But for how much can you get one of these babies in your living room?

80 Cores on one Die it looks like, and with it ushers in a new age. Let’s see if AMD on the other hand
can get a 100 core version out by Xmas and for 20% less.

One can only imagine how something that small can be really expensive, but only time will tell.

Google announced they don’t want to change the way YouTube & Google Video contrast.

 It’s a good move to me, since they were clearly different sites, but one that I question they won’t merge some videos in. Mantaining a clause that would stipulate the import of popular videos to google video would be a good thing.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9004859&intsrc=news_ts_head

Efficient connections at a nano structure is sure important. Many more links in the chain to connect us.

Troy, N.Y. — Many of the vaunted applications of carbon nanotubes require the ability to attach these super-tiny cylinders to electrically conductive surfaces, but to date researchers have only been successful in creating high-resistance interfaces between nanotubes and substrates. Now a team from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute reports two new techniques, each following a different approach, for placing carbon nanotube patterns on metal surfaces of just about any shape and size.

http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=1825

Well, the government is up to more big brother tactics yet again.

http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6091942.html?part=rss&tag=6091942&subj=news

What bothers me about this?

Many things are bad about government not needing a key to get in, since they already have one. Do I need to remind everyone that many sensitive computers had no password at all, letting the UK ‘hacker’ into computers?

What happens of course is that one of these computers will be unprotected, millions of people will have private information stolen, and the government will scream NATIONAL SECURITY… hence all lawsuits dropped.

Or, for instance let’s assume that this sort of monitoring equipment needs a key of some sort? What if that key is stored on a laptop that’s stolen?

We all know that your telephone conversations can be looked at, VOIP like Vonage is up next, requiring hundreds of millions of monies to be spent upgrading allowing the government to not have to crack encryption to listen.

AT&T has already allowed the NSA to install sniffing equipment that lets the government look at possibly 1/2 of the United States network traffic. I believe that the NSA has found this to be too expensive, and Congress is not going to allow more 2 Billion spending sprees to tap another major provider.

The easiest solution of course is to pass a law that puts the burden on -us- to pay the increased fees so that the NSA/CIA/FBI can watch us, without any oversight from the normal branches of government.

With the major appliances that power the Internet having a backdoor to re-route traffic to any number of locations to watch could wield crazy power to the one in control.

Your TV would stop working, power stations could be shut down, radio would no longer get feeds. TV from dishes would cease to function all from one single flip of a switch.

Sure, Cisco already has many options available in expensive switching equipment to do some major wiretapping, but the FBI wants more, unfettered access to a tool, just for them.

Not only do they want it in major appliances, installed by them in datacenters, but they want it in -any- equipment capable of routing traffic. That would mean the equipment in your home, is capable of letting the FBI to watch you and you’d never know.

Living in the United States, we cringe at the ‘Great Firewall Of China’, thinking we will never have such a thing.

Sit back and let this happen… and we’ll have the:

“Great security hole of United States”

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,19338764%255E11869,00.html

Ok, so AOL bitches on a daily basis to courts about people slamming their servers with spam, or just merely a large amount of mail.

Let’s face it, spam generates a large influx of email over a short period of time.

Read the story, 500,000 messages per minute, company spokesman Nicholas Graham said, left aol’s servers after they had an internal glitch.

Well, aol, why can’t people sue you for overloading servers by in fact delivering over 500,000 messages per minute?

Your screwup, your fuckup, your software problem. Now hundreds of thousands of servers, all over the world are now…. dealing with your screw up.

Seems kinda funny to me, you claim, (and I should know) that your servers are always overloaded by spam. But yet… you deliver off of -hundreds- of servers, 500,000 messages a minute.

Even Lyris… the fastest gun in the west MTA, can’t match that speed, unless it’s been spawned on hundreds of machines. So you unleash a torrent of email, possibly many hundreds of thousands of spam messages on the world.

Sigh, it never amazes me what you get by with AOL. I’ve seen -dozens- of your previous customers fighting your damn years of rebilling for services they didn’t want. (Read: You keep billing people for AOL service they canceled years ago)

Makes me glad that West Virginia became what it is. NOT Virginia.

With all the video, source code, and multiple partitions I have, I’m sure to have one soon.

I’m ready to lose everything in one, dramatic hard drive crash.

http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q2/barracuda-7200.10/index.x?pg=1

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/10/uk.hacker.ap/index.html

How many times before has someone caused 700,000 dollars in damages just by typing in an IP address, then hitting enter?

I shudder everytime NMAP is ran by me, and I miss type one number, and it has happened before. Whoops, I just scanned 254 ip addresses… where? .. a quick whois lets me know, and it’s been some bad ones.

Is it illegal for me to scan my own machines from an outside network to make sure I’m closed up? Not that I know of. Is it illegal for me to mistype an IP address and scan military computers? Yup.

Can I type an IP address to Remote Desktop, or into VNC without breaking the law? I sure can, it’s a great thing, remoting into a machine.

What happens when I fudge the A class, and just by chances, hit an open military computer? 5 years and 250K fine.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1964680,00.asp

I think RadioActive is better called Blog Casting, or a blogcast for many reasons. However, without doing great speech recognition, and the already announced social thumbs up, it’s probably going to die out to be replaced by a better implementation.

But what can you say when someone has registered:
http://www.blogcast.com/

And doesn’t appear to be using it in the theme of something new, just the same old tired thing, with no innovation at all.

Let this be a lesson:
If you intend to lure people into signing life insurance and then collect money after you run them down in an alley, you’ll be caught.

I couldn’t be happier, as I’m sure that any insurance company would sue to get money back with even just ONE person claiming that something odd was going on.

Just when you think nobody will notice, BAM, foiled and led off to jail.

Even homeless guys had someone that cared. Imagine a family size of 20 people and friends. Not a chance anyone could collect without being hauled away.

Anyway, enjoy. These two ladies were not the smartest out there, and no doubt others will be caught, just as dumb as them for even trying.

Helen Golay, 75, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 72, I hope you enjoy your free stay. May you be a lesson that crooks have very little victims in this world.

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1527049