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  1. Re:Without any evidence? on Online Forum Speeding Boast Leads To Conviction · · Score: 1

    That article is short on details but this one is pretty clear:
    http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/845967--speeding-boast-online-costs-19-year-old-his-licence

    "Just looking at forums is obviously not enough, so an investigation was launched," said Const. Serguei Barmakov.

    He said police canvassed the neighbourhood and found a person who had witnessed the speeding incident and was willing to give a statement. Soon after, they found Rigenco.

    "He knew it was coming and he was remorseful for his actions," Barmakov said.

    Barmakov said the Apple Blossom Dr. incident wasn't an isolated occurrence -- many of Rigenco's neighbours were concerned about his driving.

    Also why he had a $40k+ car:

    Spektor said Rigenco's parents, who don't know much about cars, bought the M5 for him as a reward for doing well in school

    It goes on to say that the parents took away his car as a result of his reckless behavior.

  2. Incompleteness on Possible Issues With the P != NP Proof · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes there can be a proof to prove that there is no proof. Check out Godel's Incompleteness Theorem

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_theorems

    Gödel's incompleteness theorems are two theorems of mathematical logic that establish inherent limitations of all but the most trivial axiomatic systems for mathematics. The theorems, proven by Kurt Gödel in 1931, are important both in mathematical logic and in the philosophy of mathematics. The two results are widely interpreted as showing that Hilbert's program to find a complete and consistent set of axioms for all of mathematics is impossible, thus giving a negative answer to Hilbert's second problem.

    Not sure if any such effort exists though in this case.

  3. Re:We are blessed on Senate Approves the ______Act Of____ · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never met a congressman.

  4. Re:Enough! on Rubik's Cube Now Solvable in 20 Moves · · Score: 1

    Bah. Flys are easy regardless of direction. It's a linear motion. Grip and rip. Nothing like tieing a shoe which requires overlapping and directional mirroring in the head.

    Grab fly. Pull down. Where's the trouble?

    Maybe if you had never unzipped a tent, back pack, thermos, or jacket on a hanger it would be hard. But... I would imagine by the age of 5 you would be quite adept at all those.

  5. Re:That's how the market is supposed to work. on Just One Out of 16 Hybrids Pays Back In Gas Savings · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except that as of 2008 Toyota reported that they had sold a grant total of... 0 batteries due to wear and tear.

  6. Re:This is clearly a hoax on Louisiana, Intelligent Design, and Science Classes · · Score: 1

    The official catholic position as I understand it is that Evolution is an accurate description of the "what happened" but that it was God that breathed the soul and conscience into mankind.

    In metaphoric terms the species was the 'mud' and God came down and imbued humanity with its soul.

    Personally of course I think that viewpoint is problematic in that it completely dismisses the significance of animal intelligence -- for example the pretty well developed intellectual and moral faculties of other primates, but it's at least a step in the right direction. If they could just drop the artificial distinction imposed on the Homosapien species they would be pretty 'safe' in not conflicting with widely accepted empirical knowledge.

  7. Re:Prometheus on Gamers Beat Algorithms At Finding Protein Structures · · Score: 1

    Or did they just read Ender's game or...

    Not exactly a new concept.

  8. Re:Eh? on Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay? · · Score: 1

    You can also of course go even cheaper than that. We're comically well covered on the backup front. (nightly mirrored servers, shadow copy, RAID everything, offsite portable RAIDs, LTO.) And we have no IT staff except for a company that we can call when necessary for hourly work and a guy who pushes the button to copy to the offsite RAID every night and takes home. We have 5TB of storage for 5 graphics workstations and 15 render nodes. We also have 8TB of less frequently backed up deep storage and archive.

    Total cost for hardware was about $25k. Total IT costs probably less than $10k a year. Across 3 years our storage costs about 10c/GB per month. And I'm giving an extremely healthy buffer on the personnel costs since it's about 1 hour of work per week on an employee (actually in our case owner) who already is covered and certainly has some free time.

    For $30 a month per GB I would buy everybody in my company a 2TB USB HDD and a premium automatic web hosting account.

