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  1. Not that much money on The Stanford Class That Built Apps and Made Fortunes · · Score: 1

    That's 1 million USD split 75 ways for roughly 4 months of work.

    Congratulations you're making $50/hour.

  2. Re:Fire? on Students Invent Revolutionary Solar Sterilizer · · Score: 2

    Does Strain 121 survive outside of extreme heat?

  3. Unconstitutional? on Google/Facebook: Do-Not-Track Threatens CA Economy · · Score: 1

    Is that a joke? How is the state government requiring businesses licensed in the state to do something like this unconstitutional?

  4. Re:A Perfect Match on More Data Centers Using On-Site Solar Power · · Score: 1

    They dont need to last for 12 hours, just long enough to make the transition to grid power.

  5. A Perfect Match on More Data Centers Using On-Site Solar Power · · Score: 0

    Solar power is a perfect match for data centers. Their power demand is basically constant and they already have large batteries on site. So the main drawback of solar power isn't a problem for them (mostly).

  6. Re:Why is NTFS read only. on OpenBSD 4.9 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    NTFS is only writable on linux though NTFS-3G, the write support in the kernel only works if the file size doesn't change.

  7. Re:Some of those are uh.. lame on Google Pumps $6 Million Into Summer of Code 2011 · · Score: 1

    You'd run this in a project directory which you have built from source, try it.

  8. Re:Some of those are uh.. lame on Google Pumps $6 Million Into Summer of Code 2011 · · Score: 1

    That will tell you the packages for which an already build (in the current directory) depends as configured. The step of generating the ebuild is trivial from there.

  9. Re:Some of those are uh.. lame on Google Pumps $6 Million Into Summer of Code 2011 · · Score: 1

    And in case anybody doubts the lameness of this specific project, behold

    find . -type f -executable -exec ldd {} \; | grep -vF "not a dynamic executable" | cut -f 1 -d " " | xargs equery belongs

    can i haz stipend?

  10. Some of those are uh.. lame on Google Pumps $6 Million Into Summer of Code 2011 · · Score: 1

    For example this one is lame

    ldd + equery belongs and some bash glue would do that.

  11. Re:It's called "market forces", dude. on US Funding Five Game-Changing Energy Projects · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox something most people spouting off about efficiency dont understand, congratulations on being smarter than those people.

  12. Re:Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers? on Purdue Claims World Record Goldberg Machine · · Score: 1

    Didn't you get the memo? Racism is O.K. as long as you're not white.

  13. Re:Top Gun on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Dying does not win wars. Killing does.

  14. Re:It is not impossible on Dropbox Can't See Your Dat– Er, Never Mind · · Score: 1

    Your information is incredibly out of date.

    Modern encryption schemes which involve writing to disk will use a CTR block cipher mode, which allows for random read/writes without propagation.

  15. Re:Obvious Possibility... on China Space Official Confounded By SpaceX Price · · Score: 1

    Falcon 9 uses kerosene, which is produced in high quantities only by light sweet crude. Libya produces about 10% of the worlds light sweet crude.

    So yeah inflation has been MUCH more than 10% for light sweet crude....

  16. Re:Obvious Possibility... on China Space Official Confounded By SpaceX Price · · Score: 2

    Inflation has been significantly more than 10% for the main component of the price, fuel.

  17. Re:As much as... on Computer Factories Are the Energy Hogs · · Score: 1

    You pay 0.25USD/kWh? owned (it's 0.07USD/kWh in california...)

  18. As Extensions! on Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All new features in firefox should be implemented as extensions. That is all.

  19. Gizmodo? Seriously? on Why Russian Space Images Look Different From NASA's · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Gawker media should be summarily banned.

    For those who don't know why http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/12/2234252/Gawker-Source-Code-and-Databases-Compromised

  20. Re:bitcoin-alt is a full client implementation on Google Engineer Releases Open Source Bitcoin Client · · Score: 1

    SQLAlchemy isn't actually being actively used. I'd appreciate issue reports on github though.

  21. Re:bitcoin-alt is a full client implementation on Google Engineer Releases Open Source Bitcoin Client · · Score: 1

    If anybody is interested you can purchase bitcoins through https://mtgox.com/

  22. Re:bitcoin-alt is a full client implementation on Google Engineer Releases Open Source Bitcoin Client · · Score: 1

    Not that I'm aware of, the protocol is more or less packets sent over TCP port 8333.

  23. bitcoin-alt is a full client implementation on Google Engineer Releases Open Source Bitcoin Client · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've been working on a full client implementation in python https://github.com/phantomcircuit/bitcoin-alt

    Just so people know BitcoinJ is not a full p2p node.

  24. Re:Much Ado About Nothing on Robert X Cringely Predicts More Mininuke Plants · · Score: 1

    Whats the cost to protect them by the way?

    Not much since you're supposed to bury them 10m underground?

  25. Total Coincidence ... Right? on GNU Free Call Announced, SIP-based VoIP · · Score: 4, Interesting