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Google is among the biggest proponents of a collection of Web technologies that reproduce many important features of Adobe Systems' Flash, but it's not yet time for regime change at YouTube.

One of the most important parts of the upcoming HTML5 standard is support for video that can be built directly into Web page without requiring a plug-in such as Flash Player. Other open standards such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for formatting, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), and Web Open Font Format (WOFF) for typography can mimic Flash features, but Flash's ability to deliver streaming video to multiple browsers is one of the main reasons it's got such a STRONG INCUMBENT advantage.

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You probably saw the news this WEEK that we’ve sold 150 MILLION Windows 7 licenses in 8 MONTHS. That's more than 600,000 per day. And, perhaps fittingly for a PRODUCT called Windows 7, it adds up to 7 copies every second of every day since launch.

As a communications guy, I’m generally most comfortable with WORDS. But since Microsoft is a pretty numbers-driven company, the Windows 7 milestone got me thinking about some *other* numbers, too.

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Really interesting numbers.

Sony announced WEDNESDAY that it plans to recall AROUND 535,000 Vaio laptops due to overheating problems.

The company said that a flaw in the TEMPERATURE control can create an excessive buildup of heat that distorts the SHAPE of the UNIT. Though Sony hasn't heard of any problems with the Vaio in Japan, it said it received 39 complaints of overheating and distortion from customers abroad.

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Justice DEPT. defends warrantless cell phone tracking.
In a novel privacy case, Obama administration tells an appeals court that police should be able to learn the locations of mobile devices WITHOUT a search warrant.

Actually, they do have to get a court order, it's just not called a search warrant, so there are some protections.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00002703----000-.html

Interesting post about where Microsoft *could* be going on Windows 8.

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A big thanks to @floo1989 for the heads-up! Over the weekend, the Italian Windows site “Windowsette” got a hold of some SUPER secret SQUIRREL Microsoft presentations apparently laying around on the internet somewhere. I took a look through every single one of these, slide-by-slide, so I’m quite confident these are the REAL deal. I just feel bad for the poor sap who either leaked these or inadvertently shared these with the world. Long story short, these slide decks are chock full of internal thinking on Windows 8 — everything from customer target audiences to the Windows 8 developer MARKET to the Windows 8 PRODUCT cycle and much, much more.

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AP - The Obama administration SAID Sunday it intends to nearly double the available amount of wireless communications spectrum over the next 10 years in an effort to keep up with the ever-growing demand for high-speed video and data transmission to cell phones, laptops and other mobile devices

Johnny Mnemonic: Yeah, the Black Shakes. What causes it?
Spider: What causes it?
Spider: This causes it! This causes it! This causes it! INFORMATION overload! All the electronics around you poisoning the airwaves. Technological *bleep* civilization. But we still have all this *bleep*, because we can't live without it. Let me do my work.

Mozilla on Friday said that it had removed two FIREFOX add-ons from its Web site because they installed malware.

"Two add-ons in the experimental section of addons.mozilla.org were found to be containing malware," Mozilla said on its security blog. "These were not originally DETECTED with the anti-malware scanning tools that we have been using. We have since increased the number of scanning tools, and will be taking ADDITIONAL steps to minimize the risk of further incidents."

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The malicious add-ons have been identified as version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader and all versions of Master Filer. According to AMO's blog post, Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 included malware known as Win32.LdPinch.gen, while Master Filer included malware known as Win32.Bifrose.32.Bifrose Trojan.

Last week, we disclosed two instances of suspected malware in experimental add-ons on AMO. Since that DISCLOSURE, we’ve worked with security experts and add-on developers to determine that the suspected trojan in Version 4.0 of Sothink Video Downloader was a false positive and the extension does not include malware. The same investigation also confirmed that the Master Filer extension included a valid instance of a trojan. Our estimate of 6,000 affected downloads has been revised to under 700. The Sothink Video Downloader has been re-enabled on AMO. We apologize to our users and the developers of Sothink for any inconvenience this has caused.

Thanks to the team at McAfee for working with us to better understand this threat.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- SONY Corp.'s two American subsidiaries, Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Electronics Inc., together spent $730,000 in the first quarter to lobby the federal government on digital piracy and other issues, ACCORDING to disclosure reports.

