Comment Re:The Onus Should Not Be on the Nerds (Score 1) 453
The team is always the problem, unless you're an Arkansas fan.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4583642
Zombie Pigs First, Hibernating Soldiers Next
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ColdWetDog writes "Wired is running a story on DARPA's effort to stave off battlefield casualties by turning injured soldiers into zombies by injecting them with a cocktail of one chemical or another (details to be announced). From the article, 'Dr. Fossum predicts that each soldier will carry a syringe into combat zones or remote areas, and medic teams will be equipped with several. A single injection will minimize metabolic needs, de-animating injured troops by shutting down brain and heart function. Once treatment can be carried out, they'll be "re-animated" and — hopefully — as good as new.' If it doesn't pan out we can at least get zombie bacon and spam."
Comment Re:So it's down to.... (Score 1) 179
I think it would make much more sense to redesign the tornado. There's so much wind energy there waiting to be harnessed!
Comment Last.fm's Rebuttal (Score 1) 334
"TechCrunch are full of shit"
http://blog.last.fm/2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit
Posted February 23rd. Get with the times, /.
http://blog.last.fm/2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit
Posted February 23rd. Get with the times,
Comment Re:The US needs a modern system (Score 1) 217
Is it really necessary to post the same thing four times under one topic? Sounds like someone's Karma-whoring.
Comment Re:A quick peek at the picutres says a lot (Score 1) 386
If you look closely at the pictures, (or RTFA), you'll see that the power supplies are indeed custom, or at least parts that I've never seen on store shelves before. Same with the motherboards, they're made to only take 12V power and do the 12V>5V conversion on the board.
Comment Re:Upgrading (Score 1) 858
It DOES have that little Apple logo on it.
Comment I suppose they're helping.. Kinda? (Score 3, Interesting) 268
As a general rule when working with badly infected systems, the only guaranteed way to get it working again is to nuke and reinstall. Symantec is, I suppose, doing them a service by trying to help, but if a system is too far gone to allow Norton to be installed, it's most likely too far gone to save.
Every client of mine that insists on going through the motions about not wanting to pay for a data backup or to get all of their programs reinstalled signs a waiver that states that I offer no warranty on the system or any of the work done on it.
Surprisingly enough, most of the systems I get that are so bad that they require a nuke and reinstall were running Norton to begin with.
Comment Re:Very tempted to get this (Score 1) 451
Or at that speed, you could just read them.. There's $350 saved!
Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms' Ire 904
HSRD writes "Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies. The disputes reveal how the sites' community policing techniques sometimes struggle to keep up with the booming number and diversity of their members."
"Heat Wheel" Could Lower Data Center Power Bills 97
miller60 writes "An air conditioning technology called the 'heat wheel' is getting a test drive in data centers, and early adopters cite impressive reductions in their power bills. The heat wheel — also known as a rotary heat exchanger or Kyoto Cooling — is a refinement of cooling systems using outside air. Rather than introducing exterior air directly into the server room (the air economization we discussed recently), the heat wheel briefly mixes the outside air and exhaust air to create an air-to-air heat exchanger. A data center in the Netherlands using this approach only has to use chillers 11 days a year." The article points out that the heat wheel is not new, but it hasn't been applied to data centers until recently.
Comment Are these images really necessary? (Score 1) 558
Oh look! A picture of a cow!
Golly, I almost forgot what they are, thanks for reminding me, Slashdot.
Here, just in case somebody needs it, Taco should edit this into the OP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle .
Oh, and this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North .
And just in case anybody gets lost, you are here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet .
