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  1. Re:I don't think the future is immersion cooling.. on Liquid Cooling On the Rise As Data Centers Crunch Bigger Data · · Score: 1

    Still not going to get much, even Stirlings need a good bit of log-deltaT to work well enough for a ROI.

  2. Re:Some liquids are quite ecologically unfriendly on Liquid Cooling On the Rise As Data Centers Crunch Bigger Data · · Score: 1

    It's basicaly synthetic petrolium oil w/ antioxidants added, the MSDS doesn't list anything as particularly hazzardous "Repeated or prolonged contact may result in localized irritation of the skin. May cause allergic reactions in some individuals ... As with any hydrocarbon product, oil-impervious clothing is recommended to prevent skin contact" so wear nitrile or butyl rubber gloves and wash up with Gojo.

  3. Re:This might alienate anti-ISI* Muslims. on US Navy Authorizes Use of Laser In Combat · · Score: 1

    The prohibition only applies to weapons that are designed to blind the naked eye as a primary purpose, not to weapons where blinding is collateral damage. It is even permissable to lase optical systems that would blind a human looking through the system.

  4. Re:Stay out of space on NASA's Orion Capsule Reaches Orbit · · Score: 1

    they're not wings, thet're phase-arrayed sensor panels, they just looks like wings.

  5. Re: Woohoo, let's explore on NASA's Orion Capsule Reaches Orbit · · Score: 2

    Durring the Apollo days, I bought a TI SR11 pocket calculator, it could do arthimatic, squares, square roots, and had a pi key and cost me $104.00! Now your car is probably 1000X electronically more capable than an Apollo capsule, Onstar would make that more like 100K. The Apollo Guidance Computer had a CPU that was made out of 2,800 dual 3-input NOR gates hand wire-wrapped and bedded in epoxy, 2K of 16 bit read-write magnetic core memory and 36 kilowords of read-only core rope memory.

    So most of what you are calling a trace, was actually a 40 gage silver plated copper wire.
     

  6. Re:A tech gloss over racial profiling? on 'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City · · Score: 1

    You forgot the part where the SkinColorA's commit 90% of their crimes against other SkinColorAs, so by ingore the 60 SkinColorA criminals (for equality), you have disporportionately shifted criminal victimization toward SkinColorAs.

  7. Re:A tech gloss over racial profiling? on 'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City · · Score: 1

    Since they've achieved a 50% drop in crime, it's obviously not GIGO.

  8. Re:A tech gloss over racial profiling? on 'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City · · Score: 1

    The sad truth is it's all related to the 80/20 rule or the Pareto principle, 80% of the crimes are committed by 20% of the people; 64% of the crime is commited by 4% (.8^2/.2^2) and 51% is commited by 0.8% (.8^3/.2^3). If you can the correct people off the street, the results are amazing, if you waste your time on the wrong people, the results is futility. With the numbers they're achieving, they are hitting some of the correct people, and race is a red herring.

  9. Re:There are issues to resolve... on Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras · · Score: 1

    exonerate, (especially of an official body) absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing, especially after due consideration of the case.
      My understanding was the Grand Jury was given broad latitude to consider multiple indictments, to question and cross examine witnesses, to examine physical evidence at length, and they determined that there was not probable cause for any charges. I've seen the autopsy reports myself and they just don't support the notion that Wilson did anything other than perform his duties and defend himself from an attack.

    The really sad part is there are enough racist cops using excess force, so they didn't have to fixate on Wilson.

  10. Re: not enthuisastic about this on Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras · · Score: 1

    We were taught in National Guard Civil Disturbance Training to alway grab a TV camera crew and embed them with us if possible; nothing like a TV camera to turn an anonymous member of a mob of rioters into a single person responsible for his own actions.

  11. Re:Wrong... on Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras · · Score: 1

    Most States have some form of FOIA laws, exactly what that entails varies, but most are similar.

  12. Re:There are issues to resolve... on Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras · · Score: 2

    "Server bumping" could be solved by he same mechanism as "camera malfunctions", though implementation would admittedly be a problem: have the police face a presumption of guilt for all accusations that aren't on film.

