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  1. $1/CPU hour? on Paid To Spam · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, but what does CPU usage have to do with spamming? It's not like spamming is a CPU-hogging task. Unless this is a distributed computation, meant to defeat bayesian filters (/me putting tinfoil hat on...), I fail to realize the connection.

    1. Let's all get paid for giving them our CPU cycles, while having our favorite firewall block its outgoing connections on port 25!
    2. ???
    3. Profit! (for us. Expenses for spammers!)

    Oh man, killing two birds with one stone. And I thought this day was going downhill...

  2. So the only reason.... on Multiple Jobs? How Would You Do It? · · Score: 1

    You posted this Ask Slashdot thingie is that we all know you have a girlfriend, huh?

    I don't suppose you'll give the rest of us, with single jobs and free time, her phone number?

  3. Re:CTO of Cray? on Cray CTO: Linux clusters don't play in HPC · · Score: 1

    Just an observation...

    --
    Blame Canada!

  4. CTO of Cray? on Cray CTO: Linux clusters don't play in HPC · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You did notice he is the CTO of Cray... Canada??

  5. In Soviet Russia... on Implant a Chip in Your Head · · Score: -1, Funny

    The brain chip installs you!

  6. Who had the vision? on X.Org Foundation Releases X11R6.7 X Window System · · Score: 1

    To back-order x.org a few years back?

  7. oblig. MIB reference on Installing Linux on a Dead Badger · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, I'm sure you mean:
    "The *other* license and registration, please..."

  8. Re:Revenge on Spammers on Analysis of Spam, and a Proposed Solution · · Score: 1

    Errrr.... I'm not so sure it's a good idea. With IMG tags that have IDs inside them common inside today's spam, spammers will have the option to retaliate you personally.

  9. What? on Analysis of the Witty Worm · · Score: 1

    The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) and the University of California, San Diego Computer Science Department have an analysis...

    So you're saying El-CAIDA is now stopping attacks on the US? I'm confused...

  10. Question is... on 'Nano-Lightning' Could Cool Computer Chips · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How much heat does this heatsink *produce*, by ionizing air. I suspect than not much less than the 40W/cm2 it claims to cool.

  11. Oblgatory quote on Building the Energy Internet · · Score: 1

    Doc: 1.21 GigaWatts?!
    Marty: Sheesh, which toilet did you bump your head on? We'll just DDoS a few city blocks, should solve the problem.

  12. Re:I have some predictions too... on Data Storage Leaders Introduce New Wares · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, but RAID rendundancy through (n,k) Humming Code (n data bits, k extra bits) is hardly interesting, let alone a development. Most other implementations work with (n,1), so they "innovated" and work with (n,k)? Big deal.

    Oh, and those 8 years of development you get to hear about when reading the link on their website titled "RAIDn"? I pity their shareholders' nerves.

  13. Re:Two Words on Clean Nuclear Launches? · · Score: 1

    Actually, for getting around the solar system, we could use the angular velocity of the space elevator, since once leaving the elevator upper point, it will be the vessel's linear velocity.

  14. Re:well thats nice on AMD's Roadmap revealed · · Score: 1

    No, better scheduling makes the system more responsive. My AMD K2 233MHz running Linux kernel 2.6.x is more responsive than my P4 2.4GHz running XP, while compiling the same (platform-independent) code.

  15. Re:rediculous on Can Manned Spaceflight Save the Economy? · · Score: 0
    However, to suggest that Bush is doing this to score points with the electorate is pretty naive. Hell, I would bet a majority of people believe that silly Fox TV show calling into question that the original Moon landings ever happened.


    I don't want to feed the trolls here, but a few of the famous video shots do NOT add up, e.g. flag is waving in the wind (but no atmosphere around), funny moon walking that can be reproduced by 0.5x slow motion, shadows that simply don't align, ambient light source somewhere at ~42 degrees above horizon, etc etc.


    I wonder if anyone here has any possible solutions to these fundamental problems with the Moon landing. I certain found none. Needless to say, the NASA spokesperson interviewed in these shows does a terrible job of denying some of the alleged evidence (the ridiculous ones), but fails to explain any of the more interesting one.

  16. Re:This Just In on Mars Rover Sniffs First Hint of Water? · · Score: 1

    We already do that. Whaddaya think all the probe-crashing we do on Mars is for?

  17. Re:To paraphrase... on Space Station Leak Found, Fixed · · Score: 1

    "ISS, this is Houston, you can stop farting now. We have fixed the leak"
    "Roger that Houston, the smell started to get horrible. Especially with the red bean vacuum-packs...."

  18. Re:Linus on Linus Sighted At LCA2004 · · Score: 1

    Why, is the other half comatose?

  19. Obligatory reponse.... on World's Fastest Internet Transfer Rate? · · Score: 1

    That's nothing, my home computer can trasmit 40 jiggaquads worth of data over gold subspace channel, to the nearest starbase.

    If I multiply the speed by distance, that's. Arggh! your puny hu-man Internet2 is like using constupated pigeons!

  20. Re:ISP customer bandwidth... on Investigating Online Movie Piracy? · · Score: 1

    Hmmmmmm.... no. Why do you care when the entire DVD collection *FINISHES* downloading?

    Even if the DVD set is 40GB, if you download as fast as you watch (which is up to, say, 1200 kilobit/second), then it's okay it's just that fast. And broadband today is often just as fast as needed.

    Now, if we only have proper QoS...

  21. Errr..... on Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking? · · Score: 1

    To support your comment, here is a Darwin Award mention of someone who tried to pass $16 bills...

  22. Pretty simple... on ISS May Have A Leak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Until the leak is found and resolved, all the astronauts need to keep the air pressure up is eat some beans...

  23. Yes, but... on Spirit's First Mars Images · · Score: 0, Troll

    For a mission that cost upwards of $200M, couldn't they mount something better than a webcam on Spirit?

  24. What about licensing? on Distributed Computing "Advances" · · Score: 2

    This is the BOINC Public License. IANAL, but at first read this looks very far from the GPL or LGPL... Anyone care to provide a better perspective on the legal issue?

  25. Real geeks... on Linux 2.6.0 Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    Real geeks have long since compiled -test11, and so need to download only a tiny diff to compile 2.6.0 ....