I have never seen any land on nevada that can be used for farming. Remember for farming you need (1) cheap and plentiful water and (2) high quality soil.

It is great news that the Linux kernel performance keeps improving, and nowadays you can get the fastest performing commonly used OS for free. But I have to point out that the way the slashdot summary was written is misleading. The slashdot summary has the following quote:

'"This patch series was both controversial and experimental when it went in, but we're very hopeful of seeing speedups," James Bottomley, distinguished engineer at Novell said. "Just to set expectations correctly, the dcache/path lookup improvements really only impact workloads with large metadata modifications, so the big iron workloads (like databases) will likely see no change. However, stuff that critically involves metadata, like running a mail server (the postmark benchmark) should improve quite a bit."'

If you read the actual article you will notice that this quote refers only to the RCU portion. Other aspects like transparent huge pages are not controversial and they will improve database performance.

That being said, even if you choose to study only the engineering part, there should still be a lot of math required, as it is quite necessary to build applications that work. To follow your example, most reputable real world engineering degrees still require a lot of math even if it might no be quite as much as that required to become an actual physicist.

So even if you follow your distinction one still has to study math and algorithms for a software engineering degree.

Now if you really want a math free degree there could be a "code monkey" degree which will only train you to code simple things hoping that there is a well qualified person somewhere that figures out the complicated stuff and tells you what to do. That might be a possibility, but one should not fool themselves into thinking that one can write software applications of any complexity without knowing math.

Huh? Lieberman does not even like Obama. He did not support him for president and was very key in destroying his banking regulation reform. They are definitely not the same person.

You mean "dear leader Lieberman."

The fact that person A leaked something does not mean that person B did not leak it as well. You have no proof that Armitage leaked it. But even if you did have proof that Armitage leaked it that would not prove that Cheney and Libby did not leak it.

Also why do you think Armitage opposed the Iraq war? He was in the department of state which was not as gung ho about the war as the vice president and department of defense, but still supported the war.

The only thing that is known for certain in this whole affair is that Libby lied to a grand jury about it and obstructed justice.

I hoped the prosecutor did his job better and found out more about this affair, but he did not, so here we are.

When has president Obama suggested an Internet kill switch? This is the idea of a Republican senator and has not been endorsed or supported by Obama, afaik. This should have never made it to the front page, it is an obvious troll.

It's actually a BSD box, but don't tell anyone.

Huh? We should have been what years ago already? I am sure you are aware that the US did build a couple of experimental thorium reactors many years ago.

You can remove critical systems from access by unplugging their Ethernet cables.

By the way, if anyone in Slashdot tries to fix it, you should note that people that have this problem tend to have long usernames. It is pretty obvious the username extends the box into the text space.

And I have exactly the same problem on Chrome.

Version: 8.0.552.237 (70801) Ubuntu 10.10

The menu on the top left side cuts off half an inch of text of articles and comments. I am on Ubuntu and Firefox, the latest released versions of both. I am shocked that Slashdot of all websites did not test Ubuntu and Firefox.

Otherwise, it looks pretty good, I have to admit.

I am supposed to be one of the lucky ones with a broadband connection. When I do Internet tests it says my download connection is over 20 Mb/s. Nevertheless I have never had a download that goes faster than 2 Mbit/s. In fact I have very rarely had one that goes faster than 1 MB/s. Usually I am happy to get 500 Kb/s. The only downloads that go over 1 mb/s are various ubuntu downloads from canonical.

It is amazing to me that someone could get around 5 Mb/s download.

It seems they might not have gotten the full 900 mil. See

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/media/myspace-in-trouble-on-900-million-google-deal/19224196/

Also one has to wonder how much it cost to run myspace all these years. I don't think we will ever know for sure whether Murdoch made or lost money with Myspace. The myspace finances were not separated out in the statements. In the 2010 statement the group in which myspace belonged (named appropriately as "other") suffered around a $500 million loss. However that group included other businesses.