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Comment Re:Educate the public? (Score 1) 587

by Tennekis (#39962233) Attached to: DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Govt. Warnings
You know, I stopped downloading things when a combination of Netflix Streaming and HBO Go augmented with the once in a blue moon iTunes purchase made it no longer worth my time to futz about on TPB to watch a movie. However, I think, given this nonsense, I'll start again, and see if I can race the DVD and connect to the BitTorrent swarm first. This is getting seriously abusive.

Submission + - Coffeeshops Are Taking WiFi Off the Menu (latimes.com)

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "Coffee shops were the retail pioneers of Wi-Fi, but Jessica Guynn reports in the LA Times that now some owners are pulling the plug after finding that Wi-Fi freeloaders who camp out all day nursing a single cup of coffee are a drain on the bottom line and other owners strive to preserve a friendly vibe and keep their establishments from turning into "Matrix"-like zombie shacks where people type and don't talk. "There is now a market niche for not having Wi-Fi," says Bryant Simon. After Dan and Nathalie Drozdenko turned off the Wi-Fi at their Los Angeles cafe, the complaints poured in, but so did the compliments: Lots of customers appreciated a wireless cup of joe at the Downbeat Cafe, a popular lunch spot in Echo Park. "People come here because we don't offer it. They know they can get their work done and not get distracted."

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Submission + - Meet the men who deploy airstrikes (wired.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Lanxon
Lanxon writes: Wired followed US Army Staff Sergeant Kevin Rosner into Afghanistan to see first-hand the tools, tactics and pressures involved in coordinating military airstrikes. This lengthy piece explores the people and technology involved in high-risk airborne warfare, from their perspective. From the article: "Strapped to his chest, Rosner carries a handheld video player called a "Rover," built by L3 Communications, a New York-based defense contractor. The device, the size and shape of a PSP game console and costing tens of thousands of dollars, reads signals transmitted by the camera pods strapped to the underside of all NATO fighter aircraft. With his Rover, Rosner can see everything a pilot sees, from the pilot's perspective. On his back he carries a radio programmed with secure frequencies that tie him directly to the pilots overhead and to his unit's headquarters, several miles away. At the headquarters, another JTAC monitors a bigger, more sophisticated video terminal that displays the same video Rosner sees, plus other data." Continued at Wired.

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