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NIST System Replicated by Chip Maker (NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jun 2016
Conventional computer dynamic RAM works by storing binary data as charge states in arrays of minuscule capacitors. That requires an electrical current to perform memory operations, and then more current to continuously refresh the system so that the data will not be lost as the capacitors gradually discharge, a condition called volatility....

The Future Endorses Bernie Sanders

Edit Inquisitr 02 Jun 2016
A vote for anyone other than Bernie Sanders is a vote for near term extinction. This is a hard piece to write. I have children, and I really don’t want them reading this. I don’t want to scare them. But as their mother, I have to sound the alarm. A vote for anyone but Bernie Sanders is a vote for the end of the human race. The planet is stressed to the max ... We have all seen the signs ... — N ... You can’t eat binary data....

Badass Digital Publishing Platform Will Archive Its Content on Nickel Plates for 10,000 Years

Edit Slate 13 May 2016
Humans produce digital data every minute, and it’s still an open question whether we should be archiving all of it—and, if so, how ... 1, the decision was clear ... So the group made an elaborate and awesome plan ... The complete data trove will be etched onto at least five 2-inch–by–2-inch nickel plates that can withstand exposure to fire and salt water to last for 10,000 years. These aren’t DVDs or flash drives that store binary data, though ... 1....

1,000,000,000 TB in a gram [US]

Edit Ars Technica 28 Apr 2016
Microsoft is buying ten million strands of DNA from biology startup Twist Bioscience to investigate the use of genetic material to store data ... These properties make it an intriguing option for long-term data archival. Binary data has already been successfully stored as DNA base pairs, with estimates in 2013 suggesting that it would be economically viable for storage of 500 years or more....

1,000,000,000 terabytes in a gram

Edit Ars Technica 28 Apr 2016
Microsoft is buying ten million strands of DNA from biology startup Twist Bioscience to investigate the use of genetic material to store data ... These properties make it an intriguing option for long-term data archival. Binary data has already been successfully stored as DNA base pairs, with estimates in 2013 suggesting that it would be economically viable for storage of 500 years or more....

Introducing IBM RapidBuild -- MongoDB, IBM Power Systems & Avnet Collaborate to Simplify Deployment of Mission Critical Apps (MongoDB Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016
(Source. MongoDB Inc) ... MongoDB's rich feature set, scalability, and flexible data model enable you to store and process data of any structure. social and mobile data, time series data, geospatial coordinates, text and binary data, and anything else ... Before joining the company, Alan was responsible for WW Cloud & Data Center Automation Sales at BMC Software managing a $200M annual revenue business unit that touched over 1000 customers....

April 2016 SETT Article: Protocol Parsing in Scala, Part II (OCI - Object Computing Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Apr 2016
(Source ... April 06, 2016 ... While binary data protocols have been around for decades, so too have text-based ones ... In Part I of this article, scodec, parser library for Scala to parse binary data was discussed....

New NIST Security Standard Can Protect Credit Cards, Health Information (NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Mar 2016
The publication addresses a longstanding issue in many software packages that handle financial data and other forms of sensitive information ... According to author Morris Dworkin, the new techniques are more suitable for this purpose than NIST's previously approved encryption methods, which were designed only for binary data - the frequently lengthy strings of 1s and 0s used by computers....

March 2016 SETT Article: Protocol Parsing in Scala, Part I (OCI - Object Computing Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Mar 2016
This article discusses the scodec parser library for Scala to parse binary data, and part II of this article will demonstrate the Scala Standard Parser Combinator Library which is useful for parsing text....

decontis ASN.1 Decoder

Edit ZDNet 01 Mar 2016
ASN.1 Decoder is a helpfully tool for decoding of binary data which are encoded according to ASN.1 basic encoding rules (BER). E.g.... ....

ARGF, a Shortcut for Scripts

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
It is a common task in system scripts to read all files mentioned in the argument list and process them all as a single stream of bytes ... Preparing for ARGF ... If you're dealing with binary data or text from another operating system (Windows and Linux use different line ending characters, for example), you may want to set binmode ... each and each_line - These are the main ways to iterate over all data in the ARGF stream ... ....

Iterating Over Strings

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Even with the modern toolkit of regular expressions and methods like split, partition or scan, you may still want to iterate over strings manually. Perhaps the strings hold some encoded data, or you simply need to count certain characters ... Historically (read ... each_byte. Maybe you don't care about unicode? Maybe this string contains binary data which might not be valid UTF-8? In this case, what you really want is the each_byte method....

Base64 in Ruby

Edit About.com 18 Feb 2016
Computer users wanted to send binary files to other users, but the only way they could reach them (other than sending tapes through the mail) was email and systems like Usenet ... Long story short, you can use Base64 to store binary data where text is expected ... It works by encoding each two bytes of the binary data as 3 printable characters ... This includes a string loaded from a file or a string with binary data....
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