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  1. Re:Servers *seriously suck* in this department on The Death of Booting Up · · Score: 1

    you're so lucky, the ibm system x32xx hidden under my desk (away from server room minions ram-swiping tentacles) takes three minutes to get through the post. I'm not moving it to see exact model number 8D

  2. Re:Few reasons on The Death of Booting Up · · Score: 1

    but there's more than the motherboard, for enterprise would have to boot from many types of SAN HBA. And it will never support all the DRAM for which specs are under NDA. And it also needs to shim up non-Linux OS by loading another layer or two.

    That said, a great solution for when GNU/Linux has crushed Windows on the server. I think Microsoft should just give that up already, they've failed. vmware and virtualization success largely due to cover for Windows server limitations and suckiness.

  3. Re:Does Mozilla not read Slashdot? on Mozilla Firefox 6 Released Ahead of Schedule · · Score: 1

    dissent due to breaking compatibility with tools users use, losing features they use, and hampering productivity are a reason to change. The internet is *filling* with negativity for firefox, caused by the loss of common sense by the Mozilla Corporation. It is reason enough to change to Seamonkey or Chrome.

  4. Re:Wow already v6 on Mozilla Firefox 6 Released Ahead of Schedule · · Score: 2

    the relevant sarcastic question would be "And how many applications used by millions of pissed people have you released again and again, jacking up the major version number in rapid succession"

  5. Re:Nice on Fossil 'Suggests Plesiosaurs Did Not Lay Eggs' · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are a geologist who is obviously ignorant of the state of the debate in a field not your own which continues even today.

    2009, energy and mechanics analysis of 14 dinosaurs indicates possibility of warm-blooded: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0007783

    The Caltech isotope analysis of teeth indicating warm-bloodedness for sauropods was announced this year. http://www.rdmag.com/News/2011/06/General-Science-Analytical-Instrumentation-Biology-Dinosaur-body-temperature-measured-for-first-time/

    There is much more, but since you are wilfully ignorant you can just go back to twiddling your rocks.

  6. Re:Firefox has been fired. on Mozilla Firefox 6 Released Ahead of Schedule · · Score: 1

    There is a great fork, Seamonkey. Runs on Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OSX, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly (for the *BSD use their ports collection) . The latest version 2.2 came out 07 July 2011. Runs all the firefox addons I use, though you'd have to check the ones you like.

  7. Re:Plugins on Mozilla Firefox 6 Released Ahead of Schedule · · Score: 4, Insightful

    well isn't that special, the user is supposed to spend lots of time each quarter and hope they come up with the right tests to check everything? apparently, some of the add-on developers don't like that schedule either.

        that's the exciting new trend spreading across the major open source projects, disruptive but half-baked changes. Ubuntu with Unity, GNOME, KDE, Firefox. What other major project will have its developers flip the users the bird and fly off into the Land of Un-Usability? stay tuned, there really are a couple more in the pipe.....

  8. Re:Stupid slope on BART Disables Cell Service To Disrupt Protests · · Score: 1

    myth, you can get proper loads in .357 magnum, 9x19mm, 10mm, .40 cal, 45 ACP cal that have one shot stop percentages in the high 90%. Shot placement is *always* more important than what caliber you use. However, there are always that 100-9x percent case. Some human can live and shoot back for up to 14 minute with the heart utterly destroyed, documented fact.

  9. Re:Or a complete lie. on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    many countries are pursuing and building experimental thorium breeders, china, russia, korea, japan, india.

    Big is the word for that modified B-36, huge aircraft and even then adequate shielding couldn't be carried so they considered elderly pilots!

  10. Re:how big for one that can out put 1.2 gigawatts on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    won't work, unless you also have a banana peel

  11. Re:Hmmm on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 2

    thorium fission can't be initiated with a laser, that only excites electrons and the atom as a whole but the nucleus is unaffected. the decay rate doesn't change.

  12. Re:Stupid slope on BART Disables Cell Service To Disrupt Protests · · Score: 1

    that's the dark truth of common handguns, they are undersized for the intended target creature. Death from shot in torso is almost always by bleeding out, not by the other ways a powerful gun such as high power rifle can kill or immediately render unconcious (trauma, shock, tissue and organ damage). Essentially for handguns its the same as stabbing with a rod the diameter of the caliber (for solid bullets) or expanded diameter (for hollowpoint) for whatever the penetration depth of the round is (usually about 13 inches for self-defense rounds). A human stabbed with a 4/10" rod to a depth of just over a foot isn't going to die right away, and so neither will someone shot with M9 pistol.

