hanabal2 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Why does AT&T want this? (Score 3, Interesting) 367

by hanabal2 on Wednesday January 09, 2008 @03:29PM (#21973826) Attached to: ISPs To Filter Traffic For Copyright Holders?

Ive had this exact plan for 3 years now. FYI its $33NZD for the plan with $1NZD per GB after that. The ISP even provides a tool bar app to monitor the recorded usage in real time. The usage the ISP reports is so very close to my actual usage that I don't think there is any unwanted traffic coming from anywhere. NZ has terrible net options, but the pay as you go option is really the most sensible way for most

Submission + - EMI may cut funding to IFPI, RIAA (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by Teen Bainwolf on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @05:25PM

Teen Bainwolf writes: Big Four record label EMI is reportedly considering a big cut in its funding for the IFPI and RIAA. Each of the labels reportedly contributed over $130 million per year to fund industry trade groups, and EMI apparently believes that money could be better spent elsewhere. 'One of the chief activities of the RIAA is coordinating the Big Four labels' legal campaign, and those thousands of lawsuits have done nothing but generate ill will from record fans, while costing the labels millions of dollars and doing little (if anything) to actually reduce the amount of file-sharing going on. In fact, the RIAA freely admits that the legal campaign is a real money pit, and EMI's new ownership may be very leery of continuing to pour money down that particular rat hole.

Submission + - The real Mother Of All Bombs - 46 years ago today (wikipedia.org)

Submitted by

vaporland

on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @12:58PM

vaporland writes: "Tsar Bomba is the Western name for the RDS-220, the largest, most powerful weapon ever detonated.

The bomb was tested on October 30, 1961, in an archipelago in the Arctic Sea. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb had a yield of about 50 megatons. Its detonation released energy equivalent to approximately 1% of the power output of the Sun. The device was scaled down from its original design of 100 megatons to reduce the resulting nuclear fallout.

The detonation of Tsar Bomba qualifies as being the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity."

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