Kabel Deutschland sets record with 4.7Gbps download speeds

About a year ago, Arris teased a system capable of 4.5Gbps downloads, and while that technology was in the proof-of-concept phase last June, it's beginning to look more like a real possibility. German network provider Kabel Deutschland just notched a new download speed record using Arris' C4 CMTs and Touchstone CM820S cable modems: a mind-blowing 4,700 Mbps (4.7 Gbps). The cable operator set that world-record rate in the city of Schwerin, where it recently updated its network to 862 MHz. The network may be capable of delivering those 4.7Gbps speeds, but the company noted that current laptops and modems can't even process such blazing data transfer rates. And before you North Americans get too excited, note that KD uses the EuroDOCSIS specification on the 8MHz channel, while the DOCSIS uses the 6MHz scheme in the US and beyond. Still, that's not to say that other cable providers like Verizon FiOS have been slacking lately -- 300Mbps downloads are nothing to scoff at.

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Facebook still down for some

14 hrs.

Suzanne Choney

Some Facebook users were still having trouble accessing the social network Friday?morning, with the site either not loading or loading slowly.?

On Thursday night, when users experienced loading issues for at least two hours, hacking group Anonymous commented via its Twitter account about the slowdown. It's not clear from the posts whether the hacktivists had anything to do with the problems or were just celebrating them.

"Looks like good old Facebook is having packet problems" and "Oh yeah ... RIP Facebook a new sound of tango down, b------," were among the tweets posted by @YourAnonNews on Twitter.

While a Facebook spokesperson would not address the Anonymous posts on Thursday night, he gave msnbc.com the following statement:?

"Earlier today, some users briefly experienced issues loading the site.?The issues have since been resolved and everyone should now have access?to Facebook. We apologize for any inconvenience."

At approximately 9 a.m. ET Friday morning,? the website?DownForEveryoneOrJustMe?showed that Facebook continued to suffer intermittent outages for some of the social network's nearly 1 billion users. Msnbc.com has again contacted Facebook for an update and will update this story when we hear back.

Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said the company is not sure what's behind the problems, "but I would note that in the past Facebook downtime or inaccessibility have not been for malicious reasons.

"My guess is that it's more likely that there were more down-to-earth internal reasons for the downtime rather than an attack," he told msnbc.com.

Apica,?a website?load testing and performance monitoring provider, confirmed Facebook's "performance issues, and?said Friday that the company checks?Facebook?s homepage "every 5 minutes for uptime and 30 minutes for response time from its East Coast Cloud Monitoring locations."?

The firm "recorded high response times and sporadic unavailability between the hours of 5:28 p.m. and 7:29 p.m. PST (Thursday), and between midnight and 3 a.m. PST (Friday). The site was unavailable at Apica?s checks at 5:28 p.m., 5:33 p.m., 7:19 p.m., and 7:29 p.m. (all times PST), and again at 6:47 a.m. PST. Apica?s monitoring also shows high spikes in response times???upwards of 30 seconds at some checks and even as high as 74 seconds???during these periods."

On Thursday night, many took to Twitter to complain and make jokes about Facebook connection problems. ?"RIP Facebook" was among the top 10 trending topics in the U.S. and worldwide.

"Yelling at my computer because my facebook won't work ... only to come on Twitter and see #RIP Facebook trending #explained," said Caitlyn Trelford on Twitter.?

Members of Anonymous ? whose?key leaders have been arrested?and charged in recent months ? are?angry?about this week's decision by Britain's Supreme Court?backing the?extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden?where he is accused of sex crimes.

Earlier Thursday, the group claimed credit for a denial-of-service attack on the American Nazi Party, whose website was back up Thursday evening.

Check out Technolog, Gadgetbox, Digital Life and In-Game on?Facebook,?and on?Twitter, follow Suzanne Choney.

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Arguments set in NY suit over 'Spider-Man' musical

NEW YORK (AP) ? A New York judge is set to hear arguments over what a jury can decide in a civil trial stemming from the Broadway production of "Spider-Man."

Judge Katherine Forrest must decide whether to dismiss fired director Julie Taymor's claims that her copyright on a three-page script treatment for the musical was violated. She also will decide the fate of counterclaims brought against Taymor by the show's producers. A hearing is set for Friday.

