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"In this approach, NIST researchers analyze human breath with 'frequency combs,' which are generated by a laser specially designed to produce a series of very short, equally spaced pulses of light. Each pulse may be only a few million billionths of a second long. The laser generates light as a series of very narrow frequency peaks equally spaced, like the teeth of a comb, across a broad spectrum."

"In this approach, NIST researchers analyze human breath with 'frequency combs,' which are generated by a laser specially designed to produce a series of very short, equally spaced pulses of light. Each pulse may be only a few million billionths of a second long. The laser generates light as a series of very narrow frequency peaks equally spaced, like the teeth of a comb, across a broad spectrum."

yeah they'd never prosecute an eu corporation now would they?

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/012407-eu-fines-siemens-for-role.html

Article on one page with less ads. http://www.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend=/export/home/httpd/htdocs/news/2008/020508-dell-suit-reveals-lucrative-trade.html

umm...a firewall is not the same thing as a Nat.

IPv6 supports firewalls... AKA, the ability to create a checkpoint that looks at all packets entering/exiting the local network and deciding if that packet should be allowed to enter. What it does not allow is Network Address Translation, AKA, handing the mail off to a guy at the gate and letting that guy look up on a list what the mail address translates to as far as his system, and then delivering it.

Cisco seems to think you are wrong as well.

Apparently the "article" is a response to a comment (the only comment, mind you) attached to this "article", which is similarly content-free.

Everything I have ever heard in the past and everything I could find from looking around just now indicated that they have no bizarre "save your receipts" requirement.

The idea of WiMax, area-wide WiFi, and satilite internet are not catching on because the providers are rationing the Interent as if it was piped in like water or electricity.
It also does not help that civil leaders and power companies want kickbacks for free services.
How can wireless internet have a cap but terrestrial broadcasts (TV and Radio) are free to broadcast 24/7/365?

...but referring to a product as "an Edsel" now is to call it a failure.

Googling "Vista Edsel" shows I'm not the first person to think of the similarities between the two: http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/082307backspin.html

Point is, if they don't take steps to fix what's wrong with Vista and be very public about how they know there have been problems and they are working hard to fix them, the branding won't mean a whole lot.

Some would say it's already too late, because a year later SP1 has not yet appeared in Windows Update to fix the problems and even non-techie people are now at least dimly aware of the "Vista = bad" meme.... they may not know specifics, but they have heard that it's generally considered something to avoid if possible. That's a complete disaster for Microsoft, because their bread and butter has been selling mediocre product to those non-techie types via amazing marketing. If marketing can't dispel the notion those people have that Vista is a trouble-prone POS that makes new computers run slowly, Microsoft is in trouble.

~Philly

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/061305widernetcarr.html

06/13/05
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Two years ago, Nicholas Carr was an IT outsider with a provocative take on the future that unexpectedly touched off an industry firestorm.
[...]
Rather than disappearing as a forgotten flashpoint, Carr today is part of the industry, sharing his viewpoints on the speaking circuit. It's a gig, he says, that has become his career and primary source of income. He has given presentations or made public appearances around the globe nearly three times a month for the past year. And the next year probably won't be much different.

The guy has been "in this business" for a whopping four years, giving a few presentations each month? People are listening to him because he wears a tie. Must be, it can't be based off merit, can it?

Seems strange they'd actually bother to sell separate "Hyper-V" and "non Hyper-V" products, given how little they intend to charge for it and that they intend to sell it separately anyway.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/111207-microsoft-virtualization-server.html

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Nothing says hope for humanity like a wind assisted ship carrying windmills (presumably for power generation)?

Probably it is not a question of this or that. I was thinking of a mesh of sensors.

There is a proper discussion here.

CC.

Step 1: Open mouth.
Step 2: Insert foot.
Step 3: Know what you're talking about next time.

