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I doubt the chip is counterfeit. CMOS circuits are naturally light sensitive. For most chips, the solution to this problem is to use black opaque packaging. The issue is due to fully encapsulating parts, the actual die is much smaller than the package. This tends to be a problem for small...

Will make for a cool half time show while watching the Seahawks win the super bowl again. :D

Anti-virus software just uses blacklists to detect known threats and heuristic scanning to look for virus like patterns. This only really works for known threats and very limited set of unknown threats. Instead the solution is to do whitelisting with something like Bit 9. It will only allow...

This is truly a huge loss! Apple's stock hasn't been this low in over 2 weeks. :rolleyes:

Um, 20nm TSMC is already in mass production at Fab12 and ramping production at Fab14. The fact is TSMC is ramping production of 20nm much faster than 28nm. They expect to ship 300,000 wafers this year and 1M wafers in 2015.

1) Don't buy popcorn and drinks in the theater. 2) Get discount tickets online: http://www.costco.com/.product.100070198.html?cm_sp=RichRelevance-_-itempageVerticalRight-_-CategorySiloedViewCP&cm_vc=itempageVerticalRight|CategorySiloedViewCP Much cheaper. :D

So the author discounts self driving cars because they are going to cost hundreds of millions and take several years to develop and his solution is public transportation? The BART extension mentioned at the end of the article is budgeted at $6.1 billion and won't be in service until 2025.

Wrong company. This is Motorola Solutions, not Motorola Mobility.

Between tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and winter storms, there isn't many places left that also have sufficient cheap electricity and major fiber back-haul connections for a large datacenter.

There is a lot of things beyond just natural disasters that can cause a datacenter to go offline. If you are trying to build a reliable service, it is better to build multiple data centers for redundancy than have one that you try to keep 100% uptime on.

Not the first time Loon has been confused for a UFO. If you look you can find pictures from the past two years of sightings. http://www.openminds.tv/multiple-witnesses-spot-a-strange-ufo-above-dos-palos-ca-829/16677

If this is no different from service packs than why the heck isn't MS supporting it like they do with service packs?

I stopped reading at Phantom. That was a scam to begin with and then they sued [H] for pointing that out. No way in hell was it going to succeed. http://www.hardocp.com/article/2003/09/17/behind_infinium_phantom_console/#.Uy88uaZgEs0

John Cage lawsuit in 3...2...1...

Glad I use Lynx. :D