Hey, some people *do* need 4 G+ accounts. How else will they ever have a circle with at least 4 people in it otherwise?

Actually, the version of yourself in Reality Beta-Prime Offset 2009 Subset 2003 Interference Pattern DoD will be the beneficiary of progress of that memo. You'll still be in this lame timeline. But on the upside, there are no zombies with assault rifles (AKA "hunting packs") here.

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He didn't say anything about Linux, but I'll wager that if he put Ubuntu 9.04 on the netbooks, they would fly.
By the way, I'm running Ubuntu on a six-month-old 10.6" Acer Aspire One, with an Atom chip, and the performance is great.

Just curious, but if you're on Ubuntu 9.04 for your netbook, how can you claim the performace is great? 9.04 has abysmal support for Intel video chips, even going so far as to have the wrong video memory settings for most Intel chips. Also, 9.04's support for many Atheros wireless cards while present, tends to have slow performance with poor signal quality. In order to get 9.04 to perform "great," I had to hunt through the Ubuntu support forum for solutions to these issues (thankfully the Intel one was front-and-center in a giant sticky thread). I had to put xorg on the X Updates PPA, setup a script to launch after gdm (to fix the memory mapping), and have kernel backports installed. That's a lot of manual work to get a netbook to perform in 9.04 the way it did under 8.10.

I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but it does highlight a big problem with people's ethical views on human clones. Most people have the attitude that somehow, clones of humans are magically non-people, without basic human rights. So many human cloning pipedreams have what amounts to slavery (or organ harvesting or other unsavory things) as their end-goal.

If your appliance can handle having the SSL ops throttled to USB 2.0 bandwidth levels, then odds are, you don't need something like an F5. If your question is aimed more at doing this for a small operation, then it may be feasible. But in that situation, the server acting as a load-balancer probably has the cycles to spare to do it on one of its cores.

Color me surprised. If your solution can't play in the big leagues that an F5 is aiming at, then what are you bragging about?

An F5 isn't aimed at the problem you solved (at least not at that small a scale). It's intended for high-traffic, bandwidth-intensive applications and sites. Did you post to confirm the premise of the article? If so, I totally missed that, what with the way text often fails to convey tone.

Wow, who'd have thought that employees wouldn't want to accept a transfer that locks them into a one-way move to another country? A country where IBM, a company that lays off workers in every market condition, will not be beholden to WARN-style laws? A country where the prevailing pay rate for the position would make returning to America incredibly (or impossibly) costly without people here to put you up until you get back on your feet? Yeah, I can see why few people would take up such a "great" opportunity.

NPR Has a story about how hard it was to recreate moon rover tires. In short, if it wasn't for an old engineer breaking regulations and keeping one in his closet at home, NASA would have had to start over from zero.

You're probably familiar with the more-expensive and higher-grade fuel that's readily available in the first world. To quote Wikipedia:

1-K Kerosene is more easily available in bulk than lamp oil in most countries and is typically much cheaper. However, kerosene contains more impurities such as sulfur and aromatic hydrocarbons than lamp oil. Kerosene obtained from filling stations is more likely to be contaminated with water than kerosene obtained in prepackaged containers. The odors produced by burning kerosene in wick lamps can be quite objectionable indoors.

This is more likely what's being used in countries mentioned in the article.