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Re:It's Qualcomm's decision to make by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-07 08:54 · Score: 0 · on AOSP Maintainer Quits

Yawn...what's this...someone complaining about kernel modules being proprietary again...here's an old analysis: http://linuxhelp.150m.com/politics/kmodsGPL.htm

from the blast-from-the-past dep't. by drinkypoo · 2009-04-15 07:22 · Score: 1 · on Obama Taps a 5th Lawyer From the RIAA

I'll never forget that day. He said, "You, you must be almost 30... have you ever kissed a girl?"

It was one of the blackest days of my life.

Re:Not just Vaccination, also Evolution by Spazntwich · 2007-12-06 06:59 · Score: 3, Informative · on YouTube Breeding Harmful Scientific Misinformation

What's it like arguing from such monstrous ignorance?

If you had any background in the debate, you'd know fundamentalist Christians represent a large part of the movement against vaccines, some going so far as to believe vaccines cut you off from God.

In fact, it's the very people he is referencing whom you claim have nothing to do with vaccinations that have recently been some of the biggest opponents of general vaccinations for a variety of reasons.

So, once again, before calling troll because someone said something you don't like, consider educating yourself on matters.

Re:Best advice I got by monopole · 2007-09-11 01:47 · Score: 1 · on Entry-Level Astronomy?

Damn straight.
I'd pop >$200 for a StarBlast (which you can retrofit to a nice CCD imager later) or get a middling nice 80mm refractor (which can be used as a spotter/guider later) and a cheap equatorial mount and get out and observe. Once you have a handle on the basics you can retrofit for CCD imaging and get a better scope to fit your needs.

In the Meantime you can indulge your desire for astrophotography by looking into off chip integration and drift integration no equatorial mount needed! Check out the "QuickCam and Unconventional Imaging Astronomy Group" QCUIAG.

Where is - REISER4 - the BEST FILESYSTEM ever. by Anonymous Coward · 2007-04-26 12:51 · Score: 1, Interesting · on Linux Kernel 2.6.21 Released

REISER4 - THE BEST FILESYSTEM EVER.

You can read more here:

http://linuxhelp.150m.com/resources/fs-benchmarks. htm
http://m.domaindlx.com/LinuxHelp/resources/fs-benc hmarks.htm

| FILESYSTEM | TIME |DISK | | TYPE |(secs)|USAGE| |REISER4 lzo | 1938 | 278 | |REISER4 gzip| 2295 | 213 | |REISER4 | 3462 | 692 | |EXT2 | 4092 | 816 | |JFS | 4225 | 806 | |EXT4 | 4408 | 816 | |EXT3 | 4421 | 816 | |XFS | 4625 | 779 | |REISER3 | 6178 | 793 | |FAT32 |12342 | 988 | |NTFS-3g |10414 | 772 |

Column one measures the time taken to complete the bonnie++ benchmarking test (run with the parameters bonnie++ -n128:128k:0). The top two results use Reiser4 with compression. Since bonnie++ writes test files which are almost all zeros, compression speeds things up dramatically. That this is not the case in real world examples can be seen below where compression does not speed things up. However, more importantly, it does not slow things down either.

Column two, Disk Usage: measures the amount of disk used to store 655MB of raw data (which was 3 different copies of the Linux kernel sources).

OR LOOK AT THE FULL RESULTS:

|File |Disk |Copy |Copy |Tar |Unzip| Del | |System |Usage|655MB|655MB|Gzip |UnTar| 2.5 | |Type | (MB)| (1) | (2) |655MB|655MB| Gig | |REISER4 gzip | 213 | 148 | 68 | 83 | 48 | 70 | |REISER4 lzo | 278 | 138 | 56 | 80 | 34 | 84 | |REISER4 tails| 673 | 148 | 63 | 78 | 33 | 65 | |REISER4 | 692 | 148 | 55 | 67 | 25 | 56 | |NTFS3g | 772 |1333 |1426 | 585 | 767 | 194 | |NTFS | 779 | 781 | 173 | X | X | X | |REISER3 | 793 | 184 | 98 | 85 | 63 | 22 | |XFS | 799 | 220 | 173 | 119 | 90 | 106 | |JFS | 806 | 228 | 202 | 95 | 97 | 127 | |EXT4 extents | 806 | 162 | 55 | 69 | 36 | 32 | |EXT4 default | 816 | 174 | 70 | 74 | 42 | 50 | |EXT3 | 816 | 182 | 74 | 73 | 43 | 51 | |EXT2 | 816 | 201 | 82 | 73 | 39 | 67 | |FAT32 | 988 | 253 | 158 | 118 | 81 | 95 |

