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NAND Flash is what's making this possible. It's denser and faster than NOR Flash.

If you haven't heard of MRAM, that's definitely another technology to be on the lookout for. According to IBM and Infineon Technologies, it's supposed to start shipping this year.

Basically, it has the density of DRAM, 15ns access time, and doesn't loses it's state even when powered down.

Google turns up some articles: here, here, and here.

I believe you are confusing the Nyquist Theorem with Shannon's Law.

Shannon's Law states the maximum error free digital bandwidth b bits/s of an a slice of spectrum c Hz wide is:

b = c.log2(1+s)

Where s is the signal-to-noise ratio. Thus, in this case, where b=300000000 and c=100000000 s = 7, or 8.5dB, not an unrealistic expectation.

Of course, no current form of error correction coding approaches the ideal Shannon's Law, however reasonably recently developed Turbo Codes have come reasonably close.

The sort of modulation/multiplexing technique they would be using is a Wideband CDMA technique, similar to that used by UMTS and CDMA2000 wideband technologies.

Putting it simply, the bits are mapped onto a constellation in the complex plane which rotates and changes the amplitude of the carrier. The signal is spread using 2 codes - an Orthogonal code which has poor autocorrelation properties (but ideal cross-correlation properties across codes - hence the orthogonal term), and finally a PN sequence which has excellent autocorrelation properties.

I'm not too familiar with this technology, but I can make some guesses how they might have gained speed improvements over UMTS would be:

- Very wideband - 100MHz vs 5MHz
- More precise QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) - UMTS allows upto QPSK (2 bits per symbol) or QAM-16 (4 bits per symbol). Perhaps this technology has extended this QAM-64 (6 bits per symbol).

Since you already have connectivity to work, and they appear to be progressive enough, why don't you have them setup a SIP Proxy to their phone system and use a phone (Cisco or Polycom) or software (kphone) that supports SIP?

Not sure about Europe, but Japan has the Personal Handyphone System, which is like you describe.

ILEC's are telephone companies that were in service when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted, of which there were more than 100... Link

It is quite true, however, that if you are getting phonelines to your house, you are going to be using an ILEC who provides the copper pair... of course, I have digital phone service along with cable tv and cablemodem, so it's all going thru the nice, fat cable pipeline...

Ada is credited with being the first programmer

Wow! Great.
So now we have *yet another way* to spy/be spied upon!
Van Ech Phreaking (original paper, SW source for Echbox, simplified description ) is bad enough, now we have to watch for shotgun mikes!

Hook this up with Wardriving and Let The Games Begin.

Although, apparently, this has a *LONG* way to go before a full password capture is feasible using the technique.

(By the way there is a wireless security presentation here that is quite good (had info on some stuff I hadn't heard about. For example Warchalking)

The Definition says:

A cuckoo egg is an MP3 file that typically contains 30 seconds of the original song with the remainder of the song overwritten with cuckoo clock noises, white noise, and/or voice messages such as, "Congratulations, you must've goofed up somewhere." Ideally, a cuckoo egg should have the same playing length as the music it pretends to be. The purpose of cuckoo eggs is to deter the downloading and sharing of MP3 files using Napster and similar approaches.

Typically, a Napster user downloads an MP3 file and sometimes share it with others before listening to it. Recognizing this, a cuckoo egg creator creates the cuckoo egg to look exactly like a real MP3 file. The user then unknowingly shares the cuckoo egg with other unsuspecting users spreading the cuckoo egg like a virus. Unlike a virus, cuckoo eggs do not damage computers, but simply annoy and waste the time of those who download the files.

The Cuckoo Egg Project began with Michael and Stephanie Fix. Stephanie Fix is a musician who is concerned about the illegal availability of copyrighted music through Napster. The concept centers on the idea of how a real cuckoo bird lays its eggs in another bird's nest. To the Fixes, the Napster system is like a huge nest of MP3 files, a perfect environment in which to lay cuckoo eggs

The first cuckoo egg was laid on June 10, 2000. Since then, Napster users have posted hundreds of angry messages at the Cuckoo Egg Project's Web site. Whether it's deterring them from downloading other songs has not been determined.

First spotted in June 10, 2000, so the patent is a false or fradulant one.

Ever since the first networks, the "holy grail" of networking computing has been to provide a programming interface in which you can access remote resources the same way as you access local resources. The network becomes "transparent".

