Comment: Drones for everybody..... (Score 1) 171
....or drones for nobody.
Comment: Truth hurts... (Score 1) 138
....... Mr Turow you are not losing money due to piracy, you don't sell as many books because your new ones suck compared to your older work. Quit your bitching and write good books again.
Comment: Best TV is no TV (Score 1) 479
Best TV experience ever was watching the garbage men take it away. Now that was valuable entertainment.
Comment: Re:Jelious co-worker. (Score 1) 181
Exactly, the government was run by petty selfish morons then and still is now.
Comment: Re:Not always more accurate (Score 2) 147
Law enforcement also lives in the 21st century. How long does it take to call someone to get a warrant faxed/emailed to you?
Comment: Re:Came for the liberal circle jerk... (Score 2) 815
Republicans = = Return to that which never was.
Democrats = = Promising that which will never be.
Some choice!
Comment: Re:WTF (Score 1) 815
Try not paying your "voluntary" taxes. If it was voluntary you would have a point.
+ - History Professor Teaches How to Falsify Wikipedia
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Hugh Pickens writes writes "Yoni Appelbaum reports in the Atlantic that as part of their coursework in a class that studies historical hoaxes, undergraduates at George Mason University successfully fooled Wikipedia's community of editors launching a Wikipedia page detailing the exploits of a fictitious 19th-century serial killer named Joe Scafe. The students, enrolled in T. Mills Kelly's course, Lying About the Past, used newspaper databases to identify four actual women murdered in New York City from 1895 to 1897, victims of broadly similar crimes and created Wikipedia articles for the victims, carefully following the rules of the site. But while a similar page created previously by Kelly's students went undetected for years, when students posted the story to Reddit, it took just twenty-six minutes for a redditor to call foul, noting the Wikipedia entries' recent vintage and others were quick to pile on, deconstructing the entire tale. Why did the hoaxes succeed in 2008 on Wikipedia and not in 2012 on Reddit? According to Appelbaum, the answer lies in the structure of the Internet's various communities. "Wikipedia has a weak community, but centralizes the exchange of information. It has a small number of extremely active editors, but participation is declining, and most users feel little ownership of the content. And although everyone views the same information, edits take place on a separate page, and discussions of reliability on another, insulating ordinary users from any doubts that might be expressed," writes Appelbaum. "Reddit, by contrast, builds its strong community around the centralized exchange of information. Discussion isn't a separate activity but the sine qua non of the site." If there's a simple lesson in all of this, it's that hoaxes tend to thrive in communities which exhibit high levels of trust. But on the Internet, where identities are malleable and uncertain, we all might be well advised to err on the side of skepticism (PDF).""
+ - Self-Destruct Buttons On This SSD Will Physically Destroy Your Drive->
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TheGift73 writes "Are you worried about the FBI kicking down your door in search of all your digital contraband? If so then it's time to upgrade to RunCore's new InVincible SSD drive with its pair of red and green self-destruct buttons that will keep you one step ahead of prying eyes.
Like any SSD the InVincible offers several advantages to traditional hard drives like lower power consumption, fast read (240Mbps) and write (140Mbps) times, and the ability to endure temperatures ranging from -50 to 200+ degrees fahrenheit. But the real reason people will be opting for this particular drive is its set of red and green self-destruct buttons, which remain accessible outside your computer, that can be used to get rid of any incriminating digital evidence.
Pushing the green button initiates the drive's intelligent destruction mode which simply overwrites the entire disk with random, meaningless code—leaving your files unrecoverable according to RunCore. But the slightly more tempting red button initiates the drive's physical destruction mode which applies a strong current to the InVincible's NAND flash memory, completely destroying it in a puff of smoke as demonstrated in the video. It's definitely the more extreme way to go, but it further guarantees that no one will ever be able to recover what was on the drive.
So technically, the InVincible isn't actually completely invincible. There's no pricing or availability information for the drive just yet, but you can probably expect it to cost a little more than your standard SSD. Oh, and if you happen to be red-green color blind, you might just want to avoid it altogether."
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Like any SSD the InVincible offers several advantages to traditional hard drives like lower power consumption, fast read (240Mbps) and write (140Mbps) times, and the ability to endure temperatures ranging from -50 to 200+ degrees fahrenheit. But the real reason people will be opting for this particular drive is its set of red and green self-destruct buttons, which remain accessible outside your computer, that can be used to get rid of any incriminating digital evidence.
Pushing the green button initiates the drive's intelligent destruction mode which simply overwrites the entire disk with random, meaningless code—leaving your files unrecoverable according to RunCore. But the slightly more tempting red button initiates the drive's physical destruction mode which applies a strong current to the InVincible's NAND flash memory, completely destroying it in a puff of smoke as demonstrated in the video. It's definitely the more extreme way to go, but it further guarantees that no one will ever be able to recover what was on the drive.
So technically, the InVincible isn't actually completely invincible. There's no pricing or availability information for the drive just yet, but you can probably expect it to cost a little more than your standard SSD. Oh, and if you happen to be red-green color blind, you might just want to avoid it altogether."
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Comment: Re:Can you post a pic of the damaged drive and cab (Score 1) 8
Looks to me like they got the 12V and it's ground wire too hot when molding the connector and weakened the insulation. This does not look to me like a failure of the connector specifically. Troubling is that the plastic caught on fire, UL approved stuff wouldn't do this.
Do you know the brand of the molex to SATA adapter?
This is just an opinion based on 2 pictures and a little data. So take it with a ton of salt. :)
Comment: Can you post a pic of the damaged drive and cable? (Score 1) 8
Would like to see the damage done.
Comment: Own much Cisco stock? (Score 1) 295
Curious minds want to know Mr G.
Comment: All your life belong to us. (Score 1) 394
I bet you thought the Nazis lost WW II. LOL
Comment: Come to America..... (Score 1) 1359
.....and pretend you are free like everyone else here.
Comment: You want their diagnosis??? (Score 1) 876
"You don't call the auto shop and tell them that your engine is broken when your radio breaks!"
You might not but lots of people do!
Fixing anything can be a challenge, you get to figure it out without much help from the customer on most occasions (sometimes it is easier without their diagnosis).
They just want it to work.