Google’s recent announcement of a 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home testbed has communities across the US salivating —but imagine what the Internet might be like if that connection to your home were even faster.
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The Internet of tomorrow: 100Gbps to your house by 2030
The European Parliament is fed up with the secrecy surrounding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
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European Parliament unites against 3 strikes, ACTA secrecy
Government and industry bureaucrats addicted to spewing out mind-numbing PowerPoint presentations, be very afraid; Edward Tufte is coming to Washington, DC. The Obama administration has appointed Tufte to serve on the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel, which will suggest ways that the $787 billion stimulus program’s watchdog accountability board can do its job. “I’m doing this because I like accountability and transparency, and I believe in public service,” Tufte explained on his website on Sunday
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"PowerPoint is evil" author to monitor stimulus spending
Mozilla’s high-performance TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which was first introduced in 2008, has lost a lot of its luster as competing browser vendors have stepped up their game to deliver superior performance. Firefox now lags behind Safari, Chrome, and Opera in common JavaScript benchmarks. In an effort to bring Firefox back to the front of the pack, Mozilla is building a new JavaScript engine called JägerMonkey
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Mozilla borrows from WebKit to build fast new JS engine
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch claims that the company’s ubiquitous Flash plug-in doesn’t ship with any known crash bugs. One can only assume that he has never used the software.
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Mozilla previews new feature to guard against Flash crashes
Amazon has pulled the plug on its affiliate program in Colorado thanks to a new state regulation on sales tax collection. The company sent a notice to its Colorado-based affiliates Monday morning to let them know about the decision, urging residents who depend on the affiliate program to contact their lawmakers if they want the program back. Most states only require retailers to collect sales tax if they have a sufficient enough brick-and-mortar presence thanks to a 1992 Supreme Court decision on Quill Corp.
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Amazon kills affiliate program in Colorado thanks to taxes
Amazon has pulled the plug on its affiliate program in Colorado thanks to a new state regulation on sales tax collection. The company sent a notice to its Colorado-based affiliates Monday morning to let them know about the decision, urging residents who depend on the affiliate program to contact their lawmakers if they want the program back.
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Amazon kills affiliate program in Colorado thanks to taxes
An unresolved question in astronomy is how the Milky Way reached its current state. One theory is that the Milky Way grew, at least in part, by cannibalizing smaller dwarf galaxies that happened to get too close.
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Low-metal star suggests Milky Way grew by gobbling dwarfs
