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  1. Not the most powerful on US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled · · Score: 2

    The B53 was not the most powerful bomb the US had in service. the B41 (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/B41_nuclear_bomb) had a theoretical maximum yield of 25 megatons, making it more powerful than even the Castle Bravo Shrimp device which had a yield of 15 megatons. The only stronger detonation was the Soviet RDS-220, or "Tsar Bomba", which had a yield of 57 megatons, reduced from 100 by replacing the uranium tamper with a lead one in order to reduce fallout.

  2. Disassembly on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    If you're like me and enjoy taking stuff apart, you can do what I do and just disassemble the drive, bend up the platters, and then throw everything away (and keep the screws, one can never have enough types of screws for various projects.) If it has multiple platters, then actually just taking the platters out makes them unusable as the platters are in a very precise alignment that's set at the factory that is screwed up and impossible to undo when the platters are taken out.

  3. deuxsonic (at) yahoo (dot) com on Google+ Already At 10 Million Users · · Score: 1

    Third time is a charm.

  4. Re:Invite? on Google+ Already At 10 Million Users · · Score: 1

    Stupid me forgot to login first.

  5. Re:Limited? on RIAA Insists On 3rd Trial In Thomas Case · · Score: 1

    In that case, they're doing a pretty terrible job, as music copyright infringement is still rampant and I can't see anything of their doing having any effect on this.

  6. Re:That's no moon on Strange New Objects Seen In Saturn's Rings · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was changed to Jupiter for the movie because Stanley Kubrick couldn't find a good image of Saturn (this was 1968, so a lot of the great images we have today didn't exist.) The book retains the original planet of Saturn, yet strangely it gets changed to Jupiter in the later books (I guess to be canon with the movie?)

  7. Less than it appears? on Comcast's Throttling Plan Has 'Disconnect User' Option · · Score: 1

    Excuse my ignorance, but when they say 250 GB, I assume they mean 250 GB of downstream and upstream usage combined? With P2P usage, wouldn't this cause that 250 GB to go really quickly?

  8. Re:Ripping apart a monkey on stage? on The Tech Behind a Nine Inch Nails Show · · Score: 3, Informative

    That seems highly unlikely for someone who did a video for PETA, you know?

  9. Re:GigE on New Map IDs the Core of the Human Brain · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a downgrade to me.

  10. Re:IC what? on ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just upgrade Pidgin to the latest version and everything will work fine.

  11. Obligatory Deus Ex reference on The Future Has a Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    JC Denton: "Take your best shot flatlander woman."
    Anna Navarre: "How did you know...?"
    *explosion*


    JC Denton: "I know your UNATCO killphrase: laputan machine."
    Gunther Hermann: "I - am not- a machi- ..."
    JC Denton: Sticks-and-stones
    *explosion*

  12. Re:at least... on Don't Take Notes In the Bookstore · · Score: 1

    What you can do is wait until the class starts and get the ISBNs off of your peers. You rarely ever need a book the first week of class anyways.

  13. Re:Good luck... on AT&T to Help MPAA Filter the Internet? · · Score: 1

    SSSHH!!!!!!!! Don't spoil their dreams/hallucinations!

  14. Re:Hmm... on Is id Abandoning Linux? · · Score: 1

    Hollenshead didn't fire anyone. He lacked that power at the time. Only the 2 Carmacks and Kevin Cloud had the ability to do that.