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  1. Re:Just better than the old stuff from Sun on ZFS, the Last Word in File Systems? · · Score: 1

    And how do you know they're not referring to VxVM?

  2. Re:Oh wow! on ZFS, the Last Word in File Systems? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Until Veritas makes their product free, there's going to have to be SOMETHING that operates in that space that is under Sun's control, don't you think? Not to mention VxVM has plenty of warts all its own.

  3. Re:Hmf. on ZFS, the Last Word in File Systems? · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "You'll never need more than 640K of memory". The point would be to be ready as storage densities increase. In the last 8 years we've gone from a terabyte filling a room to a terabyte on a desktop, and I'm sure there are more density breakthroughs coming.

    It's your density, Luke.

  4. Re:solaris fan on Jonathan Schwartz Shows 32-Way UltraSPARC Chip · · Score: 0
    Yes, it's a commerical.

    Duh. Just like "Blog For America" was political advertising, and anyone who thought it was simply whatever Dean felt like writing was fooling themselves. Look at the author's agenda. Just because it's called a "blog" doesn't mean it's in any way authentic.

  5. Only one problem? on Republican Senators May 'Go Nuclear' · · Score: 1
    The problem with this procedure, however, is that the Supreme Court could still overrule the Senate, and the status of the then improperly confirmed judges would be unknown.

    And the other problem of course is that unless they succeed in making it illegal for Democrats to hold the presidency or a majority in the senate, a few years down the road they'll be hoist by their own petard.

  6. Re:LOTR 4 : Saturn's contorted F-ring region on New Ring Discovered Around Saturn · · Score: 1

    pervy hobbit fancier.

  7. Re:Privacy in public on Chicago Pondering Huge Camera Network · · Score: 1

    There's being arrested on the spot, and then there's being tracked down later because you were in some place at some time. I bet they won't even care if you weren't really meaning to be in that crowd, you were just trying to get across the road....

  8. Re:Where's the problem here? on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: 1

    The University has every right to regulate what devices connect to their network. You want to set up a WAP in your apartment? Fine, just don't bridge it to our network.

  9. Re:Form 180 on TXANG Debate Re-Igniting? · · Score: 1

    That's an attitude and approach that's going to win LOTS of debates. I thought the big argument against the right was that they were intolerant bigots, but you right there demonstrated that the right has no monopoly on stupid dittoheads. While you started out good about the records being public, all the "screw you" rhetoric completely destroys your credibility. Idiot. :-)

  10. Re:what of reinvention of 3-note riffs? on Court Rules Against Unlicensed Sampling · · Score: 3, Informative
    they just can't tweak the _recording_ of 'Foxy Lady', call it an original composition and not pay royalties.

    You obviously don't know jack about how sampling/scratching/etc actually works and is used in music, do you? Perhaps you should educate yourself before making such statements.

    For the record, you're right, "just tweaking the recording of Foxy Lady" should be licensed, but it seems pretty obvious that "even unrecognizable snippets" goes way beyond ruling against "just tweaking".

  11. department? on Wikipedia != Authoritative? · · Score: 1
    from the well-duh-people dept

    Nothing like editors trolling by proxy, posting an obviously stupid article.

  12. Excellent Documentation? on Step By Step: Building a MythTV PVR for $635 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I don't know what those reviewers are smoking. Don't get me wrong; I have a Myth box, and I like it a lot. The software itself rocks. But the documentation is a huge haystack of braindumps without a map. These guys put Myth onto a box in a relatively short period of time, modulo distribution problems. That sounds to me like they've read and reread and rereread the docs enough times that they know what's where--they've done it before and don't need a map any longer. For a first time Myth user, the docs are going to blow your brain into little pieces, and it's going to take you a long time just to absorb what's relevant to your system from them unless you have a really standard (i.e. just like the developers') machine.

    Oh, by the way? I have a job already, and a family, and a life. So don't tell me it's my fault I can't digest the haystacks and make a map for the world. I'm a supporter of Myth, I'm just saying that the review does not set reasonable expectations for the effort it takes unless you're installing KnoppMyth.

  13. Re:Would that rebirth include... on Cold Fusion Back From The Dead · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. On the other hand, far too many of the physics establishment were quick to dismiss the idea out of hand without even trying to reproduce it, since it came from (gasp) chemists who obviously couldn't know what they were talking about. Plenty of bad behavior all around, methinks.

