Submission + - 3D Food creation (www.cbc.ca)
MrShaggy writes: "An engineering lab and a culinary school have teamed up to construct novel edible objects with 3D printers that use pureed foods in place of ink."
Submission Summary: 0 pending, 54 declined, 7 accepted (61 total, 11.48% accepted)
Submission + - CBC News - World - 'Top kill' operation fails: BP (www.cbc.ca)
MrShaggy writes: "http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/05/29/bp-oil-top-kill.html
BP has scuttled the "top kill" procedure of shooting heavy drilling mud into its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico after it failed to plug the leak.
BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles told reporters on Saturday that over the last three days, the company has pumped in more than 30,000 barrels of mud and other materials down the well but has not been able to stop the flow.
"These repeated pumping[s], we don’t believe will likely achieve success so at this point it’s time to move to the next option," Suttles said.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/05/29/bp-oil-top-kill.html#ixzz0pMdV9rOF"
BP has scuttled the "top kill" procedure of shooting heavy drilling mud into its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico after it failed to plug the leak.
BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles told reporters on Saturday that over the last three days, the company has pumped in more than 30,000 barrels of mud and other materials down the well but has not been able to stop the flow.
"These repeated pumping[s], we don’t believe will likely achieve success so at this point it’s time to move to the next option," Suttles said.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/05/29/bp-oil-top-kill.html#ixzz0pMdV9rOF"
Submission + - Youtube thought to have no bandwidth bill (wired.com) 1
MrShaggy writes: "'Credit Suisse made headlines this summer when it estimated that YouTube was binging on bandwidth, losing Google a half a billion dollars in 2009 as it streams 75 billion videos. But a new report from Arbor Networks suggests that Google’s traffic is approaching 10 percent of the net’s traffic, and that it’s got so much fiber optic cable, it is simply trading traffic, with no payment involved, with the net’s largest ISPs.
“I think Google’s transit costs are close to zero,” said Craig Labovitz, the chief scientist for Arbor Networks and a longtime internet researcher. Arbor Networks, which sells network monitoring equipment used by about 70 percent of the net’s ISPs, likely knows more about the net’s ebbs and flows than anyone outside of the National Security Agency.
And the extraordinary fact that a website serving nearly 100 billion videos a year has no bandwidth bill means the net isn’t the network it used to be."
Read More http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/youtube-bandwidth/#ixzz0iTG7n4tC"
“I think Google’s transit costs are close to zero,” said Craig Labovitz, the chief scientist for Arbor Networks and a longtime internet researcher. Arbor Networks, which sells network monitoring equipment used by about 70 percent of the net’s ISPs, likely knows more about the net’s ebbs and flows than anyone outside of the National Security Agency.
And the extraordinary fact that a website serving nearly 100 billion videos a year has no bandwidth bill means the net isn’t the network it used to be."
Read More http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/youtube-bandwidth/#ixzz0iTG7n4tC"
Submission + - Net Neutrality Raised During Question Period (michaelgeist.ca)
MrShaggy writes: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2809/
As the video on Micheal Geists website shows, the Issue was raised in the Canadian House of commons. The NDP want to know why the Minister of Industry Jim Prentice, was not doign much.
NDP MP Charlie Angus, asked a couple of questions, with this being my favorite.
"Net neutrality is the cornerstone of an innovative economy because it is the consumer and the innovator that needs to be in the driver's seat, not Ma Bell, not Rogers, not Vidéotron," he said.
"They have no business deciding what information is in the fast lane or what information is in the slow lane," he said.
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