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Public rage stalls Time Warner trials of consumption-based internet {Engadget}
Apr 16th 2009 1:21PM Rochester's getting a rally together about this, on saturday.
http://futureunderground.net/ has some info, there is also a FB event I cant find right now
Hopefully we'll get taken out of their "test" soon.
(The only thing they're "testing" is "can we really get away with this?")
Engadget's recession antidote: win a 22-inch iZ3D 3D monitor! {Engadget}
Mar 19th 2009 3:41PM me plz
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Mar 4th 2009 2:31PM me plz
Engadget's recession antidote: win a Roku Netflix Player! {Engadget}
Feb 17th 2009 5:16PM what would be cool is if i won something at some point.
just sayin.
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Explay Colibri pico projector promises 70-inch images at SVGA resolution {Engadget}
Feb 9th 2009 5:51PM wonder what the brightness will be. 70-inch image that is totally un-viewable because its so dim? Seems like you can only generate so many photons with 1.5W
Engadget's recession antidote: win a Razer Lycosa Mirror! {Engadget}
Feb 9th 2009 1:03PM me plz
Cox follows Comcast down the data discrimination road {Engadget}
Jan 29th 2009 1:47PM The problem is that QoS IS bandwidth throttling, it just depends on what application you're using.
In an ideal world, benevolent network engineers would be in charge of all the QoS settings, and they would carefully weigh the needs of the VoIP users and the bit-torrent users, and would decide on the optimal balance which would give all users a fair share, make the most efficient use of the available bandwidth, and generally run things in a way that benefits everyone. That kind of efficiency would generally be a good thing.
In the real world, QoS means that the ISP wants to throttle your torrents to 1k/sec so that they don't have to upgrade their infrastructure, since they basically over-loaded their networks with too many customers and too little capacity, and now they're trying to cover for it by limiting specific applications.
If I actually trusted the ISPs at all, QoS would be great. But I suspect that this is really just bit-torrent throttling, made to sound like its for the common good of all.
All I want is an ISP who will move my bits from A to B without interfering with them, but it seems like there are fewer and fewer of those left.
New Zealander buys used MP3 player, finds classified US Army files in like-new condition {Engadget}
Jan 26th 2009 4:30PM Interesting fact relating to this:
US Gov IT requirements don't allow you to use USB thumb drives on government computers. (I think this even applies to computers not approved for classified info.) However, their definition of "thumb drive" is pretty strict, so things like MP3 players and disk-based USB drives are somehow considered ok to use. So basically people use MP3 players and small external HDDs in exactly the same way they would normally use a USB thumb drive: moving stuff between PCs
I don't work for the gov, so I don't know first-hand, but this is basically my understanding.
