mmmm.... strawberries moving plate to plate. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Christopher Croad <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's been a long time since my days as an EE major in college, but I'm > thinking the electrons in a capacitor are relatively constant....they > migrate from plate to plate based on its charge state. > > O' course, that was 30 some odd years ago, so I'm probably way off base. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Christopher D. Croad, Director of Information Security > Information Technology and Services, Syracuse University > 205 Machinery Hall > [email protected] | 315-443-3989 > PGP Key Available at pgp.mit.edu (ID 0x8D8F9CD7) > Follow "SecureCuse" on Facebook and Twitter for InfoSec information! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ryan Dewhurst > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 10:36 AM > To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] how much does data weigh? > > Sounds accurate to me. > > I saw this the other day, not sure how accurate it is but kind of relevant: > > > http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/c25.0.843.403/p843x403/525017_10151286714802518_1541723172_n.jpg > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > > No idea why I woke up thinking about this but thought I'd share it with > you all. > > > > A 1 is stored in RAM by charging a capacitor, so the capacitor is full > > of electrons. That means if you set every bit in a 1G machine to 1 > > then it has to weigh more than if you set them all to 0. That would > > mean that at any point your computer is getting heavier or lighter > > depending on what it is working on. > > > > Is that right or am I talking rubbish? > > > > Robin > > _______________________________________________ > > Pauldotcom mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > -- Dan McGinn-Combs [email protected] Google Voice: +1 404 492 7532 Peachtree City, Georgia USA
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