That old card likely used SLC, NOR, and large gates, each of which contributes to data retention (and higher cost per bit).

NOR will always cost more than NAND, about 4 times more.
NAND is 4 times denser, thus you fit four times as much memory per square mm of die space.

unpowered the flash cells will leak electrons off their floating gates (powered too if the device doesn't do some sort of maintenance cycle). with as few as 100 electrons making the difference on a cell...

Between Battery Backed SRAM and Linear (NOR) Flash you forgot: Bubble Memory.

Windows or Linux fanboi, both agree Win8 set us up the bomb.

sign your own key. Use PSK with whomever you are communicating with.
-nbr

oblig: as long as the cores don't have a BSOD...
That would be bad.

But in all honesty, I do like that his efforts are being spent on something like this, where the benefit to humanity is great.

I'll go with load them on a plane to fly them back to US soil for trial, plane accidentally goes down in the ocean.
-nb

Only if my insanity matches their insanity, else they will attempt to bury me. (Or burn me at the stake).

Yes, but the union also had in the contract that breads had to be shipped separately than cakes, thus you had to send two trucks to a store to stock it.

It's not all the union's fault, and it's not all management's fault. They were both culpable.

I'm an ADHD Aspie (yeah, interesting life) and I think that's not too far off actually...
Curious about your opinion behind that statement.

Yup.
Wall St is the epitome of "If it ain't broke don't fix it"

Lol, no, I don't think so. I took a job that pays $20K/yr less because there weren't assholes in the office. Having actually worked somewhere that was devastatingly dehumanizing* I realized the value of happiness.
-nbr

You know it's time to quit when you're in the dentist office, getting a root canal, not numbed because it's infected so badly the *caine's don't work, and that is preferable to being in the office. Moment of clarity.

nah, we're using it to prove to your lady that we are you, despite what we look like.

My bank has it.
Something I have, something I know.

If I am on a trusted computer I can store the something I have portion and only need to provide the something I know.
If I am at an untrusted computer (or just got a new computer I want to trust) I get a PIN texted to my phone (trusted) that I can enter along with my normal passphrase. the PIN is from a OTP, so is useless after one use or 5 min, whichever comes first.

If I lose my phone I can notify the bank (same as lost card) and both the phone number and stored token are invalidated.

To validate a new phone I take it to the bank.