I cannot vote because in my region we have coal & fuel oil power plants, dams (renewable power) and I bet some of electricity I get is supplied by nuclear power plants.

On the scale of ratios I surmise most of my electricity is supplied by dam powerhouses (I see a major European river outside of my window).

I've read several times that Intel CPUs cost a little over $30 to manufacture, so don't think of Intel as Maecenas. Of course, they are lowering their profits by doing this, but they also give a lot more people the incentive and opportunity to overclock without fearing consequences like burnt $1000 CPUs.

1. < 1% of the circumference of Earth = < ~400km (~250 miles)
2. 1 to 3% of the circumference of Earth = ~400km (~250 miles) - ~1200km (~750 miles)
3. 4 to 10% of the circumference of Earth = ~1600km (~1000miles) - ~4000km (~2500miles), e.g. Mexico - Canada
4. 11 to 25% of the circumference of Earth = ~4400km (~2740miles) - ~10,000km (~6225miles), e.g. US - Moscow distance
5. 26 to 50% of the circumference of Earth = ~10400km (~6474miles) - ~20000km (12450miles), e.g. Australia - USA

I wonder why Seagate chose to slash their warranty even though its plants weren't affected by the floods.

A few years ago I read that cloned animals have the same age as their originals (right from the birth), thus cloning even middle aged animals becomes less attractive financially as clones have a substantially short(er) life span.

Is this fact still valid?

I typically run Fedora Linux, but I dual boot into Windows XP to play games..

I wonder how soon we will see the posts asking how to recover information from IDE drives - most modern motherboards lack this interface and in a few years IDE will be entirely abandoned (at least in the consumer oriented market).

My relatives live in the countryside and Internet access speed via a GSM network is abysmal (I'm talking solely about G2/Edge traffic) - around 4-6KB/sec vs theoretical limit of ~14KB/sec. Also access is very intermittent.

Is there a simple working solution (like the one outlined in this article) of boosting GSM connectivity for a 3G modem (which, alas, works only in 2G mode, since 3G masts are too far away).

Now, according to Apple's lawyers, if you ever worked for Apple, then your subsequent inventions for other companies may also very well belong to Apple:

In amongst the ITC court papers in the recent HTC versus Apple spat is an argument which claims that Andy Rubin got inspiration for Android framework while working at Apple, hence infringing an Apple API patent.

This means that Android started at Apple, just by virtue of the fact that one of its former employees happened to have invented it. If this logic was applied, it would mean that it did not matter where an employee worked in their life all their inventions would be legally owned by the first company they worked for.

If cannot live without The Register, put into your hosts file

Linux: /etc/hosts
Windows: C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\host

these two lines:

72.3.246.59 theregister.co.uk
72.3.246.59 www.theregister.co.uk

And the summary of the article is apparently wrong, someone stole/hacked into TheRegister DNS zone, TheRegister www servers are intact.

... multiplies as mad and definitely has a split personality disorder.

He has already voted almost 5000 times.

It's a bit sad they haven't tested betas of Firefox, IE and Chrome.

E.g. Firefox 7 includes some memory usage optimizations which could easily halve its memory usage under the stress test Tom's Hardware guys carried out.

This poll demonstrates wealth distribution nicely - early adopters obviously have enough dough to shell out 200 thousand dollars even without batting an eyelid.

I still think there's zero need for actual humans to fly to Mars until we terraform it.