6 Billion Bits of Data About Me, Me, Me!
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A DNA code cracker got his genome. Lines form now for everyone else.
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By Lee Randall  REGULAR readers know I'm a great fan of the internet. I'm continually astounded by the wealth of data stored there and especially love the way one thing leads to another. It's a Mecca for anyone who enjoys meandering.
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Rethinking privacy in an immodest age.
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News and survey results from Computerworld's twice-annual storage conference.
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New site doses social networking with literate lists. Plus: Is
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A LIFE DECODED My Genome: My Life By J. Craig Venter Viking. 390 pp. $25.95 We already know some things about J. Craig Venter: for example, that the self-styled renegade biologist and genome sequencer has little patience for governmental or academic bureaucracy. There are also the biological deta...
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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During a recent six-week period, I conducted a small spyware experiment on my Windows computer. I kept track of days I opened Microsoft Internet Explorer.
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Massive database holds info on millions of voters, and is used to get people to the polls.
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An introduction to XML and DocBook: what is it and why should I learn yet another data format?
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A look back at where hard drives have been--and where they're going.
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Reg Reader Studies Your input essential, as ever
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Given at the University of Regensburg on Sept. 12, 2006
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Really. We mean it. Finally, a legit way to peek into your personal financial file.
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News, Infocus, Columns, Vulnerabilities, Bugtraq ...
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By BRIAN BERGSTEIN BOSTON - A new study that estimates how much digital information is zipping around (hint: a lot) finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all. Good thing we delete some stuff.
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IDC An exabyte is 1 quintillion bytes. In 2006 alone, the human race generated 161 exabytes of digital information. So? Well, that&#146;s about 3 million times the information in all the books ever written or the equivalent of 12 stacks of books, each extending more than 93 million miles from Earth to the sun. And, as a study from IDC ...