  9. Re:This is clearly a hoax on Louisiana, Intelligent Design, and Science Classes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As an atheist who attended a religiously affiliated school that taught creationism K-12 and on weekends I have a much better solution.

    Mandate teaching those little bastards every religious idea they will probably come across and give Christianity no preferential or differential treatment. "Evolution might be wrong. Here are some alternate popular theories: There was this ice giant and he.... or there was a divine being who came down and sculpted men out of mud and then breathed on them. Or they are the manifestation of a divine being's dream. Or..."

    Do that for about a day and wait for the outrage as parents demand that the school stop teaching their impressionable little children that the world was created from a yak.

  10. Re:yes, please. on Al Franken's Warning On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    When did liberals start listening to comedians for their politics .... oh guess that been every sense pelsoi and friends have been a joke of a government.

    Well considering he was a satirist which means he had to follow very closely news and public policy I would say he's at least as qualified as: (random war hero), (failed ex-CEO), (wealthy magnate's child), (career ideologue), etc...

    You could say he's a comedian or you could say he's an author and writer who has spent a significant portion of his life writing and thinking about political science.

  11. Re:It's in their best interests on 4 Cores? 6 Cores? Do You Care? · · Score: 1

    But that 200MHZ difference might make a huge difference.

    I think core count is going to fall by the way side very soon.

    We don't count cores on GPUs. The latest ATI card has something like 2500 'stream processors' and the latest NVidia card has 280 'CUDA units'. Neither of which tell us anything. Even knowing how many CUDA units are on two Nvidia cards isn't terribly useful since memory, clock speeds etc also have a huge impact.

    The best system is the same system we've always relied on as informed consumers: testing. Benchmark it and find out how much faster it is. Maybe that 200MHZ (and some behind the scenes optimizations of the execution stack) produces a dramatic increase in performance. Maybe it does nothing. Only testing will tell.

  12. Re:Or on Damn Vulnerable Linux — Most Vulnerable Linux Ever · · Score: 1

    I'm no fanboy but a $20 Netgear Router also would have prevented that.

  13. Re:Almost never make it a priority in development on Adding CSS3 Support To IE 6, 7 and 8 With CSS3 Pie · · Score: 1

    That lawsuit was initiated by Netscape over bundling not standards.

    And if you think IE had 'poor standards compliance' you must have never targeted Netscape.

  14. Re:In Soviet Brazil on Brazil Forbids DRM On the Public Domain · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's not crazy or upside down at all.

    The United States Economy is built largely on IP law. We export research, science, art and knowledge to other countries which manufacture products based on that investment.

    Publishers and Manufacturers just put data on disks and pages. Without IP laws standing in their way they could make DVDs for $0.01 each. They still make just as much profit as before (actually more since they can sell a DVD now for $1 and pocket $0.99 instead of $0.001 profit on manufacturing they would charge before.

    They're leading the way because they have no interest in protecting intellectual property.

  15. Re:Flying fuck. on Fastest Graphics Ever, Asus ARES Rips Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    I would flip the question: How relevant is it AS a gaming card?

    Maxing settings and still matching your monitors refresh rate isn't uncommon on 'ancient' video cards.

    If however this beast of a card could accelerate GPGPU tasks then it would be useful since I know of no GPGPU task which couldn't benefit from more processing power.

  16. OpenCL? on Fastest Graphics Ever, Asus ARES Rips Benchmarks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah but what about OpenCL performance?

    Some of Anandtech's Fermi benchmarks put it 4x+ behind in GPGPU tests.

  17. Re:Which 90% ? on Dell Says 90% of Recorded Business Data Is Never Read · · Score: 1

    Yep that's our approach as well. 100% of our data has to be stored because the need to access that 10% is completely random and beyond our control. "Hey remember that job you guys did 3 years ago. Can you do something just like it but change a few words?"

