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  1. Re:Shyeah, right. on Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that the UK was a bunch of separate states (countries) that got pulled into the British empire.

  2. Re: Shyeah, right. on Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1
    If you are in the middle of a riot, you aren't going to be trying to get to your backups.

    Chances are, you are either throwing a brick through a window, or staying home with your doors locked. If you have backups in a different city, then you are probably OK if you need to have someone else access them. If you have two cities that are rioting, regardless of state, then you probably have bigger issues to worry about.

  3. Re:Shyeah, right. on Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1

    You just have to keep all your drivers backed up on a different tape

  4. Re:Shyeah, right. on Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1

    I always wondered if you could fix an LTO drive with a pencil and little bit of scotch tape

  5. Re:Shyeah, right. on Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1
    I wonder if my old zip disks still work? I still have the drive, but at the time, I decided to go with the serial port model instead of the new fangled USB...

    Now I just have to find a computer that still has a seriel port...

  6. Re:What about long-term data integrity? on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    They make SD cards with WiFi that will automatically upload pictures you take to your laptop. Not the same, but I wonder if there would be any benefit to setting something like this up in a hard drive as well. If windows crashes, as long as the drive itself has power, it can continue to backup your drive to a NAS or possibly even to a cloud service.

  7. Re:Let's do the math on Complex Life May Be Possible In Only 10% of All Galaxies · · Score: 1
    That's one of the things I always wondered. We came from asingularity that held our entire "universe". This singularity exploded and created everything that we know and call the universe. The universe is supposed to be 150 Billion Light Years wide. What if 400 Billion Light Years away, another singularity exploded, and another universe is expanding out from it's Big Bang, and in a few billion years, our two universes will wind up colliding into each other?

    What if our universe isn't expanding due to dark energy, but because there is another universe sized black hole providing a huge amount of gravity that is pulling things towards it? What if there are billions of these, with billions of Big Bangs, pulling galaxies and matter from each other into themselves, and possibly collapsing back into these giant singularities in a cycle that takes trillions of billions of years?

  8. Re: Disruptive If We Say So Ourselves on Martin Jetpack Closer To Takeoff In First Responder Applications · · Score: 1

    There are places where even lowering a basket can be dangerous or difficult. I'm not saying every park service needs one, but it could have its uses.

  9. Re:Hire an H1B to write headlines and summaries on Complex Life May Be Possible In Only 10% of All Galaxies · · Score: 1
    Detonation: a loud explosion; combustion of a substance that is initiated suddenly and propagates extremely rapidly, giving rise to a shock wave.

    Sounds kinda like what happens when a star goes nova and explodes. In fact, it looks like Explosion is listed as a synonym of Detonation.

    What exactly is your problem here?

  10. Re:This is the voice of world control. on Nuclear Weapons Create Their Own Security Codes With Radiation · · Score: 1

    Difference between internal and external pressures and how the forces are channeled. There is a big difference between how they would react.

  11. Re:And so it begins on LinkedIn Study: US Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants · · Score: 1

    Because there is not racism, xenophobia, bigotry, etc, in Europe, Asia, or anywhere else in the world...

  12. Re:America's loss is Africa's gain on LinkedIn Study: US Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants · · Score: 2

    All those princes trying to wire money out of the country need some kind of IT support, so of course they'll get some high tech start ups there.

  13. Re:Why, oh, why on Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her · · Score: 1
    Indeed, I find that a service where nobody uses their real name or picture, or any information about themselves what so ever is a great way to keep in touch with old friends and former classmates.

    Just remembering all those fond memories I had with BongHit69...

    Or was that 420Batman?

    Either way, such fond memories of somebody...

  14. Re:Delete Your Facebook Account Already on Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her · · Score: 1

    THen how do I troll former high school classmates

  15. Re:Right mind? on Nuclear Weapons Create Their Own Security Codes With Radiation · · Score: 1
    Yeah, mutually assured destruction only works if the person of both parties want to live.

    If you tell someone that you'll bomb them if they bomb you, but their bomb is a suicide vest, they probably aren't going to care.

  16. Re:This is the voice of world control. on Nuclear Weapons Create Their Own Security Codes With Radiation · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure that silos are designed to minimize the fallout and such from an explosion. In fact, underground detonations typically have less fallout since not as much material makes it into the atmosphere.

  17. Re:AIDS is bad on Apple To Donate Profit Portion From Black Friday For AIDS Fight · · Score: 1

    Well, it did say that it was going to help Africa, which does count as a very poor area if I'm not mistaken.

  18. Re:Hmmm ... on Bicycle Bottle System Condenses Humidity From Air Into Drinkable Water · · Score: 1

    It's a good place to start and build revenue.

  19. Re:The point of such a service has evolved. on Nielsen Will Start Tracking Netflix and Amazon Video · · Score: 1
    Plus, there is a huge difference in how people watch regular TV versus streaming.

    It may be that this month, NBC has the most watched show, but that's only because everybody already binge watched House of Cards last month. You're going to get completely different types of numbers.

  20. Re:What about SSL? on Nielsen Will Start Tracking Netflix and Amazon Video · · Score: 1

    It says that they are analyzing audio. I took that to mean that they have a microphone that will listen to what you are watching.

  21. Anybody remember Dallas Thompson on Martin Jetpack Closer To Takeoff In First Responder Applications · · Score: 1

    This looks like a much safer vehicle to fly through the arctic and into the hollow earth.

  22. Re:Disruptive If We Say So Ourselves on Martin Jetpack Closer To Takeoff In First Responder Applications · · Score: 1

    Remote control drones could bring an EMT out into the middle of a forest where there isn't enough space to land a helicopter?

  23. Re:So...a leaf blower? on Martin Jetpack Closer To Takeoff In First Responder Applications · · Score: 1

    A really big leaf blower

  24. Re:Not a jet pack on Martin Jetpack Closer To Takeoff In First Responder Applications · · Score: 1

    While the machine has to get back to the station, it doesn't need to fly there, and even if it does, more fuel could be brought in or the thing can be thrown on the back of a truck and hauled out of the woods. Likewise, this isn't supposed to bring in an entire operating room, it just needs bandages, some medication, and a few other items. They aren't trying to fix a broken leg here, just stop the bleeding or stabilize you long enough for the people that can get you out of there to arrive.

  25. Re:IQ of congress on Number of Coders In Congress To Triple (From One To Three) · · Score: 2

    I'm sure these guys are smart too. Why, they even have degrees from ITT Tech to back up their intelligence