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Comment Re:Motorola V195 (Score 0) 505

by nineloc9 on Wednesday July 18, 2007 @08:31AM (#19899253) Attached to: Where In the US Can You Get Just a Cell Phone?

Agreed. Like the original poster's Mom, my wife just wanted a phone. V195 has amazing talk time and standby time, and serves her purposes just great. I'd recommend this one if you're looking for "just a phone". Nine be loving his Dash, though. I'm just sayin'.

Feed Facing 101 Years, Phisher Gets Sentenced To Six (techdirt.com)

From feed by techdirtfeed on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @10:32PM

Back in January, we posted about a case in which a scammer got convicted of phishing credit-card and other info from AOL users, and faced up to 101 years in prison. He's now been sentenced, and depending on how you look at it, got let off easy by getting sent to jail for 70 months. While his fate won't elicit much sympathy, it's also hard to see the case serving much wider use to society, despite the prosecution's insistence that it sends a proverbial message to phishers. The guy wasn't convicted of phishing, but rather of a litany of other fraud-related crimes, and it's hard to imagine that too many phishers don't understand they're breaking these, or any number of other, laws. Certainly this guy deserves some punishment for what he did, but to act like this sentence does anything to help stem the tide of phishing attacks hitting internet users each day is disingenuous, as a response-based legal strategy does very little to stop the attacks being carried out right now.

TV's "Mr. Wizard," Don Herbert, Dies At 89 255

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @10:30PM from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-experiments dept.

XorNand writes "Television's Mr. Wizard, Don Herbert, died today at 89. He introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science. Herbert, who had bone cancer, died at his suburban Bell Canyon home near Los Angeles."

Feed Toshiba announces new "3D" NAND flash technology (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @10:12PM

Filed under: Storage

It looks like Samsung's not the only one trying to build a better NAND flash chip, with Toshiba now joining the fray today with news that it's made some advancements of its own. Much like Samsung, Toshiba's apparently managed to cram more storage into roughly the same size chips by changing the way the various elements are stacked, in this case busting things out into three dimensions. According to Toshiba, the so-called "pillars" of stacked memory elements can be squeezed into a tighter space thanks in part to some shared peripheral circuits, although that apparently comes at the expense of a longer and more complex manufacturing process. What's not clear, however, is exactly how big an increase that'll translate to in terms of bits and bytes, nor is there any indication as to when we might actually see some NAND units based on the technology.

[Via TG Daily]

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Submission + - Building A Data Center in 60 Days - Online

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miller60

on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @09:27PM

miller60 writes: "The facilities team at Australia's Pipe Networks is down to the wire in its bid to complete a data center in 60 days. And in an era when many major data center projects are shrouded in secrecy, they're putting the entire effort online, with daily updates and photos on the company blog, a live webcam inside the facility, a countdown timer and a punch-list of key tasks left to finish. Their goal is to complete the job by Friday morning."

Feed News: PC World: First impressions of Safari for Windows (macworld.com)

From feed by macworldfeed on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @08:32PM

PC World's Narasu Rebbapragada looks at Safari from a Windows perspective now that the Apple browser runs on that operating system.

Feed White Stripes album sold on limited edition USB drives (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @08:32PM

Filed under: Portable Audio, Storage

For fans of Jack and Meg, it's probably a long-standing dream of yours to purchase the Icky Thump album on limited edition thumb drives complete with cartoon renditions of the rockers, but even if it that understandably bizarre scenario never actually crossed your mind, you can still make it a reality. Apparently, the White Stripes are offering up their latest album on two fairly rare USB drives, each sporting 512MB of internal space, an artistic rendition of one of the band mates, and thirteen rockin' tracks in Apple Lossless format. Only 3,333 of each will be created, and while just one will run you a whopping $57.50, you may as well grab the duo for a discounted $99. Of course, we're still not entirely certain if these things are actually licensed by the band, but it's safe to assume that a seven nation army of fans will have these bought up before the legal teams can even get their case together.

[Via BoingBoing]

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