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Comment Correction : Korea has 100MBPs to the home... (Score 0) 351

by appelsiini on Friday May 18, 2007 @02:00PM (#19181941) Attached to: Broadband isn't Broadband Unless its 2Mbps?

Also Japan have several operators that offer 100/100 FDDI (=fiber) to home, mostly in urban areas. IIRC, you may get 10M beginning from $25 in Tokyo area, and 100M ethernet or fiber from $45. In Shanghai, China telecom brought 10M conn with $10 to my grandmother/grandfathers house, though speed was very dependant of time of day (users, lots) and while mainland was blinding fast, rest of the world was mostly like 300bps modem (great firewall of china perhaps, dunno - pages like yahoo worked pretty fast).

Feed Alzheimer's drug offers hope for stroke sufferers (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Sunday May 13, 2007 @05:32AM

Early results in a new study suggest that the drug donepezil may help people who have lost the ability to speak to talk again

Culture Determines Which Emoticon You Use 251

Posted by Zonk on Sunday May 13, 2007 @04:32AM from the i'm-feeling-:/ dept.

Ant writes "A LiveScience story discusses the cultural differences in interpreting facial expressions. The article notes that where you come from plays a large role in what part of the human face you use to determine another person's mood. That also includes communicating online with the usages of smiley faces. 'For instance, in Japan, people tend to look to the eyes for emotional cues, whereas Americans tend to look to the mouth, says researcher Masaki Yuki, a behavioral scientist at Hokkaido University in Japan ... In Japan, emoticons tend to emphasize the eyes, such as the happy face (^_^) and the sad face (;_;). "After seeing the difference between American and Japanese emoticons, it dawned on me that the faces looked exactly like typical American and Japanese smiles," he said.'"

Monday is Wiretap the Internet Day 264

Posted by Zonk on Sunday May 13, 2007 @02:41AM from the i-had-other-plans-but-okay dept.

Alien54 wrote with a link to a Wired blog entry noting that May 14th is the official deadline for internet service providers to modify their networks, and meet the FBI and FCC's new regulations. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act requires that everyone from cable services to Universities give them access, within certain parameters, to the usage habits of customers. "So, if you're a broadband provider (separately, some VOIP companies are covered too) ... Hurry! The deadline has already passed to file an FCC form 445, certifying that you're on schedule, or explaining why you're not. You can also find the 68-page official industry spec for internet surveillance here. It'll cost you $164.00 to download, but then you'll know exactly what format to use when delivering customer packets to federal or local law enforcement, including 'e-mail, instant messaging records, web-browsing information and other information sent or received through a user's broadband connection, including on-line banking activity.'"

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