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  1. Re:Does your role give you time to be the IT guy? on Ask Slashdot: Uses For a Small Office Server? · · Score: 1

    This is the exact process I had trouble with. If it runs into a single bad file, it will fail. If you have a failing disk, it might have files corrupted for quite a long time in the time machine backup, so it won't restore anything if it runs into a single bad file. Feel lucky it worked for you, but don't depend on it.

  2. Re:Does your role give you time to be the IT guy? on Ask Slashdot: Uses For a Small Office Server? · · Score: 1

    If there are ANY corrupt files, the backup will not restore. Do you have any idea how often there are corrupt files in a backup? Especially when you are trying to recover from a failing disk (had the main disk go out, and the time machine was headed that way) it will be an utter loss as it was for me.

  3. Re:So What? on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    Or aren't able to turn on encryption because Macs can't do encrypted LDAP with SMB connections...

  4. Re:That seems like ... on Pranksters Post Giant Windows Logo On Hamburg Apple Store · · Score: 1

    Naa, its an upgrade. Mac is only useful for graphics, video and audio. If you are using it for anything else, it is because you don't understand that it isn't useful.

  5. Re:Motoblur on Motorola CEO Blames Open Android Store For Phone Performance Ills · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, how can you tell which version of OS you have? My X lasts about 2 days with light use, and 1 day under normal to heavy. Also, is there any way to upgrade to the newer OS? I would prefer not to root, but will if that is the only way to increase the battery life.

  6. Re:Motoblur on Motorola CEO Blames Open Android Store For Phone Performance Ills · · Score: 1

    I think what AC is trying to explain to you (poorly I admit) is that ROM stands for Read Only Memory. It is not the best word to use for an image, it would be better to call it an image. Everyone understood what you said, but AC made me chuckle, so felt I had to explain since you missed it.

  7. Re:He raises a valid concern and offers a solution on Motorola CEO Blames Open Android Store For Phone Performance Ills · · Score: 1

    I would venture a guess that it has something to do with blurring the lines between social networking and your phone. The main component of Motoblur is the integration of all the social networks with widgets you can add to the screen.

  8. Re:Funny on Lack of Technology Puts Star Wars Series On Hold · · Score: 1

    I am having problems hearing the voice never having played that game...does it come across as an invasion of cock?

  9. Re:What TLD's can they seize? on Inside the DOJ's Domain Name Graveyard · · Score: 1

    All of the domains seized were essentially property owned by the company that happens to lie on US soil. If the owner of the web site was convicted of a crime, this would be fair game, but I don't think there was any court proceeding over these domains, though the vast majority of them were seized for good reason from looking at the names. Selling counterfeit drugs, designer good, and stuff like that will get you the notice of powerful people.

  10. Re:Some lies on Anatomy of a Privacy Nightmare · · Score: 1

    "I did not have sex with that woman"

    Nope, he did it.

    He didn't have sex with her, she gave him a blow job. Sex would imply actual penetration...

    "There are WMDs in Iraq"

    Nope, none, just a lie to get us to support a war.

    At the time he said it, the US intel agencies were telling him there was, hardly a lie to repeat bad intel

    "will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days"

    Absolutely within his power as President to unilaterally accomplish, no compromising necessary. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was non-emergency and Obama decided to sign it two days after passing with no posting on the White House web site.

    Obama lied well before entering office, he said he would never vote for telecom immunity, then the first time the bill came up (with telecom immunity) he voted for it. This was the point I lost my respect for him completely.

    "Letâ(TM)s look at the number 1. Number 1, thatâ(TM)s the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office."

    That's Michelle Bachmann. The Obama administration had approved 276 permits by the time she said that.

    This almost sounds like the person is saying something along the lines of "look at evidence page 1" but I would have to have more of the quote to form an opinion either way.

    "They're advocating net neutrality, which is essentially censorship of the Internet!"

    Another Bachmann classic. Maybe she's not lying, maybe she's just plain crazy.

    Or doesn't understand the issue? Most politicians are lawyers, not a profession known for their grasp of technology. It is entirely possible that a lobbyist explained it to her this way and she believed them as they would never lie...

    And I could fill a small book with the various lies politicians say about guns in order to further their agendas.

    I'm not talking about promises they couldn't fulfill due to realities, I'm talking about lies.

    Fully agree.

  11. Re:Rubbish on Bubble Bursting On the MMO Market? · · Score: 1

    I haven't ever used macros, but I find it easier to spend a little extra and sell GTC/PLEX to my Corpies for extra cash. So I suppose I am supported by macroers.

