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Comment Re:So..... (Score 0) 445

Do you realize that analogous punishments for copyright infringement have not actually lowered the number of incidents at all? The fact of the matter is that the "idiots failing to understand the consequences" will always exist, and there are always more being made. Adding harsh punishments simply adds to the consequences that those people do not understand, achieving nothing at all. I would wager that the cause for the increased incidents is because of the increased media attention, which would only increase as harsh punishments are handed down, which would make your solution part of the problem.

Unless we're somehow going to regulate laser pointers like guns, it would be far more effective to add some sort of countermeasure to the planes themselves, or the pilots.

Comment Re:Like Apple Messenger? (Score 1) 191

Bittorrent is already cloud storage by definition. The data exists on multiple computers and is accessed over the internet. Hash checking makes it very unlikely that sabotage efforts will ever work practically. The only difference between bittorrent and the paid cloud storage is that bittorrent is more redundant, and kept online by goodwill rather than cash.

Comment Re:And the price...? (Score 2) 253

The price hike is making them an enormous amount of money. They lost 4% of their customers, but are charging almost double. I would assume that enough customers kept their old plans to make up that loss many times.
Portables

Dell's Adamo Goes After MacBook Air 337

MojoKid writes "Adamo, pronounced 'A-dahm-o,' means 'to fall in love with' in Latin. Dell is certainly hoping you'll fall in love with this notebook's looks as well as its functionality. The Adamo's chassis is milled from a single piece of aluminum and features precision detailing with a scalloped backlit keyboard. Even the fan holes, which are punched out squares, have an attractive modern design. The Adamo features a thin 0.65-inch profile and weighs four pounds. The new ultra-portable will also offer Intel Core 2 Duo processors and DDR3 memory (up to 4GB), a 13.4-inch 16:9 HD display and a 128GB SSD hard drive. Pricing starts at $1,999 with Vista Ultimate 64." The Dell infomercial spokesmodel (video at the bottom of the link) concludes, "Adamo resulted from the union of technology with pleasure for the style-conscious individualist." OK, so he's no Steve Jobs.
Science

New Form of "Mobius" Carbon Predicted 115

KentuckyFC writes "We've seen carbon nanotubes, buckyballs, and chickenwire. Now materials scientists have created a computer model of a Mobius strip fashioned from strips of graphene — a molecule that would have a single surface and only one edge. (Other groups have made Mobius-like organic molecules but never out of carbon sheets.) The model allows the researchers to determine the physical and chemical properties of the molecules and how these depend on the number of twists in the strip. The team says, for example, that 'Mobius carbon' should be stable to temperatures of at least 500 Kelvin (abstract). But the most exciting prediction is that strips with an odd number of half twists should have a dipole moment that would cause them to self-organize into a crystal. That implies that there's a new type of carbon made entirely of Mobius strips ready to be made by any chemists with a good supply of graphene (maybe these guys)."
Security

US Nuclear Weapons Lab Loses 67 Computers 185

pnorth writes "Officials from New Mexico's Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory have confessed that 67 of its computers are missing, with no less than 13 of them having disappeared over the past year alone. A memo [PDF] leaked by the Project on Government Oversight watchdog brought the lost nuclear laptops to the public's attention, but the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration dismissed fears the computers contained highly-sensitive or classified information, noting it was more likely to cause 'cybersecurity issues.' Three of the 13 computers which went missing in the past year were stolen from a scientist's home on January 16 and the memo also mentioned a BlackBerry belonging to another staff member had been lost 'in a sensitive foreign country.' The labs faced similar issues back in 2003 when 22 laptops were designated as being 'unlocated.'"
Microsoft

Microsoft Donates Code To Apache's "Stonehenge" Project 184

dp619 writes "Several months after joining the Apache Foundation, Microsoft has made its first code contribution to an Apache project. The project, known as Stonehenge, is made up of companies and developers seeking to test the interoperability of Web standards implementations."Reader Da Massive adds a link to coverage at Computer World.

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