They aren't the devil, but this quote always makes me think Microsoft "Why would anybody assume Microsoft funded this? I suppose maybe because it's something Yosemite Sam would do."

Hey, don't knock unobtainium. Of course me and buddies watch the core at the budget theater and MST3Ked it

Yep, and I give you the horrible truth, CSI is for the brain dead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

Except we will pay. BP will raise prices, so will all the others, BP just will have to pay back out for cleanup while the other companies will collect profits off BPs screw up.

7/11 franchises to follow shortly on the space station.

Gas consumption wouldn't work as more and more cars are getting better and better gas mileage. Let alone electric or alternative fuels which aren't taxed.

As an administrator for a regional ISP that this has happened to. SORBS made our life a living hell. They blacklisted our IP space not for spam, but because they thought our static IP space rDNS appeared like a dynamic block. We lost customers, were on and off their list until we threatened to sick lawyers on them. Then magically we were off the list and white listed.

Good riddance. I may through a "ding dong the witch is dead" party on July 20th. But I don't know where to find 50 midgets to dance around singing about it.

I'm still waiting for my Mr. Fusion

I to went through that. At my peak I calculated I was having more then a gram of caffeine a day. Considering 8oz of diet pepsi has 24mg, that should give you a rough idea. I decided at one point I was addicted and had to stop, so I went cold turkey.

First there was the headache, then the vomiting, then the unable to even move without throwing up. This went on for about a week before it was all out of my system. When I was done I felt great. I could hold my hand steady, I had more relative energy, and was more focused. I have since gone back to the well, but in moderation, usually under 200mg a day. Though now when I get an energy drink I feel it.

That would be the contradiction of the average geek. We are curious, have a collected almost unlimited resources, and love to blow things up. How do you think we ended up with the atomic bomb. Lets get a few of the biggest geeks in the world, shove them in a room and see what happens.

In other words, give 10,000 geeks unlmited resources and infinite time and we will blow up the moon. Either that or invent a perfect robotic woman.

Even properly mounted high speed drives can be susceptible to shake damage. In installing a new rack in our datacenter a wire monkey used a hammer drill in our concrete floor next to a rack full of running servers. We had a number of 15000rpm drives have bad sectors from that. They were properly mounted servers and drives. Now if they were 7200rpm drives we probably would have been fine, but what data center needed high speed data access wouldn't use 15000rpm drives.

Long story short, I would love to see the sector analysis from those hard drives.