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  1. Re:Heat on DARPA Wants a 19" Super-Efficient Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Actually, never mind. I was off by a zero there. That is quite a bit of cooling!

  2. Re:Heat on DARPA Wants a 19" Super-Efficient Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    That's 50A at 120V. A very common and standard config is to have two 20A PDUs in a rack, so 50A isn't that much of an increase. You do need an efficient cooling setup, but it's nothing that most commercial datacenters couldn't handle.

  3. E = 1/2 mv^2

    v = (2 * E / m)^0.5

    That gives you a deltav of about 141 m/s.

    Converting 1% of the nuke's energy might also be a pretty big if. A nuke produces lots of x-ray radiation... it takes an atmosphere to absorb it and turn that into a big fireball, and shockwaves and what not. It's not at all clear to me that a significant portion of a nuke's output will get converted into kinetic energy.

  4. Meld on Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking? · · Score: 1

    I'll add my voice to everyone suggesting that you use a revision control system.

    Meld is a useful tool that lets you view diffs visually http://meld.sourceforge.net/. You can either ask it to diff two files or directories, or use the built-in subversion support. It shows the two versions of files side-by-side and highlights where stuff was added/deleted/modified.

  5. Re:I'm Suprised on USAF Considers Creation of Military Botnet · · Score: 1

    The military has over 250 bases across the world. Add to that thousands of recruiting centers and other DoD facilities, and you've got quite a serious botnet just consisting of DoD machines. Other federal government agencies would also probably join in.

  6. Re:did you ever stop to consider... on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    What are they afraid of?
    Being overrun by garbage if they gave every attention-seeking nutjob equal coverage as actual viable candidates?

  7. Killer app? on Convincing the Military to Embrace Open Source · · Score: 1

    People always said the main thing slowing down the adoption of Linux was the lack of a killer app...

  8. Re:Good Ol' Unreliable WikipediaBS on Spanish TV Channels Vandalize Wikipedia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just because it's a medium that allows anyone to edit stuff, it doesn't mean adding bogus information isn't vandalism. That's like spraying painting graffiti on a wall isn't vandalism because paint sticks to the wall.

  9. Re:Hey I've got a program it can run on Intel Shows Off 80-core Processor · · Score: 1

    The death comes from process tables filling up, so I suspect the 80 core processor will die faster.

  10. Re:I print so I can *write* on it on Self-Recycling Paper · · Score: 1

    They might be able to create pens with the same ink as the one the printer woud use. Still, given that paper tends to get folded, stapled and what not, the printer would need a rather impressive paper feeder for this to work.

  11. Re:space elevator - environmental impact on Space Elevators Could Be Lethal · · Score: 2, Informative
  12. Re:Randomly dump their trash would be stupid on Astronauts Throw Trash Into Space · · Score: 1

    Why do people think it's so easy to deorbit something? "Minimal thrust" will only turn it into a slightly eliptical orbit. Unless you slow it down enough that the perigee intersects the atmosphere, it's going to stay in orbit for along time.

  13. Labor unions in China != Labor Unions in the US on Microsoft Considers Pulling Out of China · · Score: 1

    All labor unions in China are wings of the communist party, and their primary function is to prevent workers from organizing in any form outside the direct control of the communist party, or trying to gain any sort of political power. The labor unions are more about organizing social outings than advocating for worker.

    http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/inequal/labor/ 1016china.htm
    http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2004/11/2 3/PM200411231.html (audio story)

    Walmart is more than happy to have the Chinese brand of labor unions in its stores.

  14. Re:The Netherlands on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1


    Driver's license was cheap, but I had to wait in line at DMV for 2 hours, study for an exam, do the exam, wait 6 months until I could take a driving test... I was still able to drive legally during this time with a provisional license.

    They're just trying to give you a taste of live in the US hoping you'll change your mind and go back.

  15. Re:Fuel source? on Strange Bacteria Sustains Itself Without Sunlight · · Score: 1

    How exactly would the bacteria play a role in this? The radioactivity produces the hydrogen... the bacteria use that hydrogen as a fuel source.

  16. Re:3 meetings a week! on Good Agile — Development Without Deadlines · · Score: 1

    Where I work we have meetings every morning, but the rule is that everyone has to stand during the meeting, so things rarely last longer than five minutes or so, but it keeps everyone informed of what everyone else is doing.

  17. Re:No consequences means no responsibility. on Census Bureau Loses Hundreds of Laptops · · Score: 1

    Laptops cost $750 or so. People cost about $75,000 per year. I'd consider it more important to keep people productive and happy than protect the precious laptops. But that's just me.

  18. Re:Not much, anymore... on How Much Virtual Memory is Enough? · · Score: 1

    Under Windows it seems it'll swap out whether the free RAM is needed or not
    Linux does this too (google swappiness), and it's a good thing. Having unused pages sitting around in RAM is a waste of memory. It makes sense to have some free pages around so that new memory allocation requests can be completed quickly. Think of it as a tradeoff between having inactive applications run efficiently vs currently running or newly launched applications running efficiently.

  19. Re:It's still not big enough! on 3 Terabytes, 80 Watts · · Score: 1

    Anyone who's been paying even casual attention to all the bills and confirmations votes that have been filibustered/threatened to be filibustered know what cloture is.

  20. Re:Say what?!? on Japan's Petaflop Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    (10 ^ 15) / 4808 = about 207,986,688,852, which would indicate that each chip is running at several hundred TERA-hertz

    It implies nothing of the sort. A single chip could have several floating point pipelines.

  21. Re:Schools and colleges are evil! on McAfee Blames Open Source for Botnets · · Score: 1

    If it were for school and logo, the scariest thing I could do would be a messagebox saying "BOO!"...

    You're thinking of ways in which you could scare... terrorize people! You're a terrorist. Please report to Guantanamo Bay at once.
  22. Schools and colleges are evil! on McAfee Blames Open Source for Botnets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Evil hackers learn programming techniques in schools and colleges!

  23. Re:libpam-cracklib on Debian Locks Out Developers · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying they should't allow longer or non-alphanumeric passwords,but you're hardly being forced to use a "weak" password... there are 3,656,158,440,062,976 ten character long case-insensitive alphanumeric passwords (36^10). It would take an adversary trying out a million combinations a second over 115 years to explore the whole state space.

  24. Re:I remember when this was all fields on Google's Click-Fraud Crackdown · · Score: 1

    Yeah! And it's horrible how they hold guns to your head and force you to visit their blogs, read their short stories and use those trivial program.

  25. Re:Upgrade? on Firefox Usage Climbing · · Score: 1

    www.backports.org is your friend.