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Comment Oceans need more ELECTRIFIED! man made stuff (Score 2, Interesting) 169

by scionite0 on Wednesday April 09, 2008 @12:39PM (#23014246) Attached to: Old Subway Cars As Artificial Reef

It seems that if you create a man made reef and then run low voltage electricity through it coral will grow 5-10 times faster.

When I honeymooned in Bali we went snorkeling around these structures. They seemed perfectly safe and the corals were amazing. The coral growth on the structures seemed far more prolific than that on the ocean bottom.

Submission + - Does a CD have to cost $15.99? (rollingstone.com)

Submitted by scionite0 on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @02:02PM

scionite0 writes: Wal-Mart is the largest music retailer selling "an estimated one out of every five major-label albums" in the US. Wal-Mart willingly loses money selling CDs for less than $10 in order to draw customers into the store, but they are tired of taking a loss on CDs. Wal-Mart is telling the major record labels to lower the price of CDs or risk losing retail space to DVDs and video games.

"The record industry needs to refine their business models, because the consumer is the ultimate arbitrator. And the consumer feels music isn't properly priced."

Scroll to the bottom of the article for a breakdown of where exactly the $15.99 goes.

Submission + - Bell Canada Throttles Wholesalers Without Notice (dslreports.com)

Submitted by

knorthern knight

on Monday March 24, 2008 @04:35PM

knorthern knight writes: "Users of the Canadian family-run ISP Teksavvy (which is popular amongst Canadian P2P users precisely because it does *NOT* throttle P2P) have started noticing that Bell Canada is throttling traffic before it reaches wholesale partners. According to Teksavvy CEO Rocky Gaudrault, Bell has implemented "load balancing" to "manage bandwidth demand" during peak congestion times — but apparently didn't feel the need to inform partner ISPs or customers. The result is a bevy of annoyed customers and carriers across the great white north. Story at http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Bell-Canada-Throttles-Wholesalers-Doesnt-Bother-To-Tell-Them-92915"

Anti-Spammer Fined $60K for DNS Lookup "Hack"

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 18, 2008 @09:22PM from the education-before-a-ruling-is-overrated dept.

towaz writes "It appears David Ritz, the veteran American spam-fighter, has been hit by $60,000 in fines plus lawyers fees after losing a civil suit that accused him of illegal hacking. The complaint alleged that Ritz 'hacked' servers owned by Sierra (which describes itself as a specialist web hosting and internet services firm), obtaining confidential internal network configuration data (using a zone transfer, host -l command) and domain name information (using whois) before publishing that data on the net."

Submission + - Copyright Alliance Presses Presidential Candidates (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @08:15PM

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "Not satisfied with the current life plus seventy copyright terms and huge financial liabilities for infringement, the Copyright Alliance is pressuring presidential candidates for stronger copyright laws. In particular, they want the candidates to divert police resources to punish even non-commercial copyright infringement. After all, without copyright, what would become of the next Shakespeare, Michaelangelo, or da Vinci?"

Submission + - FEMA Sorry for Faking News Briefing

Submitted by

theodp

on Friday October 26, 2007 @11:32PM

theodp writes: "The Federal Emergency Management Agency's No. 2 official apologized Friday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters while real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions. In the briefing, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson Jr., FEMA's deputy administrator, called on questioners who did not disclose that they were FEMA employees, and gave replies emphasizing that his agency's response to this week's California wildfires was far better than its response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Almost makes one nostalgic for the good old days of Downtown-Michael-Brown."

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