  13. Re:It's IE all the way down! on What If Tim Berners-Lee Had Patented the Web? · · Score: 1

    usenet could have been extended, to have indefinite retention, url-like constructs in messages

  14. Re:Nice on Fossil 'Suggests Plesiosaurs Did Not Lay Eggs' · · Score: 1

    But the evidence that all our favourite childhood dinosaurs were warm blooded is very recent, many in the last two years; sure there were theories in decades past but those were not the mainstream view. Cold, slow, sluggish....now they're hot, fast!

  15. Re:Stupid slope on BART Disables Cell Service To Disrupt Protests · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Educate yourself, multiple center of mass hits that are the *only way* pistol defence is taught, because that is the only correct way. It is taught to police that way, it is taught to grandmas that way. you can't reliably hit moving arms or legs with a handgun, you'll mostly miss. You will not reliably stop nor incapacitate an attacker with a handgun hit in the arm or leg, they will keep on coming. you will not reliably stop an attacker with a single shot either. if you must use a gun to defend yourself, you must aim at center of mass. you must fire until the threat stops. This is what is taught, it is how handgun self-defence works. there is no other way that will protect you from a threat of severe or lethal harm. If there was not a threat of severe or lethal harm, you had no business pointing your gun at someone, let alone firing your gun.

    Do you have some hollywood nonsensical idea that handguns lift people up and throw them back, or open them up, or remove entrails, or that a single shot always stops someone? those are all rubbish, fantasy.

  16. Re:Stupid slope on BART Disables Cell Service To Disrupt Protests · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wrong. Dawrin award. This is NOT is what is taught in self-defense classes.

    Watch videos of real handgun fights. A person will NOT in general immediately drop their weapon with a single hit, and a single hit does not always incapacitate. You ascertain if there is no longer threat while emptying your gun into the threat.

    You ascertain if there is no longer threat while emptying your gun into the threat.

    You ascertain if there is no longer a threat while emptying your gun into the threat.

  17. Re:Stupid slope on BART Disables Cell Service To Disrupt Protests · · Score: 2

    not a responsible gun owner if you don't know much about either your marksmanship capabilities or of knife fights. As a former range officer who has fired tens of thousands of rounds in practice, and was former state champion, let me tell you that you can not reliably hit the leg of a leaping or running person who attacks with a knife from a distance of ten feet or less. You will get stabbed. You must shoot to incapacitate, which means center-of-mass.

  18. Re:Nice on Fossil 'Suggests Plesiosaurs Did Not Lay Eggs' · · Score: 1

    But it's in a way upsetting to see so many dinosaur "established facts" I thought I knew turn out to be wrong. They were supposedly crawling out of the water to lay eggs like turtles! This is actually the second shock relating to plesiosaurs, they also were found recently to be warm blooded.

  19. Re:What ever on 3D Nausea Solved By Eye-Tracking · · Score: 1

    you're implying holochicks would be using their mouths to laugh or communicate? not in my specs for a holodeck.....

  20. Re:Global Warming Denial on Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data · · Score: 1

    The geological record shows at times carbon dioxide concentration higher than today, but with much lower global average temperature. Global warming has flattened out, we are no longer following a "hockey stick"; the models are false. As an engineer, I deal in facts, not religion fueled by hysteria, imagined guilt, and financial backers.

  21. Re:Global Warming Denial on Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data · · Score: 1

    The geological record shows earth at times with much higher temperature and higher water concentration in atmosphere, and CO2 levels rising AFTER that as a reaction.

  22. Re:Yes, it's coming on Most Enterprises Plan To Be On IPv6 By 2013 · · Score: 1

    funny, I"ve been updating Debian, Ubuntu, Postgresql, and FreeBSD from ipv6 mirrors for months. There's actually a lot of good stuff out there on ipv6 already.

  23. Re:Global Warming Denial on Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data · · Score: 1

    faulty reasoning, there is one more consideration to the effects of any greenhouse gas than just average lifetime, and that is maintained level in atmosphere coupled to production rate. if something causes the average level of water vapor in the atmosphere to rise or fall over long time periods, climate can change. This has happened repeatedly in the history of earth, even when carbon dioxide levels much higher but earth's temperatures lower.

  24. Re:Ohh yeah, in 18 months, and please let me... on Most Enterprises Plan To Be On IPv6 By 2013 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    that's miredo (spelling), but yeah, anyone on slashdot who doesn't have ipv6 (even if their isp is ipv4 only), is a lazy git who should turn in her or his geek card. Too easy and way too many ways to get connectivity through tunnel. Many free services out there, will give you your very own *static* /64 subnet and a tunnel, you can have a static ipv6 address for every cell in your body!

  25. Re:10 years without innovation on IBM Donates Symphony Code To Apache Software Foundation · · Score: 1

    You live in a different universe than I, maybe your documents are very simple. We have terrible issues with 2003, 2007 and 2010. They print and display differently the same document