Each test was preformed 5 times and the average value recorded.
Disk Usage: The amount of disk used to store the data (which was 3 different copies of the Linux kernel sources).
The raw data (without filesystem meta-data, block alignment wastage, etc) was 655MB.
Copy 655MB (1): Copy the data over a partition boundary.
Copy 655MB (2): Copy the data within a partition.
Tar Gzip 655MB: Tar and Gzip the data.
Unzip UnTar 655MB: UnGzip and UnTar the data.
Del 2.5 Gig: Delete everything just written (about 2.5 Gig).

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/9/4

Re:fake passports in 911? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-11-17 07:58 · Score: 0 · on British "Secure" Passports Cracked

The passports were stolen or fake. 9/11 was a false flag, Reichstag Fire style event.

http://guardian.150m.com/september-eleven/hijacker s-alive.htm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2001/09/23/widen23.xml

Re:Now, will the US book burners notice it? by Brian+Stretch · 2005-07-23 06:22 · Score: 1 · on V For Vendetta Trailer

Yeah, gotta watch out for those Nazi book burners. Next thing you know they'll take your guns away and then the real trouble begins. Oh, wait...

You do know that Nazi is short for National Socialist Workers' Party, right?

Geeze, get a grip. If this really were a Nazi police state, would you have the cajones to say anything about it in public? Would the gutless wonders in Hollywood invest $millions producing a movie that you think matches the voices in your head?

Re:Little border towns by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-05 11:23 · Score: 3, Interesting · on U.S. to Require Passport To Re-Enter Country

Seems like you Canadians are pretty lucky to have a fairly 'well-behaved' border with the US.

Imagine what would happen when you had a border like the community of Baarle, where the post office determines the citizenship of a house by the country its *front door* is in. Corners of fields, streets and even houses can all be in different countries. A farmer can plough across three borders all in the same field.

Map: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/baarle.htm
Pics: http://grenzen.150m.com/baarleGB.htm

Re:Tour does not Pale in comparison by Alsee · 2004-07-08 05:39 · Score: 1 · on The Man Who Knew Too Much

Asshole.

I'm sorry but the correct question was " What is Saturday Night Live?"

You lost on Jeopardy, baby!

And let me tell you what you didn't win: a twenty volume set of the Encyclopedia International, a case of Turtle Wax, and a yeard's supply of Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco Treat. But that's not all. You also made yourself look like a jerk in front of millions of people. You brought shame and disgrace to your family name for generations to come. You don't get to come back tomorrow. You don't even get a lousy copy of our home game. You're a complete loser!

Don't know what you was thinkin' of
I guess you just wasn't too bright
Well, I sure hope you do better
Next weekend on The Price Is Right.

You lost on Jeopardy, baby.

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Re:Another Win App bites the dust by tootlemonde · 2004-06-30 00:39 · Score: 1 · on glabels: Ready For Prime Time

I've been using an inexpensive program that's called Labels Unlimited 2

Get it here for US$13.95.

MyLabels for US$19.95 is also popular.

This site lists 100 label-making products for Windows.

Re:Student Labor vs. good money by Orne · 2003-12-02 10:13 · Score: 2, Insightful · on MIT Students Get an Education in Software Development

Cost for one year of MIT undergraduate tuition in 2002-2003: $28,230.00
Cost for one year of MIT undergraduate tuition in 2003-2004: $29,400.00

School runs from Sept 3 to May 21, so estimate at 39 weeks. Next, assume the student is working for 1/2 tuition credit (which a lot of colleges like to do for part time work), at ~ $14,500. Since they're working part time and going to school, lets be generous and say they work three days a week: 24 hours. You've just forked out $15.50/hour for one "cheap labor" marginally-skilled student.