    Our primary storage system is three tiered:

    'Local' RAID0 for >200MBs with no backup or redundancy.
    'Online' Working Storage on a daily mirrored server and RAID15'ed NAS for ~70MBs This also goes offsite every day on a portable RAID.
    and
    'Nearline' which is a JBOD server for easy access to all the archives but is only periodically backedup. It is however on multiple LTO tapes offsite so we could restore it within about 24 hours.

    After a job is finished it goes into a 'hopper' on the Online server. The hopper is periodically emptied onto the Nearline storage and backed up at the time to Offline Tapes and drives.

    In this arangement about 90% of our data is on a JBOD server and tape. Both of which are incredibly easy to increase in capacity. You could buy 40TB of storage and keep it accessible to everybody for less than $5k. It won't be speedy but it doesn't need to be. Put 90% of your data on something which is only accessed 10% of the time. Then put everything that's "active" onto the main server.

    If someone needs something to be responsive then they can move it back to the main server until it's no longer needed and put back into the archive hopper.

  18. Re:Yay for common sense on Zoho Don't Need No Stinking Ph.D. Programmers · · Score: 1

    On the other hand thanks slightly in part to my degree (my employer actually asked how much it would cost them to convince me to drop out of college and work full time so maybe only very slightly) I graduated and was able to get a job that payed well enough for me to pay off my $20+k in student loans before I had even start paying interest.

    If I hadn't already been employable out of high-school but instead done the learning in college then my degree would have been a great investment.

    I viewed college as a time to take out a ton of loans and not have to work in exchange for learning. If I wasn't in college then I wouldn't have found anyone to give me a loan large enough to spend time exploring and learning what I wanted to learn. When else do you get 4 years (well I did it in 2.5 but in general 4 years) to go where you want and learn what you want without any immediate practical application? I think that's really important to an education. Like basic research, I think it's critical that you learn about philosophy, sociology, psychology, the arts etc etc to base your practical knowledge on as a human being. Even though my work is my passion and consumes most of my waking day it's been enriched by my experience and education about the world at large.

    If you want to be a desk grunt your whole life then you can get on the job training. If you want to be a well rounded individual and offer insights to a broad variety of challenges then it helps to have a wider base of training than what any one task will offer.

    I work in a field that doesn't really demand or see any merit to a college degree. And I often run into fellow employees who can't solve problems because they don't understand the principles upon which their skills rest. They know how to use the tools but they don't understand why the tools were made they way they were and as a result can't create new tools to solve problems they haven't encountered. They're great at what they do, but they will never move into leadership positions because they can't see how to advance the state of the art beyond what's already been created.

  19. Re:Thanks on New US Broadband Projects Get $795 Million In Funding · · Score: 1

    I only live 20 minutes out of Tacoma, WA in Seattle, WA -- almost down town and the best internet I can get is 3mbps (sometimes). Where 20 minutes out of Tacoma are you? 20 minutes out of Tacoma could be on a small island in the middle of Puget Sound.

    This Rant isn't directed at you, it's just a general rant against the suburban entitlement attitude I've been butting heads with as of late.

    Personally I think we need to forget about rural areas and focus on the our urban centers. We'll cover a lot more people for a lot less money. Instead of stringing wire 50 miles to an empty field for $1m to wire up one person maybe people should start to accept that living outside of town in your giant house with the big yard and 5 car garage comes with additional costs.

    It really annoys me as someone who has no yard and a small apartment at rural mortgage monthly rates when people complain that government isn't serving them well enough and that their commute is full of traffic when they willingly moved 30 miles out of the city so that they could save money on housing and property.

    We need a suburban tax. If someone wants government to be more efficient and less wasteful then they have to be a part of that solution by recognizing that not all government services will be able to serve all areas equally. I saw a conservative rant that liberals were trying to force people to move into cities where it would be easier to control them under some draconian Orwellian scenario. Yes. You're right. If you live 300 miles from the nearest urban center but still expect the government to give you a nice well paved road then you better be ready for 'big government' because the free market will never build a road to you.