One example of network transparency is the famous RPC (remote procedure call), a system designed so that you can call procedures (subroutines) running on another computer on the network exactly as if they were running on the local computer. An awful lot of energy went into this. Another example, built on top of RPC, is Microsoft's Distributed COM (DCOM), in which you can access objects running on another computer as if they were on the current computer.

Sounds logical, right?

Wrong.

There are three very major differences between accessing resources on another machine and accessing resources on the local machine:

1. Availability,
2. Latency, and
3. Reliability.

When you access another machine, there's a good chance that machine will not be available, or the network won't be available. And the speed of the network means that it's likely that the request will take a while: you might be running over a modem at 28.8kbps. Or the other machine might crash, or the network connection might go away while you are talking to the other machine (when the cat trips over the phone cord).

Any reliable software that uses the network absolutely must take this into account. Using programming interfaces that hide all this stuff from you is a great way to make a lousy software program.

A quick example: suppose I've got some software that needs to copy a file from one computer to another. On the Windows platform, the old "transparent" way to do this is to call the usual CopyFile method, using UNC names for the files such as \\SERVER\SHARE\Filename.

If all is well with the network, this works nicely. But if the file is a megabyte long, and the network is being accessed over a modem, all kinds of things go wrong. The entire application freezes while a megabyte file is transferred. There is no way to make a progress indicator, because when CopyFile was invented, it was assumed that it would always be "fast". There is no way to resume the transfer if the phone connection is lost.

Realistically, if you want to transfer a file over a network, it's better to use an API like FtpOpenFile and its related functions. No, it's not the same as copying a file locally, and it's harder to use, but this function was built with the knowledge that network programming is different than local programming, and it provides hooks to make a progress indicator, to fail gracefully if the network is unavailable or becomes unavailable, and to operate asynchronously.

Conclusion: the next time someone tries to sell you a programming product that lets you access network resources the same was as you access local resources, run full speed in the opposite direction.

"There will be a transition back to Solaris," he said

The "fad will wear off, and big business will come back to slowaris".

I think the parent poster was referring to www.di.fm, not FM radio. RDS only applies to over-the-air FM radio broadcasts.

For DI.FM's MP# streams, it would be ID3.

Remember when Reasoning, Inc audited the code? They found that it had 0.09 errors per 1,000 lines of code while proprietary competitors had 0.56 errors per 1,000 lines. That's more than 6 times as many errors in the proprietary databases. http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/origin alContent/0,289142,sid39_gci941817,00.html

Quality product. That is why it is popular. Perhaps you should research your argument before posting a flame next time.

The Zoetrope predates this example of moving pictures by quite a bit. It is an animation device invented in 1834 by William George Horner. Maybe you've seen one before: a cylinder with pictures inside and slits that you look through as you spin it.

Schwartz, however, sees the fad of Linux wearing off in big businesses.

"There will be a transition back to Solaris," he said

Extinction is a natural result of evolution. Companies go extinct when they are unable to adapt to changes in the business environment or compete effectively with other companies.

1000base-T used all four wire pairs, yes, but it was extremely limited in length. (10m, IIRC). 1000Base-TX goes the full 100m, uses all four wire pairs, and is full duplex on all wires simeltaneously.

Source, please?

1000base-T does go 100 meters.

Okay, I checked and found that 1000base-TX does exist and is TIA-EIA-854 (1000base-T is IEEE 802.3ab), indeed uses all 4 pairs of wires, but each pair is half-duplex. In addition, CAT6 cable is required for the additional (analog) bandwidth.

And the devices on the market are still 1000base-T. See for example Intel and Cisco: both say 1000base-T and 802.3ab, both go 100m at gigabit speed, and 1000base-TX is nowhere in sight.

Considering that 1000base-T & 1000base-TX are incompatible, and devices would not sell if they don't work with Intel and Cisco, I'd say 99% or more of current gigabit stuff on the market are 1000base-T, not TX.

This claims that as of the end of 2002, 15% of the mainframes IBM was selling would be running Linux.

Has that number dropped off?

Look at it as a certification process. Each project tasked with protecting data on a computer (networked or not) has a security posture and a security officer responsible for ensuring that the declared posture is enforced.

This is what a bunch of people at /. fear: they expect the government to try and make it all completely secure and fail, but rather what they fail to see that government will only quantify and validate the level at which an information system is protected. This means it's not a black and white world, but rather the level of protection is paired against the threat of compromise.