Now, compare that to what you can get for outsourcing it to anyone else... I'm not surprised they did; because of their rising tuition costs, they've priced out their own students.

Some things are simply beyond parody by dcavanaugh · 2003-11-19 15:32 · Score: 1 · on SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More

I remember a Saturday Night Live skit in which they attempted to parody the "Iron Chef". For those who have never seen the Iron Chef, it's a Japanese TV show that is essentially a cooking competition, with a sportscaster doing play-by-play. The problem: the real Iron Chef is already so over-dramatic that the parody could not even match the original concept, much less exceed it.

If The Onion did a bit on SCO, could they really make up something more bizarre than the true story?

Re:Slightly OT... by naarok · 2003-10-10 08:51 · Score: 1 · on Element 110 Now Darmstadtium

Just to whore some more Karma (and to show how little work I'm doing), here is another interesting quote

Many of us may have learnt about Bohr's atom model, with electrons orbiting around a central nucleus. Actually, this model has already been abandoned by conventional physics, which is a step in the right direction. In the current understanding of the atom, an orbital is not something like the orbit of a planet around the sun. It is a probability distribution in space. And, the electron cannot be said to be really "moving around", an orbital is a stucture of energy that has a shape.

There is a very good example for this. The ground state of a hydrogen atom is actually spherically symmetrical, and therefore it has zero total angular momentum. Which, if we try to interpret in classical terms, means that the electron only ever moves radially, in and out towards the nucleus but yet it covers the whole angular range. So in fact it defies "steel ball" or "classical" (incl. Bohr's) interpretations. So how could an electron ever produce an orbital path without orbiting around? The only way to visualise how this could be possible is to imagine a spherical balloon being periodically inflated and deflated. All these statements will sound strange to us until we get free from our 'hard particle' paradigm.

Found here.

Mirror !!!! by AftanGustur · 2003-09-27 08:36 · Score: 1 · on TCP/IP over Bongo Drums

Since the site will likely be /. soon, I found a Mirror here...

Why does no one seem to be paying attention? by Trolling4Dollars · 2003-09-02 05:52 · Score: 1 · on Armageddon... in 2014. Almost.

There's been lots of info spread around the internet about the possiblity that an unknown, unseen 10th planet is coming in for a pass of the Earth. We are already seeing the effects of this in climate changes and a slowdown in the grand circulator. Has anyone in the Nothern hemisphere noticed that it's been very hazy and slightly cooler this summer? What about the big chunks of ice that have been falling from the sky in Europe (20-40 Lbs. Smashing cars and houses)? What about the massively increased amounts of rain in the Northern hemisphere that can't possibly be accounted for by terrestrial water? What about the appearance of very visible auroras in the northern hemisphere that extend much further south than they used to. Add to that the fact that the aurora activity is NOT recorded by NASA even though it's being seen by much of the citizenry. I've even seen the auroras myself in northern Ohio, and I've NEVER seen any in this region my entire life. How about the freak power outages that recently hit northeastern US and London/Kent. "THEY" aren't telling us something. THEY=your government/space agency.

While this site looks cheesy and some of it may be suspect, I am beginning to think that these folks might be onto something. There's lots of historical and anecdotal evidence that seems to support what they are saying. Finally, how many of you are just *feeling* that there is something massively wrong that goes beyond human matters? The feeling that something so tremendous and terrifying is looming that is beyond our civilzation's control? Discuss...

IRAS by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-25 02:18 · Score: 0 · on Infrared Telescope Lifts Off

I wonder if they're going to look for the object that IRAS reported finding in the early 80s?

Page A1, Washington Post, December 30, 1983:
Possibly as Large as Jupiter; Mystery Heavenly Body Discovered

"It's not incoming mail," Cal Tech's Neugebauer said. "I want to douse that idea with as much cold water as I can."

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