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MS Palladium: A must or a menace?

MS Palladium: A must or a menace?Menace.....Any shred of doubt I had about Redmond trying to throne "Emperor Bill" is gone now....My personal favorite is that comment University of PA's Farber made that if Microsoft or Intel screwed the world, Congress would try to stop them.Hello??? Any man who can...

Tags: Palladium, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-05-22

Makers of white-box supercomputers hit their stride

Makers of white-box supercomputers hit their strideAnother reason TCPA will fail.As long as there are people who make their own systems, TCPA will fail.The companies offering and advertising "open" hardware will prosper. If such companies don't exist, they will.. believe me..Our Computers. Our Rules. Simple.Oh,How cute!Wait, clustering...

Tags: open source, Palladium, supercomputer

Discussion threads 2004-05-10

Microsoft details Longhorn storage

Microsoft details Longhorn storageFreaky new talkback systemOne piece that's crucial to adoption of WinFS is the support of Windows software developers. People will get the benefits of the expanded search capabilities only if third-party software companies use WinFS, analysts note. That's why it pays to write applications for your own...

Tags: Operating systems, storage, Palladium, WinFS, file system, Microsoft Longhorn, database, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2003-10-14

You Outsource Operations Not Responsibility

Outsourcing in the telecoms sector has raised one specific interesting regulatory issue. Licenses governing spectrum allocation in the mobile space usually stipulate that mobile operators must retain 'functional control' of their network. The telecoms sector is highly regulated; network operators cannot evade this regulatory responsibility - it cannot be shifted...

Tags: Network, Outsource, Palladium, Telecoms Sector, Outsourcing, Networking, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

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(Photos: Solar players show off their wares)

(Photos: Solar players show off their wares)electrolysis+solar powerI once saw a US company's ad for a set of palladium(why not use carbon?) electrodes that could be plugged into a cigarette lighter.This could be used to plunge into a beaker of outdoor sampled water.The electrolysis would create Chlorine in status nascendi(from...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Microsoft's End to End trust vision: Can this identity, trusted stack thing work?

Microsoft's End to End trust vision: Can this identity, trusted stack thing work?Wow then why is Microsoft even doing an whitepaper?Because it's obvious that you have all the answers. What's stunning is that you have all the answers yet none of this is done. Bottom line: This proposal is complicated....

Tags: Microsoft Corp., identity, End-to-End trust vision, stack thing work, thing work, software

Discussion threads 2008-04-08

Cryogenically frozen RAM bypasses all disk encryption methods

Cryogenically frozen RAM bypasses all disk encryption methodsYour correct.If you lock up your system and store in a safe when not in use then no one can get to it. As long you are using and in possession of the computer they can't do this. Also for those who are...

Tags: Memory, RAM, disk encryption method, Cryogenically, disk encryption

Discussion threads 2008-02-22

Nanotechnology-based flexible hydrogen sensors

Researchers from U.S. Argonne National Laboratory have developed flexible sensors for hydrogen vehicles. These sensors will be cheaper than previously designed hydrogen sensors because they will use only palladium nanoparticles instead of pure palladium. But they will be as efficient and could be used in many applications, like in vehicles,...

Tags: Space &, Aerospace, Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Nanotechnology on the catwalk

This event didnt take place in Paris or Milano, but at Cornell University during their Cornell Design League fashion show on April 21. Its now official: "nanotechnology has entered the fashion world." Fashion designers and fiber scientists have unified their efforts at Cornell to show a two-toned gold dress and...

Tags: Nanotechnology, Leisure, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-05-03

Growing metals on cotton

Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL have created a new form of metal crystals grown on cotton. Theyve used acid-treated cellulose fibers from cotton to crystallize them. Then, they grew all kinds of metal nanocrystals measuring between 2 and 200 nanometers on what they call "a cotton assembly...

Tags: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Blog posts 2007-03-27

Using nanodots for data storage

It seems that our appetite for data is growing faster than ever, doubling every year. So researchers are always trying to find new solutions. This time, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST and the University of Arizona, Tucson, have made nanodot arrays that respond to magnetic...

Tags: Nanotechnology, Computers &, Internet, Engineering &, Innovation, NIST

Blog posts 2007-01-21

Controlling the kernel - It's all about DRM

Controlling the kernel - It's all about DRMMessage has been deleted.You're just figuring this out now?Anyone paying attention could have told you this years ago, back in the Palladium days.One always has to remember--you, the user, are not Microsoft's customer. Microsoft's customers are the OEMs and the companies...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Kubuntu, Microsoft Windows Vista, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-10-20

Massive, under-reported online banking breach raises serious disclosure and remedy questions

Massive, under-reported online banking breach raises serious disclosure and remedy questionsHear! Hear!Whenever I read that ZDNet is just an industry shill, I shall think of this insightful, pointed and incisive article. The story here is the story, just what real journalisin is all about. Good work!More dangerous than the link...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, SECURITY, Social Engineering, online banking, phishing, bank

Discussion threads 2006-06-02

The myth of the missing Vista features

The myth of the missing Vista featuresVista is virtually a rewrite of WindowsThere is a huge amount of new and enhanced external features in Vista, and literally thousands new and enhanced internal features in Vista. Vista's development cost amounts to several billion dollars. Therefore Vista will be anything but a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, .NET, SAY IT, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-05-12

Ballmer: Not the time to scale back

Ballmer: Not the time to scale backBallmer has been NegligentDarn it -- if this fellow just paid attention to Microsoft rather than spreading himself so thin by also sitting on the board of Accenture, until recently, he would not have missed the great opportunities with multi-core business PCs/phones and consulting....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Investment, Financial accounting, Micrsoft, Windows Live Era, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Live Era

Discussion threads 2006-05-01

Intel's VPro to boost security

Intel's VPro to boost securityBe careful IntelIf the virus makers can't disable it, we can't disable. If the software malfunctions we are looking at some hellish tech support. I don't know how many times I've seen the norton or mcafee uninstallers fail and I've had to remove them manually which...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, security, Intel vPro, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-04-25

Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom finalize IPTV deal

Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom finalize IPTV dealI guess you haven't been watching...The news about Windows Enterprise Edition...And what......does any of that have to do with Deutsche Telekom and IPTV?Carl RapsonMoore's LawMoore's law is about Gordon E. Moore, a co-founder of Intel who after studying Douglas Engelbart's observations in 1965, set a...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Broadband Internet, Processors, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Deutsche Telekom AG, IP television, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2006-03-21

BitLocker, TPM, and tinfoil hats

A few weeks ago, the BBC News published a story that was literally true and hopelessly wrong. Under the headline UK holds Microsoft security talks, political reporter Ollie Stone-Lee wrote:UK officials are talking to Microsoft over fears the new version of Windows could make it harder for police to read...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, hard drive

Blog posts 2006-03-07

Stallman unbending on software patents

Stallman unbending on software patentsgreat license!The way it looks now, this license will last 100 years and will sped the demise of M$.Looks like a great license, and the final version will be even better.I hope to see lots of inovative ideas on how to do in better. But, sounds...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Linux, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, digital-rights management, software, Stallman

Discussion threads 2006-01-17

Intel battles rootkits with hardware

Intel battles rootkits with hardwareI though the new chip alreadycontained a hardware/software av solution.Is Intel so worried about AMD that they are grasping at straws. They can no longer stand on the merits of their chip alone.This will be another failed attempt to protect the uneducated PC user from...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Rootkits, Digital media, digital-rights management, hardware, Chinese OS, operating system, TCPA, rootkit, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-12-13