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Submission + - Self-healing, self-heating flash memory survives more than 100 million cycles (extremetech.com)

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MrSeb
MrSeb writes: "Macronix, one of the world’s largest producers of flash memory, has produced a new kind of flash memory that can survive more than 100 million program/erase (PE) cycles — most likely long enough to persist until the end of human civilization. By comparison, the NAND cells found in conventional flash memory — as in commercial SSDs — generally have a lifespan of just a few thousand PE cycles. For such a huge advance you would expect an equally vast technological leap — but in this instance, that’s certainly not the case. Macronix just adds a bit of heat — literally, each of Macronix’s new memory cells contains a heating element that can deliver a jolt of 800C (1472F) heat to the cell, healing it and preventing wear-out. Furthermore, 100 million PE cycles is a low-ball estimate: In reality, Macronix’s new flash might survive billions of cycles — but it would take so long to test that the company doesn’t yet know."
NASA

Submission + - NASA Data Breach Predicted In Its Own Newsletter (nasawatch.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: NASA suffered a major data breach on Oct 31, 2012 when a laptop with the sensitive personal information of 10,000+ employees was stolen from an employee's car in Washington, DC. As it turns out, the NASA CIO had predicted just such an event, right down to the mockup headlines in the CIO's July IT Newsletter (see page 6). It didn't quite make the front page of the NY Times, but it did get their attention. Among the employees and contractors affected by the data breach are some of the plaintiffs from the Nelson v. NASA privacy case that was decided in 2011. Among the arguments (aside from intrusive investigations) is that the government was likely to improperly release the collected data. Some of the plaintiffs were already retired from NASA when their data was lost, and others had submitted to the background investigations less than 6 months before.

Comment Re:The War On Common Sense (Score 1) 167

by Vernes (#41831105) Attached to: Glow-In-The-Dark Smart Highways Coming To the Netherlands In 2013
As an average Dutch driver I have to agree even if I feel I do not fit that description.
German drivers know how to drive on a highway.
Left side is for driving FUCKING FAST!
If you see the dot in your backmirror growing larger, it means there is someone driving FUCKING FASTER!
And they.. move aside to the right lane.
On the dutch motorways, you just dump your car infront of the guy driving 160kmh even though you are driving 100
Because god forbid you have to slow down and wait for him to pass.
In other news, flashing your breaklights is really fun if there is a slow moving traffic-jam, because the one thing moving traffic-jams need is a wave of breaking cars because you can't handle the gas-throttle between "pressed through your car-floor" and "firmly pressed on the break".

Dutch are in general, assholes as soon as they get in their car.

So, what's the ETA on that car-robot google seems to play around with?

Comment Re:Sweet (Score 2) 52

by Vernes (#41830819) Attached to: Curiosity Finds Volcanic Soils
They also like nutrients from the soil.
There are none on mars.
You will need to fling large amount of ready-to-use nutrient rich soil along with those plants.
Now you have plants converting nutrients AND carbon dioxide in more nutrients.

Thinking further, I think you need to resurrect one of em dinosaur era plants for trapping carbon dioxide.
Plants did a lot of carbon dioxide trapping in those days.
Google

Submission + - Google: Microsoft, Comcast and RIAA lead requests for content removal (businessweek.com)

Submitted by daktari
daktari writes: Google claims that among copyright owners Microsoft, Comcast and the RIAA make the most requests for removal of content from Google’s search service.

Microsoft requested 2.5 million pages be removed from Google's search service. They're followed by Comcast's NBCUniversal (1 million requests) and the RIAA (400,000) requests.

Submission + - Is There A Purity Test for Innovators? (forbes.com)

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gumsout
gumsout writes: "The increasingly purist, exclusionary view of innovation inevitably will underestimate – significantly — the broader innovative potential in our nation, in our people, and in our companies, that might be awakened and cultivated."
The Internet

Submission + - Australians stuck with awful Diablo 3 latency (delimiter.com.au) 2

Submitted by daria42
daria42 writes: Enjoying Diablo 3? I'm sure you are, as it's likely to be one of the games of the year. Unless, of course, you're Australian, in which case you're probably struggling to play with an acceptable response time due to abominable lag to US servers, due to Blizzard's reluctance to establish Australian servers for the game. But then, it was the same situation with World of Warcraft and StarCraft II — looks like nothing has changed :(

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