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  1. missed the point on Supercomputer Designer Asked To Improve Robo-Bugs · · Score: 1

    I'm not really sure what you are trying to say here, because the only thing he's going to be working on is improving computer power, either through hardware or software. All he is doing is a simulation, as stated in the summary, his contract is to: " speed up how quickly a supercomputer can simulate the computational fluid dynamics of micro-air vehicles."

  2. Not so fast on Supercomputer Designer Asked To Improve Robo-Bugs · · Score: 1

    I think you meant multi-gigaflop:

    " the top spots on the list have been taken over by machines that combine commodity processors with coprocessors or graphics processing units (GPUs) to form heterogeneous high-performance computing systems.

    With all eyes on the new TOP500 number one system, Oak Ridge National Labs' Titan, it was a system belonging to a neighbor at the University of Tennessee that debuted at the top of the November Green500 List. The National Institute for Computational Sciences' Beacon system has set the new energy efficiency bar at nearly two-and-a-half billion floating-point operations per second (gigaflops) per watt. Employing Intel's Sandy Bridge series of Xeon central processing units (CPUs) and four of Intel's Xeon Phi coprocessors per node Beacon achieved a peak 112,200 gigaflops of performance running the LINPACK benchmark while consuming only 44.89 kW of power."

    source here

  3. Hardware or Software on Supercomputer Designer Asked To Improve Robo-Bugs · · Score: 1

    I wonder which is more important in this situation, an improvement in the software or hardware.

  4. Medical Science on Is the Era of Groundbreaking Science Over? · · Score: 1

    It seems a lot of people are obsessing over physics when medicine has had the most profound "groundbreaking" advances in human history, and it seems every week there is a new breakthrough.

  5. Re:Read the article on New Largest Known Prime Number: 2^57,885,161-1 · · Score: 1

    That would be what I referred to in the second sentence, "There are some 'hacks' that work up to high prime numbers".

  6. Who cares on Software That Flagged HBO.com For Piracy Will Power U.S. 'Six Strikes' System · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least our e-voting software is safe.

  7. Read the article on New Largest Known Prime Number: 2^57,885,161-1 · · Score: 1

    You didn't read your link did you? There is no equation for prime numbers right now. There are some 'hacks' that work up to high prime numbers but no existing formula.

  8. And what shall we call this number? on New Largest Known Prime Number: 2^57,885,161-1 · · Score: 1

    Post responses of cool names.

  9. Transactions per second are impressive on MySQL 5.6 Reaches General Availability · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you check out the charts, the transactions per second are tripled from 5.5, when the threads approach 60.

  10. Petition to have Nikon keep selling repair parts on The Only, Lonely Protester at CES (Video) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is the link for the petition, if anyone feels inclined in wasting some time.

  11. Windows 8 on What Will The Expanding World of ChromeOS Mean For Windows? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Windows 8 is the true threat to windows.

  12. No they are not all scams on Researchers Demo Hack Against African Micro-Finance Accounts · · Score: 1

    I microloan is just a loan that is smaller in amount. They charge interest rates, the banks do make profits, it is NOT free money.

  13. He was BUYING from Silk Road on Online Narcotics Store 'Silk Road' Is Showing Cracks · · Score: 2

    Summary: This guy goes on silk road and buys drugs in Europe and gets it mailed to himself in Australia. Consider how easy it is for him now to get caught picking up the drugs. Silk Road is still an awesome anonymous place for people selling whatever legal or illegal products. It's the pick up that is tricky. Speaking of which, there are plenty of legal things on silk road, or at least legal in the originating country.

  14. It is not strictly illegal on Online Narcotics Store 'Silk Road' Is Showing Cracks · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are plenty of things on Silk Road, which are completely legal. Silk Road exists for its anonymous feature, not necessarily illegal.

  15. He was importing not exporting on Silk. on Online Narcotics Store 'Silk Road' Is Showing Cracks · · Score: 1

    In TFA, he was importing drugs via Silk Road from Europe and then selling it in Australia. It doesn't say how he got busted, but I'm assuming that drug sniffing dogs at the post office probably got him busted. This guy was an idiot and deserved to get caught.

  16. Re:MEDICINE on Are There Any Real Inventors Left? · · Score: 1

    Yes, for example in the link I posted above, they reprogrammed the HIV virus to kill cancer cells.

  17. Greatest moment on Public Domain Prosthetic Hand · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The greatest moment is when Rich and I were working together with Liam in South Africa. The moment Liam realized that his wrist motion powered the device, he exclaimed "It copies me!!". -Ivan Owen & Richard Van As

    source here

  18. MEDICINE on Are There Any Real Inventors Left? · · Score: 1

    There have been some massive breakthroughs in the medical field in the last few years and most recently, a possible cure for AIDS and cancer.

  19. WordPress Login pops up on about page on Real-Time Fact Checking With "Truth Teller" · · Score: 1

    Anyone else getting asked to log into the admin of their wordpress when viewing their about page?

  20. Police versus Military on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    Riots are handled by police, not by the military. Check out the Posse Comitatus Act

  21. Re:Firebug on Mozilla To Enable Click-To-Play For All Firefox Plugins By Default · · Score: 1

    yup, thank you for the correction, sorry for the mistake.

  22. Firebug on Mozilla To Enable Click-To-Play For All Firefox Plugins By Default · · Score: 1

    Agreed, the really only reason to use the memory hog firefox is for the sweet plugin firebug.

  23. Current U.S. Landmines do this on DARPA Seeks To Secure Data With Electronics That Dissolve On Command · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Antipersonnel landmines used by the United States, with the exception of those now warehoused for use in Korea, do not have long-term residual effects because they are self-destructing and/or self-deactivating"

    Reference here

  24. Molecular computers on DARPA Seeks To Secure Data With Electronics That Dissolve On Command · · Score: 1

    I could see this being accomplished through DNA computing, where you literally kill the device.

  25. Re:Poor definition of success but.... on Google Now Boasts World's No. 2 and No. 3 Social Networks · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately it does not say specifically how much Youtube is generating, which I would find interesting for this topic. Consider it cost a billion dollars to buy the site, have they broken even?