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The Other Side of the Sprint Vs. Cogent Depeering 174

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @05:18PM from the working-it-out dept.

Swoolley writes "A month back this community discussed the Sprint vs. Cogent depeering. Now a story I wrote for Forbes.com tells the inside story of the fight, based on the lawsuits the two companies filed against each other in Virginia state court. For once, thanks to those suits, the public gets to see the details of a confidential peering agreement between two of the Internet's largest autonomous systems, as well as the circumstances leading up to the depeering. (Which company is in the right? Read the facts and decide for yourself.) While some people have argued that the depeering is reason for more government regulation, the Forbes story makes the case that details of the recent Cogent vs. Sprint fight argue for exactly the opposite: keeping the Internet backbones free of government meddling."

Comment Re:Photons (Score 1) 268

by metalman on Friday November 21, 2008 @12:59PM (#25847253) Attached to: E=mc^2 Verified In Quantum Chromodynamic Calculation

So in this scenario, are they then combining the two types of mass to account for 100%? The type of mass that accounts for 95% of the particle is the energy given off from gluons and quarks, which is a relativistic mass since movements and interactions don't have intrinsic mass? But the intrinsic mass of quarks makes up 5%?

Or is saying that 95% of its mass "comes from the energy from the movements and interactions of quarks and gluons" just another way of saying there's other stuff in there that must have mass, we just haven't identified them yet? Aren't they confusing various definitions of mass to explain the total mass which they think should be there?

Submission + - Commission Proposed to Investigate Spying

Submitted by metalman on Tuesday March 11, 2008 @08:28PM

metalman writes: Amidst recent discussions of government wiretaps, phone companies and privacy violations, Wired.com has a story on a proposal by House Democracts to "establish a national commission — similar to the 9/11 Commission... to find out — and publish — what exactly the nation's spies were up to during their five year warrantless, domestic surveillance program." The draft bill would also preserve the requirement of court orders and remove "retroactive immunity for telecom companies." But it seems unlikely that such an "alternative on phone immunity" would pass both the House and Senate.

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