My brothers and I worked on nearly all those projects as well. It was great fun to build as a group. We became a electrical engineer,a weapons engineer, and me a chemist running a R+D industial coating facility. I agree, too cool.
reminds me of all the old SA Amateur Scientist
on
Build Your Own Cyclotron
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Scientific American used to run article on how to build things for physics. Seems like prior to persuing chemistry and electrical engineering my brothers and I built Van Der Graff generators, cloud chambers, and lots more from those pages. They had an old design for a particle accelerator as well. It was NOWHERE near this.
not bragging dude, you fail to burn at 16x with less than stellar I/O hardware. Frankly I think a really good SATA setup would work too, but I spent my ebay monynon u320...
And I thought everyone would be interested in knowing what works at 16x RELIABLY.
did I fail to mention that this same setup installs red hat in less time than the windoz flavorz. Seems that I must have pissed off some linux folks who got moderated
The cpu/workstation setup is critical to buring reliably at 12x t 16x which I do all the time
I use a dual 2800mp workstation,a tyan 2466-2m mobo, 2 gigs of DDR 2100,, a 128 mb visiontek card ($373 and the bees-knees 2 years ago), a 64 bit MegaRAID SCSI 320 2 ch HBA with 128 mb on board, and 4 seagate 15000 rpm U-320 36 gb drives running raid 5.
I run 2 partions on the raid 5 drive, each with windows 2000. The 1st partion is for normal everyday use; and has all the normal crap on the drive. The 2nd partition is for burning dvd's quickly.
Problem is all those programs you install and run sometimes have lots of crap running in the background. The way around that is a very simple OS setup; so that nothing runs except what you need.
In my case I use a program from www.litepc.com to modify the windows 2000 setup, so that I can eliminate lots of junk Bill Gates says has to be installed; like internet Exploder. Suffice it to say that by turning off WFP then uninstalling the parts of the OS you dont want, then re-enabling WFP you get a slim rock solid and very fast OS setup.
I use a pioneer dvr-108, which has been flashed with the latest and greatest firmware from links found at www.cdfreaks.com pioneer device forum they link to:
http://pioneerdvd.rpc1.org
look for the correct firmware for your dvd device, in my case for the dvr-108 it was the file;
DVR-108 v1.14 - RPC-1 + 12xRip + nx4all
using the flash program DVRFlash 2.0 from this forum http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=10754
as you'll see they have a lot of other firmware available. Look through the forum, and search for results on your device; then follow the instructions.
A list of media is here:
The following 8X media can be burnt faster than the rated speed
MCC003 \ MCC02RG20 \ RICOHJPNR02 ---- These can be burnt at 12X RITEKG05 / These were 100 stack for 40.50 TYG02/
CMC MAG. E01 \ YUDEN000T02 / These can be burnt at 16X
MCC003 is Verbatim Datalife Plus DVD+R 8X MCC02RG20 is Verbatim Datalife Plus DVD-R 8X RICOHJPNR02 is RiTEK eXCELLENCE 8X DVD+R RITEKG05 is PioDATA 8X MULTISPEED SUPER GRADE A (silver top, no other markings) TYG02 is JVC DVD-R 8X
CMC MAG. E01 is Shintaro 8X DVD+R YUDEN000T02 is "That's DVD+R for premium inspection 8X"
Now the HOW-TO:
I have used xcopy Platinum, but until I flashed my DVR 108 to this firmware it was non-functional with a dual layer burner. So I sometimes use this as well.
I have used DVD FAB, but found it didn't work everytime.
I currently use DVD Shrink 3.2 (freeware). However you'll find that if your I/O (ie HDD system is too slow) is slow, DVD Shrink will throttle you down to the rate the data is delivered at. If this happens, uninstall it, then delete the folder, then reinstall. The use of the firmware allows the display in Nero to show from 1x to 16x. Same in DVD Shrink. Normally you dont get these choices, if the media does not support them.
So for me it was a case of having the trial and error. However a combination of the above allows me to burn the ritek g-05 media at 12x or 16x all the time. In dvd shrink, it takes 18 minutes to encode and burn a backup of any 4.5 + gb dvd-video project..ahem..
