Published on 07/25/2006 à 3:11:57PM by Sylvestre Mardont Source : Presence PC
In a France Telecom press release, we learn that the company launched an experiment with optic fibers (Fiber To The Home). This experiment is driven in several Parisian districts, and in 5 cities in Hauts-de-Seine.
A technological breakthrough...
This offer is made for a hundred clients, and uses GPON technology - without any active equipment, like a router for example. According to France Télécom, this technology could allow bitrates of 2,5 Gbps (400 MBps) (downstream) and 1,2 Gbps (150 MBps) (upstream). The experiment costs 70 euros a month, and is offered with free unlimited phone calls, and digital TV.
...but is it useful?
If such bitrates are definitely interesting, they still are utterly useless, since SATA II for hard drives tops at 3 Gbps in the best cases. We will have to see the results of the experiment, and the commercial offer coming from it, the heavy deployment of FTTH being planned for 2007/2008 by France Telecom
When a powerline fails, and they have to replace it, instead of just replacing the cable, they dig a new trench and they bury the cable. If they can't dig, they use the sewers to install the new cables.
If they install a new cable, to add capacity to the existing link for example, they bury the cable too.
I think that Discovery Channel ran a documentary about Paris' sewers a while back (saw it on our localized version of Discovery Channel a few weeks ago). They shown how they use the sewers to install power lines and optic fibers all across the city.
And in Monaco (Monte Carlo) the whole powergrid is already underground.
It's been 10 years that I've been living in front of a mobile phone transmitter. I had 8-watt cell phones. Since it was part of the paranoia, I had a scanner, like a year ago. Nothing wrong with my brain, kthxbye.
But that is the modern propagation of viruses. How did people infect computers before that? By infecting medias. Dammit, you don't need a security flaw to embed viral code in a software that you have to install with root.
Tracing route to slashdot.org [66.35.250.150] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms 192.168.1.254 2 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms 82.224.5.254 3 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms nice-3k-1-a5.routers.proxad.net [213.228.12.254] 4 93 ms 39 ms 37 ms marseille-6k-1-v800.intf.routers.proxad.net [212.27.50.97] 5 42 ms 42 ms 43 ms lyon-6k-1-v804.intf.routers.proxad.net [212.27.50.102] 6 * * * Request timed out. 7 48 ms * * cbv-6k-1-po7.intf.routers.proxad.net [212.27.50.26] 8 48 ms 48 ms 48 ms if-7-0.core2.PG1-Paris.teleglobe.net [80.231.73.17] 9 * * * Request timed out. 13 133 ms 133 ms 133 ms ix-12-0.core2.AEQ-Ashburn.teleglobe.net [209.58.27.46] 14 133 ms 133 ms 144 ms bcs1-so-1-1-0.Washington.savvis.net [206.24.227.105] 15 146 ms 154 ms 147 ms dcr1-so-3-0-0.Atlanta.savvis.net [204.70.192.53] 16 170 ms 170 ms 170 ms dcr1-so-3-2-0.dallas.savvis.net [204.70.192.82] 17 208 ms 208 ms 209 ms dcr2-so-2-0-0.LosAngeles.savvis.net [204.70.192.86] 18 208 ms 208 ms 209 ms dcr1-as0-0.LosAngeles.savvis.net [204.70.192.117] 19 208 ms 217 ms 208 ms dcr2-so-2-0-0.SanFranciscosfo.savvis.net [204.70.192.90] 20 209 ms 210 ms 209 ms bhr1-pos-0-0.SantaClarasc8.savvis.net [208.172.156.198] 21 210 ms 210 ms 210 ms csr1-ve243.santaclarasc8.savvis.net [66.35.194.50] 22 212 ms 212 ms 212 ms 66.35.212.174 23 * * * Request timed out. 24 * * ^C
This project was largely changed. Now we get fined ~40 dollars if we download songs, ~180 if we redistribute it. Nothing more.
Still, I think it's a good thing, although killing DRM is not the way. Opening it is. I mean, if you open it up, by publicating specifications, the others can use it too. Like Real did with Rhapsody.
Well most of the French youth like the USA, and everything around your culture... Why do you hate us so much? You think we wash ourselves only once a week? Well old people in farms are doing this. Oh and we have less farmers than you (proportionally of course).
We have our kind of "rednecks" too... So stop thinking everyone here is like that. That's absolutely not the case.
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Yes, they are.
AltGr + 4 and AltGr + + will give you { and }.
