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  1. Re:what about darfur? on Nobel Winner Says Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler · · Score: 1

    I don't think anyone's gonna have a problem with the US acting in assistance to a constabulary action. Whether they are trained for it or would bring such a reputation as to be a detriment is an operational concern. The problem is when decisions to implement are made unilaterally.

    Not saying that the UN has any great track record. That's a whole other debate. It just happens to be the closest thing to a democratic process we have, internationally.

  2. Ding-a-ling on Final Judgment — SCO Loses, Owes $3,506,526 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Would that be jail time calling? Here's to hoping.

    I want to know how much these pirates bilked Joe Investor for. Furthermore, I hope both IBM and Novell are interested in cooperating with bodies such as the SEC in holding SCO and Canopy management personally responsible for any and all wrongdoing, including both legal malpractice and stock manipulation, during the SCO race towards infamy.

  3. Re:I Just Took A Huge Shit on Stallman Unsure Whether Firefox Is Truly Free · · Score: 1

    MIT is a limitation of liability mostly. BSD deals with attribution explicitly where X11 just handwaves at it.

  4. Re:Some essentials on Good Physics Books For a Math PhD Student? · · Score: 1

    For Math Physics, you want Mary Boas' text. It's _the_ classic.

  5. Re:Upgrade on Hubble Repairs Hindered By Antiquated Computer Systems · · Score: 1

    The also sometimes use SRAM rather than DRAM for the buffer -- less susceptible to bit flips.

  6. Re:Bunches of small drives on What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Rebate them with the manufacturer. That way, they're out of circulation (in case of privacy concerns).

  7. I believe I have read this before... on Science Text Attempts to Reconcile Religion and Science · · Score: 1

    When I read it, it was called "Fear and Trembling". Kierkegaard, who is that?

  8. Re:2031?! on First Details of Manned Mars Mission From NASA · · Score: 1

    And yet, space projects have had an amazing ROI. For example, the amount of money spent deploying the GPS system is dwarfed by the taxes earned by all the products and services based on the GPS system, notwithstanding its original military-oriented benefits. Research that went into solar panels, rechargeable batteries, materials research, etc. continue to provide incredible economic benefits today, year after year.


    A rather poor example. The Navstar program is military through and through -- it was primarily designed to help tanks driving through Germany and Trident submarines in the Pacific know where they are.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navstar
  9. Re:Google Spreadsheet bug on Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug · · Score: 1

    Not sure why that function is wrong, but Octave can handle the precision ok.



    octave:10> function answer = fact(n)
    > answer = 1;
    > for i = 2:n
    > answer = answer * i;
    > endfor
    > endfunction
    octave:11> fact(55)/(fact(27)*fact(55-27))
    ans = 3.82434530038022e+15
  10. Re:What is XBMC? on Linux Finally Getting XBMC · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Summary: Down due to server issues on First R600 Review - The Radeon HD 2900XT · · Score: 1

    Read further in the mentioned article and see that apparently the drivers are still being polished (a point release driver yielded ~30-40% gains in Q4). So, while the card may be quite fast, it's not being used to it's full potential yet. Wait for the next driver release (hopefully coming in a few days) to make your ultimate judgment.

  12. Re:I'm torn... on Mathematica 6 Launched · · Score: 1

    More than that: it changes with network device configuration. If your wireless card changes, or you insert a new one, or they get renamed or whatever, you have to get them to reactivate it. I've only bought Mathematica once--the student version several years ago, and I've not bought a new one since.


    With FlexLM, you can usually spoof the MAC and keep on going.

  13. Re:Other country are not blurred ? on Google Blurring Sensitive Map Information · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Other country are not blurred ? on Google Blurring Sensitive Map Information · · Score: 1

    Might want to link to the right page :)

    Here's a French reactor complex, unblurred.
    http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=paluel,+fra nce&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=49.858073,0.635576&spn=0.00723 5,0.021629&t=h&om=1

  15. Re:BAD JOURNALISM on Chinese Prof Cracks SHA-1 Data Encryption Scheme · · Score: 2, Funny

    What moron approved this poorly-written and inaccurate story? Oh wait this is Slashdot.....

    Miles, meet Zonk.

    BTW, I like how you tactfully left out the fact that it's a dupe.

  16. Re:D'Oh! on Judge Rules That IBM Did Not Destroy Evidence · · Score: 1

    Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

    Is this what you refer to?

    (from The Big Book)

  17. Re:It doesn't much matter.... on UK Lab Traces Polonium To Russian Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1
    I can't help but think, couldn't they just have made it look like a heart attack?

    No problem. Gaseous Prussic acid or digitalis both work for this.
  18. Re:Airport fun on The Outlook On AMD's Fusion Plans · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I believe they would simply re-purpose the onboard shaders for general computing.

  19. A classic on What Good Technical Books Adorn Your Library? · · Score: 1

    Stevens, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

  20. Re:Hard drive same model as MacBook on PS3 Opened For Pictures · · Score: 1

    Dailytech put a standard 320gb seagate drive in a PS3 and it worked fine.

  21. Very weird... on Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Short Circuit meets Ron Popeil. Nice.

  22. Re:Hard drive same model as MacBook on PS3 Opened For Pictures · · Score: 1

    Apparently, any 2.5" SATA drive will work. The connector is bog standard.

  23. Worst Game Ever on The 20 Worst Games Ever · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know how they missed Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.

    Wikipedia has a pretty good list:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_c onsidered_the_worst_ever

  24. Re:So what's the yeild amount? on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Two events come to mind:

    Messines Ridge
    Halifax Explosion

  25. Re:So what's the yeild amount? on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1
    However, any fissile material of high enough enrichment can be made into the simple shotgun type bomb of the design of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima (although that one used uranium as fuel).

    No. Gun assembly is not viable for a plutonium weapon, as it does not achieve sufficient assembly velocity to overcome the problem of predetonation.
    http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq4-1.html #Nfaq4.1.5.3

    Simple designs which may use plutonium as fissile material, such as the flying plate design, are technically much simpler than spherical implosion designs (and even resemble gun assembly, superficially), but they are much more sophisticated than naive gun assembly.