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  1. Re:How is this for marketing? on Sony Pledges More Accurate Laptop Battery Figures · · Score: 1

    I can get 2.5 hours out of my Asus M51E pretty damn easily even with the backlight turned up and fairly steady CPU and HD activity.

  2. Re:Epimenides would be proud on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Keep up the good work buddy, you're still posting at +2 right now but I'm sure in a few minutes you'll be posting at -1 for every comment.

  3. Re:So Many Questions About This Section on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Clearly.

  4. Re:Again please... on Appeals Court Rules US Can Block Mad Cow Testing · · Score: 2, Funny

    it would take a severely autistic judge to rule that context

    Are you aware of the past and present behavior of the US legal system?

  5. Re:Well duh on Wireless LANs Face Huge Scaling Challenges · · Score: 1

    (PPP==PPP) = Does Piss Poor Planning result in Piss Poor Performance?

    (PPP=PPP) = Piss Poor Planning results in Piss Poor Performace.

    Minus 5 geekpoints for you!

  6. Re:Boycott Vibrant in-frame popups on Google Reverses "Absurd" Mozilla Code Ban · · Score: 1

    Same here, I jsut use flashblock. You can put banner ads all over the place but don't go needlessly hogging my resources.

  7. Re:I dont understand why this is important on 45th Known Mersenne Prime Found? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Becuase it is there and becuase we can. why bother to do anything at all? In a hundred years nobody will care or remember you for anything you have done at all during your lifetime, perhaps you should just go crawl back into bed and stay there for the rest of your life? You will have the exact same impact on the rest of the universe that you would have otherwise. While your doing that the rest of us will 'waste' out time discovering the universe around us, it may not server any purpose but we choose to do it and we feel better for it.

  8. Re:honestly... on 45th Known Mersenne Prime Found? · · Score: 1

    beyond the exeptions of the first few primes (and whether or not 1 is a prime(pssst... its not)) you CANNOT have an even prime becuase all even numbers are divisible by 2 and therefore not prime.

  9. Re:Well, I just beat them! on 45th Known Mersenne Prime Found? · · Score: 1

    yes but you would have to put in a far larger prime number in for n to get a small prime for x, so it wouldn't be much use.

  10. Re:Forgive my ignorance on 45th Known Mersenne Prime Found? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You stopepd reading a comic because it made fun of you? I'd hate to live in that sad boring dreary life of yours, Monday, Wendsday and Friday that comic makes fun of me and I love it for it.

    If you can't laugh at yourself then you have no right to laugh at anyone else.

  11. Re:Been done before... what's original here? on Full Immersion Cooling Comes To Desktop PCs · · Score: 3, Informative

    They don't, Mineral Oil is used in cooling large transformers though. And yes it is flammable and they do make a HUGE fireball when they blow up. Fortunately it takes some pretty extreme conditions to light it up like say a lightning bolt.

  12. Re:So... Umm... on NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse · · Score: 1

    Tell me about it, when our garage burnt down the roof was gone, most of the walls were burnt to the ground, the propane tanks had ruptured, the axe had fused to the concrete floor pad, most of the tools were recognizable as blackened misshapen chunks of metal on the floor, my baby videos were (thankfully) vaporized and my dads stamp collection... was slightly charred. never quite figured out how the hell that happened but there you go.

  13. Re:best thing is to format your hard drives on As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations · · Score: 1

    At what point did the # of results returned by Google become a reasonable metric for anything but a googlewhack?

    PS. I don't disagree with you, I'm just wondering.

  14. Re:What a waste of energy on Intel Claims an Advance In Wireless Power · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's something totally different then a system that charges a battery wirelessly. That device induces a current in an inductor which THEN charges a battery. The device still needs to be modified to include an inductor. Also such a device will still produce an alternating magnetic field which could potentially damage a hardrive.

    PS. It's also worth pointing out that any other inductors in the vicinity will also have a current induced in them which could potentially damage other devices, or at the very least cause undesired effects.

  15. Re:What a waste of energy on Intel Claims an Advance In Wireless Power · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The only retard here is you, this charging system will not charge any currently existing battery, the device would need to be designed to support this Wireless Charging system. Also if you put a hardrive in a degaussing field it WILL be destroyed they do not employ shielding beyond the metal casing they typically come in. As to whether or not this device produces a sufficiently strong magnetic field to damage a drive at any reasonable distance remains to be seen.

  16. Re:Worth it. on Firefox SSL-Certificate Debate Rages On · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I agree totally, the problem isn't the scary browser notices. It's websites and their poor security practices perhaps now that those practices are having a noticeable impact on their business these websites will change said practices and it wont be a problem anymore.

  17. Re:Ockham's Razor tells me.... on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 3, Funny

    What is worng with you Perl programmers? Does the thought of a newline or indentation, possibly even whitespace fill you with fear and horror?

  18. Re:Ockham's Razor tells me.... on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    That's how my Co-Op manager handled things, I could si their and play solitaire all damn day if I wanted too, but god have mercy on my sould if the code wasn't ready to go on time. Worked pretty damn well if you ask me.

  19. Re:Crows, for one on Magpies Are Self-Aware · · Score: 1

    I beleive you mean a muder, yes a "murder of crows." Don't ask my I'm not a bloody... errr.. whatever the hell sort of profession lets you come up with those names.

  20. Re:GeForce 6800 GT on New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached · · Score: 1

    Which is kind of strange when you look at something like TA Spring which has to handle far higher loads then supreme commander and yet runs on processors between 1-2GHZ

  21. Re:My god... on New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached · · Score: 1

    What crazy ass fridge do you have that it needs to be hooked up to 240VAC?

  22. Re:no Strings attached on New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about tuples you insensitive Python hater!

  23. Re:quick on New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached · · Score: 1

    Sort of, CUDA requires that every process complete in the same time. So something like a ray tracing algorithm that will complete in the same amount of time regardless of inputs works great whereas some other systems that use branching and looping wont work.

  24. Re:Interesting on New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached · · Score: 1

    Especially since different cards will perform different operations faster then others. One I specifically ran into was the nVidia 5(6?)600 which although a fast card at the time, its PS2.0 implementation was so slow to be practically unusable and many games overrode it and forced it back to PS1.1.

  25. Re:It's the BIOS, not windows on Vendors Rally While Windows Sleeps · · Score: 1

    There is a world of difference between being able to throw text on a screen and having an interactive shell. Text on a screen is just a simple matter of a BIOS call an interactive shell is a bit more tricky.