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  1. Re:Mid-end?! Really?! on Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take Nearly a Day · · Score: 1

    Mid-range I believe is the common one. Of course if you only want one end you can have entry level instead of low end.

  2. why use consoles just because they have GPU on Parallel Processing For Cardiac Simulations Using an Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    so does any PC you like, and withe NVideas line of GPGPU cards, and their CUDA development kit its perfectly do-able with much more parallel processing power. Especially once you consider packages like accelereyes with matlab that make it easy.

  3. Coverage in the stormdrain? on Trapped Girls Call For Help On Facebook · · Score: 4, Insightful

    get me to australia!

  4. Point 3 will catch them. on Church of Scientology Proposes Net Censorship In Australia · · Score: 1

    If this were to go through, it seems to me like recomendation number three could come back to bite them. Either by being prosecuted for knowingly lying about their religion, or by being reguire to proove that some-ones claim is untruthful

  5. Re:MPG no longer relevant on World's Only Diesel-Electric Honda Insight · · Score: 1

    That depends:

    Most hybrids are only acutally using regenerative braking and electricity generated by the fossil fuel powered engine, c.f Diesel electric locos. In which case these are just efficiency improvements, and not really hybrids atall.

    Strictly they should only be true hybrids if they have a socket that you can plug in to the wall to charge them in addition to the petrol/diesel power.

    However even these wont get an infinite MPG, it still burns mostly fossil fuels at the power plant to generate. If you are using a renweable power source, you still have the cost of non-renewable (rare metals etc in solar cells) parts during manufacture

  6. This is just a controlled hammer on The Homemade Hard Disk Destroyer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just give the hard drive to your kid with a hammer, tell them to go nuts, come back 10 mins later with a dustpan and brush and you are sorted.

  7. post a reduced size image on Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia doesnt need a full 10+ megapixel image to illustrae atricles, it doesnt even need one that would fill you screen. Something around 200x200px would probably be suficient for most cases, e.g a picture of a celebrity where the issue seems to commonly arise. If photogaphers are concerned about copyright why not just created a reduced size and quality version and release that. Its too small to be used for commercial uses in most cases so neednt worry so much about it being 'stolen', and can still retain as many permissions as they like over the full image.

  8. Well thats useless. on Earthquake Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 3, Funny

    we have enough trouble predicting when they will come as it is, if you make them invisible we wont stand a chance.

  9. Black Puddings on Brazil Demands Repatriation of UK Hazardous Waste · · Score: 4, Funny

    When comming from supermarkets, i believe the correct term for a bag of blood is a black pudding.

  10. Re:Wow. Truth really IS so much stranger than fict on Brazil Demands Repatriation of UK Hazardous Waste · · Score: 1, Funny

    Give us this day our daily mod points.

  11. The boss of MI6 on Facebook Violates Canadian Privacy Law · · Score: 1

    "who puts something on Facebook that they _want_ to keep _private_?"

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8134807.stm

    The (wife of the) boss of britains MI6 apparently.

  12. Its not their money. on Music Industry Wants a Cut of Pirate Bay Sale · · Score: 4, Informative

    "should the sale go through, music execs know that the original Pirate Bay operators have access to the money."

    But from http://www.thelocal.se/20364/20090630/ in the linked /. article:

    "...the money would not reach their pockets.

    Rather, he said, the money would be used to create a fund to develop other internet projects."

    Also surely they cannot intervene to collect the awarded money when there is still an appeal pending.

  13. is 12,000 barrels alot? on Navy Spends $33 Million For Hybrid of the High Sea · · Score: 0

    could someone put that into perspective, how many barrels would a ship normally expect to get through.

  14. Why not last fm on Microsoft Readies a Rival To Spotify · · Score: 1

    So why should i use this instead of lastfm which features no adverts per half hour of music

  15. Re:I wonder what BOINC's contribution to CO2 outpu on BOINC Exceeds 2 Petaflop/s Barrier · · Score: 4, Funny

    half a million computers, times a couple of hundred watts would gives ~10MW which is about 4 blue whales or 3 diesel locomotives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(power)#megawatt_.28106_watts.29

  16. I wouldnt make plans to deploy it either on Most Companies Won't Deploy Windows 7 — Survey · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but that dosnt mean 6/10 wont deploy it. I imagine plenty of those are just waiting to see how well or not it plays out for other companies. If 7 Manages everything it promises, im sure plenty will turn to 7 in the end

  17. competition is bad on Microsoft vs. Google — Mutually Assured Destruction · · Score: 1

    Clearly competition between the two companies is a bad thing. It'll be just like the cold war where both sides made huge technological advances without actually doing any harm to each other or those on the sidelines, very bad news indeed.

  18. Re:News at 11 on Strong Passwords Not As Good As You Think · · Score: 1

    What is the point in changing a password atall. If someone has discovered your password i imageing they would be unlikely to wait to use it. "oh damn i waited 3 months and now the password doesnt work". If your account has been compromised, you need a new password (and to figure how it happened to prevent it), if you account is safe, its safe.

  19. Re:MGS tech on MIT Develops Camera-Like Fabric · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is a camera not a display. It seems it only reads what is around, it cant display anything to mimic it. To repoduce the image on the suit for camo or whatever you would probably have to interweave the camera fabric with a fabric that can display images, but then youd have to be very careful not to fall into some feedback loop.

  20. Re:Work it out in your head on How Heavy Is a Petabyte? · · Score: 1

    with an error rate of 0.1, two brains can give you perfect recovery given the right encoding (off the top of my head, a channel of binary bit flip probabiliy 0.1 is capable of a channel capacity of 0.53 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy_channel_coding_theorem)

  21. Re:Not too good. on BT Drops Phorm, Citing More Pressing Priorities · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "...nothing do to with cost..."

    Money isnt a resource then?

  22. for those wondering: on Revisiting the Five-Minute Rule · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-minute_rule

    "The 5-minute random rule: cache randomly accessed disk pages that are re-used every 5 minutes."

  23. special effects become an issue on Game Companies Intrigued By 3D Tech · · Score: 3, Interesting

    last time i saw a serious discussion about this sort of thing, it came up that when you use 3D instead of 2D, alot of special effect break. E.G.It becomes quite obvious that that choreographed punch went behind the other actors head. Will the worry of special/camera effects breaking put tv/film producers off encouraging the leap to 3D?

  24. Re:This is only the beginning on Controversy Over San Francisco Public Transportation Data · · Score: 3, Informative

    "I would hazard a guess that more companies are going to try monetizing the data aggregates and outputs."

    see http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/19/1846258 for wolfram¦alpha copywright claim over its outputs

  25. This seems comparable to uni students on Controversy Over San Francisco Public Transportation Data · · Score: 1

    Seems a comparable situation to when students have claimed rights over their own work that has been funded by their university. As i recall they all ended up with the university winning.

    I also seem to recall a few occations of similar stuff where workers stuff was claimed by their employers, also tended to go in favour of the employer, usually especially so because it was stated in whatever contract