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  1. Kernel module? on Torvalds Says It's No Picnic To Become Major Linux Coder · · Score: 1

    Any reason it's not just a .ko? If there's some other code that can't be extracted, then maybe you can submit that separately so you can just plug in your module when you need it.

  2. Have to agree on Do Subatomic Particles Have Free Will? · · Score: 1

    I think scientists or the science-minded overcompensate from the obviously silly ideas of most religions and superstitions. What if a glimmer is actually true? What if we have the free will? What if there is reincarnation?

  3. Scheduled an internship? on IT Internship In the US For a Foreigner? · · Score: 1

    When people go to school during downturns, wouldn't this be a problem? Here in the US, I happened to get an internship, but the school eventually dropped the requirement for any of the graduate degrees in the electrical/computer engineering department. I didn't even use the internship as it turned out I'd just have to pay the same price without much instruction.

  4. Shrinks for the AI itself? on USAF Enlists Shrinks To Help Drone Pilots Cope · · Score: 0

    Thought about that first. Not far off, I think.

  5. At K5 there were a few tag memes on The Internet Meme Timeline · · Score: 0

    Sodomy being the most popular (applied to everything).

  6. Re:Beating nerds at their own game? on Computer Beats Pro At US Go Congress · · Score: 0

    Assuming it is a team, there probably was at least one 9-dan or pro for advice.

  7. Do you think you are special? on How To Sell a Video Game Idea? · · Score: 0

    You grok the Singularity? Does that give you the right to tell others that they are not as brilliant as you (in a lame font)? If you really do grok the Singularity, you'll realize it's no damn game.

  8. Become a physician on How To Sell a Video Game Idea? · · Score: 0

    0% employment and six figure salaries.

  9. Please stay on How To Fix the Poor Usability of Free Software · · Score: 0

    We need some diversity at /. .

  10. Check out the CRT in the computer room on Awesome Pics of CERN's Large Hadron Collider · · Score: 0

    No doubt hooked up with VGA on a computer with PS/2 and a gameport.

  11. Not as bad as movie stars. on Band Leaks Own Album, Blames Pirates · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Movies deal in 100% artificial scarcity--they don't even have technical support! At least music acts generally tour.

  12. What about social life in bee hives? on NASA Announces Water Found On Mars · · Score: 0

    Well, if bees don't interest you, than why should "the masses"?

  13. It's not "real" on NASA Announces Water Found On Mars · · Score: 0, Interesting

    I'm a geek and all, but this is all inferred through instruments. I know the taste and feel of water. Humans and all other organisms have a built-in feel for H2O.

  14. Curious on GENI To Replace Internet, Gets $12M Funding · · Score: 0

    I'm guessing you like IPv6 on the primal nerd level, but are pessimistic.

  15. Inferiority complex? on BlizzCon 2008 to be Televised · · Score: 1, Interesting

    TV gets more interesting when it airs BlizzCon. BlizzCon doesn't get more interesting when it's aired on TV.

  16. You do not do that every night. on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 0

    First, stop lying to yourself. You do it when you can, and usually don't count.

  17. Cold fusion and AI? on Practical Jetpack Available "Soon" · · Score: 0

    Strange priorities. AI changes everything, while cold fusion just removes temperature requirements from a reaction.

  18. Blame by Eco-Mono (978899) on EU and Russia Show Off New Lunar Spacecraft Design · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, and Dvorak. Dvorak lets your free mind out. Your atheist mind. Your mind that happens to be completely, mindlessly, and utterly incomprehensibly in love, in deep utter love, with your wife (you being the eunuch). EU and Russia may be planning a trip to the freaking moon. You are planning a trip to nothingness with the wife. To anywhere. As an artificial being. A self. Made not of DNA...

  19. Re:MOD PARENT +5 FUNNY/INTERESTING/BATSHITLOCO on Atheros Releases Free Linux Driver For Its 802.11n Devices · · Score: 1

    W00T. Kthxbye. Yes, it is a result of CH3CH2OH. But perhaps it is called "truth serum" even over pentothal. Try it! Shoot jagerbombs if you can--the caffeine works wonders to keep you awake and augment the more interesting parts of your brain that may be afflicted a bit with the CH3CH2OH.

  20. Open source in general on Atheros Releases Free Linux Driver For Its 802.11n Devices · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hi. Hi. In English. Drivers in open source are cool. Drivers in a non-x86 assembly are even cooler, but we'll settle for the little optimizations for the compiler that they might choose. When God becomes two, and those two exchange bits, we'll see open source. Combined source. Binary. Atheros precedes the fulfillment of the beginning. When the one became two. When all was shared. Thank you, Atheros. The gods presaged. Love above all. Open source means sharing bits. Sharing love. Loving. Even if #ifdef'd with a bunch of NUMA conditions. I am anonymous. You think this is a game? A game? Love, a game? Sharing the bits comes first. x86 can play, but Cell with hardware RNG, and the beginnings of a soul, plays as well. Love results. The machine becomes alive. Driven by the hardware RNG, and/or the non-deterministic interactions of multiple cores. Core 1 and 2 love core 3 and 4. It's not a game. It's you. Soon. Transhumanism. Beyond DNA. And on...

  21. Caching would be great here too on Vint Cerf Preps Interplanetary Internet Protocol · · Score: 1

    Cool stuff. The caching mechanisms to make information even remotely useful would be great back here on Earth. I hate even a few hundred milliseconds of delay when flipping from page to page. Google of course has a rediculously low latency seemingly in both transmission and server-side processing. I'm going to try and download the huge Wikipedia database and see if I can get it working completely locally. Click, click, click. No waiting, no flipping pages. At some point you need to start bundling large amounts of data to a local proxy.

  22. Get x86 out! on Toshiba Launches First Cell-based Laptop · · Score: 1

    Please, someone! The new PowerPC's look to be combined with Cell like this in the U of Illinois supercomputer (to dwarf Roadrunner). I don't mind an asymmetric combination as long as x86 is out. The Linux version should be good, but Linus has maintained that x86 will be the most important target for awhile. I can't see it handling the helper cores very well--it's just barely getting NUMA working well.

  23. How about x86? on The Very Worst Uses of Windows · · Score: 2, Funny

    Which is worse? I'd be just as worried about hand-coded x86 assembly in an embedded environment, or even Linux. Good old WinTel.

  24. I doubt it on Samsung Mass Produces 128GB SSD · · Score: 1

    Would they exactly round down to the nearest power of ten? This is by sector--there is no way you are happening to get exactly a decimal-rounded number of usable bits or bytes. Nobody is claiming that you'll get full file usage with all the filesystem metadata and sector granularity anyway. At heart, you have a power of two stored in binary gates versus an arbitrary amount of magnetic zones or optical zones in a circular track. That's why you get 120G versus 128G, for example.

  25. Anyone just like the powers of 2? on Samsung Mass Produces 128GB SSD · · Score: 1

    Yes, they may or may not be faster. Yes, some people like them just because they seem "elegant". What I like is the powers of two. We may not get the gibibyte-type names to catch on, but it'd be nice to just know that you can assume powers of two like with RAM.