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  1. Re:Try out? by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1 · on Intel Has a New Spectre and Meltdown Firmware Patch For You To Try Out (betanews.com)

    Always mount a scratch monkey.

  2. Re:Big problem for my lab by ewhac · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Will Resume Pushing Windows 10 To Machines With Win7, 8.1 (computerworld.com)

    I run a laboratory. The control software and the equipment are only rated for Windows 7. I have had to be vigilant about this because an upgrade would screw up $400,000 worth of analytical equipment.

    I hope you have mounted scratch monkeys...

  3. Re:Cost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on "Magic Helmet" For F-35 Ready For Delivery

    "Always mount a scratch monkey".

            http://edp.org/monkey.htm

  4. Re:Ridiculous by selven · · Score: 1 · on Humans Will Need Two Earths By 2030

    1) Every revolution in history
    2) Arguably, World War I
    3) http://www.fragilecologies.com/aug29_98.html

    Kenya, for example, blamed the destruction of its transportation infrastructure on the heavy rains that occurred during 1997-98 El Niño. However, many observers now charge that the destruction of that infrastructure was due for the most part to government neglect of needed repairs for more than a decade and a half.

    4) http://edp.org/molasses.htm

    Before the explosion, the tank's owner, U.S. Industrial Alcohol, responded to warnings about structural problems with the tank by painting it brown, making it harder to see the molasses leaking out of the tank.

  5. But don't do that on your vax! by jonaskoelker · · Score: 1 · on Monkeys With Syntax

    But first, be sure to mount a scratch monkey! :)

    http://edp.org/monkey.htm

  6. Always mount a scratch economy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on What Computer Science Can Teach Economics

    or monkey, whichever.

  7. Be sure to always mount your scratch monkey by whitehatlurker · · Score: 1 · on Monkey's Thoughts Make Robot Walk

    For some reason this reminds me of this story. Ah yes, the memories. You kids wouldn't understand.

  8. Re:15 foot high waves of molasses by EchidnaMan · · Score: 1 · on Stupid Engineering Mistakes

    Actually, the devastation was pretty extreme for that portion of Boston.

    See:

    http://edp.org/molasses.htm

    It turned out to be a huge debacle in the city, due to the important nature of molasses at the time (this was right before WWI and molasses is used to make munitions) and the destruction it caused to one of Boston's poorest and most crowded neighborhoods.

    Plus, the racial component. There was a scare in the city at the time about Italian anarchists trying to stop the American war machine, and the disaster was initially blamed on them.

    There's an excellent book about it. I've read it and heartily recommend it to people interested in wierd history or Boston history. It covers all the factors that caused the accident, the accident itself, and the massive legal case that resulted from it.

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807050210/sr=8-2 /qid=1149249807/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-9498425-1206560?_ encoding=UTF8

  9. Dr. Brown has prior art. by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 1 · on British Rail's Flying Saucer

    On the application of its time warping capabilities to, say, making sure your train arrives in the station on time aren't so obvious.

    Eh? The second prototype vehicle using the flux capacitor was a locomotive. Surely nothing is more foremost in the mind of the Engineer than being on time!

  10. Re:STEP ONE!!!111oneoneone by idontgno · · Score: 1 · on File System Forensic Analysis
    Don't forget to mount a scratch monkey!

    No, really!

  11. Re:Verifying the Theory by Alsee · · Score: 1 · on New Model Solves Grandfather Paradox

    Always mount a scratch monkey.

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