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  1. Re:This is not AVG itself on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are prompted if you want the toolbar during installation. That is not the problem. It is the LinkScanner for AVG Safe Search that is causing this. You can also install AVG without it: Instructions. You can also disable the add-on in both Firefox and IE7, I do not know how to disable it in IE6.

  2. Re:copper on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So all of my invested dollars are worth more not less?

  3. Re:it's not compensation, it's booty on New Grads Shun IT Jobs As "Boring" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Look at Michael Ward, the CEO of CSX. He has done little else than provide a 320% return since he's become CEO in 2003 and there is a proxy fight to oust him and his board of directors? These guys have to handle incredible amounts of responsibility and pressure let alone the cut throat nature of the business.

  4. Re:What's the point? on IcedTea's OpenJDK Passes Java Test Compatibility Kit · · Score: 2, Informative

    64-bit plugin for 64-bit browsers. For some strange reason Sun refuses to release one. The current icedtea plugin for my Gentoo amd64 install works about 50% of the time. Hopefully they can get that up to where it is more compatible

  5. Re:Obama better support this too on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    There are approximately 68 million acres of land that is licensed for drilling that does not have oil. The oil companies bought that land on speculation and came up dry, you don't just drill into the earth and get oil. The problem is that we, as in our congress, is not permitting them to drill where there are known resources, e.g. offshore.

  6. Re:Obama better support this too on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    That reminds of something that's hardly ever talked about -- China is tapping old Russian oil facilities in Cuba. Basically, they're already gunning for Florida's oil while we all sit around and play politics instead. This is a very good point. I seen a map of where they are drilling and it is just south of Florida's coast. They are going to pull the same trick that Mr. Burn's Slant Drilling Company did to Springfield Elementary.
  7. Re:endanger the power grid? on Data Center Designers In High Demand · · Score: 1

    The 6,000W/sqft is a very high number and pretty rare. I am currently designing a relatively small data center for a university that has 1,000kW of computing power in a 2,400 sqft room. That comes out to a little over 400W/sqft for computing which is more common. The amount of cooling that I am installing is 4 100-ton chillers. The total load is about 300-tons, the 4th is for backup. The chillers with distribution pumps, cooling tower pumps, etc, consume 1.6kW / ton of cooling. So for 300 tons of cooling, about 480kW plus the 1,000kW of computing or 1,480kW. Divide that by the area and you get about 620W/sqft. That is a little more efficient than most, it is using chilled water that is directly connected via a manifold to each server rack which are water cooled.

    A standard underfloor air system will use about 3-5kW per ton of cooling.

    You have to remember with solar, you are installing on the roof and generally the data center will not be the entirety of the building, so you can potentially have a larger surface to install the solar than the area you are powering. There are also window pane solar collectors. I have read about a new office high rise that was getting a ridiculous amount of its usage, like in the 30-50% range, from those solar panel windows.

  8. Re:endanger the power grid? on Data Center Designers In High Demand · · Score: 3, Informative

    I am an HVAC engineer and design some data centers. The power usage on some new densely populated centers can range up to 6,000 watts per square foot. For perspective, the average office building is around 10-12 watts per square foot.

  9. Re:The EFF sure taught the industry a lesson! on EFF Wins Promo CD Resale Case · · Score: 1

    They used to send you an order form every month, if you didn't send it back with the box checked saying you didn't want their selection of the month, you would receive a CD and a $20 charge for it.

  10. Re:Not to speak ill of the dead ... on Tim Russert Dies At 58 · · Score: 1

    You are trying to smear possibly the only relatively unbiased guy on NBC with a Huffington Post article, on the day he dies. You sir, are a worse man than I. And you get modded informative, nice.

  11. Re:The EFF sure taught the industry a lesson! on EFF Wins Promo CD Resale Case · · Score: 1

    I haven't been a member of Columbia House for 15 years, but that is exactly what they used to do to you. Is that illegal now, was it illegal back then?

  12. Re:stupid, confusing war on terror... on SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1

    They're called enemy combatants because they fail, at a minimum, two requirements of the Geneva convention to have its rules apply to them (and thus be considered PoW's):

    - that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance (there are limited exceptions to this among countries who observe the 1977 Protocol I)
    - that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.

