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Comment Inevitability (Score 1) 578

by tymbow on Sunday March 16, 2008 @06:38PM (#22768156) Attached to: UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'

Face it, complete DNA sampling of the population is inevitable.

Mind you, I have to ask - if they are so worried about a 5 year old turning into a criminal, why not spend the money sorting the kid out while there 5 rather than dealing with their adult crime?

The Joy of the Flash Drive 332

Posted by Zonk on Sunday March 16, 2008 @03:00AM from the little-quiet-different dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A post to the C|Net site covers the numerous benefits of flash drives, such as speed, temperature, and battery consumption. The perk author Michael Kanellos is most fond of? The distinct lack of noise. 'The notebook I'm testing--a Dell Latitude D830 with a 64GB flash hard drive from Samsung--hasn't emitted a sound in three days. Flash drives, which store data in NAND flash memory, don't require motors or spinning platters. Thus, there are no whirring mechanical noises. Compare that with my T42 ThinkPad. It sounds like a guinea pig got trapped inside, particularly during the start-up phase. Vzoooot. Cronk, cronk, cronk. Zip, zip. (Pause.) Gurlagurlagurla...zweeee. '"

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