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I was recently reading about the whole George Vaccaro fiasco and did some calculations on how much the cost of transfer is over a T1 line vs. what companies like Verizon charge for data transfer. Its astonishing that people put up with this:

• Cost of a T1 line: $600 (Verizon's cost would be less and they probably have higher capacity lines in many places.)
  
• Monthly bandwidth capacity of a T1: 40,687,488,000 Kilobytes (86,400 sec. * 30.41 avg days * 197 KB/sec)
  
• Cost per KB over a T1 line: 60,000 cents / 40,687,488,000 KB = 0.0001159190 cents per KB = $0.000001159190 (for all those Verizon reps out there)
  
• Verizon's charge per KB to the customer: $0.02
  
• Verizon's markup on data transfer: x 17,253!!!!!
  
• Screwing generation Y & Z: Priceless
  

Why do people put up with this? Some people might say I'm comparing apples to oranges, but Apples dont' cost 17,000 times more than oranges. There should be a class action suit over this.

COMON$ writes "OK it has been 3 weeks and I haven't seen any discussion from the Slashdot community regarding the unveiling of the HP Touchsmart PC on June 10th. I have not been a big fan of all-in-one PCs in the past. But I can really get on board with this port of the apple touch tech to the home PC."
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2008/080610xb.html

Julius Baer finally hired a PR agency and issued a press release filled with half truths and non statements. Tynan on Tech has it, along with some brief commentary. Worth a look.
http://www.dantynan.com/?p=39

COMON$ writes "I recently stumbled across an article at wired that is a couple of weeks old regarding The Top 10 New Organisms of 2007. A good read no matter what your stance on biotechnology is."

MojoKid writes "Earlier this year at IDF, Intel introduced their enthusiast octal-core gaming plaform, code named Skulltrail. The platform is built around an Intel server-class motherboard tweaked for the enthusiast market. Here are some of the first high res pics of the motherboard and it's a beast to be sure. It features a dual socket configuration with a pair of quad-core processors, for a total of eight cores. Also, since Skulltrail's motherboard is outfitted with a pair of NVIDIA-built chips, it supports SLI multi-GPU graphics as well. Perhaps the only draw-back is that, since this is a server-class motherboard, FBDIMM memory is required instead of standard DDR2 or DDR3 memory."
http://www.hothardware.com/News/Intel_Skulltrail_Motherboard_Sneak_Peek/

It appears that Google's Android, criticised by Microsoft as vaporware, has sprung to life. Prototype devices are circulating, software developers are experimenting with the SDK and PC-based Android emulator, and there are rumours of a show-stopping debut at February's Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. Numerous examples of the Android GUI are also starting to leak out.
http://apcmag.com/7726/google_powered_mobile_phones_to_make_a_february_debut

COMON$ writes "It appears after reading ruling after ruling things may finally be over for SCO.. Perhaps now we can finally pat the dirt on the grave. FTA — "To add to the company's financial worries, it has been told that it will be de-listed from the Nasdaq stock exchange as early as next week.""
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/21/sco_financial_woes/