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...were never interested in getting into the broadband business--in fact, officials are keen to franchise the operation to an outside investor--but that's exactly what they did when they deployed broadband over power lines, or BPL, on the Manassas grid earlier this year and made accessing big bandwidth as easy as plugging in a toaster...
...one’s goals shift so markedly while at university. It’s painful to imagine being left behind as all the cool kids from college move to “the City” next year, reduced to periodic contact by email and Facebook, provided the bandwidth in the Great White North holds up. New York doesn’t just loom large in the consciousness of the upwardly mobile; it is the sine qua non of their hopes and dreams.For those of us who aspire to success but not to American citizenship, falling out of step...
...wave of pre-litigation letters to students at several universities, including to MIT and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Harvard students have not yet received any letters. Last week the U.S. Senate introduced legislation that would require colleges to actively monitor and stop student use of university bandwidth to engage in illegal file-sharing. Steve Lin ’08, who described himself as a music enthusiast “on the fringes of the debate,” said he enjoyed the event but wished that the talk had been more pragmatic. “There?...
...BitTorrent and an apt choice for college students. “Presumably, most Harvard kids are using file sharing clients,” Parkes said. “I can only imagine that everyone is, and the idea here is to be able to do much richer, higher bandwidth conferences over file sharing systems.” But Tribler’s “currency” feature and its coincident efficiency gains may not be enough to unseat BitTorrent, according to Chen Fang ’10, who worked last year as a User Assistant for FAS Computer...
...point of anti-Americanism. With most U.S. troops exiting the region, Washington would have more leverage with Iran, which has continued its march toward nuclear weapons while the U.S. has been bogged down in Iraq. And most important of all, the U.S. would regain the military, economic and intellectual bandwidth it once employed to advance its interests elsewhere and start rebuilding its reputation overseas...