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Indian Military Hopes to Weaponize the Searing "Ghost Pepper" 267

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @02:50PM from the there's-pepper-spray-and-pepper-spray dept.

coondoggie writes "The military in India is looking to weaponize the world's hottest chili, the bhut jolokia or 'ghost pepper,' according to a number of news outlets. The Bhut Jolokia chili pepper from Assam, India is no ordinary pepper. In tests first conducted by the New Mexico State University in 2008 and subsequently confirmed by Guinness World records and others, the Bhut Jolokia reached over one million Scoville heat units, while the next hottest, the Red Savina Habenero, clocks in at a mere 577,000. Scoville units are a universally accepted measure of chili hotness."

Comment Re:Your choice (Score 1) 958

by dvNull on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @01:57PM (#27314979) Attached to: How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work?

I work for a few small companies and luckily for me, they are all very strict on their licensing compliance requirements.

A few however did not keep their receipts easily accessible which is pretty much what the BSA looks for. Original CDs, certs of authenticity apparently don't cut it. We spent some time and was able to get all the documentation ready just in case.

Comment Re:my rebuttal (Score 1) 1224

by dvNull on Friday January 04, 2008 @11:16PM (#21918808) Attached to: Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop?

Hmm, So far I have had no problems opening up docs, videos and pictures on my SMB shares.

As with 10.5 browsing samba shares has been an issue unless you have (a) mounted the share or (b) type it manually.

Submission + - Caching is king for Ruby on Rails apps

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 27, 2007 @12:20PM

An anonymous reader writes: For some, Rails is hyper productive and for others Ruby is a toy. Rails also has a reputation as unproven with limited scalability. Unlike the C and Java languages, Ruby is interpreted, with all of the inherent performance handicaps. This article explores the Ruby caching strategies such as caching static content, model caching, page caching, action caching, and others that can really speed things up. In many circumstances. there are caching techniques available to increase Ruby on Rails application performance.

Comment You wouldn't compile from scratch. (Score 5, Insightful) 197

by Principito on Friday December 03, 2004 @04:14PM (#10990637) Attached to: Embedded Gentoo?

Compiling from scratch would be insane. The easiest way to accomplish this would be to put cross compiling tools on a host machine and build your iPAQ or whatever in a chrooted environment. After which you would transfer your build.

$0.02

PS:
Cross compiling tools are part of this project.

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