Maybe they are trying to help resurrect or spur on:

http://www.gregspotts.com/main/2005/05/seacode_inc_aim.html

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/062705widernet.html

But, also, see (also from 2005):

Outsourcing Losing Luster:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/supercomm.html

Maybe they are trying to help resurrect or spur on:

http://www.gregspotts.com/main/2005/05/seacode_inc_aim.html

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/062705widernet.html

But, also, see (also from 2005):

Outsourcing Losing Luster:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/supercomm.html

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He also said he anticipates Microsoft becoming increasingly busy in open source, since it "has a vested interest in making sure open source works well on Windows." However, he noted it could be well into the next decade before we see something as dramatic as an actual Linux distribution from Microsoft.

so few Americans have cell phones.

More than 1/3 is not "so few".

(Here's how I figured out the 1/3 bit from "110 million".)

This is precisely what is happening now in St. Louis, MO. The mayor had colluded with AT&T (behind closed doors, no competing bids) to roll out city-wide wifi starting a few months ago. AT&T would get free electricity and free access to regularly maintained street lights in compensation for the cost they incur deploying equipment, along with $10Million from the city over the next few years. The remainder of AT&T's compensation would come from their exclusive privilege to advertise advertise advertise to a very captive market (eg. with heavily adware-laden copies of Internet Explorer). Problem is, AT&T is a still private concern whose #1 priority is AT&T. So even despite all these concessions from the city, AT&T ultimately decided (although has not publicly stated) there is simply no market for it in minicipal wifi, and it is doing whatever it can to back out of its contract entirely.

In the meantime, nothing has been built, and the press was even fed silly stories about how the deployment got delayed because AT&T technicians neglect to account for the fact that street lights are only powered at night. Evidently no one involved in covering this story has a capable BS detector.

Since the mayor neglected to solicit any competing bids on this project, there is no plan B.

Wal-Mart has been experimenting with Linux PCs for a long, long time. Here are just a few examples:

2002 Walmart sells Lindows PCs:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/general-10/wal-mart-ships-linux-pcs-23619/

2003 Microtel computers with SUSE Linux:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,111557-page,1/article.html

2004 Linspire computers on sale at Wal-Mart for $498.00

http://www.news.com/Wal-Mart-debuts-498-Linux-laptop/2100-1044_3-5498006.html

May of 2007, Dell computers on sale at Wal-Mart:

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/15701

Wal-Mart is not stupid. They know that as the price of PCs falls, their sales volume rises. They have a vested interested in commoditizing PCs. With Microsoft, Wal-Mart gets a limited mark-up. With Linux PCs made by small vendors, Wal-Mart gets to call the shots. Wal-Mart has dollars signs in their eyes, and those dollars signs are dancing with Tux.

Yes, in fact, the actual rover design make use of both: high temperature SiC electronics for the parts exposed to the high temperature environment, and the cooled electronics compartment for the main command and control components, which can be isolated. The SiC components are very impressive, but (so far) they're not up to the technology readiness level to make all the components for a Venus rover-- although the SiC differential amplifier is a good start

I thought there was only one company offering it here - turns out I may not have to move after all - Videotron has tested a 100 mpbs service. They currently offer 20mpbs. With the bonding of multiple channels, you can also expect an increase in upload speeds - or better yet, devoting one or more channels only to uploading, to give high speeds in both directions.

Sprint would probably disagree with you, they are building out a WimAX network with Mobile-Wimax using similar thiord + generation mecsh technologies for about a year now. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/080806-sprint-nextel-wimax.html?fsrc=netflash-rss

Strictly speaking, I am probably wrong in calling mobile WiMax a UWB technology, but there really isn't any overarching term for these type of spread spectrum technologies that I know of.

Thing is, these technologies are in their infancy, and highly disruptive. The big gamble with Sprints efforts is that there are other companies that can do it far more cheaply. Nodes are so cheap ($50.00/node, retail) that Google is sponsoring it for the third world (see Meraki http://meraki.com/) just to get the advertising revenue and audience. China Sat and China Com can do it even cheaper (the units are made in CHina, and, many people have speculated that Google and China have some sort of agreement about this (And, yes, there is only circumstantial evidence, but there is a LOT of circumstantial evidence.)

