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  1. Re:N(N+1)/2 spares on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 2

    Basically as the disk size grows you are talking about N-squared spares. I think most businesses are going to be more than happy with just hot-swapping out failed disks as needed.

  2. Re:Naive to say the least. on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    They also don't realize that 100,000 hours / 365 days is not the way you get years from hours.

  3. Re:Naive to say the least. on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    Actually it does matter. If you believe 100,000 hours = 273 years you lack basic arithmetic skills.

  4. Re:Naive to say the least. on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    They did 100000/365 which equals about 274. They seem to have confused hours with days.

  5. Re:Naive to say the least. on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    Umm, 273 years is nearly 2.4 million hours. So, no, no one with basic arithmetic skills believes that 100,000 hours is 273 years.

  6. Re:poor cops have it so hard on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Either you have something that you can minimally convince a Judge you've got probable cause or you don't DO it. PERIOD. You can't be a fucking criminal in the process of "enforcing" the law.

    What's even worse is when they bypass the FISA court rubber stamp to do things warrantless. The FISA court even lets you backdate things by like a couple of days. If the government can't even convince the FISA court then you know they are doing something they definitely should not be doing (not as if the stuff FISA does approve is always above board).

  7. I don't disagree, but we should stop pretending that any politician in the history of this country has actually cared about protecting the rights of anyone but their wealthy, powerful base.

  8. Re:FUD on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh and just to let you know, you hitting "not there" only hides it for yourself without sufficient voting from others. You didn't actually think your single "not there" hid those reports from everyone did you?

  9. Re:FUD on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Using Waze to enable reckless driving is nowhere even near the same thing as protecting privacy with encryption.

    Wow, it's almost like you completely missed the point of my post. *golf clap*

    I never report police on Waze and flag them as "Not there" whenever possible.

    Awww, what a good little bootlicker. Good thing all the other people will undo your action.

  10. Re:They shot first on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 2

    Ahh, but they are the "good guys". The rest of us are all just criminals that haven't been caught yet.

  11. Re:poor cops have it so hard on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 2

    It is kinda sad how it has, in many ways, crossed that bridge,..

    It was inevitable. It's just like the plot of "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie". There was no way that giving the surveillance state just "a little power" was going to be all they ever wanted. Give the NSA an inch and they'll take a dozen miles.

  12. Re:A zone by any other name... on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 2

    This is just the natural outgrowing from ridiculous things like "Free speech zones" that too many people were more than willing to support.

  13. Re:Sucks to be law enforcement in a Republic on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 1

    Seems they *weren't* that is.

  14. Re:Sucks to be law enforcement in a Republic on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 1

    A contingent of the Founders were more than willingly to write up and pass the Alien and Sedition Acts only . Seems they were quite as dedicated to that ideal as they have been made out.

  15. Re:poor cops have it so hard on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 1

    Yep, beat them, deny them access to lawyers, make sure they aren't aware of their rights, etc. The people who have been try to dismantle the Warren Court rulings these last few decades have been increasingly successful as of late.

  16. Your entire administration and the one before it has demonstrated that you have absolutely no intent of defending the constitution especially where privacy and due process are concerned.

    There was ever an administration that actually defended the Constitution, privacy and due process? This shit has been happening since at least John Adams.

  17. Re:By that logic, so has the 4th Amendment on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 1

    But you might be a pedophile or terrorist, Citizen. Big Brother knows you're a criminal they just haven't caught yet.

  18. Re:poor cops have it so hard on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 5, Informative

    Warrantless surveillance just like they do now. It's scary just how correct Senator Frank Church was about the surveillance state after the Church Commission ended:

    In the need to develop a capacity to know what potential enemies are doing, the United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air. Now, that is necessary and important to the United States as we look abroad at enemies or potential enemies. We must know, at the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left such is the capability to monitor everything—telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide.
    If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.

    I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.[9][10][11]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

  19. FUD on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OMG!!! The pedophiles and terrorists are going to run rampant!! It's not like they used encryption before or anything!

    Gotta love the flailing FUD as of late about encryption, reporting police officers on Waze, etc. The police state is definitely in full swing at this point.

  20. Re:Butt FUCKING UGLY on Latest Windows 10 Preview Build Brings Slew of Enhancements · · Score: 1

    it looks EXACTLY like Windows 7

    That is patently false. No Aero Glass in 10 so it does NOT look exactly the same. That's before we get to the icon changes, extraneous whitespace that 7 doesn't have, etc. They look more similar but "exactly the same" they do not look.

  21. Re:The rate at which oil prices are dropping ... on Engineers Develop 'Ultrarope' For World's Highest Elevator · · Score: 1

    Sucks for you. Still going down every day where I live.

  22. Re:"vivaldi" on Opera Founder Is Back, WIth a Feature-Heavy, Chromium-Based Browser · · Score: 1

    No, that tablet was shitcanned months ago.

  23. Re:FUD on Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App · · Score: 1

    So one incident in 6+ years? Oh my god!

  24. Re:I have a simple legitimate solution to the prob on Comcast Ghost-Writes Politician's Letters To Support Time Warner Mega-Merger · · Score: 2

    If every household in America bought $150 in Comcast stock each month instead of paying their cable bill it would take ~3 years to buy them out.

    That only works assuming that every single share of Comcast stock is available to purchase. That is not necessarily true. Do you even know how the stock market works?

  25. Re:One-sided PR on Comcast Ghost-Writes Politician's Letters To Support Time Warner Mega-Merger · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't NetFlix or smaller competitors chime in for the opposition?

    They have.