Interesting article. Basically, even if you do steal their software they want you to patch it. Not doing so puts everyone at risk and enhances the chance that a virus will continue to be spread.

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Users of pirated copies of Windows take HEED: you should stay current on all Microsoft security PATCHES just like everybody else.

Microsoft has long had a policy of giving Windows pirates a free pass to download security patches. Yet many of the TENS of millions of Windows pirates worldwide may not be aware of this policy, nor trust that Microsoft won't TRY to somehow PENALIZE them, says Chester Wisniewski, security analyst at Sophos.

A number of users are reporting problems with their iPhone 4.


Full Story here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8759590.stmAnd that is why you never BUY a new PRODUCT when it first hits the market.thats why i only buy my GAMES when the frist come out, hehe finding GLITCHES in games is fun From CNN.

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(CNN) -- Hours after its iPhone 4 went on sale to excited crowds Thursday, Apple found itself responding to complaints that holding the phone by its metal edge causes mobile reception to suffer.

The company's response, in a nutshell? You're holding it wrong.

"Just avoid holding it in that way," Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrote in an e-mail that was MAKING the rounds on the Web on Friday morning.

An official statement from Apple expanded in less pointed language than Jobs, who is known to occasionally answer e-mails from customers himself.

"Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas," Apple said in a written statement.

Dell: 5% Margins For Consumer PC Business Is Sustainable
JUNE 24, 2010 Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100624-707389.html
Hard to believe.
At FIVE per cent a lot of companies are going to DROP out.
And if that is true, what is the point of fever building your own computer? As companies quit we will see a lot of PCs stuff show up in the over stock market below the coast of the PARTS if bought individually. While 5% profit margins doesn't sound like much, my limited understanding of the grocery business is that that operate on about half that much.According to http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=204979:

"According to their retail profiles for "grocery and beverage stores"
any store in the $15-$20 million range, the gross margins are 25.6%
(net margins are 6%)."

The article about Dell is REFERRING to net margin. So, they're slightly below grocery and beverage stores.
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According to http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=204979:

"According to their retail profiles for "grocery and beverage stores"
any store in the $15-$20 million range, the gross margins are 25.6%
(net margins are 6%)."

The article about Dell is referring to net margin. So, they're slightly below grocery and beverage stores.

why would you want to do that?

The idea of having two touch screens that can do just about anything sounds like a fantastic gadget that even James Bond would want to have.

Is it just me or does any one else find it amazing that the people in the bottom two pics managed to get their hands in the exact same locations on both pics.

Villian: say, what is that handy organizer gadget you have there? does it have TWO TOUCHPADS? OMG!

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The remarkable ability of an electron to exist in two places at once has been controlled in the most COMMON electronic material -- silicon -- for the first time.

"In our case we used a far-infrared, very short, high intensity pulse from the Dutch FELIX laser to put an electron orbiting within silicon into two states at once -- a so-called quantum superposition state. We then demonstrated that the superposition state could be controlled so that the electrons emit a burst of light at a well-defined time after the superposition was created. The burst of light is called a photon echo; and its observation proved we have full control over the quantum state of the atoms."

the reference to Schrodinger's cat isn't entirely accurate.

Mozilla is rolling out an update of its Firefox Web browser that adds support for plugin isolation. Version 3.6.4, which INCLUDES the new feature, was officially released on Tuesday and will be deployed soon through the browser's automated update system.

It is unusual for Mozilla to DEPLOY a major new feature in a minor POINT update, but the plugin isolation CAPABILITY is a worthy exception to the RULE, since it will significantly improve the browser's stability. In the new version of Firefox, plugin components like Flash and Silverlight will run in external processes. When these plugins crash, the browser itself will not be terminated.

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I got this update two days ago actually. I was also prompted to update Flash, which has a new "Global settings" option on right-click.Be careful with the Flash update as Adobe wants to include a McAffee component in the DLoad....many people miss the opt-out option...

