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Comment Re:Choose freedom, not some $attribute (Score 1) 596

by RockWolf (#31153726) Attached to: Are All Bugs Shallow? Questioning Linus's Law

I know which one I trust.

I know what you mean. I only drive cars that have been hand-assembled by individuals working out of their backyards. Similarly, I wouldn't dream of visiting a doctor who didn't make all his own tools or who sent me to an apothecarist who wasn't personally assembling all his medicine from locally-sourced ingredients.

You're being snarky, but with the new Rally Fighter you CAN drive an open-source/crowd-sourced car.

For the record, I do realise that using a off-the-shelf components isn't open-source, but a true open-source car would make a model-T look like a supercar, be perpetually v0.5.467.88a with a bug list longer than Toyota has at the moment, and most people would still go and buy a corolla because that's what they're used to.

./Rockwolf

Comment Re:Cost of UPS vs Colo? (Score 1) 260

by RockWolf (#31152252) Attached to: UPS Setup For a Small/Mid-Size Company?
From the heat, the water was probably seriously low in dissolved oxygen. That's not going to help anything much.

As for food, I'd suggest somewhere near-traditional. I've had some fantastic seafood when working in traditional villages in Fiji - so traditional the fish were caught with a floating platform and spear, and no refrigeration to speak of. So, if we ate fish, it was caught the night before or that morning. The other option would be deep-sea fishing, I'd suppose - but probably not near major river deltas or cities. If we ate chicken, there was one less getting under our feet. Simple life, but I can see the attraction.

And yes, we're all going to die of something. If you'll forgive me:

You have no chance to survive make your time.

./Rockwolf

Comment Re:Cost of UPS vs Colo? (Score 1) 260

by RockWolf (#31149538) Attached to: UPS Setup For a Small/Mid-Size Company?

Be careful though, I was out with a group testing for heavy metal contaminations. There were some pretty notable traces of a few in the outlet. Probably safe to swim in, but not exactly safe to drink. So much for the idea of "clean" energy. Clean out of the smoke stacks, dirty out of the warm water outlets. It's kinda hard for the casual observer to test for contamination in the steam outlets, but I'd suspect it exists too. But hey, whatcha going to do?

Not eat the fish. ;)

Comment Re:Cost of UPS vs Colo? (Score 1) 260

by RockWolf (#31141280) Attached to: UPS Setup For a Small/Mid-Size Company?

It was owned by FPL when I was there, but it's now owned by Progress Energy. It's one of those locations that folks don't like to visit from out of town. "Fly into the nearest large airport. Drive 80 miles. Continue 10 miles out of the last resemblance of civilization, and take a left. If you cross an abandon Corps of Engineers project, you've gone too far. Continue down what looks like a road to nowhere, and eventually you'll get to a guard shack. Show your ID, and then hang a left, and follow the road around to the reactor" :) Oh, the memories. It reminds me of why I left there.

Sounds like my kind of place. No, seriously. There's a reason I'm a geologist.

./Rockwolf
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Directed Energy Weapon Downs Mosquitos 428

Posted by samzenpus from the two-pound-hammer-and-ten-penny-nail dept.
wisebabo writes "Nathan Myhrvol demonstrated at TED a laser, built from parts scrounged from eBay, capable of shooting down not one but 50 to 100 mosquitos a second. The system is 'so precise that it can specify the species, and even the gender, of the mosquito being targeted.' Currently, for the sake of efficiency, it leaves the males alone because only females are bloodsuckers. Best of all the system could cost as little as $50. Maybe that's too expensive for use in preventing malaria in Africa but I'd buy one in a second!" We ran a story about this last year. It looks like the company has added a bit more polish, and burning mosquito footage to their marketing.
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The data from Fermilab will have probed, when finished, anti-protons to the detail of 10 inverse femtobarns. This is 1.e44 particles passing through every square meter of cross section of the targeted anti-protons (using the units program on Linux).

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