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  1. Re:Weapons? on 5-Pound UAV Flies For 50 Minutes, Streams HD From Over 3 Miles · · Score: 3, Funny

    Stuff that islamic fighters like :
    - satellite phones
    - GPS, laptops with Google Earth or something
    - cell phones - dirt cheap remote detonators, but can be used to communicate too
    - social networks such as facefuck and twatter
    - editing videos on a computer
    - spherical geometry and basic astronomy to know when they have to pray and what direction to face
    - building rockets in the yard

  2. Re:Bad guys on 5-Pound UAV Flies For 50 Minutes, Streams HD From Over 3 Miles · · Score: 1

    Marijuana is not a real drug, though. I don't crave it. It's too powerful though, makes me lose my day or evening, makes me feel angry and oppressed around people, makes me smoke all my tobacco till I'm out of tobacco or paper.

    If weed becomes legal (and cheaper by a factor of 20 or 50) then I may consume some of it at some times but most times I will not want it, thanks.

  3. Re:Anyone? on IBM Takes System/z To the Cloud With COBOL Update · · Score: 2

    "next" is less explanatory that something like "endfor".
    That "i" variable goes unused.
    You have to know what that comma means, and actually I think you should have written print "Die!";

  4. Re:supercapacitors are cool on Charge Your Cellphone In 20 Seconds (Eventually) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure everything is safe if it's a low voltage? Hundreds or thousands amps at 12V or 5V or less sounds a bit scary still.

  5. Re:supercapacitors are cool on Charge Your Cellphone In 20 Seconds (Eventually) · · Score: 2

    Flash is very slow at writes. An SD card "class 4" or "class 6" means it's rated for writing at at least 4MB/s and 6MB/s respectively. If your USB flash drive can do much more than that then it's very recent or high grade or both.

    I've also had a wifi network where I would reach 1MB/s when copying stuff yet the Internet connection could do 1.5MB/s on download.

  6. Re:Out of date PUE? on Data Center Managers Weary of Whittling Cooling Costs · · Score: 1

    Datacenters with very low PUE are addressed in the summary : "But then you have companies such as Google and Microsoft building data centers next to rivers for cheap hydroelectric power in remote parts of the Pacific Northwest and reporting insanely low PUEs (below 1.1 in some cases)."

  7. Re:You aren't refusing to change on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With a Fear of Technological Change? · · Score: 1

    When searching for a monitor you have to only look at non TN panels then (IPS, VA, PLS)

  8. Re:Meh on Firefox 21 Arrives · · Score: 2

    What auto-update? it only updates when I type apt-get upgrade, and it does so silently.

  9. Not again! on Bing Translator Adds Klingon · · Score: 1

    This joke was already tiring when we were submerged by it on April 2, and now Microsoft trolls slashdot by planting that damn rot13 filter and having people link to it.

  10. Re: 3.1 vs 3.10!? on Linux 3.10 Merge Windows Closes · · Score: 1

    and you need a fucking PhD to know what they mean, and have Rain Main's abilities to remember them.

  11. Re:goog territory on Mozilla Handing Out Free Firefox OS Developer Phones To Bolster App Marketplace · · Score: 1

    Never heard of IMEI in cookies, is that in IOS, Android, others? What is you use Firefox on Android or some other browser?, and why can applications read IMEI in the first place.
    Honest question, I don't have a smartphone. Can a website read that IMEI, store it themselves and then give it to a three-letter-agency or a local dictatorship's secret police?

  12. Re:RESONANCE FREQUENCY on Realtime GPU Audio · · Score: 1

    Do you often drink a glass or a bottle, litterally? Saying "a frequency" rather than "a pressure wave with a given frequency" is a metonymy.

  13. Re:Article is flat-out wrong. on Plug Into a Plant: a New Approach To Clean Energy Harvesting · · Score: 2

    An other measure of efficiency would be to consider where the tool at hand is coming from. The solar panel comes from a big and expensive factory with all sorts of inputs, and the plant basically made itself.

  14. Re:Greed on Hanford Nuclear Waste Vitrification Plant "Too Dangerous" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's because Germany dumps useless wind power on the grid when it's available. That doesn't do the baseload, which is nuke and coal. I wonder where's the drive to close down all coal power plants in the european territory.. Coal plants are fucking terrible and to conveniently use them is hypocrisy. Wind power sucks too, it mostly serves to damage power grids and to transfer subsidies from states to private companies that leech off it and paint themselves green while they cause additional greenhouse emissions from the back up gas plants and hidden costs of the irregularity (such as storage on expensive, wasteful and polluting batteries).

    So, how can german "Greens" content themselves with the garbage they do? Close nuclear plants to use something worse intead. I hate those hypocrite self-styled ecologists or environmentalists who have no clue and give lessons.