    That's pretty much how it is now, Darren Wilson found himself in such a hostile work enviroment, that he was forced to resign even though he was exonerated, then to add insult to injury, his pregnant wife was asked to resign due to her marital status. Things would have been much easier with dash cameras and body cameras.

  13. Re:The time-honored tradition of... on Workers On Autism Spectrum Finding Careers In Software Testing · · Score: 1

    When you have people on the board of directors that have actually seriously contemplated commiting Filicide-Suicide, it's pretty hard to accept Autism Speaks as a serious advocate for the Autistics.

  14. Re:News? on Workers On Autism Spectrum Finding Careers In Software Testing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One of the things about Autism is it is subjectively diagnosed based on symptoms, so there is no way to really tell for sure if it one condition or 20. With the difficulty researchers have been having in finding causes and whether the causes are genetic or enviromental, my suspicion leans toward multiple conditions with overlapping symptomologies.

  15. Re:A joke? on Debian Forked Over Systemd · · Score: 1

    United States Government

  16. Re:Unix tool philosopy == Good Thing on Debian Forked Over Systemd · · Score: 1

    Startup scripts are written in a shell script like BASH because BASH runs in pretty much every run level and is the greatest common denominator; if you don't like BASH feel free to use python, perl, Lisp or even (don't hit me) php. If you don't like interpreted languages, there is always C, C++ or even (don't hit me) Ada.

  17. Re:Wow... on Debian Forked Over Systemd · · Score: 1

    I'm glad your having good luck with systemd on your servers, I've been having spurious problems off and on for no discernable reason, ever since systemd was installed on my kubuntu desktop. These problems always clear on reboot, which is something sysadmins hate doing on production servers. init maybe a turd, but it's a very polished, consistant, reliable turd; systemd is an unknown.

  18. Re:Okay, this is a great idea on Debian Forked Over Systemd · · Score: 1

    no, it's 134 columns, 132 printable and 2 control charecters.

  19. Re:A joke? on Debian Forked Over Systemd · · Score: 1

    M$FT would be hurt without USG license fees as well.

  20. Re:Let's do the math on Complex Life May Be Possible In Only 10% of All Galaxies · · Score: 1

    I don't know about your universe, in mine it's, I'm the center and it's H0/C in every direction!

  21. Re:Problem? on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1

    The problem I see is some science hack, Ryan Wallace, writes some incoherent drivel, seemingly against convetional wisdom and doesn't reference the either the paper, or the press release on the research. We have no clue whether they are talking about CO2 from the decay of the corn stover left in the fields, or some mysterious CO2 release in the plants respiration.

  22. Re:Global warming is bunk anyway. on Harvard Scientists Say It's Time To Start Thinking About Engineering the Climate · · Score: 1

    In the arctic and antarctic there is plenty of warming - the ice sheets and glaciers are thinning, and that is something that is very measurable.

    Actually it's not that measurable, satellites provide pretty good proxy estimates, but before satellites it's a lot of guess-work and extrapolation for a few physical measurements.

  23. Re:Global warming is bunk anyway. on Harvard Scientists Say It's Time To Start Thinking About Engineering the Climate · · Score: 1

    No matter which side your on, Google can find enough dis-credited research papers to support your position.

  24. Re:Global warming is bunk anyway. on Harvard Scientists Say It's Time To Start Thinking About Engineering the Climate · · Score: 1

    And the warming that there has been was more often the low temperatures becoming less cool rather than the high temperature becoming higher; most consider this a sign of the Urban Heat Island effect rather than a CO2 heat retention effect.

  25. Re:Build their economy? on Coal Plants Get New Lease On Life With Natural Gas · · Score: 1

    One of our townships in Michigan is in the same boat, except most of the power produced there is exported to New York; a lot of townships in Ontario are in the same boat, except most of the power produced there is exported to New York. We could save a lot of CO2 emissions by just stopping electricity from being imported by metro New York City.