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Debian, OpenSUSE, Arch, Gentoo and Grml Merge 117

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 01, 2011 @08:48AM from the simplifying-and-streamlining dept.

tomhudson writes "debian, arch linux, opensuse, grml, and gentoo are merging to create a new distro: 'We are to announce the birth of the Canterbury distribution. Canterbury is a merge of the efforts of the community formerly known as Debian, Gentoo, Grml, openSUSE and Arch Linux to produce a really unified effort and be able to stand up in a combined effort against operating systems, to show off that the Free Software community is actually able to work together for a common instead of creating more diversity. Canterbury will be as technologically simple as Arch, as stable as Debian, malleable as Gentoo, have a solid Live framework as Grml, and be as open minded as openSUSE.' Arch Linux developer Pierre Schmitz explained: 'Arch Linux has always been about keeping its as simple as possible. Combining efforts into one single distribution will dramatically reduce complexity for developers, users and of course upstream . Canterbury will be the next evolutionary step of Linux distributions.' This will without a doubt put on Ubuntu."

Submission + - Subscription-Based Hulu Plus Is Now Official (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @02:54PM

itwbennett writes: After months of rumors, Hulu officially announced its $9.99/month Hulu Plus service. Invites will soon start rolling out in weekly batches. So what will you get for that $9.99? 'Full access to a bunch of current shows (Hulu lists 40 but adds 'and more' to that list) as well as complete series collections of some older titles such as The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the wonderful and mostly-ignored Eli Stone,' writes blogger Peter Smith. 'HD content sources will be streamed at 720P but Hulu mentions that the service is ad-supported.'

Submission + - Google to go dark in China, Baidu rejoices

Submitted by shmG on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @07:29AM

shmG writes: Google Inc. has announced a "new approach" in China after the government said the company could no longer automatically redirect users to the unfiltered Hong Kong site. Move over Google, it's Baidu Inc, with over 60 percent of share in internet search in China, to grab the chance and expand. It has announced new plans to hire U.S engineers to enhance its technical skills and propel its growth globally.

Submission + - Obama Plans to Nearly Double the Wireless Spectrum (reuters.com) 1

Submitted by suraj.sun on Monday June 28, 2010 @01:06PM

suraj.sun writes: The plan would make available 500 megahertz of federal and commercial spectrum over the next 10 years, the official said.

Freeing up spectrum would also create jobs by meeting the growing demand for mobile and fixed broadband, spur economic growth and raise funds to build an emergency network for public safety workers, the official said.

Some estimates suggest the next five years will see an increase in wireless data of between 20 to 45 times 2009 levels, reflecting the burgeoning use of smartphones, netbooks and other wireless devices.

Under the policy, most of the freed-up spectrum would be auctioned for mobile broadband use, according to the administration official who spoke on background.

Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2823907320100628

The Science of Irrational Decisions 244

Posted by kdawson on Friday October 23, 2009 @11:32AM from the why-you-do-what-you-do dept.

The Rat Race Trap blog has a look at one aspect of the irrational decision-making process humans employ, based on the book Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. "Professor Ariely describes some experiments which demonstrated something he calls 'arbitrary coherence.' Basically it means that once you contemplate a decision or actually make a decision, it will heavily influence your subsequent decisions. That's the coherence part. Your brain will try to keep your decisions consistent with previous decisions you have made. I've read about that many times before, but what was surprising in this book was the the 'arbitrary' part. ... [In an experiment] the fact that the students contemplated a decision at a completely arbitrary price, the last two digits of their social security number, very heavily influenced what they were willing to pay for the product. The students denied that the anchor influenced them, but the data shows something totally different. Correlations ranged from 0.33 to 0.52. Those are extremely significant."

Data Center Raid About Unpaid Telco Fees 174

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 04, 2009 @04:30PM from the that's-what-they-want-you-to-believe dept.

craig writes "CBS11 News reports that the raid on Core IP networks is in the result of an investigation into unpaid telco access fees paid by CLECs and VoIP carriers to terminate calls on their networks. They also report that this raid is linked to the March 12th raid on Crydon Technology's datacenter, which also hosted VOIP providers. Anyone in the telco business will tell you access fees to other carriers are a total mess and lots of carriers have unpaid balances out there. It gives you the feeling that the FBI is acting as a collection agency for AT&T and Verizon."

Comment Archive.org (Score 1) 296

by jdt112 on Tuesday December 14, 2004 @12:17PM (#11081964) Attached to: Google To Digitize Much of Harvard's Library

Archive.org is attempting to build a free online repository of movies, audio, and books. It's a pretty impressive collection considering all of the intellectual property barriers that they've gotten past.

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