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  1. load of wank on Ksplice Offers Rebootless Updates For Ubuntu Systems · · Score: 2, Insightful
    if the fix affects a service i'm currently running, you still have to restart the service, so all this is doing is perpetuating the usual stupid uptime measurment of performance, which isn't indicative of the systems avaliablity.

    get back to me when you have found a way to patch my network service without dropping the current open sessions, then i'll be really impressed.

  2. postal vote on Canada Considering Online Voting In Elections · · Score: 1

    you've been able to vote via post for years. explain who this is any less secure?

  3. Re:Problems with the US Temperature Record on EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming · · Score: 1

    it's highly likely that those locations change. take a look at temperature records - they closely follow the urbanisation of the world.

  4. Re:harsh but right on EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming · · Score: 1

    he has a degree in physics, he isn't without qualifications like your all trying to make out.

  5. Re:enviro-terrorist on EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming · · Score: 1

    this sounds like it's career ending for him, or atleast very damaging. your just failing to see beyond the fact you agree that it should be quashed.

  6. Re:Did anybody read his paper? on EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    the problem is, how did they measure the temperature, are the devices accurate and was the data collected in a consistent manner?

    if you play with a dataset long enough you can get it to spit out almost any answer you want. it's one of my fears with global warming, that it's so agenda driven that the numbers are being bent in one sides favour.

  7. Re:The Administration modded this guy troll too! on EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming · · Score: 2, Insightful
    yep, you only need to google global warming and read all the terrible explainations touting the old "co2 works like a glass green house" line to know we are really REALLY fucked.

    a little science sprinkled over a lot of save the world machoism is all there is to global warming.

  8. Re:harsh but right on EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming · · Score: 1

    the fact he isn't a climatologist doesn't make him automaticaly wrong.

  9. enviro-terrorist on EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming · · Score: 2, Insightful
    mark my words, it's only a matter of time before anyone with a desenting view is marked as an enviro-terrorist.

    debate is healthy, the fact that the EPA needs a step on anyone who disagree's means thier arguments are not as solid as they want us to think.

  10. less parts to fail.. on Alternative Energy Policies a Boon For Inflatable Electric Car · · Score: 3, Interesting
    ... means nothing when the few parts you do have are prone to disaster.

    never fear though - this is yet another imaginary product (they have nothing more than a computer rendering ffs), you need not fear that your car will deflate on you any time soon.

    RTFA for such gem's as this "What we have discovered is that the insurance industry is not going to let electric cars run extension chords all over the place because you trip and fall" - genius, just pure genius.

  11. Re:What languages? on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1
    dude you have no clue. fiji had a military coup not long ago, tonga you will get your head bashed in at night, can't comment on samoa, hong kong is run by the chinese for crying out loud (you WANT freedom right?) and india - your kidding right?

    out all those the only one that makes any sense is singapore, australia,new zeland and canda.

  12. easy on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    try canada, australia or new zealand. they will provide you with a pretty easy transition and both are free and safe countries. anything else is going to be considerably harder and require you to learn a new language.

  13. Re:Commercial exploitation on Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it saddens me that people like you still bitch about commercial ventures, when you wouldn't have the PC or internet to do so if it wasn't for such ventures. repeat after me - just because it's being done for money, it doesn't mean it's evil....

  14. Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister on Facebook VP Slams Intel's, AMD's Chip Performance Claims · · Score: 1

    i wear purple because i'm allergic to pink, you insensitive clod.

  15. Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister on Facebook VP Slams Intel's, AMD's Chip Performance Claims · · Score: 1

    i wouldn't suggest one single psu for a whole center, just one per rack. surely it would be cheaper then messing around mounting batteries to each server? for one thing it'd make the racks top heavy if the rack wasn't 100% full.

  16. Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister on Facebook VP Slams Intel's, AMD's Chip Performance Claims · · Score: -1, Troll

    i don't give 2 shits if they don't, why are you so offended is the question?

  17. Re:You're Computin' for a Shootin' Mister on Facebook VP Slams Intel's, AMD's Chip Performance Claims · · Score: 3, Insightful
    i don't know that i agree with some of googles design choices. do they account for details such as 10 small batteries are more expensive than 1 large battery of the same capacity?

    and why have a PSU for each unit, why not just run 12v power rails to each server and do the ac/dc conversion on a larger transformer further down the line with larger batteries providng the back up for clusters of servers? after all no psu is cheaper than a psu with just the 5v taken out.

  18. how did they ever thingk they would win?! on Pirate Bay Retrial Denied, Judge Declared Unbiased · · Score: 2, Interesting
    their bread and butter was pirated material, how on earth did they think they were going to win this???? i can only think it's some kind of delusion.

    I don't think they should go to jail or even wear a massive fine, they aren't violent criminals and it's debatable that they have even cost anyone money. but what they were doing under swedish law was illegal ffs.

  19. Re:This is America on Middle-School Strip Search Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 3, Interesting

    school teachers aren't police, and shouldn't even imagine they have the authority to perform a strip search. if they think the kid has shoved it up his ass - call the cops and get them to do it. that should be the end of this story. it makes me fearful for when i have children, because if i have a child and they are subjected to anything like this i'd probably do something drastic.

  20. Re:base load on Wind Could Provide 100% of World Energy Needs · · Score: 1
    i have no doubt in the NAS's maths on the energy available in wind, it's the statement it could actually be used that you should be worried about.

    and nuclear fission is very safe, there's nothing hair brained about it

  21. base load on Wind Could Provide 100% of World Energy Needs · · Score: 1
    yes and if i stuck a hose in the arse of every cow, capturing their farts i could power the world for 100 years.

    and you wonder why alternative energies aren't being taken seriously, it's because i crackpot idea's and bad maths like this article.

    wind won't provide a base load, it'll be hellish expensive and it's not without environmental impact of it's own. if you want real alternative which work now and we could start deploying tomorrow at a fraction of the cost of hair brained schemes like this, look at molten salt solar, nuclear and to a lesser extent tidal.

  22. Re:I didn't RTFA (or 99% of the replies), but... on Does the Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much? · · Score: 1

    we are all thinking it, the /. group think shouts us down is the problem

  23. It's offical. on Does the Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much? · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    slashdot>linux>kdawson

    it's nothing but one big circle jerk.

  24. Re:buzzword overload on A Look At the Tech Behind Burnout Paradise · · Score: 1

    so he is just using more threads....

  25. buzzword overload on A Look At the Tech Behind Burnout Paradise · · Score: 1
    "isn't so much about threading as such, it's all about parallelization"

    umm, isn't that what you do with threads... run processes in parallel?