Taymor was fired in 2011 as the $75 million production sputtered to get off the ground despite three months of preview performances. The musical was rewritten and it successfully reopened. Taymor sued the producers in November and they countersued. In court papers, the producers say Taymor's treatment was based on pre-existing "Spider-Man" comics and films.

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Hiding true self at work can result in less job satisfaction, greater turnover

ScienceDaily (May 31, 2012) ? Hiding your true social identity -- race and ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation or a disability -- at work can result in decreased job satisfaction and increased turnover, according to a new study from Rice University, the University of Houston and George Mason University.

"The workplace is becoming a much more diverse place, but there are still some individuals who have difficulty embracing what makes them different, especially while on the job," said Michelle Hebl, Rice professor of psychology and co-author of "Bringing Social Identity to Work: The Influence of Manifestation and Suppression on Perceived Discrimination, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intentions." The paper appears in the Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology journal.

"Previous research suggests that employees who perceive discrimination or are afraid of receiving discrimination are more likely to fall into this category of individuals who feel the need to suppress or conceal their identity," Hebl said.

The study examined the behavior of 211 working adults in an online survey and measured factors such as identity, perceived discrimination, job satisfaction and turnover intentions.

"This research highlights the fact that people make decisions every day about whether it is safe to be themselves at work, and that there are real consequences of these decisions," said Rice alumna Eden King, study co-author and associate professor of psychology at George Mason University.

The study also showed that suppressing one's true identity might result in exposure to co-workers' discriminatory behavior, as people are less likely to care about appearing prejudiced when they are not in the presence of an "out" group member. On the contrary, the research finds that expression of one's true identity in a workplace can have positive impact on their interpersonal relationships.

"When individuals embrace their social identity in the workplace, other co-workers might be more sensitive to their behavior and treatment of individuals like them," said Juan Madera, a University of Houston professor, Rice alumnus and lead study author. "And quite often, what's good for the worker is good for the workplace. The employees feel accepted and have better experiences with co-workers, which creates a positive working environment that may lead to decreased turnover and greater profits."

The authors hope their research will encourage the general public to be accepting of people with diverse backgrounds and become allies to them and encourage employers to implement policies that foster a positive organizational culture.

"I think this study really demonstrates that everyone can have a role in making the workplace more inclusive," Hebl said. "Individuals tell co-workers, who can act as allies and react positively, and organizations can institute protective and inclusive organizational policies. All of these measures will continue to change the landscape and diversity of our workforce."

This study was funded by Rice University, the University of Houston and George Mason University.

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Rewriting DNA to understand what it says

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Our ability to "read" DNA has made tremendous progress in the past few decades, but the ability to understand and alter the genetic code, that is, to "rewrite" the DNA-encoded instructions, has lagged behind. A new Weizmann Institute study advances our understanding of the genetic code: It proposes a way of effectively introducing numerous carefully planned DNA segments into genomes of living cells and of testing the effects of these changes. The study is being reported in the June issues of Nature Biotechnology and Nature Genetics.

Until now, changing the DNA sequence has been a slow and labor-intensive process. It took several weeks to alter just one DNA region at a time; testing the effects of each of these changes took even longer. In the new study, Weizmann Institute scientists have developed a technology that makes it possible to simultaneously introduce tens of thousands of DNA regions into tens of thousands of living cells ? each region in a separate cell ? in a planned and systematic manner, and to measure the results of each such change with great precision and within a single experiment.

"This fast method will significantly advance our ability to understand the 'language' of DNA," says research team leader Prof. Eran Segal, of the Weizmann Institute's Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and Molecular Cell Biology Departments. "Reading out a person's entire genome is already a manageable task, but what exactly is written in that genome? After all, a genome looks like a lengthy string of letters whose meaning is for the most part obscure. Just deciphering the DNA letters is like trying to understand a foreign language by listening to it being spoken. Our method will help us identify DNA 'words' and understand their meaning."

