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  1. Re:There it goes. on FCC To Vote On Net Neutrality On December 21 · · Score: 1

    This comment pretty much covers government as a whole.

  2. Re:Claims made about the future were wrong on Ray Kurzweil's Slippery Futurism · · Score: 1

    why do I get the feeling that there will be no news at 11 covering this?

    Another failed prediction?

  3. Re:Stop Buying Crap! on One Giant Cargo Ship Pollutes As Much As 50M Cars · · Score: 1

    Very true on the Walmart thing. Be careful even sometimes the exact same model between Walmart and elsewhere will still be different. One product I remember was the same brand/model, but the serial number ended with a 'w' indicating the Walmart version and it was missing many of the features as the normal model. Other products wont even have this identifier the feature list will just be shorter and/or the QA will have failed for normal production and it will go to Walmart. Sony sold it's old Trinitron CRTs this way. If it speced right during QA then it was branded a Sony Trinitron, if it didn't spec right it would be down clocked and sold to other vendors. Bearings are another item that is QAed and then sold out as the same brand, same manufacturing line but different qualities depending on the results of the QA test.

  4. Re:Fusion on AMD Releases Open Source Fusion Driver · · Score: 1

    No, net power gain from fusion is still a few decades away.

    3d Video cards have been sucking in power to create a small fusion reaction in their GPU for at least a few years now.

  5. Re:Time to move away from NVidia now? on AMD Releases Open Source Fusion Driver · · Score: 1, Troll

    Any problems with Linux games

    Nope, they both work.

    I know, "both", we all know the obvious one, but can you name the other one?

  6. Re:Like riding a firecracker on Utah vs. NASA On Heavy-Lift Rocket Design · · Score: 1

    The US lost it's "manly" somewhere in the 90s. Sad really.

  7. Re:As an end user... on Running ZFS Natively On Linux Slower Than Btrfs · · Score: 1

    Only a complete and utter moron who likes to run his nuts through a coffee grinder would only ever need Ext3 + LVM. I mean ZFS has Zettapeal and electrolytes. It's what files crave!

  8. Re:They Why ZFS? on Running ZFS Natively On Linux Slower Than Btrfs · · Score: 1

    I hate how LVM has to snapshot to unused space where ZFS has the advanced feature to snapshot to free space.

  9. Re:They Why ZFS? on Running ZFS Natively On Linux Slower Than Btrfs · · Score: 1

    Hmm, A mirrored set of mirrors. I don't think that's going to be fast at all. And it's going to waist a lot of space.

  10. Re:Treasure Act of 1996 on Boy Finds £2.5M Gold Locket With Metal Detector · · Score: 1

    He'll grow up to be Obama and the Democrats?

  11. Re:Make like a Tree and Leave on Trash-To-Gas Power Plant Gets Greenlight · · Score: 3, Funny

    Make like a tree, and get out of here!!

    Will this mean I can power my time machine with banana peals?

  12. Re:no thanks on Estonian Economist Suggests Abandoning Cash · · Score: 2, Informative

    that is now legally an opt-in service from the bank. If I no longer have the money in my account it denies the transaction, and no fees or interest is charged.

  13. Re:Define 'observe' on Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality · · Score: 1

    Again lay-physics here, but i think it was measure one, and it changes the other. So as soon as you know one, the other becomes obsolete.

  14. Re:Define 'observe' on Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality · · Score: 1

    You didn't hear? China blew up the moon while it was passing over them this last time. It's no longer there.

    (this is an example of the quantum possibility)

  15. Re:for the lulz on Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality · · Score: 1

    He is a quantum octopus.

  16. Re:Ergo oil on Life Found In Deepest Layer of Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    "If the rate of replenishment was fast enough to keep up with our level of usage, the planet would have turned into one big ball of oil a billion years ago."

    And if we didn't fish the oceans would be over flowing with fish and piling up on the shores. If there is a specific equilibrium that can be maintained sometimes getting it to that is fast enough. Over course even with fishing things can be overfished but it has been found that populations can rebuild very quickly in those examples as well.

  17. Re:Here's a link to the actual MIT site... on Laser Camera Can See Around Corners · · Score: 1

    sure would have been nice if they fixed it at 300,000,000 m/s as it would be pretty damn close to where it is now anyway and the number would be much easier to remember.

  18. Re:Purpose of the list? on The Problem With the Top500 Supercomputer List · · Score: 1

    There's at least 500 people that may disagree with your assessment of it's usefulness.

  19. Re:I think Shakespear had it right on Anti-Piracy Lawyers 'Knew Letters Hit Innocents' · · Score: 1

    Yea, it's just some of the lawyers in the world a giving the other 3 a bad name.

  20. Re:Whats the point on New Device Puts SSD In a DIMM Slot · · Score: 1

    yes, sort of, there are bigger sticks but they run at slower clock speeds. the Nehalem arcitecture doesn't allow you to run more than 3 busses with i think it was 4 slots each socket (or somthing, just pulling off the top of my head haven't read it in a few months), then in those slots the dim size you put in to max a dual socket system is 96G at 1333 or 192G(ish i forget) at 800mhz and something in between.

  21. Re:Whats the point on New Device Puts SSD In a DIMM Slot · · Score: 1

    Interestingly we don't have any of our ~500 servers that don't have max RAM in them.

  22. Re:Not new. on Toyota Introduces Electric RAV4, Powered By Tesla Motor · · Score: 1

    everybody complains about the ford F-250 6.0 and 6.4L as they are mechanically unsound.

  23. Re:Cool Story, Bro on Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle? · · Score: 1

    Didn't Micrsoft recently say the WP7 would kill iPhone as well?

  24. Re:Yes, it is a very bad thing on Want an IT Job? Add 'Cloud' To Your Buzzword List · · Score: 1

    Yes, not only should I be an expert in my core business of making and/or selling widgets, but also in IT, Power, DR, redundancy, etc...

    How about I let others be core at those things and I focus on selling my widgets, or making them or what ever.

    We outsource our building management, lunch, plumbing, furniture making, cleaning, electrical generation, water, sewer, phones, Internet connection, DNS and domain registration, ssl certificates, why not all of IT?

  25. Re:Okay. on Bacteria Used To Fix Cracked Concrete · · Score: 1

    This is now.

    I just want to know what happened to then.