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Comment The LSST? (Score 4, Informative) 98

by aallan (#29729755) Attached to: Getting Students To Think At Internet Scale

Students are beginning to work with data sets like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the largest public data set in the world. The telescope takes detailed images of large chunks of the sky and produces about 30 terabytes of data each night.

Err no it doesn't, and no they aren't. The telescope hasn't been built yet? First light isn't scheduled until late in 2015.

Al.

Comment Re:I have true unlimited (Score 1) 656

by aallan (#24828535) Attached to: Typical Home Bandwidth Usage?
I'm continually amazed what American's are prepared to pay for cellphones, landlines and broadband. I get all of the above on an 8Mb connection for 16 here in the UK, and I'm with an expensive provider that actually has decent tech support...
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Linus Puts Kibosh On Banning Binary Kernel Modules 494

Posted by kdawson from the distribution-vs.-use dept.
microbee writes "On LKML's periodic GPL vs. binary kernel module discussion, Andrew Morton hinted that he favors refusing to load binary modules in 12 months. Greg Kroah-Hartman then posted a patch to do exactly that. Surprisingly Linus chimed in and called it 'stupid' and a 'political agenda,' and even compared it with the RIAA's tactics. Later in the same thread Greg withdrew his patch and apologized for not having thought it through."

Piracy Stats Don't Add Up 258

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the someone-went-out-on-a-limb dept.
arenam writes to tell us Australian IT is reporting that a recent briefing for the Attorney-General's Department prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology draws certain piracy statistics into question. From the article: "The draft of the institute's intellectual property crime report, sighted by The Australian shows that copyright owners 'failed to explain' how they reached financial loss statistics used in lobbying activities and court cases. Figures for 2005 from the global Business Software Association showing $361 million a year of lost sales in Australia are 'unverified and epistemologically unreliable,' the report says."

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