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XBase for dBase compatibility. The sourceforge project was last updated in 2006, but I imagine not a lot has been done to dBase since then. The format is simple - I reverse engineered it and wrote my own libraries for it once. You'll find NOMAD on Softpedia.

China? AMD already sold it to the Arabs. Who apparently aren't sufficiently impressed with its performance to sink a lot of risky capital into it.

Intel has the Atom line (current generation is garbage) and the i3-23X7M ($100-$200 premium) that competes on the low end with AMD.

Intel Atom's next generation has no 64bit drivers or DirectX 10 for there PowerVR chipset:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Cedar-Trail-Atom-Won-t-Receive-64-bit-Graphics-or-DirectX-10-1-Driver-232915.shtml

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Fusion "2.0" was already in the works:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/display/20111121213529_AMD_Readies_Brazos_2_0_as_Krishna_Wichita_Get_Delayed.html

IIRC, these were scrapped because OEM's weren't going to design products around a 6-month lifecyle--hence they are skipping a generation.

You asked for a citation of "The majority are still using Windows XP.

Admittedly, the linked article is 8 months old, but here's your citation.

Interestingly enough, the google query I used to find that returned a ton of links on how to get "XP Mode" running in Windows 7. I would dare to say that usage of Windows XP might be even more prevalent than the statistics suggest.

And slower will be I think solved with Interlagos, and Intel will have only Westmere-EX (Xeon E7) to compete since Sandy Bridge-EP is not even released yet. Now compare the already-released pricing of Opteron 6200 CPUs with Intel's current Xeon 7500/E7 pricing, and guess what will happen.

Here's a link to the original report of the pricing info, which has it in a nice table. My eyes tried to escape from their sockets while reading the horrible, illiterate softpedia copycat article.

http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2011/2011100701_Pre-order_prices_of_AMD_Opteron_3200_4200_and_6200_processors.html

I'm not sure it's going to be as good as you imply for AMD. The best 16C Interlagos is going to be 2.6 GHz @ 140W TDP. Like Magny-Cours before it, most Interlagos CPUs will ship in 2-socket servers (4S is very low volume, 2S is mainstream for rackmount servers). The low frequency and poor performance to clockspeed ratio of BD are probably going to allow the 3.x GHz 6-core Westmere-EP models to compete directly with Interlagos in the 2S market.

That might sound farfetched at first, but remember that client bulldozer (FX-8150) needs 4 modules (which AMD is calling 8 cores for marketing purposes) at 3.6 GHz to match/beat 3.4 GHz 4-core SB in a handful of embarrassingly parallel integer benchmarks, while losing badly in others. SB is faster per clock than Westmere, so I'm going to guess that it would take a 3.6 GHz 4-core Westmere to match FX-8150, i.e. 1 Hz of 1 BD module is about equal to 1 Hz of 1 Westmere core.

With a solid foundation of SWAGs in place, consider that 3.46 GHz * 6 cores = 20.76, and 2.6 GHz * 8 modules = 20.8. While this is an admittedly very back-of-the-envelope estimation technique, IMO it's plausible that a 3.46 6C Westmere can probably keep pace with a 2.6 8M/16C Interlagos in very parallel code. (Any serial code should favor Westmere-EP by a huge margin, of course.)

IMO, AMD is pricing Interlagos CPUs to compete against Westmere-EP. AMD doesn't really have anything which can directly compete against -EX anyways (nothing AMD makes has RAS features comparable to -EX family CPUs). Also, given the slow rollout of Interlagos AMD might not have a very wide window before SB-EP is out on the market, and It seems likely that SB-EP will really put the hurt on Interlagos.

And AMD has also be trotting the death of the 4P tax on their blogs in the Opteron 6100 era, and there is no indication they will going to change that with Opteron 6200 anyway.

And slower will be I think solved with Interlagos, and Intel will have only Westmere-EX (Xeon E7) to compete since Sandy Bridge-EP is not even released yet. Now compare the already-released pricing of Opteron 6200 CPUs with Intel's current Xeon 7500/E7 pricing, and guess what will happen.

When I was much younger, I underwent extensive training in destroying falling near-earth objects. I would love to use that training to secure a high paying job protecting our civilian and military population.

