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Tasers aren’t really firearms. Also I’m guessing this was more of a stun gun anyway.
On the weapon scale, taser is a lot closer to gun than biscuit.
I don't know why anyone bothers to buy anything else than WD, seagate is making bad products for at least 10 years if not 15. Barracuda 7200.11 anyone? That was 12 years ago,I got a pair of Ironwolf 10TB, they failed in 6 months. How many seagates I saw failing? All - 30 - 50 God knows how many exactly. I have 10 years old WDs still running, actual powered on 6 years or so. I don't know why people are buying the same…
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> The plausibility of a conspiracy theory diminishes as the number of people necessary to keep the secret increases. While I don't know anything about the theory being discussed here, the pervasive belief in Santa Clause among children disproves your point entirely.
Because of Big Santa (ie. parents). And that promptly fails when the cost of maintaining the Santa system gets too big (ie. as the child's mental faculties develop, plus as the child interacts with the outside world not controlled by the parents). So unless we all are living in a very well orchestrated NSA Truman show, it's unlikely that your argument applies.
I don't know why anyone bothers to buy anything else than WD, seagate is making bad products for at least 10 years if not 15. Barracuda 7200.11 anyone? That was 12 years ago,I got a pair of Ironwolf 10TB, they failed in 6 months. How many seagates I saw failing? All - 30 - 50 God knows how many exactly. I have 10 years old WDs still running, actual powered on 6 years or so. I don't know why people are buying the same…
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Nah, it's fair. We've had to fry our failed HDDs because otherwise the vendor would replace them with those we've returned previously. Then they would not endure RAID rebuild and the cycle would repeat.
Not keeping track of serial numbers?
As I recall that pretty much killed the IBM brand when it came to hard drives.
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Tasers aren’t really firearms. Also I’m guessing this was more of a stun gun anyway.
On the weapon scale, taser is a lot closer to gun than biscuit.
In 2012 I was working at the Internet Archive. I remember the 2011 Thailand floods restricted the supply of hard disks and pushed up prices. The best deal we could find was buying these Seagate hard disks as external drives at retail from Costco. We picked up a truck load. Then had somebody with a screw driver remove them all from the enclosures and install them in new servers. The error rate was high, the drives did…
Hah, I remember a pallet or the now-empty IA enclosures showing up at Noisebridge. They were super useful - a USB3-SATA adapter. I still have mine for occasional data spelunking.
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On the weapon scale, taser is a lot closer to gun than biscuit.
I am impressed that your weapon scale goes all the way to biscuit! I guess a stale one could serve as a projectile
Although the USA can fight back with a slow HFCS poisoning :-)
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Dropbox (or maybe BackBlaze?) called that "shucking".
I worked at an ISP in 1996, where we would buy external Boca 28.8k modems in bulk from retailers and take the boards out to put them in our racks because they were cheaper - yet identical - to the "ISP-grade" versions that Boca sold as just boards. Back then we referred to it as shucking the modems, so it's definitely not a new term in IT/computing (never mind the actual origin of the word).