Since this workstayion will install windows 2000 or xp pro in something like 8 min 25 secs, I'm sure that has a lot to do with the encoding rate, which truly blazes along.
Hope that helps,if you want to burn at 12 to 16x?? Other than that just direct everyone to the forums,
check out the link
http://www.iwks.com/features/default.asp?pagetypei d=2&articleid=31496&subsectionid=655
this type of theft is well known; just not as reported as personal id theft. From other stories is seems the average is 30,000 or more per theft. Seems that perhaps the victum in this story came out lucky.
However since you have to provide ID and would get captured on camera setting up a checking account, keeping your real ID does seem to be a challenge.
what can I say. If you're looking for real raid, get a intel u160 or u320 backplane, some 15K scsi drives off ebay (brand new ~100 to 150 each), For $600 you can get a raid array with scalding performance, and 5 yr warranties on the drives, with the ability to rebuild your drive if you lose a stripe. Of course the controller is a little more expensive, but years of accumulated data is priceless right??
Since I lost a lot of data using a ide raid 0 system, I decided to bite the bullet and go real raid. There is absolutely no comparison.
One things for sure as always the old saying holds true: Buy nice or buy twice.
a group of Texas A&M scientists have been working on the cloning of dogs and cats, for several years; and only recently succeeded in cloning a cat for the frst time. here are lots of techical challenges (telomeres), lack of complete expression of all the genes etc.) And take that with the fact that these folks are probably a cult, it is probably a hoax.
Oh, and I'd like to sell you some land on the moon.
the fly by wire system in these planes was developed at Texas Instruments;in the late 80"s; the unit consists of a variety of single daughter board computers integrated into a larger motherboard. Interesting names; like the vector arithmatic logic unit (VALU),as I recall, there was the VAGU,and 4 other boards.I don't remember all the board names. They were developed under DARPA's Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC)program, in which I worked.
gee, duh; a papermaker who is a chemist? see my login?
I make paper, the kind made on a fourdinier paper machine, coated and calendered. We at the papermakers would like a leg up on the content providers, as they are typically greedy sharks who want more for less. They bend us over backward to do things, many times suggested by non-technical types, who don't know what they are doing when it comes to printing. If you think e papers are your solution you've just proved how uniformed you are. BTW have you noticed this year how many mills have closed? That's due to the push to sell for less makes it harder for older mills to be competative; and that is due to the push my content providers and their agents to aquire paper at the lowest possible prices.
On a brighter note the content provider employ lots of english majors don't they. Wow, I bet they can figure out how to make new products REALLY well.
Amd my reasons are incorrect?? Sonny I've been doing his for 27 years, and think I know more about paper than you EVER heard.
as a papermaker, I have seen all of the approaches to epaper. Most recently these were presented at NIP 18 (Intnl Conf Nonimpact Printing) in Ft Lauderdale. The main problem would seem to be the approaches ALL require backplane electronics to make the stuff work. Therefore you induce a charge to get proper sphere alignment, once acheived until a new charge is induced they aintain their orientation.
So, don't charge out and invest in e paper; as right now the berst application is point of purchase displays. An interesting concept, but the economics are not there yet, except for perhaps specialty applications. Once they can make dirt cheap backplanes by printing them, then perhaps it can make inroads on paper. However, don't hold your breath. Wonder if an informed reply will bet a better score?
While at Texas Instruments as a lithography engineer, the coimpany developed an H-HBr fuel cell. They developed it all the way to a home system,. designed to run 4 homes, using muiltiple 10KW fuel cell stacks. While the technology was bought by shell and gulf to kill it, it seems to me they were only achieving 14% effiency. So, dependent on the details, specifically the effiency..it will be a commercial success or not.
by the way, it was called "The Illinois Project"
after Univ Illinois, named so by Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit, who concieved and ran the project.
As a holder of several patents, it's quite easy:
if you worked for them and accepted a salary while the idea was developed, and you did that under an agreement (pre-employment as I do), then you are obligated to sign it. If the patent is written as to be too broad, then it can be challenged in court at a later date.(if say you have an idea that extends this particular work into another area). Things that invalidate a patent include: adding someone to a patent that did not participate (or excluding them),claiming more than the documentary evidence shows was done(ie your engineering notes, or lab notebook should back up the claim). You can write anything into a patent(at filing), but after 1 year you (or in ths case the company) must have the body of work to show when the examiner starts to validate the patent.
