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Why Broadband Prices Haven't Decreased 336

Posted by CmdrTaco from the someone-owns-boardwalk-and-parkplace dept.
pdragon04 writes "After a new technology is introduced to the market, there is usually a predictable decrease in price as it becomes more common. Laptops experienced precipitous price drops during the past decade. Digital cameras, personal computers, and computer chips all followed similar steep declines in price. Has the price of broadband Internet followed the same model? Shane Greenstein decided to look into it. "

Comment Places to obtain info on e-cigs (Score 1) 790

by smf.ack (#31863622) Attached to: American Lung Association Pushes For Ban On Electronic Cigarettes
There are some great communities dedicated to personal vaporizers (e-cigs): http://www.vapersforum.com/ http://www.nu-vapor.com/forum/forum.php http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/ Folks at any of these forums will happily recommend a model, offer advise, and give information to all that ask. Most are very reasonable. Anecdotally I smoked for 10 years and tried to quit unsuccessfully several times. I would always cheat within days. I purchased my first e-cig Nov. 22nd and have not smoked a real cig since Nov. 23rd. I am all for preventing minors from purchasing e-cigs, I do not mind not being able to use it indoors, and I don't flash mine around children. Most vapers are all for research and some of the communities above even raise money for research purposes.
The Courts

Judge Recommends Guilty Verdict for Jack Thompson 235

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the pariahs-that-still-get-airtime dept.
GamePolitics is reporting that a Florida Judge has recommended that Jack Thompson be found guilty on 27 of 31 counts of misconduct and is awaiting a Florida Supreme Court verdict to back him up. Thompson is striking back with allegations against the Judge and others, complaining that loyalty oaths were never signed. "Tunis made 21 recommendations of guilt in relation to Thompson's participation in Strickland vs. Sony, an Alabama case in which the anti-game attorney represented the families of two police officers and a police dispatcher slain by 18-year-old Grand Theft Auto player Devin Moore. Tunis also recommended that Thompson be found guilty on four out of five counts relating to his 2006 attempt to have Rockstar's Bully declared a public nuisance in a case before Miami Judge Ronald Friedman. An additional two guilty counts stemmed from a non-video game matter."
Software

Open Source BIND Alternative Launches 162

Posted by kdawson from the ties-that-bind dept.
bednarz writes "A group of experts on Tuesday released an open source alternative to the BIND DNS server. The new software — dubbed Unbound 1.0 — is a recursive DNS server. From its first prototype in 2004, Unbound was designed to be a faster, more secure replacement for BIND. Unbound supports DNS security extensions (DNSSEC), which authenticate DNS lookups but are not yet widely deployed because they rely on a public key infrastructure. Unbound was released to open source developers by NLnet Labs, VeriSign, Nominet and Kirei."

Comment Re:Application? (Score 5, Informative) 22

by sean1121 (#14335162) Attached to: FreeNX Terminal Server Setup on SUSE 10
Excuse my ignorance, but how many connections are "high latency, low bandwidth"

Dialup is high latency, low bandwidth.

Dialup? Slow latency.

I think your confused here. Latency is the time it takes for a packet to reach its destination. (And get back if talking round trip time) Bandwidth is how much data can be transmitted per second. See here

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