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Comment Re:where did he get this factor? (Score 3, Informative) 752

OK, let's say AJAX didn't exist for a moment. People would have to refresh their browsers to display/submit forms, which would require Apache/PHP to serve a *full web page* for every form displayed and submitted. This in itself causes a load on servers, before dynamic content is even considered. If anything, AJAX *lowers* server load.
Yahoo!

Submission + - "Lawful spying" price lists leaked (cryptome.org) 1

ogaraf writes: Wired has a story about how the site Cryptome leaked the price lists for "lawful spying" activities of Yahoo and other companies, and subsequently received a DMCA takedown notice from Yahoo. The documents are however still online and in them you can learn for instance that IP logs last for one year, but the original IPs used to create accounts are kept since 1999. The contents of your Yahoo account are bought for $30 to $40 by law enforcement agencies.
Censorship

Submission + - German president refuses to sign censorship law

thetinytoon writes: German federal president Horst Köhler has refused to sign the censorship treaty that passed parlament earlier this year, stating that he 'needs more information'. In germany, the federal president has the right to reject a law only by reasons of an unlawful realisation in the legislative process, but not for reasons of being unconstitutional (as long as it's not obviously against the constitution).

Political observers guess, that the political parties would like to get rid of the law without loosing face, but since it already passed the parlament, they can't simply abandon it. Politics — everyone knows what needs to be done, but no one wants to admit he was wrong in the first place.

Source (google translation): http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.golem.de/0911/71529.html
Original story (german): http://www.golem.de/0911/71529.html

Comment Stop with the quick fixes! (Score 1) 932

Perhaps it didn't occur to anyone, but maybe switching to Ubuntu/Linux/OS X/[insert quick-fix OS] is not the best idea. One of the "security flaws" is a nine-year-old. Do you want to explain to him/her why running games doesn't work perfectly anymore (yes, I am aware of WINE)? Or why they can't play any of their iTunes-purchased songs? IMHO, you can't fix stupidity by switching OSes. You fix stupidity by making people less stupid.

Comment Re:It'd be nice if they stopped lying. (Score 1) 555

From what I've seen, the average total throughput (download plus upload) is around 900 kilobits per second. Convert that to gigabytes and you get 0.000107288361. 0.000107288361 * 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 30 days = around 278.1 gigabytes. So yes, it's certainly possible to go over 5 GB in a month.

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