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Comment Re:Have a vacation AND do something for people (Score 1) 366

by turkeyphant on Sunday January 24, 2010 @09:23AM (#30877998) Attached to: How Do You Volunteer Professional Services?

Spot on about Goa and Phuket - I have no idea why those two areas were picked when it's not exactly hard to find places in India or Thailand that don't run entirely on tourist dollars. Laos is a good pick, especially in the north but Cambodia has become firmly entrenched on the tourist trail already. Not as bad as Vietnam, sure, but give it ten years...

Comment Nokia Sports Tracker (Score 1) 188

by turkeyphant on Monday October 05, 2009 @11:33AM (#29645935) Attached to: Open Access To Exercise Data?

Nokia Sports Tracker lets you export your workout data as KML files. It also supports GPX, XML, CSV or Google Earth compatible formats. You can locally access all the data whenever you want. And, as it uses open formats, you can upload your workouts to Google Maps and have them appear there.

Smart Grid Computers Susceptible To Worm Attack 98

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 22, 2009 @07:19AM from the when-the-lights-come-on-again dept.

narramissic writes "Researchers with security consultancy IOActive have created a worm that could quickly spread among Smart Grid devices, small computers connected to the power grid that give customers and power companies better control over the electricity they use. '[The worm] spread from one meter to another and then it changed the text in the LCD screen to say "pwned,"' said Travis Goodspeed, an independent security consultant who worked with the IOActive team. In the hands of a malicious hacker, this code could be used to cut power to Smart Grid devices that use a feature called 'remote disconnect,' which allows power companies to cut a customer's power via the network. The robustness of US power networks has been a hot-button issue after a technical glitch in 2003 caused a cascading power failure in the eastern United States and Canada that affected 55 million people."

BT Shows First Fiber-Optic Broadband Rollout Plans 119

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 22, 2009 @04:21AM from the you-can-have-two-re-fibers-per-post dept.

MJackson writes "BT has revealed new details about the roll-out of its £1.5bn programme to deploy super fast fibre optic broadband to as many as 10 million UK homes (40%) by 2012. Scotland will become one of the first places to benefit from next-generation broadband services, with more than 34,000 homes and businesses in Edinburgh and Glasgow receiving speeds of up to 40Mbps and potentially 60Mbps from early next year (2010). Overall, BT Openreach, which is responsible for ensuring that all rival operators have equality of access to BT's local network, aims to deploy Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) based next generation broadband services next summer (2010) to 500,000 homes and businesses in the UK."

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