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  1. Less taxes. on Dell Closes Ireland Plant; 2nd Largest Employer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The 10 year discount is up. That's why they are moving, and Dell isn't the only corporation doing this. Ireland has a low corporate tax, and discounts it even further for the first 10 years a corporation operates there.

  2. Re:yeah well on Volvo Introduces a Collision-Proof Car · · Score: 1

    Well, the thing with the Volvo is that the car is considered expendable, and not the passengers. Hummers are other way around. If given a choise in a Volvo-Hummer collision, I'd pick the Volvo any day. My friends mom hit a tree at 120 kph in her Volvo, rolled the car and walked away. What was left of the car was an intact passenger compartment, rest was small pieces spread all around.

    A Volvo will be completely totalled in a minor accident, that's because the impact energy goes into crumpling the car. A Hummer survives because it transfers all the energy to the soft meatbag inside.

  3. Re:more importantly on Volvo Introduces a Collision-Proof Car · · Score: 1

    He pays for the damage.

  4. Re:How are they storing this data? on Study Finds Hundreds of Stolen Data Dumps · · Score: 4, Funny

    Raw data from keyloggers?
    I think gamers can quickly fill up 138kB with lots of w,s,a and d keypresses :)

  5. Re:SMB on SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's not Samba's fault. It's the TCP window size on XP that is the problem.
    I have at home a cheap server running Ubuntu and Samba with older drives that max out at 35-40 MB/s.
    Clients using OS X, Linux or Vista gets the full ~30 MB/s, but XP clients seem to max out at 10-15MB/s. After tweaking the TCP window size, I've gotten the speed up to 20-25MB/s.

  6. Re:In other news... on Nintendo Already Anticipating Holiday Wii Shortages · · Score: 1

    As long as the Wii sells, they will not release the next version. Like with Intel, they have dual core Atoms ready to sell, but as the single cores are selling without any serious competition, it would be stupid to obsolete their own product in advance.

  7. Re:Fuel economy on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 1

    If you have to get quickly out of the way, it doesn't matter in you're in gear or neutral. You still have to downshift if you really want to accelerate quick. Especially my car is completely powerless in normal driving (60mph) in 2000rpm in fourth gear. Estimating that it gives out ~70 hp at 2000 rpm. At 4000 when the turbo kicks in, it gives ~250 hp. 4000 rpm in fourth gear is 120 mph. Going from 60 to 120 without shifting takes a minute. That's over a mile. Some creative shifting and it does that in less than 15 seconds. So, it's completely irrelevant what gear I'm in. I'll have to use the stick in any case. If you don't downshift, then I can now really see you driving... the guy continuously redlining his car for the last drop of acceleration, jumping lanes every 5 seconds, brake lights flashing fast enough to give an epilepsy attack to other drivers.

  8. Re:Not reasonable on 88% of IT Admins Would Steal Passwords If Laid Off · · Score: 4, Funny

    I store my passwords on yellow post-it notes next to the computer. Never seen a sysadmin getting out of the basement, so I assume my passwords are safe.

  9. Re:It's all great till you don't exist on Photoshop Allows Us To Alter Our Memories · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Literal interpretation on Laptops With Certain NVidia Chips Failing · · Score: 1

    With the update the fan can run at half or quarter speed. Without the update it was either full or off. Less cycling on an off, more stable temperatures in desktop usage.

    This only applies to a certain manufacturer, don't know about others.
    And if you hate fans, don't get a laptop with nvidia, get one with some Intel's integrated video card.

  11. Re:Par for the course. on MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    You are aware of the fact that the Dell and the HP is most likely manufactured by Foxconn?

  12. Re:testing and QA on Dublin Air Traffic Control Brought Down By Faulty NIC · · Score: 1

    > But what happens when A is *mostly* or *sorta* online?

    You have dual NICs on system A, with a etherkiller connected to the second card.

    When B takes over, it then can make sure that A stays down :)

  13. Re:testing and QA on Dublin Air Traffic Control Brought Down By Faulty NIC · · Score: 2, Informative

    Air traffice towers generally are not noisy or dusty. And in any case, disregarding the ports, the NIC card itself is practically eternal. Compared to the rest of the system, and the lifetime of the system that is.

    Two lessons learned from years of technical support. The NIC isn't broken, unless the computer has been dragged from the network cable. And that the CPU is not broken as long as the system has not been overclocked, and the heatsink is still in place.

  14. Re:So how long is the emperor of China's nose? on "Wisdom of Crowds" Works For Individuals Too · · Score: 1

    That's right. WMDs were even used... Though not by Iraqis: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4440664.stm

  15. Re:in other news on Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers · · Score: 1

    That's why you have a sunroof, and a batch of spoiled eggs under the seat...

  16. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1

    Try a Volvo. My colleagues mom drove one off the road at 120 km/h, rolled a couple times, and walked away. The car had everything stripped off and the passenger compartment was intact. The engine, wheels, even the driveshaft all gone, and only a few scratches on the driver.

  17. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1

    Try a Miata. It is actually possible to drive circles around a SUV on a two lane highway with this :)

  18. Re:It's an "older" technology on Schneier Asks Why We Accept Fax Signatures · · Score: 1

    Then you whack the AV software. Most locked-down installations are not completely foolproof, and the AV software can be disabled by renaming the .exe and restarting the computer.

  19. Re:PGP on How Would You Prefer To Send Sensitive Data? · · Score: 1

    They may very well have the resources to break a message or two. But is this message important enough to spend a decade of processing power on? No reason to be paranoid, usually people aren't important enough for their messages to be interesting. And SSNs? Like NSA couldn't get them from anyplace else.

  20. Re:eh? on Firefox 3 RC1 Out Now · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Beta 5 was quite unstable for me, so bad infact that I downgraded to beta 3.
    Though I am using a lot of addins, so don't know exactly who to blame.

  21. Re:If you don't know; don't even try! on Post-Suicide Account Cracking? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Simply image the disk, and toy around with the copy. If you fail, make a new copy. That's how you learn data recovery.

  22. Re:I find that hard to believe on Windows 7 in the Next Year? · · Score: 1

    It's more like:
    95, something new, not completely ready
    98, getting better
    ME, try too much and completely fail

    2000, something new, not completely ready
    XP, getting better
    Vista, try too much and completely fail

    If this keeps up, I'll wait for windows 8.

  23. Re:Even the courts aren't this daft on G-Archiver Harvesting Google Mail Passwords · · Score: 1

    Duh, of course it was archiving the password too, in case you'd forget it...

  24. Re:Or it is not spreading on Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free · · Score: 5, Funny

    By confessing that you use Dreamweaver, you instantly lost all credibility on this website.
    Plese log out, and sign up to the facebook dreamweaver users- group.

  25. Re:China can't just come in take athletes way to p on Athletes Can Blog at Olympics - with Restrictions · · Score: 1

    Yes. But which country would suffer more?
    Before you answer that question, think of where in general most of the stuff in world is manufactured.