Comment Re: This isn't about consumer convenience... (Score 0) 39
Welcome to the fractional reserve banking system! The vast majority of money exists as accounts on balance sheets, not paper currency.
Comment Re: Obvious that he crashed on purpose (Score 0) 185
Gimli Glider was a 767.
Comment Not all heroes wear capes (Score 0) 150
Cheers to those security analysts who work for the streaming companies, know full well that 2FA exists, and shrug their shoulders and insist there is no possible solution to this "problem".
Startup's Submerged Servers Could Cut Cooling Costs 147
1sockchuck writes "Are data center operators ready to abandon hot and cold aisles and submerge their servers? An Austin startup says its liquid cooling enclosure can cool high-density server installations for a fraction of the cost of air cooling in traditional data centers. Submersion cooling using mineral oil isn't new, dating back to the use of Fluorinert in the Cray 2. The new startup, Green Revolution Cooling, says its first installation will be at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (also home to the Ranger supercomputer). The company launched at SC09 along with a competing liquid cooling play, the Iceotope cooling bags."
Grateful Dead Percussionist Makes Music From Supernovas 57
At the "Cosmology At the Beach" conference earlier this month, Grammy-award winning percussionist Mickey Hart performed a composition inspired by the eruptions of supernovae. "Keith Jackson, a Berkeley Lab computer scientist who is also a musician, lent his talents to the project, starting with gathering data from astrophysicists like those at the Berkeley Lab’s Nearby Supernova Factory, which collects data from telescopes in space and on earth to quickly detect and analyze short-lived supernovas. 'If you think about it, it's all electromagnetic data — but with a very high frequency,' Jackson said of the raw data. "What we did is turn it into sound by slowing down the frequency and "stretching" it into an audio form. Both light and sound are all wave forms — just at different frequencies. Our goal was to turn the electromagnetic data into audio data while still preserving the science.'"
Comment The NSA (Score 1, Funny) 399
I just file a FOIA request with the NSA for my own data. I can usually remember the redacted bits with some context. If I need help rebuilding my iTunes library I can just subpoena that from the RIAA. You're welcome.
Comment Meanwhile... (Score 0) 470
while prohibited from examining other files, an anonymous tip of CP is called into the police, who do their own full investigation, which is then subpoena'd by the RIAA
or better still, the forensics experts leave some CP behind, return the hard drive, THEN call in the tip..
Comment Re:Nerds end wars faster than soldiers (Score 0) 426
And then look how he was treated as soon as he finished fulfilling that need.
Comment Leaving the country (Score 0) 767
The upshot of this is you have no rights to leave or reenter the country. Forget about it, if you leave, just plan on not coming back because you left the constitution behind.
Not that there was much of it left.
How To Keep Rats From Eating My Cables? 1032
An anonymous reader writes "I am curious to know what vermin prevention/eradication methods are used in other locations. I am working at a dealership and we have an exterminator man who puts out glue traps and bait stations, but they still come and eat my cable. The latest was a couple of fiber runs — very expensive. I have threatened my boss with a cat for the server room (my office), going so far as to cruise the local Humane Society's website and eye-balling a nice Ragdoll-Siamese mix. Even if I do feel like dealing with a litter box, cat hair in the equipment and pouncings on my keyboards (and I'm not sure I do), that only covers the server room. We have multiple buildings on the campus which get locked up to prevent theft, but it isn't secure enough to keep out the critters and the latest chew spot was in the ceiling. Any ideas?"
Comment Boxxee (Score 0) 335
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