It does not even need to be a government or a company, there is also the healthy grass roots community networking movement as well, the whole picocell/ mesh network thing is working out quite well in a number of areas, both rural and big city for metropolitan area networks. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region.)

And yes, the telco's are profitable, for example, AT&T has been hiring a lot. But they have been hiring consultants for serving their customers business applications needs, not for telecomm. I have always been disappointed by AT&T, AT&T would have been able to make Google look like amateurs, if they had the sense to retain Hurd or a similar talented leader as president. Like I said, C4i and management control is where all the US telco's fail.

I really don't see how the US government could prevent it. The US is part of a worldwide telecommunications network, and if you think physical borders are problematical, try handling electronic. I can't think of any way to formulate a law that would provide that sort of protection without completely cutting off US businesses from the world. It's like the oil embargo's, except oil, at least, has to be physically shipped.

The other thing I should point out is business models. Except for CDN's, you really don't need much in the way of worldwide internet connectivity for business. Yes, I know that's somewhat heretical, but think about it. Just because the world is flat, doesn't mean it isn't immense as well.

And more importantly, people are not concerned about the world, they are concerned about their local area's, and most especially, themselves.

That point is best illustrated by your insistence that the US will somehow magically protect the US telco's by protectionist tactics. It is not that the US government does not want to, it's that it is impossible...by protectionist tactics. (Bear with me, this isn't going to be easy to explain, I am trying to stuff a graduate degree in economics onto a single post)

In my studies of the competitive strategy of nations, I have been incredibly impressed, awed even, in the tactics that the US has used. Although to the naive, it may seem as though America is losing an economic war with the rest of the world badly, in actuality, in most areas, the US has made impressive conquests. The US telcos are a rare exception, not a rule. And the US government did it without even going near real protectionism. I wish I could explain it in detail, but the readings I might suggest you look at are either incredibly dry( some of Angus Maddisson's work http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/) or popularized and only true in a general sense

For a while it was very much a cat-and-mouse game between Apple and developers and was almost comical to observe. Developers would find that Apple had used a special name for ringtones and bang, custom ringtones worked. A few days later, Apple would change the name and the next day developers would figure out the new naming structure.

Then, in late September, Apple "nuked" the renegade developers by issuing an update to the iPhone firmware that required all data to be signed and encrypted. Anything not put there by Apple was wiped out.

From 01/19/06: Government wrestles Google for search records

An attorney who specializes in Internet law said that, at first glance, there doesn't seem to be a privacy issue involved in the government's request.

"The only time privacy comes into play in my view is when there is personally identifiable information for activities attributable to a particular individual," said John W. Dozier Jr., managing partner at Dozier Internet Law PC in Glen Allen, Va.

"My understanding is that the government isn't attempting to attribute any particular online activity to a particular person. They're trying to understand a broad segment activities," added Dozier, who isn't involved in this case.

If that is the case, this is a very common type of discovery procedure attorneys use to assemble information that is pertinent and would aide in a litigation, Dozier said. It would be a different matter if the government were requesting IP addresses, in which case concerns about individuals' privacy would be warranted, Dozier said.

Print article.

Article says Oct 21 the electronic votes will be mixed with the mail votes, then counted..I'm sure that will reduce the likelihood that any given vote was tampered with..[/sarcasm]

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...AT&T may immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of your Service ... for conduct that AT&T believes (a) violates the Acceptable Use Policy...

It bugs me when people include unavailable documents by reference. Is there a non-evil reason to scatter the terms of the contract among several documents?

Try this: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/16383

If you scroll down, there's a relatively long piece with the title "Customer advantages from Novell's collaboration with Microsoft", written by Justin Steinman (although he has not been positively verified as the source by the site admins). That piece contains the quote.