A bunch of you also think this has only to do with preventing a network-based attack. And while that is in play, don't forget corporate espionage. That foreign temp worker your boss hired could be walking out with all the spreadsheets the accounting department values. This problem, by the way, is addressed in trusted operating systems such as talked about in this article asking about Trusted Linux vs. Trusted Irix or Trusted Solaris.

DCID 6/3 works both sides of that problem and quantifies for management what kind of protection their dollars have bought them.

Schwartz, however, sees the fad of Linux wearing off in big businesses.

"There will be a transition back to Solaris," he said

Schwartz, however, sees the fad of Linux wearing off in big businesses.

"There will be a transition back to Solaris," he said

Please use a proper link. But, good observation and the grandparent will be modded accordingly.

The parent poster, Chuck Bucket, is a plagiarism troll. This post was taken from this site. Mods, please check the post text on Google before you mod it.

So, from where I am viewing the market from the perspective of an end user, Apple's market position is looking pretty good to me.

Yeah, real good.

And what about all those announcements?

Microsoft asks Mac users, "How can we get your business?'

Merrill Lynch, whose technology group recently began coverage of Apple, noted in a research note last week that "open source and Mac adoption is still in infancy in the enterprise market." However, "we should see explosive growth in the years to come as corporations look to achieve cost savings within their IT departments."

Using IDC's own estimate for G5/OSX server shipments through 2007, as well as its internal data on OSX operating system attach rates and server pricing, Merrill reckons that the enterprise G5 market could be worth $529 million by 2007. "This represents a [compound annual growth rate] of 61 percent over the 5-year period from 2002-2007," the note said.

Japanese telco to aid Mac phone development

Mac, G5 systems move out enterprise's mainframe

New G5 chips, but no 64-bit OS X
for at least two years (too late).

"We're saying that OSX/G5s will eat Unix," Gantz said

Is Computer Associates contemplating dumping Windows?

If you have been following Microsoft attempts to hold onto counties, cities, states, governmental bodies, governments, corporations and people, you know the headlines have gone from talk to action.

The governments that are starting to move over tend to be mostly poorer countries, or ones with large, largely computer-free populaces. Brazil and China are good examples of this trend. In those places, OSX/G5 adoption has been picking up steam to the point that if a second world country told MS to take a hike, it would hardly rate a Slashdot story on a slow day.

THE NATIONAL HEALTH Service is considering using the OSX operating system; G5s in a 2.3 billion deal that could affect as many as 800,000 PCs if a pilot is successful.

Nine German cities poised to adopt OSX/G5

Official: China to invest in OSX/G5-based software industry

The US Army has abandoned Windows and chosen OSX for a key component of its "Land Warrior" programme, according to a report in National Defense Magazine. The move, initially covering a personal computing and communications device termed the Commander's Digital Assistant (CDA), follows the failure of the previous attempt at such a device in trials in February of this year, and is part of a move to make the device simpler and less breakable.

According to program manager Lt Col Dave Gallop this is part of a broader move towards OSX/G5 by the US Army: "Evidence shows that OSX is more stable. We are moving in general to where the Army is going, to OSX/G5-based OS."

Sun Microsystems is the odd man out. It has an impressive array of powerful enemies: IBM, Microsoft, Intel, HP, Red Hat, Apple, Novell, and more. It has only a weakened Oracle as a friend, and Oracle too has made a "bet the company" move to OSX/G5. OSX/G5 threatens many of Sun's traditional products as sharply as it threatens

Put a nonce in the URL of each page you view, like:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?nonce=deadbeef

1. Verify that the nonce in the HTTP_REFERER is valid, then delete it from the "current session" database.
2. Generate a new nonce and append it to the end of every internal link rendered in the new page.

Your idea is simple, elegant, and trivially easy to defeat by any webmaster who really doesn't want you deep linking into their site. Is that a stupid thing for them to do? Yes. Will that stop a gang of dedicated idiots? No way.

So, from where I am viewing the market from the perspective of an end user, Apple's market position is looking pretty good to me.

Yeah, real good.

And what about all those announcements?

Microsoft asks Mac users, "How can we get your business?'