Still, Samsung's sales figure highlights its emergence as one of the world's top technology companies. The Suwon, South Korea-based corporation is the largest manufacturer of computer memory chips, flat screen televisions and liquid crystal displays. It ranks No. 2 in cell phones behind Finland's Nokia Corp. ( NOK - news - people )

The Samsung Group (Korean: 삼성 그룹) is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It is the world's largest conglomerate by revenue[3][4] with an annual revenue of US $173.4 billion in 2008[2] and is South Korea's largest chaebol. The meaning of the Korean hanja word Samsung (三星) is "tristar" or "three stars".

The Samsung Group is composed of numerous international affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand INCLUDING Samsung Electronics, the world's largest electronics company,[5][6][7] Samsung Heavy Industries, the world's second largest shipbuilder[8] and Samsung C&T, a major global construction company.

Samsung has been the world's most popular consumer electronics brand since 2005 and is the best known South Korean brand in the world.[9] Samsung Group ACCOUNTS for more than 20% of South Korea's total exports[10] and is the leader in many domestic industries, such as the financial, chemical, retail and entertainment industries. The company's strong influence in South Korea is visible throughout the nation, which has been referred to as the "Republic of Samsung

Hello,

I'm NEW here and I have a question as a rookie.

My company is a KVM switches manufacturer. I don't know if I can post my company's press release regarding new products and applications in this FORUM ?

Thank you for your advise. No.
But if any company has something big and it hits the mainstream media it wail likely be noticed here.
Personally, I don't see how a new KM switch could make news.

May a new blue tooth KM device that lets five users use one PC all at the same time? With the new hi end QUAD core CPUS that would be a cool idea. Could reduce software licensing costs for office use.

Do you have anything LIKE that?

Based on FCC remarks.
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Do media OWNERSHIP limits make sense?
By JOELLE TESSLER, AP Technology Writer Joelle Tessler, Ap Technology Writer –June 21, 2010
WASHINGTON – Even the news industry's free fall probably will not be enough to wipe out complicated federal RULES designed to restrain the power of media companies.
For decades, the Federal Communications Commission has imposed strict limits preventing any company from controlling too many media properties in the same market. These limits were established to ensure that communities have choices of newspapers and local TV and radio stations.

Google beware: I.B.M has created a new supercomputer that has been touted as the "world's most ADVANCED 'question answering' machine." Named "Watson," after two of the company's former presidents, the powerful computer possesses an unprecedented ABILITY to understand questions asked in "natural" human language, and reply with the correct answer. To showcase its abilities, reports Clive Thompson in The New York Times, I.B.M RECENTLY pitted Watson against a group of former "Jeopardy!" contestants, who often LOST to the machine. Watson will even make an appearance on the trivia program this fall.

LINK -- YouTube video of it

In the LATEST update to Snow LEOPARD, Apple included software to protect Mac computers from a Trojan horse that has been distributed by attackers disguised as iPhoto, but which opens a back door on the machine, SECURITY firm Sophos said on Friday.

When Apple released OS X 10.6.4 on Tuesday, the company said it addressed certain COMPATIBILITY issues with VPN connections and other things, but failed to mention anything about adding an anti-malware update.

But buried in the code is an update to the XProtect.plist file, which contains signatures of malware written to target the Mac. The signatures now detect malware dubbed "HellRTS," Graham Clulely of Sophos wrote in a blog post.

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Can only imagine malware getting a HOLD of this and spamming your PRINTER.

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Hewlett-Packard plans to use Yahoo's advertising network in a pilot program that will deliver targeted advertisements for content printed with its latest line of Web-connected printers.

HP launched a line of Web-connected printers last week that allow users to print content directly from the Web or send content from their mobile phone to a remote printer using an e-mail address specific to that printer.

HP also launched a program called "scheduled delivery," where a user can regularly schedule printing, for example, portions of a daily newspaper every day at 7 a.m.

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We need more Malware REMOVAL Specialists...People are going to be real happy when they send something to print on their internet printer and when they get home and GO to check the printer, their document never printed because the printer was out of paper DUE to the all the spam it printed.

It's happened before on fax machines.

So how do we celebrate? Cake, champagne, crawl in a hole?

