Ok, a Blu-ray Disc “guaranteed to preserve data safely for over 200 years” is a claim that may not exactly be impossible to prove, but would you (or your descendants) even bother? Delkin Devices, manufacturer of the Archival Gold BD Recordable media, says that its patented “phase-change” recording materials allow the discs to withstand the… Read More »
If IBM made toasters: It would want one big toaster where people bring bread to be submitted for overnight toasting. IBM would claim a worldwide market for five, maybe six toasters. If Oracle made toasters: It would claim their toaster was compatible with all brands and styles of bread, but when you got it home… Read More »
Once again, mainstream media are falling over themselves to parrot special interest group statistics. I’m referring to the annual study on software piracy published earlier this month by the Business Software Alliance, which alleged that piracy cost the software industry $48 billion last year, up by $8 billion from 2006. Instead of questioning the reliability… Read More »
Ars Technica recently ran an article on George Bush’s lost e-mails, in which it quoted from a Congressional report about how the Bush adminstration archives White House e-mails. According to the report, “a White House staffer or contractor would collect from a ‘journal’ e-mail folder in the Microsoft Exchange system copies of e-mails sent and… Read More »
Believe it or not, spam has been around for 30 years, and two years past the deadline Bill Gates set on eradicating its existence. More surprisingly, a recent survey conducted by Sophos revealed that 11% of people admit to having bought goods in response to spam messages. Well, if nobody responded to spam, the tactic… Read More »