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A Sad Day For the New Zealand Internet 221

Posted by timothy on Friday March 12, 2010 @04:36AM from the if-you-can't-read-this-you-know-why dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Another one bites the dust, as New Zealand's Internet filter stealthily goes live with two smaller ISPs, and three of the largest already rumoured to have signed up to do the same. However, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is apparently 'committed to helping people to circumvent government internet filtering,' so perhaps the USA will launch an invasion to free the poor downtrodden Kiwis from their own evil government?" Clever of one of the acquiescing ISPs to have named itself "Watchdog."

Sci Fi Channel Becoming Less Geek-Centric "SyFy" 798

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 16, 2009 @04:51PM from the or-you-could-quit-cancelling-good-programs dept.

narramissic writes "According to a TV Week article, NBC Universal has decided to change the name of their Sci Fi Channel to SyFy. Why? To pull in a more 'mainstream' audience. If you're unclear what 'more mainstream' means, TV Historian Tim Brooks spells it out for you: 'The name Sci Fi has been associated with geeks and dysfunctional, antisocial boys in their basements with video games and stuff like that, as opposed to the general public and the female audience in particular.' Yes, we should probably all be offended. And telling us that a crack marketing team came up with the name because that's how tech-savvy 18-to-34 year-olds would text it really doesn't help."

Comment Re:XMPP (Score 4, Informative) 122

by ppetrov on Monday October 27, 2008 @07:41PM (#25535231) Attached to: Microsoft Embraces AMQP Open Middleware Standard

This is the first that I've heard of this technology. Can anyone post how this is different than XMPP (http://xmpp.org)?

Here's a post about XMPP vs AMQP by Peter Saint-Andre:

https://stpeter.im/?p=2099

IMNSHO, XMPP (+XEPs) makes AMQP redundant. Although some people might argue that, being a binary protocol, AMQP is faster.

Submission + - AOL adopting XMPP aka Jabber (florianjensen.com) 5

Submitted by

sander

on Thursday January 17, 2008 @07:34PM

sander writes: "Proprietary protocols are things from yesterday. Today, Opensource technologies are taking over the world! AOL / ICQ has just launched a test server using XMPP, an open technology. This means that you'll soon be able to talk to your ICQ / AIM contacts via Jabber. Google has already started using it. So who's next? MSN! More here: http://florianjensen.com/2008/01/17/aol-adopting-xmpp-aka-jabber/"

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