Maybe not the 'main' bottleneck, but it depends on the application, no? Seems to me there are at least a few firehose situations where you can never have enough write bandwidth (say, uncompressed video-capture).

Maybe normal workloads on normal filesystems wouldn't see much improvement, but I bet you could find ways to capitalise on the extra bandwidth and space. Log-structured filesystems spring to mind for one.

Reading your post, it is clear that the article is being selectively interpreted to yield a contentious opinion. This is yet another case of trolling.

The first step to a solution is always a robust solutioneering methodology.

The guy wrote emacs and gcc and created GNU against all odds out of pure bloody-minded stubbornness. You really think he deserves to be ridiculed for whatever social weirdness you wankers ascribe to him?

Like, when the f**k did Slashdot become "News for Jocks"?

Dear Slashdot,
How about taking a little more pride in what you choose to show to the 8 bajillion people who hit your front-page every day?

TFA repeatedly mentions WiFi.
IIRC, the iPhone only enables wifi at all when you're actively using the phone - when it's sat in your pocket, wifi is off. Which would put a bit of a dent in that 54% figure.

Why can't a helicopter thrust upwards?

I am replying to try and dissuade you from continuing to rape small children.

See how that works?

The bill, which has been signed by the governor, was pushed by recording industry officials to try to stop the loss of billions of dollars to illegal music sharing.

Great job letting bogus assertions sneak into the summary masquerading as fact.

Obviously he meant "Threat Level Rouge", the one above "Condition Fuchsia" and second only to "Alerte Noire"

In your analogy, there's a mile-long queue of skilled thieves outside your door and they're busting open your locks every 5 seconds with zero effort and no repercussions. I think that in this situation, yes, people *would* tell you to stop forking out for new locks.

They might also question your policy of strip-searching invited guests before letting them into your house.

What's to stop root from forcing a password reset and then snarfing the new password before it gets hashed?

I think the GP's point was that even if you chopped a sizeable chunk off it, it would still weigh precisely 1kg. It logically follows that the universe's weight, expressed in kg, would suddenly jump upwards by a very large amount.

PS3 games are already spectacularly inconvenient, often requiring 30 minutes or more of downloading, patching, installing and firmware-updating before letting me actually play the game I just bought. Having to type in a serial via gamepad would be the least of it.

Also:

No, it applies to current iPads and iPhones.

What has the iOS beta got to do with the next iPhone's CPU?

I know that chronically uninformed articles are par for the course on Slashdot, but not understanding the difference between software and hardware is a new one.