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  1. Re: O RLY? on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 1

    That would just result in his being dropped to when he shows up for the interview and they see he's older. I'd prefer to get circular binned right away so I could move on to someone that doesn't think that's a problem.

  2. Re:How about they release a new 64bit version for on Adobe Releases Sandboxed Flash Player For Firefox · · Score: 2

    Do you mean faces look blue? Try going into the flash settings and disable the hardware acceleration. But I saw there was a release of flash 11.2.202.236 recently so maybe that's fixed now.

  3. Re:Too late on Firefox 13 Released, Debuts Brand New Tab Page and Homepage · · Score: 1

    I tend to get a feeling that a lot of people with the 'firefox is slow' issue are using default features in FF that I always turn off: turn off -> block reported attack sites feature turn off -> block web forgeries sites turn off -> smooth scroll The first two use sqlite and I bet they have a performance hit, the third I think has a video speed hit I turned those off and am pretty happy with the performance, also I don't go completely crazy and install dozens of plugins, I only use noscript, better privacy, adblock, https everywhere, ghostery and flash block

  4. Re:Visible from ? on Weekend Lyrid Meteor Shower Visible From Earth · · Score: 1

    sorry, correction: 6000 mbar should be 6000 ubar

  5. Re:Visible from ? on Weekend Lyrid Meteor Shower Visible From Earth · · Score: 2

    Earth meteors tend to burn up at a very high altitude (75 to 100 km) where the air pressure is about 11 micro bars at 80 km and scale height of 7km. Since 11 ubars is much lower pressure than the atmosphere at Mar's surface which is about 6 mbar (6000 mbar), the meteors should still burn up but at a lower altitude on Mars than Earth.

  6. Re:"On the border between matter and anti-matter" on Scientists Find Long-Sought Majorana Particle · · Score: 3, Informative

    A fermion that is its own antiparticle has never been observed in nature before.

    There is one possible exception, the neutrino is a half spin fermion and if it really is zero mass it would be its own anti-particle. But recent evidence suggests a tiny but non-zero mass so if that's true it's not. Maybe one experiment would be to try to observe neutrino-antineutrino annihilation, if that occurs then they are Dirac fermions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorana_fermion

  7. Re:The article writer is a deaf idiot on Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    The other point is that even listening to 192k/24b properly means you need to send the data bit perfect to a 24bit / 192k capable DAC. People playing these new high res files through plain old software players on their computer and then out their sound card as analog to go to their preamp are kidding themselves. That kind of audio chain isn't going to be good enough to benefit from 24b/192k and pretty much explains the "I don't hear any improvement" result.

  8. Re:This was already tried on Small, Modular Nuclear Reactors — the Future of Energy? · · Score: 1
  9. If you wanted to learn dynamic typing from Java, why not try Groovy

  10. Re:No (fission) Nukes on Spontaneous Fission In Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 · · Score: 1

    If the Japanese reactors were build about 15 or 20 feet higher in elevation, the accident wouldn't have happened. That seems to be glossed over a lot.

  11. what about the compiler? on AMD 'Bulldozer' FX CPU Reviews Arrive · · Score: 1

    Lots of negative posts here about BD but remember, it's all the code being tested coming from compilers that have no clue about BD. In this case, the BD code is probably coming out as generic X86. To really test BD fairly, the compilers need updated to optimize for BD like the Intel processors get optimized.

  12. Re:No Parachutes? on SpaceX Reveals Plans For Full Launch System Re-usability · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing but then you lose the predictability of where the vehicle would land. They want to get back to that particular pad. If you just want to splash in the 50km by 50km box in the ocean, parachutes work well.

  13. Time for optical gps on the U2s? on North Korea Forced US Reconnaissance Plane To Land · · Score: 1

    There are some non-radio based replacements for GPS around. They should be unjammable but are they accurate enough. http://www.trexenterprises.com/Products%20and%20Services/Sensors/opticalgps.html

  14. Re:A bunch of kids on PayPal Hands Over 1,000 IP Addresses To the FBI · · Score: 1

    Why is everyone assuming they'll arrest these kids (assuming the paypal addresses just go to low level kids and patsies), probably the best move would be to monitor them to follow this up the chain of command to the real problem

  15. Re:Loss of mass on Heat 'Most Likely Cause' of Pioneer Anomaly · · Score: 2

    Changing the mass of an object in orbit has no effect on the trajectory due to the orbital mechanics, at least in this case where the object (Pioneer) is negligible in mass compared to the main object in the system (Sun).