BTW, you should also be eligible for some sort of compensation for your signature (in my case 100.00 per patent..oh boy).
your flame reply is why folks think that some Linux users are slightly off (in the head). Whats the matter...cant you reply to someone without f'ing anyone?? estúpido del señor.
my complaint isn't with a shop that builds the CPU right, but like in my post just below yours. That particular CPU NEVER worked from day one, actually failing within 30 minutes of being turned on. Every reload of Doz crapped out when it went to install the drivers, EVERY TIME. Finally they replaced it, after 1 year of me hassling them. On the other hand my home unit which I got from JDR has great service when needed,and came with w/3 yr warranty which they are honoring.
Personally a law like this isn;t aimed at honest businessmen, but at the shysters who would rip you off.
As a purchaser of a dog ass AMD K6-2 system from UMAX,I am pleased to see something like this. It took me a year of calls and recalls, with them finally charging items to my credit card (without my permission)to finally get someones attention. (only because I appealed to every email address on their web site with a very nasty letter, and a complaint to the California Attorney General).
I ceratinly learned my lesson, as my home built CPU's were more compatable than that AMD, Foretuantely, after all the hassle, they replaced it with an Ntel CPU of the same speed and bus speed, I immediately sold it for what I had in it...and good riddance.
Sad to say, but the original system couldn't even load Windoz without crashing...it did load linux, but it even crashed with it. All I am sure due to incompatable hardware.....
It helps to surf around instaed of grousing about things: Dual Athlon Chipset still in this year AMD presented today the current Athlon timetable for the year 2000: Therefore there is to be a follow-up version of the Irongate Chipset AMD750 (Northbridge 751) in the second yearly half named Irongate-4 (Northbridge 770), also the dual processor systems enabled. For larger computer rechnerboliden one develops a chip record, which enables systems with at least four processors in co-operation with alpha Processors (API) and HotRail. Everything multi-processor-chip-corrodes can with double DATA rate memory modules (GDR SDRAM) deal. These memory latch plates permit a max. theoretical datentransfer of 1,6 GByte/s (PC200 or also called by AMD PC1600) or 2.1 GByte/s (PC266 alias PC2100). The Athlon is to receive a faster front Side bus, which runs then with 133 mc/s clock frequency to 33 per cent in this year. With still the GDR technique already used with the Athlon FSB is then the transfer of 266 million data items per second possible. (AMD: Hall 13, status D08) (ciw/ c't)
Gateway support sucks.Period. No Offense, but you couldn't give me a Gateway. They had a fan blowing across the CPU, from the power supply to cool the CPU in my Gateway P-200. No case fans, no CPU heat sink...nada, guess thyat makes their computers cheaper. Eventually the power supply went out, and that was on a replacement P-5 200 they had sent. Oh, and when they sent it, they forgot to add the extra 128 mb of memory I had ordered. Tech support??Hardy har har!! I knew a WHOLE lot less then than now, but they managed to french fry my registries more than once. Turned out that tech support at Gateway was using the same knowledge base trouble shooting pages you can get at Microsoft knowledge base...word for word. 21 calls, 63 houirs....and when I was finally fed up...it took 21/2 months to get my money back. Gateway...BARF.... Consumer be forewarned, Get me once shame on you, get me twice (never!!) shame on me.
Simply put, this was the worst choice of computer manufacturer I ever made...Hmmm well maybe the UMAX I got was worse....but I'm still dealing with them.
As I said when the story posted, this is impractical. Until a cheaper way is found to boost things to orbit, by a factor of 1000; the common folks on the ground will just continue to support NASA or the like with our taxes. Hmmm...perhaps folks should check their sources for accuracy too. The story as posted just gave everyone a chance to make a lot of off-color, crude, and banal remarks.
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My brothers and I worked on nearly all those projects as well. It was great fun to build as a group. We became a electrical engineer,a weapons engineer, and me a chemist running a R+D industial coating facility. I agree, too cool.
Scientific American used to run article on how to build things for physics. Seems like prior to persuing chemistry and electrical engineering my brothers and I built Van Der Graff generators, cloud chambers, and lots more from those pages. They had an old design for a particle accelerator as well. It was NOWHERE near this.
