Archive for 2007/10/15

Phantom vibrations shake ‘crackberry’ addicts

2007/10/15/1612

RTFA: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/10/11/phantom.v…

Many mobile phone addicts and BlackBerry junkies report feeling vibrations when there are none, or feeling as if they’re wearing a cell phone when they’re not.

I don’t consider myself a cell phone addict and I’ve never used a BlackBerry, but I’ve definitely experienced phantom vibrations before.

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Hard Drive advance could launch terabyte era

2007/10/15/1606

RTFA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7044606.stm

A single hard drive with four terabytes of storage (4TB) could be a reality by 2011, thanks to a nanotechnology breakthrough by Japanese firm Hitachi.

The company has successfully managed to shrink the read-write head of a hard drive to two thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.

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Republicans fire back at Sanchez for Iraq war criticism - CNN.com

2007/10/15/1025

RTFA: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/14/sanchez.rea…

Republicans reacted with surprise and recrimination Sunday to blistering criticism of the Iraq war from former coalition commander retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez.

Lawmakers lashed back at retired Gen. Ricardo Sanchez on Sunday after he criticized the war effort.

On Friday, Sanchez, who was coalition commander in 2003 and 2004, called the Iraq war “a nightmare with no end in sight.” He said the Bush administration, the State Department and Congress all share blame.

Speaking with military reporters in Virginia, Sanchez also said such dereliction of duty by a military officer would mean immediate dismissal or court martial, but the politicians have not been held accountable.

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