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 Ah, train travel: long uninterrupted periods to rest and work, wonderful views of the glorious countryside and 8230; the world   worst Wi-Fi. But fortunately Amtrak wants to change the latter.     The railroad company has announced that it   hoping to ditch its patchy 10Mbps connection, which is shared by however many passengers try to use it, with a permanent trackside Wi-Fi network delivering at least 25Mbps. Currently Amtrak doesn ;t allow s stanley mug treaming music or video,  or even downloading large files, and the boosts should allow it t stanley cup becher o lift some of those restrictions. The snag  At first it   only planning a proof-of-concept test between Boston and Washin stanley thermos mug gton, DC. If that goes to plan, it will attempt to roll out the technology across the rest of its network鈥攂ut given that it will require construction of a near-track WiFi network along the length of each and every route, that might take a while. [Amtrak] Image by ep_jhu under Creative Commons license.                                                        InternetTransport

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 Federal prosecutors have announced charges against eight more people as part of a long-running investigation of young men who left the United States to fight in Somalia.As many as 20 young Somali men have left Minnesota over the last two years for Somalia and are believ kubki stanley ed to have joined the Somali terror group al-Shabab. At least three have died.The charges unsealed Monday in Minneapolis include allegations that the men provided financial support to those who traveled to the East African country to fight on behalf of al-Shabab stanley becher . The charges also allege that they attended al-Shabab terrorist training camps and fought on behalf of al-Shabab.One of the eight named Monday is Mohamud Said Omar, who is currently being held in the Netherlands.During a visit to the United States last month, the president of Somalia denounced  stanley cup the recruiting and said he plans to work with the U.S. government to bring those still alive back home.        President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed spoke with The Associated Press while visiting the Minneapolis area, where many of the men lived before returning to their impoverished nation over the last two years.At least three have died in Somalia, including one who authorities believe was the first American suicide bomber. Three others have pleaded guilty in the U.S. to terror-related charges. We believe this is a wrong action, that these young men were wronged, they were robbed out of their life. Their parents were wronged,  Ahmed told the AP through an interpret Nyre Even as a figure, Deadpool manages to break the fourth wall
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 Massachusett s highest court is reviewing two drawings by a 12-year-old boy to determine if they represented a threat to his teacher.The drawings, made two years ago, depict a boy holding a gun pointed at a teacher as she says  pleas stanley us e don t kill me  and sobs.A lower court sentenced th stanley deutschland e boy last year to more than five years probation. The Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments in the case Nov. 7 and is expected to rule soon.Kathleen Kelly, the boy s lawyer, told the high court that a picture cannot be considered a threat. If a picture communicates a thousand words, why does one need a thousand words   Chief Justice Margaret Marshall asked during the hearing.         Because if it s a picture alone, t stanley cup usa here s no intent within that picture to communicate the threat,  Kelly answered.Worcester County prosecutor Sandra Hautanen argued that schools must be mindful of recent school shootings. Students in several Massachusetts towns have been arrested, disciplined or expelled this year for alleged threats.Some student rights advocates say school leaders have overreacted in the wake of high-profile school shootings. The punishment really does need to fit the crime, and I feel like we ve been using a sledgehammer when a little tapper might be more effective,  Isabel Raskin of the Juvenile Justice Center at Suffolk University Law School said in Tuesday s The Boston Globe.            copy;2000 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritt Nibd The Odd Truth, Feb. 16, 2005
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 Ever wondered what it would sound like if computers could talk to each other  Yes, we have an internet that links all the machines in a vast and glorious global network. But what if they really talked  What if computers could communicate using sounds that humans can ;t hear      It could work like a very powerful dog whistle. Computers would broadcast high frequency sounds through their speakers that get picked up by other machines ; microphones. That sound could include pretty much any type of information and offer a unique level of security, because hackers don ;t typically hack the airwaves. Such a network would effec stanley termosky tively reimagine the internet as a massive musical instrument that deals in information instead of melodies. Believe it or not, this already exists. Or at least a limited version of it exists. In disparate and distinctive ways, different people and companies have turned sound into yet another method for moving data from one computer to ano stanley mug ther鈥攐r several others. Effectively, you can use sound to connect a network of computers in the same way that we now use cables and wireless to create the internet. And you ;d be surprised by what   possible in the internet of sound. Software as Sound It   hard to comprehend what innovators are doing with computers and sound today without a  stanley sverige little bit of historical context. For that, we travel back to 1985, five full years before Tim Berners-Lee wrote his proposal for what would become the Worl

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