إنهيار الأنترنت

clipped from www.sci-tech-today.com A new Nemertes study says that a major Net bottleneck will be where Internet traffic goes to the home from coaxial lines and the copper wires that phone companies use for DSL. To avoid a slowdown, these companies, and increasingly, wireless service providers, must invest $55 billion, Nemertes says. That's almost 70% more than planned. Enjoy your speedy broadband Web access while you can. The Web will start to seem pokey as early as 2010, as use of interactive and video-intensive services overwhelms local cable, phone and wireless Internet providers, a study by business technology analysts Nemertes Research has found. Users will experience a slow, subtle degradation, so it's back to the bad old days of dial-up," says Nemertes President Johna Till Johnson. "The cool stuff that you'll want to do will be such a pain in the rear that you won't do it." Two years ago, nobody knew what YouTube was," Johnson says. "Now, it's generating 27 petabytes (27 million gigabytes) of data per month.

10 Glorious Lost Cities (very nice)

Lost civilization cities glorious

clipped from www.oddee.com MACHU PICCHU (Peru): The Lost City of the Incas [Wiki] ANGKOR (Cambodia): Contains the world's largest religious monument [Wiki] MEMPHIS (Egypt): ancient capital of Egypt[Wiki] PETRA: stone structures carved into rocks [Wiki] PALMYRA (Syria): the Bride of the Desert [Wiki] POMPEII (Italy): buried by the volcano[Wiki] PALENQUE (Mexico): one of Mayan's most exquisite cities [Wiki] VIJAYANAGAR (India): capital of one of the largest Hindu empires [Wiki] EPHESUS (Turkey): one of the most important cities of early Christianity [Wiki] SANCHI (India): the best-preserved group of Buddhist monuments [Wiki]

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clipped from www.flickr.com This girl got a lot of attention for this one. The sign reads: What I learned from BUSH 1। Lying is OK الكذب مقبول 2। Cheating is O.K. الغش مقبول 3. Torture is O.K. التعذيب مقبول 4. Taking people's rights is O.K. سلب الحقوق المدنية .. مقبول 5. Neglecting the poor is O.K. تجاهل و إزدراء الفقراء .. مقبول 6. Being a religious hypocrite is O.K. الرياء و النفاق الديني .. مقبول 7. Killing is O.K. القتل مقبول 8. Incompetence is O.K. عدم الكفاءة و الصلاحيه .. و ماله 9. Cronyism is O.K. الوساطة و منح الحكم للأصدقاء .. برضه مفيش مانع