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  1. Re:above, below, and at the same level. ZFS is eve on The State of ZFS On Linux · · Score: 1

    Not really. Fundamentally, a filesystem's job is to store data in a structured manner on an unstructured array of blocks. For everything ZFS does, it still comes down to that.

    There are a great many advantages to having that structure include duplicate blocks and checksums.

    If you really prefer, you can reasonably build a non-redundant ZFS pool on top of a RAID volume though you will lose a few advantages that way.

  2. Re:Water Retention? on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    beans beans....

  3. Re:Water Retention? on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    Or the lifestyle in the Amazon involves a great deal more exercise than the lifestyle in Japan.

  4. Re:Obviously. on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apparently, you kan't read. The very link you posted explained that it was largely due to infant mortality and lack of sanitation. It wasn't from eating egg yolks and salt and it certainly wasn't from failing to substitute transfats for toxic butter.

  5. Yes, but by then, the coaches will be using them primarily as butt warmers.

  6. Re:Great idea at the concept stage. on UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP · · Score: 1

    For the vast majority of home and SOHO users, there really isn't a difference. Routers and APs that support v6 in that class are pre-configured with IPv6 rules that provide the same protection as NAT ever did.

    Many people are using IPv6 right now and don't even know it. All versions of Windows after XP have IPv6 enebled by default. When their ISP goes v6, the RA packets will be accepted and alakazam!

    For that matter, a lot of people were unknowingly using Terado tunneling for IPv6 before that.

  7. Re:Mecial Cannabis companies on California Tells Businesses: Stop Trying To Ban Consumer Reviews · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If a company sold me a moldy product, I don't see why I would care if they refuse to sell to me again. It's not like the situation would likely come up.

  8. Re:/etc/inittab on GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Cgroups work just fine. Currently, they work for any pid at all through /sys/fs/cgroups (you must mount it first) so long as the standard permissions on the pseudo-files allow it..

    There is talk of limiting that to a particular pid and having it act as a service on dbus, but even then, that PID need not be 1.

  9. Re:/etc/inittab on GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    I don't. I do note that it insists on occupying PID 1 though. Are you claiming it will be OK if I run regular old init and spawn systemd from there?

  10. How about a tiered system on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 1

    Perhaps we need tiers of service. 10MBPS or better is broadband. 4-10 is slothband and less than 4 is dead donkeyband. Any service implementing a 'fast lane' shall add the prefix of 'prison' or jailbird to the name on all of their promotional materials.

    So Comcast offers jailbird broadband and AT&T offers slothband.

  11. Re:Seems fine to me. on Device Boots Drones, Google Glass Off Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Which drone drops out of the sky on loss of radio contact?

  12. Re:Seems fine to me. on Device Boots Drones, Google Glass Off Wi-Fi · · Score: 2

    The problem is they jumped the shark. They went too far and now even law abiding citizens are starting to see them as the enemy. Parents now tell their kids to avoid the cops if they get lost and go find someone with kids instead. They have forgotten their actual purpose. Busting heads, shooting, punishment and locking people up are supposed to be unfortunate necessities for protecting and serving, but too many enjoy that too much and protecting and serving have become the unfortunate necessity.

    That's why decades ago, teens caught with beer got to watch the cop pour the beer out but today they go to jail (possibly after being tazed). Decades ago, a losty child got taken home to a relieved parent and that was the end of it. Now, there are inevitable complications where people who either have no kids or could afford a full time nanny (or, perhaps, just a really strong double standard) sit in judgement over them and threaten to steal their kids away.

    I have no doubt there are plenty of cops that are well meaning out there but by turning a blind eye to the bad apples, they become one of them.

    For a recent example, a bunch of cops did a no-knock raid on a home recently based on the word of a known criminal. They raided the home and in the process tossed a flash-bang into a crib causing the child life threatening injuried. They claim they didn't know there were children in the house but they had to move toys meant for small children out of the way in the yard before executing the raid. Meanwhile, their information was bad. It turns out the target of their raid doesn't live there after-all.

    Mistakes happen, you might say. But apparently apologies DON'T happen. Nor does paying the ruinous medical bills. They have shown not a single sign of remorse. What am I to think other than that the whole department is a pack of baby burning thugs? Why should I trust them? Why should I respect them? Why should I believe they are here to 'protect and serve'?