The training that I received is discussed here, with screen shots.

Sure, and never mind the box art layout, the wall wart, the breakout cable, art assets...

This isn't the first time Samsung's been caught cheating either.

Granted, this also isn't Apple's first time trying to sue on "look and feel." Granted, I think this time they've got a much more solid case.

I figured they were trying to fly under the RADAR until they got to some point.

Google says they aren't doing a very good job.

I figured they were trying to fly under the RADAR until they got to some point.

Google says they aren't doing a very good job.

Computers listen passively to international phone calls looking for keywords and codewords. They score hits based on these usages and push it up for further analysis such as voice identification and stress pattern analysis

This is myth, not fact.

I believe the GP, since there was even a proof of concept trojan for Android that would listen to your calls and detect you speaking credit card information..

Thats why I always wear a tinfoil hat

"By many metrics - Windows XP still has 60% percent of the desktop market. This despite Microsoft only selling Win7 license. "

No it doesn't. At least not in the non-Chinese market where most of us live. That number skews the market where still half of them use IE 6 and is heavily pirated with older machines where 90% of copies are illegal.

In the US XP runs in less 1 out of every 4 desktops. Windows 7 is eclipsing XP and Vista with strong corporate sales. Corporate America is the only one buying new XP licenses and almost all of them are either upgrading to Windows 7 or plan to do it in the next 6-12 months if they are not already doing so now.

XP is quickly dying and being replaced regardless of its fans. At the this rate a year from now it will drop below the 10% marketshare line. Then games and other apps wont support XP anymore. XP is very old and thanks to the recession many companies refused to upgrade and instead kept running older systems which are now dying. Economists call this pent up demand. Vista was so bad too and now with Windows 7 corporate users can finally jump ship.

65% WinXP vs. 13% Win7 - admittedly that was June 2010
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-XP-vs-Windows-7-a-Microsoft-Perspective-147906.shtml

Slightly more updated stats:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

Puts them head to head with Win7 leading by 2% points.

Still, as noted in my OP (the GP of this post), web stats are skewed due to User Agents modifications in browsers of non-Windows platforms by users.

So then we turn to a number of resources from Wikipedia which still shows Win7 lagging WinXP by 4% in nearly every survey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems

which seems to be corroborated by http://www.netmarketshare.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=11 showing Win7 at almost 30% and WInXP at almost 50%.

What does this mean? Given time, WIn7 will overtake WinXP but even 2 years after Win7 was released that still hasn't happened - namely due to (i) the downgrade rights to WinXP that comes with certain versions of Win7, and (ii) the massive amount of installs for WinXP.

And these stats are probably pretty accurate even within the US as well where most only upgrade to a newer version of Windows because that's what came on it from BestBuy/etc; even then, with Win7 if you bought one with downgrade rights you are prompted for which - Win7 or WinXP - you want to install/use during first use.

Actually I believe that AMD donates to the GCC compiler as well as supporting the AMD x86 Open64 Compiler Suite which I believe is under Apache license so that is two compilers right there that could be used.

You see unlike Intel and their douchebag behavior the AMD compiler only looks for SSE flags and runs the code based on which flags are present. several coders have run tests with the AMD compiler and found it doesn't favor one side or the other, it just looks at SSE.

And I personally would love to see how much of Intel's compiler "performance" is just douchebag jury rigging and how much is actual performance. one thing i've found is when it comes to programmer tools FOSS code is usually better, simply because there are so many programmers on FOSS OSes and using FOSS software.

So I'd love to see Intel VS GCC VS Open64 and see which truly gives the best performance over the widest range of chips. After all, you wouldn't want to limit your customers to only those that have specific Intel CPUs would you? Because it has already come out that the original Intel compiler crippled the Pentium III as well as AMD so they could push the P4, which at the time was scoring nearly 30% LOWER than the P3 on most benches. With that in mind I wouldn't be surprised if the new Intel compiler cripples socket LGA775 or any older chips they aren't pushing anymore. They are real douchbags when it comes to crap like that, it reminds me of the early 90s MSFT in that regard.

What about these?

