So... Your Cox has been down more than you'd like, and you can't get your Cox to stay up? Getting rid of it entirely is an option, I suppose, but I keep hearing about medications that claim to keep your Cox up any time you want it up.

I sincerely doubt that they are using sterilised water at near boiling point to blast a passage through the ice to waters isolated for up to half a million years.

Strange, based on your username I wouldn't have expected you to bypass the logic of the argument and rush to straw men.

Let me restate:

Nobody gives a shit where you keep 0 degrees or 100 degrees. It simply does not matter.

Fahrenheit is good for body temps and weather, as those are generally confined to the upper end of the first hundred degrees F.

Celsius is better for communication and scientific measurement, particularly once you leave the easily-habitated parts of Earth behind. It's a better standard for measuring extreme cold and heat.

I'm not telling anyone that your precious Celsius is garbage. I'm just saying that for weather and body temp measurement, there are demonstrable advantages to Fahrenheit, simply because it has a finer numbering scale in those specific areas.

No, because while you can insert decimals to Celsius to get a more meaningful range of values, you can do the same for Fahrenheit and get still MORE useable data points.

"Only Sith deal in absolutes."

Right, because the common phrase is "broke like Google", not "fat Google money".

Oh, wait...

So basically, according to YOUR link, the rocket had a problem with one of it's nine engines (did you think they carried nine because it lines up pretty???) and NASA forbade them from performing the second stage transfer burn, due to safety concerns. Where exactly did corners get cut? Engine failures happened ALL THE TIME on NASA's programs, too. It's a fact of life in rocketry, there are lots of moving parts, so you overprovision for redundancy, and cut over if you have to. That article you linked is a very, very negative spin on a normal launch.

Yeah, I don't think you know what you're talking about.

iHAS is not a feature or anything to be 'flashed out', it's the model number/name of the drive.

The firmware you linked to is still the Liteon firmware, it's just been patched to allow writing all the way to the rim of the DVD-R DL, specifically for piracy of Xbox 360 games with the XGD3 copy protection.

iHAS burners are a lousy choice for ripping audio CDs, and that's also true for damned near any current drive on the market. CD Audio extraction quality and speed is simply NOT a mass marketable feature anymore, and hasn't been for a while.

So you didn't look at the links, eh? The new drive that he hates is an iHAS.... AKA a recent Liteon DVDRW.

Wow, unmitigated, unconfirmed, completely fabricated BULLSHIT on the front page of Slashdot?? Maybe things really are done here.

A quick Google search with any of a number of sections of the fake 'plastics' article turn up the real NASA article talking about iron-rich pellets, but the picture of fucking MARDI GRAS BEADS in the upper right might have been a clue.

Samzenpus, you should be ashamed.

Not true, there are many 'cracked' KMS servers out there, which are a VM with the most minimal services, running Windows Server in Core mode, and all ports but the KMS ones closed and blocked. Those same servers are patched to keep 25 fake activations renewed at all times, so any and all requests to the "cracked" KMS server result in activations. As far as MS can tell, they are legitimate, since KMS activations are not verified online, except with the original server.

I don't see this getting patched or fixed easily. It will be a lot of work. or it'll require doing things that annoy large volume customers.

"I've pulled the binary apart, and I think the problem is that it's not signed with a LF [Linux Foundation] specific key, it's signed by a generic one rooted in the UEFI key."

Please, "leak" that one immediately. It would tear huge holes in "Secure Boot".

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Good catch, my mistake. Thanks.