If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will do them in.
State of the internet 2009 - Just Numbers
What happened with the Internet in 2009? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more.
Email
* 90 trillion - The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
* 247 billion - Average number of email messages per day.
* 1.4 billion - The number of email users worldwide.
* 100 million - New email users since the year before.
* 81% - The percentage of emails that were spam.
* 92% - Peak spam levels late in the year.
* 24% - Increase in spam since last year.
* 200 billion - The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam).
Websites
* 234 million - The number of websites as of December 2009.
* 47 million - Added websites in 2009.
krebson drops the guantlet... vulnerabilities will rock server community
'After working with the vendors long enough, we've come to conclusion that, to put it simply, it is a waste of time. Now, we do not contact with vendors and do not support so-called "responsible disclosure" policy,' Legerov said."
a slew of previously undocumented vulnerabilities in several widely-used commercial software products, including Mysql, Tivoli, IBM DB2, Sun Directory, and a host of others will be posted. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Infobesity... the result of excessive infocalorie consumption.
Bloated with mediocrity as they track their passive lives...
The average twittering brain has 126 followers which implies that an average of 126 brains are being followed back. If all these users stick to an average of 22 TPD (Tweets Per Day), reading the tweets will consume approximately 2.5 hours per day (not to mention responding to them).
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