Understanding what's written in the DNA might help us interpret, among other things, how genotypic differences among people generate observable differences among them, from the way we look to the way our cells function. Thus, for example, it might be possible to clarify which genetic differences are responsible for the development of various diseases in certain individuals. The Weizmann Institute technology can also lead to improved genetic therapies based on introducing new genes or improved regulatory sequences into cells in order to repair genetic defects.

In the present study, the scientists investigated a vital aspect of the DNA language: How the control of gene expression is encoded in the DNA ? that is, the instructions determining the level of activity of each gene in the genetic code. Since gene activity levels have crucial effects on cell function, this question, considered one of the central in molecular biology, has been studied for decades. The new technology has enabled the scientists to isolate and test the effects of various parameters on gene activity levels: For example, how a gene's activity level is affected by the gene's distance from its regulatory sequence. The researchers have managed to elucidate how various parameters define the regulatory "language" and to demonstrate how deliberate changes in the genetic sequence affect these parameters in a way that alters the level of a gene's activity in a predictable manner.

The new method consists of four steps that combine existing technologies in an innovative manner. The steps are: creation of 50,000 different genetic sequences on DNA chips; massive insertion of these sequences into cells at the same time; sorting the cells with the help of a sorting machine that senses the expression levels of a "reporter" gene; and high-throughput parallel DNA sequencing.

Taking part in the study were Weizmann Institute's graduate students Eilon Sharon, Tali Raveh-Sadka and Michal Levo, research assistant Dr. Yael Kalma and research associate Dr. Adina Weinberger, as well as Dr. Zohar Yakhini from the Technion ? Israel Institute of Technology and Agilent Laboratories, Santa Clara, California.

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Emcees Speak on High School: Pat Russell '89 aka Illin' P

In March of 2012 a young writer and educator named Joseph Poirier submitted an essay to the Husslington Post. ?Through an email exchange it was uncovered that coincidentally Joseph and Sam Seidel, the Curator-in-Chief of the Husslington Post, had attended the same high school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin. ?Joseph proposed conducting a series of interviews of Rindge graduates who make hip-hop music, with a focus on how their educational experiences at the school influenced them as artists. ?This piece is the first in that series?an exclusive on the Husslington Post.

How long have you been making music? ?How did you start?

Since ?84. ?I stopped breakdancing to start rapping for my breakdance crew. ?I?m old school, believe it or not.

Tell me a bit about your music ? how would you describe your hip-hop and where you?re coming from?

It?s music?life music with feelings, thoughts, inclusions, and fun. ?Well, at least it is now. ?Before, when I was younger, it just used to be fun. ?I?d experiment and play with words just because.? I was into?similes?and?metaphors early on, and I would just find creative ways to play with individual words. ?I used to randomly pick words out of the dictionary just to see how I could use them in the next rhyme. ?I was making kind of a nerdy attempt to expand my vocabulary, I guess. ?That quickly grew to playing with thoughts, different languages,?symbolisms, dialects, double, triple and sometimes quadruple meanings, etc. ?In fact, I believe that it was one of Chuck D?s lines that prompted me to actually ?grow up??from the way I wrote ? when he said: ?I don?t rhyme for the sake of riddling.? ?I was like: ?then what the fuck am I doing??? [laughs] ?Cause that was CHUCK D ? a man, in my opinion, [who] commands maximum respect. ?Now, don?t get me wrong, I haven?t completely abandoned the ?ways? that birthed this craft for me. ?Instead, I simply created a category to kind of justify what I?m doing, when I?m doing it?it?s exercise. ?You know?? ?Lyrical?calisthenics??.yeah, that?s it.

Today, I?m all grown up, though. ?I do a whole lot of ?on purpose? writing now. ?I?m talking with adult themes, ideas and speech. ?It?doesn?t?matter what type of song ? party, battle raps, relationships, ideologies, etc. -?I often say I keep [it] grounded like the third prong. ?That?s because what I write nowadays are simply fathomable experiences conveyed?artistically?with the skills attained from many years of practice. ?As far as where I?m coming from?would you understand me if I just said ?within??

How important do you think a hip-hop artist?s schooling is to their music?

Very. ?But I?m coming from the standpoint that schooling in any life genre is mega-important.? Not just hip-hop. ?Whether it?s?academics?or hard knocks, you?re a product of what you?ve been taught and your output reflects that.