Merrill Lynch, whose technology group recently began coverage of Apple, noted in a research note last week that "open source and Mac adoption is still in infancy in the enterprise market." However, "we should see explosive growth in the years to come as corporations look to achieve cost savings within their IT departments."

Using IDC's own estimate for G5/OSX server shipments through 2007, as well as its internal data on OSX operating system attach rates and server pricing, Merrill reckons that the enterprise G5 market could be worth $529 million by 2007. "This represents a [compound annual growth rate] of 61 percent over the 5-year period from 2002-2007," the note said.

Japanese telco to aid Mac phone development

Mac, G5 systems move out enterprise's mainframe

New G5 chips, but no 64-bit OS X for at least two years (too late).

"We're saying that OSX/G5s will eat Unix," Gantz said

Is Computer Associates contemplating dumping Windows?

If you have been following Microsoft attempts to hold onto counties, cities, states, governmental bodies, governments, corporations and people, you know the headlines have gone from talk to action.

The governments that are starting to move over tend to be mostly poorer countries, or ones with large, largely computer-free populaces. Brazil and China are good examples of this trend. In those places, OSX/G5 adoption has been picking up steam to the point that if a second world country told MS to take a hike, it would hardly rate a Slashdot story on a slow day.

THE NATIONAL HEALTH Service is considering using the OSX operating system; G5s in a 2.3 billion deal that could affect as many as 800,000 PCs if a pilot is successful.

Nine German cities poised to adopt OSX/G5

Official: China to invest in OSX/G5-based software industry

The US Army has abandoned Windows and chosen OSX for a key component of its "Land Warrior" programme, according to a report in National Defense Magazine. The move, initially covering a personal computing and communications device termed the Commander's Digital Assistant (CDA), follows the failure of the previous attempt at such a device in trials in February of this year, and is part of a move to make the device simpler and less breakable.

According to program manager Lt Col Dave Gallop this is part of a broader move towards OSX/G5 by the US Army: "Evidence shows that OSX is more stable. We are moving in general to where the Army is going, to OSX/G5-based OS."

Sun Microsystems is the odd man out. It has an impressive array of powerful enemies: IBM, Microsoft, Intel, HP, Red Hat, Apple, Novell, and more. It has only a weakened Oracle as a friend, and Oracle too has made a "bet the company" move to OSX/G5. OSX/G5 threatens many of Sun's traditional products as sharply as it threatens Micr

Taken from whatis.com.

Hashing is the transformation of a string of characters into a usually shorter fixed-length value or key that represents the original string.
The hash function is used to index the original value or key and then used later each time the data associated with the value or key is to be retrieved. Thus, hashing is always a one-way operation. There's no need to "reverse engineer" the hash function by analyzing the hashed values. In fact, the ideal hash function can't be derived by such analysis.

It's satisfying, isn't it, to watch these hapless politicians snared by metadata.

But take a moment to remember what metadata is for. What it represents.

The Soviets, I'm told, used to put serial numbers on xerox machines (and think about the fact that we are now planning on putting them on CPUs - but I digress). In a totalitarian society, information technology is a dangerous weapon.

Metadata, while it has many prosaic uses, is the tip of the surveillance iceberg in Microsoft's Office suite. In addition to parroting whatever you typed when you installed Office or changed Word's preferences, documents are tagged with GUIDs designed to uniquely identify your computer.

All of these features would never see the light of day in any office software I had anything to do with. Because, despite whatever benefits they may have, they are Soviet. They violate our privacy. They are part of an expanding constellation of invasive technologies that are rapidly eroding our very expectation of privacy - and, while not many know it yet, you don't want to live in a world without privacy.

We have only one consolation prize for what seems like the public's powerful apathy when it comes to their privacy. It exposed the pathetic government functionary, Bill Lockyer, for the weasel that he is - and there have been other, humorously similar revelations.

Here is the silver lining of the surveillance society. The hope, or perhaps the dream, that we can at least surveil those in power.

There are, of course, times where national security or respect for its citizens will require that our elected leaders keep secrets. But those times are far, and few between, in the whole scope of the government's business. And there are even ways to put checks and balances on the decisions about what should be secret and what shouldn't.

If you think about it, a real Democracy practically requires it. The Big Brother Show should be in Washington - and our politicians, and their pet bureaucrats, should be the stars. They shouldn't have a moment off camera. It's the public life, after all.

Like BogoMIPS?