  14. Re:No. on Insurance Companies Try Out Auto Black Boxes · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Finding new insurance when you're moving state to state, don't know any of the agents, and have a legal requirement to be insured is difficult enough. Finding insurance after you've been cancelled as "high risk" is damn near impossible unless you've got a firstborn to sell into slavery anyway, so having it happen within a few months of the accident or a couple years later was pretty irrelevant. If it had happened when I wasn't moving, at least it would have been only one issue to deal with at a time.

    It doesn't help me to think that my father totalled a car every two years through the 70's and State Farm never cancelled him, and here they cancelled me over things that were FAR less impact to their bottom line. Which leads back to the whole idea that they cancelled me not so much because of me, but because they had made bad decisions about who to insure against floods. Which is why it still makes me angry--State Farm wasn't there, because of poor planning on their part and events that by and large were not my fault (10 days without a license was my fault, but didn't mean I was a habitual drunk, running around smashing into people, I simply didn't fill out some paperwork at one point and never got my renewal notice because I'd moved, but they treated me if I was one of these people who couldn't keep a license).

  15. Re:No. on Insurance Companies Try Out Auto Black Boxes · · Score: 1
    can't be cancelled or changed until renewal.

    It was renewed several times in the years between my "events" and their decision to fuck me. They had ample legal opportunity to cancel me prior to moving to another state.

  16. Re:Why I didn't renew my /. subscription on Insurance Companies Try Out Auto Black Boxes · · Score: 1

    It means they're arrogant fucks who don't really want my money.

  17. Re:No. on Insurance Companies Try Out Auto Black Boxes · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Ah fuck that. After the '93 flood, State Farm went to bail on as many people as they could. I moved from one state to another in '95, and they canned my policy. Why? Because 1) in '94 they had to pay for a total on a 10 year old PoS Honda that only cost them less than $5000 and Wasn't My Fault (was hit in my driveway while I was not within 100 miles--hardly reckless driving) and 2) I had a minor fender bender 4 years previously 10 days after my license expired and I hadn't realized it. Now, if those things really meant I was no longer insurable by them, I should have been cancelled right away, right?

    But no, they waited until I moved state-to-state a year or two later (in fact, the license thing was long enough previous that I had completely forgotten it) to can me. As I say, trying to make up losses on the '93 flood.

    Bottom line: mutual insurance doesn't stop them from screwing you.

  18. Re:discounts? on Insurance Companies Try Out Auto Black Boxes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And what's really irritating? Lots of us speed, and lots of us brake hard, and how many of us actually are habitually in accidents? If you know the capabilities of your vehicle, there should be no cause for alarm. I drive way more aggressively than my wife, and she's been in more accidents in the last 4 years than I have in the last 10--only one of her own fault, BTW.

  19. Re:M-I-C... K-E-Y... on Windows to Mac Migration Guide/Advice? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Don't get a book. No one actually reads them after they buy them.

    Because after all, once you blow something up and your system is down, it's so EASY to get to online documentation.....

    Books have saved my ass so many times it's not funny. Get a book. Pogue's "Missing Manual" series is pretty darn good.

  20. Re:Maybe if the started MAKING MST3K again... on MST3K Rightsholders Sue Over Theater Commentary · · Score: 2, Informative

    Um, they're doing just fine selling new releases of old episodes, why do they need new material to defend what they currently hold--much of which hasn't been released yet? As long as sites like DAPCentral (use google) are honorable and don't distribute episodes that are commercially available, they just help the brand, and won't get spanked. If you RTFA, you'll note that Mallon's beef is that these guys are taking the MST3K format and using it for more "adult" humor, and still want to trade on the idea that they're like MST3K.

  21. Re:One of the unfortunate things about Apache... on Hardening Apache · · Score: 1
    Its configuration is unusually complex for a webserver.

    Have you tried to configure netscape's webserver, or its successors from Sun/iPlanet? That is what I consider "unusually complex" in configuration for a webserver.

  22. Here He Comes! on Electromagnetic Suspension System · · Score: 5, Funny
    the author of this piece describes seeing the system allow the test vehicle to jump over obstacles in it's path!

    Mach 5! Yeah!

  23. Re:Commercial vs. Consumer Markets on How Can Companies Profit While Giving Code Away? · · Score: 1

    HERESY!!!!!!

  24. Re:Licensing Issues? on Dual Caches for Dual-core Chips · · Score: 2, Informative

    A typical vendor, Oracle, when talking about a different chip (the newest SPARC chips) says "yes you must pay for each core". I would be surprised if many vendors with such licensing schemes have any other answer.

  25. Re:Again on Solaris Coming to IBM's Power Architecture? · · Score: 1
    In either case, it's not necessarily a dying gasp.

    That won't stop The Street[tm] from punishing us for it anyway.