  15. Re:Hopeless on Hanford Nuclear Waste Vitrification Plant "Too Dangerous" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Give that crap to France, that country likes it - the pseudo state company, Areva, styles itself with mastering the whole nuclear fuel cycle, from cradle to grave.

    The crap at hand is terrible though, what's in Hanford is leftover from WW2, when no concern was given. It's the world oldest nuclear waste, up to 70 years old.

  16. WARNING on Israeli Singer Publishes a Song In Hebrew — and Perl · · Score: 2

    Link to a song that plays outright at a very loud volume with no volume control so you have look for pulseaudio volume control instead. That must be awesome and revolutionary web 3.0.
    Anyway, the song is all in arabic with the singer saying "Hachem" here and there, so you can't understand anything of it.

  17. Re:Whiner on Portal Now Available On Linux · · Score: 1

    It's actually a bad issue, you can buy games on Steam without any notice as whether you will be able to run them.
    My card supports OpenGL 2.1 and was made by the best OpenGL vendor so I thought it would do the job, until you try to run the game and it say bullshit about gl_pixelcolorbitmaps or some shit like that.

  18. Re:Whiner on Portal Now Available On Linux · · Score: 1

    My 7600GT is good enough for me (almost, it's maybe badly cooled) but not for Source games even though it has recent drivers, is the tech found in the PS3 and ran Left4Dead fast enough under Windows.

  19. Re:Installation process has been greatly improved on Debian 7.0 ("Wheezy") Released · · Score: 1

    It's harder than to use Unetbootin, point and click and not destroy the USB drive's content in the process. Sadly that didn't work when I tried to do that with a Wheezy iso a few weeks ago.

  20. Re:Never happened in Sim City 2000 on Oslo Needs Your Garbage · · Score: 1

    To run glquake I needed a .bat file that set my driver's gamma higher, launched the game with at least four parameters (width and height to set the resolution, and two more to set the water transparency), then set the gamma back to what it was before (executed after quitting the game).

    A single flag in a standard Windows shortcut is much easier.
    Playing networked or serial cable Doom 2 on custom maps was even more flag heavy, yet that has to be quality software :D

  21. Re:Orbital pickup truck on Helium Depleted, Herschel Space Telescope Mission Ends · · Score: 4, Funny

    So in the Middle Ages we killed ourselves with middles?

  22. Re:Why two different GPUs / graphics cards on Indiana University Dedicates Biggest College-Owned Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    It's implied that a GPU node has CPU + GPU, because that GPU won't do anything at all on its own, not even able to talk to the networking or to run an OS (until some future generation of GPU includes CPU cores). The summary said it were "GPU-enabled nodes", too. Then the reader is supposed to understand (know already) that the AMD 16-core chip is a CPU, or infer it somehow.

    Alright, I'm only now seeing the last sentence's ambiguity, the trick is you don't see what's wrong when you understand all the techno-babble words already. The submitter did some lazy editing, adding just three letters would fix it :

    "while the 676 GPU nodes use one 16-core AMD Interlagos CPU and one NVIDIA Kepler K20."

  23. Re:I have to question the wisdom of this on Indiana University Dedicates Biggest College-Owned Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    I don't run HPC on 60 TB datasets or do anything remotely like that but I know that for me, storing a video game or something on a local disk is cheaper and higher performance than to signup for an ISP that gives me four aggregated SDSL links (symetrical 20Mbits/s) and rent Amazon storage.

  24. Re:Why two different GPUs / graphics cards on Indiana University Dedicates Biggest College-Owned Supercomputer · · Score: 2

    There aren't two different GPUs in a node, the AMD Interlagos is a Bulldozer Opteron, made of two dies on the chip, same die as the FX-8150 CPU.
    CPU nodes run newer Opteron, about 10% more effcient, made of two Piledriver dies (similar to the FX-8350). It's weird that two different kind of CPU are used but that's probably because the GPU nodes were already made, validated etc.

  25. Re:Cutting their own throats on $200 Intel Android Laptops Are Coming · · Score: 1

    LOL you had tons of choices, such as killing grandma and selling her house so you can buy a fucking laptop with NiCad batteries.
    BTW eee PC still works fine. Netbooks existed before, they were just $3k-$5k ultraportable laptops from Sony or Toshiba with much slower hardware and low volume. Then flash memory and Li-ion happened. Someone figured out that if you make a small computer with few parts and crap specs, then it actually ought to be cheaper. That Nintendo Game Boy must have pissed you, because it was cheaper than a CP/M luggable, right?

    If you're so wealthy I wonder why you aren't looking at 1440p displays and mechanical keyboards, by the way. They're probably cheaper than that Multisync CRT you bought in 1991 and that yellowed out keyboard you cling to. Plus we have damn reliable PSU and memory dimms nowadays. Just don't get a "high end" motherboard as they are much less reliable than low end ones.
    Now get off my KINDERGARTEN.