Friday, August 29, 2008

Xeni Jarkov: Comcast limits customers to 250 gigs a month

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Starting October 1, October 1, roundly hated broadband provider Comcast will begin officially capping consumer use at 250 gigs a month, according to the company's recently-updated Frequently Asked Questions about Excessive Use .
If a customer exceeds more than 250 GB and is one of the security researchers who worked on the paper cold boot attack on encryption keys (featured in a previous BBtv episode , above) tells Boing Boing that a group of five pro-Tibet activists displayed an LED Throwie Banner near the Olympics site in Beijing. The protesters, all of whom are US nationals, were promptly detained by Chinese authorities.

From Hague, in a direct press conference, we listen to promises of an efficient and just yet complicated trial, for the sake of the victims and their families. Belgrade is calm today: the secret police are praised for the arrest and extradition of Karadzic, while the public police managed to contain the Radical Party hooligans with no fatalities . The Serbian people are facing the future, though if they still fail to face the past and the crimes committed in their names, their steps will be slow and hampered.



* BBtv: Monochrom's "Kiki, Bubu, and the Self"
* Monochrom's Marxist sock puppets
* Monochrom: Bar code artist Scott Blake / Falco stencil memorial
* Monochrom: Bar code artist Scott Blake / Falco stencil memorial
* Human USB Hack / Very Simple Motor
* Monochrom: Campfire at Will
* Leslie Hall: ceWEBrity, gem sweater diva, jammer of jams.