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  1. Think of the TREES! on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 1

    The big problem with the conversion in Brazil is the massive clearing of rainforests and the offsetting the natural intake of CO2. Unfortunately, taking on only one side of the problem creates more problems.

  2. Re:very cheap + little material =unsafe on Tata Building $7,800 Apartments in Mumbai · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You mean unsafe for crashing. Just like every motorbike out there.

  3. Re:Thank you, ABC on Disney-Hulu Deal Is Ominous For YouTube · · Score: 1

    I came here to say this. Not to mention that the commercials are in a tiny little box, when I'm trying to watch the thing in full screen mode. Stupid ABC..

  4. Re:What's the point? on Flu Models Predict Pandemic, But Flu Chips Ready · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The main point is to delay and ultimately prevent the spread if it has a high fatality rate. 100 cases and 1 death don't give us a 1% fatality rate... we have to make sure those 100 people recover.

    While we delay the spread, we can learn more about the disease and maybe produce a vaccine.

  5. If... on Microsoft Releases Super-Secure XP to US Air Force · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If they can make it more secure, why don't they offer everyone the secure version?

  6. Remove all 9/11 images on FEMA Removes 9/11 Coloring Book For Children From Website · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Is what the government is saying. Please forget this ever happened.

    It's like trying to take guns and cannons out of civil war coloring books.

    It happened and it's history. People need to know the truth.

  7. Facebook on Digg Backs Down On DiggBar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They do the same thing, I'm wondering why there isn't similar backlash. I hate them both, framing is such a 90's thing.

  8. Re:Incredible on FBI Seizes All Servers In Dallas Data Center · · Score: 1

    He said 50 /BUSINESSES/ ... which could be any number of servers. The fact that at least one of them is a phone company is very troubling.

  9. Re:Practice on Programming Language Specialization Dilemma · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is the right answer of course. However, I'm worried about any computer science grad that hasn't been doing this all along. If you don't do computer programming for fun, are you sure you even want to get into programming?

  10. Re:This is a TERRIBLE comparison on Phenom IIs, Core I7-920 Win Out In Value Analysis · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Actually, this is a very important comparison. If you're considering any sort of clustering, like what I do, you absolutely need it. Do you need 100 opterons, or 4 core i7's?

    In the cluster I run, I've been quickly swapping out old xeons for new Core i7's. With just the 4 920's I have running, I've been able to remove 20 old xeons, all while improving the overall performance of the cluster.

    Price / Performance also helps you judge how fast the computer will be antiquated. If you now need only 500 gflops, and this computers offers 1000, you know that it should sustain you into the future.

  11. Re:"Protest"? on Adbusters Suggests Click Fraud As Protest · · Score: 1

    I suggest you check out adwords for the process of tracking goals. It's quite possible and encouraged. It's been used on all the sites I've used that sell stuff and had adwords ads. They have all sorts of "goals" example here: https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=74345&topic=10972

  12. Re:If you lived in Redmond, you'd know why on "Bridge To Microsoft" Gets Federal Stimulus Funds · · Score: 1

    It sounds like the local government should have been using tax money from MS more wisely all these years.

  13. Re:"Protest"? on Adbusters Suggests Click Fraud As Protest · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Google's process is much more sophisticated then that. They collectively look at sites and users and track the users through the purchase or 'goal' to calculate the value of clicks and ROI. Most adsense ad click's value is dynamic and dependent on many things.

    Automated (or random) clicking will only hurt the sites that you visit, by lowering the value of the entire site's ads.

  14. Re:Professional Indemnity Insurance on George Riddick — the One-Man RIAA of Clip Art · · Score: 1

    Isn't this making matters worse? If any insurance companies are paying him to settle, it only gives him more ammo to fight more battles.

  15. Re:KISS on Best Solution For HA and Network Load Balancing? · · Score: 1
    Yes, KISS... All those advocating load balancers for a small site like this will just make matters worse. Any efforts should be spent making sure your server is optimized and running well. A good backup is of course important. Syncing data and trying to get multiple servers to run simultaneously is a recipe for a big slow mess. If you need to scale beyond one server, offloading the database from webserver is the first step. If you really get popular, maybe you'll need to add a static image file server.

    I run sites with 200,000 people per day, and all I use is inexpensive commodity hardware. Even with the 3 server setup (web, db and images) the load on each is practically nothing. Uptime is measured in years. Swapping out hardware and upgrading individual components easily done in minutes.

  16. Bigger disaster for Microsoft? on Uproar Over Netflix's New Instant Viewer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Even though they were running both players... This situation certainly associates silverlight with poor quality.

  17. fast on World of Goo Ported To Linux · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    # WorldOfGooDemo
    Aborted
    #

    That's the fastest linux game I've ever played. How about some diagnostics? Just because it works on your computer doesn't mean it works on all. Stick to windows programming.

  18. First Step on Beginning iPhone Development · · Score: 5, Informative

    I thought the first step was getting a Mac, then you can get the sdk. It's actually a pretty high barrier to entry for a developer.

  19. Wow, horrible site. on Dr. Dobb's Journal Going Web-Only · · Score: 1

    I used to like the mag, but this site is just plain awful. It's hard to find an article or anything, and it has autostart video. yuck. Can someone please hit them with a clue stick?

  20. Re:No Xeon? on Intel Quad-Core Price and Performance Showdown · · Score: 1

    You're right, and since I'm only looking in the server market, there doesn't seem to be any hosts with i7's out there. Once you get beyond 1 or 2 servers, the price/performance is a great determining factor for cluster machines. The consumer and server cpu's usually do have a direct mapping. not sure what this is for the i7 940.. or if the price for that would be similar.

  21. Mozilla doesn't have the money? on Google Chrome OEM Strategy To Take On IE · · Score: 1

    You're kidding right? They make tons of money from Google for the search referrals. They have over $50M in the bank and make more than that each year. Getting their browser on every new computer would make them tons more too. Google has good incentive to push off firefox and reduce their payments.

  22. Re:The US and US flags on AP Suspends DoD Over Altered US Army Photo · · Score: 1, Insightful
  23. Re:Historical perspective on Behind the Cogent-Sprint Depeering · · Score: 1
    BOTH PAY. That's a very important point. Sprint customers are paying to download stuff and Cogent customers are paying to host stuff (mainly porn?). Which one is MORE affected by the outage? Sprint customers who can't find a major % of their porn anymore or Cogent customers that lose a small percent of their customers.

    Settlement ratios are bogus and Sprint should be on the hook for dividing the Internet.

  24. Re:Typical Cogent on Behind the Cogent-Sprint Depeering · · Score: 1
    Obviously, they are not for you, but we're talking about a tier 1 internet provider. A HUGE portion of the internet is delivered through Cogent. They are #4 ranked in terms of ASNs and #1 ranked in Bit miles. If you are a major ISP connecting to the Internet, you have to connect to the major players, including Cogent. Even if they are a competitor and even if they are cheaper than you.

    Bottom line is that you don't need to pay to get ON the Internet if you ARE the Internet.

  25. Re:Typical Cogent on Behind the Cogent-Sprint Depeering · · Score: 1
    If there wasn't much traffic at these peering points, what's the big deal? Who would even notice? I think you're wrong.

    They are talking exchange rates here, in vs out. They don't like it going one way. Sprint was looking for an excuse, they don't want Cogent taking their #3 spot.

    All Tier 1 internet providers should have settlement free peering.