Cool! Here's some other Fiber news.
While not the impressive distance...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/29/proximus_huawei_trial_terabit_fibre_speed/
single super-channel optical transport network (OTN) card with a transmission speed of a pretty hefty 1Tbps, running along Proximus' optical backbone.
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The companies claim their approach increases the capacity on a fiber cable by compressing the gaps between transmission channels. "The technique increases the density of the transmission channels on fiber, making it around 150 per cent more efficient than today’s typical 100Gbps core network links," they said.
 
Now if they could combine them...

So... Y2k15?

@scottalanmiller said:

Most news outside of the US is about the US. More news happens here. More security problems, more crime. Just more to talk about.

More 'Murica

OK it didn't work for Salmon crested cockatoo either. interesting.

and no this isn't a slam, just a point of note.

And think about how many things cannot be reasonably secured.... Heartbleed is a great example. You discover you have Heartbleed, so either you wait for a patch and hope for the best or it is available and you patch right away. A security department telling you that things are vulnerable does no good as you would have already known. You just need people to help with the actual patching!

@dafyre said:

Hasn't Intel already done this too?

Yup

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I want even suggesting that our liberties, security and protection be removed be a criminal request that would land you in jail. But sadly, he still roams free.

I agree, Scott... Maybe we should start petitioning our state and national leaders to craft a bill of some sort... We'll call it the "Lock 'em up and throw away the key" bill.

The Law: Any elected or appointed government official, national, state, or local, that in any form, being verbal, written, or otherwise tries to push through, pass, or create a bill that that would infringe upon rights granted to all non-incarcerated citezens by the Constitution of the United States of America shall be immediately locked up in the nearest maximum security correctional facility, stripped of their title and elected privileges, and shall remain there until they are dead.

Gosh... that sounds kinda harsh, don't it?

Harsh is what is needed. Someone intending to oppress and terrorize the citizenry should be treated very harshly. Just because our laws currently allow such unethical, immoral behaviour doesn't mean it supports our ethical code, our social code or the freedom of our people.

I started with an Amiga 500, then 2000 and settled on a 2500 for years...and I had one on a desk running up until 2007 or so. Now, I just fire up Amiga Forever for my Amiga fix but I still have a 500 in the attic and a TON of floppies. I have some word processing documents from college I'd LOVE to get off of there and archive.

It's not 100% perfect, but pretty good. Very low risk.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

If the hardware is having issues, the vendor shouldn't be allowed to not support you - I recall Scott mentioning in the past that some court case basically set this precedent when it came to servers and running things like NON OEM RAM.

It's an automotive case from like the 1960s.

Yet that might change soon in the US. Cars are going to be licensed for use like software. It's copyright infringement to change the parts on the cars is what they are trying for.

Do you have an article link?

@nadnerB said:

So the Apple has been rotting for 6 months, yet no one has thrown it out?
lol, couldn't resist.

Youtube Video

@Dashrender said:

The quote indicates leaving 6 billion on the table, i.e. shrinking the market value... sure they are talking about increasing their own share, but the market overall would be shrinking. Wouldn't others step in to bring the market back to the full 9 billion? or am I missing something? the market has already shown that it's willing to pay at least 9 billion to do what they do.

The market was willing to pay $9bn when no other options existed. Other options now exist. Like any market, competition shrinks markets. Just like how IBM, HP and Dell have decimated the server market total size by lowering the cost per company. And how Amazon has. But as we have seen Amazon killing the server market still makes Amazon a LOT of money!

@Carnival-Boy said:

@Dashrender said:

I agree with Nick and Scott - while this is not good, it's definitely not as bad as it sounds... the bad thing - non technical people won't understand why and they'll just crucify LastPass instead.

I'll include myself as non technical person here. It does further put me off hosted solutions. That's not the only reason I use on-premise (Keepass) as I didn't really like LastPass when I tried it anyway. I do store my Keepass databases in the cloud though, but that's a different risk.

The sad fact of the matter is that unless you completely unplug yourself, you just can't avoid hosted solutions. I say sad, and others will say, what makes it sad? Life has so many advantages today because of the hosted/integrated solutions - this is a conundrum I haven't reconciled yet.

@dafyre said:

@coliver Yeah. Her school was using the Promethean brand, I think. They used short throw projectors and special software on the PC and the big fat stylus, lol.

Oh, yep the Promethean stuff was really nice, right around the same price but they didn't have an integrated projector that the ones we were getting did. Leveling those smartboards was probably one of the worst things... since they were installed over blackboards normally they would shift randomly and go crazy between presses of the stylus.

This looks really promising for businesses though as many probably don't know about the Smartboard/Promethean brands.