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Comment Re:At least initially... (Score 1) 172

And yet if my ISP started enforcing caps and charging overages, I would almost certainly cancel my cable TV services with them. If the cost for me to access the internet increases, either through overage charges or a monthly increase to raise my cap to a reasonable level, the money will need to come from somewhere. For me the internet takes priority over TV.

Submission + - Boeing CEO Says Outsourcing Didn't Pay (nwsource.com) 2

frank_adrian314159 writes: The Seattle Times reports that Boeing's CEO is saying that the cost overruns on the 787 "Dreamliner" were greatly exacerbated by the company's heavy use of outsourcing. Although it is now fairly well accepted that outsourcing provides little cost savings and what cost savings there are often get spent in increased management costs and rework, the outsourcing drive goes on. It's nice to see a major industry figure saying that all is not so rosy as the MBAs would have us think.
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Submission + - Spinach Could Be Used for Hydrogen Fuel (inhabitat.com)

An anonymous reader writes: If Popeye had made alternative fuels, he’d have probably come up with something like this. Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a system that converts solar energy directly into hydrogen using the common spinach plant.
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Submission + - Obama calling for 53B$ for High Speed Rail (google.com)

Antisyzygy writes: President Obama is calling for 53B dollars to be appropriated for the construction of high-speed rail in the United States over the next 6 years. Assuming Congress approves this plan, the funding would be spent on developing and/or improving trains that travel at approximately 250 miles/hour, as well as spent on connecting existing rail lines to new developed high speed lines.

Comment Re:The situation is much more complicated than tha (Score 1) 364

The "bandwidth caps and UBB are good because they protect low-use users from slow speeds when high-use users use more than their fair share" argument is false. My connection is advertised as 1.875 MB/s with a 100 GB monthly cap. If I download 200 GB at ~0.8 MB/s over a month I would not reduce other users speeds as much as if I only download 50 GB but do so at my maximum speed of 1.875 MB/s. That is about 1 MB/s that other users cannot use if I stay within my cap as opposed to violating it. Obviously there is the case where users will download huge amounts at the highest speed they can achieve for long periods, but capping the volume is not the solution. If the network cannot support x users at 1.875 MB/s, do not sell x users a connection that can get to 1.875 MB/s. I would be far happier with a 0.5 MB/s connection and no cap than what is currently offered as it would actually be based on the limitation of the technology rather than an arbitrary volume that my ISP has chosen for reasons that have nothing to do with improving service to other users.
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UK Police Force Posts All Its Calls On Twitter 66

Stoobalou writes "One of the largest police forces in the UK is posting every incident reported to it today on Twitter. Greater Manchester Police began its 24-hour experiment this morning at 05:00 BST, tweeting all incident reports in the hope of highlighting the complexity of modern policing. 'Policing is often seen in very simple terms, with cops chasing robbers and locking them up,' Chief Constable Peter Fahy said in a statement. 'However the reality is that this accounts for only part of the work they have to deal with.'"

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