after the mail in rebate ?

Whatever happened to Quantum? Reason I ask is I recently did a data recovery off an old Quantum 40 Gb drive. Drive came from a Gateway desktop that had an Intel CPU and RAMBUS RAM.

Take it from someone that deals with this daily. Test those backups.

Nice find. More informative than the original article. He swiped 4 consoles in addition to the games. So not everything could have been downloaded. Setting aside law and morality - the guy pulled the job about a month late. WoW Catacylsm was released last month. If he'd gone to work last month, he could have gotten a lot more cash from the register.

So where's the none of the above option ?

I first heard the idea from Eric Reed Boucher. Basically, if "none of the above" is the winning choice - start over!

I would disagree. Taxes and shipping are variables withing your control. In the US, buying off the internet means one doesn't pay state taxes usually. On shipping, just shop (on newegg anyway) from the items marked "Free Shipping". One of the cheapest ways to get a case.

I don't see a sarcasm tag so I'll take it you're serious. I can see that cost. Why? Off the top of my head: The salary cost of engineers, support staff such as CAD drafters and designers. Dont forget IT guys that run the mail, network and printers. Design software such as Catia and the hardware to run it. The lost time in man hours. Now figure a yearly cost, multiplied over three years. This the length of time ShanShan is accused of stealing said documents.

I don't know your level of knowledge so bear with me here. One approach would be to look up MAC addresses. Every network card has a code for the manufacturer listed in its MAC address. It's the first six characters. Any address starting with the following would be made by Huawei (1). For example, it may say "Dell" on the front, but if it starts with the below, its Huawei. If you manage a LAN you can compare to the list below. Can one clone/fake MAC addresses? Yes. However, if you run a LAN, I'd like to think you have the authority or knowledge to know if that's going on.

• 000FE2
• 001882
• 001E10
• 0022A1
• 002568
• 00259E
• 00E0FC
• 286ED4
• 6416F0
• 781DBA

Second, at the risk of pointing out the obvious, you could check their products page(2). Danger: Flash and scripts. As partners go, Huawei has at least two: 3Com and Symantec. 3Com's agreement on the surface seems to be a way for them to access the China markets. Symantec and Huawei announced a "joint cloud strategy" selling enterprise NAS products in the US market for starters. Hope this helps!

Source: ------

1. MACs http://www.coffer.com/mac_find/?string=huawei
2. Product page http://www.huawei.com/products_services.do

Close. From 2006 to 2010, Kirsten Gillibrand received $424,434 in campaign donations from individuals at "Boies, Schiller & Flexner". This is a law firm that specializes in Intellectual Property and International Arbitration among other things. From 2009 to 2010, Hatch received $25,050 from HP's PAC and individuals in campaign donations.

I have my opinion as to the bills true authors. Conduct your own research though. Form your own opinion.

References: Open secrets dot org. (www.opensecrets.org). Always entertaining to look up a representatives name to see who the donors are.

• Hatchhttp://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2010&cid=N00009869&type=I
• Gillibrandhttp://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00027658&type=I

Boies, Schiller & Flexnerhttp://www.bsfllp.com/practices/100

I will, damnit!

Don't you DARE skip an article!

You don't have to actually read it, just make up some asinine comment and throw it in there somewhere, anywhere is fine.

maybe someone wrote a twitter backend for syslog?

Let's not kid ourselves. Half of the front page stories aren't "good enough" for Slashdot, but there they are.

SSDs have fixed per-drive costs/requirements too. Chips to handle the SATA interface and internal wear leveling, for example. And the choice of memory chips is analogous to magnetic platter density. SSD makers spread the load over multiple memory chips, and spinning hard drive makers spread the load over 1-4 platters, but the makers of the chips and platters prefer to only churn out mass quantities of their one newest model. The investments for both factories are up front and then the marginal production cost per chip/platter is about the same, so why waste production capacity on the old model? That means, for both, that when capacity goes up, you may get a higher capacity drive for the same price, but you are unlikely to get an old-capacity drive for a lower price. There's a sweet spot around $75-$100 for hard drives and it hasn't changed much in ages, excepting discount selloffs of old stock when the new model's production has ramped up.

For example, checking newegg right now: cheapest 32 GB SATA SSD is $90, cheapest 16 GB SATA SSD is... $99. (Note that I'm comparing SSDs only, you'll have to skip by the expansion card drives). They declined to make cheap 16 GB MLC flash drives, instead doing SLC for those.

For comparison, if we hop over to the section on SD cards - which don't do anything fancy with drive controller chips in the card, they're pretty much just the memory chip in a plastic sleeve - we see the prices are much more closely related to capacity. 32 GB cards at $72, 16 GB at $32, 8 GB at $15.

First and last step of advice: go out in the real world instead of playing games all the time.

Not trolling, I'm serious. One of my friends used to play WoW every waking hour he wasn't working, and used to complain he didn't have a girlfriend. I guess he just expected one to knock on the door and jump him? He already made the choice to not have a girlfriend by avoiding the circumstances for getting one, but that didn't occour to him.

So THAT's what happened to Pluto!