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Friday, 7-December-2012 10:54:42 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Your TV might have targeted ads soon. Verizon filed for the application in May 2011, and it was just published last week. (By law, all patent applications are published after 18 months.) In the document, which was first noticed by FierceCable, Verizon gives two examples of the context-sensitive DVR’s use in a couple’s living room: sounds of arguing prompt ads for marriage counseling, while sounds of “cuddling” prompts ads for contraceptives. Charming.
Anandtech look into spare area vs performance in SSDs. It's because of this relationship between write amplification and spare area that we've always recommended setting aside 10 - 20% of your SSD and not filling it up entirely. Most modern controllers will do just fine if you partition the drive and leave the last 10 - 20% untouched. With TRIM support even the partitioning step isn't really necessary, but it does help from a data management standpoint. The real question is what's the relationship between spare area and IO latency/performance consistency.
If you're still getting called by tech support scammers, you might enjoy this story. The FTC’s strategy of gathering evidence involved having trained agents go undercover as helpless consumers. No surprise there. But instead of waiting for a call, the FTC’s investigators called up the scammers themselves, using undercover identities not associated to the FTC.
But if it all goes wrong, you can always get it to fry itself. Users, much like Neo in ye 'ole Matrix, will have two colored choices to make: select the green button for "intelligent elimination" (aka overwriting of data) or opt for the "less subtle method" offered by the red button which applies a current to the NAND flash memory for actual physical destruction of your data.
Skymaster spotted some old IT ad favourites on NetworkWorld. Elvira hawking development software, a computer with "briefcase portability," the cure for COBOLitis... Advertisements published in Computerworld since 1967 have promised all this and more. Here are 10 of the most entertaining IT ads from the archives for our 45th anniversary. That reminds me of our Time Warp Computer Prices article - and speaking of time warps, that was 8 years ago now!
Booj spotted this PSU you don't want to own. Why look, this thing is supposedly good for servers. Let me ask you this - are you going to put a $20 power supply in a server? If so, come over here so I can smack you. Better yet, wait for the load testing pages so I can show you the consequences of such a deed.
Today's Christmas-themed timewaster is 8-bit Elf, a space invaders clone, from Hubert.
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