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ISP Guarantees Net Neutrality, For a Fee 217

Posted by kdawson from the what-price-fairness dept.
greedyturtle writes "Ars Technica has up an interesting article on the first ISP to guarantee network neutrality. It's called COmmunityPOwered Internet, aka Copowi. The offer of neutrality comes at a higher price — mostly due to uncompetitive telco line pricing schemes — $34 for 256K DSL, $50 for 1.5 Mbs, and $60 for 7 Mbps. The owner claims to need only 5,000 subscribers to move his ISP into the national arena from the 12 Western states where it now operates. Would you be willing to spend the extra bucks for network neutrality?"
First Person Shooters (Games)

Submission + - Hezbollah Releases Video Game (msn.com) 1

Submitted by
stoolpigeon
stoolpigeon writes: "An msnbc blogger reports that on Thursday, Hezbollah released a game, "Special Force II" The game is based on the 34 day battle between Hezbollah and the Israeli military last year. Players can go into Israel to capture Israeli soldiers, launch rockets on Israeli towns and take on Israeli armor. Apparently killing Israeli soldiers garners the player bonus points. The game was said to be retailing for $10. A cnn story on the game states that the game is a tribute to what Hezbollah describes as, "...a divine victory." and a tool to teach children tactics in warfare."
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - WoW player banned due to blue movie career (theinquirer.net) 1

Submitted by
Barny
Barny writes: "Actress Mia Rose (star of a few World of Whorecraft episodes) has found her gaming days ended in the MMOG WoW. Fans identified Ms Rose in-game and mentioned in a public chat channel her website, the usual Blizzard CS reaction, ban and ignore, then ensued and continues."
Upgrades

Submission + - Physicists claim to have broken the speed of light

Submitted by
bain
bain writes: "The Telegraph report that two German physicists; Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen of the University of Koblenz, claim to have broken the speed of light by 'conducting an experiment in which microwave photons — energetic packets of light — travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart.' Since this goes against Einstein's special theory of relativity, you can expect a lot of people to dismiss this as rubbish."
NASA

Submission + - Two scientists bend light speed for the JPL LABS.

Submitted by
Ep0xi
Ep0xi writes: "The correct info about the two scientists is:

A Native american half british working for the ESA; and a German descendant, half US citizen half native american working for the NASA

The names are hidden because of the huge discovery that could lead to space-time travels among hundreds of other applications.

They have made the acceleration of photons at speeds higher than light, by bending space-time without the usage of Einstein's formula.

The experiment ocurred by a series of failures, then it was budgeted by the NASA. The ESA provided the cleaning system used to mantain

the emptiness inside the tube at a maximum level.-

Photons were accelerated at speeds of 203.61372934319271i Km/s at such velocity that it could not be named photons anymore.

They broke up the theory of light speed by accelerating and deaccelerating photons with resonant high Q magnetic circles around a linear tunnel

using non-military underground facility of 14 kilometers of particle accelerator.

The photons were forced to crash into a microwave barrier that was the point where photons started to fly thru another phisics already unnamed- The theoretical speed limit were calculed by the residual enery loss of photons when reentering the conventional phisics limits, and the distance and time travelled by them

The state of particles with mass travelling at higher speeds than light is called G state, and it is a log() curve in space-time with

a specific vector which can be calculated and or defined previously. The G courve is a difficult formula that do not include standard

space-time formulas, because it is pondered in a n-dimentional space where the dimentions travelled are defined by the exponential of the curve itself.

In the experiment, photons were turned into energy waves back and forth by the accelerator, and the result is the proof

that the light's speed limit can be modified, and reassembled somewhere else by precise theorical formula.

The proyect included seven levels of oscilating rings used to push the limits of light behavior.

The experiment cannot be repeated by the moment, and the data collected is short but precise, and it is stored on one datacenter

so it could not be named as science because the desintegration of photons while

travelling at higher speeds than light cannot be measured

by the conventional science methods and it were calculed with a different kind of phisics theory developed

by the young scientist at charge.

Now the data is being analized in order to provide specific equations for a future testing development.

