Search and Seizure of Digital Storage Devices and Related Arguments

Digital multimedia devices for private usage have nowadays left their analogous counterparts behind. Our homes increasingly incorporate a digital communication infrastructure for interconnecting their various devices inside the house, and this infrastructure also gives access to external information via the Internet. Thus, we now store much of our personal information in digital form and information services like newspaper, radio, or TV are digitally available. The capacity of digital storage devices provides enormous space at affordable prices to save all this digital information into a giant personal multimedia archive; however, as is well known, the more data we store, the less information we have at our disposal. In this article, an approach to personal information management is described that is based on Semantic Web technology. In particular, the design decisions behind, and core features of OntoMedia, a software system based on a multimedia ontology that is intended for personal usage, are presented. OntoMedia supports users organizing personal multimedia archives using ontology powered metadata extraction and integration technology. The application includes a novel, easy to use graphical user interface to organize documents in categories and browse/query the semantic database.

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TO THE QUESTION OF RELIABILITY OF MODERN DIGITAL STORAGE DEVICES

Voronezh Scientific-Technical Bulletin ◽

10.34220/2311-8873-2021-4-4-11-15 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 11-15

Author(s):

Irina Gridneva ◽

Nikolaj Kamalov ◽

Andrej Gridnev

Keyword(s):

Integrated Circuits ◽

Significant Role ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

External Factors ◽

Assessment Data ◽

Storage Devices ◽

Digital Storage ◽

Modern Economy

Digital technologies play a very significant role In the modern economy. Therefore, the reliability of integrated circuits is one of the most pressing prob-lems. The article analyzes the results of assessing the reliability of storage devices of various capacity by assessing the complexity and influence of external factors. As a result of the study, it was found that, in combination with formalized modeling, the assessment data can be used to predict the reliability of modern storage devices of any capacity.

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Lichtenberger and The Three Bears

10.37419/lr.v4.i2.3 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 209-239

Author(s):

Samuel Crecelius

Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Developmental Psychology ◽

Fourth Amendment ◽

Individual Liberty ◽

Storage Devices ◽

Individual Privacy ◽

Digital Storage ◽

Legitimate Interests ◽

Private Search ◽

Just Right

Finding a happy medium is hard. Often, it is a challenge to find a workable balance between two unworkable extremes. Known as the “Goldilocks Principle,” this phenomenon has been observed in fields as diverse as developmental psychology and astrobiology. As Goldilocks found in the Three Bears’ house, “just right” may not come on the first attempt. We may have to explore the extremes of the spectrum—“too hot” and “too cold”—before we can settle on “just right. Goldilocks also discovered that this process is all the more difficult in a new environment—like the Three Bears’ house. Goldilocks persevered, however, until she found “just right.” Federal courts face a similar dilemma in the private search exception to warrant requirements under the Fourth Amendment. On one hand are legitimate individual privacy interests and on the other, the legitimate interests of law enforcement to protect society. Courts must not handcuff law enforcement agents in their duties in the name of individual privacy (“too cold”), but neither should they unreasonably curtail individual liberty by giving too much latitude to legitimate government interests (“too hot”). It is no small task to identify an appropriate compromise between the competing principles of protecting the privacy of American citizens and protecting American citizens from crime. Like Goldilocks, courts today also face this challenge in an unfamiliar world. What is the “just right” application of the private search exception in the world of digital storage devices, which hold staggeringly large amounts of data and whose structure challenges traditional Fourth Amendment concepts?

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It's about Time: Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-term Preservation, I

Microform and Imaging Review ◽

10.1515/mfir.2004.15 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

Keyword(s):

Dark Side ◽

Digital Information ◽

Digital Cameras ◽

Storage Devices ◽

Silicon Chips ◽

Performance Improvements ◽

Digital Storage ◽

Desktop Computers ◽

Long Term Preservation

One of the marvels of the information technology revolution is the continuous improvement in computer memory and storage performance and their simultaneous drop in cost. Thanks to what has been called “silicon scaling” the process power of a 1980s vintage mainframe computer now fits on miniscule silicon chips that can be embedded in any number of capture devices from complex remote sensors to consumer digital cameras. Digital storage devices and media have benefited from similar performance improvements and cost declines. Large organizations routinely add terabytes of storage capacity, and more and more individuals can afford laptop and desktop computers with tens of gigabytes of storage. One might suspect that archiving and preserving digital information would become easier and cheaper as a consequence of these improvements. But from a long-term preservation perspective, there is a dark side to the rapid growth in digital information. The technologies, strategies, methodologies, and resources needed to manage digital information for the long term have not kept pace with innovations in the creation and capture of digital information.

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Electron microscopy of niobium and tantalum hydrides

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100110362 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

pp. 644-645

Author(s):

T. Schober

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Heat Storage ◽

Measurement Techniques ◽

Metal Hydrides ◽

Detailed Understanding ◽

Storage Devices ◽

Unit Cells ◽

Endothermic Reactions ◽

Hydrogen Reactions ◽

New Phase

Nb, Ta and V are prototype substances for the study of the endothermic reactions of H with metals. Such metal-hydrogen reactions have gained increased importance due to the application of metal-hydrides in hydrogen- und heat storage devices. Electron microscopy and diffraction were demonstrated to be excellent methods in the study of hydride morphologies and structures (1). - Figures 1 and 2 show the NbH and TaH phase diagrams (2,3,4). EM techniques have contributed substantially to the elucidation of the structures and domain configurations of phases β, ζ and ε (1,4). Precision length measurement techniques of distances in reciprocal space (5) recently led to a detailed understanding of the distortions of the unit cells of phases ζ and ε (4). In the same work (4) the existence of the new phase η was shown. It is stable near -68 °C. The sequence of transitions is thus below 70 %.

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Digital imaging: When should one take the plunge?

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100165471 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

pp. 602-603

Author(s):

John F. Mansfield

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽

Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽

Optical Microscopy ◽

Digital Imaging ◽

Storage Devices ◽

Major Benefit ◽

Transmission Electron ◽

New Instrument ◽

Scanning Electron

The current imaging trend in optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) or transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is to record all data digitally. Most manufacturers currently market digital acquisition systems with their microscope packages. The advantages of digital acquisition include: almost instant viewing of the data as a high-quaity positive image (a major benefit when compared to TEM images recorded onto film, where one must wait until after the microscope session to develop the images); the ability to readily quantify features in the images and measure intensities; and extremely compact storage (removable 5.25” storage devices which now can hold up to several gigabytes of data).The problem for many researchers, however, is that they have perfectly serviceable microscopes that they routinely use that have no digital imaging capabilities with little hope of purchasing a new instrument.

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An aqueous hybrid electrolyte for low-temperature zinc-based energy storage devices

Energy & Environmental Science ◽

10.1039/d0ee01538e ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (10) ◽

pp. 3527-3535 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nana Chang ◽

Tianyu Li ◽

Rui Li ◽

Shengnan Wang ◽

Yanbin Yin ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Energy Storage ◽

Low Temperature ◽

Energy Storage Devices ◽

Storage Devices

A frigostable aqueous hybrid electrolyte enabled by the solvation interaction of Zn2+–EG is proposed for low-temperature zinc-based energy storage devices.

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