Friday, December 23, 2011

OpenWeb 12/24/2011 (a.m.)


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Thursday, December 22, 2011

OpenWeb 12/23/2011 (a.m.)


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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

OpenWeb 12/21/2011 (p.m.)

  • Tags: censorship, OpenWeb, SOPA, DNS Blocking

    • The pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) continues to inspire opponents to come up with creative solutions to circumvent it.

      A new anti-SOPA add-on for Firefox, titled “DeSopa,” is such a counter measure.

      When installed, users can click a single button to resolve a blocked domain via foreign DNS servers, bypassing all domestic DNS blockades and allowing the user to browse the site though the bare IP-address (if supported).

    • “It could be that a few members of congress are just not tech savvy and don’t understand that it is technically not going to work, at all. So here’s some proof that I hope will help them err on the side of reason and vote SOPA down,” he adds.
    • If browsing a site through a single IP address is not supported, this other anti-SOPA plugin provides an alternative.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

OpenWeb 12/20/2011 (p.m.)


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Future of the Web 12/20/2011 (p.m.)

  • Tags: AT&T, T-Mobile, antitrust, mergers, spectrum, wireless networking

    • AT&T said on Monday afternoon that it had withdrawn its $39 billion takeover bid for T-Mobile USA, acknowledging that it could not overcome opposition from the Obama administration to creating the nation’s biggest cellphone service provider.

      The company said in a statement that it would continue to invest in wireless spectrum, but could not overcome resistance from both the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission.

    • Under the terms of the deal, AT&T will pay Deutsche Telekom $4 billion in cash and wireless spectrum as a break-up fee, and the two companies will begin a seven-year roaming agreement that will expand T-Mobile’s national coverage.

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Monday, December 12, 2011

OpenWeb 12/12/2011 (p.m.)

  • Tags: quantum computing, qubit

    • A team of engineering geniuses from the University of Bristol, England has developed the world’s first re-programmable, multi-purpose quantum photonic computer chip that relies on quantum entanglement to perform calculations.

      With multiple waveguide channels (made from standard silicon dioxide), and eight electrodes (see image above), the silicon chip is capable of repeatedly entangling photons. Depending on how the electrodes are programmed, different quantum states can be produced. The end result is two qubits that can be used to perform quantum computing — and unlike D-Wave’s 128-qubit processor (well, depending on who you ask) this is real quantum computing.

    • We know that entanglement can be used for very effective encryption, but beyond that it’s mostly guesswork. There’s general agreement that qubits should allow for faster computation of very complex numbers — think biological processes and weather systems — and early work by Google suggests that pattern recognition might also be a strength of qubits.

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Thursday, December 08, 2011

OpenWeb 12/08/2011 (p.m.)


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Monday, December 05, 2011

OpenWeb 12/06/2011 (a.m.)


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