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Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 205

As for the "pull down mirror", that isn't even remotely new technology. Other vehicles have had those for a decade or more. But of course because America - and the American media especially - love Toyota with a great passion, we regard it as a technological marvel.

Toyota has had it also. Not sure why this implies it is new.

Comment Re:What I remember (Score 1) 136

OK. My curiosity got the better of me, so here it is.

First, using his number of 82.5 cubic millimeters for the volume of a Micro SD card, and Wikipedia's 1,134 cubic meters for the cargo volume of an A380 (in freight configuration), I get 13745454545 cards. Using his 20% density reduction, I'll bring that down to 10996363636. 128GB MicroSD cards exist, but they aren't mainstream yet, so let's go with 64GB. The total data capacity of the plane is therefore 610.4 EiB (exbibytes), which Wolfram Alpha helpfully says is about 0.7 times the estimated global IP data traffic per year by 2015, and around 59 times the estimated information content of all human knowledge as of mid-1999.

I looked around to see if I could find anything higher-density than MicroSD, but there isn't really anything. Full-size SD cards are readily available up to 256GB, but they are significantly more than the volume of 4 MicroSD cards. mSATA SSDs are even worse - they are available up to 1 TB, but they are way too big.

Comment What I remember (Score 4, Interesting) 136

I'm sorry, but the best quote from that book is actually this one:

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

In my networks class, we extended the calculation to a 747 full of DVDs (the best we could do at the time). Maybe one of these days, if I have a minute, I'll go back and do an A380 full of flash drives.

Comment Re:Not an inherent problem. (Score 2) 18

Agreed. Not sure why this is news, or honestly, why it is worthy of being published at all. This is part of the design and if people choose to login even after - the as the example says - Google or Facebook OAuth prompt says You are sending the following information to this site: (as those login methods do), that is their own problem.

Submission + - White House "Responds" to "Deport Justin Bieber" Petition (whitehouse.gov)

An anonymous reader writes: In a highly political message, the White House announced that they would decline to respond to a petition with more than a quarter of a million signatures on its We the people website asking the United States to deport Justin Bieber. This was prompted by his alcohol-fueled drag race in Florida in January.

While this story is not particularly noteworthy from a technology perspective, what does it say about government attempting to be more open? The White House says they will respond to any petition with more than 100,000 signatures, but only in the fine-print does it say that their response might not be a response to the issue at all.

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