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  1. Re:Google vs. Evening News on Slashback: Cradle, Indiscriminancy, Multiplicity · · Score: 1

    well, if it was a japanese toilet, i'd half expect the bowl to have a water heater built in.

    if the gasoline didn't hit the seat warmer first...

  2. Re:Emergency Brakes on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 1

    I've seen burnouts done on front wheel drive cars :)

    However, in this case, it was a lightened(over a thousand lbs of weight removed) Reliant K-Car, producing over 440hp(and torque to match). With the 2.5L 4-cylinder engine mated to a 3 speed automatic, it ran a quarter mile in 10.41 seconds at 132 mph.

    Not your average grocery-getter. :)

  3. Re:Emergency Brakes on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 2, Informative

    i take it you've never seen someone do a burnout.

    my car can _easily_ spin the back tires with the regular brake fully applied, let alone the parking brake(which is completely useless)

  4. Re:This may sound stupid... on Firefox 0.10.1 Released, Fixes Security Hole · · Score: 4, Informative

    because firefox on windows uses the Desktop as the default download location.

  5. Re:Paper clip diagnostics on Vehicles of Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    Chryslers are even easier, turn the key to ON(not start) and back to off, on, off, on... the check engine light will start to flash the codes.

  6. Re:Was I the only one who read this as.... on NASA Releases World Viewer · · Score: 1

    There are powerpoint, word and excel readers available for download from MS's site.

    However, I've never found a free Project viewer.

  7. Re:Party like its... on Human-Powered Spam Filtering · · Score: 1

    lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
    highest point: unnamed location 2 m

    That sounds like a fancy way of saying a 6 foot high pile of bullshit.

  8. Re:What Idiots on Olympians Banned From Blogging · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Back in about 1988 or so, they went after "Olympics of the Mind", who had to change their name to Odyssey of the Mind.

  9. Re:What's "inexpensively"? on Terabyte Storage Solutions? · · Score: 1

    the 7 series card is fine, you don't even have to match the drive make. i had a d740x and a diamondmax 9 in a server once because i ran out of dm9's.

  10. Re:What's "inexpensively"? on Terabyte Storage Solutions? · · Score: 1

    Why do you need a 64 bit pci slot for the 3ware?
    And a dual cpu is vastly overkill for anything you're going to put down the ethernet card

  11. easy to do with rackmount cases. on Terabyte Storage Solutions? · · Score: 5, Informative

    you can "cheaply" buy 3U rack mount cases that hold 15 drives in hotswappable SATA or SCSI cages up front. Combined with a 3ware 9500-12, and leave 3 cages empty(or spare drives just not cabled up), this will give you 2.75 TB in each unit of raid5 storage. If you were really hard up for space, you could use a pair of 9500-8's and this would give you 3.25 TB per unit. Some 4U units hold 16 drives, which gives you the full 3.5TB in 2 x raid5 arrays.

  12. Re:I think is was said somewhere else... on P2P Leaks Surprises · · Score: 1


    university of windsor?

    last I heard it's still not fixed.

  13. Re:Canadian Content on SpaceShipOne and Wild Fire to Go For the Gold · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    haven't a clue, it's legal in ontario. I've seen a lot of americans shocked when i turn right on a red, even when it's legal in their state that i'm driving in.

  14. Re:What speed are most SCSI drives? on Where are the High-Capacity SCSI Drives? · · Score: 1

    somewhere around 70-100 meg/s

  15. Re:My Guess on Where are the High-Capacity SCSI Drives? · · Score: 1

    I hope you're aware you're wrong.

    SCSI stands for small computer system interface

    SAS (serial attach SCSI) will be serial though.

  16. Re:What speed are most SCSI drives? on Where are the High-Capacity SCSI Drives? · · Score: 1

    That's only the interface, the drives are nowhere near that speed.

  17. Re:Credit Card Address Verification on Companies that Still Don't Ship to Canada? · · Score: 1

    on the billto:, I just put my canadian street address/city, and then put MI in the State, and a michigan zip code in.

    And then I put my US mailing address in the shipto:

    Works a lot more than you'd think, some CC verifiers only check that your name and street address matches.

    Some places only check that your name matches...

  18. ebay. on Linux Laptop w/ 3.5" Disk, USB, and No Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    cost you maybe 25-30 bucks for a 2 gig hard drive, and if you actually looked, you could probably get an 8 for about that much.

  19. Re:EPA fuel mileage is a scam... on EPA Fuel Economy Myth: Too High, Too Low? · · Score: 1

    Hell, my 96 T/A is classified as a SUB-compact.

    It's something like 19 feet long, and wide. Goes by interior volume or something stupid like that. Weighs about 3450.

  20. why would i want a subject? on Build Your Own FreeBSD-powered Motorcycle · · Score: 4, Funny

    guess you have to be a member of the wheel group to mount it.

  21. Re:Cheap nanotech on Cars To Be Assembled Atom By Atom · · Score: 1

    And every foot e-brake i've seen either had a pull lever under the dash to release it, or you had to push it down all the way to get it to release.

    Neither strikes me as particular safe.

  22. Re:Insurance? on Meteorite Crashes Through New Zealand Roof · · Score: 1

    And stick the metorite in a glass case, and put that in the lobby of their corporate office.

  23. Re:Yoink. on Build Your Own Model B-52 · · Score: 1

    and even more scary, he's flown it on only one engine, at 160kph.

  24. Re:Overclockers and their "huge mamma" fans on Intel CPU Warranty Invalid w/o CPU Fan? · · Score: 1

    IBM's netvista's have done the same thing, a black hood.

    Has a pair of 92mm fans in it, not something I normally carry in my toolbox.

  25. Re:But what is the price? on A Camaro That Leaves A Wake · · Score: 1

    Hell, I've been to 118 with my '97 Neon. People that modify the speedometer can hit the 140's.(it's normally governed to 118)

    145 with my '96 T/A, and I was running out of straightaway long before I could hit redline.

    Top end on a stock recent Firebird/Camaro is around 159. Drag limited.

    However, there was one tire option when buying that would get you governed from the factory to somewhere around 118. Rather dumb move to cheap out on the tires. :)