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Submission + - Listen to your hard drive (with out it dying) (youtube.com)

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entplex
entplex writes: "Recently saw the video listed below and automatically took a even nerdy twist on it, I used dd to create a bit level image of part of my hard drive figured others might be interested in listening to their hard drives make sounds other than the dreaded clicks at the end of their lives."

Comment Has been around for a while (Score 1) 249

by radl (#35441046) Attached to: Text Messages To Replace Stamps In Sweden
In Germany Deutsche Post started this more than two years ago http://www.deutschepost.de/mlm.nf/dpag/images/flashapps/handyporto_bin/index.htm For reasons unknown until today I never recieved a letter with the so called "Handyporto". Maybe this is because they are charging text message porto customers 72% more per letter (0.95 € Handyporto VS 0.55 € regular stamps). But this is just a wild guess...
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Graphic Map of Linux-2.6.36 25

Posted by timothy from the under-the-hood dept.
conan.sh writes "The Interactive map of Linux Kernel was expanded and updated to the recent kernel linux-2.6.36. Now the map contains more than four hundred important source items (functions and structures) with links to source code and documentation."
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Hank Chien Reclaims Donkey Kong High Score 122

Posted by Soulskill from the barrels-of-fun dept.
An anonymous reader writes "If you can say anything about Hank Chien, it's that he evidently doesn't take defeat very well. Sure, he knew not so deep down that his Donkey Kong World Record score wouldn't last forever, but he couldn't have foreseen that it would have been toppled so quickly. Twice, even. But he also knew that more Kong competition would be coming his way; namely Richie Knucklez Kong-Off in March. So Hank had something to prove, and prove he did. Scoring a massive 1,068,000 points in less than three hours, Hank has officially reclaimed the high score in Nintendo’s 1981 arcade classic."
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Submission + - Weaponized model aircraft, shots down balloons (suasnews.com) 1

Submitted by garymortimer
garymortimer writes: The model flying discipline of First Person View continues to court controversy. Before Christmas we had a flight over New York city and the Statue of Liberty. Now a weaponized model aircraft shooting at flying targets.

Comment Re:The real problem (Score 1) 260

by radl (#30247872) Attached to: NRC Relicensing Old "Zombie" Nuclear Plants
Let's take this slowly!

In addition, you're perpetuating more FUD by linking unrelated facts. C___y_ had *NOTHING* to do with processing nuclear waste. It had everything to do with taking every safety system offline, then having poorly trained...

I know about that! I deeply regret having mentioned the C-word in my first post. If I could I would reverse that, but I can't. If you want so, failure from the beginning.

By the way, I'm no fan of coal plants either.

Solar ...Biofuels ... Hydrogen ... Hydro ...Wave power

For some reason you forgot wind in your list of young and having-lots-of-pros-and-cons-too 'alternative' (hate that word as it manifests the status quo!) power generation technologies.
However, what my - thanks to this discussion somewhat clearer - point is, is that exploring new technologies is great. But actively and productive using technologies, that do produce problems, me, the using society, knows about, and can't really cope with is a bad idea! Just stating further generations with their improved knowledge will easily solve the problems then, is (attention, more fud to come) a bit like killing a child in a car accident, freezing it and telling the parents that it will be good in ~200 years.

Comment Re:The real problem (Score 1) 260

by radl (#30247284) Attached to: NRC Relicensing Old "Zombie" Nuclear Plants

You are living contradictions in that your lifestyle has been created and can only be sustained by the very things you attack

Yeah, this world thing is quite complex.

and your other lifestyle choices (for example smoking pot) have very serious costs to the commons but they are "alright" because you like them.

In "my" world, smoking pot has lesser potential to harm coming generations than emissions from (nuclear-/coal-) power plants. (As a side note: In "my" world plant operators shouldn't smoke pot at work).

Move our of your mother's basement,

Accomplished.

stop playing MMORPG,

Never did. Did you? Should I try it?

get a job or better yet start a business,

Accomplished, for the job part.

and grow the fuck up.

I think, being grown up, is a bad excuse for dismissing responsibility.

Thanks for your input! Now over to you: get a name, get a /. account!

Comment Re:Not so (Score 1) 260

by radl (#30246536) Attached to: NRC Relicensing Old "Zombie" Nuclear Plants

You said there wasn't a solution. I merely showed the error of your statement.

For the "solution" part, regarding a pure intellectual concept of "solution", I agree.

So let's move on and talk about responsibility! How can someone today take over responsibility for something humans (to name a few) will still have to cope with in thousand years?

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