Hmmm... Someone is fearing that dangerous, evil, Bin Laden-linked terrorists are out there in space and can use SETI@Home to attack planet earth. Well, I'll shut down my mobile, my wi-fi antenna, my AM radio and I will also stop hearing at what other "poeple" say... just in case E.T. is using sound waves to invade my brain.
Yes, it plays MP3. Yes, it plays OGG. Yes, it's "only" USB 1.1. For Linux support, it works like any other (USB) memory stick. I bought one for my brother. This device works fine except for the earphone jack that is becoming lose.
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Hmmm ... Someone is fearing that dangerous, evil, Bin Laden-linked terrorists are out there in space and can use SETI@Home to attack planet earth. Well, I'll shut down my mobile, my wi-fi antenna, my AM radio and I will also stop hearing at what other "poeple" say ... just in case E.T. is using sound waves to invade my brain.
Yes, it's an ism IOPS 256 Mb that you can buy elsewhere in Europe like digimania.be (http://www.digimania.be/en/prod_pix.asp?ProductID =463).
Yes, it plays MP3. Yes, it plays OGG. Yes, it's "only" USB 1.1. For Linux support, it works like any other (USB) memory stick. I bought one for my brother. This device works fine except for the earphone jack that is becoming lose.
All these stories are based on an article published in Nature 427, 352 - 355 (http://www.nature.com).
A direct link to the abstract (summary) and, if you can, the full-text article
A comment on this article (in the same issue of Nature).
And the table of content of this Nature issue is here.