Plus, even when MS is informed about a security hole, their arrogance prevents them from allowing that the hole is worse than the want to believe. Here's an example from 2004-03-09 where they say the hole is not critical.

But then MS admits that the hole actually is critcal.

Of course, they attempt to spin it:
"This change is based on information concerning a new attack scenario discovered after the bulletin's original release on 9 March," said the company in a statement.

Another link.

Initially, Microsoft said the flaw could only be exploited if the Outlook Today folder is being used as the homepage. Few people do that; generally, the Outlook Today folder is the default homepage only if no e-mail accounts exist. When an e-mail account is set up, the homepage changes to the inbox. But, as it turns out, the vulnerability can be exploited even if Outlook Today isn't the homepage. To exploit the flaw, an attacker would need to send two specially crafted mailto URLs. The first would start Outlook and open the Outlook Today page, and the second would inject the exploit code. The exploit code needs to be injected into vulnerable systems either by a malicious Web site set up by the attacker or via an HTML e-mail.

So, was MS warned or not?

From this article, it could be that they didn't listen in the first place to those whom discovered the hole:

But the bloke who discovered the vulnerability, Finnish security researcher Jouko Pynnonen, got back in touch and told them hackers could attack vulnerable Outlook installations even if Outlook Today isn't the default home page.

But in this case, Forbes published the correct and balanced information and it is Slashdot that grossly mischaracterized the events to the detriment of Linux.

This was not a balanced or fair or accurate article. Here is my paragraph by paragraph analysis why. You should be ashamed to support this kind of yellow journalism. It is pathetic by any standard.

Quotes from article: Computer Associates International Inc. (nyse: CA - news - people) said on Monday it has licensed the freely available Linux operating system software from SCO -- a move that could become key legal ammunition for the SCO Group Inc.

Comment: Seems incorrect to me right off the bat. CA denied buying an IP license from SCO, much less a license for 'Linux'.

Quotes from article:SCO Group, which claims ownership over parts of Linux, is suing distributors and users of the software system in what has become a highly contentious legal battle among technology makers, and technology lawyers said each licensee SCO signs helps bolster its case.

Comment: what technology lawyers? Where are these mythical creatures? Are they the SCO laywers or the M$ lawyers. It doesn't sound like Eben Moglen said this?

Quotes from article:One of the world's largest software sellers, Computer Associates has championed an industry coalition supporting the open and free use of Linux.

Comment: I am not sure 'champion' is a proper discription of CA, it inflates CA's contribution. I don't see how they are in any way at the core of what is going on with Linux at the same level as say a Redhat.

Quotes from article:While Computer Associates confirmed it agreed to license the software last August, it took pains on Monday to distance itself from SCO, saying it had signed the licenses as part of a confidential legal settlement with a third party.

Comment: The software in question was Unixware, not Linux, that was licensed. This 2 second Google search turned up these stories which directly refutes the Forbes/Reuters story, take a look here. and here

Quotes from article:"(SCO) is grasping at straws to purport CA as a SCO supporter," Computer Associates said in a statement. "CA stands in stark disagreement with SCO's tactics, which are intended to intimidate and threaten customers."

Comment: A partial quote which fails to show the full CA position which is much more broadly a denial of SCO's claim.

Quotes from article:SCO has used the courts aggressively to assert ownership positions in Linux as well as software called Unix, whose code, SCO maintains, was utilized in the making of Linux.

Comment: SCO has not claimed to own any Linux code. They are in a contract dispute with IBM. The other lawsuits are with former SCO customers and virtually nothing is known about the substance of those charges.

Quotes from article:The SCO Group last week expanded its legal battle over Linux by suing AutoZone Inc. and DaimlerChrysler AG

Comment: SCO has certainly stepped up their legal attacks.

Quotes from article:Intellectual property, or IP, experts said CA's license could help convince a jury that SCO has a justified claim on Linux.

Comment: What intelectual property lawyer says that? Does he have a name? David Bois pwerhaps? Or is the aurthor of the article an expert on this?

Quotes from article:"Generally, if an IP holder is able to demonstrate that others in the industry have taken a license, thereby respecting the IP holder's claims, that can be used as evidence that is persuasive to a jury," said Brian Ferguson, a partner in a Washington, D.C. law firm that handles IP cases. Ferguson has no stake in the SCO case.

Comment: Who is Brian Fergeson? WTF? That is a 2 bit quo

A quick search on the "internet" provides several options.

