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5 of those congested peers are in the United States and one is in Europe. There are none in any other part of the world. All 6 are large Broadband consumer networks with a dominant or exclusive market share in their local market. In countries or markets where consumers have multiple Broadband choices (like the UK) there are no congested peers.
smoking guns that the thugs at comcast et al are crippling the internet
ransomware is getting more sophisticated by the day, including different sites for different countries. they even bothered to do a swiss one.
Written in 267 in the ancient city of Antinopolis, the contract stipulates the outcome of the final match of the boys’ wrestling division of the 138th Great Antinoeia games. The contract stipulates that Demetrius “when competing in the competition for the boy [wrestlers], to fall 3 times and yield,” and in return would receive 3800 drachmas of silver of old coinage
It was the greatest art theft in history: 650K works looted from Europe by the Nazis, many of which were never recovered. But last November the world learned that German authorities had found a trove of 1280 paintings, drawings, and prints worth more than $1B in the Munich apartment of a haunted white-haired recluse.
I was startled and encouraged to see that under current policies, we are at a 20 years low in the prison admission rate.
a little bit of good news in an otherwise pretty bleak field: the “war on drugs”
i’ll be honest here, posting this only because of the lulz.
The ACLU has taken up the case of the Juggalos. As you may have heard, back in 2011, the FBI bizarrely classified the fans of the music group, The Insane Clown Posse, who refer to themselves as the Juggalos, as a “loosely-organized hybrid gang… rapidly expanding into many US communities.”
wise guys meet glass
you need high-res (40 MP) cameras, but that will be standard soon enough. the next step is to build a Scene graph out of every picture, and derive additional information from reflections, shadows cast, etc
crimes in which the victims are photographed, such as hostage taking or child sex abuse, reflections in the eyes of the photographic subject could help to identify perpetrators. Images of people retrieved from cameras seized as evidence during criminal investigations could be used to piece together networks of associates or to link individuals to particular locations. By zooming in on high-resolution passport-style photographs, researchers were able to recover bystander images that could be identified accurately by observers, despite their low resolution.
fires raged, violent crime spiked and the murder rate soared so high that on a per-capita basis, it “put us somewhere between Honduras and Somalia. They let us run amok, it was like fires, and rain, and babies crying, and dogs barking. It was like Armageddon.”
my proposal: treat the finance industry like a utility. put strong pressure on reducing transaction costs above all else. the purpose of finance is to grease the cogs of the economy, not for frat boys to play with other people’s money.
In striking contrast with these past prosecutions, not a single high level executive has been successfully prosecuted in connection with the recent financial crisis, and given the fact that most of the relevant criminal provisions are governed by a 5-year statute of limitations, it appears very likely that none will be. It may not be too soon, therefore, to ask why.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 