    Its good to know that there is at least one person here who understands this.
  13. Re:Okay. Here's *MY* blog entry, Senator on McCain Asks Supporters To Campaign On Blogs · · Score: 1

    Petrol is expensive in Europe because of the huge taxes on it.

    At a pump price of 128.8p/litre (typical for diesel as at May 2008), this would put the combined tax at 69.53p/litre, or approximately USD$5.20 per US gallon. Thus without tax, the retail price would be 59.26p per litre, making a combined tax rate of 117%.

    Still want socialized medicine?

  14. Re:Okay. Here's *MY* blog entry, Senator on McCain Asks Supporters To Campaign On Blogs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So you have an issue with $4 gas but you are going to vote for Obama? You do understand that the reason we are paying $4 a gallon is because we can't drill in this country. The far left, and make no mistake, Obama is the most left voting member of the Senate, is the group that is not allowing us to tap into the potential 400 billion, yes billion, barrels in North Dakota and Montana. That is almost double the amount is Saudi Arabia, yet we can't use it. I personally think the high price tag is good, it is actually causing us to conserve and reduce our oil usage, but we don't have to be sending that money to countries that hate us.

  15. Re:A sign of distorted economics in the ISP indust on Legal Trouble For Multiple ISPs · · Score: 1

    What utopia do you live in where you get "cut off" at 10 gallons for $20.

  16. Re:Oblig Simpsons reference on Software Update Shuts Down Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 1

    I wash myself with a rag on a stick.

  17. Re:Weak on H-1B Foes Challenge Bush Administration In Court · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Teachers are paid very well considering they only work 75% of the year, once tenured have basically no fear of getting fired, they have good benefits and a substantial pension. I know alot of teachers in the Chicago area and once you've got experience plenty are in the six figure salary range. Maybe it is different elsewhere, but here in Illinois teachers are over compensated.

  18. Re:OK, fine... on gNewSense Distro Frees Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Where are these mythical open source ATi drivers? They promised and failed to deliver in the past and looks like more of the same. Sure there are OS drivers for cards made 5 years ago, but to get new cards with 3D you still need the fglrx blob, which has been quite buggy for quite some time. I replaced all of my ATi cards with nVidia's and haven't been happier. I understand the importance of opening drivers, but until they actually do it, I will stick with the more stable blob of binaries which at the moment nVidia has hands down.

  19. Re:IQ Test? on The Smartest Browser and OS · · Score: 1

    What I thought was suspect was that they mentioned George Best as the original drummer for the Beatles. It was actually Pete Best.

  20. Re:The Question on Ballmer Says Vista Selling Really Well · · Score: 1

    So you give Microsoft 2 sales instead of one, way to stick it to them!

  21. Re:That was silly.. on Feds Now Allowed To Use Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think you are making a very poor assumption that the laws weren't indeed passed explicitly for those "other, unforeseen ways."

  22. Re:the problem is combining ... on New Malware Report Hits Vista's Security Image · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The fact of the matter is that Microsoft is king because Linux software isn't even there yet when it comes to quality. Whenever you have new hardware you probably can't even use linux because the drivers haven't come out yet or are beta and/or a bitch to install. So I take it you haven't used Vista then? My scanner doesn't have working Vista drivers, it works in XP and Linux just fine. When Vista decided that my network is "local only" with no way to resolve it, I removed Vista and haven't looked back. You can argue some positive points with respect to Vista, but quality and driver support are not two of them.
  23. Re:Stability on Linux? on Firefox 3 RC1 Out Now · · Score: 1

    I am not sure about you, but my credit card company websites actually incorporate flash into the page, so isn't the idea that open source == more secure negated if they are using proprietary technologies?

  24. Re:Stability on Linux? on Firefox 3 RC1 Out Now · · Score: 1

    Opera hasn't done that in years. Actually almost three years.

  25. Re:IT discovers boiler scheduling on Round Robin Scheduling Not Power-Efficient · · Score: 1

    That sounds more like a constant volume system and not a zoned system. If it is a zoned system, unfortunately the balancing contractors are at fault most of the time. If they only go through and set the circuit setters and balancing dampers once instead of doing a couple times, the most remote zone will not be balanced correctly with decreasing error up to the the first zone.