Fascibnating to read an article like this
not bragging dude, you fail to burn at 16x with less than stellar I/O hardware. Frankly I think a really good SATA setup would work too, but I spent my ebay monynon u320... And I thought everyone would be interested in knowing what works at 16x RELIABLY.
did I fail to mention that this same setup installs red hat in less time than the windoz flavorz. Seems that I must have pissed off some linux folks who got moderated
The cpu/workstation setup is critical to buring reliably at 12x t 16x which I do all the time
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I use a dual 2800mp workstation,a tyan 2466-2m mobo, 2 gigs of DDR 2100,, a 128 mb visiontek card ($373 and the bees-knees 2 years ago), a 64 bit MegaRAID SCSI 320 2 ch HBA with 128 mb on board, and 4 seagate 15000 rpm U-320 36 gb drives running raid 5.
I run 2 partions on the raid 5 drive, each with windows 2000.
The 1st partion is for normal everyday use; and has all the normal crap on the drive.
The 2nd partition is for burning dvd's quickly.
Problem is all those programs you install and run sometimes have lots of crap running in the background. The way around that is a very simple OS setup; so that nothing runs except what you need.
In my case I use a program from www.litepc.com to modify the windows 2000 setup, so that I can eliminate lots of junk Bill Gates says has to be installed; like internet Exploder. Suffice it to say that by turning off WFP then uninstalling the parts of the OS you dont want, then re-enabling WFP you get a slim rock solid and very fast OS setup.
I use a pioneer dvr-108, which has been flashed with the latest and greatest firmware from links found at www.cdfreaks.com pioneer device forum
they link to:
http://pioneerdvd.rpc1.org
look for the correct firmware for your dvd device, in my case for the dvr-108 it was the file;
DVR-108 v1.14 - RPC-1 + 12xRip + nx4all
using the flash program DVRFlash 2.0 from this forum
http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=1075
as you'll see they have a lot of other firmware available. Look through the forum, and search for results on your device; then follow the instructions.
A list of media is here:
The following 8X media can be burnt faster than the rated speed
MCC003 \
MCC02RG20 \
RICOHJPNR02 ---- These can be burnt at 12X
RITEKG05 / These were 100 stack for 40.50
TYG02
CMC MAG. E01 \
YUDEN000T02 / These can be burnt at 16X
MCC003 is Verbatim Datalife Plus DVD+R 8X
MCC02RG20 is Verbatim Datalife Plus DVD-R 8X
RICOHJPNR02 is RiTEK eXCELLENCE 8X DVD+R
RITEKG05 is PioDATA 8X MULTISPEED SUPER GRADE A (silver top, no other markings)
TYG02 is JVC DVD-R 8X
CMC MAG. E01 is Shintaro 8X DVD+R
YUDEN000T02 is "That's DVD+R for premium inspection 8X"
Now the HOW-TO:
I have used xcopy Platinum, but until I flashed my DVR 108 to this firmware it was non-functional with a dual layer burner. So I sometimes use this as well.
I have used DVD FAB, but found it didn't work everytime.
I currently use DVD Shrink 3.2 (freeware). However you'll find that if your I/O (ie HDD system is too slow) is slow, DVD Shrink will throttle you down to the rate the data is delivered at. If this happens, uninstall it, then delete the folder, then reinstall. The use of the firmware allows the display in Nero to show from 1x to 16x. Same in DVD Shrink. Normally you dont get these choices, if the media does not support them.
So for me it was a case of having the trial and error. However a combination of the above allows me to burn the ritek g-05 media at 12x or 16x all the time. In dvd shrink, it takes 18 minutes to encode and burn a backup of any 4.5 + gb dvd-video project..ahem..
Since this workstayion will install windows 2000 or xp pro in something like 8 min 25 secs, I'm sure that has a lot to do with the encoding rate, which truly blazes along.
Hope that helps,if you want to burn at 12 to 16x?? Other than that just direct everyone to the forums,
as the truth is out there...
check out the link http://www.iwks.com/features/default.asp?pagetypei d=2&articleid=31496&subsectionid=655
this type of theft is well known; just not as reported as personal id theft. From other stories is seems the average is 30,000 or more per theft. Seems that perhaps the victum in this story came out lucky.
