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Comment Re:Interesting... (Score 1) 349

Even when "adequately" insured it can still be a nightmare. I've got a neighbor that spent about 4 months fighting with the insurance company to get the money to fix a car when they got hit by an uninsured driver. This was because even though they were stopped at a stopsign the insurance company still wanted to claim that they were at fault and not pay anybody at all. It can still be a huge imposition due to the nature of some of the stupidity of the insurance industries.

Comment Re:Linux Driver State? (Score 1) 281

I've personally had stability issues with the AMD drivers for my laptop. But this seems to be because they only try to support ubuntu and all the versions that they use, anything else it's hard to get a fix for until ubuntu either updates to your version or you find a work around in the community. The open source drivers aren't as performant but they are much more stable for me.

Comment Re:Why bother? (Score 3, Interesting) 167

I'm at about 12GB myself, and that's one of the two big reasons that I keep the mail in maildir format and connect all clients to it via imap. Using a real mail server has kept that from happening to me (again) for years now. The other reason is that it makes it really easy to change clients to play around, or access it from lots of places.

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Submission + - Affordable 3D Printer (kickstarter.com)

simcop2387 writes: A new start-up is promising to have RepRap compatible printers in a unique design allowing the printbed to be expanded easily, while still being far simpler and cheaper than previous designs. Made to be put together and up and printing within two hours, compared to days with some of the other RepRap printers. This one promises to be very interesting for the entire community by bringing the cost in time and money down to affordable levels.

Submission + - 1 MW E-Cat Cold Fusion Test Completed (pesn.com) 4

sanosuke001 writes: "Andrea Rossi's E-Cat 1MW Cold Fusion test completed in Italy with 30+ attendees including Professors from the University of Bologna, the Associated Press, NyTeknik, Focus.it, and additional physicists. The test failed to reach the 1 MW load goal, however, reached 479 kWh in looped mode. Some skepticism is still warranted as the prospective customer, although satisfied with the test, remains anonymous. According to an article at Wired (http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/29/rossi-success), there has been some speculation that the covert customer could be DARPA. Also, the generator used to initialize the E-Cat device was apparently connected for the entirety of the test but assured that its output was turned off. I, for one, have a little hope in this being real but take it with a very large grain of salt."

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