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  1. Re:Needless loss on Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good · · Score: 1

    I found this backup script online, and I'm certain my new backup strategy will work because it ran without throwing any errors!!

    It doesn't matter how many copies of your db you've got on your storage device when that storage device fails or is destroyed. Might as well make the argument that magnetic media stores a lot of charged particles per bit, and those act as your redundant backups.

    Be involved in your backup strategy, or be clueless when you need a backup.

  2. Re:Mac reliability on Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good · · Score: 1

    So you came here to wine?

  3. Re:Pretty Pictures with Little to No Functionality on Spiraling Skyscraper Farms For a Future Manhattan · · Score: 1

    You can get more yield per acre with hydroponics than traditional agricultural techniques. However, you also need a lot more manpower, and your acre is not just a mound of cheap dirt, but expensive (compared to dirt) materials that require much more maintenance than dirt does.

    I suppose we could all become farmers, but I wonder who's going to be making all the hydroponic supplies we'd need to survive...

    As far as the air quality... Please, if it's good enough to live there, I don't think food contamination by the same air is going to be a major problem.

  4. Re:No on Spiraling Skyscraper Farms For a Future Manhattan · · Score: 1

    There is always farmland.

  5. Re:Calling this "liquid wood" on "Liquid Wood" a Contender To Replace Plastic · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought that is what the pills were called.

  6. Re:More Likely Responses on Hackable Microcontroller-Powered Valentine's Card · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That wasn't funny, mod that sad you sick sick moderators.

  7. Old? on Getting Kicked Off The My Little Pony Forum · · Score: 1

    Forum gets trolled in 2006, still makes news...

  8. Re:More Likely Responses on Hackable Microcontroller-Powered Valentine's Card · · Score: 5, Informative

    Considering my wife came across an electronics project I made, didn't care what it was or how much work it cost and threw it away.. I'm probably not going to spend hours and hours making a valentines day card twinkle...

  9. This isn't the first time... on Slashdot.org Self-Slashdotted · · Score: 4, Funny

    First thing I'd do as Cyber Security Tzar would be to outlaw any network device that has the potential to become faulty.

    We could've avoided this tragedy entirely.

  10. Re:Check Security on FTC Kills Dirty Online Check Processing Outfit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When I was taught about checks in high school, I was taught that all that matters is that a document is signed signifying the amount of money, the recipient, and the banking account number. I'm glad to see we can forgo the contractual aspect of checks, and reduce it to a set of numbers, both of which are found on every check. Glad my bank honors that. It's comforting to know that my entire savings is up for grabs every time they mail me a checkbook.

  11. Re:Do all these "Tsars" piss anyone else off? on Obama To Name Melissa Hathaway Cybersecurity Chief · · Score: 1

    It's called "Change!" Obama didn't approve of my suggested slogan, "What's an america?"

  12. Re:CYBER on Obama To Name Melissa Hathaway Cybersecurity Chief · · Score: 1

    I don't get why people are using it as a noun or adjective. IT'S A VERB PEOPLE!

  13. Re:What's the difference between a "cybersecurity. on Obama To Name Melissa Hathaway Cybersecurity Chief · · Score: 1

    Agreed. This couldn't be a political ploy to appear to be reaching across the gender isle to fill an ambiguous position with no real future impact on society, could it?

  14. Re:Outside the US? on CBS Hosts Ad-Funded TV Series, Incl. Original Star Trek · · Score: 1

    Streaming video internationally is bad enough without interjecting a clogged-with-hair-bubblegum-and-dirt proxy.

  15. Re:Republicans are Flat-Earth Economists on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 1

    I'm not praising Bush. But his failures in one (or several) areas doesn't immediately conclude fault in all others. It only makes it easier on the Dem's looking for a scapegoat. Don't be part of the mob, use your brain not theirs.

  16. Re:Republicans are Flat-Earth Economists on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 1

    It's funny to see Obamazonians blame Bush for Clinton's mess. NYTimes

  17. Re:Bingo on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 1

    A board of directors has (and should you commie) the right to pay their president whatever they want to encourage profitability of their investment.

    This is the same as my right to invest my money in a golden toilet. It may not make me as rich as I expected, but should this be illegalized for the "good of all of us"?

    Let me clue you in, $billions wasted in the private sector is nowhere near as big as the $trillions in government debt. Also, one is a public matter and the other, well, none of your business.

  18. Re:Bingo on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 1

    I agree, bad spending can't be fixed with more spending.

    I disagree with debt destruction. Why have all these stimulus packages focused on those with poor financial responsibility? I can afford to pay for my house, car and life style. Why do I have to pay for your foreclosure? Why don't I see any benefits for responsible living?

    People want to blame the banks/politicians for bad financial practices. Well they should. But the other side of the contract was a person that didn't do their math, didn't plan their budget, didn't own their responsibilities.

    These handouts have taught us all:
    * Banks can take gigantic financial risk, since the federal government *WILL* protect them. They are foolish to not gamble my pension.
    * Citizens should live beyond their means. It is the federal governments responsibility to balance their checkbook.
    * Politicians should push for more spending at any time. We will stand for it, and we don't understand how much $1 trillion is.

    How does debt destruction change any of these big root problems?

  19. Re:Republicans are Flat-Earth Economists on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 1

    Government mandated unemployment, bankruptcy and welfare. Three of the greatest factors in economic triumph.

    Did you think at all before posting that garbage?

    After you destroy the nation, how do you expect the government to withstand the 50 million armed citizens? Give them U.S. monopoly money? Rally them with inspiring words of "Hope!", "Change!" and "Yes, we can!" ???

  20. Re:Great on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 1

    Mod parent fantastic

  21. Re:One nice feature... on Name and Shame Spam Senders With OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Good point, but requires universal adoption.

  22. Re:One nice feature... on Name and Shame Spam Senders With OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    That "frustration" can stop spammers. If they cannot deliver spam quickly and cheaply, they cannot be profitable.

    But is it worth the consequences of slowing down legitimate traffic? No.

  23. Re:Wrong Premise on Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable · · Score: 1

    Hmmm almost dried up in 1908? Wonder what our carbon emissions were like then. I'm sure we can get back to those levels with the clever application of solar panels and windmills.

  24. Re:Analog on Nanotube Memory Finally Beats Flash For Speed · · Score: 1

    Since "digital" usually is an interpretation of analog, I'd get used to seeing both of them around for a long time.

  25. Re:And what exactly on Nanotube Memory Finally Beats Flash For Speed · · Score: 1

    Great, just another set of tubes to tie. Like I'm made of money.