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7 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2014

Renewable energy 'simply won't work': Top Google engineers

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Re: I seem to remember

Let's see you actually produce something with your setup. Like grow crops, process food, get it to market, extract and refine minerals and metals, pump water, build semiconductors, etc. You know, all the things that we depend on each and every day.

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Robin Hood virus: Chinese hackers target nation's wealthy

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Robin Hood mis-characterized

Robin Hood did not steal from the rich to give to the poor. He stole tax revenues from the government and gave it back to the taxpayers.

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Verizon hit with $7.4 MEEELLION fine for slurping users' privates

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Which begs the question

What will be the size of the fine leveled on the NSA? Probably enough to pay off the national debt.

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Flash could be CHEAPER than SAS DISK? Come off it, NetApp

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Re: Errm..

Actually, hard drives fail at a much faster rate than SSD. Google reports AFR over 8% after 2 years for hard drives.

http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-experience/

Most sources report that the AFR of SSDs is between .6% and 1%.

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Climate: 'An excuse for tax hikes', scientists 'don't know what they're talking about'

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Re: I think...

Here is my favorite line of Climate Modeling Code (TM)

valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor

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Re: More Education Is Needed

Education? More likely indoctrination and propaganda.

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Intel reveals its FrankenChip ARM killer: one FPGA and one Xeon IN ONE SOCKET

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Re: Many FPGA vendors + ARM

Achronix announced Intel as their foundry partner long before Altera. 11/10/2010

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1257771

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