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Comment Re:Very cool. (Score 1) 127

I had a professor who would build an atom based PC and install an ssd. IO is usually why users perceive a system as slow.

It amazes me how hard it is to find a sub $500 laptop with ssd. Tablets and 2 in ones seem to have them, but nothing with a 15 inch screen. I was temped to buy a $200 laptop and throw a ssd in there. Not sure what I was going to do with the 500GB hd it comes with.

Submission + - Are Gamma Ray Bursts Keeping Life From Developing In The Universe? 2

rossgneumann writes: The universe might be a radiation-scorched, lifeless place after all. Just as soon as a planet, save for a relative handful of well-sheltered rocks, becomes life-harboring and friendly, it gets nuked back to a barren wasteland. This is one conclusion of a new paper examining the likely prevalence of gamma-ray burst (GRB) events throughout the Milky Way and universe at-large, particularly of the sort—long gamma-ray bursts or LGRBs—that could strip away a planet's protective ozone layer and blast its inhabitants with very high-energy photons.

Submission + - HackerNews is killing stories related to an Uber driver raping a woman (ycombinator.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A story which made #1 on the front page of HackerNews just a few hours ago has disappeared completely. Ironically the story itself was asking why users posting stories about an Uber driver raping a woman in India were being removed. This active censorship may be to due to YCombinator (who run HackerNews) having an investment interest in Uber, or because Uber is somehow gaming the site (Uber were recently reported to be willing to spend millions of dollars to defame journalists writing negative articles about the start-up.)

Comment Re: The FAA isn't doing jack (Score 1) 115

You have the right to use an open space reserve, but you don't have the right to do whatever you want there. You can reserve airspace for rocketry without a pilots certificate, but you have to call Oakland center first. Usually the FAA wants to arbitrate the use of the airspace for safety reasons. Most FARs are written in blood. This might seem unfair to drone operators, but regulations are changing.

Comment Re:Contradiction (Score 3, Interesting) 45

Not really. UCSB has eucalyptus running a small "cloud". That's essentially a scaled down version of AWS. HTCondor can be considered a cloud since it scales and processes can run anywhere in their network.

Of course /. has no shortage of posts about the ambiguity of the word cloud, but I prefer thd looser definition. Universities have been distributing computation for a while now on what could be described as a cloud.

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