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Submission + - Two big changes in the DNS root today (icann.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Today, two big things have happened to the DNS root zone. Firstly, the first internationalised domain names were made live. They are three Arabic top-level domains for Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Secondly, the last of the root servers was switched over to DNSSEC, meaning that the root zone is now fully served as signed. Final deployment of DNSSEC at the root zone is expected to be finished in the coming months.

Comment Re:one-letter domain? (Score 1) 128

by kimba (#29991008) Attached to: PayPal Introduces Open API

The single letter .COM/.ORG/.NET domain prohibition was enacted prior to the existence of ICANN, however, existing single letter registrations were grandfathered in and were able to be kept. No exceptions have been granted after the prohibition started.

Software

Submission + - Locating an earthquake in 5 minutes

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Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "When a powerful earthquake hit Indonesia's West Java on August 8, 2007, it took exactly 4 minutes and 38 seconds to be detected, located and sized by the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS) currently under construction in Indonesia. Even more remarkable, the location of the earthquake was found after only 2 minutes and 11 seconds. 'For comparison, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii published the location and magnitude of this earthquake after about 17 minutes.' This very fast analysis was made possible by a combination of hardware and software developed in Germany. As said one German scientist who is leading the project, 'By the end of 2008 Indonesia will possess the most modern seismological network for tsunami early warning in the world.' Read more for additional references and an illustration showing the various GITEWS wireless components."
Music

Submission + - Multiformat Listening Test at 64kbps

Submitted by Anonymous
Anonymous writes: The Hydrogenaudio community is conducting a "Public, Multiformat Listening Test" (http://www.listening-tests.info/mf-64-1/) to see which codecs (AAC, WMA Pro and Vorbis) provide the best sound quality when compressing samples at 64kbps.

This test is open until the 5th of August and seems to be much, much harder than what one would expect, even for experienced developers of sound codecs, at bitrates that the public would find "too little", as the comments on the thread at the discussion forums (see: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?show topic=56397).

Do you think that you have good ears? That 64kbps is "too little"? Then try it for yourself and participate. Your participation will help us improve the codecs so that they are even closer to being "transparent" at such "low" bitrates.

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