What role did the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) and the Cambridge Public School system play in your development as a writer, an artist, a thinker, and a musician?

An encouraging one. ?But I think that?s just growing up in Cambridge, period. ?You?re exposed to the entire gamut, so to speak. ?So much so that it ultimately becomes a matter of choice as to what direction you want to travel down. ?As a writer, well, English class is English class. ?You learn the technical aspects of the ?word??what?s a noun? ?What?s a preposition? ?The indirect object of a sentence? That?s just the automatics of ?school?, I think. ?The ill shit is recognizing its application and using it to your advantage. ?That?s when the?transition?is made to artistry.? I can?t credit my musical development?solely?on CRLS or the Cambridge school system, though. ?I mean, a lot of that came from the people and environments I surrounded myself with. ?That being said, Cambridge is a scholastic city. ?You kind of have no choice but to be influenced by that.

Why do you think CRLS produces so many rappers and producers? ?Is there something about the school system? ?The people? ?The classes? ?Teachers?

Today, it seems, everybody and their grandmother wants to be an emcee. ?I?m not up on the numbers coming out of Rindge. ?However, if it?s crazy, I think that?s just the result of how commercial this art form has gotten. ?I think it?s like that almost everywhere and rarely has anything to do?specifically with the?school?system, classes or teachers.

Are there are any memorable hip-hop moments from CRLS you could share?

During my days at Rindge, most of those ?hip-hop moments? really?occurred?out of school, unless we?re talking school parties. ?We weren?t really battling or breakdancing in the hallways, or nothing like that. ?If anything hip-hop was happening, though, it was during B Lunch in the Media Cafeteria. ?The Big Beat would be banging on the lunch tables and heads would set off freestyles crackin? on everything from clothes to teachers. ?In fact, those were THE only moments and cats would take that energy back to their respective hoods and keep it pushin??outside of school.

Your music seems like it has some Caribbean influences ? does any of that come from your Cambridge or CRLS background?

Nah. ?Again, those were my influences outside of school. ?I come from a West Indian family and I love West Indian music, but I was born here in the states.

Are there any other CRLS grads that made or are making hip-hop that have influenced you, or you?ve worked with?

As far as influence goes?not really, except for maybe a group called High?Authority? ? my mens DJ D, Crime Master D (turn[ed] Dred Manaflo, now Sickman and DJ Creation) ? but we were peers and pioneers that worked together many times. ?I tend to feed off of the energy of crew. ?That?s what we did. ?You coming with an ill verse made me have to come with one even iller than that. ?It went back and forth.

Do you think hip-hop music can play a role in the classroom? ?How and why?

I?m sure it can, in the sense of teaching technology and innovation ? i.e. the advent of the mixer or fader in relation to the ?potentiometer? -?or relative content to exploit points in subject matter ? i.e. historical outcries of social groups relative to current events or politics.? Or even as examples of different styles of poetry. ?However, NOT in the sense of guiding towards a career path. ?I think the youth can do without a ?teach me how to rap? class. ?Hip-hop to me is just one of those things you just simply get into and live.

Looking back on your public education, how do you wish hip-hop or music could have been incorporated into learning?

I don?t ? talking [about] hip-hop specifically. ?If it came up ? as it has ? it?s only because that?s what I used to express or contribute to an assignment ? creative writing or presentations. ?For me, it was to be used as a tool and was never the focus. ?Now, music in general? ?I say talk about it all day, as long as it [is] in the context of just that ? music ? which is inclusive of every other genre as well. ?Make comparisons, document social change,?stagnancy,?or set backs, etc. ?Let it spark debate.

What makes a Cambridge rapper different from a Boston rapper?

The same shit that makes rapper A different from rapper B. ?I?m not them and they are not me. ?Although, we are who we are and if that is ? God forbid ? absolute trash or straight up nasty with it, it is what it is. ?To me, not everybody should pick up the mic, and Cambridge does have its share of the ?not-so-nice?, as does Boston.? But that BS could never trump the level of artistry found in the best of both environments.

CRLS shout-outs?

No shouts?Rest in power: Erik ?Eddie Bones? Brown, Sion Chambers, Dave Swinton, Leslie Kimbrough.

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