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Political Sites Scale Up For Election Traffic 68

Posted by timothy from the hearken-are-those-trumpets dept.
miller60 writes "News sites and political blogs are expecting extraordinary traffic tonight as Americans track results of the Presidential election, and are scaling their infrastructure to meet the challenge. Yahoo anticipates its Election Night traffic may be three times the volume seen in 2004, when it had 80 million page views on Election Day and 142 million more visits the following day. Hosting companies say customers have been ordering extra servers and load balancing services, while content delivery networks are also expecting a busy night. Will traffic approach record levels? Akamai's Net Usage Index, which tracks traffic to its customer news sites, is one metric to watch."
Earth

World's Largest Flower Blooming In Streaming HD 61

Posted by timothy from the fortune-is-in-the-nose-of-the-beholder dept.
npongratz writes "Standing at six feet tall and growing an inch per hour, a corpse flower is set to bloom at the Milwaukee Public Museum. You can keep tabs on this once-in-six-years event in streaming 1080p HD (using VLC), or a lower-bandwidth image feed. A live feed from the smelloscope is unfortunately a few centuries away from being invented."
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Researchers Calculate Capacity of a Steganographic Channel 114

Posted by timothy from the intentionally-not-left-blank dept.
KentuckyFC writes "Steganography is the art of hiding a message in such a way that only the sender and receiver realize it is there. (By contrast, cryptography disguises the content of a message but makes no attempt to hide it.) The central problem for steganographers is how much data can be hidden without being detected. But the complexity of this problem has meant it has been largely ignored. Now two computer scientists (one working for Google) have made a major theoretical breakthrough by tackling the problem in the same way that the electrical engineer Claude Shannon calculated the capacity of an ordinary communications channel in the 1940s. In Shannon's theory, a transmission is considered successful if the decoder properly determines which message the encoder has sent. In the stego-channel, a transmission is successful if the decoder properly determines the sent message without anybody else detecting its presence (abstract). Studying a stego-channel in this way leads to some counter-intuitive results: for example, in certain circumstances, doubling the number of algorithms looking for hidden data can increase the capacity of the steganographic channel"

Comment Re:Welcome to our world (Score 1) 589

by markttu (#23644309) Attached to: Time Warner Cable Tries Metering Internet Use

All the US has is monopoly areas. That's because our fucked-up government handed out monopolies on phone service way back when, and "deregulation" doesn't help anything but picking who bills your phone service: all they do is "lease" your particular line from the company that owns it.
Not true, not true at all. Deregulation has created competition in those places where there is money to be made; problem is that in most places people aren't willing to pay enough for their service for a new company to invest in infrastructure.

I know in little old Lubbock Texas you've got at 3 options for high speed internet access in 100% of the city:
ATT (DSL)
SuddenLink (cable)
eRF Wireless (fixed wireless)

On top of that you have: NTS (local telco with their own routers and switches for delivering DSL via copper leased from ATT and their own fiber network to several neighborhoods (growing every day) with any bandwidth you're willing to pay for)
Xanadoo (not the best, but better than satellite)
Clearwire (pretty much same as Xanadoo)

So competition can work, the question is really a matter of is your community willing to pay for it?

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