GRiDPad (1989)

EO Personal Communicator (1993)

DEC Lectrice (1996)

PaceBook D110 (2000)

Microsoft Tablet PC (2002)

HP TC1000 (2003)

Samsung Q1 (2006)

JooJoo (2010, about one week before iPad release)

And those are just a few of them. If anyone did some design copying, it was Apple.

I'm beginning to think some variation of Marlinspike's distributed notary system may actually be the way to go. This just can't be allowed to happen, given the importance of internet communication nowadays. If the CAs can't prevent this, it's time to find an alternative.

I'm not sure what's going on. But that tour of screens looks completely different from this one: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mandriva-2011-Beta-3-Looks-Awesome-Screenshot-Tour-203668.shtml

How about Softpedia?

Am I the only one here who uses Softpedia.?

Apparently, they lost 600k last quarter, and 300k this quarter. That makes almost 1 million in the last six months.

However, the loss may just be "returning players" exhausting the new content and letting their subscriptions expire again, if the decline continues, it'll be a different story.

"google+ gives your information away to government"

I'd actually really want to know when that happens.

How about: Google Admits Handing over European User Data to US Intelligence Agencies

IMO whoever wrote that article is a shill, full of shit or an idiot. The article is not analysis, it's far closer to "anal-related" stuff...

Example: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923-3.html

Ultimately, the French-English language barrier was responsible for how hyped-up this information became. Sites like Mac Observer and ZDNet incorrectly reported these figures as "failure rates" based on a Google Translation.

A drive failure implies the device is no longer functioning. However, returns can occur for a multitude of reasons. This presents a challenge because we donâ(TM)t have any additional information on the returned drivesâ"were they dead-on-arrival, did they stop working over time, or was there simply an incompatibility that prevented the customer from using the SSD

But from the french retailer's stats:
Released in April 2011
http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/French-Website-Publishes-HDD-SSD-and-Motherboard-RMA-Statistics-4.png/
Released in December 2010
http://www.behardware.com/articles/810-6/components-returns-rates.html

You will see that Intel has 0.3% and 0.59% return rates respectively.

So the difference in the return rates should tell anyone with brains that the non-intel SSDs (particularly OCZ SSDs) are crap, the Intel ones are decent. Saying bullshit like "returns can occur for a multitude of reasons. This presents a challenge" seems to be more spin than a 15krpm drive.

As for the stupid graph in http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923-9.html

Larger version: http://media.bestofmicro.com/4/A/302122/original/ssdfailurerates_1024.png

It's also shit. For most of the known period, SSDs are worse than HDDs. It's mainly his estimates/projections that show SSDs as better.

Go figure how stupid that is, it's like saying:
"Oh look, most SSDs are worse than most HDDs for the actual data we have, this means that SSDs are more reliable than HDDs"

And one wonders how many data points he actually has on the graph for SSDs, if it's just from the french retailer, I think it's two points for each drive brand/model.

I haven't been to tomshardware for a while till today. And it seems to have got even worse from the time when I stopped reading their articles because they were too crap.

You want something that's not so crap, go to Anandtech. They're not perfect, but this Tom's Hardware article makes Anandtech look like the Richard Feynman of IT reviewers.

Apparently Intel's SSDs are more reliable than HDDs.

April 2011
http://news.softpedia.com/news/French-Website-Publishes-HDD-SSD-and-Motherboard-RMA-Statistics-196538.shtml

http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/French-Website-Publishes-HDD-SSD-and-Motherboard-RMA-Statistics-4.png/

December 2010
http://www.behardware.com/articles/810-6/components-returns-rates.html

Yes I know these are return rates and not failure rates. But "spinning disk drives" should in theory more vulnerable to "shipping and mishandling" and "oops user dropped it" than SSDs.

And if Intel can get 0.3- 0.59% and OCZ 2.9 - 3.5% I don't think we can blame shipping and the users for the difference ;).

So the non-intel SSDs seem pretty bad.

Apparently Intel's SSDs are more reliable than HDDs.

