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IEEE 1667 pledges secure portable storage for all 25 November 2008 at 8:28 am by admin

IEEE 1667 pledges secure portable storage for all

If you use a thumb-drive sans security your data is just a vacant USB port away from being thrown up on the internet, assets exposed to the world like some drunken heiress. Even secure devices, whether they use biometric scanners, hardware encryption, or even more extreme measures, all leave a lot to be desired: no standards means limited compatibility, and secure data you can’t reliably access might as well be random strings of binary digits. The answer could be IEEE 1667, the “Standard Protocol for Authentication in Host Attachments of Transient Storage Devices.” Among other things it would enable you to restrict where your thumb drive will work and, conversely, what thumb drives your machine will accept. If it becomes the standard it was born to be you’ll be able to apply the same policies whether you’re opening Windows 7, cuddling with Snow Leopard, or making jazz-hands with something a little less mainstream. Will it succeed? CNET’s Jon Oltsik thinks Microsoft’s support for the standard is a good omen and says “Let’s all follow Redmond’s lead in this case for the greater good.” That’s certainly not something you hear every day, but this time we’re game.

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+ Liquid nitrogen-cooled MSI Wind U100 overclocked to 2.3GHz By admin 25 November 2008 at 7:59 am and have No Comments

When MSI rolled out its v1.09 BIOS, we’re willing to wager it absolutely did not have anything like this in mind. The mad scientists in Team Australia are at it again, this time overclocking a netbook to the point (almost, anyway) of implosion. The unafraid members grabbed hold of a hopeless Wind U100 with 2GB of RAM, hooked up a little liquid nitrogen and proceeded to push the poor 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU to an amazing 2.385GHz. No telling how quickly the whole thing was over, but still, this is pretty ridiculous, mate.

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+ Infrared-to-Bluetooth converter roundup: get universal control of your PS3 By admin 25 November 2008 at 7:29 am and have No Comments

So, here’s a conundrum for ya. Sony’s PlayStation 3 has been all but universally hailed as a stellar Blu-ray player and a respectable part of any home theater. But Sony forgot to include an IR receptor on the thing, making it incompatible with the vast majority of universal remotes on the market. Solution? An Infrared-to-Bluetooth converter. For the longest while, the original IR2BT was the de facto choice for handling the conversion, but now that it has been replaced with the more expensive (and versatile, in fairness) IR2BTci, CNET decided to roundup three other viable options so you, the almighty consumer, could make the choice that serves you best. Hit the read link for a gathering of the reviews, and don’t forget to curse Sony for making you go through this exercise in the first place.

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Infrared-to-Bluetooth converter roundup: get universal control of your PS3 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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+ RED making "Big Change" announcement on December 3rd By admin 25 November 2008 at 6:45 am and have No Comments

Oh noes, here we go again. At the risk of becoming RED’s marketing pawn, we’d be remiss to the gadget community by ignoring Jim Jannard’s latest attention begging tease. Titled simply, “Big Change…,” Jannard writes, “New announcement on Dec. 3rd. Everything has changed… just as we promised.” This comes after revealing “several nice breakthroughs” related to Scarlet and EPIC in the REDUSER forums. JJ then amps up the hype by calling the November 13th announcement of RED’s Digital Still and Motion Camera (DSMC) system “insignificant” by comparison. Ok Jim, we’ll be at your beck and call. But you’d better show up on the 3rd with something priced more competitively to Canon’s EOS 5D Mark II if you expect us to consider your modular SLR / HD video camera anything other than a novelty for the consumer or prosumer markets. In other words: please, with sugar?

[Thanks, Ben H.]

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