the real problem is that this "half-state" gives you the worst of both sides...so we should go forward and have more integration and a simpler system with one central parliament... mond

we run our 320 core cluster on debian squeeze. infiniband support out of the box. the gridengine is a mater of apt.-get install. comes with tons of scientific sofware.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose from the article:

Bananas are radioactive—But they aren't a good way to explain radiation exposure. When you eat a banana, your body's level of Potassium-40 doesn't increase. You just get rid of some excess Potassium-40. The net dose of a banana is zero.

and

Many common artificial radioisotopes are categorically more dangerous than the type of radioisotope naturally in bananas, even if the equivalent dose (Sv) is reported as the same. Nuclear power accidents tends to release radioiodine, which is known to be especially dangerous to children because it concentrates in the thyroid gland. Other radioisotopes may accumulate in the lung. The dose from potassium in bananas is less harmful because it is distributed more evenly throughout the body, and does not accumulate.

i might loose some carma points for pointing this out on a /., though.

i think the default is that it runs 5000 rounds of that hash for your passwords. if you are really paranoid like me then put something like this in your /etc/pam.d/common-passwd
password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=8 max=20 sha512 rounds=250000
this needs a few seconds on a 2.5Ghz AMD. so you should be safe against dictionary attacks as long has your password is not 12345678 or april1

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_pri_per_cap-crime-prisoners-per-capita

• no 1 United States: 715 per 100,000 people
• no 2 Russia: 584 per 100,000 people
• ...
• no 91 Italy: 100 per 100,000 people
• no 93 Germany: 96 per 100,000 people
• ...
• no 126 Japan: 54 per 100,000 people
• ...

...you insensitive clod.

Government operates by forcibly taking money from one person and giving it to another person or organization

where of course you assume that the person who had the money in the first place really deserved to have it. but a lot of persons today earn money without doing any useful work (e.g. they work for advertisment - creating artificial needs) or by doing harmful work (creating weapons, destroying the environment, etc...) or doing no work at all (just cashing in on their portfolio). the reason why some can earn a lot of money for nothing is in our system of society. this is an artificial system of laws and rules and it allows some to take the money from other persons without giving them anything useful in return.

so taking the money from people that have that money because of some artificial rules by an other rule (the tax system) is just one way to try to compensate the many faults of the capitalist system.....

mond