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Comcast mulling metered access, 250GB monthly bandwidth caps
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/
20080507-comcast-mulling-metered-access-250gb-monthly-bandwidth-caps.html
It’s official: Sprint, ClearWire merging WiMax operations
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/
20080507-sprint-clearwire-wimax-venture-sees-daylight.html
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9937513-7.html
AT&T: No vacation around the iPhone anniversary
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9937632-37.html
Malware outbreak blamed on file-swapped MP3s, MPEGs
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9937818-7.html
Archbishop Desmond Tutu a fan of free music
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9937566-7.html
Europe
PS3 sales ‘overtake 360′
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7386879.stm
Grand Theft Auto IV makes a killing in first week
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9937851-7.html
EA launches Steven Spielberg’s Boom Blox
http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9937525-52.html
Microsoft’s in-car software now in Hyundai and Kia
cars
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006898.html
A yottabyte of storage per year by 2013
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/05/07/1334246.shtml
VOICE MAIL
Anon:
You totally missed what’s going on with Apple.
Rory from Ohio
Microban on keyboards?
Forums:
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Every way to access us:
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6035_102-0.html?
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Move to the U.K.
If you want to move to the U.K., Molly, you already know all our swearwords
;o)
Keith
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FreeSat
Free Sat
1. BBC channels are not ad supported. They are TV licence supported. This ‘tax’ will cost you ?135 this year. Probably more next year. If you don’t catch up with you, the BBC will write to you twice monthly until you ‘buy’ their tax or swear to them you don’t have a television (even then they’ll come out and check).
2. All other channels will carry adds like they do on Freeview (over-the-air, low-def TV).
3. BSkyB, the only other sat broadcaster, has been offering the same service for over a year, and their Website says it costs less, too. Sky also allow you to upgrade to Sky’s paid for sat TV service.
4. This is bad. ITV (broadcaster and partner in FreeSat) will use FreeSat to push its free HD services. However, they will be locked to FreeSat so cable and/or PaySat (i.e. the people who pay monthly for TV via sat) will have to buy into the FreeSat system.
If you ever need to do any U.K. fact checking, feel free to drop me an e-mail. I even know about Scotland!
$11k HDD Crusher
1. You own a large company. You need to destroy HDDs a lot because you are a bad company and need to hide the bad stuff frequently because you never know when the Feds are coming to raid your stuff. As a bad company you look at costs, hire a person. Let’s say $20K?? Buy a crushing thing and do it self-service style = ?11k. I know which I’d go for…
NASA Phone vulnerability No.4
Your cell phone can track your location. Ahhh! Scary!
SF Geek Tours:
I’ll sell you geekmaps.com? I guess I could lease you sf.geekmaps.com if you are feeling poor.
That is all.
Ross (cbrown)
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Fast download!
Hey,
I was pleasantly surprised today when BOL downloaded at 1.2MB/sec! Usually I download all my other podcasts for the day in about 5 seconds, and then I have to wait several minutes while BOL takes its sweet time.
Great job, guys! I hope this is a permanent change
Love the show.
David
Tom Merritt appears on
CNET TV, specializing in help and how-to and the ever popular Top 5
lists. He also co-hosts CNET's The Real Deal podcast. 
Jason Howell can
often be found producing Buzz Out Loud from the audio studios at CNET,
updating XML feeds from the comfort of his cubicle, and saying "uh-oh"
from time to time. 
I would be very interested to see my current MB/month. I would hope that they are telling people what their current usage is before putting them into the metering plan. It would be cool if they put a little gizmo on the side of your house with a glass cover and a wheel that spins faster when you download more. :)
When I lived there, I used to hit the limit around the 23rd of every month. This meant that could do nothing but email the last week of the month. No podcasts until the 1st! I used to pay about AUD$70 a month for my DSL, which was 512/128kbs up/down, and had a 10GB peak/30GB offpeak limit. Take a look at normal offerings: http://www.westnet.com.au/internet/broadband/
Ron Larson
Santa Barbara, CA
The small ISP I use is very relaxed which is great for my bandwidth sucking fetish: http://bt.etree.org/ and since instead of using a DVR, we just torrent 8-9 TV shows per week because watching a 1hr show in 40mins is just amazing when free time is rare.
But I did go to Revision 3 to see how heavy the high definition quicktime episode of the most recent Diggnation was. About 550MB for a 42mins show.
I wonder how heavy high def movies are?
lets not forget the PS3 will launch this summer an online video service..
Xbox Live service has over 5,000 hrs of video, lots of high def , movies, TV shows,...
The two big hardware consoles will suck up a lot of bandwidth.
And in case you're curious about Skype consumption:
http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=32510
>So 1GB is enough to call 40hours with Skype.
So even leaving it on to watch the baby sleep when youre out of town isnt that bad a resource hog.
Keep up the good show!
PS: Why does do the Best Buy guy sounds like he's dying? It's sad...
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by ryanknapper
May 8, 2008 8:27 AM PDT
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(5 Comments)Who watches the watchers? How can I measure my own bandwidth to know if such a deal would benefit me?