Look here.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=192221&cid=157 83381
When a powerline fails, and they have to replace it, instead of just replacing the cable, they dig a new trench and they bury the cable. If they can't dig, they use the sewers to install the new cables.
If they install a new cable, to add capacity to the existing link for example, they bury the cable too.
I think that Discovery Channel ran a documentary about Paris' sewers a while back (saw it on our localized version of Discovery Channel a few weeks ago). They shown how they use the sewers to install power lines and optic fibers all across the city.
And in Monaco (Monte Carlo) the whole powergrid is already underground.
You mean like this?
I play Tetris or Super Mario Bros. 3 daily. And I enjoy it. So yeah, I'd play a 5 years old game, yes.
they want their paranoia back.
It's been 10 years that I've been living in front of a mobile phone transmitter. I had 8-watt cell phones. Since it was part of the paranoia, I had a scanner, like a year ago. Nothing wrong with my brain, kthxbye.
But that is the modern propagation of viruses. How did people infect computers before that? By infecting medias. Dammit, you don't need a security flaw to embed viral code in a software that you have to install with root.
...how patterns projected on a screen could be qualified as a sculpture. Still it'd be nice to see it going all noisy and red on the next worm attack.
There's the IP from my local 192.168.* gateway, then the gateway from my DSLAM.
Tracing route to slashdot.org [66.35.250.150]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms 192.168.1.254
2 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms 82.224.5.254
3 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms nice-3k-1-a5.routers.proxad.net [213.228.12.254]
4 93 ms 39 ms 37 ms marseille-6k-1-v800.intf.routers.proxad.net [212.27.50.97]
5 42 ms 42 ms 43 ms lyon-6k-1-v804.intf.routers.proxad.net [212.27.50.102]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 48 ms * * cbv-6k-1-po7.intf.routers.proxad.net [212.27.50.26]
8 48 ms 48 ms 48 ms if-7-0.core2.PG1-Paris.teleglobe.net [80.231.73.17]
9 * * * Request timed out.
13 133 ms 133 ms 133 ms ix-12-0.core2.AEQ-Ashburn.teleglobe.net [209.58.27.46]
14 133 ms 133 ms 144 ms bcs1-so-1-1-0.Washington.savvis.net [206.24.227.105]
15 146 ms 154 ms 147 ms dcr1-so-3-0-0.Atlanta.savvis.net [204.70.192.53]
16 170 ms 170 ms 170 ms dcr1-so-3-2-0.dallas.savvis.net [204.70.192.82]
17 208 ms 208 ms 209 ms dcr2-so-2-0-0.LosAngeles.savvis.net [204.70.192.86]
18 208 ms 208 ms 209 ms dcr1-as0-0.LosAngeles.savvis.net [204.70.192.117]
19 208 ms 217 ms 208 ms dcr2-so-2-0-0.SanFranciscosfo.savvis.net [204.70.192.90]
20 209 ms 210 ms 209 ms bhr1-pos-0-0.SantaClarasc8.savvis.net [208.172.156.198]
21 210 ms 210 ms 210 ms csr1-ve243.santaclarasc8.savvis.net [66.35.194.50]
22 212 ms 212 ms 212 ms 66.35.212.174
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * ^C
Long and bumpy, the road to slashdot is...
There are two big colored buttons: See it and Download it. How can you possibly be less explicit?
Well to be honest, there's no extension that works with Bon Echo. That's why I reverted back, I missed my extensions too much!
I recall a proxy doing it. Found it through a list of public proxies. It was the same university who made the Coral Cache IIRC.
From what I read on TV.com, they've made 369 episodes already.
This project was largely changed. Now we get fined ~40 dollars if we download songs, ~180 if we redistribute it. Nothing more.
Still, I think it's a good thing, although killing DRM is not the way. Opening it is. I mean, if you open it up, by publicating specifications, the others can use it too. Like Real did with Rhapsody.
Oh and, I'm french.
From that movie, for those wondering. I was it a few weeks ago, when I saw the title that was exactly my thoughts.
More like Tom G. Palmer.
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/7557de839a5ddfdc3 c7cc58ef2009982/index.html
Say thanks to Mirrordot: http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/7557de839a5ddfdc3 c7cc58ef2009982/index.html
Exactly. Youth was rioting, not arabs.
How do you want to Slashdot CNET? Seriously.
Well most of the French youth like the USA, and everything around your culture... Why do you hate us so much? You think we wash ourselves only once a week? Well old people in farms are doing this. Oh and we have less farmers than you (proportionally of course).
We have our kind of "rednecks" too... So stop thinking everyone here is like that. That's absolutely not the case.
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