    There is this disconnect in the modern conservative attitude that they don't get anything from the government and that it's all the cities who are taking all the money. I've lived in a small town and I've lived in the city and the difference is that the small town gets tons of resources and spends a ton of money keeping a very small group of people at even better standards than the city. They would repave roads every year or two in my town. In the city even though my road sees 10x as much traffic it rarely gets repaired.

    We need to stop catering to the suburbanite commuters who tax the entire system by moving into the 'burbs to avoid the 'city tax' and expect all of the city services to follow them. I had a friend who just moved to Bothell who always complains about government spending--now he complains there is too much traffic and the government needs to double the size of the highway so that his commute isn't so long. YOU MOVED 30 MINUTES OUT OF THE CITY--LIVE WITH IT. /Rant

  20. Re:We All Wish on Climategate's Final Days · · Score: 1

    The Earth will easily compensate for any CO2 humans dump in the atmosphere - the question is how quickly is does so, and how high the spike can get.

    The trouble with natural processes is that they don't care about the path to equilibrium. This is something I always have to remind my libertarian friends. "Sure the economy will stabilize but it'll get there by the most direct path regardless of what's in the way. Like an avalanche it'll equalize. Whether or not you, a highway or a village is in the way is of no concern to it. It's up to us humans to manage the natural processes to direct the equilibrium in a conscientious and moral way to minimize the human cost--even if it's less efficient."

  21. Re:We have to! on World Cup Prediction Failures · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is what drove me crazy about watching Star Trek TOS. Spock would always try to cover is his irrational and mentally handicapped shortcomings by blaming it on 'irrationality'. The worst was when Kirk beats him at chess. "That move was illogical." Yo. Spock. If he beat you, it was obviously the most rational move.

    To not take into consideration the motivations and irrationalities of the agents in a system is to not model the system at all.

    There are a lot of straw Vulcans in the financial market. They reject the idea that people don't always look out for their own best interests or have insufficient education to actually make an informed decision.

  22. Re:Educated, not crazy and not afraid. on Unique ID In India Causes 'Fear of the Beast' · · Score: 1

    Here's the problem. Christians have an overwhelming majority in the United States. They set policy. As a result they aren't concerned about their perception.

    When you're a small little pocket of believers as Christians began they have to be in PR mode 24/7 and all be saints.

    Now that just about everyone is a Christian in America they are free to be homophobic, intolerant and generally unchristian--using religion to advance personal/political goals.

    If Christiany were to see a large drop in customers you can be sure that the happy go-lucky, don't rock the vote attitude would re-emerge to try and persuade the population at large that they aren't a threatening group and should just be left alone at worst or looked into at best.

    For the early church surrounded by dictators and military rule, the very best survival strategy was to be as non-confrontational or threatening as possible. Focus on the positive, spiritual and ethical theology of peace.

    Now they're free to teach the theology of violence and discrimination because nothing threatens their power. That's how you can tell that Christianity isn't truly discriminated against today, despite the blathering from the right to the contrary. If Christianity were truly being persecuted its leaders wouldn't feel safe to make such outrageous claims on a daily basis such as Hitler employing Homosexuals because heterosexuals weren't vicious enough.

  23. Re:Context Fail on Unique ID In India Causes 'Fear of the Beast' · · Score: 1

    Not sure if it's true but in my ol' bible classes growing up I was told that hitting someone with your left hand or back handed was seen as more embarrassing to the slapper than the slapped. So if they slapped you and you only showed your other cheek then they would have to slap you in a self disrespectful fashion and make themselves look bad in the process.

    I have absolutely no idea if that's true. It very likely may not be true and is just modern propaganda to try to make Jesus compliant with modern douche baggery but that's the 'official story' for why turning the other cheek doesn't mean happy liberal peace rainbows.

  24. Re:Does the U.S. really want to be like China or I on Say No To a Government Internet "Kill Switch" · · Score: 3, Informative

    If by most you mean US treasury securities and if by most you mean I believe about 11% then yes.

  25. Re:More ads faster! on IEEE Releases 802.3ba Standard · · Score: 1

    Even with Gigabit and 10:1 wavelet compression you're pretty much dandy. 10gb I think would be good enough with adequate compression.