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  1. Re:I'm in VA... on West Nile Virus Outbreak Puts Dallas In State of Emergency · · Score: 1

    Contrary to car accidents or lightning strikes, the West Nile virus is contagious and its spread may accelerate.

  2. Re:Not a surprise on JAXA Creates Camera That Can See Radiation · · Score: 1

    Property of these crystal detectors is that they give you zero directional information, essential in a device named 'camera' I'd say. The geometry of the casing helps you slightly, but I suppose the JAXA folks figured out an altogether new way of imaging.

  3. Re:Wrong premise on New Programming Languages Come From Designers · · Score: 1

    And now get off my premises!

  4. Re:Why? on Could Curiosity Rover Moonlight As Part of a Sample Return Mission? · · Score: 1

    We have one here the size of a wallet. Sure, it's the price of a big car, but that's nothing NASA will flinch at.

  5. Re:Go the Apple way on Facebook's Oregon Data Center Uses As Much Power As Entire County · · Score: 2

    Actually, that makes a lot of sense.As long as they have a fat pipe to the internet, who cares where the datacenter is. Costs will be lower in Africa, and solar panels make a lot more sense there.

  6. Re:Currency on World's Biggest Gold Coin Minted In Australia · · Score: 0

    O look, a libertard who's read an article on currency. Gold is as much fiat as government bills. Only food has intrinsic value, all other things have value based on the fact that others accept it in exchange for food.

  7. Re:Vigilances on Anonymous Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites · · Score: 0

    Wild guess: you are against vigilantes like these, but pro-guns, amirite?

  8. Re:DRM on The Kindle is Getting Support For HTML5 · · Score: 0

    Do what I did: purchasefrom a third party and never register the thing with Amazon. I can put any (DRM-free) ebook on it when mounted as USB drive, I can surf the web, and Amazon will never know. Perfect.

  9. Re:AMD isn't about performance anymore on AMD 'Bulldozer' FX CPU Reviews Arrive · · Score: 1

    If you are comparing systems with the same amount of memory, the AMD is still only $35 more expensive. In your example the Intel has 8GB versus the AMD with 16GB, which is clearly not similar. I only suggested that if the $35 extra is a problem, getting the A6 with 'only' 8GB makes sense.

  10. Re:AMD isn't about performance anymore on AMD 'Bulldozer' FX CPU Reviews Arrive · · Score: 1

    I don't think that card is only $30? But yeah, you could get a decent separate card that beats the Intel for that price, but still, I doubt that you get much more performance than the A6 though.

  11. Re:AMD isn't about performance anymore on AMD 'Bulldozer' FX CPU Reviews Arrive · · Score: 1

    I think going down to 8GB and putting that money towards the A6 is by far the best option. The 6530 smokes any Intel graphics, and be honest: the 6530 is even for nongamers much preffered over the HD2000. Casual games like the Sims3 will thank you for it, as well as gpu-assisted computer which is increasingly common.

  12. Re:Bargain on Ask Slashdot: Does Being 'Loyal' Pay As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    I guess bargaining is a US thing then, because here in Europe such things are very rare exceptions. Labour isn't a market in but a very few highly competitive industries.

  13. Re:Not a novelty on OCZ Wants To Cache Your HDD With an SSD · · Score: 1

    So what do you think of eBoostr? I've been thinking of expanding my (5400rpm) system with a 16/32GB SSD as some sort of cache. Readyboost has its downsides, but I understand that eBoostr makes the cache persistent. Apart from a few forum posts, I cant find any proper benchmarks of it from the big hardware sites.

  14. Re:Not a novelty on OCZ Wants To Cache Your HDD With an SSD · · Score: 1

    I agree it makes for sense for an operating system (filesystem perhaps) to do this job. Unfortunately, Windows does not do it. Readyboost is merely an extra space for Superfetch to cache files, but this isnt persistent over reboots. So every time I boot, I have to retrain the cache, which is about as undesirable as a filesystem cache could be. If not sure if software like eBoostr solves this, but if anyone has a Windows alternative, much obliged.

  15. Re:The cloud... on Windows 8 Roundup · · Score: 1

    Well, he uploaded his comment to the cloud, didnt he?

  16. Ars Review on Apple Releases Mac OS X Lion, Updates Air · · Score: 4, Informative

    For a thorough and interesting review see ARS: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars Even I as a non Mac user find the detail Ars always goes into with a new Mac release entertaining.

  17. Re:Evolution on Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    I don't know of any place where I tow my laptop too which has less than 10mbit, and some are even 1 gbit. Why would I even think about that, while I rarely need to browse far into my history? And I bet google optimizes common usage patterns by for example downloading the last 100 messages when logging in.

  18. Re:Rollback system changes on Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default · · Score: 4, Informative

    The fact that you don't see how a filesystem integrated snapshot function could make a difference tells me that you've never used anything like that. And your alternative of managing partitions and 'backups' tell me that you certainly have never tried to manage anything like this on a scale beyond your own machines.

    Let me tell you, ZFS-like snapshots are the best improvement to computing since proper multi-user systems. It makes managing file security and integrity so, so much easier, and at almost no cost. (and by ZFS-like I mean with the ease and speed of ZFS, I've not yet seen much numbers on BTRFS performance)

  19. Re:Longer Answer: on Could the US Phase Out Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1

    They banned the lightbulb pretty succesfully I'd say.

  20. Re:Funny/interesting addresses on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    If you look really closely it even has a booc!

  21. Re:Revisionist on Blender 2.57 Released — and It's Easy To Use! · · Score: 1

    It does not matter which practice came first, it matters how well people van work with it. I'd say most peope today are used to container windows, then simply use that. I think you use tabbed browsing too, right? Not seperate windows.

  22. Re:Tool palettes that don't auto-hide on blur on Blender 2.57 Released — and It's Easy To Use! · · Score: 1

    But then you're just using a slightly different solution to solve the same problem: Gimp's many windows have to be collected somehow. Given that basically every OS/DE/program uses a container windows and does not rely on multiple desktops, I'd prefer it if they stuck to that defacto standard.

  23. Re:So maybe they can find water on it? on Brown Dwarf Hits Record Low · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be the most badass micro organism, one that lives on a STAR? Damn, that would be interesting...

  24. Re:I think I'm safe on Confidential Data Not Safe On Solid State Disks · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's up your ass?

  25. Re:There's more to electricity than lighting. on African Villages Glow With Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Please check you sarcasm detector: it's broken.