Thursday, January 23, 2003

News.com: Senate limits Pentagon 'snooping' plan. Legislators restrict a Pentagon data-mining program in order to limit, as Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden put it, "the government's ability to snoop on law-abiding Americans." [CNET News.com]
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A genetics researcher in New Hampshire carries around the entire Human Genome on spare space on his iPod, rather than wait for the data to transfer over the university network.

After all, the iPod can download up to 1,000 songs in less than 10 minutes. What's 3 billion As, Ts, Cs, and Gs? Well, with 4x compression, Gilbert estimates, the human took up less than 1GB of disk space on his 5GB iPod, which also contained 300 songs. He recently upgraded to a 10GB iPod, on which he stores 600 songs plus the human genome.
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(Thanks, Aaron!) [Boing Boing Blog]
12:45:25 PM    comment []  


Salon: Is there hope for Java?
9:01:25 AM    comment []  

I figured out how to get NetNewsWire to post to my blog, and I have to say I love it! Radio is so slow and clunky as a news aggregator, and I never realized it until I tried this. Perhaps at some point I'll come up with a better web UI for news aggregation, and submit it back to Dave.
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