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Comment I blame video games. (Score 1) 399

This is just the beginning of a massive crime wave. A generation of kids trained by borderbund in the dark arts pioneered by the dreaded Carmen Sandiego have matured and are now taking the skills they've honed on their computers into the real world! Thank god for wikipedia, it should make solving those darned geography clues they leave behind pretty easy.

Comment Re:What if it turned out the other way? (Score 2) 561

Obviously the answer is to ban horses. Historically Horses have been use almost entirely for military purposes, their civilian uses have simply been secondary as a cheap source of power. How many lives have been taken by humans wielding these vicious animals? And how many civilian lives have been taken by accidents caused by these horses? Pierre Curie is simply one name in a long list. We need to look at safer alternatives such as Alpacas.

Comment Re:Cars??? (Score 1) 444

People need to realize that just because it contains nuclear material doesn't mean you could use it to build a bomb. Saying that you could use the material in those batteries to build a nuclear weapon is like saying that terrorists could use a glass of water to build a hydrogen bomb.

Comment Re:Cool Running (Score 2, Informative) 194

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Sun Microsystem's CoolThreads technology. The company I work for had a problem with too much heat and too much power in our co-lo data center. We managed to replace 2 V880 servers with one T2000, not only did we free up an entire rack with a single 2U box but we also eliminated over 5000 watts of power consumption. (estimating 2800 watts per V880 and T2000 consuming around 250) Obviously those boxes are not for everyone, there is only one FPU even though the box has 8 cores. In our case it was processing incoming streaming data, all integer math. We went from needing two V880s with 8 1.2Ghz USIIIs running at nearly 50% CPU usage to one T2000 at about 20%.. When it comes to serving up massive amounts of data that don't require a lot of floating point calculations they cannot be beat.

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