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by pdubs 15y ago
Not orange juice, but cranberry juice has a lower pH than Mountain Dew. It's about 1/2 pH away from stomach acid.
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by pdubs 15y ago
That may be a bit of confirmation bias. Google's massive hard drive study [1] states that there was no significant difference in failure by manufacturer. [1] http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
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by pdubs 15y ago
If you send it by a secure courier service or even certain types of post I would think that liability no longer rests with you. If damaging information leaks you could then likely sue the carrier and/or Seagate. A likely solution would be t
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by pdubs 15y ago
Seagate wipes the drives they get returned [1]. I imagine other companies have similar processes. [1] http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=...
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by pdubs 15y ago
To be fair, Seagate's RMA process is similarly painless. The reason I've bought Seagates and WDs is for the warranties and I've had to RMA both brands; both were easy and didn't try to give me the runaround at any point in the process. If S
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by pdubs 15y ago
Very similar to "The Things He Carried" by The Atlantic back in 2008. Bruce Schneier shows how worthless the TSA is. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/the-thin...
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by pdubs 15y ago
Eh, I felt that way too, but it's just how they fit it into the existing system, which with them being a publisher is likely some ancient behemoth. So hey, a no-cost, no-DRM, multi-format book!
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by pdubs 15y ago
They probably don't. http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
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by pdubs 15y ago
I think you'd be right if AMD could halve their power consumption to at the very least match Intel.
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by pdubs 15y ago
The best thing that I think B&N has going for it is their seemingly ongoing commitment to quality. I bought the original Nook shortly after its release and only recently decided to grab the NST to replace it (due almost entirely to simp
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by pdubs 15y ago
>I used to ask this question, but now I've generalized it to asking if someone has any hobbies. I think this is far better than "pet projects". Some people would rather socialize, read literature, play music, play or watch sports, work
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by pdubs 15y ago
That's not entirely correct. The MMU generally handles virtual to physical memory address translation and the OS is only ever involved if there is a page fault. Outside of OS architecture and very specific and intended application, virtual/
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by pdubs 15y ago
See I never got this argument. I studied history, music, and political science on the way to a BS; most schools have liberal arts requirements for all students. The main difference between BS and BA programs in most cases (in addition to a
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by pdubs 15y ago
>You might want to consider a BA rather than a BS because BAs generally have less requirements. A BA is worth far less than a BS in the technical world for precisely this reason. I honestly can't believe they even offer BAs in Computer