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Submission + - Samsung's 64GB SSD drive review (computerworld.com) 4

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Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: "Computerworld's Rich Ericson reviewed Samsung's first large capacity solid state disk drive and says it's heartier and faster than the drive in Sony's new flash-based notebook. It's also got an impressive mean time between failure of more than 2 million hours, versus under 500,000 hours for the Samsung's other traditional hard drives and the company says the drive can withstand an operating shock of 1,500Gs at .5 miliseconds (versus 300Gs at 2 miliseconds for a traditional hard drive. "Power consumption is just 1 watt when the system is active, 0.1 watt when idle, and .06 watt in standby mode. (Equivalent power consumption figures with hard drives are 2.1, 1.5, and .2 watts, respectively.) That could explain why we got 5 hours, 22 minutes of power in Max Battery mode when surfing the Web, creating documents with OpenOffice, or uploading and downloading files to an FTP server.""
Yahoo!

Submission + - Church files order for Yahoo to release identities (ledger-enquirer.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Yahoo and consumer opinion site RateItAll had until Friday to follow an order by a Muscogee County, GA Superior Court judge to disclose the identities of 5 people who emailed and posted anonymously about Cascade Hills Church of Columbus, GA and its pastor Bill Purvis.
Moon

Submission + - News from Space: Isaac Asimov was (almost) right!

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gadget junkie
gadget junkie writes: "Isaac Asimov, in his "Foundation" book series, postulated that Earth was unique in having a satellite one quarter as big as itself. According to this press release from the Spitzer Space Telescope site, he was reasonably close....big moons are hard to find. At least the ones born out of collisions between big objects, like the nascent Earth and something the size of Mars....But be of good cheer, 5% of Billions of planets is still a lot!!!"
Cellphones

Submission + - Not an iPhone clone, Pi is just a better Vision (deeda.com)

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Password: Pencil
Password: Pencil writes: "The iPhone is insanely cool, a lot of fun to play with, and has spawned a fist-full of copycats — yes, we all know this.

But an interesting thing happened when I began to take a second look at deeda Inc.'s Pi. I first heard about this vapor gadget in April. Although it's obvious after re-visiting their new site and doing some digging around that deeda developed their products in 2005 with the help of Alps Electric, Toshiba, Wolfson Microelectronics and others — and deeda Inc. even released their designs on New Years Eve of last year — ahead of Apple

Regardless of these facts, Apple had a real, working device called the iPhone 8 days later — and to this day, deeda has yet to show anything that exists in any of our known dimensions of reality. Pi, it seems, only exists on the far-side of a Calabi-Yau manifold. Being a young company, I can be a little understanding of the delay because it's obvious you can't secure the kind of funding needed to manufacture, test, distribute, service and support devices like these overnight. Even major corporations tend to avoid investing in consumer electronics or wireless handset products for this very reason.

Digging deeper into deeda Inc. there are however 3 things I'm still really intrigued by:

1. I really like their "ecosystem approach" to devices. Web, desktop, and devices working in concert is exactly how it should be. I should be able to update things on my desktop application while offline, and then have my device, social network, and online account automatically update the second I connect back to the internet. Even if I'm just uploading videos and pictures to YouTube or my social net, I would love to have a desktop application that handles this for me instead of being locked into a browser all the time (unable to multi-task because I'm afraid it might be too much for my browser to handle, or that somehow I'm not babysitting my upload processes enough). Lastly, I like watching videos on YouTube with an iPhone, but I'd blow a load if I could watch videos, access pictures, or listen to music off my home computer instead. At the end of the day, accessing YouTube's servers is as arbitrary as accessing your home computer, but right now we're missing the middleware piece to be able to do this.

2. Adding a friend on Facebook is cool — adding my friend's handset is cooler. This is what the retarded creators of the Zune should have thought of (along with fixing 80 other problems). Sharing things while in-person is one thing, but having your devices actually become friends with each other and then seek each other out over IP would be awesome. This second part is what I see as the strongest part of deeda's vision. By seamlessly combining these three parts (web, desktop, and devices) what they've done is create the worlds greatest personal distribution system. In theory, you can now push pictures you take to the web where they are then distributed to your friends desktop application or devices — or any combination between the three.

3. You and I are in charge. This is something idealistic, but I'll still throw it in. I like believing that if this works out, people like me and you will be able to have a say in how things should work across these three ecosystem parts. One of my favorite comments from Engadget and Gizmodo's coverage in April (when they got Dugg and incorrectly branded as Meizu-like copycats) was that they laughed at deeda's emphasis on their "Open Source and Open Platform" approach to device OS. In fact, they have an open platform across all three areas (deeda.com, deeda Desktop, and deeda Devices). Anyway, with Android on the scene, I'm sure nobody's laughing at Google. But deeda isn't Apple and it isn't Google — it's nobody — so once again, deeda gets no points for talking about something ahead of their competition but then not making it real. Yet, Open Platforms are still an integral part to deeda's ecosystem, and their well thought out approach still excites me. We've seen how everyone has jumped on Facebook's F8 Platform — now what if you could allow developers to create and deploy an application across the web, desktop and devices — all at the same time? To me THAT would be huge, and it would be really interesting to see what kinds of things we could all come up with for such a system.

So, am I now the worlds biggest Fanboy for a company without any products? Maybe. I'm sold on their vision anyway — and if they're really serious about listening to people for advice, and preserving an open development platform across all of their products, then I'll even consider donating or actively helping to make some of these parts — At worst, things would just stay as they are — stagnant or "under development" — but in the end, if deeda Inc. can somehow find a way to make all of this actually materialize into the real world, it would be a huge benefit to all of us. It might also be interesting to see what their tie-in with Motorola will do for their future handsets.

So to sum it all up:

deeda Inc. — So far a shitty execution, likely due to anemic funding — but still a better vision worth supporting."
Social Networks

Submission + - Adult MySpace User Drives Teen To Suicide (stltoday.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: A young girl from Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, met who she thought was a sympathetic boy on MySpace. However, things turned ugly when her "boyfriend" suddenly turned on her, spreading nasty rumors and eventually telling her, "Everybody in O'Fallon knows how you are. You are a bad person and everybody hates you. Have a shitty rest of your life. The world would be a better place without you," and driving the girl to suicide. However, her parents were later shocked to discover that he boy had never existed — he was the online persona of a neighbor and family friend, who was using the fake MySpace profile to see what people were saying about her daughter. The daughter was a former friend of the suicide victim.

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