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  1. Re:I think I'm in the minority here... on Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations? · · Score: 1

    Compuers, epsecially servers, should have proper names, and any services that need to be named (mail (pop, smtp, imap), news/nntp, svn, intranet, etc) should be alias's to the server that hosts the service. for example, at my work pop.mycompany.com is interchangable with mail.mycompany.com, both of which resolve to athena, at the moment. exchange.mycompany.com is actually mercury, etc. That way, when athena eventually gets replaced by jupiter, all the clients can still point to mail.mycompany, and have uninterupted service. and the techs dont get confused between the old and new computers.

  2. Re:What I'd like to see from Search 2.0 on Google Previews New Search Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    why bother? its all awefull anyway

  3. Re:From the horse's mouth on eBay Australia Makes PayPal Mandatory · · Score: 1

    ****'em, if you are in New Zealand or Australia, you should be using trademe.co.nz anyway.

    If you arent in NZ or AU, you could try using tradme anyway, and see what you think.

  4. Re:Love It or Hate It? on Japan's Unique Cow/Whale Hybrid Experiments · · Score: 1

    that's part of the problem.
    They have only produced 43 papers - its a ridiculously low number, especially give4n the number of whales they've killed in the name of this 'research'

  5. Re:Power and Cooling - the top DataCenter expenses on Google's Addiction to Cheap Electricity · · Score: 2, Informative

    yes, but the outside temperature drops at night, making the air cons job a lot easier.

  6. since when is Hydro baseload power? on Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180 · · Score: 1

    Hydro is typically used for peak generation, because it can react very quickly to changes in demand.
    Unlike a coal plant, which can take hours to heat up, or otherwise react to a change in power draw.

    The only places that use hydro for baseload power are areas like New Zealand, which gets 80% of its electricity from hydro generation.

  7. It never went away on NASA Announces Record Ozone Hole · · Score: 5, Informative

    certainly not for those of us who have to live under it.

    I live in New Zealand, the current position and shape of the ozone hole is a regular feature of TV weather reports.

  8. Re:Um on Halving Half Lives · · Score: 1

    Not without making the heat pump work harder. you cant get around the laws of thermodynamics.

  9. orbital mechanics on Halving Half Lives · · Score: 1

    It would take more energy doing a retro-burn, getting something to drop into the sun than it would to send something clear out of the solar system.

  10. Re:Okay... on MacSaber Turns Your Macbook into a Lightsaber · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have you bought any lego lately?

  11. Re:EM stress - simpler explanation on Electrical Noise Causing Physiological Stress? · · Score: 1

    Or it could be caused by dodgy air-con.

  12. Re:Patent infringement! on New Jet Engine Tested · · Score: 1

    But did you ever successfully implement it?

  13. a gibson? THE Gibson! on Former Hacker Irks Microsoft in EU Dispute · · Score: 0

    a gibson? THE Gibson!

  14. Re:Why are rewritables cheaper than writeonceables on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Coming Soon to PCs · · Score: 1

    What for?
    I can garuntee the disk will never be full,
    And I can garuntee people wont remember to finalise the disk.
    So someone who buys a write once disk, so it cant be changed is going to be in for a surprise when someone adds a new session to the end of the disk, replacing thier unchangeable files with new versions.

  15. Re:Bandwidth-based pricing would stop this, and ot on Neighborhood WiFi Security · · Score: 1

    We have that here in NZ too, and it SUCKS!
    the major issue being that NZ telecom's idea of a fair price per unit of data bears little or no resemblance to reality.
    And the company that owns the big cable hook up to australia is aparantly spitting because they are massively below capacity, and massivly below thier revenue point.

  16. Triangualtion? what triangulation? on Draft Rules for X Prize Lunar Lander Challenge · · Score: 1

    its all based on timing differences between the satalites,
    the reciever has no idea at all which way its pointing, and it doesnt care.
    It cannot measure angle between the satalites, only relative distance

  17. Re:#1 replacement candidate = 2 words... on Shuttle Retirement Costs Divert Science Funding · · Score: 2, Informative

    Launching the material into intersolar space requires far less energy than sending it down to the sun.

  18. Re:Zero Point Energy on N.Y. Governor Pushing for Alternate Fuels · · Score: 1

    it is impossible to exploit the zero point energy field, because it is COMPLETELY FLAT,

    thats what zero-point means.
    it is the averge background energy of the universe.
    and because you cannot move it from a high-energy location, to a low energy location, there is no Anergy, or usefull energy to be gained anywhere.

  19. Give me the coding scheme on Using Copyrights To Fight Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    and a long string of DNA,

    Ill run it through ny compter, and scan the output for valid chunks of engligh, hebrew, and whatever.

    I garuntee there will be a LOT of them.

    "kilroy was here" will probabaly apear at least once.ill even be helpfull, and create a few coding schemes of my own.

  20. or RAS Syndrome on LED-Based LCD Display Tested · · Score: 1

    Redundant Acronym Syndrome Synd... uh, oops

  21. random noise, for one on Google Developing Database Service · · Score: 1

    random noise is data that is completely free of information

  22. but what about apple? on The Princess Bride Musical · · Score: 1

    you forgot to mention apple in a list of normal things for slashdot to be about.

    This is surely the death of apple.

  23. Re:Apple on New iPods on the Horizon · · Score: 1

    you could use the ipod scroll wheel in the place of a jog controll on the remote too,
    That sould be a seriously slick interface.

    (full permission given for people to actually use this idea, assuming its mine to give)

  24. Re:How long? on Giant Squid Caught on Film · · Score: 1

    you could make the chest section elastic and very tight,
    Pesumably also the neck and helemt sections.

  25. I think you have those two backwards on Bad Science in the Press · · Score: 1

    launching a rocket can be achieved using calculations I could preform on the back of a napkin.
    Computer design requires quantum physics, descrete maths, intergrated system design...