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Submission + - Diamonds Should get a bit cheaper i n the near future (csmonitor.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @05:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: It looks like the diamond industry is going to get a bit of a shock as soon as the Russion government decides to start mining a new site. The site is estimated to contain "Trillions of Carats" which is (actual) orders of magnitude larger than the current largest diamond reserve.

These diamonds are also said to be harder than the average diamond since they formed in an asteroid impact some 35 million years ago.

Journal Journal: Linux: adoption by those who are fed up? 6

Journal by jawtheshark on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @04:40PM

Today, I had the most peculiar experience. A (female, and pregnant, but that has no importance at all for this story) cousin of mine complained on Facebook about a virus infection on her Windows machine (I assume Vista, but I actually didn't bother to ask). Locked out by one of these ransom viruses. Worst part is that she did have an up-to-date antivirus sponsored by the Bank where here partner works.

Submission + - New Hobbit trailer debuts (youtube.com) 1

Submitted by madmarcel on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @02:18PM

madmarcel writes: The official trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey! Well...that could've been worse...

Submission + - Study finds tumors in rats fed on Monsanto's GM corn (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @11:56AM

An anonymous reader writes: A study recently presented by a group of french academics called into question the innocuity of GMOs. Its results concluded to the increased risk of tumor development in rats over their complete lifespan. Past GMOs studies were generally conducted over shorter periods of time.
Given that the complete details of the study are still to be disclosed, a number of experts not involved in the study remain quite skeptical about the findings

Comment They are already there, just need some support. (Score 1) 242

by Faffin on Saturday September 15, 2012 @08:04PM (#41348971) Attached to: Are Commercial Games Finally Going To Make It To Linux?

For example, Guild wars 2 has only just been released, but it runs. There are bugs though. What would be great for Linux gaming would be Valve investing in Wine development, and/or working with CodeWeavers on Crossover. Buy Jeremy White a Porsche and some fruity rum drinks.

Comment Re:The Steve at Apple everyone SHOULD listen to (Score 1) 331

by Faffin on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @03:43PM (#40908861) Attached to: Wozniak Predicts Horrible Problems With the Cloud

That probably deserves to be modded as insightful.

Comment Re:Unlikely to have much of an effect (Score 1) 345

by Faffin on Friday May 18, 2012 @03:06PM (#40044681) Attached to: U.S. Imposes Tariffs On Chinese Solar Cells

So, China will complain to the WTO which is all about free, tariff-free trade.

I spent some time checking the WTO anti-dumping page. The rules appear to be fairly tight, but it appears the US has followed them. I doubt China would have much of a case.

Comment Re:notice the "when overclocked" caveat (Score 1) 182

by Faffin on Sunday April 29, 2012 @01:34AM (#39835761) Attached to: Ivy Bridge Running Hotter Than Intel's Last-gen CPU

The day has come again. An i5 2500k can be overclocked to the same degree as a 300A could.

Comment Re:Apparently running the website, too (Score 1) 143

by Faffin on Saturday April 21, 2012 @09:10PM (#39759579) Attached to: 30 Years of the TRS-80 Model 100

Not completely, took about 2 min to load though. You beat me on the "It must be running on one" thing by several minutes though. All I can say is imagine a Beowulf cluster of these :P

Comment Re:It's more than just global warming gas (Score 1) 572

by Faffin on Saturday March 31, 2012 @05:51PM (#39536825) Attached to: Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts

Your post has the mark of an Ad hominem argument. Both sides have peer reviewed research. Check out http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html/

Comment Re:WRONG - "exhaled at high concentrations" (Score 1) 1367

by Faffin on Saturday January 28, 2012 @08:42PM (#38852931) Attached to: Don't Worry About Global Warming, Say 16 Scientists in the WSJ

since when is 4% high concentration?

Funny you should ask that. The atmospheric carbon dioxide that everyone is worried about has only actually increased by about 0.001%. Really. This is not a troll. Go check for yourself at the IPCC.

Comment Re:Oh no, not again. (Score 2) 1367

by Faffin on Saturday January 28, 2012 @08:23PM (#38852793) Attached to: Don't Worry About Global Warming, Say 16 Scientists in the WSJ

I've never seen any documentation for a +2c rise in global temps in the last decade. If you check NASA and IPCC, the article is correct about stable temperature in the last decade. It is stable at an historic high though. About 1.6c above "normal".

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