Instead of potentially dangerous experiments, may I suggest the oldest known and proven solution to global warming?

This is extremely complicated, so please bear with me for a minute or two:

Plant. More. Trees.

Don't believe me? Fine, don't take my word for it. Heck, even that bastion of free enterprise, The Economist got behind that idea!

So, why is not implemented on a large scale? Because planting trees is not techonologically "sexy" - it is well known, has been well known for centuries, and, for maximum effect, would require rich countries to invest serious money in poorer countries, to save the rainforest (which is where tree-planting would have maximum impact). And we cannot allow these natives to get money to do something as simple as plant a tree, right?

In other words, the wealthiest have decided it is a lot more fun to throw money at dangerous or even foolish and ineffectual solutions rather than provide for jobs and development in the poorest countries of the world -- precisely the countries that will suffer the most due to global warming. Make of that what you will.

The slot you're thinking of already exists, comes on some motherboards (my new HTPC Mini ITX board has one) and it's becoming standard on laptops.
Current sizes dictate they can do 500gb drives on the micro cards which go into the slots.

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Newsflash! Slashdot already has been targeted by NSA!!

Don't take my word for it: Link 1 and Link 2.

Typical conservative knee-jerk selfish ego-centric reaction right here.

What is wrong with serving one's own country and being concerned when a shadowy agency deploys a digital net over everything?

For the sake of other lazy people, can someone respond to me and answer the following.

What is becoming reversible, just the USB Micro style size or the larger sizes too?
Are we just skipping everything and moving to the one plug at both ends for all USB connections possibly?
If we do move to said plug, what aobut strength? I've seen some mock up pics of the proposed plug, it looks great for a phone, it doesn't look great for a printer / back of a PC - looks quite delicate.

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Oh shut the fuck up.

If you want to look into revolutionary design changes look into the Mill CPU architecture.

They've put their lecture series available on the web about their intended architecture - it's kinda a hybrid DSP / general purpose with some neat side steps of contemporary CPU architectures.

I just love these use created scripts! They are funny and insightful all at once!

BRAVO!

(p.s. you're a fuckwit)

You're a complete moron. You've never used the device, probably never seen one, and yet you have it all figured out.

I've always had eyes on the border of needing glasses. I could get by without glasses pretty fine, I just sat half a foot closer to the PC and bought giant monitors / TV's - I could see fairly well, just not perfect.

I picked up a 30" 2560x1600 monitor about 3 years back and I just wasn't able to appreciate it. I could read it but only sitting pretty damn close due to the pixel size. 1920x1200 was fine but, I shouldn't need to do that./
Finally caved in and got some glasses at 34 years old - made a great difference.
(Actually once I saw the difference glasses made, I really wished we all had far far better vision, something like 20/5 would be quite nice)

oh shut up you blowhard.

Re-read what was posted and then contemplate the fact that you're a fuckwit.

The _VAST_ and I mean _VASTTTTTTT_ majority of security people I've encountered have, what I'd be comfortable describing as "fuck all" technical knowledge regarding hardware (and in some ways software too) - they get concepts, fundamentals and then read dipshit theorising articles on retreiving data from a hard disk by analysing the "bits between the bits"

Don't take my word for it, go to some googling, I've read at least 1 article by an actual storage guy (I can't recall if he was actually a physical media designer or what) but he laughed off the idiotic claims as presicely that.