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  1. Re: American hi-tech has a significant ethics prob on Inside the Decision To Shut Down Silent Mail · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are no cases where mass surveillance is warranted. Thats what a WARRANT is for, enabling justified and warranted action in a very limited scope. The idea being that Liberty infringement is a more serious concern then being able to record everything for possible safety. In principle, mass surveillance is unreasonable for human beings.

  2. Re:Magical Thinking. on The Pirate Bay Launches Browser To Evade ISP Blockades · · Score: 1

    The conditions of the machine are such that the ground state is to route around damage. You can can put in a raised floor that captures the run off and prevent it from going to ground, but thats not the same thing. As originally designed, the internet routes around damage.

  3. Re:Abuse of tool? on Bad Connections Dog Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 1

    I was just giving a quick and dirty example of something i encountered recently. My mother-in-law has a wifi capable printer (1102w), and so i was definitely in the 5% needing the bloated driver package.

  4. Re:Abuse of tool? on Bad Connections Dog Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Did you know that HP printer drivers are now up to 160 MB? its not just movies that are large files anymore.

  5. Re:Norway has a 4th Amendment? on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Non-US Based Email Providers? · · Score: 1

    Doesnt mean MY government is empowered legally to look at ANY of my correspondence ANYWHERE in the world, without a warrant. It is explicitly forbidden to do so by the absolute highest law in the land. Until such time as the 4th is repealed, i will continue to demand that it be enforced.

  6. Re:Runbox.com on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Non-US Based Email Providers? · · Score: 1

    The 4th amendment doesn't end at the border for a U.S. citizen.

  7. Re:So? on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 1

    PLENTY of companies offer free/cheap streaming from PC. Sure its not out of the box, but its trivial to install and free. You have no argument. http://www.maximumpc.com/how_stream_your_games_twitch_tv_2013 P.S. Twitch.tv is the Xbox's partner for streaming..........

  8. Re:$600,000 on LulzSec's Raynaldo Rivera, a.k.a. 'neuron,' Gets One-Year Prison Term · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can create shell companies with other people as board members and put any wealth not already spoken for by the court in there. It becomes untouchable. Pay yourself a small salary and re-invest the rest into the corporate accounts. They can only garnish a certain percentage of your official salary. All the while you live off the corporate accounts.

  9. Re:Sony should hire the XBox PR dept on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 1

    Huh? The XBOX could capture the video itself and produce a FILE, that could then be uploaded to a PC in a million different ways. The point is, you are paying fees for functionality that already exists on the hardware itself just to UPLOAD IT somewhere.

  10. Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    You arent looking at the whole picture. My office gets hot, so i wanted all the big hot drives in another room. Im wired for Cat6 in every room, with a gigabit managed switch. Each machine(5 total) has a 128 GB SSD and everything else goes on the NAS. I can provide huge, fast, reliable storage to 5 machines with just 2 HDD. Just because it seems simpler to just slap them into a box and call it good doesnt make it so, or address any of my design concerns. Only one of my desktop systems can even fit a 3.5" drive.

  11. Re:I'm not surprised there's a Craigslist for Bagd on Soldiers Looking For Hookups On Craigslist Are Being Warned of a Military Sting · · Score: 1

    I understand we are talking UCMJ, but the laws you refer to are highly unconstitutional and would be tossed the first time they saw a modern judge.

    "In the U.S. Military, adultery is a potential court-martial offense.[15] The enforceability of adultery laws in the United States is unclear following Supreme Court decisions since 1965 relating to privacy and sexual intimacy of consenting adults.[74] However, occasional prosecutions do occur"

    I appreciate your comment and im not trying to refute it, just adding perspective.

  12. Re:I'm not surprised there's a Craigslist for Bagd on Soldiers Looking For Hookups On Craigslist Are Being Warned of a Military Sting · · Score: 1

    SO as a married officer, you can go to jail for sleeping around? What if you have an open marriage?

  13. Re:So? on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 1

    Its not 'add-on' functionality for an x86 computer, which is what the Xbox one is. Hardware wise, it can do anything a PC with a decent vid card can do.

  14. Re:Not just recording gameplay on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 3, Informative

    If what you say was true, my wife wouldnt get kicked off Netflix on the Xbox because i logged into GTA IV with GFWL on my PC. When it matters, its per person.

  15. Re:Disgusting how passive people are... on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 2

    Games are art, and as such can be both banal or enlightening. Art is important to life too or we wouldnt spend some much time and effort on it.

  16. Re:Sony should hire the XBox PR dept on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 2

    "there is no point in having a console for offline only" Really dude?

    Why cant i record on my Xbox offline and transfer the resultant file to a PC that can upload for FREE? It amazes me how people dismiss perfectly viable and non-burdensome ways of doing things because its not stupid dead simple.

  17. Re:Good luck with that on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 1

    umm you are very sadly misinformed. MY xbox360 would bitch about HDCP handshakes if i switched inputs on my TV while watching something.

  18. Re:Uh... on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 1

    The machine is capable of happily recording video without having to be connected to the internet. Who cares what i do with the footage, why do i have to be connected online to use it?

  19. Re:Applause on Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All of which is fundamentally illegal. THe longer we allow these activities under the FALSE color of law, the longer we will suffer the consequences.

  20. Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    What data corruption are you referring to? I use SSDs for boot and I keep all my working data sets on the NAS and pull them as needed at 50MB/sec. Its a good plateau to be at.

  21. Re:How they use Google in the Third World on Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google · · Score: 1

    We only went to slashdot and reddit etc AFTER we found wikipedia. Lets not forget that KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. What good is it to save millions of starving people only to leave them in squalor forever? Education and information is just as important in the long term.

  22. Re:Moving parts and fatigue on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    You assume too much. The ONLY point i was making about NAND failure is the fact that any data on the NAND also exists on the spinning platters, thus no lost data from that particular aspect. (its relevant in regards to backups as the HDD is still the most up to date data.) Whether you can conveniently and cheaply access that data is another matter entirely.

  23. Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    You can backup and recover to local media like a flash drive. I have a 300 GB softcap and I still do local recovery and backup of my steam games to shuffle them around my 180 GB SSD

  24. Re:Moving parts and fatigue on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    Does it matter? You should have backups either way. We are talking theory, not practice here. In THEORY, if the NAND dies you can still pull the data from the spinnys in the normal ways since any data that existed in the NAND was a copy. You might not be able to access it yourself, but assuming the platters are intact, you could send it off for extreme recovery.

  25. Re:"Just?" on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    I just dropped 8 GB into my nephew's gaming rig. To be fair, i added extra to run VMs in the background.