The wireless industry wants you to believe that Bluetooth devices are safe from hacking. They're rather unhappy that the guys at Flexilis in Los Angeles have developed a Bluetooth "sniper rifle" with which they can hack into, and steal data from, a Bluetooth device from a mile away. And that's not the limit -- the article notes that a version with a parabolic dish antenna could be much more powerful.
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technoshaman)
Sony has just announced the technical details of their Playstation 3. 3.2GHz PowerPC CPU with twice the processing power of MS's Xbox 360, 3.2GHz XDR system RAM, nVidia RSX graphics with 256MB of GDDR3 packing twice the punch of a GeForce 6800... HDTV output up to 1080p, Dolby 5.1 with DTS, a Blu-Ray DVD drive ... sounds like the Xbox 360, liquid-cooled or not, may be obsolete before it even ships. Meanwhile, MS apparently continues to try to cover up design flaws in the original Xbox that can cause failure of the Xbox, electrical fires, or even, reportedly, cause the Xbox to explode.
Or rather, a question. I was recently observing the availability of SATA DVD writers, and the question occurred to me: Is there any actual advantage to an SATA DVD drive over a PATA one, other than just eliminating PATA devices? Does a DVD writer actually transfer enough data to make the higher bandwidth significant? If you have an existing PATA DVD writer, is there any compelling technical reason to replace it with an SATA one?
Inquiring minds want to know.