The hardware included less than two thousand high speed microprocessors with specific software realtime-linked with lasers to provide

precise execution of the heavy machinery and sensors along the way.

Einstein should be proud."
The Internet

Submission + - A campaign to block Firefox users (whyfirefoxisblocked.com) 5

Submitted by rarwes
rarwes writes: A website is aiming at blocking Firefox users. This because a fraction of the Firefox users installed an Ad Blocker and thus stealing money from website owners that use ads. They recommend using IE, Opera or IE tab. From the site: Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers.
Google

Submission + - Google, Sun to finally take on Microsoft?

Submitted by Trion
Trion writes: Nearly two years after they were expected to announce a Microsoft Office killer (or is it even likely?), Sun Microsystems and Google may finally be planning to do it. Or not. Mary Jo Foley, in her ZDNet blog, has reported that she got confirmation from a Sun representative that the company plans to make a StarOffice-related announcement on Wednesday that will have a "significant impact in the industry about the adoption of Open Document Format and availability of free MS Office-compatible comprehensive office suite". Google had also secretly added Sun's StarOffice software suite to its Google Pack of recommended applications. StarOffice is integrated with Google Search and Google Desktop.
The Internet

Submission + - Don't Kill The Trolls, But Feed Them (seorefugee.com) 2

Submitted by
Henk van Ess
Henk van Ess writes: "Voelspriet.nl has initiated an idea to rid communities (be it forums, blogs, whatever) of trolls. Not get rid of them by banning them or nuking their posts, no, by accepting their trolly messages and keeping them at ease. The smart thing is that this anti-troll plug-in only shows the trolly stuff to the troll itself. That way, the other community members need not suffer. The idea was presented today on Dutch radio in Radio Online. A free beta plug-in for Wordpress will be available soon."
Windows

Submission + - Is ads always good ?

Submitted by A. Duval
A. Duval writes: Last night I was surprised to see some ads for windows 2003 server -on slashdot- using the well know fear and doubt method (please see http://www.tux.online.fr/capture.png). I don't understand this. Is slashdot can ask doubleclick.net to stop this kind of ads ? Or is it more profitable to don't say anything and get money from the advertiser ?
The Matrix

Submission + - Our universe might be somebody else's hobby

Submitted by Maximum Prophet
Maximum Prophet writes: In this article, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/science/14tier.h tml?8dpc, John Tierney, posits that we might just be a simulation in someone else's computer, based on the work of Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University.
Not really a new idea, but it's the first time I've seen it in the mainstream press.

They don't mention it in the article, but the way to prove the hypothesis would be to look for bugs in the OS, and gain root privileges.
Software

Submission + - Challenge for DirectShow, Quicktime, et al.? (motama.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Company Motama (formerly NMM work group at Saarland University) released a brand new version of its middleware for networked multimedia, streaming, and control, called Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) as free download. Seems like NMM challenges Microsoft's DirectShow, Apples Quicktime, and other available multimedia architectures because NMM is currently the only 'middleware' (transparent software layer spanning across distributed systems) and the only solution that allows for native cross-platform development for (embedded) Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows XP and Vista.
The Internet

See Who Is Whitewashing Wikipedia 478

Posted by Zonk from the who-isn't-these-days dept.
Decius6i5 writes "Caltech grad student Virgil Griffith has launched a search tool that uncovers whitewashing and other self-interested editing of Wikipedia. Users can generate lists of every edit to Wikipedia which has been made from a particular IP address range. The tool has already uncovered a number of interesting edits, such as one from the corporate offices of Diebold which removed large sections of content critical of their electronic voting machines. A Wired story provides more detail and Threat Level is running a contest to see who can come up with the most interesting Wikipedia spin job."
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Do you have to be smart to be rich? (pressesc.com) 3

Submitted by
amigoro
amigoro writes: "Do you have to be intelligent to be wealthy?

The answer is yes, according to a study which tracks a large group of young US baby boomers, but only if all other factors are held constant. But regression results suggest that statistically, there is really no distinguishable relationship between IQ scores and wealth."

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