Just tell your infant to only swallow one at a time. Problem solved!

I often wonder how many aggregate person-lifetimes are wasted waiting for desktop effects to complete. . . could we, for instance, bring up the designer of the OSX minimize effect on murder charges?

And brings to mind one of my favorite onion articles: National Pork Council: Many Americans Suffer From Pork Deficiency.

My 11 year old daughter has attended a Waldorf school practically since birth and, while there are definitely uber-hippies and a few anti-vaxxers, her school is nothing like you describe. Waldorf schools reflect their leadership, and if nuts are in charge the school is nutty (like every organization, really). There is none of this deep tissue crap, none of this anti-wifi hysteria - please don't paint all Waldorf schools with the same brush because they aren't all the same. It's been a great education and my daughter does just fine with computers - and has even programmed a little python on an OLPC. For some reason - probably because they end up loving to learn and haven't had creativity beaten out of them - many Waldorf kids end up going into the sciences. They end up fine, because appropriate things are taught at appropriate times.

The play focus in preschool is totally appropriate - and IS learning. At that age, kids need to learn how to interact with each other and solve their own problems as peers, and play (and storytelling, another huge part of early Waldorf education) is one of the best ways of "teaching" that. It lays a foundation for kids that're able to interact in healthy ways and solve problems on their own. How many smart people have you met that're unable to deal with interpersonal problems or even minor conflicts?

Anyway - I am not a blinder wearing Waldorf fanboy. There are some wacky things (Eurythmy? hokay. . .), but the end results of a good Waldorf school are hard to argue with. They end up being well rounded, centered kids who by and large kick ass in high school and end up happy.

Hey dipshits - the "timthumb.php" thing TFA is talking about isn't part of the wordpress core. All the wordpress bashing is pretty much irrelevant because we're talking about vulnerabilities in third-party software.

LOL wut? My asus 1215n has a dual core Intel D525, a gorgeous 12 inch display at 1366x768 and gets a solid six+ hours on the battery. It is the best portable computer I've ever owned, and I've owned many in 15 years. I do wish it had faster mechanical storage, but that can upgraded. Running debian stable, I pretty much never feel like I'm waiting on my hardware.

Perhaps you need to update your knowledge of the current state of netbooks?

I don't know if you're morally opposed to backports, but I've had great luck with: mozilla.debian.net. I just install google chrome straight from the tap, though.

You can get chlamydia from a koala, those adorable little sluts.

If you're having marital relations with a koala, chlamydia is probably the least of your problems.

Old, but I'll reply anyway. I am NOT a hardware engineer, forgive any garbled terminology.

Apparently there is something about how Seagate implemented power saving (in some desktop drives) that makes it so that it only works properly under windows. The drive will spin down at odd times while linux thinks it can still write to it, and that'll create a bad sector with a high amount of frequency. Apparently the best fix is to disable the power saving altogether, but that pretty much sucks.

So seagate took a pretty well understood interface and screwed it up to make it windows only. They have also advertised (I'm pretty sure, don't quote me) that these drives with this messed up power management were linux compatible when they clearly weren't.

This seems related, and explains the issue I saw almost exactly. Of course, it could just be that the drives are shit and the click of death would've happened under any OS.

Oh god, please no. I have had nothing but horrible experiences with Seagate drives recently under linux:

• this bug hit me,
• I had at least 4 RMAs on the same drive due to a similar "click of death",
• I had a "click of death" on an iomega external HDD that was actually - you guessed it - seagate inside.

I don't get it. Seagate used to be great - WHY did they engineer drives to not work properly under linux? The idea of an HDD that doesn't work under linux is just wrong - like you have to actually try to make something that crappy.

I ended up just replacing the still under warranty Seagate drives with Western Digitals. Problems since then? Zero. LEAVE WESTERN DIGITAL ALONE!

PS: I must be dumb. Slashdot is not styling my bulletted list properly.

Would we be hearing about this report if it hadn't come out with a conclusion favorable to its funders? Doubtful.

this EMC Celerra NS model 120-121-122-123-124-125-126-127-128-129-130 NAS I just bought off craigslist.