Ok, maybe I’m a little too excited about the next generation of storage, but CES 2009 has revealed a SanDisk Solid State Drive that promises a reasonable leap in laptop technology:
The SanDisk G3 SSDs are more than five times faster than the fastest 7,200 RPM HDDs and more than twice as fast as SSDs shipping in 2008, clocking in at 40,000 RPM and anticipated sequential performance of 200MB/s read and 140MB/s write.
The G3 SSDs provide a Longterm Data Endurance (LDE) of 160 terabytes written (TBW) for the 240GB version, sufficient for over 100 years of typical user usage.
Throw one of these in a dying laptop and watch the amazing benefits. Awesome for energy consumption as well as speed. On the other hand, these of course represent a new level of threat as dumping and running with massive amounts of data will be so much easier…
A skier at Colorado’s luxury Vail ski resort was left suffering from a double case of exposure after a freak accident left him dangling upside down and pantless from a ski lift.
Freak accident? One too many beers the night before? How would you test for someone falling through a chair? Needless to say there were plenty of people nearby to take out their cameras and document the situation…poor guy.
The story is that he was suspended only by his right ski, and it took more than fifteen minutes to reverse the lift and disentangle him before he could put his pants back on.
So, if love really is just a complex chemical reaction, could that most powerful of human emotions be manipulated?
“Oxytocin increases eye gaze, increases our ability to recognise emotions in others,” Professor Young said.
“It may actually enhance our ability to form relationships, and so it is a very real possibility that something like oxytocin could be used in conjunction with marital therapies to bring back that spark.”
Mmmm, oysters as therapy. I know I should probably think about this in terms of the cosmetics and therapy industries but it also reminds me of Kelly’s Heroes when the tanks are led into combat by the hippie Sargent Oddball. He plays music and fires red paint to subdue the Nazis without hurting anyone. Imagine if he could have fired love paint, or sprayed it from airplanes.
Controllers in Pakistan watched live television and warned the gunmen of the arrival of Indian commandos, the report said, citing evidence amassed by the FBI and handed over to the Pakistani government.
The FBI had decoded Skype calls over the internet that were made between the gunmen in two five-star hotels and a Jewish centre in Mumbai with their LeT controllers in Pakistan, identified as Shah, Abu Hamza and Abu Qafa, it said.
Interesting to read they have cracked the skype calls although it was already known that US agents have greater access to GPS (e.g. Garmin) keys for decrypting the satellite communication. Although the attackers operated with very non-technical methods as well, this news will surely add to the controversy about news reporting, mobile technology tracking and monitoring.
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