April 2011
http://news.softpedia.com/news/French-Website-Publishes-HDD-SSD-and-Motherboard-RMA-Statistics-196538.shtml

http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/French-Website-Publishes-HDD-SSD-and-Motherboard-RMA-Statistics-4.png/

December 2010
http://www.behardware.com/articles/810-6/components-returns-rates.html

Yes I know these are return rates and not failure rates. But "spinning disk drives" should in theory more vulnerable to "shipping and mishandling" and "oops user dropped it" than SSDs.

And if Intel can get 0.3- 0.59% and OCZ 2.9 - 3.5% I don't think we can blame shipping and the users for the difference ;).

So the non-intel SSDs seem pretty bad.

The other failure mode is the "time warp" failure.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25491097-Dell-Laptop-and-SSD-Time-warp-issue

Also updated windows fully, customized everything to my liking... in short, a good 2-3h of work.

This morning, I open up the laptop and surprise... EVERYTHING's back to the pre-format. I have no idea how this is even remotely possible.

The big problem with this failure mode would be if the user doesn't notice anything wrong till too late.

A 100% dead drive sucks, but if you do regular backups you lose 1 day of data.

A "time warp" failure that you don't notice could result in you sending out of date info in an important email. Or overwriting something important with invalid data and not noticing. The resulting damage could be far far worse than a dead drive.

In my experience "spinning rust" rarely fails 100% without warning (or abuse - e.g. you drop the drive ;) ). You can often salvage some stuff out (just hope it's the stuff you want ;) ). I've managed to use knoppix to salvage data from people's failed spinning disk drives.

In contrast these SSDs just go totally dead. Or really weird shit happens.

In both cases the manufacturer might get an RMA. But they're not the same. If OCZ drives are getting RMA'ed at higher rates than spinning drives, and their failure modes are 100% dead or "time warp" they are far worse than the stats show: http://news.softpedia.com/news/French-Website-Publishes-HDD-SSD-and-Motherboard-RMA-Statistics-196538.shtml

First, it's called Java and it runs android apps on linux (amoung others), just like Linux runs any other app.

Oh come on, the suggestion you linked to - if you even bothered to read it or have any understanding of what it does - is an emulator that emulates the entire device including the hardware and then runs android on top of that and then your applications on top of that. Whether or not it's java makes no difference which is why you can make native calls from java to compiled ARM libraries using the NDK and it still works in the emulator, it's also why the emulator is so incredibly slow.

First, it's called Java and it runs android apps on linux (amoung others), just like Linux runs any other app. Android doesn't make kernel bound, machine compiled apps for the very good reason that they need as many apps to run on as many phones without separate compilers. Phones are still running completely different chipsets than PCs, or are you not aware that you can't run amd64.deb on a 32bit PC, etc. etc. If so, you aren't very educated about the issue at all.

If you want to take some code, make some native applications compile to it, I'm sure you could get some command line tools that work on both platforms, compiling separately on each. Mainstream users don't CARE if they can run it on their computers. Frankly, not many geeks care either. That's a pretty minority of a minority view. At best, people would like to run Linux desktop apps on Android, not the other way around.

And the problem isn't Android, it's XWindows. When you get XWindows and Gnome/KDE to run efficiently on ARM, you let me know and THEN we'll talk about portability. Until then, NON ISSUE QED.

And even then, you'd still need a type of virtual machine, regardless of whether the code ran or not. Apps are built for.. wait for it... phones and tablets! It's pointy-multi-touchy, not lefty-righty-clicky.

The fact is that Android is the first, and only, real main stream Linux OS that rivals every single one of its competitors. What did Android do for Linux? That's like asking what Apache has done for Linux. Without Apache, Linux wouldn't have the server market cornered. Android did for linux on phones what Apache did for linux on servers. And if you don't get that analogy, you just don't get it the topic at all.

Still misunderstanding the world I see...

Maybe you would prefer it if MSFT took the "sue your ass off" route that Apple currently uses?

And what "sue your ass off" route would that be, exactly? The only major lawsuit that come to mind that aren't countersuits are the one against Samsung for copying Apple's designs. It's quite possible there are more, but it's definitely not some sort of "route that Apple currently uses".

It is kind of funny though, you mention lawsuits that MS has undertaken, and are currently undertaking, but somehow they *aren't* taking a '"sue your ass off" route', whereas Apple, who isn't engaged in such suits, is?

