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  1. Re:Skynet is bigger on Japanese Supercomputer K Hits 10.51 Petaflops · · Score: 1

    Decrease communication time in a cluster, and you get a supercomputer?

  2. Skynet is bigger on Japanese Supercomputer K Hits 10.51 Petaflops · · Score: 1

    consists of 864 racks, comprising a total of 88,128 interconnected CPUs

    Where goes the border between a supercomputer and a cluster?

  3. Re:What happens? on A Brief History of Failed Digital Rights Management Schemes · · Score: 1

    What? Are we supposed to both read and understand those legal documents?

  4. Re:More! on Mathematically Pattern-Free Music · · Score: 2

    Typical of them artists to ruin a perfectly ugly piece of music by their .... artistry. It should have been performed by a computer for proper ugliness!

  5. Re:Why produce such software? on Iranian Police Tracking Dissidents Using Tech From Western Companies · · Score: 1

    And then you'll have to convince me that destroying other equipment and threatening the lives of people is worth it,

    Ah, its you that get to pull the switch :)

  6. Re:Why produce such software? on Iranian Police Tracking Dissidents Using Tech From Western Companies · · Score: 1

    Should they include a killswitch so if it gets in the hands of an evil dictator it can be disabled?

    Why not?

    Who gets to pull the switch?

  7. Personal Computer on Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC · · Score: 1

    The Raspberry Pi is less IBM PC compatible than a Mac. If the RP is a PC, so is the iPhone!

  8. Reasearchers led by... on Biological 'Logic Circuit' Destroys Cancer Cells · · Score: 1

    Z.Xie, L.Wroblewska, and L. Prochazka, who all were listed as authors before the professors, seem to have done the bulk of the work. Kudos to you.

  9. Re:Limited uses? on Making Microelectronics Out of Nanodiamond · · Score: 1
    Read the fine print on the images that give the scale of the "electronics". The transistor seems to be in the mm-range. Perhaps with time, the process might shrink.

    Anyways, if you are ready to pay extra then - almost by definition - you are not looking for "consumer products" :)

  10. PS3 jailbreaker arrested on First PS3 Jailbreaker Arrested In South Africa · · Score: 1
    Or PS3 games pirate arrested?

    Luckily I am on MFW 3.55, which isn't jailbroken, just slightly opened up. (Or so at least they tell me on IRC.) That means I am safe, right?

  11. Figures on NASA Announces Discovery of Salty Water On Mars ... Maybe · · Score: 1

    I would turn green too if all I had is salty water.

  12. Re:We don't need a spec on Saudi Arabia Constructing World's Tallest Building · · Score: 1

    From TFA:

    The final details of Kingdom Tower's design are yet to be worked out, but construction is to begin immediately.

    We all know how well that impacts budgets and schedules for software projects!

    budgets, schedules and outcome

    I wonder what it looks like when a building segfaults?

  13. Winning is everything! on Saudi Arabia Constructing World's Tallest Building · · Score: 1
    Stopped reading TFA after:

    At least 173 meters (568 feet) taller, sight-seers on the tower’s observation deck could see how long it takes for their spit to hit the top of Burj Khalifa (this is, if they weren’t hundreds of miles apart).

    Yes. We got it. Its taller.

  14. Re:24/7 access to fellow smart people on Stanford 'Intro To AI' Course Offered Free Online · · Score: 1
    IMHO, the level of a university closely correlates with the level of education. Every university has a coffee room or two where to ask (and smart people who drink coffee in said rooms). That is true even for the company I work for! But I have no way of feeling up the atmosphere in Stanford, so I must extrapolate from my experiences at the local university, by comparing the level and atmosphere in this course.

    Anyways, the true value of a university is measured by the level of knowledge/wisdom/insight that the people, who leave it upon graduation, have.

  15. Level of education on Stanford 'Intro To AI' Course Offered Free Online · · Score: 1
    Interesting. Now is a good chance to find out for one-self if the famous USA universities really are as elite as their reputation. And I will learn basics of AI at the side!

    I already learned (thanks Wikipedia!) that Stanford is not part of the ivy league, though :)

  16. quadrillion? on Japan's 8-petaflop K Computer Is Fastest On Earth · · Score: 1

    Anyone here who find that 'quadrillion' is more descriptive than peta? (or 1e15, for that matter?).

  17. Re:Old news on Aussie Climate Scientists Receiving Death Threats · · Score: 1
    My point exactly - no other topic can generate this much FUD and flame in this short a time.

    But OK - seems my 'subject'-line was wrongly biased :)

  18. Re:stop pumping these people up on LulzSec Offers to Take Revenge On Sega Hackers · · Score: 1

    They're not necessarily doing a disservice.

    They are.

    They do a disservice to the individuals who get hurt. But a service to mankind for lifting the cat on the table w.r.t. security issues. They do both bad and good, and there is no denying it.

    I salute them for the latter, but regard them as jerks due to the former. Which leaves me saluting jerks. A thing I find disturbing.

    Who would have thought - the world is not black-and-white?

  19. Old news on Aussie Climate Scientists Receiving Death Threats · · Score: 1

    Comments in TFA link to this http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/carbon-death-threats-go-cold/story-e6freuzr-1226071996499 article, that suggest there were two instances of threats five years ago. Why does it seem any and all articles with 'environmnet' in the title instantly get dragged into the mud? Be they pro or against.

  20. The internet on Reason Seen More As a Weapon Than a Path To Truth · · Score: 2

    So now that we have the internet and the evolutionary push for reasoning and rationality is gone - what do you think will happen?

  21. Re:Here's the question...Who is next? on Apple Agrees To Pay Licensing Fees To Nokia · · Score: 1

    TFA suggests that Nokia sued also in the areas of WLAN, UI, camera, antenna and power management.