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  1. Re:Kind of expensive for 300GB on Raspberry Pi Gets Affordable, Power Efficient 314GB Hard Drive On Pi Day · · Score: 1

    And lots of people buy 4TB hard drives. They're very useful. Still not the point.

  2. Re:Neat... on Hacker GhostShell Doxes Himself So He Could Get a Job In the Industry · · Score: 1

    a criminal has decided to get a real job, but he can't because he has committed a bunch of crimes, and employers don't know it's him. They do want criminals working for them.

    Fixed that for you.

  3. Re:Are there no roads in Romania? on Hacker GhostShell Doxes Himself So He Could Get a Job In the Industry · · Score: 1

    Nobody said it was a 2km drive - just that it's 2km away. In addition to the other comments about traffic / traffic control devices.

  4. Re:Kind of expensive for 300GB on Raspberry Pi Gets Affordable, Power Efficient 314GB Hard Drive On Pi Day · · Score: 1

    But probably not as happy as if you just used a 128GB Micro SD unless you really need the speed.

  5. Re:Kind of expensive for 300GB on Raspberry Pi Gets Affordable, Power Efficient 314GB Hard Drive On Pi Day · · Score: 1

    Considering it's only 314GB, and you can get 4TB 2.5" disks for $150.

    And you can get a 50lb. bag of rice for under $20. Doesn't mean you need that much or that it would be worthwhile to buy 50lbs. every time you need some rice.

  6. Re:Silly Pedantics on Raspberry Pi Gets Affordable, Power Efficient 314GB Hard Drive On Pi Day · · Score: 1

    And the reverse is true here. I guess we should just ask Morgan Freeman what his preference is.

  7. Re:Bed Bath & Beyond holds "towel"-day sale on on Raspberry Pi Gets Affordable, Power Efficient 314GB Hard Drive On Pi Day · · Score: 1

    On Pi day? I've already received a couple of pizza (pie) deals in my email. But that 3.14% discount I got elsewhere wasn't worth much.

  8. Re:economics on Raspberry Pi Gets Affordable, Power Efficient 314GB Hard Drive On Pi Day · · Score: 2

    A 1GB flash chip with 10% defect rate can be a 9GB flash chip.

    Who knew a defect could be such a good thing.

  9. Re:Can I download my files as a .zip archive yet? on Dropbox Moves Users' Data Off Amazon S3 to Its Own Infrastructure · · Score: 2

    That's likely a limitation of the .zip format and/or how they generate them for export. It's hard to generate .zip data on-the-fly because the file has headers at the end as well as the beginning, so they are probably generating an actual file and storing it before sending. They don't want to store .zip files for large folders for long enough for you to download. Not to mention the CRC32 checksums required for the format are still computationally intensive at a large scale.

    I'm sure it's possible to generate .zip data on-the-fly, but it would be a much more complex system than what they're using.

    The whole point of their software is the desktop client. If you don't want to use that even to download a folder, it's probably the wrong tool for you.

  10. Re:It's all fun and games... on 6 Tiny Robotic Ants, Weighing 3.5 Oz. In Total, Pull a 3900-lb. Car (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Less than 1.

  11. Re:The car wasn't pulled on 6 Tiny Robotic Ants, Weighing 3.5 Oz. In Total, Pull a 3900-lb. Car (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Either way, that's no different than putting it on its roof.

    When somebody says that they towed their car, I do not assume that they put it on it's roof to do so.

    Either way, the weight has no direct correlation with the rolling resistance (which would be different depending on whether the car was pulled or carried on a truck bed).

  12. Re:2000? Shouldn't it be 20000? on 6 Tiny Robotic Ants, Weighing 3.5 Oz. In Total, Pull a 3900-lb. Car (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    But it's likely to have been relating to the rolling resistance rather than the static weight of the car. Putting the weight in the headline is pretty misleading, since it's not directly relevant to the amount of required force (polished floors, lubricated axles, etc.)

  13. Re:2000? Shouldn't it be 20000? on 6 Tiny Robotic Ants, Weighing 3.5 Oz. In Total, Pull a 3900-lb. Car (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know where the summary got 2,000 from. The article just says "thousands"

  14. Re:It's all fun and games... on 6 Tiny Robotic Ants, Weighing 3.5 Oz. In Total, Pull a 3900-lb. Car (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The standard unit of car storage is 1 station wagon. Stop bringing trucks into a car analogy.

  15. Re:The car wasn't pulled on 6 Tiny Robotic Ants, Weighing 3.5 Oz. In Total, Pull a 3900-lb. Car (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It was misleading because they included the weight. That's not directly involved in understanding the rolling resistance. Also, some tow trucks do put the entire car on the bed.

  16. Re:Silly Americans. on Raspberry Pi Gets Affordable, Power Efficient 314GB Hard Drive On Pi Day · · Score: 1

    It's large to smallest with no year component. Most holidays happen every year, not just once.

  17. It's likely either a 500GB platter or 1TB platter with a high number of marked defects. Binned parts is nothing new.

  18. Seems to be Web Template Framework

  19. You can start, but you won't get very far:
    JavaScriptCore-7601.1.46.3
    WTF-7601.1.46.3
    WebCore-7601.1.46.10
    WebKit-7601.1.46.9
    WebKit2-7601.1.46.9
    libiconv-44

    You could compile most of a web browser.

  20. Re:Let the bacon thread begin. on How Sliced Meat May Have Driven Human Evolution (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Let's leave that challenge on the table, lest we be faced with squeezable pouches of spam puree.

  21. Re:Implementation problem on Paperless Statements Not Always Best Choice, Says New Report · · Score: 1

    I'd take it.

  22. Re: Implementation problem on Paperless Statements Not Always Best Choice, Says New Report · · Score: 1

    And how is that more of a risk than the typical link to the home page? Deep linking doesn't add to that.

    Plus, I know how to read an address bar. There are so many better ways to do this that are still better than paper and also electronic. It's just not being done.

  23. Implementation problem on Paperless Statements Not Always Best Choice, Says New Report · · Score: 1

    I don't need 15 secure places to login and get statements. The bank industry needs to get together to create a centralized secure statement repository where I can see it all. And maybe let my utilities pay to be delivered to this.

    Or they could fix their statements so they're not printing full account numbers and use regular email - I don't care. It's not that much more risky than postal mail. For that matter, if I could click a link and then type just my username and password, that would be nice too. As it is now, you have to go to the bank's web site, log in, find the statements area, select the correct billing period, then choose a download format, and then finally download it.

  24. Re:silly agrument on EFF On Why FBI Can't Force Apple To Sign Code (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    Which would require an intermediate update which trusts the new signature but is signed with the old one.

  25. Nuclear accounts for approximately 20% of the power generated in the US. How, pray tell, does the NRC plan to replace this generation capacity?

    It will be cheaper to fix the flaw than to shut down and fixing is an option.