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Comment Larry is Back! (Score 1) 298

by deceth on Thursday September 16, 2010 @10:34AM (#33599488) Attached to: Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband

Yes! Finally Larry the remote controlled pigeon is back for another round! Can he still bypass missile defense systems? Have they taken into account the fact that he may stop to dance like in the video? Only time will tell... http://www.looble.com/have-you-met-larry-the-remote-controlled-pigeon/

Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband 298

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 16, 2010 @09:30AM from the heard-this-before dept.

Mark.JUK writes "Rural internet access in the United Kingdom, like many other countries around the world, is slow. So slow in fact that Trefor Davies, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at business ISP Timico, has decided to pit a typical rural broadband connection against homing pigeons (with attached memory cards) to see which can get 200MB of HD video data across an 84 mile trip the fastest. Meanwhile a farmer will attempt to upload the same video file to YouTube before the pigeons can complete their journey. The comical stunt is designed to raise awareness of the often woeful broadband speed experienced by many people who live in remote and rural parts of their country. However Davies does admit that 'there isn't a benchmark for pigeon data speeds,' yet."

Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed 306

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 16, 2010 @08:54AM from the tremble-in-something-something dept.

jamie writes "A post has just gone up on Diaspora's blog revealing what the project actually looks like for the first time. While it's not yet ready to be released to the public, the open-source social networking project is giving the world a glimpse of what it looks like today and also releasing the project code, as promised. At first glance, this preview version of Diaspora looks sparse, but clean. Oddly enough, with its big pictures and stream, it doesn't look unlike Apple's new Ping music social network mixed with yes, Facebook."

Boeing Teams To Offer Spaceflight Trips 59

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 16, 2010 @04:34AM from the to-the-moon-alice dept.

coondoggie writes "Aerospace giant Boeing and outer space tourism proprietors Space Adventures teamed up today to offer low Earth orbit (LEO) flight services onboard Boeing's future commercial crew spacecraft. Under this agreement, Space Adventures will market passenger seats on commercial flights aboard the Boeing Crew Space Transportation-100 (CST-100) spacecraft. Boeing's CST-100, which is under development, can hold seven and is bigger than NASA's Apollo orbiter but smaller than NASA's Orion."

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