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Last login: 5 hours agoMjesales: Matt is a 25 year old guy in a relationship from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.; Likes 10,783 pages, 61 videos, 1,682 photos • 144 fans • Received 6 reviews; Member since Jan 27, 2007

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Eye-Fi adds two new wireless memory cards to their product line-up: May 12, 6:30am 1 review computers, wifi, memory-card, digitial-camera, eye-fi
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/12/17378; Eye-Fi announced two new wireless memory cards today, and they've dubbed their original card with a new name.

High-speed academic networks and the future of the Internet: Page 1: May 12, 6:19am 1 review internet, t3, backbone, internet2, academic-networks
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/future-internet.ars?bub; Building and using dedicated networks

As we recently reported, the Internet's backbone should be able to scale to handle the sheer volume of traffic that it's expected to face in the foreseeable future. But a number of factors complicate any analysis based on the simple volume figures. Many services, such as VoIP and streaming video, create expectations of guaranteed bandwidth that may be tough to maintain in the face of vast volumes of spam and P2P traffic; everything may get there, but not necessarily when we'd like it to. Meanwhile, problems with the "last mile" networks can obscure the capacity of the network backbone.

History of Computing& slideshow slide 1: May 12, 6:08am 2 reviews computers, history, internet, computer, timeline
http://www.thocp.net/slideshow/take_a_tour.htm; the power of computing history time line.

The Cost of Smarts - New York Times: May 8, 5:10am 1 review health, science, intelligence, iq, nytimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/opinion/07wed4.html?ex=1367899200&en=a83981...; Research on animal intelligence always makes me wonder just how smart humans are. Consider the fruit-fly experiments described in Carl Zimmer's piece in the Science Times on Tuesday. Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly tended to live shorter lives. This suggests that dimmer bulbs burn longer, that there is an advantage in not being too terrifically bright.

Google Says They Fixed AdSense Reporting Bug But Publishers Not Convinced: May 8, 5:02am 1 review internet, google, adsense, webmaster, google-adsense
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/017076.html; Yesterday we reported about a major reporting bug that impacted both AdWords & AdSense users. Yesterday at about 9pm (EST), Google's AdSensePro Stephanie said the reports were now fixed. Yes, that is about 40 hours after received our first reports of the outage. Stephanie said:

Comcasts 250GB limit? (Scripting News): May 7, 8:40am 1 review internet, isp, broadband, comcast, home-internet
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/05/07/comcasts250gbLimit.html?disqus_re...; DSLreports piece says Comcast may impose a 250GB monthly limit for customers. If you go over, you pay $15 per 10GB. Permalink to this paragraph

Since I got shut down last month for being in the top 1/10th of 1 percent of their customers, without notice, I'm in a pretty good position to evaluate this plan from a customer's perspective. Permalink to this paragraph

TG Daily - Amazon sues New York to strike down online tax: May 7, 8:31am 1 review internet, new-york, amazon, tax, nys
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37242/118/; Seattle (WA) - Amazon.com has filed a lawsuit against the state of New York for passing a law that requires online stores to collect sales tax even if they have no brick-and-mortar counterpart.

The Seattle-based e-tailer calls the law "invalid, illegal, and unconstitutional," saying it violates equal protection clauses of US tax regulations.

craigslist blog & Blog Archive & Kettles and Pots: May 7, 8:28am 1 review law, internet, ebay, craigslist, auction
http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/05/kettles-and-pots; Although our response to each of Ebay's unfounded claims will have to wait, it's worth pointing out that Ebay is suing us for implementing protections for craigslist that it clearly believes are perfectly appropriate for protecting itself, for example: