The FCC has a tool you can use to find out if your broadband provider is advertising better speeds than they provide.Check it out over at Broadband.gov.
This seems like a nice crowdsourced way to catch cheats. It will work better the more people participate, so go over and take the test.
Also of interest is that they are using open source software to provide the tests – software that can be independently verified.
I love the Bergen stop on the F train. Someone is always improving the terrible advertisements. This one was too good not to share.
Geoff over at BLDGBLOG has a great post about how Australia’s strange bid to avoid refugees makes some islands both Australian and not Australian. These islands become strange limbo zones of tortured legality, much like in “The City and The City”.
It’s strange to see them give up sovereignty over land to avoid their own laws about providing safe harbor to refugees. It seems that the self-image of mercifulness is more valuable than the land, but less valuable than actually welcoming in refugees.
If you’re trying to install the Android Developer Tools on Ubuntu and it keeps failing on a strange error:
An error occurred while installing the items
session context was:(profile=PlatformProfile, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine.phases.Install, operand=null –> [R]org.eclipse.ant.ui 3.4.1.v20090901_r351, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.actions.InstallBundleAction).
The artifact file for osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.ant.ui,3.4.1.v20090901_r351 was not found.
Here’s your solution:
sudo apt-get install eclipse-pde
Worked for me, found it here.
Famine. Fight. Feast. Fuck. Famine.
Forever.
