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  1. Re:1gb mem on An Early Peek At AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2 · · Score: 1

    16 chips actually. You missed the eight chips per processor part in your calculations.

  2. Re:Been selling for years on Best Buy Is Selling Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Indeed. In fact, I can't remember a time that I've gone into a Best Buy and *not* seen at least one Linux OS on the shelf.

    I guess it's a big deal to Ubuntu fanboys but not to everybody else.

  3. Re:New Era? on OpenSUSE 11.0 Released · · Score: 1

    openSUSE != Novell

  4. Re:Download DAY, Justin on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 1

    Why not? What's wrong with downloading it at 9am EDT tomorrow?

  5. Re:Culture --weird on Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms · · Score: 1

    Oh, even though I read the entire "article" I seemed to have missed the part where somebody was waving a gun around. I did read the part about guns being visible but nothing beyond that.

    Over here in the US, if somebody was waving a gun around, we too would consider that to be scary and would probably call the police who would arrest that person.

  6. Re:Bunches of small drives on What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who has time to do that on almost 100 drives?

    People that don't actually stare at the screen the entire time a disk is being wiped.
  7. Re:...Brought to you by Carl's Jr. on 35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, I think it's a good idea to force representatives to read out loud any legislation that they propose/endorse. Maybe then they'll actually read the fine details instead of just signing off on legislation that lobbyists wrote up for them.

  8. Re:Old! on Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies For Next 4 Years · · Score: 1

    Sources say that the unknown company is Singer.

  9. Re:PGP on How Would You Prefer To Send Sensitive Data? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now you're the one that isn't thinking. Assuming the OP doesn't use an insanely short bit length, it would take EVERY SINGLE COMPUTER ON THE PLANET working together at least a decade to brute force it.

    The math is simple, the amount of computing power to brute force PGP just doesn't exist on this planet yet. Maybe in a decade or two but then all we'd have to do is increase the bit length that PGP uses.

  10. Re:The basic problem here is ... on Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You must understand that the advertisers don't care if we're just eyeballs attached to brains. They're mainly concerned with whether or not we have a credit card to purchase whatever they're selling.

  11. Re:What is a good DIY success rate? on A Walk Through the Hard Drive Recovery Process · · Score: 1

    I recommend that people buy drives in pairs. That way you have a good drive to use as parts once the data has been moved off to a newer drive. Or, better yet, set up those two drives as a RAID mirror and have your recovery handled before the failure even occurs.

    Unless you really enjoy swapping out drive platters that is.
  12. Re:I can't describe how much i hate that show now on MacGyver Film In the Works? · · Score: 1

    Well, according to Leatherman, Mac did use a leatherman. They seem quite proud of that fact.



    http://www.leatherman.com/about-leatherman/history/default.asp
  13. Re:Server is not quite there yet.. on The Mac In the Gray Flannel Suit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Have you seen their XServe? horrible. The first iteration didn't have any hardware RAID available. If you wanted fault tolerant hard drives, you had to do it in software.

  14. Re:Good on Bill Prohibiting Genetic Discrimination Moves Forward · · Score: 1

    It's true that most insurance companies try to find loopholes to keep from having to pay beneficiaries but they probably wouldn't be so bad about it if people didn't commit so much insurance fraud. Fender benders turning into massive medical bills that just so happen to amount to the total medical coverage that the at fault person has on their insurance coverage is no coincidence and happens all too often.

  15. Re:Speaking as a married husband with a kid... on PC Gaming Suggestions for Console-like Fun? · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think the chances of the OP and his wife not having any legs and being unable to go outside to explore the world is a bit slim.

  16. Re:Americans DO care on Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ? · · Score: 1

    I've posted this before, but here's a survey that shows Americans are against Warrantless Wiretaps, Blanket Warrants, And Immunity For
    Telecom Companies.


    They're against it and yet, I'll bet that they're not quite against it enough to do anything about it. In the US, it is a long way from complaining about something while watching a news report and actually doing something to change what you're complaining about.

  17. Re:I'm confused about something. . . on MythTV 0.21 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because Zap2It wasn't offering a pay service for individuals anymore. Zap2It doesn't have the infrastructure in place to accept payments from thousands of individual people. They are built around accepting large payments from dozens of companies for those companies to use. Zap2It got tired of individuals taking advantage of their free service and they didn't want to bother with setting up a pay system for individuals so Schedules Direct was created to fill in the gap.

  18. Re:Opertunity Cost? on Mega-Cash Prizes and Revolutionary Science · · Score: 1

    First of all, the prize is for things like developing a new type of fusion. Building a lunar robot is a very specific goal for which we already have lots of contests. The prizes mentioned in this article are for big picture things that benefit huge numbers of people.

    Also, there is one way to eliminate duplication of effort. At a young age children are given aptitude tests and educated appropriately to enhance their strengths. When they come of age, they are assigned a research topic and work on it for approximately the rest of their life. I seem to remember this being tried somewhere before in the not too distant past..

  19. Re:Boycott all commercial antivirus programs? on Trend Micro Draws Boycott Over AV Patent Case · · Score: 1

    pay up on your Norton subscription or we'll trash your Windows install

    I thought Norton automatically trashed your Windows install as soon as you install it...

  20. Re:wait a second... on Top 10 Most Memorable Tech Super Bowl Ads · · Score: 1

    No shit. Then there's the fact that it's supposed to be the "most memorable" ads. Did the editors even *look* at that Salesgenie ad? One of the most boring and tired ads I've seen.

  21. Re:Good administration on Mario Christmas Mural Video · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many times have you taken freshman level English?

  22. Re:Corporate Juries on Did SCO Get Linux-mob Justice? · · Score: 1

    It's simple really, a jury of a company's peers is a group of companies. So, gather together the articles of corporation for a bunch of companies and place them on chairs in the courtroom.

  23. The real world on In The US, Email Is Only For Old People · · Score: 1

    And then there are those of us in the real world that realize that IM, social sites, and e-mail can (and do) all work together in our everyday lives.

  24. Re:The evil thing here on Datacenter Robbed for the Fourth Time in Two Years · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In that forum, it was posted that the hosting provider had posted a job application for somebody willing or able to carry a gun. They were hiring at minimum wage or just above minimum wage if you had experience with guns.

    So, they're looking to hire people that carry guns that are willing to accept a job at minimum wage. That should tell you something right there.

  25. Re:Bah! It's an encyclopedia, stupid! on Call For Halt To Wikipedia Webcomic Deletions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's a shame then. Wikipedia could be so much more and yet it decides to limit itself to just be an encyclopedia.