunguska explosion over Siberia. The BBC story quotes a number of impact experts who doubt the Italians' claim. "A University of Bologna team says a lake near the epicenter of the blast may be occupying a crater hollowed out by a chunk of rock that hit the ground. Lake Cheko — though shallow — fits the proportions of a small, bowl-shaped impact crater, say the Italy-based scientists. Their investigation of the lake bottom's geology reveals a funnel-like shape not seen in neighboring lakes. In addition, a geophysics survey of the lake bed has turned up an unusual feature about 10m down which could either be compacted lake sediments or a buried fragment of space rock."
Java

Submission + - Introduction to Spring LDAP (javaworld.com)

Submitted by
Athen
Athen writes: "JavaWorld has published an introduction to Spring LDAP, a Spring-based framework for LDAP programming on the Java platform. The article explains how Spring LDAP handles the low-level coding required by most LDAP clients and demonstrates CRUD operations using Spring LDAP, as well as covering more advanced operations such as creating dynamic filters and converting LDAP entries into Java beans."
Microsoft

Submission + - Vista Security Still Besting Linux 6 months later (csoonline.com)

Submitted by
Martin
Martin writes: "Great report on security vunerabilities for MS/Linux/Mac OS X. A revised version of the one Jeff Jones did back on March 21, 07, Windows Vista — 90 Day Vulnerability Report, http://blogs.csoonline.com/node/218. This time he did what the linux community asked, everyone complained that he did the report based on a FULL linux distro including optional components not just a base OS install, so he did both this time, base OS and standard install, MS still comes out on top. I was shocked that Apple was even on the list as I believed all those Mac commercials stating they don't get virus's and security problems! ;)"
Space

Submission + - Scientists await the explosion of Eta Carinae (harvard.edu) 1

Submitted by Urbanator
Urbanator writes: According to the Chandra X-Ray observatory, Eta Carinae, a star about 7,500 light years away and 100 to 150 times the mass of the sun is set to explode. If this occurs the star may be light enough to rival a full moon for a short period of time. New composite images of the star are shown, displaying the results of an earlier explosion from the 1840's which caused material about 10 times the mass of the sun to eject from the star and form a nebula around it. Of course for all we know, this explosion may have already happened sometime in the last 7,500 years.
Privacy

Submission + - E-mail gets fourth amendment protection

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: People concerned about e-mail security got a whole new reason to worry last year with revelations of secret government monitoring. Earlier this month, though, a U.S. Appeals Court told the government where to knock it off, at least when dealing with people in the Southern District of Ohio. http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/070207 bradner.html

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