Uhm.. regardless of Microsoft, Apple is considered a quite aggressive litigious company. To the extent of even suing teenage driven Mac fan sites. Which though not patent related is RIAA-level low in my view. Some other Apple lawsuits or threats (not by a long shot an extensive list, but what turned up in a quick search) in addition to Samsung suit you mentioned and not including suits like the multitouch patent suit Apple filed against Motorola, as you excluded "countersuits".

Apple sues HTC for infringing 20 iPhone patents
Apple Threatening Patent Lawsuits Over New Palm Pre
Amazon Appstore is now live, Apple is suing for the name
The Reason Why Apple Is Suing Sanho Corp. (HyperMac) Revealed


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“And boy, have we patented it.” — Steve Jobs, 2007.

Dropbox is secure...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH....
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hahahhahahaahahahahahah

If anyone here knew how unsecured your data is (unless it has been encrypted outside of their setup), no one would ever use it.

This may be out of date information, but I highly doubt DropBox has changed their routine. Back in April, it was exposed that if anyone gets ahold of your DropBox's config.db file on your computer (which contains a host_id/GUID...which is open to random guessing as well) they can use ANY valid username/password (e.g. their own) to access files in that GUID's (your) box.

Yes, it's that easy.

When will people learn...these companies aren't giving you what you want out of the goodness of their hearts...they are making money doing whatever they are doing, and it's going to be somehow at your expense. Your security is NOT their concern. DropBox could EASILY tie your user/pass to validated hosts...but...they don't.

Some easy reading:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Design-Security-Flaw-Allegedly-Discovered-in-Dropbox-Client-194427.shtml

May as well keep $500,000 worth of BitCoins in the same file...

just don't play Heroes of Might and Magic 4 it sucks and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 needs the Unofficial HD Patch to work in newer os / systems. http://games.softpedia.com/get/Patch/Heroes-of-Might-and-Magic-3-Unofficial-HD-Patch.shtml

Sony is a big company with a lot of activities, and not all of them are objectionable.

Given their poor hardware quality, rootkits, data breaches, exploding batteries, inventing fake movie critics, removing advertised features, obnoxious viral marketing, spying on environmental activists, being seen as one of the two worst companies in America, and whatever else I couldn't think of off the top of my head, I'd say "most" rather than "not all".

Huh? That was just a Pocket PC with GSM. iPhone looks nothing like it. Neither hardware nor software. http://handheld.softpedia.com/devices/HTC/HTC-Himalaya--Qtek-2060-246.shtml

I recenrly bought an X10 so I could ssh without having to use the touch screen, without having to sacrifice the touch screen UI. Very happy with it.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why gamers will never be taken seriously. This attitude of "Fuck rights! I want mah GAEMS!" that has been displayed by many gamers during the entire GeoHot Vs Sony episode has me seriously perplexed.

I find it really telling that the people who post such things like the tripe quoted here feel that only THEY have rights - the rights of normal gamers is just collateral damage

Apparently they only give their children a strong talking to, they don't actually sue them.

Use Google calendar. Whether they use an iPhone or not they can access it and you won't need to worry about Hospital Policy.

There's even a swafty little article discussing iPhone usage in tandem right here:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Use-iPhone-With-Google-039-s-Products-59231.shtml

For all the people posting about what you can or can't do in their own particular corporate environ, who cares? My environment allows us all to bring in our laptops and anything else we want and hook it up to the network inside the firewall without anybody poking their nose in our business. Who cares? You and I don't work at his hospital, and mayhaps the people he works with aren't allowed to go ape shit over something like this.

As for all this blather about handing over an account that has virtually no rights, that'd be pointless. IT would need admin access just the same as they would on any other box. I'd be more inclined to say that the guy who said he didn't need but basic login access either

a) didn't know how to do his job right

or

b) intends to root your box anyways

Is google HIPPA approved? Doubt it. I've seen better security at schools..

Use Google calendar. Whether they use an iPhone or not they can access it and you won't need to worry about Hospital Policy.

