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  1. Re:Obligatory on Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    That would make it a glade server?

  2. Re:My condolences: on Ethical Killing Machines · · Score: 1

    "Greetings Citizen! The good news is that 87% of all citizens are not terrorists. The bad news is you are number 88."

    *sploot*

  3. Re:So what was he *really* standing in front of? on AP Suspends DoD Over Altered US Army Photo · · Score: 1

    You mean MS. July is photoshopped?!

    *crushed*

  4. Re:Unadultered Alterations on AP Suspends DoD Over Altered US Army Photo · · Score: 1

    But he is correct, the ones doing the genocide are not black.

    They are Arabs.

  5. Re:Show attached block devices on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    du -s * |sort -n

    Size of files and directories in ascending sized order.

    Good for finding the filesystem hog.

  6. The same survey shows... on Poll Finds 23 Percent of Texans Think Obama is Muslim · · Score: 1

    73% of Texans believe the government blew up the twin towers and that the whole muslim and planes thing is just a cover story.

    So it all evens out.

  7. Re:can they use? on The First E-President · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, if YOUR computer was hawt as Cindy, would you use an PC or an Apple?

    P.S. it is well documented that having his shoulders, arms, and fingers broken keeps him from using a normal computer. Could he use one of those Hawking type computer systems? Sure he could, but see the Cindy comment...

  8. Re:You should have asked this a year before. on Getting Hired As an Entry-Level Programmer? · · Score: 1

    You describe a system where QA is part of the development process. That is the best way to go, build the quality into the product rather then add it later.

    That said, QA is still a good idea. A piece of code can run flawlessly, be technically perfect and still not match the customers requirements.

  9. Re:Seriously it is quite an achievement on $700 Billion Bailout Signed Into Law · · Score: 1

    One way to finally kill the penny.

  10. Re:well on Will ParanoidLinux Protect the Truly Paranoid? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You must be secure FIRST.

    Otherwise you are not anonymous.

  11. Re:He's still kicking! on Fossett's Plane Found · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is sooo totally too complicated.

    Occam's razor says that they brought him back to deal with the Grand Nagus after Kirk lost Earth in a Dabo game.

    (not his fault, hard to tear your shirt in a Dabo game)
       

  12. Re:Natural device? on Removing CO2 From the Air Efficiently · · Score: 1

    To save time they are printing on rolls. I hear the Charmin dollar bills are extra soft.

    Good thing too considering how hard the taxpayers are about to take it...

  13. Re:DINOs on CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime · · Score: 1

    Last I checked Crypto-communist was not an insult, Bush-bot/facisists-in-sheep's-clothing certainly is.

    But if the "false outrage" logical fallacy shoe fits, you may wear it if you like.

    Besides, you are hiding behind an AC, which makes whatever you are a crypto-whatever.

    To wit:

    http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=994604

    A cryptocommunist is a person who hides their identity as a communist or keeps it secret, for whatever reason.

    Reasons to be a cryptocommunist include hiding from persecution, avoiding the social stigma that occasionally comes with being a communist, or that your communistic plans will only work if no one suspects what you are trying to do.

    The word crypto means secret or hidden; Cryptography is the study, and practice, of hiding secrets.

    I meant as you were couching your extreme left wing nature in words that were completely made up and meaningless for 90% of the population.

  14. Re:DINOs on CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime · · Score: 1

    Better.

    Now at least I am sure you are a leftest and infiltrating the ranks of the reasonable and civil-minded in this country and perverting and distorting their aims.

    Otherwise, you would not have so quickly resorted to polarizing name calling in an effort to make all leftists look as radical as yourself.

    Oh right, only the other side does that...

  15. Re:DINOs on CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime · · Score: 1

    You must be one of those Crypto-communists I hear about.

    I *think* you are leftist and yet I did not understand a damn word you wrote.

  16. Re:Hallelujah! on Jack Thompson Disbarred · · Score: 1

    It would be FAR more entertaining to pair him up with Olberman.

    Of course, we might need to wait for the LHC to come back on line so they can use it to repair the tear in the time-space fabric should they accidentally agree on something.

  17. Re:Actually, they're NOT representative on Jack Thompson Disbarred · · Score: 1

    Do remember that a major pillar of American culture was religious fundamentalists that ran from Europe and GB. Puritans being a good example.

    Unfortunately, we don't have anywhere else to send them...

  18. Re:Nahh.. its not going anywhere. on NYT Ponders the Future of Solaris In a Linux/Windows World · · Score: 1

    That is only half of it.

    It also places it's buffers in kernel space and tries to pull off the old "Use all available memory" Windows trick.

