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• Public can purchase $100 laptop

  Wed Jan 10, 2007
  • The 'buy two at once' deal is great because $100 is too much for people in third-world countries even though it seems very low for those in developed nations.

• Why Google is the new Cisco

  Wed Nov 22, 2006
  • Investors: Stop pouring money into Google. It is a sad and absurd day on Earth when people seriously think a company with an operating income of $2bn should have a higher market capitalization than Intel (OI of $12.1bn) or IBM (OI of $9.1bn) or HP (OI of $3.4bn) or Apple (OI of $2.5bn).

• IBM and Cray win $500m DARPA handout

  Tue Nov 21, 2006
  • Also as an additional note, the supercomputers are actually expected to have a peak performance of 2 PetaFLOPs, or 2 * 10^15 floating-point operations per second. Floating-point means a number with decimals and on today's machines it refers to numbers with around 16 decimal digits of precision.

• The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei

  Tue Nov 21, 2006
  • One interesting note in the article is that physiologists normally predict the monks (given their caloric intake) should be losing weight at severely harmful rate, yet they manage to maintain a strong, healthy body. No one knows for sure why this is so.

• Attack code targets zero-day Mac OS flaw

  Tue Nov 21, 2006
  • It is important to note that security holes are part of every piece of software. The myth that OSX is immune to virii etc. has only been propagated because most malicious computer users will target the most-used applications (aka Windows).

• Google Sets Record as Stock Tops $500 (GOOG)

  Tue Nov 21, 2006
  • There is nothing to say here except that the stock is amazingly overpriced (P/E ratio over 60) and that the investors who pour money into Google (Market Cap: 155.03B) are not in touch with the tech market.

• Officer in Taser case identified

  Tue Nov 21, 2006
  • This guy was WAY out of line (see video). He was tased the student for not standing up - I am not sure if someone can stand up immediately after being tased a few times in a row so it seems very unreasonable. Furthermore, he tases the student even after he was handcuffed.

• Judge to Rule on Landmark Internet Porn Law

  Mon Nov 20, 2006
  • The road to an oppressive society comes in small steps not big ones. I feel it is important to keep tabs on lurker laws such as this one that can trespass on our rights.

• Google Stock Price Rises Above $500

  Tue Nov 21, 2006
  • I don't understand how Google's stock can be valued so highly. The company has only one major revenue stream and is spreading itself too thinly by introducing a flurry of new services every month.

• Companies Pursue Game Console Supremacy

  Mon Nov 20, 2006
  • It seems like the PS3 is doomed, however. Apart from high-costs due to so many proprietary technologies (Cell, Blu-Ray, last minute change on controller), they simply are not able to churn them out quick-enough.