Slashdot Mirror
Samsung's Linux-based Diskless Camcorder
An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices has a story about the Samsung Miniket, a digital camcorder the size of a pack of cards that also works as a portable MP3 player, webcam, voice recorder, storage device, and more. The Miniket (annoying Flash and sound) will be available in February or March in the US, for $600-$700, with a rugged 'sports' model to follow. The device runs Linux, boots in under a second, and is the first of several products from Samsung that will run a new variation of Linux called 'ARM-no-MMU.' LinuxDevices also has a whitepaper about Samsung research that shows the new Linux variant to be faster than normal Linux."
There have been about 1,500 US soldiers killed and about 10,000 injured in Iraq. Presumably the US killed the enemy at a higher ratio than 2-1. Don't know what the ratio is, but the better you think our troops are, the more interesting it gets. If it's 2-1 (unlikely) then that's 4,500 killed and about 30,000 injured.
But wait, what about civilians? No good figures here (I have however, seen a lot of really shitty estimates that have every flu victim in the war zone counted as a KIA for Bush) but the figure would just about have to be at least 1 to 1 for US soldier's dead. No, I don't have anything to back that up, but I seriously doubt anyone really believes less than that got killed.
Ok, tally it all up and we have about 6,000 dead and about 40,000 wounded in a VERY concervative, no facts estimate.
That's a whole lot less than 100,000. But who cares? It's a shitload of people who've had their lives seriously affected or cut short by the war.
So my question for you is this: Even if 100,000 dead is a pure fantasy number, are you comfortable with 6,000 dead and 40,000 injured? If you are comfortale with those numbers, at what point do you start feeling uncomfortable?
TW