The big data center being built in Utah might provide an answer to the question of which data are being stored.

How many acres of hard drives would it take to store everyone's cellphone conversations?

MicroBlaze doesn't provide anywhere near the CPU processing power that a Raspberry Pi provides. This project looks like a fine way to get some hardware acceleration on the standard open hacker computer platforms. You know, with Linux!

I had been using the same Microsoft mouse for 5 years, then it developed an inability to right-click. I had used it so much that the pebble texture was completely worn off of the case where my fingers held it.

Fifteen years ago, when mice were expensive, I would have replaced the micro switch. Not any more. Sanitary landfill!

Yes, they were atrocious. I often found myself cleaning *other peoples' mice* just to be able to use them. Ewww!!

The historical fact that 20% per year die shrinkage was possible for 50 years running, just means that atoms are a lot smaller than the first IC features.

It was good while it lasted.

The telephone itself uses hardly any power these days. It's the Tetris and YouTube that eats up the juice.

Phones are about $100 worth of parts and the amortization of $50 billion of engineering.

My name is Scott Adams. You didn't kill my father. Prepare to die.

Those flat board feet are no match for the terrain. A few metatarsals would go a long ways toward stabilizing its stance on uneven surfaces.

I lived with a few robots built by the high school robotics team that my wife started, but we eventually found community hackerspaces to meet in, so we no longer have robots.
They did things such as throw Frisbees (FRC4183) and pick up bean bags (Vex 5485).

Today's Facebook echo chamber was echoing a lot of Lou Reed songs. That was all the news that mattered today.

Is there a very, very good reason for you to spend so much of your waking life driving instead of looking for a house a bit closer to your place of work, or a place of work closer to your house?

Says the guy who lives a mile from one job, and whose other job is located in his guest house.

Rather than that, I use the name of the restaurant across the alley. I hope that it causes many of their customers to ask their waitress for the password.

Once the patches stop and they all get infected, they'll be so busy sending junk to each other that they won't have time to compute anything.

That's not much data by radio astronomy standards. The typical millimeter-wave VLBI experiment records data about 10 times that fast in aggregate, onto hard disk drives that are shipped to a central correlator facility.