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  1. Re:Why? on Valve Starts Promoting Steam For Linux To Windows Users · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about all of the unpatched VPS systems running unpatched apache and PHP software?

  2. Re:yawn on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pay off that panel in 2/3rds of a year assuming an average 100watt output and $0.10/KWH. Sounds a bit like saying "Let me know when doctors found a cure to cancer, then I will go see one."

  3. Re:You can do this in Java already? on JavaScript Comes To Minecraft · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand is how my CPU can be nearly idle running a server, while the server gets slow with too many things going on at once.

    If a CPU is idle, the server should not be getting bogged down.

  4. Re:recharging the Solar car at work on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1

    3.26 KWH times 1 mil vehicles = 3.26GWH/day or enough power to run about 300,000 houses.

    Funny how that adds up

  5. Re:Will Cuba Ever Learn?! on Cuba Turns On Submarine Internet Cable · · Score: 1

    That was my first impression of the phrase "turned on", in this context. I was like.. Did Cuba start "attacking" their Internet?

  6. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    -40f is quite nice and converting to Centigrade is easy.

  7. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    I just concert to metric, make my changes, then convert back.

  8. Re:Just curious about the endgame? on Pirate Party Becomes a Registered Political Party In Australia · · Score: 2

    Just a quick FYI, based on history, the fastest growing time in the USA for movies was when there was no copyrights.

    Copyrights were enforced on the East Coast but not the the West Coast, so all of the innovators of movie making, like Fox, Metro, Goldwyn, and Mayer(MGM), and many other big names, went to the West Coast and Hollywood came from it.

    Hollywood's roots are based in anti-copyright.

  9. Re:What a dumb name on Pirate Party Becomes a Registered Political Party In Australia · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they could make up something to make use of "The LAN Party"

  10. Re:A bit more competition for EVE online on Linux and Android MMO Launches Kickstarter To Support Gameplay Expansion · · Score: 1

    More than 50ms is laggy.

  11. Re:please think of the children on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    more children are killed by [illegal] firearms each year.

    Please tell me how making more laws will stop illegal firearms.

  12. Re:Go USA on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    I remember that one. Those "Americans" were bunking up with known terrorists that had explosives and military weapons and were already about to be bombed. The military was about to do a surgical strike on the terrorists when they found out some US citizens decided to stay over and help them with bomb making and it went all the way up to the President to find out if they should continue with their strike.

    I'm sorry, but if some US citizens decided to head over to Russia during the war, I don't see why we should have stopped our attacks against a known enemy just because someone decided to defect.

    If they were kidnapped, that would be one thing, but to be a traitor is entirely another. Throughout history, most countries treated traitors worse than enemies.

  13. Re:Or the reverse on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: -1, Troll

    Also christians have a long history of killing people.

    I like to consider myself a real Christian, so I know just how judgmental many of these fake Christians can be.

  14. Re:Editorial work? on Mathematicians Aim To Take Publishers Out of Publishing · · Score: 1

    In the case proposed here, there is also the added need for peer review with checks and balances, not just peer review by the guy who has plenty of free time because he has nothing else going on.

    That could be handled by a system similar to the Web of Trust http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

  15. Re:Why? on Open Compute 'Group Hug' Board Allows Swappable CPUs In Servers · · Score: 1

    The linked article is just talking about a common interface to access additional resources like CPU cores and memory via PCIe. There is no reason why you can't treat daughter-boards more like a co-CPU, like how a GPU is used to offload work.

  16. Re:huh? on Open Compute 'Group Hug' Board Allows Swappable CPUs In Servers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It could be like what Seamicro does and use PCIe and a kind of "network switch", minus 10Gb NICs, cables, an actual switch, etc. Everything a bunch of nodes needs minus a lot of overhead.

    A bunch of daughter-boards that plug into a PCIe motherboard is a great idea.

  17. Re:The Cosmological principle will still hold. on Astronomers Discover a Group of Quasars 4 Billion Light Years Across · · Score: 1

    They've already compensated for the mass of the objects around the light. They've already calculated the amount of red-shift expected from source galaxies and have come up with values that were within 99.9% of the measured value. They are VERY confidant about light over long distance and gravity's effect on it.

  18. Re:nonsensical allegations on EU Antitrust Chief: Google "Diverting Traffic" & Will Be Forced To Change · · Score: 1

    The EU just want things to be fair across the board here. That simply means that Google shouldn't give their own products special treatment compared to similar products from other vendor.

    I'm pretty sure that's what Google is already doing. EU wants something else.

  19. Re:Bad meetings? on Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's not how our meetings go.. more like

    Person 1) All is going well, notice this is part is x% slower than expected and their other part is x% faster than expected based on our last discussion
    Person 2) Nothing here, all is well
    Person 3) I'm stuck on this one part, this is what's going on, this is what I researched, this is how I'm thinking of attacking the problem
    ...Think tank mode for the group...
    Ideas tossed around, move on

    Most meetings around here aren't of managers, but of senior developers, architects, and engineers.Some times a manager or two will sit in and listen, but they tend not to say much, but that's more like once per month.

  20. Re:Sounds Too Good to Be True ... on All New Homes In China Must Have Fiber Optic Internet Connections · · Score: 2

    According to the China Daily report, the Chinese government hopes to have “40 million families connected to fiber networks by 2015,” which is almost one-third of the country’s entire population.

    Average family size is a hair over 4. 40mil families is about 160mil people, or about 1/8 of their population. I could be missing something.

  21. Re:Honestly? on Chrome 24 Released, Chrome Beta Channel For Android Added · · Score: 1

    I have the same feeling about computers. Why can't technology just stop getting better? Why do people always have to improve things?!

  22. Re:Fast - good - now focus on... on Chrome 24 Released, Chrome Beta Channel For Android Added · · Score: 1

    I have to agree. I let Chrome run for weeks at a time on both my work and home machine. But let FireFox run for 2-3 days and I have no memory left.

  23. Re:Yeah, but we're very productive on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    A few hundred years ago, people worked only a fraction as much as we work today. Because of modern technology, efficiency and productivity has gone up, yet hours worked has gone up... why is that?

    The problem is unemployment is going to become more and more common as we become more efficient. Society has a whole is able to produce more than it can consume.

    How will our current system handle having 99% unemployment, yet an over-abundance of supply? That is where we're heading. We need to restructure our system. Working for profit won't work in the long run, we need to work for the sake of working to better humanity. This means lots of R&D, even if "it doesn't pay off".

  24. Re:No google for u! on EU Antitrust Chief: Google "Diverting Traffic" & Will Be Forced To Change · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Too bad DDG doesn't track me like Google does. I get much better results from Google because it tracks me and integrates into gmail and G+. I don't see it as much as a privacy concern as much as I do an optimization. Data collected from tracking is highly relevant to my search results.

  25. Re:Parallelism on C Beats Java As Number One Language According To TIOBE Index · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming you're talking about stuff like data-locality, which a compiler can't make work correctly without understanding the design of the system.