Comment Re:Hope the U.S. stages in charge. (Score 1) 155
Where are my mod points?
Inside the Rise of the Domain Name System 74
Greg Huang writes "Looking back, it's almost impossible to believe that for most of the 1990s, a single company, Network Solutions, had a government-issued monopoly on registering domain names on the Internet. And considering how central the company was to the growth of the Web, it's surprising how little of the company's back story — how it got into the domain name business, or who owned it — has been told. Xconomy has an in-depth interview with two former executives from SAIC, the secretive San Diego defense contractor that bought Network Solutions in 1995 for $5 million and sold off the domain registration business in 2000 for billions of dollars."
Comment This is scary... (Score 4, Insightful) 137
... so many people being given assurance of "complete privacy", wonder how many will believe it almost blindly, indulge in piracy (or whatever the civilized world calls it), get caught and get into unnecessary trouble.
And what are the bets that the demographics of these 180,000 people is among some of the better placed and prosperous human beings on this planet?
About getting into trouble part, I do hope I am wrong though...
Comment Re:Oh for crying out loud (Score 1) 114
You have beautifully summarized the overall objective that drives decision making and actions of the RIAA.
Thank you.
New Memristor Makes Low-Cost, High-Density Memory 86
KentuckyFC writes "A group of electronics engineers have discovered that a thin layer of vanadium oxide acts as a memristor, the fourth basic component of circuits after resistors, capacitors, and inductors that was discovered last year. At a critical temperature, a current passing through the layer causes it to change from an insulating state to a metal-like state, thereby changing its resistance (abstract). The effect lasts many hours — which is what makes the layer a memristor (a resistor with memory). The team says this could be scaled up to make resistive random access memory, or RRAM, at very low cost, from little more than layers of vanadium oxide."
Comment Re:Good for India. (Score 3, Interesting) 201
I am an Indian. I live in New Delhi.
Having a a fair amount of exposure to the business world (2 decades), I have experienced more than my share of arrogance and well, I also have experienced the brilliance of the people from US and Europe.
Things are changing, attitudes to Indians are becoming a little more respectful (though we tend to exasperate a lot of people with our casual attitude at times ...)
India had made immense investments in education, science, technology, poverty alleviation schemes and infrastructure etc... though not always wisely, efficiently and hardly ever in ways free from corruption and exploitation by the political-business interest groups,
Thankfully, something still got through to the people and they made the best use of it.
That is the story of India: We are making it despite the government, which much to its dismay (any govt in power, I am happy to say, is discovering this), is finding that it has to give back to the people something, else it gets voted out of power.
Democracy rocks. In India, it may be chaotic, but at the end of the day it works.
I dunno why. :)
I am loving it!
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