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  1. Re:Rephrase what he wants on Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches · · Score: 1

    There's a department store. It probably carries a lot of merchandise. But the store owner wants everybody to pay him a fee to walk through the front door. And he wants the local papers to not say what he carries, or what he's got on sale this week. He feels that he should be the only one getting paid for anything that mentions his merchandise.

    I believe that you just described a Costco.

  2. Release the patches already on How Google Uses Linux · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They monitor all disk and network traffic, record it, and use it for analyzing their operations later on. Hooks have been added to let them associate all disk I/O back to applications - including asynchronous writeback I/O.

    I. Want. This.

  3. Midlife crisis on The Internet Turns 40, For a Second Time · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wonder what sort of sporty two seater the Internet is going to buy for itself. A Miata? Z3? Or is the Internet going to go whole-hog and get a Ferrari?

  4. Re:grawlix fail on Shuttleworth Suggests 1-Way Valve For User Experience Testing · · Score: 1

    An infinite number, or zero. So it could be just 'uck'. Also there's no beginning or EOL specified so words like 'puck', 'unbuckle', etc. would also be matched.

    dice@entropy:~$ grep 'f*uck' /usr/share/dict/words |wc -l
    295

  5. Re:ext3 on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 1

    I find it bizarre that you had problems with ext3 but not reiser. I used to run reiser on my desktop system a number of years ago and I had two instances where I experienced some serious data loss. I run ext3 on a thousand production servers and only see data loss with hardware failure on non-RAID systems.

    Nonetheless, I agree that JFS is an excellent filesystem.

  6. Re:ext3 on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 0

    I don't normally run into it since I have the same UID for my user account on all of my systems, excluding client systems for work. If I did run into a permissions problem I would just use sudo to do whatever I needed with root privs.

  7. ext3 on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't use OSes other than Linux, so the choice is simple. If I did have to interact with Windows or OS X I'd probably use FAT32.

  8. Misleading summary on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 1

    To be fair, rainbows and the blue sky are somewhat difficult problems. It's not like Rayleigh and Mie scattering are a core part of the curriculum for people who aren't going into engineering or physics. As far as "Where do babies come from?"... that can be difficult for other reasons. The parents almost certainly *know*, it's just that there's a societal stigma against discussing sexual matters with children.

  9. Re:Well the only fool proof way... on How Can I Tell If My Computer Is Part of a Botnet? · · Score: 1

    It is T-568B. Check the pin numbers, they're not sequential.

  10. Obvious application on 'Vanish' Makes Sensitive Data Self-Destruct · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Alice,

    Do you want to go to the dance with me?

    [ ] YES
    [ ] NO

    Love,
    Bob

    (Message will self-desctruct 1 minute after dance starts.)

  11. Re:a physics teacher's perspective on Wolfram Alpha Rekindles Campus Math Tool Debate · · Score: 1

    My experience as a physics student was that professors really only expected us to work things out by hand during the first two years, e.g. while we were still learning the mathematics. After we'd slogged through three quarters of Calculus and a quarter each for Linear and DE we were considered "good enough". After that it was pretty much expected that we would be using Mathematica or equivalent software to do the heavy crunching, many of my submitted homework assignments were in fact printouts of a Mathematica notebook. The point being, of course, that the actual step-by-step mathematics were secondary to the heart of the matter: physics.

  12. Re:Where will all the helium come from? on Inflatable Tower Could Climb To the Edge of Space · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Jupiter would probably be easier. 8-12% Helium by volume in the upper atmosphere, and the rest is Hydrogen.

  13. Re:sounds like bullcrap to me on Credit Crunch Squeezing Data Center Space · · Score: 3, Informative

    Small to medium sized datacenters are in the 100s of racks range. They measure power capacity in megawatts (MVA).

    Typically, though, your real constraint is the cooling system. For this reasons the datacenter most of my clients are in gives you a certain amount of floor space for a certain amount of power when you buy a cage. The power works out such that you couldn't really fill a whole 42U with 1U servers, let alone blades.

  14. Pedant alert on 45-Year-Old Modem Used To Surf the Web · · Score: 1

    He isn't really surfing with the modem. He's running a terminal over the modem and displaying the rendered page as fetched by the remote server running lynx. This is less bandwidth intensive than the actual browsing would be, which is amusing to think of given how slow even drawing the screen was over that link.

    Just the HTML for http://en.wikipedia.org/ is 57K. That would take approx 30min to transfer over a 300 baud link.

  15. Re:Energy is not a Technical problem, one of Will on Ultra-Dense Deuterium Produced · · Score: 1

    There's even a market for Orbital Solar Power Satellites -- namely for remote military outposts that would otherwise need to truck in fuel for generators.

    For residential power as well. PG&E has plans to put it into production starting 2016.

  16. Said it once, said it a thousand times... on NSA Overstepped the Law On Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Power granted is power abused.

  17. Re:They go for the "soft" target on Cisco Barges Into the Server Market · · Score: 1

    Sorry, old timer does not imply cluefullness ;)

  18. Re:They go for the "soft" target on Cisco Barges Into the Server Market · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Agreed. 4 digits and below are old timers, 5 digits are mid-range, 6 and above are newbies.

  19. Re: No, it's grandstanding because .... on Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban · · Score: 1

    What about kinetic rods? I would have thought that those would be feasible by now. From my simplistic perspective the only real barrier to entry is having sufficient orbital payload capacity.

  20. Re:Stupid Stupid Stupid on Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban · · Score: 1

    Put more simply: "Those who do not have orbital ion laser cannons are doomed to be zapped by those who do."

  21. Re:Just use Zimbra!? on Exchange Comes To Linux As OpenChange · · Score: 1

    I remember when Yahoo! was cool.

  22. Re:Interesting! on IBM Creates MRI With 100M Times the Resolution · · Score: 1

    Good old -funderflow-counters

  23. Re:Interesting! on IBM Creates MRI With 100M Times the Resolution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think you need a call to rand(), a switch statement, and some additional function calls like sleep_in_sun(), eat(), shit(), scratch_aimlessly_at_litter(), tear_through_the_house_for_no_apparent_reason(), etc.

  24. Vindiction! on Treating ADHD With Games · · Score: 1

    I'm not a hopeless shut-in, I'm just self medicating.

  25. Appropriate on Congressman Wants Health Warnings On Video Games · · Score: 4, Informative

    Joe Baca

    The word "Baka" (romanization) in Japanese means "Idiot".