Comment Re:Screens are way to far. (Score 1) 148
please be ElectroBOOM, please be ElectroBOOM, YES!
Comment Re:Caldera? That is a name I've not heard in a lon (Score 1) 43
Remember, I still have an ISA 3COM 3C509 and BNC connectors laying around my house somewhere. None of my machines have ISA slots, I have no cable, but just can't bring myself to throw it away.
Comment Except (Score 1) 169
Wind wouldn't/didn't work because wind speeds were too high for it.
Solar wouldn't/didn't work because the cloudy skies and snow accumulation blocked the solar arrays we did have.
Tidal Energy. The Texas coast in large part is either intercoastal, or protected wetlands.
Comment Re:Neal Stephenson (Score 1) 39
I knew about Neuromancer, The Eden Cycle, and a few others from the 70's. The Machine Stops however I didn't. And any story centered around Bert Kreischer is a win for me.
Comment Re:Windows only? (Score 3, Informative) 60
This is why I still come to slashdot.
Comment Also; (Score 0) 193
the sky is blue
Comment Re:Unexplained? No one claims resposibility? (Score 1) 165
Comment Re:Handgun ammunition on a supermarket?!! (Score 1) 654
Walmart started as a discount department store and expanded into the food/supermarket sector. Given their roots, selling firearms and ammunition makes sense.
Comment Re:Open Season (Score 1) 108
I'm all for the reintroduction of a lion 25% bigger than modern day lions. There couldn't possibly be unforeseen consequences to doing that!
Woman Develops Peanut Allergy After Lung Transplant 146
An anonymous reader writes "A woman in need of a lung transplant got her new lungs from someone with a peanut allergy who died of anaphylactic shock. Seven months after the surgery, the woman was at an organ transplant support group when she ate a peanut butter cookie and had a violent allergic reaction. So how had the woman's new lungs brought along a peanut allergy? A blog post dives into the medical details and explains that immune cells in the donated lungs couldn't have lived in the new body for long enough to cause the reaction... however, if they encountered an allergen (i.e. something peanuty) shortly after being transplanted, they could have trained the woman's native immune cells to respond."
Fast Wi-Fi's Slow Road To Standardization 140
CWmike contributes this excerpt from Computerworld: "For a technology that's all about being fast, 802.11n Wi-Fi sure took its sweet time to become a standard, writes Steven J. Vaughan Nichols. In fact, until September 2009, it wasn't, officially, even a standard. But that didn't stop vendors from implementing it for several years beforehand, causing confusion and upset when networking gear that used draft standards from different suppliers wouldn't always work at the fastest possible speed when connected. It wasn't supposed to be that way. But, for years, the Wi-Fi hardware big dogs fought over the 802.11n protocol like it was a chew toy. The result: it took five drama-packed years for the standard to come to fruition. The delay was never over the technology. In fact, the technical tricks that give 802.11n its steady connection speeds of 100Mbps to 140Mbps have been well-known for years."
Quebec Data Center Built In a Silo 113
1sockchuck writes "A supercomputing center in Quebec has transformed a huge concrete silo into the CLUMEQ Colossus, a data center filled with HPC clusters. The silo, which is 65 feet high with two-foot thick concrete walls, previously housed a Van de Graaf accelerator dating to the 1960s. It was redesigned to house three floors of server cabinets, arranged so cold air can flow from the outside of the facility through the racks and return via an interior 'hot core.' The construction and operation of the unique facility (PDF) are detailed in a presentation from CLUMEQ."
