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...ability to flash Libraries of Congress around the world at whim. Amazingly, the sellers of this dream overlooked the fact that many homes and offices connect to the 21st century fiber network with twisted-pair copper wires--late 19th century tech. These could hardly keep up with the bandwidth demands of the Napster...
...convinced that at this juncture, when the world of spoken language opens for the first time to an incipient consciousness, the mental foundation for the analysis of the external world is built. As the linguistically augmented bandwidth of data about the world expands, a child's developing mental machinery orders and arranges the incoming deluge into a model of the world that will serve as a foundation for the rest of their understanding. At such a crucial juncture, it seems that the opportunities for education to channel and augment this development are infinite...
...effort to cut down on the overwhelming traffic created by Napster and other file-sharing software, Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) announced three weeks ago that it would limit outbound network traffic to only a fraction of the total bandwidth. Although this temporary measure is intended only to prevent outside users from connecting to computers on the Harvard network, it has now become clear that the restriction is interfering with legitimate student use of the network. Although we support HASCS in its attempt to make sure that a functioning network is available to students, the current problems would...
...place, we have noted that the firewall will not be a permanent solution. The current HASCS plan rightly provides for students' ability to exempt themselves from the firewall. However, the more students who seek exemptions, the smaller the reductions in traffic will be. The only way to solve the bandwidth problem for good is to keep increasing the speed of the network's connection to the outside Internet. That way, the network will be able to handle traffic loads that will only increase in coming months and years...
...dorm windows on campuses around the country. Much like its Web predecessors, the Dancing Baby and the "I kiss you!" home page of Turkish journalist Mahir, All Your Base spread from office to office via e-mail like a benign virus. As a slide show rather than bandwidth-hogging video, it takes seconds to load (on such websites as thefever.com/AYB2.swf) Much of the spreading was being done last week by dotcom workers in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley, where good laughs are in short supply these days. But the inside joke may not be inside much longer...