Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 11:08AM | Post a Comment Big Media and friends continue to pedal bogus numbers to drum up support for SOPA:
“The only way to explain the longevity of these figures, if we charitably rule out deliberate deception, is to infer that the people repeating them simply did not care whether what they were saying was true.”
Monday, January 16, 2012 at 2:41PM | Post a Comment Responsive design is nice and all, but sometimes I don't need or want to be served a mobile site, especially on my iPad. How about being a little more responsive and at least give me a link to your regular site.
Monday, January 16, 2012 at 6:10AM | Post a Comment Nice BBC roundup of Google’s adventures in Kenya and Rupert Murdoch’s Google-esque Twitter temper tantrum. Odds are the Kenya flap is down to local employees or contractors going over the line. If their behavior was at the behest of company policy, we’d be hearing similar reports from other locations. Murdoch’s attacks are pointless and ill-informed, maybe deliberately so. Murdoch, et al, continue to blame Google for returning links to sites that distribute copyrighted material. (It’s more than a bit like holding a Murdoch newspaper responsible for crime in London because they report on it.) Either no one has bothered to tell Murdoch how the net works, or he knows, sees it as a threat, and wants to roll it back.
It is important to pressure Google to live up to its professed standards. But, let’s not get confused. Google is on the right side of the line and Murdoch and friends are on the other.
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 9:28AM | Post a Comment IBM researchers have created a 12-atom magnetic memory bit. That’s very cool.
Your typical hard disk uses about a million atoms to store a bit. That’s eight million to store a byte.
I hope this makes it out of the lab and into real life. The implications for the size and capacity of storage devices are obvious.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 5:57PM | Post a Comment A new study says our galaxy probably has 100 billion planets, give or take.
If Earth is the only planet to harbor intelligent life, then we are the result of a 1-in-100 billion chance. With the ability to sniff out the telltale signs of life in the atmospheres of exoplanets coming very soon now, it won’t be long before those odds begin to shrink.