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  1. Re:Your statement is flawed. on The Software Behind the Mars Phoenix Lander · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also, people often forget that by the time a probe or rover makes the news, many years have passed since the "feature freeze".
    Years of design, testing, waiting for a launch possibility, travel.

  2. Re:So we have more cores on TrueCrypt 6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Are you somehow deficient?
    CPUs arent going multicore because its cool to have more than one core, but to get fucking work fucking done.
    The whole point of the thing (as you surely didnt notice) is to spread your applications over as many cores as they can use in any way.

  3. Re:Bitterly admitting the cynics were right. on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Way to paint the victim as the villain.
    Sorry, but there are enough broken marriages that dont end in a psychopatic idiot murdering somebody.

    If you donate something, than help his children and not the scumbag.

  4. Re:Well - kinda on Arecibo Observatory Facing Massive Budget Cuts · · Score: 1

    Seeing that the US wont sell the "real" version to any other country, the F22 will most likely kill innocents for bad, corrupt people.

  5. Re:Dark energy = false vacuum? on Huge Lenses To Observe Dark Energy · · Score: 1

    Yeah. And when that happens, we are supposed to cheer for a bunch of post-human smut assholes that thing destroying the universe is a nice thing to observe without interference just because something will be there afterwards, too.

  6. Re:I don't think it exists. on Huge Lenses To Observe Dark Energy · · Score: 1

    Non of them are as consistent.

    And there is nothing strange about a large part of the universe being quasi-undetectable. (which would be dark matter).

    Dark _energy_ otoh isnt that illogical in terms of occams razor. Its as simple as the thought "the universe being here cannot be energy neutral as a whole".

  7. Re:Green vs. Blue on Galaxy Zoo Produces a Rare Specimen · · Score: 4, Informative

    No.
    Its because those pics only use 3 of the 5 colour channels.
    As there are no R/G/B sensors, everything is an approximation.
    Some of the early ones looked blue, even though green would be a better optical equivalent (most likely because they weighted some near UV radiation as blue)

  8. Re:Ray Tracing and Pixel Shaders on Intel Shows Off Quake Wars, Ray Traced · · Score: 1

    Because it would make the whole thing 10 times slower, and they know it, so they try to hide it by tons of reflections and water.

  9. Last years winner really deserves some praise on 2008 Underhanded C Contest Officially Open · · Score: 4, Interesting

    because the way it dumpes the key into the output is hidden in such a underhanded, innocent way...

  10. Re:USB on What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    The thing is, you neglect the chassis /cases for the drives. They can easily add up to $10 per drive.

    And with a average of 100GByte/drive (very generous for a 20-200 distribution, which _always_ seems to favour the smaller models), this would account to at least 20c /Gbyte.

    You can get brand new sata discs for a lot less than that...
    Plus you only need 10 instead of 100.

  11. Re:100 ata hard drives? forget going green on What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Double that.
    You need the fans, you need an extra controller card for every 4 of them, the mainboards, etc.

  12. Re:Hm. Nice spin on the summary... on UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days · · Score: 1

    Just think bureaucracy.

    One part of the state had a cost, for which a different one was resonsible.

    So they handled the rebalancing via the settlement.
    There would have been no difference if he had been given 250k from the beginning, instead of 262.5k - 12.5k.

    But yeah, seeing that substraction creats emotions of course, so in that regard this was a poor way to handle it.

  13. Hm. Nice spin on the summary... on UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sure, the poor sod was billed 12500 for bed and ledging...
    But that was only subtracted from the 200k+ he got as compensation.
    Which makes this a complete counterexample.

  14. Vote parent up on The Truth About Last Year's Xbox 360 Recall · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The article is COMPLETE, UTTER bullshit.

    Years before the xbox360 has been released ATI was already announced as the system parter for the GPU. No "secret unnamed ASIC vendor" anywhere.
    The recall, again, was thermal problems.

    Do you really think a completely different GPU by a completely different company could have been designed in a year _and_ totally compatible with the original one?

  15. Re:Another Talisman CF on The Truth About Last Year's Xbox 360 Recall · · Score: 1

    Talisman _was_ decades ahead in its concept.

    its just that brute force is _sooo_ much easier to implement....

  16. Re:*sigh* on Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body · · Score: 1

    The problem with that theory was that this friend is not a killer, but a nutcase.
    He stated that he murdered a lot of people, but could never prove it. (nobody died, you know?)

    If you are really cyncical, you could suggest that Reiser was well aware if the fact this guy exists when he did what he did, planing to plant him as the offender.
    OTOH, if he was planning that much, he wouldnt have made some of the really boneheaded mistakes he did.

  17. Re:Language barriers on Weak US Dollar Means Nintendo Favors Europe For Now · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is a HUGE difference between "somehow able to communiate in English" and "being able to enjoying an english piece of media"

  18. Re:Is it really 13.4-in diagonal? on The Development of E-Paper Technology · · Score: 0

    no.
    Tripple the total number...

  19. Re:Is it really 13.4-in diagonal? on The Development of E-Paper Technology · · Score: 1

    regardless of the size, i want a display with that resolution.
    Yesterday, if possible :)

  20. Re:At least google earth works on Google Earth Beaten By Autorendering From Photos · · Score: 1

    Well, in my case, this runs a hell of a lot smoother than google earth..

  21. Re:Why wouldn't there be disjoint partitions? on Six Degrees of Wikipedia · · Score: 3, Funny

    I totally approve of your choice of search words.

  22. Re:Heat on Huge Data Center Going Up In Sin City · · Score: 1

    Wrong.
    Back when the Hoover-dam was build, Las Vegas was a small worker town. The mayor back then didnt want to sign up for it, believing that LasVegas would never grow enough to need it.
    Now they get soem of their electricity form the dam, but only a small fraction.

    The reason why its so big, and always lit up, etc, is gambling. And the fact that 50 million or so people go there per year to spend money.
    Who cares about the electricity bill if you also pay a billion for a new hotel?

  23. Think for a moment! on Successful Cold Fusion Experiment? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A huge breakthrough of a japanese scientist... ... end of as a story in a italian economy newspaper?

    Doesnt that seem a bit fishy?
    See me again when they actually published something somewhere...

  24. Re:Any signal on a neutrino telescope? on Supernova Birth Observed From Orbiting Telescope · · Score: 1

    But as the detectors are running 24/7, there might be a spike.
    OTOH, this isnt andromeda, so not sure about what countrates to expect. Not a lot, after a small rule-of-thumb calculation, even in the best detectors...

  25. Re:Obligatory Back to the Future joke on Supernova Birth Observed From Orbiting Telescope · · Score: 1

    This doesnt seem to be that much because he alse assumes linear growth of energy consumption over all those millions of years.

    At the end of those 55 million years, ever person in the US would use as much energy as a small country...