  12. Re:and given that assumption is now questioned... on No Moon Needed For Extraterrestrial Life · · Score: 1

    I don't know about that disappointment, I would be pretty happy to run into Vala.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_Mal_Doran

  13. Re:No Werewolves! on No Moon Needed For Extraterrestrial Life · · Score: 1

    Where do you think the teen pregnancy statistic comes from?

  14. Re:How About ... on Amazon and Barnes & Noble Jostle Over Battery Life Figures for Nook, Kindle · · Score: 1

    Even when sleeping the Nook B&W will draw a decent amount of power as it runs in "screen saver" mode and switches the sleep picture every so often (something like every half hour, long enough that it isn't worth measuring, but often enough that I noticed the change from off to on). I do believe that this is an incredibly stupid marketing stunt though, as all the e-readers last way longer than anyone cares already.

  15. Re:How About ... on Amazon and Barnes & Noble Jostle Over Battery Life Figures for Nook, Kindle · · Score: 1

    In that case, every e-reader will work for you, even the Nook Color, as it lasts near 4 days without charging for me (and my kids who love the games on it after rooting).

  16. Re:How About ... on Amazon and Barnes & Noble Jostle Over Battery Life Figures for Nook, Kindle · · Score: 1

    I would even offer that if you half your speed the tires will last near twice as long. If I could only stop peeling out all the time, I might actually get decent life out of my tires.

  17. Re:How About ... on Amazon and Barnes & Noble Jostle Over Battery Life Figures for Nook, Kindle · · Score: 1

    Except that hard drives were originally in 1024 kbytes, then was changed when someone realized it sounded better to have a larger number, even when it was not larger.

  18. Re:Shorter the battery life the harder it must be. on Amazon and Barnes & Noble Jostle Over Battery Life Figures for Nook, Kindle · · Score: 1

    I was recently concerned about my Nook Color (and Droid X) when my son joined Boy Scouts as we were camping without access to electricity. It turns out that they both last long enough to get through a normal weekend of usage. That is all that matters, though when I go to summer camp I will definitely need to charge both half way through. I was pleasantly surprised that the Nook Color last as long as it does, as it is a powered LCD screen, not a eInk, but the eInks all last insanely long, and make this pissing contest look stupid, they could put "a week +" and get the point across.

  19. Re:How About ... on Amazon and Barnes & Noble Jostle Over Battery Life Figures for Nook, Kindle · · Score: 1

    Even the Nook Color lasts pretty long. I charge mine every 4 days or so, but it really depends on if my kids get ahold of it as the games on a rooted nook drain the battery.

  20. Re:Almost makes sense... on NYSE Sends Cease and Desist Letter To News Organization · · Score: 1

    So there isn't a single other stock exchange that looks roughly the same? The overhead monitors would be a sensible design decision at any SE, so I don't see that being specific to the NYSE. Perhaps having the overhead monitors in a quad formation around some kind of pole? That seems pretty sensible to reduce the space that they take up and to allow viewing from all directions. I just don't see such a small area in the picture being terribly unique to the NYSE, nor do I really see that it has any bearing on Copyright for a stock photo to be used in conjunction with a story about the FBI investigating insider trading allegations at the NYSE.

  21. Re:Almost makes sense... on NYSE Sends Cease and Desist Letter To News Organization · · Score: 1

    Except it was an image of a couple guys standing in front of computers that happens to be on the NYSE floor. Take a look at the picture, does it look like a trademark to you? Would you even know it was a picture of the NYSE if it wasn't labeled right below as a picture of the NYSE?

  22. Re:Almost makes sense... on NYSE Sends Cease and Desist Letter To News Organization · · Score: 1

    because the executives at Ford are band robbers.

    Isn't band robbery what the RIAA organizations engage in?

  23. Re:More Details on Seismologists Tried For Manslaughter For Not Predicting Earthquake · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the movie Dante's Peak.

  24. Re:TL;DL on Finding Fault With Qantas' RFID Baggage Tracking System · · Score: 1

    I wonder how hard it would be to have some kind of sensor in the landing gear that would give a sanity check on the numbers being fed into the computer. I could see this happening very easily frankly. Typos happen, and having a computer trust a number punched in when it is controlling the plane is rather odd.

  25. Re:EVE on A Map of the Universe, 10 Years In the Making · · Score: 1

    Eve takes place in one galaxy, this is the universe.