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It’s not the fall that hurts, it’s the sudden stop at the end.

Hang on. Blowing up miserable planets doesn’t increase total happiness, it increases average happiness. Tell the tobot that its error is making you less happy, so it should blow itself up.

Why is this filed under ‘theonion’? Does anyone actually think he wouldn’t start a nuclear war to avoid embarasment, let alone what would happen to him if anything damning came out in those files? I sippose the only unbelivable bit is that he is planning anything, rather than being told what to think.

You’ll need a bracket that’s designed for the card I think, but if you have a drill and there’s a blanking plate you can canibalise you could probably make something good enough for a headless server.

It is a fun picture, I enjoy pictures of mildly horrifying kludges that do the job.

It’s not screwed in, and you’re going to be hanging a fairly heavy cable out of it. It’ll probably be fine short term, but any vibration or movement of the machine or monitor risks partially dislodging the card.

It also looks like you have removed the bracket and reattached it outside the case, which will mean that the plug on the cable can’t mate properly with the socket, likely leading to intermittent issues.

In short, it might work for testing the machine, but it’ll cause you pain in the long term. Get, or make, a full sized bracket and it’ll be much happier.

Dr Kumar said the cobra had died apparently because of the trauma to the head and mouth from the child’s bite.

Nah, I’m going with it dieing of a combination of shock and embarrasment. That is not how a snake bite is supposed to go.

If the kid’s first reaction to somerhing deadly is chomp, I pity anyone who crosses them in the future. I don’t think it would be inappropriate for them to wear the fangs as a trophy, and a warning.

Don’t let it grind you down, it’s just a twist on the usual pieces.

Only the most seasoned players use them properly.

“Gelatinous tuna mold concoction” is a concept I don’t want to have to think about ever again, and I ate similar things when I was a young’un.

Fastration?

I think the author is just sick of the bloat and pointless garbage that so many sites now include. I was all ready to argue with them from the title because, to me, an SPA is a Single Page APPLICATION, which can run without communicating with the server. There’s places where those are useful, but the pointless, annoying trend of loading bits of pages via javascript that the author is calling out needs to stop.

If you’re making an ecom system, don’t, for example, make the product page load a page frame work, then load the description, price, stock levels and whatever else with javascript initiated requests. Instead render the whole thing server side and return it in one request. It’ll massively reduce the load on your servers, perform better for your users, and make your pages more indexable. Feel free to use the fancy CSS animations the author suggests, at least they degrade sensibly, with no loss of functionality.

It tracks the location of a body (or anything else that causes the same sort if interference), but it doesn’t identify the person, and as such they can reasonably make the claim that this technology is privacy preserving.

Of course, as with anything that claims to anonymise data, or preserve privacy, that assertion starts to fall down when you use the resulting data in conjunction with other data sources, even if they too claim to be privacy preserving.

Defenestration.

I was hoping they’d back down because it’s a stupid idea, but at least we have longer to convince them of that now.

That’s pretty much what a mercury thermometer does. As the temperature changes so does the volume of the mercury, which causes the level to move up and down, and the temperature scale on the side is just a measure of how high the mercury reaches.

Hmm. /me Makes you disappear entirely except for your mouth.

Promptly get stuck in a boobytrapped express elevator.

Ok, fair enough.

Believe it or not…straight to jail.

I’ve just spotted your username, I feel sure one of your relations had some sort of run in with the sysops already, and now you’re trying to convince people that there can’t be server reboots? Suspicious. Very suspicious.

No need, you just allocate users to servers depending on theie average sleep/wake cycle nd bounce the servers one at a time, when usage is at a minimum. Ever had one if those late night brain’s gone blank moments? Now you know.

Destroying the encryption key tends to be the only reliable way to put the data beyond use. Physical destruction techniques like the obe in the article have been tried before, and iften leave the data intact, just destroying the driver side of the chips. It’s not easy to retrieve the data, but a sufficiently determined and resourced oppinent can do it.

Obviously, there’s no reason not to do both, for added certainty, but if the encryption protocols used in proper FDE are compromised, we have a lot more to worry about.

It does seem like it would be simpler and more reliable to use full disk encryption to encrypt the data before it’s written, and just destroy the key if you want to nuke the data.