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  1. Re:Ignorant to their own research on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 1

    Nah. Seagate has a habit of introducing solid new model, and after few months (up to a year) quietly CHANGING the design.
    ST2000DM001 for example comes in three varieties
    (2/4) or (3/5 [800~GB/platter]) or (3/6 [667~GB/platter]))

    2TB Barracuda ST2000DM001 can be found at random in a range of platter configurations - the 'perfect' two-platter version or two different three-platter models, which are slower and might also be less reliable. If you have an ST2000DM001 that weighs more than 600 grams, has a shallow (as opposed to deep and wide) depression on the cover (like this), and HD Tune reports a maximum read transfer rate of less than 190MB/s, you have a three-platter unit, and you may want to consider getting a refund.

    http://forums.seagate.com/stx/...

  2. Re:Ignorant to their own research on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 1

    15 minutes of salary, frozen capital and 10-30 days of dealing with manufacturer to get a replacement

  3. Re:Ignorant to their own research on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 1

    Hitachi drives are ~25% more expensive than Seagate.

  4. Re:All I Have To Say Is on You Might Rent Features & Options On Cars In the Future · · Score: 1

    No you don't and you know it. Until EULAs are actually taken to court and ruled unlawful

    It already was taken and ruled unlawful, in the civilized half of the world (read EU).

  5. Re:All I Have To Say Is on You Might Rent Features & Options On Cars In the Future · · Score: 1

    Dont forget Flir E4 thermal camera ($800 model unlocks to a full $8000 one)
    http://www.eevblog.com/forum/t...

  6. Re:Opt them in to a service on Network Solutions Opts Customer Into $1,850 Security Service · · Score: 1

    Polish Subway paid $180K after getting bogus "hey, we are your maintenance company and we changed our bank, please pay us using this new account number kthxbai" snail mail. Some companies are just too stupid and will pay any bill received in mail.

    http://translate.googleusercon...

  7. Re:Sega's mistake on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 2

    stick with the U for a while, develop it, make it cheaper, still get 1080p @ 60fps

    dude, U is slower than $70 Android TV sticks, both GPU and CPU are 5 year old news. touch lcd controller is a specialized piece of hardware with less processing power than $35 google Chromecast, its basically lcd with h264 decoder dangling off of wifi chip.

    They have NOTHING to offer in this platform, nothing an average Tablet cant do right now.

  8. Re:Terrorists will find other ways to communicate on Senator Dianne Feinstein: NSA Metadata Program Here To Stay · · Score: 2

    Oh they stopped plenty. For example a plot to do internal audit of CIA by Petraeus.

  9. Re:Insignificant on Global-Warming Skepticism Hits 6-Year High · · Score: 1

    So 23% of people in the USA do not believe in science

    science? they dont believe in bullshit. Every IPCC report predicted doom and scorched earth, claimed sun activity doesnt count, there are no cycles, there is only man made CO2 and we are all gonna die. Enough is enough.

  10. Re:Which shows that people don't understand on Global-Warming Skepticism Hits 6-Year High · · Score: 2

    Good question, perhaps we should ask inhabitants of Mesa Verde, oh wait.

  11. Re:AMD could do a 24 core desktop chip right now on AMD Considered GDDR5 For Kaveri, Might Release Eight-Core Variant · · Score: 1

    I think they know, they do have ARM license for 64bit stuff and will make ARM64 based Opterons.

  12. Re:Read Larry Niven's stories about "organleggers" on Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Legalize Sale of Human Organs · · Score: 1

    there is no market
    and no corruption!
    and everyone loves Mao

  13. Re:Read Larry Niven's stories about "organleggers" on Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Legalize Sale of Human Organs · · Score: 1

    This is already happening in China.

  14. Re:Why you play? on Fighting Gamer Rage With an Arduino Based Biometrics Headset · · Score: 1

    I ragequit Eve after losing two tier 3 battleships to being ganked. They cost about $15 each

    Thats like dropping out of elementary school because a big mean bully too your lunch money :)

  15. Re:Very surprised that it took this long on OpenBSD Moving Towards Signed Packages — Based On D. J. Bernstein Crypto · · Score: 1

    It doesnt have to be secure, nobody uses openbsd outright.
    It exists solely for the purpose of begging for donations while at the same time letting big corporations take its code and include in their products without giving back.

  16. Re:Why you play? on Fighting Gamer Rage With an Arduino Based Biometrics Headset · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Try EVE Online, when you lose in game you lose months of grind or thousands of dollars. Every important battle induces physiological fight or flight reaction.

  17. Re:black listing all androids in 5..4..3..2..1 on VPN Encryption Vulnerability On Android · · Score: 0

    If you are competent enough to use MDM on your mobile devices then your end users wouldn't be installing non-approved apps anyway

    Bullshit Apple at least has gone out of their way to make this nearly impossible.

    Last time I checked ishit will connect over unsecured connection while VPN tunnel is being established instead of waiting for secure path.

  18. Re:She wasn't surveilled.... on US Senator Warns Against Political Surveillance By Drone · · Score: 1

    The irony here is Feinstein over dramatization of this event given what she authorizes on the SIC. Using this incident to call for stricter drone laws is like being hit by a paper airplane and calling for the FAA to investigate.

    She probably remembers it as a scary military drone. Human memory is weird like that, stories grow bigger over time. Remember Clinton disembarking from a chopper under sniper fire in Bosnia?

    http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2012/09/your-memory-is-like-the-telephone-game.html

  19. Wikipedia has Videos? on Wikimedia Community Debates H.264 Support On Wikipedia Sites. · · Score: 1

    Never ever seen one.

  20. Re:Any evidence? on NSA Collects 200 Million Text Messages Per Day · · Score: 1

    5. Couldn't NSA simply ask its allies to provide them with information about U.S. persons?

    NSA is prohibited from requesting an ally to undertake activities that NSA itself is prohibited from conducting.

    sure
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

  21. Re:1963: JFK says on NSA Collects 200 Million Text Messages Per Day · · Score: 1

    CIA has grown into a monster, so I'm gonna disband it. Then Kennedy is assassinated and nothing happens to the CIA.

    2014: Obama says NSA has grown into a monster, it needs to be disbanded. Then Obama is assassinated and nothing happens to NSA.

    Obama is THE guy giving NSA more power :)

  22. Re:So what happens to the hydrogen? That's usable. on Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own · · Score: 3, Insightful

    nothing happens, its NOT a product, its a pretty 3D render and a VC bait,

  23. Re:Even combat has a silver lining. on Low-Cost Morphing Robotic Hands Could Revolutionize Blue-Collar Bionics · · Score: 1

    The United States is on the forefront of prosthetics innovation, yet another of the seemingly endless societal benefits of keeping a working military.

    ^^^^ keeping a steady stream of people with no limbs
    YAY for war

  24. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    Now WHY would they do that when the goal is to deprecate Desktop mode altogether and force EVERYONE into Metro and M$ appstore that will earn nice 30% of EVERY SINGLE APPLICATION INSTALLED EVER.

    This is the reason for the fail WinRT/metro push.

  25. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    Strange, for me it's the opposite. I can find stuff much faster in Windows 7 because it is logically laid out and grouped

    well, in win8 you install programs into

    C:\Program Files
    C:\Program Files (x86)
    %APPDATA%

    very logical ...