However since you have to provide ID and would get captured on camera setting up a checking account, keeping your real ID does seem to be a challenge.
1st post i think?? got bit twice by the 30 sec rule
what can I say. If you're looking for real raid, get a intel u160 or u320 backplane, some 15K scsi drives off ebay (brand new ~100 to 150 each), For $600 you can get a raid array with scalding performance, and 5 yr warranties on the drives, with the ability to rebuild your drive if you lose a stripe. Of course the controller is a little more expensive, but years of accumulated data is priceless right??
Since I lost a lot of data using a ide raid 0 system, I decided to bite the bullet and go real raid. There is absolutely no comparison.
One things for sure as always the old saying holds true: Buy nice or buy twice.
There is no real alternative to scsi raid yet.
a group of Texas A&M scientists have been working on the cloning of dogs and cats, for several years; and only recently succeeded in cloning a cat for the frst time. here are lots of techical challenges (telomeres), lack of complete expression of all the genes etc.)
And take that with the fact that these folks are probably a cult, it is probably a hoax.
Oh, and I'd like to sell you some land on the moon.
the fly by wire system in these planes was developed at Texas Instruments;in the late 80"s; the unit consists of a variety of single daughter board computers integrated into a larger motherboard. Interesting names; like the vector arithmatic logic unit (VALU),as I recall, there was the VAGU,and 4 other boards.I don't remember all the board names. They were developed under DARPA's Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC)program, in which I worked.
gee, duh; a papermaker who is a chemist? see my login?
I make paper, the kind made on a fourdinier paper machine, coated and calendered. We at the papermakers would like a leg up on the content providers, as they are typically greedy sharks who want more for less. They bend us over backward to do things, many times suggested by non-technical types, who don't know what they are doing when it comes to printing. If you think e papers are your solution you've just proved how uniformed you are. BTW have you noticed this year how many mills have closed? That's due to the push to sell for less makes it harder for older mills to be competative; and that is due to the push my content providers and their agents to aquire paper at the lowest possible prices.
On a brighter note the content provider employ lots of english majors don't they. Wow, I bet they can figure out how to make new products REALLY well.
Amd my reasons are incorrect?? Sonny I've been doing his for 27 years, and think I know more about paper than you EVER heard.
as a papermaker, I have seen all of the approaches to epaper. Most recently these were presented at NIP 18 (Intnl Conf Nonimpact Printing) in Ft Lauderdale. The main problem would seem to be the approaches ALL require backplane electronics to make the stuff work. Therefore you induce a charge to get proper sphere alignment, once acheived until a new charge is induced they aintain their orientation.
So, don't charge out and invest in e paper; as right now the berst application is point of purchase displays. An interesting concept, but the economics are not there yet, except for perhaps specialty applications. Once they can make dirt cheap backplanes by printing them, then perhaps it can make inroads on paper. However, don't hold your breath. Wonder if an informed reply will bet a better score?
While at Texas Instruments as a lithography engineer, the coimpany developed an H-HBr fuel cell. They developed it all the way to a home system,. designed to run 4 homes, using muiltiple 10KW fuel cell stacks. While the technology was bought by shell and gulf to kill it, it seems to me they were only achieving 14% effiency. So, dependent on the details, specifically the effiency..it will be a commercial success or not.
by the way, it was called "The Illinois Project"
after Univ Illinois, named so by Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit, who concieved and ran the project.
hmm...don't think you can go to jail for violation of a patent, as it's only enforceable by the HOLDER of the patent; in a civil case.
As a holder of several patents, it's quite easy:
if you worked for them and accepted a salary while the idea was developed, and you did that under an agreement (pre-employment as I do), then you are obligated to sign it. If the patent is written as to be too broad, then it can be challenged in court at a later date.(if say you have an idea that extends this particular work into another area). Things that invalidate a patent include: adding someone to a patent that did not participate (or excluding them),claiming more than the documentary evidence shows was done(ie your engineering notes, or lab notebook should back up the claim). You can write anything into a patent(at filing), but after 1 year you (or in ths case the company) must have the body of work to show when the examiner starts to validate the patent.