  13. Re:I love this debate on UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Higgs and string theory won't cost money or render the planed uninhabitable. There are some real debates around string theory, but nobody has enough skin in the game to forget their manners over it. The Dinosaur thing has seen a few big changes over the years, but the primary 'controversy' seems to be if they exist or if God put the fossils there as a big April fools joke.

  14. Re:Copyright violation? on Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    That is actually why I oppose EULAS in general. I'm just noting that the courts have a sketchy record when it comes to making sense.

    For the rest, I could argue that since the ISP inspected the payload of the packet rather than just the header, they imposed themselves as a party to the transaction. A common carried just sends the bits along.

    Another amusing option would be accessing the GOP homepage and then starting a stink over them so blatantly endorsing Comcast...

    Or perhaps some .gov pages...

  15. Re:Oooh Shiny on Intel Launches Xeon E5 V3 Series Server CPUs With Up To 18 Cores · · Score: 1

    Will it actually play the cha-ching sound when the extra features self-enable?

  16. Re:Yeah, good luck with that on Chinese Man Sues State-Owned Cell Phone Company For Blocking Google · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. They can't make him "disappear" with the world's press on the story like bloodhounds. They'll wait until a squirrel runs past, THEN kill him. But we will not hear about it because OMG, someone famous for being famous sneezed yesterday!

  17. Re:Copyright violation? on Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    How about if a EULA is includes as a recognition string on the signature? "By altering this page you request our extra special network resiliency testing service. If EULAS are legal, then so is that.

  18. Re:Property-seizures MUST STOP on Private Police Intelligence Network Shares Data and Targets Cash · · Score: 1

    And when Coke has strong armed a deal with all local venues to keep them from selling anything but Coke?

    At one time, the Libertarians understood that corporations couldn't be permitted to exist (and also understood that incorporation was a legal grant from the government). What happened?

    Pray tell, if the corporation in question is a prison and you have been locked up, where is your option to choose the prison that fluffs your pillow and leaves a nice mint before bedtime after a hard day of sipping champagne in the hot tub?

  19. Re:Property-seizures MUST STOP on Private Police Intelligence Network Shares Data and Targets Cash · · Score: 1

    I'll bet if the law required any property seized to be destroyed, this would be less common. Sure, the cops can seize the kingpin's million in cash, but they have to burn it on site. It wouldn't actually stop it since some cops are mean spirited and actually enjoy screwing people over just for the hell of it.

  20. Re:Letters of marque and reprisal? on Private Police Intelligence Network Shares Data and Targets Cash · · Score: 1

    It' worse. A letter of marque authorized seizure of ENEMY ships. That means that this civil forfeiture is essentially a declaration of war against U.S. citizens.

  21. Re:Defund on Private Police Intelligence Network Shares Data and Targets Cash · · Score: 1

    It's not even really that legal. Initially, there was no legislative action involved at all, instead, they dug up a principle of English common law that hadn''t been used in centuries where they 'sue' the property itself. It had been long forgotten primarily because anyone old enough to go to school could see that the very concept is at best silly.

    But since they started with actual drug dealers, nobody saw fit to demand due process of law. Not, it's pretty much anybody they can get their hands on.

  22. Re:And this is why we're moving towards SSL only on Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 2

    That should go over really well for internet banking and other security sensitive uses.

  23. Re:Copyright violation? on Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    The owner of the copyright on the web page isn't getting free anything from Comcast. In fact, if they're getting hit up for protection money (nice website you have there. It'd be a real shame if it took 5 minuted to load....)

  24. Re:Copyright violation? on Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    But Comcast is leading the user to believe that the page looks like their modified version. If the user mods the page with plugins, they know it isn't being displayed as I intended. I don't mind the user doing that, but I do mind an intermediary doing it.

    Perhaps a plugin that checks the integrity of a page against an embedded signed hash and launches a DOS against the ISP if it has been corrupted.

  25. Re:/etc/inittab on GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    I would, but they don't answer any of my questions. For example, why must it be PID 1 to do those things? Why cant the service managers be in the form of optional helpers for the init scripts?

    And others like Why do you keep re-inventing the wheel and then welding your 'solution' in place? Shouldn't it be up to the user if they like your solution or someone else's better?