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  1. Re:This slashdot thread on Why You Shouldn't Trust Internet Comments · · Score: 1

    So true - you can't trust reviews in aggregate. You have to look one-by-one and try to detect the biases.

  2. You reading this APK? on Why You Shouldn't Trust Internet Comments · · Score: 2

    Your hosts file comments are not trustworthy.

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

    It's a bug, I'm sure. It thinks your drive is failing because of an unexpected condition that wasn't handled properly. That's a guess anyway.

  4. Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 2

    Time to move on from XP. You should really give Windows 7 a try.

  5. Re:Size is key to the rollover, not speed. on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    I have a 128GB SSD in my Hackintosh. I have to add symlinks pointing to a spinning disk for certain subfolders just to have enough room to install all of my core applications.

  6. Re:Redefine "hybrid" for the 21st Century on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    And what do you think hybrid means? It just means combining two things (and getting the benefits of both).

  7. Re:7200rpm laptop drives? on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be too worried. Spinning disks already can't saturate SATA II. Are you sure the HDD is capable of SATA-III? Even if it was, being capped at over 300 MB/s is still more than you need.

  8. Re:What about games on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    Except the "first time" is consistent across boots. The next reboot, important files are loaded from the SSD portion.

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

    Who would say that? Anyone who even knows those terms would know that we've moved away from IDE emulation to native AHCI mode many years ago.

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

    You weren't dealing with 500GB platters in the 7 year old 5400RPM drive. Not quite apples to apples. But Seagate going with an SSD portion that's barely bigger than today's RAM upgrades seems silly.

  11. Re:Google isn't publishing a book on Is 'Fair Use' Unfair To Humans? · · Score: 1

    But Google is direct-linking the image and not the page. It's just not very nice to web content owners. Even if it's just as legal.

    Bad example on broadcast radio - the artists get royalties on that.

  12. Re:Google isn't publishing a book on Is 'Fair Use' Unfair To Humans? · · Score: 1

    But Google's not completely innocent in even that. Clicking the thumbnail shows you a high-res image. They even provide a direct "View Original Image" link that allows you to download someone else's image without even visiting the web page. In fact, they're an enabler to the very author the example gives.

  13. Re:Silly article on Is 'Fair Use' Unfair To Humans? · · Score: 1

    this is exactly what robots.txt does

    For crawling/indexing. It's nothing to do with re-publishing.

  14. Re:The solution is simple on Is 'Fair Use' Unfair To Humans? · · Score: 1

    Guns don't kill people, I do.

    AI is artificial intelligence. It's a tool just like a shovel, gun, or car.

  15. Re:What about personal streaming? on Administration Seeks To Make Unauthorized Streaming A Felony · · Score: 1

    In that case was it encrypted and protected so that only the authorized party could view it? I'm not familiar with this one.

  16. Re:I hope there's an easy social integration disab on Firefox 23 Arrives With New Logo, Mixed Content Blocker, and Network Monitor · · Score: 1

    So yes - just blocking it at the firewall would just be simpler than DNS.

  17. Re:I hope there's an easy social integration disab on Firefox 23 Arrives With New Logo, Mixed Content Blocker, and Network Monitor · · Score: 1

    With there being such an extensible UI, you can just create your own preferences button and dialog and share it with the rest of the world.

  18. Re:I hope there's an easy social integration disab on Firefox 23 Arrives With New Logo, Mixed Content Blocker, and Network Monitor · · Score: 2

    Blocking it at the firewall means you can't get around it by editing your own HOSTS or pointing to different DNS servers. DNS spoofing is another alternative to force a specific DNS server, but that still isn't as simple as just blocking access to the IP range at the firewall.

  19. Re:I hope there's an easy social integration disab on Firefox 23 Arrives With New Logo, Mixed Content Blocker, and Network Monitor · · Score: 1

    Real smart - and are you able to think of every permutation of subdomain to add? I don't think it uses the TLD alone for the API. Wildcards are not permitted in HOSTS.

  20. Re:What about personal streaming? on Administration Seeks To Make Unauthorized Streaming A Felony · · Score: 1

    Sure, it's unauthorized. But it's also protected under fair use.

  21. Re:It's lost on Administration Seeks To Make Unauthorized Streaming A Felony · · Score: 1

    If Justin Beiber wrote the songs and wasn't signed to a record label, then he can give blanket permission for fan covers of his songs. Since he's signed to a record label, someone owes royalties on those covers, and he can't unilaterally give away permission like that.

  22. Re:17 USC 101 on Administration Seeks To Make Unauthorized Streaming A Felony · · Score: 1

    Yes, thank you for your technical description of the obvious. Can't take a joke?

  23. Re:A sort of betrayal on Administration Seeks To Make Unauthorized Streaming A Felony · · Score: 1

    I get telling people not to vote by labels and to vote people instead, but telling people what to vote for is not welcome.

  24. Re:A sort of betrayal on Administration Seeks To Make Unauthorized Streaming A Felony · · Score: 1

    Illinois politicians are among the most corrupt. It's been decades since we have had a non-corrupt governor. The jury is still out on the current one, but he's doing some very bad things to the state universities lately.

    Just remember - he came from Chicago. Politicians don't run Chicago.

  25. Re:In the land of a million laws on Administration Seeks To Make Unauthorized Streaming A Felony · · Score: 1

    Not even true. You can make your own stuff using other people's patents and be free and clear as long as you don't sell it. Patents apply to commerce.