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  1. Re:Away from LAMP? on Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL · · Score: 1

    LAMP stands for "Linux Apache MySQL PHP". Moving away from MySQL IS moving away from LAMP. In this case, they seem to be moving to LACP. If they had moved to PostgreSQL it might be termed LAPP.

  2. Re:But what difference will it make? on Scientists Need Volunteers To Look At the Sun · · Score: 1

    "Before the highway at rush hour becomes a 5 mile long parking lot."
    You've never been to L.A., have you?

  3. Re:Corporate Shills on US Gamers Spend $3.8 Billion On MMOs Yearly · · Score: 1

    Actually, given some of the lag problems recently you'd best be into small space battles (less than 50 people per side or so). That will be fixed eventually though.

  4. Re:Its extremely simple on Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers? · · Score: 1

    Free up until your system overheats. Also ignores the noise from the HDD.
    Quiet fans don't cost tons of money, but they can be a large improvement to sound quality. Pure-passive coolers are huge and expensive, far more so than quieter fans. They also generally depend on good case airflow, which you really won't have with no fans.

  5. Re:How long until... on Cybercrooks Surpassed Old School Bankrobbers In '09 · · Score: 1

    1) I get this. I give them my hourly rates. If they pay, I have a customer. If not, oh well. 2) "You mean the same government that can't implement a proper here is capable of concealing a vast conspiracy of alien visitations!?" or "No, the CIA didn't kill Kenendy, that's obvious: he's actually dead."

  6. Re:Hope they learned a lesson on Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down · · Score: 5, Funny

    MOD PARENT LEFT

  7. Re:Wear? on Wear Leveling, RAID Can Wipe Out SSD Advantage · · Score: 2, Funny

    Super Sonic Device. They're hard drives that spin so fast the edge of the platter goes faster than sound.

  8. Re:Link on Web Browser Grand Prix · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have quite a few extensions*, 512MiB memory cache capacity set, and rarely see Fx using more than 550MiB of RAM. I don't have to reset it every hour, or even every day. *23 to be precise: Adblock Plus, All-in-One Sidebar, AutoPager, BetterPrivacy, DownThemAll!, FireGestures, Gmail Manager, Greasemonkey, Image Zoom, Leet Key, Morning Coffee, NoScript, Nuke Anything Enhanced, Password Hasher, PDF Download, RSS Ticker (CPU hog, that), Session Manager, Stylish, TACO, Tree Style Tab, Update Notifier, XUL Profiler, Youtube Comment Snob. Firefox 3.5.8, running on a Kubuntu 9.10 system. There could be Mac specific bugs, or some extension or plugin problem. But Firefox has gotten much, much better about actually freeing up RAM with the newer versions.

  9. Re:this is going to suck on Ubuntu Gets a New Visual Identity · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You contradict yourself. The most destructive operation SHOULD be far from the most common operation. Putting the "close window" button on the left with the menus is asking for misclicks.

  10. Re:already slashdotted ? on Technical Objections To the Ogg Container Format · · Score: 1

    We don't read the articles, but we do have prefetching enabled.

  11. Re:So when did text have to become an active paylo on New "Spear Phishing" Attacks Target IT Admins · · Score: 1

    Actually, you can. The standard methods for fixing stupid are generally about 9mm.

  12. Re:Use a MAC address filter on A New Wi-Fi Exploit, Limited But Clever · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When the MAC filter fails, you still have the other. If WPA2 fails, you have nothing, because the MAC filter is effectively worthless.

  13. Re:What's wrong swith cuss words? on California Legislature Declares "Cuss-Free" Week · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because the Lord is a Shithead rapist who Fucked that Bitch Mary? Then, as Jesus, rode into town on an Ass.

  14. Re:Ramifications on The Billion Dollar Kernel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Gentoo at least is a registered 501(3)c charity.

  15. Re:Self-hosted? on Fuel Cell Marvel "Bloom Box" Gaining Momentum · · Score: 1

    Depending on profit margins it may be more economical for them to run off the grid than to sink the cost of making an extra few to power themselves. Sure, they can use their own prototypes, and these are good if you plan to be around for a few (30 at current costs) years, but turning potential short-term profit into long-term savings might be a bad idea if your margins aren't high enough to support it.

  16. Re:Obligatory ... on Stone Tools Found On Crete Push Back Humans' Maritime History · · Score: 4, Funny

    And God said "First Post. Oh, and someone turn on the damn lights!" And there was Light...

  17. Re:Applicable to overseas Anime markets ONLY on Toei Animation Thinks Mobiles Could Save Anime · · Score: 1

    I buy the Hellsing books. I also download the scanlations because I hate waiting months to read the manga. With some manga/anime series I've seen fewer spelling/grammar errors in the scanlations/fansubs than in the official releases. Offering a lesser product for a higher price is unacceptable in any market with competition. If more manga/anime came out at the same time (or within a few days) of the original and at good quality I'd buy more.

  18. Re:When do people get this on 86% of Windows 7 PCs Maxing Out Memory · · Score: 1

    On Linux you still shouldn't turn your pagefile off. You should just set swappiness to a lower number, say, 1. That makes the OS pretty much avoid swapping when possible, but also prevents failures when the swapfile would be needed.

  19. Re:He's partly right. on Are All Bugs Shallow? Questioning Linus's Law · · Score: 1

    Even with a formal proof you can't be sure there are no bugs. You can prove the code matches a specification, but you can't prove the specification to be correct.

  20. Re:Old 1980's Technology, with One Problem on Directed Energy Weapon Downs Mosquitos · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is no z in laser.

  21. Re:Lasers vs. Railguns on Directed Energy Weapon Downs Ballistic Missile · · Score: 1

    You'd need very, very good mirrors. They'll still absorb energy at some frequencies, which quickly burns the mirror and makes it non-reflective.

  22. Re:Cool on Wikileaks and Iceland MPs Propose Journalism Haven · · Score: 1

    Quite true. Look at the Alien and Sedition Acts for an early example.

  23. Re:How isn't this a form of terrorism? on Anonymous Speaks About Australian Gov't. Attacks · · Score: 1

    And that's what such a DDOS should be called. Don't call for a DDOS, call for a sit-in, via-reloading the page. Assosciate anti-censorship with civil rights as much as possible.

  24. Re:What is AI anyway? on When Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    Yep. If I could edit posts I'd put that at the bottom of my original one. It was incomplete and not at all clear.

  25. Re:What is AI anyway? on When Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    Correct. I think we agree, but have failed to state our points properly. Chi^2 is not a randomness test, it's a goodness-of-fit test to a normal distribution.