Comment O/S to bring back (Score 1) 763
RSX-11M. Versioning file systems are cool.
Comment Re:Solve the fucking problem: (Score 2, Insightful) 647
You think the terrorists wouldn't be happy just to blow the plane up? They're willing to suicide bomb a market place and kill maybe a dozen people. Making a plane with over a hundred people go ka-boom would be a fine terrorist outcome, even if it were over the middle of Kansas.
Comment not invasive enough (Score 1) 647
At the risk of giving anyone ideas, how would these pat downs and skin level x-rays stop a bomber who has swallowed his bomb? He's presumably a suicide anyway, so why wouldn't he/she? And when the TSA thinks about this, do we get full CAT scans and invasive body cavity searches next?
Comment Put that in your iPad (Score 2, Funny) 292
From TFA:
IBM also previously claimed the title of fastest microprocessor with the POWER6 chip, which ran at speeds of up to 4.6 to 4.7 GHz, and its own z10, a 2008 chip which ran at speeds of up to 4.4 GHz.
I seem to recall that one of the official reasons Apple gave for the switch from Power to Intel was that IBM couldn't/wouldn't deliver a fast enough processor.
Comment microprocessor? (Score 1) 292
The z196 contains 1.4 billion transistors on a chip measuring 512 square millimeters fabricated on 45-nm PD SOI technology.
At what point would we stop calling it a microprocessor?
Comment Government services (Score 1) 426
"It's not fair for any government unit to compete with private enterprise..."
So cities shouldn't provide water and sewer then?
Comment Who decides... (Score 1) 169
What means "unnecessary debate"?
Comment Re:Quality of work... (Score 2, Insightful) 560
Costs too much.
Comment since SCO lost (again) (Score 1) 167
...a new strain of bacteria that may be able to aid cleanup efforts in the Gulf of Mexico.
Lemme guess. They've got a patent pending on it.
Comment Re:Don't worry BP ... (Score 1) 913
You're dreaming. If you don't think Exxon, Shell, etc. won't raise their prices to match and reap a windfall profit, you haven't been watching the existing collusion between oil producers already.
The free marketplace doesn't work unless there are so many participants that the loss of any one of them would be unnoticed. If, for example, one corn farmer went under the price of corn on the open market would not change. If Ford went under, you would most certainly see a change in the price of cars.
Writer Peter Watts Sentenced; No Jail Time 299
shadowbearer writes "SF writer Peter Watts, a Canadian citizen, whose story we have read about before in these pages, was sentenced three days ago in a Port Huron, MI court. There's not a lot of detail in the story, and although he is still being treated like a terrorist (cannot enter or pass through the US, DNA samples) he was not ordered to do any time in jail, was freed, and has returned home to his family. The judge in the case was, I believe, as sympathetic as the legal system would allow him to be."
OLED Film Could Provide Cheap Night Vision For Cars 120
thecarchik writes "Night vision systems are already available in the higher-end luxury sedans from companies like Toyota, Volvo, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz. It's expensive technology that few drivers can afford, and at $4,000 for the system without a display, it's a pricey upgrade. That may all change soon, as DARPA-funded scientists have developed a cheap way to turn any infrared light into visible light with a thin film."
Comment Re:two thirds? (Score 1) 449
Rats! Hit "submit" instead of "preview".
So 173 is not 2/3 and...
s/173/137/
Comment two thirds? (Score 1) 449
I wish TFA would have quoted the law exactly.
The zoning measure needed a two-thirds vote to pass
Is that what it said? Or did it say greater than 2/3? At least 2/3?
(206 x 2) / 3 = 137.33333
So 173 is not 2/3 and since you can't have a fraction of a vote, I'd say it takes 138 votes to pass.
Comment OLPC (Score 5, Informative) 249
The One Laptop Per Child program (I have an original XO) builds for that exact environment.
http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/index.shtml
http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml
There is a lightweight version of Windows they can run if you can't make it with "Sugar". You can find them on eBay.
