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  1. Re:Money on 1 In 3 Data Center Servers Is a Zombie · · Score: 1

    You failed to account for the system admin time to keep the server patched and secure. Also you assume that everyone is renting rack space and it is infinite in supply.

    These constraints mean that in my experience when a box is no longer doing anything useful it gets issued with a shutdown command to save the power. At this point if it really is required and a user somewhere starts shouting I can power it back up in a couple of minutes.

    Then generally six to 12 months later it gets removed from the rack because the space the servers are occupying is required for big project X.

  2. My parents taught me at a very early age that TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT.

  3. Re: Do as I say not as I do on British Government Instituted 3-Month Deletion Policy, Apparently To Evade FOIA · · Score: 1

    Seriously it's called GPFS Native RAID, go Google it.

    A feature added to GPFS by IBM paid for by a USA government agency. Does not take a genus to work out now which agency that was, noting that IBM said it was paid for by a USA government agency but would not say which one *BEFORE* the leaks from Snowden.

  4. Re:Stop charging for checked bag on US Airlines Say Smaller Carry-Ons Are Not In the Cards · · Score: 2

    There is an upper limit on the bag mass for handling reasons. So one bag at 35kg and one bag at 5kg is not the same as two bags at 20kg even though the combined mass is the same.

  5. Re:Another Deceptive Slashdot Title on TRIM and Linux: Tread Cautiously, and Keep Backups Handy · · Score: 1

    Wrong it is used with thin provisioning in enterprise storage products. That is I can thinly provision a volume on my storage array and it will use the TRIM commands to "reuse" blocks that are no longer needed in exactly the same way flash drive would.

  6. Re: The point is that Russia's tech is crap on 75% of Russia's Satellite Electronics Come From US · · Score: 1

    Point of note, here in the UK we never really gave a dam about what Sweden was getting up to in the 17th Century. I also suspect neither where the Spanish.

  7. Re:Surely this is not that hard... on Ex-CIA Director: We're Not Doing Nearly Enough To Protect Against the EMP Threat · · Score: 1

    Talks a lot about telephone lines, that looks like a VERY good reason that all those copper lines need replacing with fibre optic

  8. Re:Not really what you should be worried about on EasyJet Turning To Drones For Aircraft Inspections · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Even better than that you could have the drone fly a preplanned route around the plane capturing every square centimetre and then have a computer compare the imagery with the results from last week/month/year and flag up any differences for the engineer to actually look at.

    Add in some imaging in wavelengths other than visible light, not only could this be quicker and cheaper than a manual human inspection it could also be better.

  9. Re:Sure on EasyJet Turning To Drones For Aircraft Inspections · · Score: 1

    Or even what has changed on this aircraft since I last flew over it.

  10. Re:What's that you say? on How American Students Can Get a University Degree For Free In Germany · · Score: 1

    And it is so funny when foreigners don't understand the English language. You are writing in English, someone with a Bachelor degree has been a post graduate in England since *BEFORE* any university existed in what is now Germany by nearly two hundred years you ignorant twit.

  11. Re:API versus Look and Feel on Supreme Court May Decide the Fate of APIs (But Also Klingonese and Dothraki) · · Score: 1

    No because Moby Dick went out of copyright years ago. An example of talking about Harry Potter and Hermione Granger for example would make more sense.

  12. Re:Piss-poor situation on Rare 9-way Kidney Swap a Success · · Score: 1

    There is a simple answer to the shortage of organs. At the moment there is no downside to not being on the "register" or whatever it is in your country. Therefore to fix the supply problem we need to create a downside if you are not a registered organ donor.

    The most objectively fair way to do this is if you are not on the donor register you are ineligible to receive a donated organ. Put simply if you are not willing to donate an organ what makes you think you should receive them?

    Obviously we need to require people to be on the register for say a year before they become eligible to receive them to stop people simply joining when they find they need an organ donation. Further if you ever find you need one and don't have that year of registration then you are forever locked out.

    Set up the laws so that you can join the register at say 16, and by 18 you must be on it to receive an organ donation. By the time you are 19 you need to have been on a year to receive the donation. Further changes of law as necessary so next of kin are unable to override your decision to donate (a problem in some countries).

    You will find that with suitable publicity over a phase in period that the supply of organs will basically be fixed in a couple of years.

  13. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    The average American IS inconvenienced every single day of their lives. However because that is externalized to their daily lives they don't notice. However this does not mean that they are not inconvenienced.

