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Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category

April 9th, 2008

Risk Apocalypse for Faster Porn!

If the Large Hadron Collider doesn’t destroy the Earth, its data analysis network may give us faster porn.
Since the LHC will produce 56 million CD-ROMs worth of data annually, CERN scientists won’t use a central computer to analyze the data. Heck, they won’t even use distributed supercomputing over the Internet. They’ll use a custom grid […]

By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

September 7th, 2007

DoJ Stands on a False Analogy Against Net Neutrality

The problem with the US Justice Department’s stance against net neutrality is the problem a lot of older people have with the Internet in general: they subscribe to a false analogy based only on the Internet’s most primitive protocols.
They stand against net neutrality because they see the Internet as a postal service. Apparently, their knowledge […]

By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

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