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2010/4/21-5/10 [Politics/Domestic/California, Computer/Networking] UID:53796 Activity:nil
4/21    "Your fastest Internet in the world is found in Berkeley, CA"
         http://www.csua.org/u/qlt (arstechnica.com)
        \_ lies, damned lies, statistics, and pandering to the crowd.
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Full Site Your fastest Internet in the world is found in Berkeley, CA Your fastest Internet in the world is found in Berkeley, CA By Nate Anderson | Last updated April 19, 2010 7:40 PM If you want the fastest average broadband speed in the world, don't move to Japan. Instead, buckle up your Birkenstocks and pile into the VW Bus, because it's time for a road trip to Berkeley, California, home of the fastest average Internet speeds on earth. most recent State of the Internet report from Akamai Technologies, which collects and analyzes a unique data set of worldwide speeds and IP address usage. When all of the company's speed data was sorted by city, three US locations top the list before South Korea and Japan begin to dominate. If you're not from the US, you might not see the pattern: each of these cities houses a major research university. Akamai obtained these results by filtering out all cities with less than 50,000 unique IP addresses, to make sure that the averages weren't affected by outlying small cities. The result was that "so-called 'college towns' are some of the best connected in the United States." As someone who lived in Chapel Hill for years and spent plenty of time in Durham, this result raised a huge and obvious question: are these high speeds truly representative of what home users in those communities can purchase, or are they largely a result of on-campus high-speed access from Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill? Their answer: "However, what this likely represents is the extremely high speed connections these university/college campuses have to the Internet, as opposed to particularly high-speed consumer broadband services available to local residents. Akamai's data, showing that these top US cities beat out anything in Japan, south Korea, and Europe, would seem evidence for that assertion. if universities are actually the drivers of these high speeds, which are not then available to community residents, they don't say much about the state of US consumer broadband at all. Indeed, when you filter the list to exclude US towns with a major college in the middle of them, every US city on the list goes away. South Korea's top city, Masan, also has a couple of colleges. The data, then, is of limited use if we care about arguing over consumer broadband and where it's best. But it does remind us of one thing: around the world, if you want fast Internet, it's good to be a student. Full Site Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (Revised May 22, 2009) and Privacy Policy (Revised January 25, 2009). Except where permitted by law, the material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast Digital.
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Whoever, in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, having the intent to capture an improper image of an individual, knowingly does so and that individual's naked or undergarment clad genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breast is depicted in the improper image under circumstances in which that individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding such body part or parts, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Although the image sizes are of course different, you can see the same concept at work. Those of us working with advertisers have seen this coming. Targeting is key, the medium and format is largely assumed to be irrelevant. What will be fun to watch, however, is how targeted image ads fare against the text ads. 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