BTW, you should also be eligible for some sort of compensation for your signature (in my case 100.00 per patent..oh boy).
take your pornography somehwere else a--hole
your flame reply is why folks think that some Linux users are slightly off (in the head). Whats the matter...cant you reply to someone without f'ing anyone?? estúpido del señor.
my complaint isn't with a shop that builds the CPU right, but like in my post just below yours. That particular CPU NEVER worked from day one, actually failing within 30 minutes of being turned on. Every reload of Doz crapped out when it went to install the drivers, EVERY TIME. Finally they replaced it, after 1 year of me hassling them. On the other hand my home unit which I got from JDR has great service when needed,and came with w/3 yr warranty which they are honoring.
Personally a law like this isn;t aimed at honest businessmen, but at the shysters who would rip you off.
As a purchaser of a dog ass AMD K6-2 system from UMAX,I am pleased to see something like this. It took me a year of calls and recalls, with them finally charging items to my credit card (without my permission)to finally get someones attention. (only because I appealed to every email address on their web site with a very nasty letter, and a complaint to the California Attorney General).
I ceratinly learned my lesson, as my home built CPU's were more compatable than that AMD, Foretuantely, after all the hassle, they replaced it with an Ntel CPU of the same speed and bus speed, I immediately sold it for what I had in it...and good riddance.
Sad to say, but the original system couldn't even load Windoz without crashing...it did load linux, but it even crashed with it. All I am sure due to incompatable hardware.....
if you want athlons at 850 mhz and "wholesale prices"cruise by www.tcwo.com.....
with new CPU processor speeds coming out, prices there will change dramatically in the next month.
It helps to surf around instaed of grousing about things: Dual Athlon Chipset still in this year AMD presented today the current Athlon timetable for the year 2000: Therefore there is to be a follow-up version of the Irongate Chipset AMD750 (Northbridge 751) in the second yearly half named Irongate-4 (Northbridge 770), also the dual processor systems enabled. For larger computer rechnerboliden one develops a chip record, which enables systems with at least four processors in co-operation with alpha Processors (API) and HotRail. Everything multi-processor-chip-corrodes can with double DATA rate memory modules (GDR SDRAM) deal. These memory latch plates permit a max. theoretical datentransfer of 1,6 GByte/s (PC200 or also called by AMD PC1600) or 2.1 GByte/s (PC266 alias PC2100). The Athlon is to receive a faster front Side bus, which runs then with 133 mc/s clock frequency to 33 per cent in this year. With still the GDR technique already used with the Athlon FSB is then the transfer of 266 million data items per second possible. (AMD: Hall 13, status D08) (ciw/ c't)
Gateway support sucks.Period. No Offense, but you couldn't give me a Gateway. They had a fan blowing across the CPU, from the power supply to cool the CPU in my Gateway P-200. No case fans, no CPU heat sink...nada, guess thyat makes their computers cheaper. Eventually the power supply went out, and that was on a replacement P-5 200 they had sent. Oh, and when they sent it, they forgot to add the extra 128 mb of memory I had ordered. Tech support??Hardy har har!! I knew a WHOLE lot less then than now, but they managed to french fry my registries more than once. Turned out that tech support at Gateway was using the same knowledge base trouble shooting pages you can get at Microsoft knowledge base...word for word. 21 calls, 63 houirs....and when I was finally fed up...it took 21/2 months to get my money back.
Gateway...BARF....
Consumer be forewarned, Get me once shame on you, get me twice (never!!) shame on me.
Simply put, this was the worst choice of computer manufacturer I ever made...Hmmm well maybe the UMAX I got was worse....but I'm still dealing with them.
Just proving that on the web, folks can grab an Old News story and run with it. /. should hang their head for not researching the story.
As a paper chemist, I've often gotten a laugh driving to a company in Maine, when I see this bumper sticker:
"Want to Save a Tree?
Wipe Your Butt with Plastic."
Nuff said, paper's here to stay; and provides a lot of jobs in Europe and in the States.
As I said when the story posted, this is impractical. Until a cheaper way is found to boost things to orbit, by a factor of 1000; the common folks on the ground will just continue to support NASA or the like with our taxes. Hmmm...perhaps folks should check their sources for accuracy too.
The story as posted just gave everyone a chance to make a lot of off-color, crude, and banal remarks.