Comment We had these... (Score 5, Insightful) 279
..they were called rain forests, we decided we didn't need them and wanted to raise cattle instead...
Comment Re:DRAM errors? (Score 1) 333
We've known about them for a long time, why do you think there are three computers on the space shuttle...
Comment What about soft errors due to chip packaging? (Score 1) 333
I find conclusion 7 a bit presumptuous. Soft errors are also caused by alpha particles emitted by contaminants in a chip's packaging in addition to cosmic rays. You could imagine that certain DIMMs might have lower quality (i.e. more contaminated) packaging than other DIMMs.
Comment Re:Concerns: (Score 1) 492
1) Where does the energy come from to spray this water?
Duh...coal!
Submission + - iPhone Unlocked (cnn.com)
reabbotted writes: According to CNN, the iPhone has finally been unlocked. This is good news for Europe. From the article, "A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple's iPhone to AT&T's wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones."
