Comment Re:Here is 67 Terabytes for $7867 (Score 1) 420
How is 67 terabytes almost a petabyte?
Comment Deceiving. (Score 5, Insightful) 208
"78 miles per gallon on the European cycle"
Sure, and my plug in golf car gets mpg on any test thrown at it. Really that's poor and deceitful advertising. This car is a plug in car - it doesn't generate it's own electricity. It's not like a prius where you just fill it and forget about it, you're supplying another form of energy yourself. Saying what MPG it gets is redundant unless you also show how many Joules of electricity it used in the process as well.
Comment Re:19" avarage (Score 1) 375
Shouldn't that be a 19 and 2/3 average?
Comment Re:Ubuntu 10.04 (Score 1) 417
I just installed 10.04 on a Dell Precision T3400 about two weeks ago. No issues here.
Comment Re:Not just density (Score 2, Interesting) 315
The same was said of hard disks and tape about a decade ago. People cried out that disks would never approach the storage capabilities of LTO, and that disks were only good for small amounts of storage at relatively high performance. Lo and behold though, the desktop market drove HDD purchases far beyond LTO, which meant more money was poured into research in that area. History repeats itself. I have a feeling that we'll see the marketing powers that be pushing SSD drives as the latest and greatest, which means there will be a user demand. User demand will create more funding for research, and eventually SSD's will catch up with disk drives.
Cell Phone Interception At Def Con 95
ChrisPaget writes "I'm planning a pretty significant demonstration of GSM insecurity at Defcon next week, where I'll intercept and record cellular calls made by my attendees, live on-stage, no user-input required. As you can imagine, intercepting cellphones is a Very Big Deal in the eyes of the law; this blog post is an attempt to reassure everyone that their privacy is being taken seriously despite the nature of the demo. I'm not just making it up either — the EFF have helped significantly with the details."
Comment Re:Will be a hard pill to swallow... (Score 1) 324
s/pour/poor
Comment Re:Wouldn't a DSP do better? (Score 2, Informative) 137
Price. GPUs are being mass produced. Why create a separate market that only has the DSP in it (even if the technology is already present and utilized by GPUs) for the relatively small amount of servers that will be using them?
Pacific Trash Vortex To Become Habitable Island?
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thefickler writes "The Pacific Ocean trash dump is twice the size of Texas, or the size of Spain combined with France. The Pacific Vortex, as it is sometimes called, is made up of four million tons of plastic. Now, there's a proposal to turn this dump into 'Recycled Island.' The Netherlands Architecture Fund has provided the grant money for the project, and the WHIM architecture firm is conducting the research and design of Recycled Island. One of the three major aims of the project is to clean up the floating trash by recycling it on site. Two, the project would create new land for sustainable habitation complete with its own food sources and energy sources. Lastly, Recycled Island is to be a seaworthy island. While at the moment the project is still more or less a pipe dream, it's great that someone is trying to work out what to do with one of humanity's most bizarre environmental slip-ups."
Comment To be fair, (Score 4, Insightful) 387
This is a pretty common thing legally. Corporations will often pay legal fees larger than the returns of a court case, if it means they can set precedence for the future. The other benefit is it creates fear in those who would have otherwise pirated songs.
NASA Adds $5M Prizes For Robots, Solar Spacecraft 17
coondoggie writes "NASA today significantly expanded its Centennial Challenges program to include $5 million worth of new competitions to develop robots, small satellites, and solar powered spacecraft. One of the new competitions is the Sample Return Robot Challenge. Its purpose is to demonstrate a robot that can locate and retrieve geologic samples from wide and varied terrain without human control. This challenge has a prize purse of $1.5 million. The objectives are to encourage innovations in automatic navigation and robotic manipulator technologies."
Man Claims 84% of Facebook, Gets Order Blocking Assets 326
Cyrus writes "According to a Bloomberg scoop, a New York man claiming to own a majority of Facebook has gotten a signed court order to block Facebook from transferring assets."
Apple Censors Consumer Report iPhone4 Discussions 588
An anonymous reader writes "Apple has done it again. All threads about Consumer Report's iPhone4 non-recommendation are removed or deleted.
If it happened once, maybe you'd say it was a glitch. But what if it happened twice? Three times? Four times, five, six?"
Comment Re:I have one, here's my take (Score 1) 507
Oop, this was my comment, not sure why the "post anonymously" button was checked.
-pwnies
Comment Re:so much ego, so little marketshare (Score 1) 58
New dists are nice if your target market is going to be primarily running your product as a live cd. While I agree with you in most cases, I can see why they'd chose to go for a separate distribution.