Someone HACKED into a 3Stars outdoor advertising screen on the Garden Ring road in Moscow about midnight last Thursday and ran a two-minute hardcore video clip.

The showing CAUSED a massive traffic jam but city officials said the good news was that there were no traffic accidents.

3Stars commercial director Viktor Laptev said "There was a hacker attack as a result of which a commercial was replaced with an obscene video in the control computer. It is unclear whether it was an act of HOOLIGANISM or competitors' intrigues."

The Moscow city advertising committee will investigate.

Story *Blocked Russian URL*/russia/20100115/157563445.html]here[/url] (and no, there’s no video).

Tom Kelchner

Thats Called And Real >>:EVIL Hacker

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60 Minutes warns elderly VIEWERS:
Fear the coming cyber-disaster!

The world at large no longer as easy as it once was to convince that the internet will turn their children's computers into ROBOT pedophile Hitler, the old media makes a fighting retreat into what is LEFT of its territory, the elderly and/or 60+ tech-unaware demographic.

Windows 7 SP1 coming Soon?
Is this the start of a rumor?

Here is a recent post by
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Windows 7 SP1 coming this SUMMER?
Word on the street is that Microsoft is hard at WORK on Windows 7 Service Pack 1. And while that's just a rumor for now, I'd be kind of surprised if it wasn't true. After all, Microsoft has a long history of putting out service packs that bundle together all of the incremental updates for each of its operating systems. Usually a service pack also includes a few new features. Here are a a few of things that Windows 7 SP 1 might include:

* All of the Windows updates that have been released so far
* Support for USB 3.0 and other new hardware
* Umm, that's about it
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From PC World.

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I've got GOOD news and bad news for those of the misguided PERCEPTION that LINUX is somehow impervious to attack or compromise. The bad news is that it turns out a VAST collection of Linux systems may, in fact, be pwned. The good news, at least for IT ADMINISTRATORS and organizations that rely on Linux as a server or desktop operating system, is that the Trojan is in a download that should have no bearing on Linux in a business setting.

Auto Defrag 2009, Win 7 news from last year.
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Like Windows Vista, Windows 7 allows for scheduled defragmentation JOBS. In fact, defragmentation is automatically scheduled by default, which means that most users will never have to adjust any settings in order to OPTIMIZE disk performance. WELL, assuming you don't turn off your computer at night, anyway. By default, the defragmenter is set to run at 1:00AM.
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Thursday, 21 January 2010
Microsoft recommends that customers install the update as soon as possible or update to the latest version of the web browser for "improved security".

Microsoft normally issues patches monthly but the high-profile nature of the attacks led it to act more quickly.

The patch - MS10-002 - was released worldwide at 1000 PST (1800 GMT).

"It ADDRESSES the vulnerability related to recent attacks against Google and small subset of corporations, as well as several other vulnerabilities," the firm said.

"Once applied, customers are PROTECTED against the known attacks that have been widely publicised."

Microsoft has admitted that it has known about the vulnerability since "since early September" 2009 and had PLANNED to patch it in February.

Amazing Portable Office Laptop.
This is terribly funny. John Dvorak on his blog has a piece about"My New Laptop arrived Today ".
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/
Just ignor his silly piece about"Are women taking over the world" and scroll down to the video about his new laptop. It is hilarious.Or is this a true prediction of the near future? Does he have some inside information? Is this a rumor?

So what do you think? Who will be the first to offer us this new technology? Will it come from Apple? Microsoft? Or maybe from some yet unknown company in MAINLAND CHINA?
Oh, please, somebody MOVE this to Off-topic. It's not worthy of being in the Computer News section. Quote from: soybean on June 12, 2010, 12:53:01 PM

Oh, please, somebody move this to Off-topic. It's not worthy of being in the Computer News section.

This is going to be a revolutionary release.

GREAT article: HTTP://techbytes4.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx-2-days-left-and-what-to-expect/ (Website homepage is http://techbytes4.wordpress.com/).While I'm sure it is improved over previous versions anybody who THINKS it will be "revolutionary" is going to be sorely DISAPPOINTED. DesqView was "revolutionary" as well. well im going to download it and try it out

This morning, AROUND 8 a.m. EST, I received a notice on my computer screen that Avast had surpassed 100,000,000 users. I don't SEE this on their website yet. I PRESUME it will be announced there soon. They were having a promotional campaign. Per http://www.avast.com/eng/news.html:

"avast! Free Antivirus, the world’s most popular antivirus software, is planning a special surprise for its 100,000,000th user.

