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  1. Not a Problem on TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org Go Dark · · Score: 1

    Use a mirror:

    http://www.bi-torrent.com

    The biggest problem with this was that the community that had gathered around suprnova.org will now be lost and spread out. But since they left the IRC channels up, maybe something can be done about it.

  2. Re:But it's the same damn book every time on Google To Digitize Much of Harvard's Library · · Score: 1

    That's a big assumption. Here in Argentina a lot of people argue in favor of the Falkland's war by saying that they're on our continental platform and a bunch of other stuff that doesn't make a lot of sense.
    Actually i've just done a bit of Google research and there's a lot of mumbling about oil indeed. I've always thought it was a damn childish war whatsoever.

  3. Re:What is a petabyte? on Google Revises Usenet Search · · Score: 1

    1 Googolplex = 10^googol = 10^(10^100)
    Not (10^100)^100 = 10^10000.

  4. Re:Mod this up on Combined Gasoline/Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens · · Score: 1

    I guess you mean SO2, sulfur dioxyde, which stinks really bad but is not the same thing as H2S which is also highly lethal.

  5. Re:Hydrogen won't achieve popularity... on Combined Gasoline/Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens · · Score: 1
    Our nation has the capacity to manufacture it in quantity, whereas hydrogen is currently difficult to produce and expensive, and the easiest chemical processes by which to produce it result in toxic chemicals (such as reacting metal with hydroxides)

    Errr - no. You just put two electrodes into a sink full of water, crank up the power, and get 2 parts dihydrogen on one side, one part dioxygen on the other. Couldn't be easier. Of course, electricity is not cheap - think of hydrogen as a very efficient storage mecanism for power, instead of, say, batteries.
  6. Re:Per application volume level on The Future of PC-Audio: Interview With Keith Kowal · · Score: 1

    You could do what the child suggests or just use the "preamp" slider on the equalizer. Works fine to reduce the volume, although it adds some badass noise if you pull it above zero.

  7. Re:Space Elevator, here we come! on Carbon Nanotubes Harder Than Diamond · · Score: 1

    Actually carbon nanotubes are the only material known to humans that could actually serve as the space elevator's cable construction bricks.
    With a theoretical resistance to tension around 130 GPa (around 60 actually measured) with approximately the same mass that Kevlar, they make a great candidate.

  8. Re:This may be king of mobile service offerings. on Google Launches SMS Search Service · · Score: 1

    Recently got a Motorola phone after losing my Nokia a month ago, i can say: Motorola sucks. Nokia will kick it's ass in usability and UI desing/concept on every single aspect.

  9. Resistor lattice? on Another Google Recruiting Technique · · Score: 1

    On an infinite, two-dimensional, rectangular lattic of 1-ohm resistors, what is the resistance between two nodes that are a knight's move away?

    Anyone knows this one? Is there an "easy" way or just the traditional infinite sum approach i'm too lazy to think of?

  10. Re:Try it, I just did.... on Dive Into Python · · Score: 1

    You don't have to: in fact, the only advantage Tk has is it's included with the python installation.
    My personal choice is PyGTK, but PyQt and wxPython both are pretty nice.

  11. Re:From an Inspiron 9100 owner... on Last Words On Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    You do know that notebook computers have variable clock rates that can be fscked up by crappy software, right?

  12. Re:Nuclear energy works! on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 1

    Honestly i wouldn't feel so nice about that - shooting no-matter-how-heavily-armored highly toxic nuclear waste into space at terrible speeds? The space elevator is not only a conceivable project *today*, but it also looks much safer.

  13. Re:This is appropriate on Tempratech Self-Cooling Can · · Score: 1

    That has to be one of the finest beers i've ever had. I was in Quebec for the "Dictée des amériques". I have to say it's also a really beautiful place. Lucky you.
    Back into beer, Guinness is pretty damn good too, although completely different.

  14. Re:Python made my collegues start writing scripts. on The Python Paradox, by Paul Graham · · Score: 1

    Amazingly, even if you haven't used it, Python will be probably more readable to you than any other language out there.

  15. Re:So far I have attempted the following: on Abused, But Working Hardware Stories? · · Score: 1

    When hit with one yes...

    ROFLMAO, where are my mod points??

  16. Re:Bacteria? on U.S. Nuclear Cleanup Carries Major Risks · · Score: 1

    I don't think that's possible. Radioactivity is spontaneous: even if the bacteria could possibly like eating radioactive isotopes, that wouldn't stop her from being radioactive too. There is no way her organism could "decompose" the isotopes into other stable ones (unless she carried a tiny particle accelerator in her stomach).

  17. Re:To the sun! on U.S. Nuclear Cleanup Carries Major Risks · · Score: 1

    No. Viable projects for the space elevator consider a 90 000 km long cable. That's far away from geostationary orbit. If you release aniything on the top of the cable it will escape Earth's orbit easily, as it's speed is much greater than it should be even for geostationary.
    This is potentially very doable. Just wait until 2025 for the space elevator and there you go. Hopefully this will only be a cleanup procedure before nuclear fusion takes over.

  18. Re:Linux? What about usability? on Time to Try a Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    You also forget that this type of people which can't install a program using synaptic (which is so damn easy a friend of mine had already installed xchat when i told him that GAIM sucked for an IRC client) also are unable to install any program whatsoever on windows, mac or whatever. This is the kind of people that ask you about an IRC client instead of googling about it. These people have a computer guy/friend to do this stuff for them.

  19. Re:I started with Slackware... on Slackware 10-RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    If you want to stop something that is running with BSD, you have to kill it manually - that sucks. With SysV you do, say "/etc/init.d/apache stop".
    And you dont modify scripts or whatever in order to add or remove programs from the startup list - you use a tool for that, in Debian it's called "update-rc.d" although redhat and most others use chkconfig.
    $ update-rc.d -f xdm remove
    tada!, no more X on startup
    $ update-rc.d apache defaults
    tada!, apache on startup, no need to ever edit any script and most important, an easy way to stop and restart system processes.

  20. Re:Reminds me ... on The World's Most Dangerous Password · · Score: 1

    gomo@ciabatta:~$ python -c "print 1111111%7"
    1

    Maybe a code comprising of 7 zeroes would do better :)

  21. Re:GAIM UI on Gaim Forks To Get Voice And Video Support · · Score: 1

    You mean you don't have fluxbox's right click > remember > workspace? Best thing since sliced bread. Give it a try you won't go back.

  22. Re:I wish I could agree on Making Things Easy Is Hard · · Score: 1

    gomo@ciabatta:~$ apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
    Description: Macromedia Flash Player plugin installer

    There you go - just run debian-ppc :)

  23. Re:Mozillamatic.js on Mozilla 1.7 Beta Is Faster And Smaller · · Score: 1

    So except I use Internet Explorer AND wish to install Mozilla i will get to see a nice ass. You'd better check your code honey :)

  24. Re:What about water conservation?? on DIY HVAC · · Score: 1

    They are already doing it in Japan. My aunt lived there a while. It seems that they like to take a bath after their showers. The water from this bath is later used to do laundry.

  25. Re:Blackdown on IBM Offers to Help Sun Open Up Java · · Score: 2, Informative

    Blackdown java is not open source. It's a port. It's non-free.