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  1. Re:Only half the problem on Storing Data For the Next 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    where I work, they still have one, and use it all day.
    I can't wait until it dies and we get a much better one, but they keep fixing it.

  2. Re:Where and how do they search on Laptops Can Be Searched At the Border · · Score: 1

    Bravo

  3. Re:Ray's busy - cut him some slack on Court Finds Part of Copyright Act Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    how about they just read the laws they are passing.

    think baby steps.

  4. Re:life mirrors art on AT&T Claims Internet to Reach Capacity in 2010 · · Score: 1

    so he IS on the wrong internet

    and 0 seconds of adds sure beats 1.5 minutes of ads.

  5. Re:Parent is a troll on What Are the Best Laptop Theft Recovery Measures? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    please mod parent down for trolling

  6. Re:Computrace on What Are the Best Laptop Theft Recovery Measures? · · Score: 1

    wouldn't your packet sniffer on the laptop catch this before you plug it into the internet?

    or are the thieves just that dumb.

  7. Re:Recovery, Not. Denial, Maybe. on What Are the Best Laptop Theft Recovery Measures? · · Score: 1

    howabout a thermite charge and a lap sensor (capacitative, so tables don't set it off) triggered by a format without your special disk, or by automatically checking your website for a signed message saying blow it.

    With most laptops being as hot as they are, they wont notice until its too late and a blob of molten iron comes out the bottom.

  8. Re:Don't!! on Choosing a Unix System Administration Textbook? · · Score: 1

    Your post made my day.

  9. Re:life mirrors art on AT&T Claims Internet to Reach Capacity in 2010 · · Score: 1

    since when do cappers keep the commercials?
    or are the encoders putting in adds?

    I think you are on the wrong internet

  10. Re:THANK YOU AT&T!!! on AT&T Claims Internet to Reach Capacity in 2010 · · Score: 1

    there inst a single drive that gets 150 mBps, and if there is, it costs over $1k

    it would take like a TB 10k RPM SCSI drive for that speed with current densities, or a 750GB 15k rpm

  11. Re:And people ask why I support Jesse Ventura? on Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files · · Score: 1

    maybe they will give us all free static ips so they can track us?

  12. Re:Global Warming! on Folding@home GPU2 Beta Released, Examined · · Score: 1

    Free power for one :P
    bittorrent for another
    lack of patience in the morning is another
    falling asleep while "just laying down for a few minutes" is yet another (engineering student)

  13. Re:Global Warming! on Folding@home GPU2 Beta Released, Examined · · Score: 2, Informative
  14. Re:Global Warming! on Folding@home GPU2 Beta Released, Examined · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Global Warming! on Folding@home GPU2 Beta Released, Examined · · Score: 1

    Using a power meter connected between my desktop and the wall I only use $24 per year 24/7 (well, add 50% more for air con) on my FX55 gaming computer.

    I made a page on a wiki for another site where you sell your cpu resources here:
    https://www.cpushare.com/wiki/cpushare/ElectricityCost

  16. Re:Ridiculous on Lecture Notes Considered Infringement · · Score: 4, Informative

    In my school, North Carolina State University, you can be kicked out for preparing abstracts/transcripts of lectures (sounds like notes to me, and since i'm not the judge they can pick what it means) to sell to other students.

    http://www.ncsu.edu/stud_affairs/osc/AIpage/cheatingpolicy.html

  17. pfft, only a TB on How To Use a Terabyte of RAM · · Score: 1

    You can already buy computers with 2 TB of ram, silly reporters/bloggers and their outdated articles.
    http://h20341.www2.hp.com/integrity/cache/342254-0-0-0-121.html

  18. Re:Is it a good or bad thing? on Net Neutrality Blasted by MPAA Bosses · · Score: 1

    Net neutrality is treating all data traveling across their networks the same regardless of the destination, source, protocol, or payload in the packet; however, it is not saying that ISPs cannot throttle your entire connection if you use too much bandwidth. Throttling a connection based on usage is not a net neutrality issue; however, throttling a protocol like bittorrent, blocking port 80, forcing certain websites to load slower or slowing ftp uploads are things net neutrality has issue with.

  19. Re:1984 on GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com · · Score: 1

    I live in a densely populated area in a large city (1M+ people), and it takes the cops 25+ minutes to respond to breakins when a woman is calling from in her own bedroom and the male burguler has already broken into her house.

    Long story short, she moved away after that.

  20. Re:Misplaced Blame? on Chicago Links School Cameras To Police · · Score: 1

    from
    http://www.cms.k12.nc.us/boardEducation/

    I think 4 out of 9 had teaching listed in their bio.

  21. Re:priorities on Chicago Links School Cameras To Police · · Score: 1

    see for yourself, here is what the good teachers get paid (all the good teachers get the nat'l board anyways and have masters)

    http://www.cms.k12.nc.us/departments/HR/NatlBoardM.pdf

    and if they say I hacked the info:

    google: cms teacher salaries

  22. Re:Can you say "better than being tasered?" on Homemade Robot Patrols Atlanta Streets · · Score: 1

    My college has had a 25 foot no smoking area around every building policy all year, but still keeps ash trays within 25 feet of buildings.
    I wish someone would squirt water on people smoking within 25 feet of the buildings.

  23. Re:Probably right on this one... on NVIDIA Doubts Ray Tracing Is the Future of Games · · Score: 1

    Or they can have different modes like they already do where the people willing to drop $1k each for 4 graphics cards can have the 100x AA and the 100x anisotropic filtering on top of their $2k cpu, and $1-2k cooling, and physics card. And for those that can't they can choose to have great physics, high fps, and/or good looking graphics.

    Or if it just can't be done in real time with current hardware, have a demo creation mode to make a WUXGA or even WQXGA demo rendered of your winning CAL or CPL round using ray tracing for when you show your friend.

  24. Re:Ah Good on Proposed Bill in Tennessee Penalizes Schools for Allowing Piracy · · Score: 1

    I always enjoyed the 8 hours before the programming assignments were due, where like 5-10 random people would be in a lab from the same class and we could help each other out a little. The only bad part was the assignments were due at midnight, and took 8 hours.
    We basically had to use the university lab computers, because if it didn't run on them we got like a 55% max (I learned that lesson fast)

  25. Re:I Wonder... on RIAA Not Sharing Settlement Money With Artists · · Score: 1

    Why would they divide by 1?
    They think that 0 artists get the money, so they are dividing by 0, and for people that think a song is worth thousands of dollars, they can't be good enough at math to realize dividing by zero is futile at best.