I'll see your Wikipedia reference and raise you two USPTO patents granted to SONY for this:
Note: according to another of SONY's patents, moth-eye can also be used to record info on optical media:
"Today, there are seven primary methods by which information can be recorded on optical media. All methods heat the recording layer to a certain temperature. The methods are known as ablative, alloying, bubble-forming, moth-eye, phase-change, dye/polymer and magneto-optic which cause or could cause some mechanical deformation of the substrate."
P.S.
Unlike TFA these patents include detailed drawings and SEM photographs.
P.S.S.
I remember when the authors of tech articles did this kind of background research. Sigh.
$666.66 in 1976 had the same buying power as $2,710.75 in 2012.
Now, as then, that'll buy you Apple's latest and greatest computer.
(Actually it's $2,799.00 but still remarkably close given this span of 36 years!)
[Emphasis added]
The restrictions we apply to this sandboxed process come from the Windows OS. Windows Vista and Windows 7 provide the tools necessary to properly sandbox a process. For the Adobe Reader and Acrobat sandbox implementation introduced in 2010, Adobe spent significant engineering effort trying to approximate those same controls on Windows XP. Today, with Windows 8 just around the corner and Windows XP usage rapidly decreasing, it did not make sense for the Flash Player team to make that same engineering investment for Windows XP. Therefore, we've focused on making Protected Mode for Firefox available on Windows Vista and later.
This research has been going on since at least 2003.
(Note: don't bother clicking the URL at the bottom of the page -- it's currently 403. I did send the webmaster an email about it.)
So the submission links to a blog? And no images! Oh, my.
Here is a link to a research paper -- with images! Multiscale photoacoustic microscopy and computed tomography
Heh. Reminds me of a story from the sixties about General Motors. A customer called GM to complain about his car.
The phone operator asked what was wrong and the guy said a mirror was defective.
"Which mirror?" she asked.
"The side mirror" he replied.
"Which side?"
"The passenger side."
"I'll connect you to the Vice President for Passenger Side Mirrors."
Dunno if it's true or not. My grandfather worked in the US auto industry for 30 years and had lots of interesting stories to tell...
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.