  14. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Lets get this clear, Fahrenheit is of no benefit for measuring weather. Frankly no weather forecast is even accurate to one degree Celsius let alone one degree Fahrenheit. Further more the temperature during the day varies in general by well more than one degree Celsius. So you are just making stuff up to justify your preconceived preference for Imperial measurements.

    You foot is one foot long, great you can just multiply by 30 instead. You do know your three times table and how to shift a decimal place and get it in centimetres. Again you are just making stuff up to suit your preconceived preference for Imperial measurements.

    As for a persons height for your information they are all quoted in centimetres. which is better than having to slip into a mixture of two units, feet and inches. For some reason you round everything to the nearest metre but not to the nearest foot. Yet again you are making stuff up to suit your preconceived preference for Imperial measurements.

  15. Re: Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Measure the length/width of a random piece of wood and cut it precisely in two. Do that in imperial and then do again in metric. I can tell you for certain that measuring and calculating what half is, is a dam site easier in metric than imperial. For example take 136 millimetres and divide by two. Dead easy now take 5 and 3/8 inches and divide by two.

  16. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    That's why I have Metrinch spanners and sockets. Metric, Imperial, DSW and BSF

    with the added bonus of nuts and bolts with rounded corners being no problem, in addition to the normal bonus of a much smaller set of tools.

  17. Re: In other words on Netflix Is Experimenting With Advertising · · Score: 1

    Or just rip all your DVD content onto a hard disk and setup a Plex/DNLA or similar server and put the DVD's in a cupboard somewhere.

  18. Re:Still needs another vulnerability on Macs Vulnerable To Userland Injected EFI Rootkits · · Score: 2

    I think you will find that SMM debuted in the 386SL and continued in the 486SL begore becoming mainstream in the Pentium.

    Those processor codes should give you a clue as to what it's original purpose was and why it came about.

  19. Re:Important Question: WHICH DC? on How Tesla Batteries Will Force Home Wiring To Go Low Voltage · · Score: 2

    Or you could just buy a socket with a built in USB charger and swap them out. For example in the UK you can get these

    http://www.screwfix.com/p/lap-...

    They even retro fit in to 25mm deep back boxes. I can't believe that similar sockets are not available in other countries.

  20. Re:Not buying it, Copper wire is exspensive (V*A=W on How Tesla Batteries Will Force Home Wiring To Go Low Voltage · · Score: 1

    Add in to the mix that there is not enough copper in the world to give 7 billion people a first world lifestyle using 110V, and some US idiot thinks low voltage DC is the way to go.

  21. Re:Eventually - but the lies do real damage meanwh on Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? · · Score: 1

    Well I can link to a paper that shows that cigarette smoke contains mutagens, which means that it is directly causing mutations in cell DNA. That is unless you are going to claim that mutagens circulating in the blood stream don't actually cause mutations in cell DNA.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...

    This has been known for OVER FOUR DECADES you stupid moron. Look at the data on that paper, it's 1974.

    The basics are when smoking was first linked to cancer it was statistical inference with unknown mechanisms. That has changed in the intervening decades and the mechanisms are at least partially understood now.

  22. Re:Yes to Brexit on Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian · · Score: 1

    Hum, enforced loan at zero interest, in 1940's. In today's money with zero interest that would be around 60 billion euro. Would pretty much solve the Greece's insolvency problem over night I think you will find.

    Greece has never conceded that the debt is forgiven, so Germany is pretty much on the hook for Greece's insolvency.

    Personally if I where the Greece government I would make a point of refusing to pay a some of money to Germany and being very public about why it was doing it. Given that most of the Greece debt is held by German banks...

  23. Re:it's not "slow and calculated torture" on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    Please explain then why Germany does not have zero credit rating then? Noting that Greece has been shafted on loans it made to Germany, some of which where done at gun point.

    I have no Greece ancestry to my knowledge, but frankly Germany owes Greece an large haircut on their debt. If I where the Greece government, I would make the choice to specifically default on only German debt.

  24. Re:Why ext4 on Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned · · Score: 1

    If you really care about the checksumming then switch to SAS/FC and use the Data Integrity Field. ZFS fixes something that has already been fixed years before it even came into existence. It offers better protection from silent corruption than ZFS does as well, because with ZFS you have no guarantee that what you send to the disk is what actually gets written, DIF mitigates against that.

  25. Re:Force his hand..."Sue me! Sooner than later..." on Student Photographer Threatened With Suspension For Sports Photos · · Score: 1

    See recent James Bond filming of Spectre on the River Thames. Large numbers of people saw the filming and footage was taken, some of which was no doubted posted on YouTube and elsewhere. There is nothing the relevant movie studio can do about that.

    You where saying?