Yesterday, ZDNet UK reported on a study of P2P traffic. CacheLogic monitored P2P traffic on Internet backbones and found that 61.44 percent of P2P packet traffic was video files, 11.34 percent was audio files, and 27.22 percent was other traffic. On the audio side, a surprisingly large 12.3 percent of all P2P traffic was for…
August, 2005
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Australian Education Minister Brendan Nelson has created something of a row with his criticism of university education in his country. His complaints boil down to the claims that there is an excessive focus on postmodernism and more emphasis on pop culture studies than the classics. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, “You’ve got teacher education…
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I should have know that the last thing I needed was a Tivo. I’m already a TV junkie, and the Tivo just made that much, much worse. I bought the Humax DRT-400, which I goes for about $300. This is a Tivo Series 2 with just a 40gb hard drive, but this particular model includes…
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CNN/Money runs yet another story about the ethics of access unprotected WiFi. In some cases, people have even been arrested for doing nothing more than accessing open WiFi connections. This seems pretty straightforward — the second you turn on a WiFi box, you’re broadcasting that signal out into the world. If you’re not going to…
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Some nutcase named Devin Moore killed three cops and tried to blame Grand Theft Auto for the crime. The judge apparently didn’t even let him mount his GTA defense, but during closing arguments his attorney quoted Moore as saying after he was arrested, Life is a video game; everybody has to die sometime. Hopefully the…
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The local anti-war activists had their downtown vigil to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. I was probably the only one in the crowd who thought Truman’s decision was defensible and tracked down the Kalamazoo Gazette reporter. She did accurately capture my words, but I’m not sure my…
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I opened up the newspaper yesterday to see that the local anti-war group, Kalamazoo Non-Violent Opponents of War, is planning a vigil to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Whether or not you agree with the decision to drop the atomic bomb, the results of doing so were…
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I know that asking Dave Winer to check his facts is a bit like asking a dog not to bark, but . . . I just finished the history of the Johnstown flood, by David McCullough. I was only peripherally aware of the event, but it was the biggest news in the US since the…