The lucky PERSON will get much more than a confirmation email after registering their copy of avast! Free Antivirus. He or she will get an all expenses-paid trip to Prague – the historic capital of the Czech Republic and home to ALWIL Software, makers of the avast! antivirus programs."

So, apparently some very recent NEW user was the lucky person to win an all expenses-paid trip to Prague. I imagine we'll be seeing more news releases on this soon.with that 100M users I just wish I am the winner hehe!
I love avast, its doing its function very well. I tend to regard e-mails saying "You have won X, congratulations!" as Spam... i sure hope the lucky sod isnt like me Do U Think its Real

How Do Avast Creators Know That How Many Users r using that software!

Search Engine Land, the news and information site that broke the story about how Lauren Rosenberg was struck by a VEHICLE and is now suing Google, has an UPDATE to the story: it was dark outside, and Google maps instructed her to walk across the street.

Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan spoke with the lead attorney on Rosenberg's case on Tuesday. According to attorney Allen K. Young of Provo, Utah, law firm Young, Kester & Petro, "It was six in the morning. It was not a busy street [then]. She believed there was a sidewalk on the other side."

Apparently, Google Maps directed Rosenberg to cross the street, and she figured it was leading her to a sidewalk. Young says that it was dark outside, and there were no street lights, and Rosenberg had never been in the area before, so she was relying on Google to know where the sidewalks were at. She was, in fact, struck by Patrick Harwood's vehicle when she attempted to cross the street. There was no crosswalk.

Linkobviously google maps should have said "cross the road. Be sure to look both ways to ensure that you will not be struck by an oncoming vehicle. Additionally, ensure that if you need to run, that you are not holding scissors. Keep a Geiger counter handy to ensure that there isn't a deposit of radioactive materials stored in a below ground evil genius warehouse that google maps wasn't aware of."

It's utterly ridiculous. I travel almost every night when it's pitch dark through some areas that have no streetlights. First off: after a minute or so, your eyes ADJUST, even if you only have starlight. On the other hand, if your walking down the street continuously staring at a cellphone or something to try to "guide" you then your eyes never adjust. And in either case, you shouldn't be looking at some guide, you should be paying attention to were you're going. It doesn't matter how dark it is outside, unless your an ignorant fool following directions blindly your going to make some conscious observations about the surrounding environment, this includes such seemingly irrelevant things as those headlights coming TOWARDS you, as well as wether it's a crosswalk. If you're going to be so trusting of something that should supplement your own observations, not replace them, then you may as well be blind and deaf*, since you're ignoring those senses anyway.


*and possibly smell and taste as well. I hope you're happy lady. Instead if tasting a cheeseburger, pizza, ice cream, or anything, instead you should look it up and find out what it's SUPPOSED to taste like. far less effort.I guess it's a good thing that Google maps didn't tell her to jump off a cliff.

Frankly, someone should sue Lauren for being stupid. They would have more of a chance of winning that suit than she has against Google.lol, only in the free land of America where everyone can sue anything!

My favour is still this one: A criminal fell through a glass house roof which broke when trying to break into an old ladies home climbing up to the air vent. He sued the old lady and actually won the case.Quote from: Azzaboi on June 04, 2010, 04:17:02 PM

lol, only in the free land of America where everyone can sue anything!

My favour is still this one: A criminal fell through a glass house roof which broke when trying to break into an old ladies home climbing up to the air vent. He sued the old lady and actually won the case.

heh heh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09I4Mi5IUl4

I really like new interface. It much easier to navigate than the old one.

From Fierce Telcom.

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Do you know how fast your broadband speed is? Well, if your answer was no, you're not ALONE. According to an FCC survey, 80 percent of U.S. broadband USERS don't know how fast their connection is either.

