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  1. Ignorant of the facts, not insightful on Google Argues Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Fibre to the Home is a fundamentally different 'product' to that needed to host web servers.

    A fibre to the home service is still basically an asymmetric download service (even when the final hop is sold as symmetric), because that is how the provides infrastructure is manage to provide the optimum service.

    The fibre used for hosting provides may be asymmetric but that will be outboard traffic, symmetric, or even more expensively actively managed symmetry.

  2. Common sense needed. on Google Argues Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    This situation reminds me of the time I worked for a Telco; the first Telco to offer consumer ADSL in the UK (Not BT).

    The majority of the early adopters were computer buffs that wanted to run web servers on the line and we did nothing to prevent them in practice or the contract.

    However we still got a myriad of complaints they simply could not grasp the point the ADSL was asymmetric and the entire business model was built on that fact. ADSL was designed to be a consumer service for fast internet access, not hosting.

    This situation still applies today, even with fibre services to the home that are symmetric. The providers infrastructure is tailored/profiled to be asymmetric. It is optimised to provide the optimum service the the majority of customers, who are mostly consuming content.

  3. A Case for mediation on German Court Finds Fantec Responsible For GPL Violation On Third-Party Code · · Score: 1

    It looks like there is an attempt to make an example of this company when perhaps mediation would have been a more suitable approach give they attempted to comply but failed procedurally rather than pursued a policy of wilfully evasion.

  4. Do you know your digital reputation? on How I Got Fired From the Job I Invented · · Score: 1
  5. So you work for Accenture.

  6. Phishing on Honeywords — Honeypot Passwords · · Score: 1

    A better idea would be to seed the honey pot passwords to phishing attempts while waiting for the host to close them down.

  7. Correlations on Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes · · Score: 1

    Theistic believe correlates with lower IQ and Conservatism.

    Depression also correlates with high IQ

    What could this mean.....

  8. Graphics not screens shots... on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: 1

    The fact that could even think they are screen shots reveals you are an idiot.

  9. Covering his tracks on Self-Proclaimed LulzSec Leader Arrested In Australia · · Score: 1

    Some elite hacker, He doesn't seem to have made any effort to cover his tracks. His hacker 'handle' is easily found links directly achievements on encyclopediadramatica and his twitter account which leads to his real name, which links to both facebook and linkedin profiles amongst many other sites, with photos and lots of personal data.

  10. Re:specialty software prices on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    This dates back to earliest availability of paper stock, White Papers were published on the best quality white paper, the drafts used cheaper paper stock with a green hue.

    The semantics are also quite interesting, the french carte blanche (card white) which now means roughly having "full power" in English.

  11. Interruptions on Secret Chat Between Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt Published By WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    The way he insensately interrupts other people is beyond belief.

  12. AT the Farmont Plaza Hotel on A Critique of the Boston Bombing News Coverage (Video) · · Score: 1

    I noticed the Media kept saying the explosions where AT the Farmont Plaza Hotel for several hours afterwards. When even a cursory comparing of the many photos to Google maps showed they were in fact several hundred meters away.

  13. My internal cynic on Excel Error Contributes To Problems With Austerity Study · · Score: 1

    Would point out that the authorities lost the deep suspicion of interest-bearing loans is a least as old as Aristotle(who was Not A Fan)..

    When they worked out to use fractional reverse banking to rob the system blind.

  14. Re:Google Maps - Third Site on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1

    Third Site - JFK Library reported by BBC

  15. Google Maps - Second Site on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1
  16. Google Maps on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Live Feed from BBC on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 4, Informative
  18. Live Feed from BBC on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1

    Live Feed from BBC

  19. Assumptions and questions on British Library To Archive One Billion UK Websites · · Score: 2
    There seem to be a few post making incorrect assumption and raising questions. I was involved as a technical architect on the long term preservation store aspect of this project few years ago.

    archive.org The BL is already cooperating with a number of other organisations do the same thing thing, including the archive.org, the Smithsonian, Scottish, French, Australian, Canadian and quite few other National Libraries. archive.org has been an important technology spike for these but is not the whole solution.

    Preservation BL has a legal responsibility to preserve it's archive, including this content essentially forever; which is a significant technology challenge.

    Legal archive.org is essentially opt in; the BL programme is legal deposit requirement. The site content for any uk tld should be collected at least once a year. An important piece of the technology puzzle is to identify these and mange this process.

    Scale The last scaling I saw placed the BL archive about two orders of magnitude larger than archive.org and growing faster. The number of new websites in .uk grows faster than the awareness of archive.org. There are a lot of challenges

    - Maintain structure and semantic context.

    - Searchable Meta Data

    - Searchable Content

    - Re-Presentation

  20. Missed a trick on North Korea's Twitter and Flickr Accounts Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Anonymous missed a trick if they wanted to be really offensive with their photo-shopping because the NK Missile is called "No Dong" in Korean.

  21. And next week... on Bitcoin Exchange Mt.Gox Suffers Serious Attack, Instawallet Offline · · Score: 1

    There will be another astroturfer biggin up bitcoins in order to pump his own 'investment'.

  22. Big up the threat... on Aaron Swartz Prosecution Team Claims Online Harassment · · Score: 1

    Just so that when they track down some peon they are throw a life sentence at him.

  23. Classic 'Big Lie Strategy' on Is Eccentric Sven Olaf Kamphius To Blame For Spamhaus DDoS? · · Score: 1

    Not an idiot just applying the classic Big Lie Strategy, whilst most experts are still blustering at the absurdity of the lie; he's moving on to announce his next big lie.

  24. Strength of rhetoric is on North Korea Declares a State of War · · Score: 1

    The strength of his rhetoric is direct reflection of his weakness.

  25. More Work - Less Self Promotion on SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes · · Score: 2

    I constantly wonder how these people get any work done given the amount of time they seem to spend on blatant self promotion.

    Glad to see it sometimes backfires.