There's even a swafty little article discussing iPhone usage in tandem right here:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Use-iPhone-With-Google-039-s-Products-59231.shtml

For all the people posting about what you can or can't do in their own particular corporate environ, who cares? My environment allows us all to bring in our laptops and anything else we want and hook it up to the network inside the firewall without anybody poking their nose in our business. Who cares? You and I don't work at his hospital, and mayhaps the people he works with aren't allowed to go ape shit over something like this.

As for all this blather about handing over an account that has virtually no rights, that'd be pointless. IT would need admin access just the same as they would on any other box. I'd be more inclined to say that the guy who said he didn't need but basic login access either
a) didn't know how to do his job right
or
b) intends to root your box anyways

Clever and very old. This has been going on since double digit megabyte flash memory was considered big. There's a tool for detecting this "hack":

H2testw

It writes files that are filled with pseudorandom data to the full capacity of the medium and then reads everything back and lists the kind of data corruption that it found. It also measures continuous write and read speed, so that is always the first thing I run when I buy new flash memory (USB sticks, compact flash, SD-cards, MP3-player, etc.).

130W TDB at 2.4 GHz, on the high end. Sadly, that information wasn't in the posted article. http://news.softpedia.com/news/More-Details-About-Intel-s-Upcoming-Xeon-E7-8800-CPU-Line-Emerge-183270.shtml

So let me get this straight, you are bitching because MSFT doesn't support a long EOLed configuration that is trivial to fix? You DO know that Sp2 has been EOL for a couple of years now, yes? It is a dead duck, same as Win2K. Might I suggest next time you either simply update your disc (which is not only trivial to do with free tools such as XP ISO Builder or NLite, but actually will lower your install time) and if you really want to cut down on your time use WSUS Offline which will let you keep ALL the updates (including service packs if you like) all on a single DVD or thumbstick, thus making updates as easy as "clickly clicky reboot"?

So the problem is you are trying to run WGA on an unsupported platform...well that's the breaks. SP2 was released nearly 7 years ago, and there have been a LOT of changes since then, some of which affect WGA. As for Win 7 actually I've found that the switch to Win 7 has been easy peasy with my customers. You simply show them how WinSearch works and where WMC is and they are happy little campers. The key to switching users is the carrot not the stick. I've found simply showing them all the free Internet channels in WMC makes it an easy sale, and then they are soon figuring out all the extra goodies easily since Win 7 is more intuitive than XP.

Either way there is simply so much tech that can't be bolted into an 11 year OS that at some point you have to set a minimum. Having a minimum of SP3 (which was released in 08 so it is still 3 years old) seems to be a pretty reasonable thing, especially since service packs are free and trivial to download/install. That said you can't bolt DX 10, NCQ for SATA drives, Superfetch and Readyboost, etc, so there comes a time when one does need to be looking at a migration plan. After all XP is 3 generations behind already, and most likely will be 4 generations behind before being EOLed.

So I'd say you can't really blame them for not supporting an 8 year old configuration anymore. After all both OSX and Linux don't support anywhere near that age of configuration, and MSFT IS giving XP until 2014 which will be 13 years of support so updating your image occasionally really isn't so much to ask. It isn't like your average Joe installs OSes anyway, they take it to a relative or someone like me that does it for a living and know how to slipstream a service pack. Frankly that you have the ability to install but haven't heard of slipstreaming I find puzzling, as usually knowledge of one includes the other.

So the new gen chips work as shipped, vs a hack to make them work with older gen hardware?
http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s-First-Bulldozer-FX-Processors-to-Be-Released-on-June-11-190041.shtml

There haven't been any accidents in the USA that resulted in leaked radiation.

That's physically impossible. Also, Three Mile Island.

60 years of experience suggest that your assertion, "no amount of mitigation makes it a rational chance to take", is incorrect. Experience suggests that in fact risk can be managed.

Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima. It's 100% impossible to engineer away the risk for an incident. You can reduce the risks, but they will always be there, and it only takes the occasional accident to completely negate the safety of the intervening years.

"billions of years" is also incorrect: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chernobyl-Still-Radioactive-After-23-Years-129912.shtml

Plutonium and Uranium remain radioactive for billions of years.

