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Comment Re:Massive exaggeration (Score 1) 245

by kainino (#30378568) Attached to: Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08
This is all kind of silly. You could see it as an exaggeration or a gross understatement. You could fit your results to your ulterior motives. If you recorded all of the input to your eyes, ears, touch, pain, temperature, taste, smell, etc in full detail 24 hours per day, that would probably be measured in petabytes. If you're at a real theater instead of a cinema, that doesn't mean that you're not taking in an equal amount of information via your senses.
Science

Submission + - SPAM: Thermonuclear reactor to use coconut shells

Submitted by destinyland
destinyland writes: A key component of a $10 billion nuclear fusion plant is vintage 2002 Indonesian coconut-shell charcoal.
After a 20-year search, German researchers discovered that the coconut-shell charcoal is the best medium
for "adsorbing" waste byproducts sucked out of the thermonuclear reaction's vaccuum chamber. In what will be the first fusion power facility that's commercially viable, magnetic fields will heat hydrogen isotypes to over 150 million degrees Centrigrade. (Essentially, the super-hot plasma creates artificial stars.) As this article points out, "It's not quite a Starship warp drive, but it does harness the power of the sun."
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Submission + - Adcaster - Video CV (adcaster.co.uk)

Submitted by alliestevens1017
alliestevens1017 writes: Adcaster is a revolutionary new website that lets users upload a video resume and send it to different employers and recruitment agencies, for free!. Adcaster also provides CV management software for recruitment agencies allowing them to upload video CV's, promoting their candidates and also advertising their clients' vacancies for free.
Media

Submission + - Archos 5 Internet tablet with Android (160GB) (reviewsbuzz.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Archos 5 Internet tablet with Android (160GB) is truly good news, for the music freaks who were curious to get a media player with bigger storage capacity. Archos has done a great job, a media player on the one hand, and a web browser, with a greater memory like 160GB, on the other.
Microsoft

Submission + - Windows 7 Upgrade Causing 'Endless Boot Loop' (bnet.com) 1

Submitted by
Michael_Curator
Michael_Curator writes: "Those screams you’re hearing are from Microsoft users trying, and mostly failing, to upgrade to Windows 7. Worse, there are currently hundreds of posts on the Microsoft Windows 7 forum from frustrated users stuck in an “endless boot loop.” Equally frustrated Microsoft support personnel are trying to guide customers through an upgrade process that isn’t going smoothly to say the least. Ryan Thieman, a Microsoft Answers support engineer, told one user, “I am going to recommend we do a blanket upgrade of your systems drivers, particularly your chipset drivers.”"
Privacy

Skype Trojan Can Log VoIP Conversations 151

Posted by timothy from the sans-malice-would-be-a-useful-thing dept.
Slatterz writes "Security giant Symantec claims to have found the public release of source code for a Trojan that targets Skype users. Trojan.Peskyspy is spyware which records a voice call and stores it as an MP3 file for later transmission. An infected machine will use the software that handles audio processing within a computer and save the call data as an MP3. The file is then sent over the internet to a predefined server where the attacker can listen to the recorded conversations."

Comment My feeds (Score 1) 243

by kainino (#23889893) Attached to: What RSS Feeds Do You Use?

In order of interestingness:

I just put all those in the toolbar in Firefox and click one and run the mouse over them to look for new ones.

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