In an effort to keep broadband PROVIDERS honest, the agency through its broadband speed initiative plans to compare the speeds consumers get against what broadband providers actually advertise.

One of the other takeaways from the survey was customer satisfaction. The survey revealed that while 91 percent of the survey respondents said they were "very" or "somewhat" satisfied with their wireline broadband service, only 71 percent were happy with their mobile broadband service.

To better understand what actual broadband speeds consumers are GETTING in their homes and wireless devices, the FCC has asked for 10,000 volunteers to participate in a scientific study to measure home broadband speeds. This study will become the foundation for the FCC's "STATE of Broadband" report later this year.

Haiti e-mail SCAM
Watch out for an e-mail like this:
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Hello Sir/Madam

The Red CROSS INTERNATIONAL Turkey hereby appeal to you friends, public, families and companies, to help US with online fund raising to ENABLE us treat Haiti Earthquake victims affected with Earthquake disaster across North America.
Visit http;/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8455774.stm to see why your help/money is highly needed.

Haiti e-mail SCAM
Watch out for an e-mail like this:This is Not from the Red Cross.
Video from New Your Post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e2DL-dGfl4
For more Google haiti earth quake scam

Quote from: Merlyn on June 08, 2010, 04:42:22 PM

E-Bay?
If you find it, send 1 to me!

This is an amazing, unbelievable – some would say shocking – revelation. Office copying machines CONTAIN hard disks that store an image of every page copied by the copier. The material is not encrypted, so if a burglar, corporate spy or identity theft ring gets hold of the copier’s hard disk, they can access a treasure trove of personal information about employees and clients. They can also access company financial information, trade secrets, pay checks… anything put on the copier is stored.

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Is there a specific type of copier or all of them do that Quote from: kanaan on May 28, 2010, 08:15:28 AM

Is there a specific type of copier or all of them do that

At issue are the hard drives embedded in most copiers and intelligent printers manufactured in the past five years.

Yet there are no laws to stop the Secret Service from using printer codes to secretly trace the origin of non-currency documents; only the privacy policy of your printer manufacturer currently protects you (if indeed such a policy EXISTS). And no law REGULATES what sort of documents the Secret Service or any other domestic or foreign government agency is permitted to request for identification, not to mention how such a forensics tool could be developed and implemented in printers in the first place.

I would guess that hard drives started showing up in copiers when they became combination copier and network printer.

If there was a user that was copying a big document and several other users sending jobs to the printer at the same time, it became cheaper to put in a hard drive than to add enough memory for all the jobs.

I imagine the software controlling the hard drive is either proprietary or Linux.

A simple fix would be to put a erase or delete button on the machine.

Pretty fascinating. Didn't think that the compression would cause that much of an issue, even at 1,000 times.

What happens when you upload a video to YouTube, then rip it from YouTube, and repeat that process again, a thousand times. The final digitally-distilled product bears little resemblance to the original, and becomes something of its own.

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My Computer Science teacher did something similar with a Visual Basic program saving and loading the same jpeg over and over.

First, we did it with a blue square overlapped by a red circle. after a while it just because a purple blur.

for a photo it just became a bunch of splotches.


I guess this is a sort of mpeg version of that jpeg experiment, Wow. I think this is called "too much free time".Quote from: rthompson80819 on June 04, 2010, 03:41:37 PM

Wow. I think this is called "too much free time".

Wow. I think this is called "too much free time".

• NAND-Based SSDs USE no capacitors they run on a circuit arragned in a Flip Flop manner where apply voltage to one input and it Sets the Output(1) or apply it to the other input and it Resets the Output(0), of course this would be constantly updated like a RAM chip.
• Flash Based SSDs are reliable and fast as well as no constant updating. but aren't the superman of the bunch.
• FRAM(Ferro-Electric RAM) are just recently DEVELOPED that operate like RAM(in the SPEED and simplicity) but with out the battery backup and constant updating, these also have a longer life span than Flash(the designers claim that it could never peter out). So far these are fairly expensive and can store less amount of data than a Flash chip of relative size.

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Microsoft plans to SHUT down BING Cashback, the service that offered online SHOPPERS cash rebates for buying products after searching for them on Bing.