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  1. Paper on PRL on Scientists Map Spiraling Light For Faster Net · · Score: 2
  2. Re:How are they going tho power that thing? on IBM Building 120PB Cluster Out of 200,000 Hard Disks · · Score: 1

    3x 1 GW PSUs?

  3. Still hiding buttons? on Fedora 16 Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    I tried to use LyX 2 with Gnome 3 but couldn't save the path to my custom TeXLive installation in it's settings because the buttons to do so went amiss...

  4. Re:It feels old and already seen on World of Warcraft Finally Loses Subscribers · · Score: 1
    PvP in EVE is a joke. You don't really stand a chance in your first year of playing because you haven't trained the necessary skills on your char yet. Then it's grinding ISK for weeks to get your gear. Hours of dull waiting - then 5 minutes of fun. Repeat.

    I'd rather spend my free time on other PvP games like League of Legends. Much less waiting and more fun.

  5. Re:So what is it? on Fluidinfo, Wikipedia For Databases · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a *SQL server listening on 0.0.0.0

  6. Re:if not at least deface it! on Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook · · Score: 1

    Outcome 8: Holobands are the next in thing. We create a race of AI beings.

    Outcome 8a: AI beings wipe us out (SkyNet).

    Outcome 8b: AI beings wipe our asses (The Culture).

    FTFY ;)

  7. Re:Turkey and EU? on Ask Slashdot: How To Combat IP-Based Censorship? · · Score: 1
  8. Re:The old joke? on GE Bets On Holographic Optical Storage · · Score: 1

    I bet there was more written on GMR than stored with it, too.

  9. Re:I don't think so on Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Easy. Just make sure you choose the population size in which you want to spread your belief so that it's smaller than 10 x the magnitude of your followers. Once you've taken over, target a bigger population.

  10. Re:That's so bizarre that it must be true on Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas · · Score: 1

    Too bad your friends are neither randomly distributed nor committed and have too much self-doubt ;)

  11. Re:Yawn... on Fermilab Scientists Discover New Particle · · Score: 2

    Confirming that this particle actually exists, otoh, is a completely different kind of story.

  12. Re:Tracker on Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files? · · Score: 1

    Is PDF support through poppler better now? I just remember indexing a bunch of PDF files with tracker but then got no results when searching for characteristic words in them. PDFlib TET PDF Ifilter 4.0b2 had no problems with indexing them properly AFAICS.

  13. I don't understand. on Why There's No Nobel Prize In Computing · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Minimalist trend on Mozilla Labs Introduces the Webian Shell · · Score: 1

    My Gnome 3.0 experience was over when i had Gnome Shell laughing into my face for snatching the "Save", "Apply" and "Close" buttons from my LyX 2 settings dialogue.

  15. Re:Windows Chimera... on Windows 8 Previewed At D9 · · Score: 1

    Why do you think that making UI design choices which can be kept consistent across devices is silly? IMHO that's actually a step forward in terms of user friendliness. Learn once, use everywhere. With a phone interface as a (necessary) lowest common denominator it's what programming languages running on a VM are for UI.

  16. Re:Don't get one. on Testing Geiger Counters · · Score: 1
    Alpha particles would be easily shielded by the can your beans are in. Even if you're smart enough to first open the can (and spread the beans out on a surface), your GC might not be constructed in a way to even detect alpha particles (window too thick). In that case you won't even notice if your "same reading as background"-can was powdered with alpha emitters. While the electrons and x-/gamma-rays your GC could detect in that case have a Q factor of 1, that alpha particles you don't know jack about have one of 20.

    Short version: you're wrong, it's more complicated than that.

  17. Re:lol wut on Netflix Isn't Swamping the Internet · · Score: 1

    Is that what it means to "square the circle"?

  18. Re:alternatives to Amazon on Amazon Removes Yaoi Manga Titles From Kindle Store · · Score: 2

    "Can't say I'll miss porn written for schoolgirls,"

    Maybe they'll ban Twilight next.

    I hope so.

  19. The most important of all ... on JavaScript Creator Talks About the Future · · Score: 1
    ... to block.

    Why would I want to act as a computing node for every jerk who owns(!) a website and chooses to offload computing tasks via JS onto my box?

  20. Re:Readability on JavaScript Creator Talks About the Future · · Score: 1

    Ever saw a newspaper in your life? TFA has ~ 60 characters per line, which is perfectly readable.

  21. Re:Adaption... on German Company To Install Linux On 10,000 PCs · · Score: 1

    I guess you haven't even tried to use Reader X yet. It has tools for annotations. Just like PDF XChange Viewer has (available for Windows, but not Linux) which is also available for free. I've yet to find a PDF reader for Linux that supports annotations and doesn't suck balls (like PDFedit) or uses it's own non-portable standard (like Okular).

  22. Re:Adaption... on German Company To Install Linux On 10,000 PCs · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Adaption... on German Company To Install Linux On 10,000 PCs · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they use Adobe Reader X's comment feature. Last time i checked, there was no viable alternative on Linux for that.

  24. Re:Subtly untrue on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1
    Celsius is not SI.

    1 K = 1 ÂC if we're talking about temperature differences. Only zero is defined differently.

  25. Re:With all these recent findings... on Laser Scribing Promises More Efficient Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    If the solar panels are any good, they will decrease earth's albedo, not increase it.