Netizen

Friday, July 26, 2013

Ingress: Taser Green Agents

Niantic Light Parade (Photo credit: drsmith7383)

Rumor has it Niantic is working on a new ammo item, so far unnamed. If an enemy agent is within your scanner's range, and you fire that ammo item, it will act like a mild taser on that agent. There will be a slight tickling sensation, no bodily harm intended.

It is thought to be of special use during interfaction events. Niantic is worried too many interfaction events are being organized, and it is taking away from the intensity of the game. Once you get to know and become friends with enemy agents, it is hard to then go back to thinking of them as enemies in the game. In many cities the game has supposedly slowed down due to such impacts.

Thursday, July 25, 2013

July 2013

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Ingress: State Of The Game: New York City (4)

Green dominates, Blue is reduced to a few neighborhoods.

Monday, July 22, 2013

Google: 25% Of North American Internet Traffic

Image representing Google as depicted in Crunc...

Image via CrunchBase

That number is just mind boggling. I think that puts the onus on Google to take the country into the gigabit Internet era all on its own.

Google Now Serves 25 Percent of North American Internet Traffic

Three years ago, the company’s services accounted for about 6 percent of the internet’s traffic. .... more than 62 percent of the smartphones, laptops, video streamers, and other devices that tap into the internet from throughout North America connect to Google at least once a day. ..... The lion’s share of it comes from YouTube. But Google traffic involving search, analytics, web apps, and advertising is far from insignificant. .... Google is big and getting massive. .... To handle its growth, Google has been on a building binge. It now has data centers on four continents. All this work has been getting a lot of attention. But the tech titan is also hip-deep in another type of build-out, one that’s largely gone under the radar. ..... Google has added thousands of servers — called Google Global Cache servers — to ISPs around the world. These servers store the most popular content from Google’s network — a YouTube video that’s going viral right now or apps from the Android marketplace, for example — then serve it directly from the ISP’s data center, rather than streaming it all the way from Google’s data center. These servers were in a handful of North American ISPs three years ago. Today, they’re in 80 percent of them ..... the world’s leader in infrastructure magic