I'm not sure what that link is in response to. That's a USB 2.0 hard-drive enclosure for regular 2.5" hard-drives.

We're talking about SSD using a USB 3.0 connection.

What are you, some kind of Socialest or someting?

Sorry TFM = the f***ing manual I understand as usually it is printed as RTFM = Read The F***ing Manual. There was no angst directed at you. As for the device I followed the link you provided and this is the product they were selling. After posting this I read further and they have a corded remote of sorts for selecting the files that are loaded from the flash drive. This would be useful since you could put all your floppies on the flash drive and select which one you wanted loaded into the device memory at that time. My only intention was to provide more information about the device you mentioned as I find it fascinating in theory. I say in theory since most devices I've run into that required say 20 floppies to load the firmware also had a serial port that allowed me to load it that way. But that device would be very useful in certain situations. Like the gentleman who had to load designs into his fabrication machinery.

I read TFM and it said you actually load files from the USB drive into it's internal memory. It also said something about being able to choose which files are loaded somehow. But even better you can plug a network cable in to it and use it's built in web-server to upload files directly into memory. This would be an incredibly Rube Goldberg solution unless you were using an expensive to replace legacy device that only had a floppy drive and then it would save you a lot of switching out of floppies.

But then why would the idea that an unfriendly nations infrastructure could be utterly wiped out with surgical strikes before anyone ever knew what we did make anyone nervous at all? It's not like we would ever abuse that power.

At least put up a Spoiler Alert before you do that. I was finally going to get around to watching Star Wars this weekend.
Bastard.

SPOILER

Worrying about spoilers in reviews of popcorn movies based on comic books past puberty means you are probably developmentally disabled.

Properly designed an ABM wouldn't be able to divert the projectile. I believe the forces involved would outweigh the attempt unless it was intercepted pretty early during entry into the atmosphere and part of the beauty of this system is it is already to late by the time it is detected. Also just for good measure. FTA Obama was quoted as saying, "Can't I get a friggin' shark with a laser on it's head? Is that too much to ask?"

Both with Privacy AND with security.

I mean, from a business standpoint, yes, facebook is great for drumming up marketting, developing business, and maintaining relations with clients. However, just yesterday we ran across this little gem. A worm that targets facebook and other social networking sites specifically.

Surprise Surprise, one our sales ladies got infected. Now that we've cleaned it off we still have to assess the damage. She could have spread it to the rest of the sales team, her clients, the CEO (who is on her friends list)... But of course she isn't going to give US any information, that'd be invading her privacy.

I know, you guys are going to say "Tell her to warn others and let her deal with it then", which is what we did, but obviously if she doesn't adequately deal with it, the problem is going to circle back to us with other sales people.

Being able to control who gets to use the processors (and, more importantly, who doesn't) would give Apple a huge advantage over it's competitors

Apple would get crucified if they so much as tried to execute that kind of control, for one. For another, ARM isn't the only one who makes ARM-compatible CPUs: there's still Qualcomm, Samsung and more. This line is flamebait.

Apple is likely doing this to ensure consistent supply. It was depressingly common during the PowerPC era for Apple to suffer supply shortages whenever IBM or Motoroal botched estimates, diverted resources to it's own POWER machines (in IBM's case) and/or didn't feel like investing capital in manufacturing. When Apple is launching ARM-based products in half-million-in-one-week quantities, they probably don't want repeats of, say, what happened with many PPC G4 ,machines.

Gaining an advantage over your competitors is *not* grounds for anti-trust. Once again, I see "A monopoly on high quality" or "A monopoly on something I want" being thrown around as grounds for government intervention. Fortunately, the law isn't that idiotic - just random Internet commenters.

Apple has nowhere near a monopoly on chip design, mobile devices or computing. There are plenty of competitors to ARM in the low power chip market. The shareholders of these two companies are well within their rights to agree a takeover. Buying something so your competitors can't use it is a perfectly legitimate business action - if it wasn't, huge swathes of company takeover in existence would be "blocked on antitrust grounds".

That's just typical for Obama's disastrous NASA politics:
Take remote pictures of it from an unmanned observatory.

-Under George W. we would have landed there!

What you're describing sounds like a video hardware problem, not a software issue. Did you bother filing a bug report to find out?

I've definitely got some stuff gathering dust in places in my house. The thing is, every damn time I dump or recycle an item, it turns out I need it shortly thereafter. It's never the stuff that I'm keeping. Only the stuff that I get rid of. Grrr.

A corollary to this: the best way to avoid ever breaking something is to have a spare.

Crap! I wish more of my clients used McAfee!