Memory Card Torture Tests

saikatguha266 writes "BBC is reporting that five types of memory cards were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child's toy car, given to a six-year-old boy to destroy, smashed by a sledgehammer and nailed to a tree. It was still possible to retrieve photos from the xD and Smartmedia cards while the others didn't survive just the last two tests. "

Comments

And you thought GWB was bad...

[Anonymous Coward]

Visit this site and prepare to be shocked.

These people are the real ugly underbelly of USA.

Re:Miss the old green slashdot?

[Anonymous Coward]

Personally, I think linking to this section but without the unreadable 'IT' colour scheme is neither offtopic nor redundant, but then again I'm not a slashbot.

Re:Talk about real life experiments...

[Anonymous Coward]

My g/f took photos of her puss and we had to destroy c/f card as it wouldnt delete any more. Ripped out of case with pliers and now i have just the chip. And she thought it was destroyed then. Ha!!!! I still have chip theres hope yet. When shes old and grey i may resurrect just to tease her.

Re:Miss the old green slashdot?

[FiReaNGeL]

Wow thanks!

Any way to put it back to this theme by default? The other color is.... yuck :|

Re:Miss the old green slashdot?

[Shai-kun]

Now what is all this talk of new color schemes about? I still have the plain old dark green and gray scheme.

Re:Miss the old green slashdot?

[Tore S B]

Well, as This post suggests, just put the following into your squidgard config file

rew slashdot {
s@it.slashdot.org@slashdot.org@
}

Re:Miss the old green slashdot?

[iantri]

If you access links to the headlines through RSS (Opera, AFAIK Mozilla sidebar), all the links point to slashdot.org/storyurl instead of section.slashdot.org/storyurl.

This results in Slashdot's usual poor, but passable green colour scheme.

Squidgard?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, right, my squidgard config file...

You know, I really don't think I'm going to bother setting up a proxy server just so I can correct the egregious aesthetic miscalculations of Taco and company.

Is there a CSS answer?

Re:Squidgard?

[Tore S B]

Well, I and the poster I was shamelessly stealing from, assumed that you already have a proxy server (The network I'm on, a Skolelinux system (I'm a translator/tester) uses a proxy on the gateway)
Other uses for the HTTP proxy is apt-get caches and so on.

I completely agree that there is no point in setting up a proxy for this purpose.

Re:Miss the old green slashdot?

[SirDaShadow]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a way to override the colors and styles by using a css and switching to that alternate style on Mozilla Firefox? If so, how do you do it?