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Comment Lapdesk (Score 1) 276

by hjruf1 on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @02:31PM (#21352383) Attached to: Lap Desks

I have been using a laptop alot lately and I would like to have a lapdesk with fans built in, I've seen such, but with a Li-ion battery built in. You could then extend the working time of your laptop by at least a factor of 2, maybe more. Anybody know of such a device?

Submission + - How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World

Submitted by slugo on Thursday October 11, 2007 @08:26PM

slugo writes: A lucky coincidence of economics is responsible for routing much of the world's internet and telephone traffic through switching points in the United States, where, under legislation introduced this week, the U.S. National Security Agency will be free to continue tapping it. ...International phone and internet traffic flows through the United States largely because of pricing models established more than 100 years ago... The United States, where the internet was invented, was also home to the first internet backbone. Combine that architectural advantage with the pricing disparity inherited from the phone networks, and the United States quickly became the center of cyberspace as the internet gained international penetration in the 1990s.

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