Sayonara

Because many CMOS chips sold now are flashable.

Oh dear lord, what happened in here?

No, it was not a coincidence. Do not post content that is likely to cause offence.

Unfortunately we have lost some posts and private messages due to a server move.

None of that is due to collective consciousness, unless you have your own definition of the term.

But the point is the bands don't need to be in the cart to power it - they're just extra mass you have to move around.

Y2K was not a dud - the media babble surrounding it was. Unless you mean the end of the world at the start of the third millenium, which was never called Y2K, as opposed to the worst case scenario that was mooted for the computer clock problem, which was called Y2K.

If you fling your cart using a trebuchet, and the trebuchet is powered by two elastic bands, does that count?

I don't know what the differences are, because I have never used Home. Surely there must be some sort of features list on the Microsoft products web site?

Why would having a particular boolean value set in the database for a third party web script on one of many virtual servers give a random person access to an entire box's HDD? What? Check how many posts per page you browse at. It's under User CP -> Options.

Because they weren't there, and then they were. Not in the least. I really don't see how that's relevant to a discussion about that one post. Also, remember that talking about threads in terms of "pages" is fairly meaningless, because we all have different 'posts per page' preferences.

I didn't "do" anything.

http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?p=120388#post120388 Your response seems to have become a victim of the disappearing posts mystery gremlin.

About 200 or so posts just re-appeared, including half of this thread.

Why would it die out? Yes, we've had this discussion before in several threads. Prepare yourself for a wild ride: Homosexuality Why are people Gay? Homosexuality Facts Sanctity of Marriage

Looks like a server-side rollback, which could have been caused by problems at the hosting provider's end. Possibly the mysql server was struggling for its life and kept trying to fix tables.

Didn't you post that exact phrase in another thread, then JaKiri said it was wrong, and you said you didn't mean to say it?

Everyone switch to channel #2.

It's relevant because "a bit-torrenter using SuprNova" (i.e. the group under discussion in the original post) is not even the same species as "people [who] will only know of BitTorrent through Suprnova, and assume that it's both proprietry and unique" (i.e. the group you introduced into the fray.) I should have made it clearer that I consider the latter to be SuprNova 'customers', not torrent users per se. Bit-torrenters, in the non-capitalised, hyphenated sense in which it was employed in the o/p, refers to users of BT-protocol clients, and has a top-down relationship with the web sites since they are its hierarchial children as opposed to siblings. Although I am not sure why I am still making a case, seeing as you said you agreed. Put it down to a slow day at work. Now I am going away to buy underpants.

I was thinking more like pin configuration.

This thread has been locked because the potential for abuse of any information posted in reply far outweighs any perceivable benefit. If you have concerns about network security, the only practical solution is to learn networking in a holistic fashion (as with any area of computing), and keeping up-to-date with changes to the technology, protocols, and threats. You are not going to make anything more secure by poking the occasional random hole in it.

Which attributes of the cable would determine the speed? (I mean in terms of hardware, not properties of metal etc).

That doesn't make it the only site for those users - it makes it the only site they know about. You are still arguing about something that hasn't been said, and I'm not sure pedantry is a good enough reason to keep it up. Whether or not I know about other builds of Linux (continuing from the previous example, and as a point of fact I don't know about them all) is neither here nor there: they exist. My knowledge of them, or lack thereof, does not affect that state for me or for anyone else. They are not Schrodinger's operating systems. The phrasing should have been as follows: "For many bit-torrenters, this was the best site, if not the only one they knew of." Also note that the use of "bit-torrenters" as the object implies he was not talking about the group who think the original BT client is the proprietary software of any given site.

The old ones are the classics. See edit. I interpret it in terms of the words that were used. The fact that I have no experience of any Linux builds other than Mandrake and RH, for example, does not mean the others are not there: my dependency on the build I use will not result in me sitting in the corner staring at a blank screen should they ever cease to be supported, and to suggest otherwise is just a touch crazy.

"For many bit-torrenters, this was the best, if not only, site." It is not true to say this. One might say that it was the only known site for that group, but - semantically or physically - it was not the only one available to them. Hyperbole simply serves to make the situation look worse than it actually is, and does not engender confidence in the OP having a good understanding of what actually happened. [edit] I should probably clarify that I said "which is not the issue" because the requirement for users to know all of their options was something extra that you added in to the mix.