Your Hard Drive Lies to You

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[Computer Alchemy] fenderdb writes "Brad Fitzgerald of LiveJournal fame has written a utility and a quick article on how all hard drives from the consumer level to the...

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Warping it up! » Blog Archive » Your Hard Drive Lies to You: and a quick article on how all hard drives from the consumer level to the highest level ‘enterprise’ grade SCSI and SATA drives do not obey the fsync() function. Manufacturers are blatently sacrificing integrity in favor of scoring higher on ‘pure speed’ performance benchmarking.”

Slashdot | visa blog: Rick Zeman writes "As reported by Money Magazine, J.P. Morgan Chase, the US' 2nd largest bank, is rolling out 'contactless' credit cards, presumably using RFID technology. 'The new payment method doesn't require a customer signature, making it more convenient and time-saving for consumers' which leads me to wonder if the next crime wave of the future will be criminals walking through crowds with readers to grab customer info. Chase says, however, that 'new cards are embedded with encryption software to prevent duplication and data theft' but since RFID has been cracked before, and the criminals are usually more clever than the vendors....

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Warping it up!: Bruce Bryson writes: “This is a visual journey consisting of 42 images—42 powers of ten. At one end of the journey is the immensity of the known universe, 13.7 billion years old with a radius of at least 12 billion light years (and probably much larger). At the other end of the journey is a depiction of the three quarks within a proton.”

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Posted at May 23, 2005 02:50 PM