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Comment Re:Yep, not the change I voted for (Score 1) 892

This is even worse than claiming that waterboarding isn't torture. WTF? I can't believe that I donated money to this douche in 2008.

Never did understand why anyone would voluntarily donate MORE money to a person that controls how to spend the involuntarily donated money (i.e. taxes) - shouldn't the tax donations be enough for any money monger?
spending more than the absolute minimum on state rather than on self seems foolish, especially considering the pitiful amount of welfare one can expect in times of personal crisis from said state.

Shark

Submission + - Living Lasers! (sciencenews.org)

leftover writes: Single-celled organisms that lase. This could only lead to ... Sharks with Friggen' Lasers in their Heads!!!

Comment Re:Scientific Linux (Score 1) 264

Rocks is no distro, it's a toolchain built on a rhel-like distro (usually CentOS), with quite horrible documentation.
As long as you use the vanilla deployment you're fine, everything nice and easy. Try doing anything not covered in the open docs and you're stuck knee deep in "user-list only" documentation for some truly weird design choices. Oscar used to be better, but the lack of development for a long time really made a dent.
Personally I like xCAT2, but am thinking of trying out quattor as well. Both primarily support rhel or rhel-like distros.

Comment Re:So why was it deleted? (Score 2) 432

I just skimmed through some other notable game review sites pages in wikipedia. Guess what? There are no noticeable / reliable sources about review sites. for that matter - here's a challenge - Does slashdot rise up to the wikipedia standards? does wired? does wikipedia itself? does arxiv? does medline?

Review sites don't get reviewed the same way other sites get reviewed.

You need a different metric for reviewing "review" or any other "meta" sites. Otherwise you perpetuate the fallacy that critics get criticized themselves, as often, and as loudly, as they are influential.

Comment Re:Enough of this already (Score 1) 433

If the person published a book and claimed to be Tolkien then the concerns of the Tolkien Estate would be valid. But that is not what is happening here, instead they are simply talking about the historical figure Tolkien which is perfectly legal and there's nothing (legal) that the Tolkien Estate can do about it.

Not exactly. In theory I can legally change my name to Tolkien, then publish a book under my new name. I have absolutely no legal requirement to go out of my way to disillusion anyone who might think they are buying an "original Tolkien". Trademarking a person's name is bullshit legality under most circumstances - it implies a name can be made unique and inaccessible to anyone else but the original person, courtesy of the law.

Math

Traffic Jams In Your Brain 250

An anonymous reader writes "Carl Zimmer's latest foray into neuroscience examines why the brain can get jammed up by a simple math problem: 'Its trillions of connections let it carry out all sorts of sophisticated computations in very little time. You can scan a crowded lobby and pick out a familiar face in a fraction of a second, a task that pushes even today's best computers to their limit. Yet multiplying 357 by 289, a task that demands a puny amount of processing, leaves most of us struggling.' Some scientists think mental tasks can get stuck in bottlenecks because everything has to go through a certain neural network they call 'the router.'"

Comment Re:Wrong layer (Score 1) 195

I beg to differ. btrfs is mainly oracle driven. Most of the development is by oracle payed engineers - and oracle bought sun with zfs already mature and in place - what's their incentive to continue pouring money to compete with their own product?

Comment Re:Wrong layer (Score 1) 195

FUSE is bad on so many levels - basically it doesn't work, crashes repeatedly and generally unsuited as hell for an FS that wasn't created for it. tried several instances of zfs FUSE over the years - never got it to work anywhere near as well as on native solaris. That said, there are other alternatives openindiana is based on the opensolaris codebase, created by whatever remains of the community after oracle killed(? in some press releases oracle tech strategists claimed opensolaris is transformed to a new solaris express...) the project. and slashdot already reported on native zfs for linux - http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/08/27/2259253/Native-ZFS-Is-Coming-To-Linux-Next-Month

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