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  1. Why IDataPlex? PureFlex is already out on World's Most Powerful x86 Supercomputer Boots Up in Germany · · Score: 1

    Sure, it takes a while to manufacture the physical components, but they should have switched to a Flex configuration even midway in the installation process - would have saved money in the long run.

  2. Re:Yeah na bro on Three-Strikes Copyright Law In NZ Halves Infringement · · Score: 2

    Wrong domain.
    Actually, mob related crimes have soared during and since the prohibition, which is the real"alcohol-related" deaths...

  3. Re:Drones strikes are great... on Harvard Study Suggests Drone Strikes Can Disrupt Terror Groups · · Score: 1

    This is by far the best reply to the Original Article slashdot had posted.
    The submitter tried to force his own narrow interests in drones/uavs on a spcific study.
    Either he is extremely biased, or uneducated to the point of total reading comprehension failure.
    I actually understand why this was posted anonymously - the submitter would have been blacklisted immediately from any reader with half a mind.

  4. Re:Candice side on Photographer Threatened With Legal Action After Asserting His Copyright · · Score: 1

    There were two issues here - ethics (morality?) and monetary compensation.
    If you sold the pic, the money issue is done. Even if the pic is later lifted, you were compensated for the pic and can no longer expect further profits.
    ethically speaking - you are still entitled to full credits, no matter how much the customer paid.

    If you think you only sold a single copy, non-transferable rights - shame on you. Next time set the value to however much you expected the pic to generate over the copyright lifetime.

  5. Forget Torque - it's just a lure to buy into moab. Slurm is easier to setup, understand and run.
    As for DISH - if you're at that level you might as well install C3 and get parallel file copy (scp like) or even xcat (with xdsh/xdcp/updatenode and what-not).

  6. Re:They've done quite a bit of attacking themselve on Israel Faces Escalating Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    I'll do two better - not just hamas - many "unaffiliated" gazans, and not a blind rocket - children were specifically targeted and killed at close range - http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4041106,00.html

  7. Re:i weep, truly, weep for you on The Pirate Bay To Stop Serving Torrent Files · · Score: 1

    This is the first I heard of this - the creators who work on any project don't get paid? They don't draw a salary at the end of each month? They actually wait for some shmo to pay 15$ to split it amongst all the crew? Seriously? I thought only very junior software coders worked for profit shares instead of full wages. Are the media guys really so far behind the times?

  8. rhel 6 , xcat , slurm , IB on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? · · Score: 2

    " So, what's the best Linux distro for something of this size and scale?"
    RHEL6
    I would have suggested SL6 but their guy just left for RHEL, and CENTOS is still playing catch-up. since you obviously have money, go with best supportedOS.
    "Additionally, due to cost contracts, we have to choose either InfiniBand or 10Gb Ethernet for the backend: which would Slashdot readers go with if they had to choose?"
    IB, hands down.
    The main issue isn't even the bandwidth (which is 40Gb/s compered to 10Gb/s) - it's about latency and RDMA for whatever MPI you'll use.
    "Any suggestions on the most powerful Linux friendly PCI-e GPU available?"
    Go with nvidia tesla. Every self respecting HW vendor has them as an option for either blades or rackmounts now-a-days.

    Manage the whole thing with xCAT, schedule your jobs with slurm (wouldn't touch moab, now, can't justify the cost),personally I'd focus on openmpi (intel compiled, not gcc) with blcr checkpointing.
    You can set the entire SW stack in 4-6 hours if you know what you're doing.

  9. Re:The Right Rights on Facebook Helps Israel Blacklist Air Travellers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I missed this when I rtfa but nowhere do I see it mentioned that these protestors were there to tell Israel that it did not have the right to exist.

    You are, of course, correct.
    The protesters are merely there to assert the right of some unnamed third party to tell Israel it does not have the right to exist.
    Enabling someone else to call for a people's demise should not reflect upon your person in any way. I feel wiser.

  10. Re:Facebook - Owned By A Jew. on Facebook Helps Israel Blacklist Air Travellers · · Score: 1

    I am willing to donate up to 20$ to help you buy any credible history book from amazon. You choice. Just please - read it.

    Palestine, to your utter amazement and horror never existed. before the British mandate the Ottoman empire ruled. as a distinctive land it only existed, to my recollection, during the crusades. Would you claim the mamluks were the invaders and the region should be pan-european?

  11. Re:Facebook - Owned By A Jew. on Facebook Helps Israel Blacklist Air Travellers · · Score: 1

    Are you referring to Syria, by any chance? You know, the Syria the Palestinians, to date, still embrace wholeheartedly?
    If by any chance, you were referring to the Israelis, please provide some proof to back your allegations. Any of them.

    You claim the Flotilla members were non-violent. That assertion has been proven wrong (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG0EfG8mnAo/).

    You claim the commandos had been sent to slaughter them. That also is false. (same video, note the use of paintball guns)

    You claim you do not put people on travel blacklists if they did not demonstrate willingness to commit violent acts against you, yet you did so. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/08/iranian-officials-travel-blacklist)
    ""The UK is working closely with its partners to prevent a wide range of individuals connected with Iran's nuclear enrichment and weaponisation programmes from entering our countries. These include scientists, engineers and those procuring components," Hague said in a statement."
    scientists and engineers are put on travel blacklist by the British government? A government is exercising it sovereignty against civilians who had done nothing illegal or violent against it? good grief!

    In short, most of your allegations are false. Please provide some shred of logic and facts to support such allegations in the future.

