Credit Card sized 5GB HD to arrive late this year

An anonymous reader writes "PC World reports in this article: "The card actually has moveable parts inside its thin shell," says Bill Heil, vice president of StorCard. A spinning wheel made of Mylar is engaged when the card is inserted into a StorReader, a USB-connected drive or PC Card that reads and writes to the StorCard. The reader is expected to retail for under $100 and the cards for under $15 each, Heil says. The StorCard and StorReader are scheduled to become available in the second half of 2003."

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Credit Card sized 5GB HD to become late this year

[glrotate]

Rather odd grammatical construction, no?

Re:Credit Card sized 5GB HD to become late this ye

[gimpboy]

hell i thought the hd was trying to become pregnant. perhaps it was having fertiltiy problems, but i personally think 5gb is too young for a hd to have children.

Re:Cool but Scary

[C0LDFusion]

This is once again why Europeans shouldn't get involved in privacy issues in the US. Of course you have a "national ID", because your countries might have counties or provinces, but when you go to any other country in Europe, and they ask where you are from, you'll probably say you're from whatever country from which you hail.

On the other hand, if I travel to Canada from the US, and someone asks where I from, I tell them which state I am from.

Why is this? Because people from the US, for the most part, identify their origin by their state. It's something steeped in American tradition from when we were under the Articles of Confederation and had an extremely weak federal government uniting the otherwise independent states.

Now, why is this important for the sake of the "National ID card" debate? Because, most of us, because we identify ourselves by states, fear even further encroachment of the federal government on what is currently the responsibility of the state.

I know, it's hard to understand, but since we have a large country, we generally don't feel the need of an excessively large bureaucratic federal government in charge of all aspects of our lives, and in the case of smaller states, totally unresponsive to their needs.