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  1. Re:2.5 hdd in 19" racks aren't new... on Samsung Ships 15.38TB SSD With Up To 1,200MBps Performance (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Any reason why this has not been done?

    People prefer to load the disks from the front, and then tip over the racks so they lay flat on the floor.

  2. interesting on $500K NSF Grant Boosted Girls' CS Participation At Obama Daughters' $37K/Yr HS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    part of what's happening is that we are not helping schools and teachers teach it in an interesting way.

    It's a feature, not a bug. Coding isn't interesting unless you have a mind for it. And if you have a mind for it, you don't need a creative teacher and colorful projects to make it interesting for you.

  3. I for one would rather calculate with factors of 1000 than 1024. The only place where the binary units made sense was in parallel addressable memory where you have a bunch of N address wires making 2^N possible combinations. For speeds and other forms of storage, the decimal units make a lot more sense.

  4. Re:2-3TB at affordable prices on Samsung Ships 15.38TB SSD With Up To 1,200MBps Performance (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    These are mostly made for servers where people want to host large amounts of funny cat movies, and stream them to thousands of viewers at the same time. I like the one with the cucumbers. That one is hilarious.

  5. Re:I used to not block ads on UK Gov't Launches Anti-Adblocking Initiative, Compares It To Piracy (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    but I see plenty people who don't want to pay, don't want ads, they just feel entitled to get it for free.

    Even worse, some people watch ads, costing precious bandwidth and server capacity to serve to them, and then they don't buy the product that's being advertised. Even worse, companies that publish ads for their products make them a bit more expensive, and then people pay extra even if they didn't have the pleasure of watching the ads, or visit the web site they were advertised on.

  6. Re:Constant measuring on Scientists Plot Sea Levels Using GPS Satellites (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If you average out enough of the waves, you get the millimeters change.

  7. Re:NASA Data Manipulation on Scientists Plot Sea Levels Using GPS Satellites (engadget.com) · · Score: 1
    People have asked on the methodology of how those "corrections" are made. The CRU and IPCC has REFUSED to let that information out, period.

    How hard did you look ? http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ghcnm...

  8. Re:NASA Data Manipulation on Scientists Plot Sea Levels Using GPS Satellites (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The two graphs show a difference of 0.6 degrees from 1880 to today

    Not quite. The old graph shows an increase of 0.69 degrees from 1880 to 2000. The new graph shows an increase of 1.11 degrees (determined using tabular data, using two linear trend lines through yearly averages). Most of that difference is in the 1880-1960 years. The difference in the 1960-2000 range, where most of the CO2 related warming is happening, is 0.142 degrees.

  9. Re: Constant measuring on Scientists Plot Sea Levels Using GPS Satellites (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You would average them if you were interested in determining global sea level rise. But you are right that the data could be used for other purposes, like rogue wave analysis, in which case you would use different kinds of data processing.

  10. Re:Constant measuring on Scientists Plot Sea Levels Using GPS Satellites (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not clear that's all that much use for sea level rise which needs measurements to a fraction of a mm per year.

    If you have a lot of measurements, then you can average them to reduce the noise.

  11. Re:Money will return once China lands on the moon on Former NASA Chief On US Space Policy: "No Vision, No Plan, No Budget" (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    But how low would the price have to be to allocate the budget to pursue this?

    Depends on what you get out of it. I don't think we'll ever have a profitable space industry outside Earth orbit, so the possible access to water near Saturn is useless.

  12. Re:Why do Insurance companies make it so hard then on Big Health Benefits To Small Weight Loss (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That sounds like an extremely unhealthy diet, with very little variation, and barely any vegetables.

  13. Re:Run or cycle to work on Big Health Benefits To Small Weight Loss (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The amount of bacteria removed doesnt determine smell.

    If the sweat doesn't smell, and the bacteria don't create the smell, what does ?

    You are now proving that you dont care about an evidence-based approach

    I care a lot, but you have yet to provide any of said evidence.

    TAKE A FUCKING SHOWER INSTEAD OF LOOKING FOR REASONS NOT TO

    I do.

  14. Re:Russian? on Released: First PC Based On Russia's Homegrown "Baikal" Processor (t-platforms.ru) · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you give somebody a low level chip design, rather than the source code, it would be very hard for them to add a backdoor.

  15. Re:Run or cycle to work on Big Health Benefits To Small Weight Loss (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what I do when I bike to work. Still doesn't get rid of everything, especially since I was prescribed beta blockers and started sweating a lot more (the beta blockers reduce blood flow to the skin, making it hard to lose heat)

  16. Re:Run or cycle to work on Big Health Benefits To Small Weight Loss (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Hate to have to clue someone in on this on slashdot....

    I'm sure you loved every second of it.

    Repeat that to yourself 3 times, because its a fact.

    That's not how it works. Instead, why don't you provide some studies that show that show how many bacteria are actually removed by showering, and how long it takes before they are all back to the original levels ?

  17. Re:Causality on Big Health Benefits To Small Weight Loss (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems that the FMD diet is more about cutting out tasty refined foods, and starting an exercise routine. They tell you that you can eat what you want, but by restricting the choice of foods, there's not much left that you'd actually want to eat in large quantities.

  18. Still wouldn't call it "homegrown", if it's a modified MIPS.

    I assume the used their own I/O designs from other chips

    If we're going to assume, I assume they just licensed the I/O cores. It's a lot cheaper and simpler to buy a working design off the shelf.

  19. Re:Low-end MIPS processor on Released: First PC Based On Russia's Homegrown "Baikal" Processor (t-platforms.ru) · · Score: 1, Informative

    USB is good enough, and doesn't require a special connector. And the complexity of the interface is a solved issue.

  20. Re:Run or cycle to work on Big Health Benefits To Small Weight Loss (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't do you any good if you get sweaty walking or biking to work, and your workplace doesn't have a shower.

  21. Input, more input! on AI Bookworms Seek To Predict Human Behavior (thestack.com) · · Score: 1
  22. Re:The Western Lifestyle on Big Health Benefits To Small Weight Loss (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If your brain doesn't ask questions, you can't say no. Many of our actions, such as looking for something to eat, are initiated unconsciously. Higher cognitive justification is added after the fact, but then it's often already too late.

  23. Re:Money will return once China lands on the moon on Former NASA Chief On US Space Policy: "No Vision, No Plan, No Budget" (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you say that we'll just mine it on Mars, that won't work because the heavy equipment isn't up there, and neither are the refineries, smelters, fuel, etc.

    On top of that, there's no infrastructure for moving stuff around. No shipping waters, no road network, and no atmosphere for flying. In order to build a factory from dirt, you need a lot of different stuff, and it is very unlikely you'll find everything within a short distance. It is more likely you'll have to go to every corner of the planet to collect the things you need.

  24. Re:Why shouldn't free speech have consequences? on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I feel there needs to be some sort of consequences for inflammatory speech.

    One of the problems is the definition of "inflammatory". Another problem is that some people are just way too sensitive.

  25. Re:Money will return once China lands on the moon on Former NASA Chief On US Space Policy: "No Vision, No Plan, No Budget" (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Mars would be harder, but not essentially different.

    The lack of air, and levels of radiation are much different than any place on Earth. And even on Earth there are plenty of places where nobody settles.