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Comcast to revamp congestion management policy by year's end {Engadget HD}
Oct 14th 2008 7:38PM At the same time, ComCast discontinued their UseNet offering. It will cost me $9 to $15 to replace the service. Another way to "limit" bandwidth without ComCast getting tagged by the feds.
Virginia Tech students create "smart" brake lights for cars {Engadget}
Mar 26th 2008 11:06PM two points from an ex-automotive engineer....20 plus years ago, they "invented" a brake light to signal how fast your stopping by it's flash-rate. It flashed faster the hard you were braking. Very intuitive, don't you think? Faster flashing gets your attention quicker to react quicker. Second, they put CHIMSEL (center high mounted brake lights) because a small study on federal vehicles showed it decreased rear-end collisions. A subsequent university study showed that people got "immune" to the CHIMSELs and had no long term effect. & we still pay for one on each new car. Final point, the lighting institute (funded by GE) showed increase productivity with increasing lumens. That was the common wisdom until a smart-alecky prof took out every 3rd light bulb and got the same increase in productivity. change works.
AT&T wireless data outages hit the Midwest, other areas {Engadget Mobile}
Feb 5th 2008 9:38PM AT&T attributes the reduced service due to "power outages". Never did get to talk to a technical service person. Left the phone on speaker for several hours. YeaHa!
