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  1. Re:Thermal fun on Sun to Create Underground Japanese Datacenter · · Score: 1

    because thats what the one byte memory in your temperature sensor maxes out at.

  2. Re:Frankly... on How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth? · · Score: 1

    I was assuming they pick their choices at random, and in that case my formula works.
    In the probably real case that come outcomes are likely to be dependent on each other the odds will be quite different.

  3. Re:Frankly... on How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth? · · Score: 1

    you do know that 2^3 / 2 is 4 so every 4*4 years you should on average have a candidate that agrees with you as one of the 2 parties.

  4. Re:We need it for the electric car on The Nuclear Power Renaissance · · Score: 1

    it is 1000 times worse after we get the energy out of it.
    you cannot just put it back, you can however send it into an orbit around like the sun.

  5. Re:New cooling strategy needed? on Cooling Challenges an Issue In Rackspace Outage · · Score: 1

    air conditioners do the same thing, you didn't think they magically cool the air did you?

  6. Re:And the answer is: Liquid Nitrogen on Cooling Challenges an Issue In Rackspace Outage · · Score: 1

    You can stick your whole hand in it for about 1-2 seconds 4 or more seconds may make it turn white colored tho, but warm water fixes that. And I speak from personal experience with a dewar flask of liquid N2, and be careful because those giant containers can freeze open and spray all the liquid nitrogen out, true story and you should have seen the wrench we needed to shut off the valve. I never got to play with the liquid helium because its too expensive.

  7. Re:Or maybe.... on Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK · · Score: 1

    I just tell them my router is the only PC they are to install, but kudos on the xbox trick.

  8. Re:maybe it really is the safest toy season on US, Aussie Officials Yank GHB-Producing Toys · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but I start counting at 1, and theres 32 combinations on one hand, you do the math.

    anyways I usually reserve the first bit for the sign, and count in either 1, or 2 's compliment depending on my mood.

  9. Re:Well on Students In UK Tracked With RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    I had a professor last semester that was confused by a similar topic last semester and he said in class something like: "I am not going to cut class short because you are paying for 50 minutes of education and you should receive 50 minutes of education, if you paid $10 to see a movie and it was cut short, you would be mad; however, if I ended class early, you would be happy. I just don't understand it.' also in our College, all 100 and 200 level classes are required by university policy to take attendance. that said, very few 100 and 200 level classes have attendance taken. in one 100 level class (taught by one of the guys that made the original IBM Personal Computer) he basically said, 'he did not care if we come, or leave at any point in class; however, if we have a cellphone it must either be set to ring a tune we can sing along with, or be off.' and I have another professor where his attendance is basically random weekly pop quizzes. once we had the quiz at the beginning of class and with 15 minutes left 3 students picked up their bags and left during his lecture. He stopped class and called out roll based on all the quizzes in the front and found the 3 people who were not in class but had taken the quiz. I assume they did not get credit for the quiz. The rest do not really take attendance, and one class is usually half full and I was surprised how full the room seemed for the exam. (the average was about 50% and was lower than the median) needless to say we have a wide range of interpretations of the word attendance.

  10. Re:Yes, but... on Samsung Announces Fastest 64-GB SSD · · Score: 3, Funny

    lots of domain squatters

  11. Re:FP! on Samsung Announces Fastest 64-GB SSD · · Score: 1

    Isn't it odd how the moderation to this post would make a better post than the post it was moderating.

  12. Re:Well on Students In UK Tracked With RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    I'm in a class of about 75 students and the professor calls out roll EVERY class. We also pass around a sheet to sign near the end of EVERY class. and my last name starts with an A so I have to get there on time.

  13. Re:Join my club! on Smart Monitoring PC Hardware Launched By NVIDIA · · Score: 1

    If we all did we might screw up wikipedia with the extra traffic. thats assuming we automate the changing.

  14. Re:Printer Analog Sensors on Smart Monitoring PC Hardware Launched By NVIDIA · · Score: 2, Funny

    50% is running out of hard drive space 80% is out of hard drive space 90% is screwing up your computer

  15. Re:Join my club! on Smart Monitoring PC Hardware Launched By NVIDIA · · Score: 1

    ahh, but the default one is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESA

  16. Re:Join my club! on Smart Monitoring PC Hardware Launched By NVIDIA · · Score: 1
  17. Re:No Real Surprise on US Consumers Clueless About Online Tracking · · Score: 1

    I do, they are interesting with all the dumb things people agree too without realizing it. There should be some sort of a standard privacy policy built in to everything or sum thing and anything extra a company adds in should be in BIG LETTERS and really short so people can and will read it and will not buy the product.

  18. Re:Slashbots Arrogant on US Consumers Clueless About Online Tracking · · Score: 1

    we only go apeshit over the newest processor when it is 25% or more faster then the last one of the same type, or like 7% faster then any previous one.

  19. Re:matter of time on Cell Phone Jamming on the Rise · · Score: 1

    What we need is for cellphone manufacturers to add in an Optional feature to either set the phone to vibrate, or off when in the presence of a special transmitter sold only to businesses, that is authenticated to the cell towers (so rouge cell phone stoppers don't start being made) which gives users an option so they don't have to worry about turning off their phone because it will do it for them.

    Im to tired to figure out the details of the authentication system to prevent rouge jammers but it should be easy to implement.

  20. Re:A few possibilities.... on Datacenter Robbed for the Fourth Time in Two Years · · Score: 1

    you get 2 120 volt(RMS) lines out of phase by pi radians laymen terms: you get 2 lines that each relative to the neutral wire give 110 volts using them together gives 220V

  21. Re:And the police were where? on Datacenter Robbed for the Fourth Time in Two Years · · Score: 1

    People had their entire houses contents stolen and the house ransacked during the day when they were gone for 2 days in my neighborhood. Someone like 4 doors away from us was home alone and someone broke in, she called the cops, and they took 20 minutes to show up. This occurred in a neighborhood in a city with like 500k-1m people in a dense rural part of the city. Morale of story is cops don't care unless someone got shot, or you are in a bad neighborhood (probably cause they will find drugs) so you are on your own, and need to buy a shotgun to protect your house property, and life.

  22. Re:The evil thing here - continuation. on Datacenter Robbed for the Fourth Time in Two Years · · Score: 1

    20 mbps is more than enough for me for the next couple to few years, but its in canada, and asynchronous speed, otherwise i'd probably move if it was around $100 per month.

  23. Re:The evil thing here - continuation. on Datacenter Robbed for the Fourth Time in Two Years · · Score: 1

    please explain how to get this 100mbps connection for a decent price to your doorstep? I will be moving in a few years and that will be one deciding factor for where I move.

  24. Re:Our government finally does something right on Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years · · Score: 1

    In the view of someone supposedly looking for terrorists a person who committed a murder 35 years ago would seem to be a normal person when terrorism (as I believe) is doing something relatively small ie. one while trying to cause many many many people to change their behavior due to fear of that happening to them to favor the terrorists goals whatever they may be unless you happen to agree with the terrorists in which case they would be considered heros to those people.

  25. Re:Our government finally does something right on Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years · · Score: 1

    What I want to know is why is the department of home land security looking for escaped criminals? I *thought they were here to protect us from terrorists, not normal people? *thought seemed liek the word to use, however I don't really think I thought that.