This case changes the Coppola scenario somewhat in that instead of a thief the data is lost to a careless computer store employee who discards a customer's old drive instead of copying it to the PC the customer just bought. Customer had no backup. Debate at Network World has found little (although some) support/sympathy for the customer; most say it's his fault and absolve the store of responsibility. Harsh? http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/19742

The second URL was a good giveaway. Wonder if the average e-mail user could do that. to teach Internet users about the dangers of phishing. Kind of fun and interesting.

Give him the virtual thumbs-up (or thumbs-down ... or a display of other assorted fingers?) in this text chat on Monday. Werner Vogels, Amazon.com, CTO will be doing a live chat, open to all on Monday, October 1, 2 p.m. eastern. Or maybe you can tell him what you think of their new Website in general. They are asking for comments.

Here's a story also that adds that Google is talking about investing in Facebook. Makes it sound like Microsoft's move is just another way to get back at Google. (Did you know Microsoft has started a "consortium" to try and block the Google/Doubleclick merger -- only no other companies will join so far?) Another tug-o-war between the two and Facebook developers wind up rich? The reports sound like nothing more than rumors, even if they do come from the WSJ.
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Here's a story also that adds that Google is talking about investing in Facebook. Makes it sound like Microsoft's move is just another way to get back at Google. (Did you know Microsoft has started a "consortium" to try and block the Google/Doubleclick merger -- only no other companies will join so far?) Another tug-o-war between the two and Facebook developers wind up rich? The reports sound like nothing more than rumors, even if they do come from the WSJ.
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Here's a story also that adds that Google is talking about investing in Facebook. Makes it sound like Microsoft's move is just another way to get back at Google. (Did you know Microsoft has started a "consortium" to try and block the Google/Doubleclick merger -- only no other companies will join so far?) Another tug-o-war between the two and Facebook developers wind up rich? The reports sound like nothing more than rumors, even if they do come from the WSJ.
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Slammed in a court brief for the proprietary way it implements the Kerberos Web security standard in Windows 2000, Microsoft (MSFT) has moved to reassure customers and disarm critics by publishing the formerly secret details of its version of Kerberos - just one day before the brief was filed. ... "They don't want anyone competing against them," says Paul Hill, co-leader of the Kerberos team at MIT, where the security standard was developed. "It's typical Microsoft behavior." ... Microsoft's implementation of Kerberos seems a textbook example of [embrace, extend, extinguish]. ... The version of Kerberos in every Windows 2000 PC formally complies with the standard specification. It also takes advantage of an undefined field in the spec to store authorization data for Microsoft's operating system. (Emphasis mine)

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The guesses I have seen are that the Comcast limit is about 145 GBytes per month. That works out to close to 500 Kbits / second, full time. So, you could watch a 1 Mbps video channel. such as the end bit rate ones from AmericaFree.TV channels, for 8 hours per day, every day, and (supposedly) not run into trouble, but you better not leave it on full time (like some bars I know).

As a data point, 100 Mbps residential fast ethernet costs $ 36 per month now Japan. Somehow I don't think that there they cap the service at 0.5 Mbps sustained use.

http://www.networkworld.com/graphics/2007/gryphondude.jpg
Wondering this guy has big orange beak attached to the front to his helmet and white parachute as his paunch. Would be sexy ;), no? Glad to meet you Mr. Tux.

Upon further inspection (understand: I RTFA), this has got to be a joke.

This is the supposed design of the Gryphon.

Apart from making the man "wearing" it look like a douchebag (what is this, an airplane Halloween costume?), it has the extra benefit putting your head right on front, so you can enjoy the potential impact at its full force.

This better be some hell of a helmet he has.

Is Novell going to have an even stronger case against them since they never said once anything about bankruptcy? Beyond the judge having to make some calls on monday due to this, does this get SCO off the hook? (I'd hope not)