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  1. Re:In future news... on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: 2

    Well, the Russian design for Joe 1 has been released and since it was a direct copy of Gadget/Fatman that's effectively the same.

  2. Re:Reconstructs A-bomb? on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: 1

    Actually plutonium bombs are significantly more complex than HE Uranium gun type designs.

  3. Re:In future news... on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not really, everything including technical schematics from the Manhattan Project have been available for decades. The knowledge of how to make a simple gun design device isn't what keeps people from making nukes, it's the availability of highly enriched uranium.

  4. Re:Evolving case law on Amazon's Cloud Player: We Don't Need a License · · Score: 1

    Actually with the SC refusing to hear an appeal and falling under the guidelines of Sony v Universal I would think it would be considered.

  5. Re:As I and many others pointed out yesterday on Amazon's Cloud Player: We Don't Need a License · · Score: 1

    Oh, I'm sure they did and I'm sure the RIAA wanted their first born and all potential profits from all music Amazon ever sells, which is why they did a simple end run around them.

  6. Re:As I and many others pointed out yesterday on Amazon's Cloud Player: We Don't Need a License · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't. Amazon's just offering a more convenient interface to their cloud storage service. The fact that they are making place shifting easier doesn't make it any less legal.

  7. Re:IE integration in Windows on Browser Power Consumption Compared · · Score: 1

    It's still integrated, but Trident isn't doing much most of the time and it's just a very small part of the web version of IE.

  8. Re:What the hell? on Browser Power Consumption Compared · · Score: 1

    Next go around? With Flashblock and AdBlock it already does in the real world, because it's doing probably 5% of the work on the real web. Same goes for Chrome, the most efficient work is the work I never have to do.

  9. Re:Who cares on Spam Drops 1/3 After Rustock Botnet Gets Crushed · · Score: 1

    Yes, that well protected. They are part of well armed organized gangs with protection from local and state police and often the military. The Russian mob makes the guys from Sicily and NYC look like rank amateurs, as do many of the groups in other former eastern block countries. The guys in China could be touched if they pissed off the wrong party boss who wasn't being enough to look the other way.

  10. Re:Don't like this on Intel Replaces Consumer SSD Line, Nixes SLC-SSD · · Score: 1

    Why would you need a study, check the spec sheet for any MLC cell or chip.

  11. Who cares on Spam Drops 1/3 After Rustock Botnet Gets Crushed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The organized criminals who are raking in the money are well protected in their home countries so this is essentially a big game of whack a mole until people better protect their computers (good luck with that).

  12. Re:It's cloud-based alright on Amazon Releases Cloud-Based Music Service · · Score: 1

    Yes, amazon put a unique ID3v2 tag with your purchase number into your downloaded tracks, though I imagine they could write an intelligent dedupe for that use case.

  13. Re:To expensive on Europe Plans To Ban Petrol Cars From Cities By 2050 · · Score: 1

    It's not like the production of LED's has no toxic byproducts...

  14. Re:Don't like this on Intel Replaces Consumer SSD Line, Nixes SLC-SSD · · Score: 1

    BS, give them a random 4K write workload at 10% of their capability and they will burn out in a few months max, MLC cells are only rated for ~10k writes.

  15. Re:Didn't I mention that? on Intel Replaces Consumer SSD Line, Nixes SLC-SSD · · Score: 1

    Huh, with write amplification you can wear out an MLC drive in a matter of months at a small fraction of their write speed. This is why I dished out the money for FusionIO's SLC based cards, estimated life based on data from our existing SAN is ~5 years which means we should be for good our planned replacement time of 3.5-4 years (our current servers which are to be retired in a few days are 4.5 years old but have been in production use for just over 4).

  16. Re:Money on Expensify CEO On 'Why We Won't Hire .NET Developers' · · Score: 1

    Uh, for the nonprod environment all you do is buy your developers MSDN and all the server licenses and software including VS and SQL are included. We do this even though we do very little inhouse development as it's cheaper to buy all our tech staff MSDN than it is to buy and track all the nonprod licenses.

  17. Re:My thought is... on Cable Channels Panic Over iPad Streaming App · · Score: 1

    Uh, you're wrong. Windows 7 and Ceton InfiniTV 4 are already certified and the HDHomeRun Prime from SiliconDust is currently undergoing certification. The biggest problem in getting a tuner right now is that Ceton has a 8+ week backlog of orders.

  18. Re:My thought is... on Cable Channels Panic Over iPad Streaming App · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Except the end user has already paid for the content twice (subscription and ads), only freaking insane media cartel thinking demands that the customer pay for the content a *third* time. Personally I don't care because if they make it too expensive or too inconvenient I'll just stop using their product all together. I'm already going to be watching less tv this quarter because my cable provider is going 100% digital thus killing my HTPC's PVR capability until I can get a CableCard tuner, but that's ok because it's starting to get warm enough to enjoy the outdoors again =)

  19. Uh, not sure if you've ever used a Blackberry but there's almost no apps available for it currently despite the fact that it has the largest installed base of all smartphones. I installed more useful apps the first day I had my Android phone than I had in the previous five years of owning an array of Blackberries.

  20. Re:Rent IP Addresses on Microsoft Buys 666,000 IP Addresses · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No organization should ever need more than a few class Cs of publicly routable IP space.

    You're thinking backwards, every endpoint should ideally have a public IP, NAT breaks the end to end model and makes software much more difficult to write.

  21. Re:Ya HP is calling bullshit too on Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic · · Score: 1

    HP wins plenty of new clients with both HPUX and NonStop. This is all about Oracle trying to weaken HP which they have a hardon for ever since HP ousted Larry's buddy Hurd. Now, if I was an Oracle and HP customer I would probably be talking to my lawyers as Oracle dropping support for a competitors fully supported hardware and OS platform while customers have active maintenance agreements sounds like breach of contract to me. Luckily my needs are much more modest and so I just run Oracle on Windows on x64 hardware.

  22. Re:Silent cards? on GeForce GTX 590 and Radeon HD 6990 Face Off · · Score: 1

    Just fine if you have decent case cooling, mine gets to about 95C core temp under extreme load (furmark) and only about 85C after hours of gaming.

  23. Re:Silent cards? on GeForce GTX 590 and Radeon HD 6990 Face Off · · Score: 1

    There's a couple passive 5750 cards and there's the Sparkle GTS 450. Those are the most powerful completely silent cards available.

  24. Re:Some perspective on Limewire Being Sued For 75 Trillion · · Score: 2

    To put it in perspective it's 125% of 2010's world economic output.

  25. Re:I see Houston light just east of San Antonio on Help Map Global Light Pollution, By Starlight · · Score: 2

    Head north, my buddy lives in the hill country between San Antonio and Austin and I was able to see the milkyway from his ranch.