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Lessig On Net Neutrality 101

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 15, 2007 @07:15PM from the tubes dept.

nanojath writes "Lessig delivers the final word on net neutrality. Read it 5 times to absorb the densest, most content-rich pronouncement that Wired will deliver in 2007." From the article: "Those who oppose network-neutrality regulation should also oppose... regulation of [municipal broadband,] last-mile broadband's most important competitor. Municipal competition won't kill commercial broadband any more than Linux has killed Windows. Yet it could change the business model of last-mile broadband, just as Linux has changed the business model of Microsoft. If there's going to be a Linux-like miracle to counteract innovation-threatening broadband business models, then, at a minimum, miracles must not be a crime."

Seagate Plans 37.5TB HDD Within Matter of Years 395

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 05, 2007 @10:29AM from the lot-of-pr0n dept.

Ralph_19 writes "Wired visited Seagate's R&D labs and learned we can expect 3.5-inch 300-terabit hard drives within a matter of years. Currently Seagate is using perpendicular recording but in the next decade we can expect heat-assisted magnetic recording (HARM), which will boost storage densities to as much as 50 terabits per square inch. The technology allows a smaller number of grains to be used for each bit of data, taking advantage of high-stability magnetic compounds such as iron platinum." In the meantime, Hitachi is shipping a 1 TB HDD sometime this year. It is expected to retail for $399.

Rootkit Could Hide In PCI Cards 134

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday November 18, 2006 @10:18AM from the or-under-the-bed dept.

Reverse Gear writes "SecurityFocus has an interesting article about a paper published on the possibility of hiding a rootkit in different PCI cards and having the rootkit survive a reboot or cleansing of the hard disk. It seems though that the author of the article doesn't think this would be abused frequently. From the article and paper: '(Because) enough people do not regularly apply security patches to Windows and do not run anti-virus software, there is little immediate need for malware authors to turn to these techniques as a means of deeper compromise.'"

Comment Re:Space tourism YEA, But is it safe. (Score 1) 98

by Silicon_Avatar on Sunday April 02, 2000 @07:18AM (#1156143) Attached to: Mir Reactivation Mission to Launch Monday

That's it exactly. It's not safe with all the blunders that have occured as Mir ages. Oops, the computers are down again. Oops, we ran into our own rocket. Oops.... So, I think we should support this for single reason. Let's all chip in and send up Gates. We know he won't come back. No need to renovate, send him now!

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