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coondoggie writes “While Ethernet technology has gone places no one would have envisioned 36 years ago, NASA today signed an agreement with a German Ethernet vendor to build highly fault-tolerant networks for space-based applications. TTTech builds a set of time-triggered services called TTEthernet that is implemented on top of standard IEEE802.3 Ethernet. Its technology is designed to enable design of synchronous, highly dependable embedded computing and networking, capable of tolerating multiple faults, the company said.”

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The man who wrote “Never Gonna Give You Up,” the 1980’s song revitalized by the Rickrolling phenomena on YouTube last year accuses Google of exploiting him.

theodp writes “Gov. Christine Gregoire applauded Microsoft’s job training partnership with WA state and county government agencies, which calls for the distribution of 30,625 training vouchers statewide during the next 90 days. ‘This program [Elevate America] is all about equipping people with the new skills they’ll need to get a job in the changing economy,’ said Microsoft Counsel Brad Smith, who also made it very clear that getting ‘workforce ready’ won’t involve acquiring any Linux skills. At least this offer appears to be no-cost, unlike the Microsoft requested in an e-mail come-on for ‘The Stimulus Package for Your Career’ (so much for Smith’s and Gregoire’s war on spam).”

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risingfish writes “Looks like Obama did what many organizations have asked him not to do. In a disappointing move, he has tapped a fifth RIAA lawyer to a top spot in the Justice Department.”

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An anonymous reader writes “The average visitor to YouTube is costing Google between one and two dollars, according to new research that shows Google losing up to .65 million per day on the video site. More than two years after Google acquired YouTube, income from premium offers and other revenue generators don’t offset YouTube’s expenses of content acquisition, bandwidth, and storage. YouTube is expected to serve 75 billion video streams to 375 million unique visitors in 2009, costing Google up to ,064,054 a day, or 3 million annualized. Revenue projections for YouTube fall between million and 0 million.” Maybe this is in part because, as Al writes, “Researchers from HP Palo Alto studied videos uploaded to YouTube and found that popularity has little to do with quality or persistence.”

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KindMind writes “CNet has pictures of a planned 10,000 year clock to be built in eastern Nevada by the Long Now Foundation. From the article: ‘Running under its own power, the clock is an experiment in art, science, and engineering. The six dials on the face of this machine will represent the year, century, horizons, sun position, lunar phase, and the stars of the night sky over a 10,000-year period. Likely to span multiple generations and evolutions in culture, the thinking and design put into the monument makes it a moving sculpture as beautiful as it is complex.’ This was reviewed on Slashdot in 2005. Really cool pictures, including one of a mechanical ‘binary computer’ that converts the pendulum into positions on the dial.”

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MJackson writes “The European Commission has opened an infringement proceeding against the UK after a series of complaints by Internet users, and extensive communication with UK authorities, about the use of Phorm’s behavioural advertising system, which uses Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, by internet service providers. Phorm works with UK ISPs to monitor what websites you visit for use in targeted advertising campaigns, though its methods have raised more than a few fears about invasions of privacy. Similar services in the USA have caused an equal level of controversy.”

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