Realistically the person who invents it will get a nobel prize, write a book or two, and thats it. The company he works for that paid the hundreds of millions(probably billions) of dollars for his equipment and personnel will become richER.

So assuming that they could build the pre-requisite components this would be a part in a purely 'optical' computer. Basically right now data goes through a basic flow like this: Computer generates data. Computer transfers data to network card. Network card converts electrons into 'light' and 'beams' it across the fiber optic cable to its destination. At its destination it is reconverted into electrons from 'light' and that destination does whatever. That conversion from electrons to light takes time. Albeit a super small amount of time, it takes time. I don't know the actual amount of time, but lets say its a millasecond for ease of understanding. This has an impact on the latency of a signal because data is not transmitted from A to B. It is A to B to C to D to E to F, etc etc. 20 or 30 hops. That's an extra 20-30 millaseconds of latency purely because it has to convert it from 'light' back to electrons and back. Over and over. We do not currently have technology that would allow data manipulation to occur purely through light. Everything has to go back to electrons. This passive optical diode is a small piece of a much larger set of technologies we would require to make data routing over fiber optics to become a pure 'light' based system. Another way to think of it is that we need to create most of a modern silicon based computers pieces with light operating devices. At least on a circuit base level. The end goal would be a system would nothing ever has to be converted, and thus a massive reduction in latency. Analogy: We have an alien language that we need to convert to english. We cannot convert it directly to english for whatever reason. Instead we convert it to spanish THEN into english. This new invention would be a step towards alien to english conversion without that middle step. It makes crap faster :P

It did. Frodo is in the prologue of the movie when Bilbo starts to tell him the story of what happened.. then it fades into the story.

Dreamhack(this event) hosted a huge starcraft 2 tournament, giving away a few hundred grand in prizes between SC2, street fighter 4, and quake arena. Most of the people at this event just played games together in various un-sponsored tournaments. However around 100,000 people tuned in to watch the SC2 tournaments. Kind of a big deal.

Its not just a restore. There was an investigation, then an audit process for the proposed change, then you have the CAB meetings, the testing in dev, then in stage, then finally the push to production environment. Then you have possible hardware changes(depending on mode of access), and additionally you need to sanitize the environment to be 100% sure nothing was left behind. Thats easily a few hundred man hours . 500k may be a tad high(depending on a lot of things), but its not unreasonable.

Have you ever used Iron Mountain? There secured vans are a joke. Its an econoline or something similiar with a metal cage inside and a two part lock system on the doors.. anyone could rob that if they wanted to.

Copyright 2005?? What the fuck? lol

It would be shut down because its hate speech. .......seriously, you really didn't know that?? *sigh*

I'm so glad we have vehicles that go 12,000mph! Any chance that vehicle can swing by my place and give me my 5,000$ in federal taxes back so I can eat some food today??

This isn't new. Look up enbrel.. its a mouse human combination protein.