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""The markets are pricing in an apocalyptic scenario," said Evgeny Solovyov, equity analyst at SG Securities in London. be limited to just $6.5bn - although it could go higher if BP were found guilty of gross negligence or a criminal act."The markets seem to assume that BP will have to withdraw...

If you have the budget, IP based devices that can run on Power on Ethernet are the most flexible option, no need to worry about standalone AC power supply. Ones I've seen come with DVR software for your PC, more advanced models can be set to watch for and trigger only on certain areas, of...

I was thinking that with a big enough device the seafloor would vaporised, along with the deposit. Though the resulting tsunami of oily death would probably outweigh the benefits of stopping the oil 2 months earlier than it will take with another drilling.

Not just limited to Yanks, tho she was close to a Darwin award. http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/story/2010/05/07/tourists-follow-sat-nav-road-to-nowhere-gps-leads-/ "“They followed gravel roads, then dirt roads, then went through a couple of gates, and ended up bogged in a gully,”...

I was just thinking, perhaps France could do one of their "underwater tests" at the location in question.

BP tried to take shortcuts, trying to hurry it up and get to the next drill site. Bypassing normal safety processes is never a good thing with a critical system like this. End result is 11 workers dead and a bubbling hole in the seafloor. I believe the saying is "Don't try to run before you have...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/us/30rig.htm Just a total bloody cockup from start to end. People should be going to jail for shit like this. Instead it'll be a fine, a slap on the wrist and back to business as usual.

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/01/podcast_to_walk_away_or_stay.html A very illuminating listen. If you look at it as a business decision it's often a simple choice, now the problem is the banks have so much inventory sittinh unsold, they aren't moving fast at all in going thru the...

Yeah the latter, the wheels only use 4 nuts at the best of times. So it was from 4 down to 3. I agree, 5 nuts would have been handy. I imagine the Genesis uses 5.

You may want to mention that's a 220MB download. Another show to watch is the one on Planet channel, where they can only eat locally sourced produce. They had a hell of a time getting the supplies to make bread. Even the alcholic wife had to switch to locally produced wine to get trashed. I...

Well we did see $4+ a gallon for petrol and the surburbs didn't implode. I would wager that living in NYC as you do, without a car, that high density housing is more commonplace than an "average" area. Don't you live in a detached house, making yourself part of the "surburban problem"? The...

The mortgage situation has yet to hit bottom. There are literally millions of homes that are at risk of foreclosure sale, often becoming owned by the bank, as no one will pay the outstanding amount in a severely depressed markets. Hundreds of thousands are in a limbo between a potential...

Deductible is $500, repair should be cheaper, I won't be making a claim. I'll do the tow truck option. Cheers.

Oh I am aware of the hidden potentials. A friend of mine back in Tassie got a little sideways in his Torana and snapped both wheels off one side when he met the curb head on. It was like the Back to the future delorean when the wheels tuck in :)

There were 4 on after the hit. Drive home was less than a mile, very low speeds, and half of that was thru school roads. I couldn't change the tire at the location as school buses come right by there. My wifes car and she drives like a nutter so God knows what speed. The wheel wasn't destroyed...

It's not that the military budget is solely responsible for their situation (tho they seem to be in an arms race with Turkey). It's the principle of the matter. When Mekel is pressing for all kinds of cuts in spending, and yet demanding that billions still be spent on weapons, it seems to be a...

It's not that the military budget is solely responsible for their situation (tho they seem to be in an arms race with Turkey). It's the principle of the matter. When Mekel is pressing for all kinds of cuts in spending, and yet demanding that billions still be spent on weapons, it seems to be a...

Any safety issues in driving on a donut, with only three nuts on? I'm thinking tow it to avoid potential risk.

So after my wife runs into a curb and shreds the front right tire and dents the wheel rim on her Elantra (no worries, no injuries), today I go to put the high pressure donut on. At which point the stubborn 4th nut fucken shears off at the hub. Tine for a new front hub (and apparently new...

Apparently there's two models, the DG5 which does 48Hz and a cheaper DG3 model which only does 20 Hz.

The other issue with the T221 is that at full rez, it was limited to 48Hz (fine for medical imaging and CAD, but not ideal for gaming). Of course at quad HD resolutions just getting a solid 48Hz for gaming would be a challenge.

Problem with peltiers that I have found is getting a reasonably cost effective way to power them. From what I remember the bigger peltiers need a significant amount of current at 12 or 24V. A switch mode supply of that capability ended up costing more than the peltiers by a significant margin...

