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Comment Re:So (Score 1) 1105

Here in Australia they just passed a carbon tax - as if we can just tax the problem away.

So are you suggesting that the polluters shouldn't pay? News flash, if pollution eats into a company's profits they will find a way to reduce pollution. Is that too hard to understand?

Submission + - Wolfenstein gets ray traced: On a laptop!

An anonymous reader writes: After showing of Quake Wars: Ray Traced Intel is now showing their latest graphics research project using the Wolfenstein game content. The new and cool special effects are actually displayed on a laptop through using a cloud-based gaming approach with servers that have an Intel Knights Ferry card (many-core) inside. Check out this blog for a video and screenshots.
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Submission + - Trojan infected computer linked to Spanair crash 2 (elpais.com)

An anonymous reader writes: El pais online newspaper (link provided in Spanish) reports that the Spanair ground computer responsible for triggering an alarm when 3 failures are reported in a plane failed to do so in the case of Spanair flight JK-5022 that killed over 150 two years ago. The computer was infected with trojans.

Comment Re:Wait, what? You can Lex Luthor EVE with PLEX? (Score 1) 620

So if I spent $100,000 with CCP to buy... whatever amount of PLEX that is, how much ISK would I have?

What's to stop me from just going into EVE with that value of ISK (seriously, I'm curious--what would that be about for market value?) and just dominating the world fiscally? If I was insane and had money to burn I could buy my own Galactic Empire, right?

It's been done before, a russian businessman has spent tens of thousands of dollars to try and dominate the game, found something about it here (scroll down): http://www.ironwheel.net/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=643 "It appears that there is a war being bankrolled by an isk-selling Russian millionaire against Goonswarm to maintain his isk-selling operation."

But you still need an army of pilots to fly all your ships... But I guess you could pay them too

Earth

Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar 635

js_sebastian writes "According to an article on the New York Times, a historical cross-over has occurred because of the declining costs of solar vs. the increasing costs of nuclear energy: solar, hardly the cheapest of renewable technologies, is now cheaper than nuclear, at around 16 cents per kilowatt hour. Furthermore, the NY Times reports that financial markets will not finance the construction of nuclear power plants unless the risk of default (which is historically as high as 50 percent for the nuclear industry) is externalized to someone else through federal loan guarantees or ratepayer funding. The bottom line seems to be that nuclear is simply not competitive, and the push from the US government to subsidize it seems to be forcing the wrong choice on the market."

Comment Re:please... (Score 1) 269

You're right. If you want it to be user-friendly like Windows you have to put the gobbledygook in a little gray window with buttons that don't respond when you click them. Also, make the gobbledygook as uniform as possible, so that nobody can ever tell the cause of the error. That should do quite nicely!

And label the buttons "Abort" and "Fail" so that nobody will know which button to press

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