Don't believe me? Don't take my word for it.

I think academic CS is majorly wrong in this regard. "System administration" is the residual work that is left over after you have abstracted all the easy stuff. Lather, rinse, repeat for 40 years, and system administration of very large & complex systems is highly distilled complexity and difficulty. Small wonder that senior system administrators are grand wizards of black magic within their field. I have published at LISA, twice. I get little credit for it, except among system administrators.

Crispin

But these security exposures have all been in an environment where Linux source was generally available for inspection, and Windows source wasn't. A corollary of this is that most of the Linux exposures have been proactively reported, prior to being exploited. With Windows that's not so clear.

If this is the way that Open Source treats its friends

Schwartz, however, sees the fad of Linux wearing off in big businesses.

"There will be a transition back to Solaris," he said

The three well-known tones have the frequencies 985.2 Hz, 1370.6 Hz, and 1776.7 Hz.

"There will be a transition back to Solaris," he said

The "fad will wear off, and big business will come back to solaris".

Schwartz, however, sees the fad of Linux wearing off in big businesses.

"There will be a transition back to Solaris," he said

It's now all over online news..

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/12/HNmicrol eak_1.html
http://www.ebcvg.com/news.php?id=1903
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1076628412.html
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3 312451
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/business/79 41292.htm
http://www.wvec.com/sharedcontent/nationworld/nati onprint/021204cccanatmicrosoft.149f2b31.html
http://www.komotv.com/stories/29778.htm
http://www.cryptonomicon.net/modules.php?name=News &file=article&sid=671
http://www.dvhardware.net/article2423.html
http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/originalConten t/0,289142,sid1_gci950346,00.html

The reason the printing companies are doing this is because they want to avoid liability similar to dram shop laws -- the laws that say the bar is responsible for you getting drunk, driving home, and plowing into a minivan full of good Christian children on their way to band camp.

If the printing companies continued to make better and better equipment without building in protections against counterfeiting, the government would eventually step in and force them to -- and most likely in a way that would be dramatic and expensive to implement.

The big problem is that counterfeiting is going from being a big-time operation to small-time. Teenagers on up now have the ability to print bills good enough to fool the Quick Stop clerk. These clerks, who cannot be bothered to run a counterfeit detection pen over the bill or even hold it up to the light to look for a watermark, don't give a rats ass about whether or not the bills they accept are real or not.

But Johnny Freeloader, he can go out, get some high-quality parchment paper, print out a load of $20s, throw them in the dryer, and by stopping at various gas stations to puchase bubble-gum can amass several hundred dollars in small bills with little more than a cheap Lexmark, a pack of paper, and a few skipped classes.

This is why there's a sudden interest in counterfeit prevention. Not to stop the drug runners from mass-producing the bills, but to stop your kids from doing it.

At least that's what the DOCSIS spec supports. I don't know the upper bandwidth of coax, but I'd imagine it's pretty high - 200+ channels of digital video and music is no mean feat.

Their insistence on control has left them in an increasingly isolated position." "Without IBM, Sun could never have built the success Java has enjoyed. Without Sun, however, the IBM-led Eclipse group has been making great strides.

The new Sun is smarter than that. You can trust them

"There will be a transition back to Solaris," he said

The "fad will wear off, and big business will come back to solaris".

Thanks to the definitions page:

A petabyte is a measure of memory or storage capacity and is 2 to the 50th power bytes or, in decimal, approximately a thousand terabytes.

A terabyte is a measure of computer storage capacity and is 2 to the 40th power or approximately a thousand billion bytes (that is, a thousand gigabytes).

A gigabyte is a measure of computer data storage capacity and is "roughly" a billion bytes. A gigabyte is two to the 30th power, or 1,073,741,824 in decimal notation.

What's bigger?

An exabyte (EB) is a large unit of computer data storage, two to the sixtieth power bytes. The prefix exa means one billion billion, or one quintillion, which is a decimal term. Two to the sixtieth power is actually 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes in decimal, or somewhat over a quintillion (or ten to the eighteenth power) bytes. It is common to say that an exabyte is approximately one quintillion bytes. In decimal terms, an exabyte is a billion gigabytes.

Who is supplying this reward money? It wouldn't surprise me if it was indeed Microsoft. The plot thickens...

