Cellphones In the Sticks
Contrary to what a lot of people will say, life out here in the sticks is actually pretty good. Everything is on a slower pace and there isn’t nearly as much traffic and pollution as you have in just about any larger city.
Archive for the 'Networking' Category
Fasten Your Seat Belts, Speed Limit 640 GB/S
I just read a story that’s going to be of interest those who like to be on the bleeding edge of speed capacities… Some physicists at the University of Sydney have come up with an optical chip that’s reportedly capable of speeds up to a hundred times faster than Australia’s current networks are doing.
Which Cat To Use?
Recently, as part of my never ending effort to keep from falling behind on things technical, I find that the Cat5e cables that I’ve been using for so long are no longer the standard and haven’t been for quite a while now.
Arguments For P2P Throttling Falling Apart
Bell was recently required to release some of it’s data that was supposed to prove how torrents and P2P in general was causing so much network congestion that it was necessary to throttle P2P connections to keep it under control
GMail Flaw Turns It Into Open Relay For Spammers
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According to the Information Security Research Team (INSERT), Gmail has a critical flaw in it’s system that allows spammers to use a Man In The Middle attack that allows them to use Gmail’s SMTP servers to [...]
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Declare Piracy ‘Detrimental to the Public Health, Safety’
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That’s right. The Los Angeles county board of supervisors has taken anti-piracy efforts and jacked them up on bodybuilding supplements, creating a monstrosity of a legal situation.
This is going to allow them to close down a property for up to one year for violations of this anti-infringement ordinance and the [...]
Avoiding Keyloggers On Public Terminals
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In today’s age of all too frequently justified paranoia there’s an issue that is coming up more and more often. There are a lot more publicly accessible computers these days. They’re in Internet Cafe’s and all I’ve even seen one in a hospital lobby that allowed people to surf [...]
Lawsuit Against RIAA Could Stop ‘em Cold
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Tanya Anderson, originally sued for copyright infringement by the RIAA in 2005 and has since been fighting back, has filed an amended complaint against the RIAA. This case is getting more interesting as it continues. The latest move is no doubt going to have the RIAA and their lawyers [...]
Comcast To Stop Targeting BitTorrent
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Seems it wasn’t all that long ago when Comcast was caught deliberately spoofing reset signals to both clients and servers in the BitTorrent network, thus stopping transfers in progress.
Then there was a lot of noise made about it and unless I’m seriously mistaken, the folks over at BitTorrent started working on [...]
Guess What I Stumbled Into This time
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I stopped by my stumbleupon profile a while ago and I saw something I actually didn’t expect… Spam. It wasn’t even the kind of thing that you could say actually could be legitimate, like a website with tempting offers from an online car insurance company or a super cheap printer [...]