  16. Re:Cool. on Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default · · Score: 1

    rpm -q --list btrfs-progs | grep btrfsck /sbin/btrfsck /usr/share/man/man8/btrfsck.8.gz The description of that in the man page says: DESCRIPTION btrfsck is used to check a btrfs filesystem. device is the device file where the filesystem is stored. That's in my current install of Fedora 15, maybe the btrfs wiki is stale. They do seem to take their time updating it.

  17. Re:My thoughts after several months with Btrfs for on GRUB 1.99 Released With Support For ZFS and BtrFS · · Score: 1

    I still wouldn't recommend using Btrfs for / unless you have a separate /home partition, though: there is not yet any fsck.btrfs!

    Wrong, I think it was recently added, I can see it right now in my copy of btrfs-progs on Fedora 14: rpm -q --list btrfs-progs | grep fsck /sbin/btrfsck /usr/share/man/man8/btrfsck.8.gz

  18. Re:Let mail delivery die. on Tech Experts Look To Help Save the Postal Service · · Score: 1

    Not where I live, the tomatoes that are wrapped are just the small cherry variety that would roll all over otherwise. The big ones just sit in a bin and you put them in a bag. Recycling is also more common in the US than you seem to be implying. Where I'm at the government keeps encouraging it and they currently accept plastic, including grocery bags, glass, metal cans, paper including dirty cardboard (pizza boxes,...), aluminum, newpapers, and plant debris (grass clippings, leaves, shrub trimmings).

  19. Re:Wait a minute on Why Linux Loses Out On Hardware Acceleration In Firefox · · Score: 1

    The flashblock plugin in Firefox helps a lot with this problem.

  20. Re:Science on Researchers Race To Recover Radioactive Rabbits · · Score: 1

    >rabbits (and other things) don't become radioactive when exposed to radiation That's not 100% true, neutron radiation will make inert material radioactive. Inert containment vessels become radioactive after the neutron radiation for a few months and years modifies the steel in the vessel. That occurs without any transport of actual radioactive material into the steel.

  21. Re:Isn't this the plot in a Mel Gibson Movie? on New Air Conditioner Process Cuts Energy Use 50-90% · · Score: 1

    Yes, H.Ford's character is an inventor and packs up his family and leaves the US because he thinks that the US and modern society is doomed. They go live in the jungle in South America and he builds a ice machine for the natives..various bad things happen.

  22. Re:Isn't this the plot in a Mel Gibson Movie? on New Air Conditioner Process Cuts Energy Use 50-90% · · Score: 1

    No, that was "Mosquito Coast" and the inventor was played by Harrison Ford and not Mel Gibson

  23. wrap a plastic bag around the preventer on DoE Posts Raw Data From Oil Spill, Coast Guard Asks For Tech Help · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm still wondering why can't they make a mile long plastic tube (tough nylon mesh fabric coated with oil proof material) that's wider than the BOP at the bottom end. Lower it down from a tanker to the BOP, use the robots to wrap it around the bottom of the BOP so it's encased and then the oil will be contained and it could be pumped out at the surface. Oil is less dense than water so it should rise up the tube to the tanker. You don't even have to care about a poor seal at the bottom where the end is wrapped around the casement pipe since there's no pressure difference involved (unlike the other attempts so far where they jam things right in the pipe. Also since the oil is moving out in the open in the tube there's no freezing problems.

  24. How about using the building incoming water supply on Startup's Submerged Servers Could Cut Cooling Costs · · Score: 1

    I was wondering if it would cut cooling costs to use the building's main incoming water service as a cool heat sink. The part of this that goes to the hot water heater could be used to soak up heat from servers, then passed to the hot water heater which would then have an easier job. Only using the incoming supply to the water heater would avoid problems with warm tap water but in some cases that wouldn't matter (do most people care if the cold taps in the bathroom produce warm water?). If you could use the whole cold supply it would be a bigger heat sink.

  25. Re:SeaMonkey Composer is the best... on Mozilla Releases SeaMonkey 2.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Isn't that based off nvu and not Seamonkey's composer?