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Salvaging Defective DRAM

Posted by michael on from the every-part-except-the-squeal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ever wonder what happens to DRAM that fails quality assurance testing during manufacturing? Turns out a lot of it ends up as 'downgrade' memory and ends up in OEM memory modules. Last resort: use it in an answering machine, where the sampled audio can be very tolerant of bit errors."

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  1. Re:I just figured it was at Fry's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ahh, so you're the asshole that keeps coming into my store.

    I guarantee you that you fuck up just as much at your job, except you don't have customers to point it out to you. Big man for slamming him on Slashdot were he can't defend himself.

    He probably didn't look under the monitor because your a known sneaky-fuck.

  2. Re:I am seeing a lot of this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    You have made a statement that makes it very clear you are a very educated layman, not someone in the field.,
    You have made a statement that makes you sound like a cocky jackass. Your post would have been fine without that sentence, wouldn't it? It's perfectly possible to be clueful and to be polite, both at once.

    (And in case you think you weren't being impolite, I ask again: Was that sentence necessary?)