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  1. Re:I use it for linux distributions on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 1

    If you download pirated files then the torrents win!!

  2. Re:I use it for linux distributions on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 1

    This seems very interesting. I'm doing a much smaller setup now with NFS and running the OS in RAM. Even with only about 40-50 servers I can get boot storms on the pxe boot server. I may have to look into this as an option. If I can get a bittorent client into the initrd...hmm time to start playing.

  3. Re:Let's not kid ourselves here on Netflix: 'Arrested Development' Won't Crash Our Service · · Score: 1

    This is something that Netflix can break that mold. No longer are shows competing for prime time, or competing for any time. There's only 24 hours in a day that a legacy channel can air shows. Netflix based steamed shows just need to attract subscribers, and they can show an unlimited number of different 1 hour shows in one day.

  4. Re:Article troll on The Dark Side of Amazon's New Pilots · · Score: 1

    He meant other than those and the many others, they don't have any comedies.

  5. Re:I guess I'm not an expert then.... on Overconfidence: Why You Suck At Making Development Time Estimates · · Score: 1

    that's why during a scrum meeting when the scrum master asks how much time you will be able to commit to this week you say 10 hours, 20 hours, what ever you are confident that you'll be able to commit. If you have a 40 hour task it should be expected that it will probably take two iterations to get through it unless it can be split between 3-4 people than it might get done in 60-70 hours but in the current iteration.

  6. Re:Article troll on The Dark Side of Amazon's New Pilots · · Score: 1

    I would say that the biggest factor is the ability to do a lot of things today cheaply that were extremely expensive not to long ago. While this has mainly produced a bunch of crap that looks good, it has also help make a bunch of good talented people able to do much more than ever before.

  7. Re:Probably not the best idea... on Protesting Animal Testing, Intruders Vandalize Italian Lab · · Score: 1

    Yea it's not like movies were on film killing animals in the making of a Tarzan movie, or people were publicly electrocuting elephants to try to say that electricity was bad or anything.

  8. Re:Unplug the computer from the WWW on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Way off, does GoodYear say that in ten years, the tires you buy today will no longer be under warranty and if they happen to stop working or cause problems GoodYear will not replace them.

  9. Re:Article troll on The Dark Side of Amazon's New Pilots · · Score: 2

    Yea, I'd almost call the last decade some of the best TV ever. Although it is also some of the worst. I think prior it was much more overall mediocre so now that there is so much utter crap it hides that there is still some of the best. It's like going to Home Depot and complaining that you can't buy decent 2x4s any more. Sure you can you just have to go to the lumber yard to get them, not the mass market craptastic one stop shopping spot.

  10. Re:Unplug the computer from the WWW on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Tires for an 18 wheeler cost well more than double that 10k.

  11. Re:Unplug the computer from the WWW on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    you haven't bought tires for an 18 wheeler before have you? While not 10x it's still over $25,000.

  12. Re:Unplug the computer from the WWW on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    sorry you didn't hear about it prior, but XP was set to expire some time ago. Perhaps there was a reason you got that great deal you got on an XP system 4 years ago.

  13. Re:Deep on The Eternal Mainframe · · Score: 1

    I'm not, customers are.

  14. Re:Unplug the computer from the WWW on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yea, not being able to afford an upgrade is not an excuse. That's like a truck driver saying he can't afford to buy new tires. At some point he's going to have to or he's not going to be driving his truck.

  15. Re:Huh? on Stolen Laptop Owner Outwits Mugger, Police, and the Media · · Score: 5, Funny

    Run it back and forth a couple times in google translate, it improves some:

    "What do you want to be incompetent in the center of London and the local police to want to attack an attacker? Find images with name and address of company, you may not be able to get the laptop, but you do not have your own photos and Configure the data on it, if you are using the Plumpergeddon NSFW blog that details the following fetish "owner" Brick House Butts. Well, of course the media later it Join in and have an interview with a promise to investigate them could the item and keep his name secret. Luckily, our hero is not as innocent and shows the advantage of using a false name on the Internet and planting monitoring software on your laptop. "

  16. Re:Deep on The Eternal Mainframe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I build server farms specifically to suck data out of Mainframes and process it specifically because of the cost difference. It is nearly 100x the cost and still takes 10x longer to crunch, index and search 8PB of data on mainframe as it does in a comparatively free Hadoop cluster. The TCO was laughably different.

  17. Re:Barristers and Solicitors on British Woman's Twitter Comments Spark Expensive Libel Claims · · Score: 1

    and here i just thought it was somebody that made coffee.

  18. Re:It's a matter of trust on Most Projects On GitHub Aren't Open Source Licensed · · Score: 1

    This is relevant how?

  19. Re:TV using Google Street View of boat ... on Police Capture Second Marathon Bombing Suspect in Watertown, Mass. · · Score: 1

    Best part of google earth is the time line, can view pictures from different times of year and through multiple years.

  20. Re:Um... "suspect" on Police Capture Second Marathon Bombing Suspect in Watertown, Mass. · · Score: 1

    I would support a ban on assault style pressure cookers.

  21. Re:Secularism on Ask Slashdot: What Planks Would You Want In a Platform of a Political Party? · · Score: 1

    Did the funds come from an bill Congress passed?

  22. Re:It's a matter of trust on Most Projects On GitHub Aren't Open Source Licensed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Forget who said it:

    I learn politics and war now, so my children can learn math and engineering, and my grandchildren art and poetry.

    RMS fought for the GPL, so the next generation could have the BSD/Apache likes, and the next generation could not have to worry about licenses at all.

  23. Re:How Tragic on Huge Explosion at Texas Fertilizer Plant · · Score: 1

    Thank you, Captain Hindsight.

  24. Re:Don't have to be perfect, just better on Why Self-Driving Cars Are Still a Long Way Down the Road · · Score: 1

    I'm ok with them running down cyclists because cyclists are evil.

    that is all.

  25. Re:Let's ban! on Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President · · Score: -1

    These types of attacks just prove that assult rifles and high capacity magazines must be banned and owners should be shot.