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  1. Re:57KW air-cooled 19" Rack? on DARPA Wants a 19" Super-Efficient Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Expended energy always becomes waste heat. There's not much difference between drawing 500 watts in a space heater and drawing it with some other appliance from a heating perspective unless the appliance absorbs energy in some way (such as boiling water).

    Even with a fridge.

  2. Re:US citizens' have their hands tied on The Internet Helps Iran Silence Activists · · Score: 1

    Correction: It is illegal to export computer software or hardware of any kind to Iran, not just strong crypto.

  3. Re:Microsoft, I said NO! on Richard Stallman Says No To Mono · · Score: 1

    You forgot:

              A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the
              turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used
              for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for
              the food of cage birds.

  4. Re:Unconvinced on Need a Favor? Talk To My Right Ear · · Score: 1

    Does it matter?

    The real point here is that if I stand on someone's right side they're more likely to do what I tell them.

    This gets me one step closer to that volcano lair filled with minions.

  5. Re:one or two nukes in Washington on Pentagon Confirms Cyber Command, Under NSA Control · · Score: 1

    Current thought is that if nukes are used it will be only one or two, either a rogue nation or terrorists using what they have.

  6. Re:Return on investment on Switching To Solar Power, One Year Later · · Score: 1

    There is (or was, I doubt they survived the recession), a company set up around doing just that. The loans meant you didn't usually save much yourself, but you could also go green for no cost.

  7. Re:Free markets on Minn. Supreme Court Upholds City's Right To Build Own Network · · Score: 1

    Usually bonds are backed by something. Especially government backed ones.

    When they did the same thing in various places in Utah, the bonds were backed by a certain percentage of the city tax revenue (so if things go ultra south the governments liability is capped).

  8. Re:Southern Utah.... on The Worst US Cities To Work In IT · · Score: 1

    You should move to northern Utah. You can make 11 instead!

  9. Re:Free markets on Minn. Supreme Court Upholds City's Right To Build Own Network · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Then the taxpayers pay through the nose. Much like we're paying through the nose for a lot of failed businesses anyway.

  10. Re:And? on SSN Required To Buy Palm Pre · · Score: 1

    If you don't have a drivers license doing without the SSN is much much more difficult.

  11. Re:Where's India's domestic economy? on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 1

    Well lets do the math. That 10 cent pill versus 5 dollar pill seems a good starting point. 50 times 725 is... 36k. Pretty close. India would probably win since the US median income is only $26,036 (average is outright bullshit, inflated be a super rich upper class), except of course that the GP pulled his numbers out of his ass.

    Can't find solid numbers for India as a whole, regional median incomes that i can find range from 1300 to 2600*, you can live off 100 a year in India (according to the government, its probably more like 200 in reality if the US poverty line versus actual needed money is any example). Of course, if you're poor in India you're fucked a lot worse than being poor in the US, since if you're poor in India you make less than 100 dollars a year, and the social programs aren't nearly as good in rural India as they are in the urban US (where giant chunks of the poverty reside).

    So basically it depends where you fall on the economic strata. You're probably better off at the 50% mark in India than the US. But way (hell entire light years) better at the 20% mark in the US than in India.

    *These numbers are specific to urban India, rural is probably a hell of a lot lower, thats where the sorry fuckers living on a dime a day are.

  12. Re:Very Misleading Title for the Topic on Does the Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much? · · Score: 1

    Why not?

    Hmm, i wonder if they have coptic.

  13. Re:Petition disclosure of filtering software sold! on Researchers Find Gaps In Iranian Filtering · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Safenet also sells censoring software to the iranian government.

  14. Re:HTML is dead... Didn't you notice? on Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video · · Score: 4, Informative

    That would be the entire point of HTML 5. To bring HTML back to the forefront.

  15. Re:Licensing fees on Doctorow Says Google & Amazon Stifle Progress · · Score: 1

    Amazon already *has* abused it. Both by required independent authors to use their print service, and more recently cutting off partners or writers who took on LGBT subjects, claiming that knowing about gays is an 'adult' subject.

  16. Re:Who cares? on SLI On Life Support For the AMD Platform · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not only that, but SLI in the specific is so bad that dual card setups are one of the few places you actually want to have ATI over nVidia.

  17. Re:What took them so long? on ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention · · Score: 1

    Actually, that *strengthens* their case. Under the fifth amendment I don't have to answer shit besides my name.

  18. Re:It was for a seminar on ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention · · Score: 1

    Um what? The international market has been fixed to the US dollar since the end of WWII. In theory that gave us a gold standard, since the US had a hypothetical gold standard of 35$/ounce, but in practice that didn't exist by virtue of gold bullion being illegal in the US, and the us not actually having enough gold to back it up.

    And even if you do count that, the US went off the gold standard in 1971, not 1987.

  19. Re:Before we use the 'police state' meme again... on A Black Day For Internet Freedom In Germany · · Score: 1

    Yes, by a great deal.

    That the tools for the censorship the people decided they wanted is now being used against the majority will hopefully not go unnoticed.

  20. Re:Not to mention security, bandwidth, etc. on Opera Unite is a Hail Mary · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine how horrible the netsplits would be?

  21. Re:Replacement hard disk on Thomas' Testimony and the RIAA's Near-Fatal Error · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Speaking as a former warranty tech, customers almost *never* remember when their last service was. 6 months off is pretty average.

  22. Re:What if they are? on Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election · · Score: 1

    The Iranians are good at riots, they did them so well that they managed to overthrow Iran. They'll probably go with that.

  23. Re:Before we use the 'police state' meme again... on A Black Day For Internet Freedom In Germany · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Censorship is *always* backed by the majority. Doesn't keep it from being a violation of human rights.

  24. Re:Raping the moon on NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice · · Score: 1

    Exc ept there are lots of practicalities involved in cutting down a forest. What will it do to the ecosystem, the water, will we still be able to log 20 years from now?

    The moon has no ecosystem though. Unless whatever you're doing involves either actually busting the moon apart or radically changing its visible-from-earth look, it simply has no effect on us, or any other living thing. It is in short, a fucking rock. And important one to us maybe, but not one that some new craters will hurt.

  25. Re:Tracking invisibility on Ideal, and Actual, IT Performance Metrics? · · Score: 1

    If its customer facing support sure. But for internal help desk, tracking customer satisfaction leads to a lot of wasted time smoothing the egos of pissed off managers, or trying to get someone to accept company password policy without pissing them off, instead of a simple 'I'm sorry you're not allowed to do that, take it up with the VP/CTO/whoever actually set that given policy'.