Pipes Network Clog Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

Funny Headline

I stumbled across this article today with the headline: Operation removes lightbulb from anus.

"...a prison inmate in Pakistan, says he woke up last weekend with a glass lightbulb in his anus."

People and Hard Drive Capacity

Some people are more dumb than I thought. Now its judges too. Hard drive manufacturer Western Digital has been sued by consumers complaining that the hard drives to not hold as much data as the packaging indicates.

When I used to work at Best Buy, people would return hard drives for this very reason, saying it is "missing" some of what is supposed to be there. Let me explain this little conundrum.

Hard drive manufacturers (for whatever reason) interpret 1 MegaByte to be 1,000,000 bytes (it even says this on the package of every hard drive I've ever seen). In computer world however, 1 MegaByte actually = 1,204 KiloBytes which equals 1,024 Bytes. Which means that in reality, 1 MegaByte = 1,024 * 1,024 = 1,048,576 Bytes (2^20). When you factor this into a GigaByte then, it becomes 1,024^3 = 1,073,741,824 actual Bytes in a GigaByte, whereas hard drive manufacturers figure it to be 1,000^3 = 1,000,000,000 Bytes instead.

That being said, the judges are jackasses for letting this lawsuit go through. If they understood anything about computers, it wouldn't have.