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Comment Australian Release Date (Score 1) 861

It's a good thing this movie was released 2 years late in Australia. I know I won't be on the 5,000 IP list.. But the entire reason I downloaded it was due to that fact. I did go and see it at the movies when it came out though.. Film was out of focus, cinema airconditioning was schizophrenic and some fat guy was sitting in front. So i downloaded the BluRay rip afterwards, and watched it on my screen.

Comment Re:Old version = old news (Score 0) 231

O_o -- Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001] Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Administrator>ssh -v 'ssh' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. -- Whew, ssh is not installed. I remain 100% secure and unhackable!

Comment Re:Happy Ubuntu-Day, everyone! (Score 0) 620

Intratube Police: A .torrent? Why, this must be a pirated version of "ooh-bun-too", whatever that is. You, sir or madam, are a CRIMINAL and will be put in jail with RAPISTS and BABY KILLERS!

mdadm? Do I get a jail sentence for each "copy" of ubuntu on my raid1 array? What happens on my raid5 array, a percentage of a full sentence per copy?

Data Storage

Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs 510

Heise.de's Kernel Log has a look at the ext4 filesystem as Linus Torvalds has integrated a large collection of patches for it into the kernel main branch. "This signals that with the next kernel version 2.6.28, the successor to ext3 will finally leave behind its 'hot' development phase." The article notes that ext4 developer Theodore Ts'o (tytso) is in favor of ultimately moving Linux to a modern, "next-generation" file system. His preferred choice is btrfs, and Heise notes an email Ts'o sent to the Linux Kernel Mailing List a week back positioning ext4 as a bridge to btrfs.
Space

Colliding Galaxies Reveal Colossal Black Holes 134

Matt_dk writes "New observations made with the Submillimeter Array of telescopes in Hawaii suggest that black holes — thought to exist in many, if not all, galaxies — were common even in the early Universe, when galaxies were just beginning to form. Astronomers have found two very different galaxies in the distant Universe, both with colossal black holes at their hearts, involved in a spectacular collision."

Comment Re:Fuel economy (Score 0) 1114

Heres some facts(modern(jap efi,afm/map,o2,tps car after ~86 or so)): (Manual car) When you're coasting and press the clutch pedal, you're forcing the engine to idle, and thus it requires fuel injection to stop the engine from stalling. It may rely on certain information to take care of this automated procedure such as tps_idle=true (close throttle switch) and thus will switch to a fuel map to maintain engine rpm/idle motor control at your set value. However, you're wearing the shit out of the thrust bearing on the gearbox input shaft, and probably glazing your clutch/flywheel/pressure plate also. If you put the car into neutral, the input shaft would remain connected - you're driving even more equipment and thus requrie even more fuel to maintain idle - completely independant of speed.(It's not much, but its more than coasting whilst engaged at the highest gear possible) Automatic car: Exactly the same, except it will probably inject a certain(small) amount of fuel to keep the rotation of the engine constant, due to the jerky pulses applied by the torque converter when being driven from the opposite end(turn a car off in gear, in an auto and you will probably feel it) Both the manual and auto car may inject a small amount of fuel whilst coasting. but its teeny tiny amounts! Theres only one way to maximise fuel economy. catch the bus. but if you want it to hurt less, drive like a granny and abuse that 5th gear
The Almighty Buck

The Rise of the (Financial) Machines 403

BartlebyScrivener writes "A New York Times Op-Ed quoting Freeman and George Dyson wonders if Wall Street geeks and 'quants' outsmarted themselves with computer algorithms to create the current financial debacle: 'Somehow the genius quants — the best and brightest geeks Wall Street firms could buy — fed $1 trillion in subprime mortgage debt into their supercomputers, added some derivatives, massaged the arrangements with computer algorithms and — poof! — created $62 trillion in imaginary wealth. It's not much of a stretch to imagine that all of that imaginary wealth is locked up somewhere inside the computers, and that we humans, led by the silverback males of the financial world, Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson, are frantically beseeching the monolith for answers.'" The quoted essay from George Dyson is available at Edge.
Printer

3D Printing On Demand 106

Iddo Genuth writes "The Netherlands based company Shapeways is beta testing a new service allowing people to print three-dimensional models. Customers can upload designs or use a creation tool hosted at the Shapeways website, then order a printed model of their designs for less than $3 per square centimeter. The printed items are shipped to the customer in ten days or less, bringing 3D printing to consumers and not just companies large enough to afford their own printers."

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