I was goin to say 30+ % would be like a loaded gun to the young kids here in the US that drink a slab of piss water at 4%, they just can't handle themswelves, I blame the 21 drinking age. Tho at $50+ a bottle I don't think anyone is going to accidentally drink one. Plus it looks like a rare drop...

Mark Webber would love the latter I reckon :D

"Egemen Bagis, Turkey’s chief negotiator with the European Union, has criticized Germany, along with France, for seeking to sell military equipment to Greece while pressing the government in Athens to make drastic public spending cuts as a result of its dire financial crisis. The pointed...

I've been tempted by the lithium ion drivers (small, portable, good endurance) for working in a datacenter.

I remembered! Middle bacon is what I seek. They have canadian bacon here but that is just completely round like a breakfast muffin.

Its the 30 year anniversary of Pac Man. Don't panic.

Yes but when I say bacon they think fatty strips of extra fat. Here's what the wiki says: Bacon is prepared from several different cuts of meat. In the United States, it is almost always prepared from pork belly. Elsewhere, it is more often made from side and back cuts, and bacon made from...

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/dont-bring-home-the-bacon/ Ok. Now ignore the health stuff. In the picture, there are two cuts of bacon. The stringy, horrible shit they pass as bacon in the US. Then there is what I like to call a slice of Aussie bacon. Can anyone help me to locate...

The bloody fruit flies are all over the bananas here within a few days. One of the things I miss about Tas.

Yeah, usually if they can get you to resign for another 2 years they will treat you like a new customer in terms of phone discounts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/technology/personaltech/20pogue.html?ref=technology Thoughts?

From what I understand the latest 40% wealth tax that's been proposed on mining companies has seen several very large devlopments fall thru or be cancelled. And jesus christ, Tony Abbot may one day become Prime Minister? He's a lying f###ing prick.

My mother tells me thaat when she first got married, we didn't have a fridge. If you wanted meat you picked it up at the store on the way home from work and cooked it that night. Milk is via evaporated powder, liquid milk that required refridgeration was a non starter in that time period. This...

Nice. Here in the US I need to do a rider education course and that will cover as a physical riding test. Then it's straight to far more power than I can safely handle (tho it seems most fast bikes these days come with some sort of throttle mapping adjustment, to avoid smearing yourself along...

Probably ink costs.

Not a problem with PAL vs NTSC framerates?

Here it is: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

Ah, I was thinking of the vibratory effects of 40+ drives in a single chassis. I.e. the problem is within the box.

Seagate 600 GB 3.5" 10K SAS drive: $500 Custom carbon fibre disk sled: $400 Getting the performance you originally paid for: priceless. Seriously tho, IIRC there was an article about rolling your own massive disk arrays (48+ drives in a rack mount unit). I believe they had to do some vibration...

That's for the support contract. The product itself is open source and free to use. For deployment in an enterprise I would need 4 hour response and that's $8500 per node, however it looks like they have an "elite" akak site license for bigger deployments. Just a single "optional" feature on a...

Hope it gets through and succeeds. With the vast remote population areas it always had to be situation where the governement invested in the infrastructure. Tech jobs are the future, can't keep mining forever. Back when I was in Tassie the best I could do was 28* dial up, too far for DSL. Ended...

Yes, the gen after Moorestown looks like the interesting one, where they homologate some of the fiscrete chips. I'm been quite happy with whatever generic CPU Moto put in the Droid (A855). This decision probably has more to do with MSs lack of longer term roadmap for Windows Mobile, or morseo...

Greg, might as well hold off until you find a 3D Blu-ray you want to watch. The GTX295 can't do DTS-MA or other high definition audio, so no improvement there in your case.

Hmm, Intel says Microsofts roadmap for Phone 7 and 8 is not aggressive enough to exploit their Moorestown: "Apparently someone at Microsoft must’ve peed in Intel’s cheerios because Moorestown won’t be found in any Windows Phone 7 devices. According to Inte it’s more than just a spat over...

For embedded systems you probably want to set the jumper to force the "compatibility mode".

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/05/03/sandforce-ssds-break-tpc-c-records/ IBM using a bunch of SF-1500 based drives to deliver world class performance.

Hold off Greg: http://semiaccurate.com/2010/05/05/we-got-lowdown-amds-mobile-phenom-iis/ Should exert downward price pressure on the i7s mobile cpus.