  12. Illegal? Pirate? WTF? on Illegal Film Downloading Up 33% In the UK · · Score: 1

    A) It's not illegal to download. It's a copyright violation to distribute. Downloading is legal.
    B) pirates rape and murder physical human being. As in actual violence against a person's body. Copyright infringement, OTOH, is, while financially hurting to some, as non-violent crime as they come.

  13. Re:Ubuntu + VMWare Player on Ask Slashdot: Easiest Linux Distro For a Newbie · · Score: 1

    For whatever it's worth - mint + virtual box.

  14. At the risk of coming across as a troll on Star Wars Landspeeders Are Here · · Score: 2

    This is a decent piece of engineering that got butchered by spencer's editorial.
    As one commenter in the original blog mentioned:

    Well's spencer's knowledge on the subject is: Aeronautics is an engineering degree and I have a liberals arts degree in English so I can can blog about anything.

    Even more surprising is that not a single slashdotter bothered to check what's really shown, instead relying on BS from Wired
    http://www.urbanaero.com/Frame-whatsnew.htm/
    This is an unmanned rapid combat zone casualty extraction vehicle - way cheaper than a helicopter (and thumbs down to all the commentators who couldn't count to 10 without a helping hand) and capable of reaching areas a helicopter would only dream of approaching.
    But hey, don't let the facts confuse you - on with the "it's just junk" comments from these who couldn't figure out which way the pilot wasn't seating...

  15. Re:Yep, not the change I voted for on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    This is even worse than claiming that waterboarding isn't torture. WTF? I can't believe that I donated money to this douche in 2008.

    Never did understand why anyone would voluntarily donate MORE money to a person that controls how to spend the involuntarily donated money (i.e. taxes) - shouldn't the tax donations be enough for any money monger?
    spending more than the absolute minimum on state rather than on self seems foolish, especially considering the pitiful amount of welfare one can expect in times of personal crisis from said state.

  16. Re:Scientific Linux on Ask Slashdot: Best Linux Distro For Computational Cluster? · · Score: 1

    Rocks is no distro, it's a toolchain built on a rhel-like distro (usually CentOS), with quite horrible documentation.
    As long as you use the vanilla deployment you're fine, everything nice and easy. Try doing anything not covered in the open docs and you're stuck knee deep in "user-list only" documentation for some truly weird design choices. Oscar used to be better, but the lack of development for a long time really made a dent.
    Personally I like xCAT2, but am thinking of trying out quattor as well. Both primarily support rhel or rhel-like distros.

  17. Re:And we do this how? on Samsung Plants Keyloggers On Laptops · · Score: 1

    OEM key won't work with retail editions, same as retail key won't work with OEM editions.

  18. Re:So why was it deleted? on Old Man Murray Entry Deleted From Wikipedia · · Score: 2

    I just skimmed through some other notable game review sites pages in wikipedia. Guess what? There are no noticeable / reliable sources about review sites. for that matter - here's a challenge - Does slashdot rise up to the wikipedia standards? does wired? does wikipedia itself? does arxiv? does medline?

    Review sites don't get reviewed the same way other sites get reviewed.

    You need a different metric for reviewing "review" or any other "meta" sites. Otherwise you perpetuate the fallacy that critics get criticized themselves, as often, and as loudly, as they are influential.

  19. Re:Enough of this already on Tolkien Estate Censors the Word "Tolkien" · · Score: 1

    If the person published a book and claimed to be Tolkien then the concerns of the Tolkien Estate would be valid. But that is not what is happening here, instead they are simply talking about the historical figure Tolkien which is perfectly legal and there's nothing (legal) that the Tolkien Estate can do about it.

    Not exactly. In theory I can legally change my name to Tolkien, then publish a book under my new name. I have absolutely no legal requirement to go out of my way to disillusion anyone who might think they are buying an "original Tolkien". Trademarking a person's name is bullshit legality under most circumstances - it implies a name can be made unique and inaccessible to anyone else but the original person, courtesy of the law.

  20. Re:store and release energy? on Going Faster Than the Wind In a Wind-Powered Cart · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod points to mod this up

  21. Re:Where is the fun? on Are Games Getting Easier? · · Score: 1

    You mean you explored and completed 90% of the missions no one ever told you about? the ones you can only discover by chance, by scanning every object in a system?

  22. Re:Wrong layer on Data Deduplication Comparative Review · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ. btrfs is mainly oracle driven. Most of the development is by oracle payed engineers - and oracle bought sun with zfs already mature and in place - what's their incentive to continue pouring money to compete with their own product?

  23. Re:Wrong layer on Data Deduplication Comparative Review · · Score: 1

    FUSE is bad on so many levels - basically it doesn't work, crashes repeatedly and generally unsuited as hell for an FS that wasn't created for it. tried several instances of zfs FUSE over the years - never got it to work anywhere near as well as on native solaris. That said, there are other alternatives openindiana is based on the opensolaris codebase, created by whatever remains of the community after oracle killed(? in some press releases oracle tech strategists claimed opensolaris is transformed to a new solaris express...) the project. and slashdot already reported on native zfs for linux - http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/08/27/2259253/Native-ZFS-Is-Coming-To-Linux-Next-Month

  24. Re:Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant on Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 1

    invasion vs. non invasion?

  25. Re:Resistance to what !? Democracy in Lebanon... on Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 1

    It's a matter of degrees, or scale. using the army with lethal weapon mandate to promote political agenda is terrorism. Using a police force to promote civic peace regardless of any particular political agenda is not terrorism.