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Comment This reason was the best one I heard. (Score 1) 399

http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...

Reddit user "cranbourne" says:

        Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form:

        if (version.StartsWith("Windows 9")) { /* 95 and 98 */
                } else {
        }

and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that. /Stolen from soylent news.

Comment Re:Why does MADD not support Uber? (Score 1) 507

I suspect it would be much more then 15%: Speak to any cabbie, they make the vast amount of their money on Friday/Saturday night, but work the rest of the week because the licence owner requires that. If random joe with a car that he uses for other purposes decides to make some extra money on the weekend, I suspect he will be able to charge much less.

Comment Actually... (Score 1) 607

I read about this one a while back:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBU-97_Sensor_Fuzed_Weapon

It's pretty amazing how it works, I didn't know anything nearly this advanced was around until I accidnetly stumled across its wikipedia page.

Comment Re:For the 57th time on Slashdot (Score 1) 504

I did exactly that and it worked well for the 120BG drive I tried it on. I attached a USB PATA adapter onto it, then a power supply that came with the adapter, put a ziploc bag around that, sucked the air out, put tape around the opening where the wires came out. Closed the freezer door with the wires sticking out and waited an hour before hooking the drive up. No point in doing it while the drive is out of the freezer since they heat up fast. Best to do it where the cold air comes out and turn the temp down as far as it will go too.

In my case, I think it was the electronics heating up that was the problem, not a mechanical issue, but it worked.

Canada

Submission + - Canadian songwriters propose $10/mo Internet fee. (windsorstar.com)

BitterOak writes: According to this story, Canadian songwriters are proposing a $10 fee to be added to monthly ISP bills, giving users a license to download music using peer-to-peer file sharing technologies for free, without fear of reprisal. The money collected would be distributed to members of a Canadian association of songwriters (SOCAN). The story doesn't make clear whether the license would apply only to Canadian music, or how musicians in other nations would be compensated otherwise.

Submission + - DNA sequencing costs falling fast (singularityhub.com) 1

hajus writes: DNA sequencing costs seem to be falling faster than the gene sequencing equivalent of Moore's Law would predict. At about $10,000 per million bases in Jan 2001, the cost has fallen to $.50 per million in Jan 2011.

Submission + - Could we reconnect eastern Libya? 1

GrumpyBagpuss writes: We all know that the internet is supposed to route around damage, but currently eastern Libya is off the net because all their connectivity goes through Tripoli. How difficult would it to be to reconnect eastern Libya via a microwave link to Crete? It's less than 200km away, on the Libyan end there are mountains up to 850m and on Crete they're higher than 2000m. People have achieved distances of over 300km with simple WiFi equipment, but would it be possible to increase the bandwidth to handle a whole, or at least half a country? How would you connect the link at both ends? What other problems would there be? How many pringle cans would we need?

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