    Then, when something needs the memory it gives it back... only it does not. Plays hob with Oracle and even screwed up the ST driver.

    set zfs:zfs_arc_max=0x100000000

    is in all our systems using ZFS. It limits it to 4GB.

    Don't get me wrong, ZFS is very useful for certain things. For example we use it to provide direct-to-disk backup space for Netbackup. Combined with synthetic full backups it saves time and tape in our environment.

    We also needed to ship 60TB of data that was on Windows machines. One solution was a wire. The other solution was to ship it by Thumper (in a shockproof 19" rack road case) with all those disks set up by ZFS and shared by SAMBA.

    Dump the data and ship it back... looks like 2 weeks turn around.

  19. Re:This Just In on Palin Email Hacker Found · · Score: 1

    Buy into what? It is an objective observation based on independent data.

    http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05952.pdf

    if you want to see the raw data collected by the GAO.

  20. Re:This Just In on Palin Email Hacker Found · · Score: 1

    Here, let me go edit the wiki entry for you so it matches what I posted.

    Still trust it?

  21. Re:This Just In on Palin Email Hacker Found · · Score: 5, Informative

    He is not right:

          1. U.S. military service disproportionately attracts enlisted personnel and officerswho do not come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Previous HerÂitage Foundation research demonstrated that the quality of enlisted troops has increased since the start of the Iraq war. This report demonÂstrates that the same is true of the officer corps.
          2. Members of the all-volunteer military are sigÂnificantly more likely to come from high-income neighborhoods than from low-income neighborhoods. Only 11 percent of enlisted recruits in 2007 came from the poorest one-fifth (quintile) of neighborhoods, while 25 perÂcent came from the wealthiest quintile. These trends are even more pronounced in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) proÂgram, in which 40 percent of enrollees come from the wealthiest neighborhoodsâ"a number that has increased substantially over the past four years.
          3. American soldiers are more educated than their peers. A little more than 1 percent of enlisted perÂsonnel lack a high school degree, compared to 21 percent of men 18â"24 years old, and 95 percent of officer accessions have at least a bachelorâ(TM)s degree.
          4. Contrary to conventional wisdom, minorities are not overrepresented in military service. Enlisted troops are somewhat more likely to be white or black than their non-military peers. Whites are proportionately represented in the officer corps, and blacks are overrepresented, but their rate of overrepresentation has declined each year from 2004 to 2007. New recruits are also disproportionately likely to come from the South, which is in line with the history of SouthÂern military tradition.

    http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/cda08-05.cfm

  22. I cant get them to use it now! on Inside VMware's 'Virtual Datacenter OS' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Getting traditional "silo" orientated programmers to use distributed computing is hard now!

    This server is for chocolate, this one for peanut butter... don't let them touch!

    Even GRID enabled software like Informatica is hard to get them to understand. Don't worry where it runs, don't try to segregate workloads... the software is smarter than you!

    Let it do it's damn job.

  23. Re:The crossed the line this time on "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email · · Score: 1

    She was troll bait for Obama. Like every politician he has a strong taste for the limelight.

    Palin stole that from him briefly and he tackled her almost reflexively.

    He forgot the most important thing: he is running for president, and then started lining himself up against the Vice President.

    Following his lead the rest of the Democratic machine started twisting itself into a parody. Feminists came out against her, claiming she was trying to "Have it all" and that was wrong. That she was a step backwards for women!

    *boggle*

    It was Obama's race to lose, and he may have just done it.

    This moron is just driving nails in the coffin by flaunting privacy laws and doing the very thing they accuse the other side of doing: illegally intruding to people's lives.

    Moreover, he is again re-enforcing the crazy idea that expert computer users are dangerous to society... because the average citizen who can't use email also thinks we are some sort of modern witch. $DIETY help us, they might start burning us at the metaphorical stake.

  24. Re:Title on Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed · · Score: 1

    And you would be right to do so for solving almost any problem... unless you were testing relativity.

    See? Razor works just fine. No need for relativity when describing the behavior of Newton's Cradle, designing a car, or building a house. Unless you are in a deep gravity well or approaching C of course.

    The simplest answer is not "God did it" because then you must prove God exists. That is the tough part.
       

  25. Re:Title on Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed · · Score: 1

    Well, the full title is "Evolution by natural selection"

    So if you can show evolution through something other than natural selection, say prion exchange or virus, then you would have a viable alternative to the TOENS

    If you could show that the improvements are based on existing "junk" in our DNA being activated by certain conditions then it would also invalidate it.

    In fact, that would be the evidence of Exo-genesis. I would point to works of fiction where messages or codes are found in the DNA. That chopping sound is Occam's Razor, but you asked.