Kids say what?

While I was out at the stores today I heard some of the weirdest things from some kids walking around with their parents..

The first one was a 8 or 9 year old boy walking around Target with his father. They were in the movie section and the kid saw the movie Get Rich or Die Trying and picked it up and told his dad that he wanted it. He said it was his favorite movie and he wanted it. His dad looked at the back of it and saw that it was rated R and told him no. So the kid was a little upset.. According to IMDB, the reason it is rated R is “for strong violence, pervasive language, drug content, sexuality and nudity.” Wonder how the kid saw it in the first place?

The second one was a 3 or 4 year old girl walking with her parents through the super market. As they were walking in front of me the little girl said “can we go out for dinner tonight?” I was expecting her to say something like McDonald’s or the such. But her parents started asking why she wanted go to out to eat and she said something that I could not hear. She then said, “can we please go out to eat? I want to go to Oliverio’s which is a good Italian restaurant downtown. Shocked me to hear a little 3 or 4 year old asking to go there.

What is the most expensive storage medium?

While I was waiting at the grocery store this evening, I was walking around and went past their “office supply” isle… To my surprise they had a box of 10 1.44mb floppy disks. The cost was $4.99 for roughly 14MB of disk space. (I bought a 1GB flash drive not long ago at K-Mart for $9.99)… Interestingly right next to the floppy disks there were a 10 pack of 700 MB cd-r’s. They were $7.99….So a little bit of math:

Disk Size Cost for 1 disk Cost per Meg
Floppy 1.44MB $0.49 ~$0.35
CD-R 700MB $0.79 $0.001
4GB Flash Drive* 4000MB $34.99 $0.008
300GB HD* 300,000MB $79.99 $0.0003

As you can see the Floppy disk is still the most expensive medium around. What is funny is I haven’t seen a home computer/laptop in years that actually come with a floppy disk any more.

*- Represents prices of said drive from a local office store sale price for this week.

Yet more “data” lost

Well it seems that yet another “tape” has been lost with peoples data on it.. GE Money is now reporting that 650,000 store credit card users could have their information in the hands of some one else. This seems to be a common quote now adays:

Getting data off the tape would be a chore for thieves according to Iron Mountain, although it said it regretting misplacing the tape. “We occasionally make mistakes,” a spokesperson told the Associated Press.

Why do they always think that it is going to be such a ‘chore’ for thieves to get data off of the tapes. I can almost bet that most people are NOT encrypting their data before it gets put on tape.