Comment: I have to say it... (Score 1) 58
What could possibly go wrong?
+ - Taken over by aliens? Google has it covered->
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swandives writes "Imagine what would happen if all the Google engineers turned rogue and held the world’s Gmail accounts to ransom. Or if aliens attacked earth and wiped California off the map. Seems the folks over at Google's enterprise division have already considered these scenarios. CIO is running an article, as part of a larger interview with Google Enterprise director of security, Eran Feigenbaum. He's a fascinating guy — in his spare time he practises magic and mentalism and you may also have heard of him as Eran Raven, the contestant from NBC television show, Phenomenon."
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Comment: Reminds me of (Score 0) 291
Real Genius
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/
Comment: As stated in the original story: (Score 5, Informative) 142
"It will cost $185,000 to apply, and individuals or organizations will have to show a legitimate claim to the name they are buying."
I do not think that Peggy will be able to set up .discovercard :p
Comment: Queue the... (Score 0) 62
"In Soviet Russia" jokes
Comment: How about... (Score 1) 680
just putting them on view-master reels? Just as they say, "View-Master® 3D products open up an exciting world of fun and adventure. You'll feel like you're there!" :p
+ - SPAM: USB 3.0 Finally Arrived - all Information
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StuffSneak writes "When you’re in front of your PC, waiting for something to transfer to removable media, that’s when seconds feel like minutes, and minutes feel like hours. And data storage scenarios such as that one is where the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0s greatest impact will be felt first. As of CES 2010, 17 SuperSpeed USB 3.0-certified products were introduced, including host controllers, adapter cards, motherboards, and hard drives (but no other consumer electronics devices). Still more uncertified USB 3.0 products are on the way, and they can’t get here fast enough.
Glance Backward
The beauty of USB 3.0 is its backward compatibility with USB 2.0; you need a new cable and new host adapter (or, one of the Asus or Gigabyte motherboards that supports USB 3.0) to achieve USB 3.0, but you can still use the device on a USB 2.0 port and achieve typical USB 2.0 performance. In reducing some overhead requirements of USB (now, the interface only transmits data to the link and device that need it, so devices can go into low power state when not needed), the new incarnation now uses one-third the power of USB 2.0.
The theoretical throughput improvement offered by USB 3.0 is dramatic — a theoretical 10X jump over existing USB 2.0 hardware. USB 2.0 maxed out at a theoretical 480Mbps, while USB 3.0 can theoretically handle up to 5Gbps. Mind you, applications like storage will still be limited by the type of drive inside; so, for example, you can expect better performance from RAIDed hard drives or fast solid-state drives (SSDs) than from, say, a standalone single drive connected to the computer via USB 3.0.
The real-world examples are fairly convincing — and underscore USB 3.0s advantage for high-def video, music, and digital imaging applications. Our early test results are encouraging as well: We tested Western Digital’s My Book 3.0, the first USB 3.0-certified external hard drive. The performance was on a par with that of eSATA-but the benefit here is that USB 3.0 is a powered port, so you don’t need to have another external power supply running to the drive (as you do with eSATA; unless the eSATA drive you’re using is designed to steal power from a USB port while transferring data over the eSATA interface).
New Entries
While the WD drive was the first to announce, a slew of other hard drive makers either announced products at the show, or discussed plans to release products in the coming months. Among them: Seagate (which is doing a portable drive), LaCie, Rocstor, and Iomega. Even non-traditional hard drive vendors like Dane-Elec and A-Data showed products they billed as USB 3.0 (the latter two even had USB 3.0-connected SSDs, the first external drives to use solid-state storage inside.
One of the things to look for in the coming months is the certified SuperSpeed USB 3.0 logo. Products are currently filling the queues at the official certification testing labs, but presence of that certification logo will give you some peace of mind that the product you’re buying truly does live up to the USB 3.0 spec.
Given that the certification labs are jammed up, though, you can expect companies to release USB 3.0 products without official certification. (Buffalo Technologies’ drive, released late 2009, is not certified; LaCie’s drives are in the process of certification, but will initially carry LaCie’s own logo for USB 3.0, and will gain a sticker on the box once certification is completed.) And in those cases, it will be hard to know whether the device truly lives up to its performance potential.
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Glance Backward
The beauty of USB 3.0 is its backward compatibility with USB 2.0; you need a new cable and new host adapter (or, one of the Asus or Gigabyte motherboards that supports USB 3.0) to achieve USB 3.0, but you can still use the device on a USB 2.0 port and achieve typical USB 2.0 performance. In reducing some overhead requirements of USB (now, the interface only transmits data to the link and device that need it, so devices can go into low power state when not needed), the new incarnation now uses one-third the power of USB 2.0.
The theoretical throughput improvement offered by USB 3.0 is dramatic — a theoretical 10X jump over existing USB 2.0 hardware. USB 2.0 maxed out at a theoretical 480Mbps, while USB 3.0 can theoretically handle up to 5Gbps. Mind you, applications like storage will still be limited by the type of drive inside; so, for example, you can expect better performance from RAIDed hard drives or fast solid-state drives (SSDs) than from, say, a standalone single drive connected to the computer via USB 3.0.
The real-world examples are fairly convincing — and underscore USB 3.0s advantage for high-def video, music, and digital imaging applications. Our early test results are encouraging as well: We tested Western Digital’s My Book 3.0, the first USB 3.0-certified external hard drive. The performance was on a par with that of eSATA-but the benefit here is that USB 3.0 is a powered port, so you don’t need to have another external power supply running to the drive (as you do with eSATA; unless the eSATA drive you’re using is designed to steal power from a USB port while transferring data over the eSATA interface).
New Entries
While the WD drive was the first to announce, a slew of other hard drive makers either announced products at the show, or discussed plans to release products in the coming months. Among them: Seagate (which is doing a portable drive), LaCie, Rocstor, and Iomega. Even non-traditional hard drive vendors like Dane-Elec and A-Data showed products they billed as USB 3.0 (the latter two even had USB 3.0-connected SSDs, the first external drives to use solid-state storage inside.
One of the things to look for in the coming months is the certified SuperSpeed USB 3.0 logo. Products are currently filling the queues at the official certification testing labs, but presence of that certification logo will give you some peace of mind that the product you’re buying truly does live up to the USB 3.0 spec.
Given that the certification labs are jammed up, though, you can expect companies to release USB 3.0 products without official certification. (Buffalo Technologies’ drive, released late 2009, is not certified; LaCie’s drives are in the process of certification, but will initially carry LaCie’s own logo for USB 3.0, and will gain a sticker on the box once certification is completed.) And in those cases, it will be hard to know whether the device truly lives up to its performance potential.
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+ - Researcher cracks WPA-PSK in just 20 minutes ->
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An anonymous reader writes "If you thought the WPA-PSK form of WiFi encryption was secure, think again. Thomas Roth, a researcher, has used the power of Amazon’s EC2 cloud servers to run a custom coded software to break WiFi passwords in just 20 minutes."
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+ - "Wonder" Patch Merged Into Linux Kernel
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mvar
mvar writes "The patch that has been tagged as "The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders" has been finally integrated to the 2.6.38 Kernel."