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Comment: Re:Yeah, you can totally trust your data... (Score 1) 335

by logicTrAp on Thursday March 13, 2014 @04:10PM (#46477315) Attached to: 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month

I'd guess the reliability is somewhat higher than trusting your data to a single hard drive. You can back up to DVD or another drive, but that's a pain in the butt, and still doesn't help you if your house burns down.

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Comment: NIC handles are used (Score 1) 251

by logicTrAp on Saturday April 11, 2009 @06:30PM (#27545325) Attached to: Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail?

I get a fair amount of "legitimate" spam to an email address which I only ever had in the InterNIC database. So, there's at least one company tying addresses to emails based on domain name contacts.

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Boston University Working On LED Wireless Networks 179

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 09, 2008 @01:43PM
from the line-of-sight dept.

Madas writes "This article on Absolute Gadget details how researchers at Boston University's College of Engineering are working on devloping wireless networks that use LED lights instead of normal radio waves. This research apparently has other uses in the automobile industry. Apparently the LEDs could warn you if the driver in front has put the brakes on so could avoid hitting the car in front. Personally, I'd use the vision balls that are in my thought box."

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Comment: Re:Problem with C/C++ pointers (Score 1) 184

by logicTrAp on Wednesday May 11, 2005 @12:18PM (#12500592) Attached to: 32-bit to 64-bit - Obsolesence Pains Again?

One of the main features of C is interchangable int and void*.
Huh? Win32 certainly made that assumption, passing pointers around in DWORDs, but there's never been any guarantee of it in the language. I happen to agree that 64 bit platforms should have made int 64 bits, but in terms of "biting the bullet", Alpha, SPARC64 and all of the other platforms mentioned elsewhere here have already gotten most of the job done for the *NIX world. If you're on Windows, there's probably more of a problem, but that has more to do with design decisions made in Win32 (and a less degree, Win64) than C.