Comment Must be higher (Score 1) 31
Two trillion searches per year is ~64,000 searches per second.
That number is very not impressive.
I suspect the correct number is at least one, if not two, orders of magnitude higher.
Will Silicon Valley Run Out of Data Center Space? 142
1sockchuck writes "With capital scarce, data center developers are prioritizing projects in northern Virginia, where the Obama stimulus plan and federal shift to cloud computing are likely to boost data center demand from government agencies. This is forcing them to delay or scale back large projects in Santa Clara, setting the stage for a supply/demand imbalance in Silicon Valley, particularly for large space requirements. One potential mitigating factor: some currently occupied data center space could become available through the failure of venture-backed startups."
Sunspots Return 276
We're emerging from the longest, deepest sunspot drought since 1913 (we discussed its depths here) with the appearance of a robust group of sunspots over the weekend. Recently we discussed a possible explanation for the prolonged minimum. The Fox News article quotes observer Michael Buxton of Ocean Beach, Calif.: "This is the best sunspot I've seen in two years." jamie found a NASA site where you can generate a movie of the recent sunspot's movement — try selecting the first image type and bumping the resolution to 1024. The magnetic field lines are clearly visible.
Comment Re:I love the smell of burning bridges in the morn (Score 1) 703
That's funny, my employers have always expected me to.
Hackers Clone Passports In Driveby RFID Heist 251
pnorth writes "A hacker has shown how easy it is to clone US passport cards that use RFID by conducting a drive-by test on the streets of San Francisco. Chris Paget, director of research and development at Seattle-based IOActive, used a $250 Motorola RFID reader and an antenna mounted in a car's side window and drove for 20 minutes around San Francisco, with a colleague videoing the demonstration. During the demonstration he picked up the details of two US passport cards. Using the data gleaned it would be relatively simple to make cloned passport cards he said. Paget is best known for having to abandon presenting a paper at the Black Hat security conference in Washington in 2007 after an RFID company threatened him with legal action." Apparently this is a little unfair — he sniffed the data, he didn't actually make a fake passport.
Comment Re:Rose-Hulman Operation Catapult (Score 1) 87
I very much second this. I attended Operation Catapult before my Senior year of high school, and not only had a blast, but learned a ton that I took off to college with me.
Comment Sure. (Score 1) 1123
I am a Senior Service Engineer at Yahoo!.
I work on Y! Buzz (buzz.yahoo.com), the new Y! Front Page (m.www.yahoo.com), and My Yahoo! (my.yahoo.com).
I don't have a degree.
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