Please create an account to participate in the Slashdot moderation system

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:TWO WORDS (Score 2) 454

The FEMA coffins are easy. Do you know how quickly a few hundred thousand dead bodies becomes a major, MAJOR health hazard?

No need to dream up any New World Order conspiracy theory, either. One large earthquake and tsunami will do just fine.

Or you could remind yourself that a volcano with the ability to wipe out half of Seattle with less than an hour's warning is considered one of the most dangerous volcanos in the world today.

Or, for an extra shit and/or giggle, consider the consequences if the 1918 flu strain were to happen again...How many coffins would you suddenly need to find then? Bit late to be placing 50,000 unit orders at that stage of the game...

Comment Re:Let's face it (Score 1) 1105

Psst: The not-so-secret Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has been manipulating oil prices for a very long time now, from their triggering of the 1973 energy crisis by denying oil to supporters of Israel in the Yom Kippur War to...

> ...ensure[ing] a steady flow of oil that would support economic expansion. Part of the basis for this policy is the Saudi concern that expensive oil or oil of uncertain supply will drive developed nations to conserve and develop alternative fuels.

Comment Re:Milky Way (Score 1) 118

Mind-blowingly amazing - From where I live in Australia, at the right time of the year, the central bulge of the galaxy is more or less right overhead with the arms spreading out on either side from horizon to horizon. Dizzying sense of gazing across unfathomable distances, standing on the shores of the infinite? You better believe it...

Comment Re:No thanks (Score 1) 230

I'm glad you put the Open in Open Debate in "quotation fingers", because that's the sort of "debate" she's not interested in but gets far too much of.

If she wanted to read people making shit up, hurling insults and doing their best to shit on anything says*, she'd go into politics.

* Not because there's anything wrong in what she's saying, but because she's right and this is the only kind of attack they can mount because everything she says is true. Actually, you get that in a lot of places, I guess, so just fill in your own blanks there.

Comment Re:Only 1998? (Score 1) 404

It's been syncing to disk constantly the whole time. That's what journaling filesystems do.

Just because you pull the plug doesn't mean all the power is gone immediately, either. Capacitors will all still be charged, and devices with a CMOS battery in them (think RAID controllers) can keep working long enough to finish any write operations they have in their caches.

Here's a nickel, kid. Go out and get yourself a real operating system.

Slashdot Top Deals

Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.

Working...