You have twice now argued that the logic you describe is the salient argument behind IBM's acquisition of this patent. So where, exactly, can I find someone at IBM to confirm your interpretation? So far IBM's people appear to me to be content with "putting [their] energy" in a court battle "to get this over with".

A really good troll makes every word in his sentence a link so that his point seems valid.

You don't even have to visit the sites, just google something like "linux vs windows", grab relevent links and include then in your post. No one will read them anyways, and believe you because you provided plenty of background Info and reputable sources (computing.net included!). They will have to believe your Pro-Windows rant.

Linux isn't a Toy OS. it's used by google. Who provided you this Informative post :)

It shouldn't. It should make you understand just how incredibly tightly reguated the nuclear industry is, especially compared to other industries. Which is just fine - I wish that some of the independent power generators in Ohio had been required to disclose how little reactive power (used to keep transmission grids stable ) they were generating on the day of the recent blackout (that would likely have allowed operators to avoid the blackout, by the way). But that's another story.

Machine's break, people mess up, things get neglected, overlooked and forgotten. [...] We have never suffered the worst case. Chernobyl did not even begin to approach it.

Yes, nuclear reactors are sophisticated and will sooner or later fail at some level. However, I think you overestimate the consequences of a worst-case scenario - while it would be bad, and expensive, it is nowhere near the apocalyptic proportions some people think. First of all, Chernobyl was pretty much the worst-possible event (a large, high-burnup power reactor near a population center suffers a complete containment failure together with a fire that lofts much of the radioactive inventory). It can't get much worse than that, even if somebody nuked a plant directly. And we're still here- it didn't end the world, or even life (or agriculture!) in the Ukraine.

Now for casualties, estimates vary hugely - but the fact of the matter is that the only statistically reliable increase in cancer is in thyroid disease (and that could have been prevented if they had just given people iodine tablets. Stupid fscking Soviet bureaucratic inertia prevented it. Sad.). People have definitely looked for leukemias, birth defects and other cancers, but there have not been verifiable increases in cancer rates. Granted, epidemiological studies are difficult in the area for many reasons, and I would be willing to believe that there have been excess deaths and much suffering and misery. But it is hard to disentangle the effects of Soviet-era environmental destruction, economic collapse, and radiation. The upshot is that the worst-case nuclear accident, while certainly horrible, is not as Biblical as you seem to think. As industrial accidents go, it is certainly up there with Bhopal; but I'm not sure it compares with the yearly death toll from pollution from coal-burning plants.

Fusion is certainly the long-term preferable solution, no contest. But fission is actually a good near-term solution. The biggest problem is the irrational fear even otherwise rational people have of it. That being said, I will say this - nuclear power can be acceptably safe, if it is well-regulated and well-funded. It is however more susceptible to failure if it's put in the hands of irresponsible profiteers. People of the sort that ran Enron into the ground. "Deregulation" IS a problem inasmuch as it lets people like that get their greedly little hands on nuke plants. I think the comparison with the power grid is apt and should serve as a warning. Basically, control was taken from power engineers and given to Wharton MBA's who don't know sh-t about physics. The results were perfectly predictable...

Schwartz, however, sees the fad of Linux wearing off in big businesses.

"There will be a transition back to Solaris," he said

Blu-Ray

and it seems that HP and Dell support Blu-Ray for what its worth

Oh come on. Outsourcing sucks, and it is detrimental to the IT sector, but it's not killing us. The thing is making it so hard to get an IT job is the thousands of people who scratched "refrigeration repair" off of their ITT Tech application and decided to take and "exciting career in information technology." -- The market is flooded with people who don't know anything about the fundamentals of computer science and were there for the gold rush.

I know this for a fact because I did the same thing. I dropped out of college and went right to work. There were two other people in the class I took that were technically competent, all of the others were people who didn't know what they wanted to to, and were looking for a direction. They had seen all of the stories on the news about people in the ".com" industry making lots more money than they did, and decided they wanted some for themselves.

The only thing that really differentiated me was the fact that knew what the class taught going in - I figured I needed a certification to get the first job and I'd be fine after that. The only reason why I am still employed, and happily employed, is that I had a background going in. I started using unix when I was thirteen or so, back in the days before browser, when small furry animals ruled the internet and usenet was still clean.

Fax machines use compression. And compressed 1-bit black-and-white fax images are a lot smaller than colour JPEGs, for the typical fax (which is a page of text).