There haven't been any accidents in the USA that resulted in leaked radiation. 60 years of experience suggest that your assertion, "no amount of mitigation makes it a rational chance to take", is incorrect. Experience suggests that in fact risk can be managed. "billions of years" is also incorrect: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chernobyl-Still-Radioactive-After-23-Years-129912.shtml

Not food:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Artist-s-Happy-Meal-Project-Proves-McDonald-s-Doesn-t-Ever-Go-Bad-160570.shtml

Those aren't crickets! That's a WMA file of recorded cricket sounds being streamed from Microsoft directly to my Zune!

No, no, the official terminology is squirting, as amply demonstrated by Ballmer's disturbing money quote:

I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That's a software experience.

Frankly, a bit too soft for my preference. Methinks the Ballmer needs more roughage in his diet -- and perhaps some time familiarizing himself with the connotations of his word choices, the better to avoid any similar outbreaks of logorrhea (a.k.a. "runny brain") in future.

C'mon, I think the bigger mistake was that the poop brown device that Steve Ballmer wanted to squirt at you.

It depends: You could use a Raid 5/6 NAS and have high disk speeds again. Something like this. The max speed of a thunderbolt connection is 800MB/s so, assuming they are WD black 2TB 3GB/s drives, you can get an average of 109*5 (raid 5 with 6 disks) = 545 MB/s (host to disk speeds. Host to buffer doesn't matter).
That's, effectively, 5 disks to go slightly over their read speed. Then again, you'd get 10 TB (=9.09 TiB) on the external enclosure, while the biggest of these will be 250 GB.

"not because there are fewer unpatched vulnerabilities, but because its source code has not undergone the same level of external scrutiny." - by dgatwood (11270) on Monday February 28, @12:30PM (#35339432)

The RUSSIANS HAVE Windows NT-based OS source:

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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Shares-the-Windows-7-RTM-Source-Code-with-Russia-146738.shtml

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Thus, Windows HAS "undergone that same level of scrutiny", AND, from better than mere "security researchers" but instead, from "hacker/cracker" types themselves!

So... hate to "burst your bubble" on that note, but... there 'tis!

(And, where does a HUGE portion of malware come out of? The Communist block, inclusive of .ru, .su, & .cn domains as just SOME 'examples thereof'... I know this, 1st hand, from populating a custom HOSTS file vs. known malicious sites/servers/domains-hosts for 17++ yrs. now...)

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"As long as Windows supports AutoRun in any form." - by dgatwood (11270) on Monday February 28, @12:30PM (#35339432)

This is & WAS very EASILY DISABLED, either via a powertoy from MS called "TweakUI", or via manual registry hacking... for a decade++ or more now in fact!

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MS has issued patches for that too, as far back as Feb. 2009, AND also, so you know, recently, as well:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/967940.mspx

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( So, SO MUCH FOR THAT from you, eh? )

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"it will continue to be so far behind Mac OS X that it isn't really even in the race just from that one fundamental design flaw alone.." - by dgatwood (11270) on Monday February 28, @12:30PM (#35339432)

Windows is "behind" alright... less known security vulnerabilities... so, I agree on THAT note, lol!

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"This means that the number of known unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows should inherently be smaller" - by dgatwood (11270) on Monday February 28, @12:30PM (#35339432)

It is, and I put up data showing that VERY thing, no less, AND, from a reputable + respected source for said data, in SECUNIA.COM!

APK

P.S.=> There is only 1 place MacOS X is superior to Windows... GETTING ITS ASS KICKED:

Because:

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1.) MacOS Xt certainly hasn't taken the "lion's share" (pun intended) of market here

2.) NOR is MacOS X giving a better showing than Windows on KNOWN security vulnerabilities unpatched either...

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Period! apk

Maybe ants play netwalk?

Infected Laptop Leads to Data Breach at Pentagon Federal Credit Union, SoftPedia, January 6 2011

Notification to the NH Attorney General's Office, December 30, 2010.

There may be even earlier public reports.

This is not news to affected PFCU members either. I was notified that my data might have been compromised and issued a new credit card and offered free monitoring services weeks ago.

As a member-owned credit union PFCU is accountable to its members. They, or should I say as a proud member, we, take our responsibilities to our fellow members very seriously.