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  1. Re:I Think You Missed the Point on Schneier Calls US Stuxnet Cyberattack a 'Destabilizing and Dangerous' Action · · Score: 1

    I believe that Schneier compared this with desire for secure communications SecCom vs Signals Intelligence SigInt at the NSA in his CryptoGram newsletter.

  2. Mobile CSS on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if the mobile CSS for the iPhone still worked too.

  3. Re:Showing its age on Red Hat Releases RHEL 6 Public Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    It's 3 years old, but it's going to be supported in that configuration for 10 years.

    To be honest your software sounds cutting edge and uses features that haven't made it into the mainstream long term supported server market that RHEL is in. Some future version of RHEL might have all the features you are looking for, or are you continually chasing the latest greatest glibc and gcc?

    It all seems to become a moot point a little bit, I'm running RHEL5 as my Xen machine and virtualizing from there now, so creating virtual machines with newer software configurations is becoming less of a hassle than it once was.

  4. Re:SQL Server is CPU bound? on AMD's 12-Core Chip Cuts Software Licensing Costs · · Score: 1

    And that's 192G of ram at the moment :)

  5. Blogs don't lead for news... on Traditional News Media Lead Blogs By 2.5 Hours · · Score: 1

    For the stories that the newspapers are actually reporting.

    What about stories that they aren't reporting on, putting on page 57, or just getting the facts wrong.

    I've almost given up on local media, probably because not a lot of it interests me beyond fires, murders, local government. The rest I get off the internet. Although they have adapted a bit here in my city, posting their top news stories to twitter from their websites.

    And for things like science reporting, I think the specialty reporting is doing a better job, like science bloggers, podcasts, radio and tv (Science Friday, Quirks and Quarks, Daily Planet).

  6. Vaporware on Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010 · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry if I can't get too excited about what is essentially vaporware at the moment.

    Wake me up when they actually ship some code or product, in the meantime it's just some sort of marketing drivel probably designed to take the wind out of Windows 7 or Cloud OS's sails.

    But until I see an actual product, I'm not going to get overly excited.

  7. Re:A cat has gotten my tongue on AMD Phenom II Overclocked To 6.5GHz · · Score: 1

    Priced any high end Opterons lately?

  8. Re:Soon to be worthless on How a Rogue Geologist Discovered Diamonds · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's just because it's relatively cheap to produce. You can make blue, orange or natural clear as well.

    For instance D.NEA
    http://d.neadiamonds.com/

  9. Re:Abolish the CRTC on CRTC Rules Bell Can Squeeze Downloads · · Score: 1

    From what I understand, they are usually either lying, intentionally not told that the service is available, or misinformed.

  10. Re:Abolish the CRTC on CRTC Rules Bell Can Squeeze Downloads · · Score: 1

    Yeah my internet was out for two weeks one time due to a problem similar to this, very frustrating.

  11. Re:Abolish the CRTC on CRTC Rules Bell Can Squeeze Downloads · · Score: 3, Informative

    In Alberta at least, this has ended, you can order "dry pairs" now.

  12. Re:insulation on Cost-Effective Server Room Air Conditioning? · · Score: 1

    Two full height racks full of 1Us with two quad core opterons each, running computation jobs?

    Or are you just cooling the racks, no gear? :)

  13. Re:Not the only choice on Bash Cookbook · · Score: 1

    So someone wrote a bash script that is somehow interfaced in a variable that shows up in set? And in zsh it's at a lower level? This set metric seems to be a bad way to compare shells anyways.

    I can see comparing on other features though.

  14. Re:Not the only choice on Bash Cookbook · · Score: 1

    $ zsh
    ~% set | wc -l
    157
    ~% bash
    $ set | wc -l
    184

    Or on another system:
    $ bash
    $ set | wc -l
              50

  15. Re:Cuil Proves Nothing on Cuil Proves the Bubble Is Back · · Score: 1

    My best zero result search so far was just "Cobol"

  16. Re:What Charging Infrastructure? on GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids · · Score: 1

    Potentially renewable source, power might be from Nuclear, Wave action, Wind, Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Hydro Electric Dams, Solar.

  17. Re:What Charging Infrastructure? on GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids · · Score: 1

    And by the way it's not infinite MPG, work out the amount of energy required per mile, the cost, and you can work out MP$ and then compare MP$ to MPG.

    50MPG small car at $4/G is 12.5MP$
    Plugin Hybrid @ "220 MPG" = 55MP$

    Technically true about Gallons, but not really "free"/infinity.

  18. Re:With GMs luck. on GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids · · Score: 1

    too bad about France's Nuclear industry this week, mmmm untreated uranium waste.

  19. Re:It is great on A Veteran GM's First Impressions of D&D 4th Edition · · Score: 1

    Where you buying D&D 4e, it's like $57 on Amazon.com

    http://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Core-Rulebook-Gift/dp/0786950633

  20. Re:When did Ask Slashdot become a Google Replaceme on Replacing a Personal Rack-Mounted Server? · · Score: 1

    I've spent the last couple of weeks searching in Google, with 1U and various search terms like Taiwan, China, Ubuntu, Linux, etc.

    Google doesn't have an informed opinion about what I'm searching for, and doesn't really give me any of the options I've even seen posted in these responses.

    I grant you, I'd get some sort of answer from Google, but not necessarily a good one.

  21. Re:Perhaps Apple should begin licensing OS X on Running Mac OS X On Standard PCs · · Score: 1

    You do know that generally speaking that three times as much drive surface passes the head of a 500G drive in the same amount of time as a 160 right?

  22. Re:Xbox Fiasco, Zune, Vista, Stock Price on Does Ballmer Need To Go? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Although he sold quite a bit in 1998 to start his foundation...according to this
    http://www.microsoft.com/msft/reports/proxy2007.mspx
    he is still the largest individual stock holder at 9%.

  23. Re:A trickle?! on 100 Email Bouncebacks - Welcome to Backscattering · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except when you're subscribed to a Google group, and then the spammer opens a gmail account and spams the group, no filtering appears to occur.

    One of the ways that I get spam these days.

  24. Re:Prefer the Pile of Cat Poo or Pile of Dog Poo? on Orson Scott Card Blasts J.K. Rowling's Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Oh, and cure genetic disorders, and whatever else happened in that part of the book. I've sort of blocked out the memories.

  25. Re:Prefer the Pile of Cat Poo or Pile of Dog Poo? on Orson Scott Card Blasts J.K. Rowling's Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    You're seriously saying that Xenocide is better with it's deus-ex machina ending? The rest of it may have been good, but the ending is horrible.