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Comment Kind of mild: blown capacitor (Score 1) 301

Colleague had forgotten to switch a Philips CD-i player from 110 volts to 220, and flipped on the power. There was a loud pop, followed by loud hissing, and very smelly thick white cloud spewed forth and quickly filled the whole room. The guy didn't even seem to have enough common sense to open up the windows, until I told him to do so. Then there was the story, a few years before that, of a whole crate of exploding Commodore 64s delivered to a local store. Each one would, when turned on, send keys flying through the room.

Comment Betteridge applies (Score 1) 252

No. I remember the times before DST was introduced in Belgium. Waking up between 4 and 5AM in summer because it was getting light was not fun. Longer evenings are something that's very pleasant, on the other hand. More opportunity to enjoy a little gardening after office hours. Additional food for thought: how many of the people complaining about having to adjust to an hour extra or less twice a year will gladly voluntarily subject themselves to a much longer jet lag multiple times per year without complaining?

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Is it Time to Build Voyager 3 and Voyager 4? (slashdot.org) 1

H_Fisher writes: Reading this bit of news from the now interstellar Voyager mission got me thinking again. In 50 years our computing and sensing technology have increased exponentially, along with our understanding of our solar system. What if NASA was handed a budget to launch two new Voyager probes more or less along the original paths of Voyager 1 and 2 — each with the best power management and space-hardened sensors, optics, and communications gear that public and private investment could muster. What instruments would you want to see on those spacecraft? And what questions would you hope the newest Voyagers would answer?

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