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  1. Re:WTF is this doing on MY slashdot? on Romney Taps Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    You really need to take an economics class. Might learn something.

    Or just google for "sales tax". Or are you saying sales tax is not tax?

  2. Re:Focus Will Be On Economy on Romney Taps Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan As Running Mate · · Score: 2, Insightful

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-15/poor-census-low-income/51944034/1

    Apparently you feel that making the very poor pay more in taxes is a good thing.

    And no, you really don't understand what is left wing, you only know how to parrot Fox News talking points.

  3. Re:WTF is this doing on MY slashdot? on Romney Taps Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan As Running Mate · · Score: 0

    If the tea party wasn't so dead stuck on tax cuts for the wealthy, I'd give them more credence, but when you want to cut medicare/medicaid, funding for schools and teachers, and on top of that, you want to cut taxes for the wealthy? Fuck the tea party for being Koch brothers sock puppets.

  4. Re:RAID on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    yes yes yes and more yesses. It is bloody magical.

    I just upgraded from 7x1TB to 7x3TB drives by replacing them one at a time, wait for reslivering to finish, and then swap next drive out (telling ZFS that I've replaced each drive with the new one of course).

    In place replacement. When all of them are done, I suddenly have a 12 TB RAID-Z3 disk set. Raid-Z3 = 3 redundant disks. Also, peak reads and writes at 500MB/s. Bloody impressive.

    And if you want to mirror a snapshot, it's just ome command to send that mirrored snapshot to an external array, or another computer or another network.

    And end-to-end checksums, so your data *IS NEVER* corrupted, as long as you have sufficient copies of it around, unlike Raid, where if you read the corrupted data in, and write it back out, you're screwed.

  5. Re:RAID on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 2

    Sure it does, when you have a second set of them. Where you store tapes, store the drives instead. What do you think all those virtual tape vaults are made of?

  6. Re:RAID on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 2

    ZFS + snapshots. problem solved. Though you do need more drives than a 8x3TB.

  7. Re:RAID on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 2

    You should check out ZFS. These issues go away. And with RAID-Z3, up to 3 drives can die before you have a problem.

  8. ZFS snapshots on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    Why go through all that? Set up a ZFS volume, and snapshot it to another ZFS volume, and then offline that. Put it on a sata cage, and you can just take it with you when it is done.

  9. Re:The long-term problem for Apple. on Samsung's Comparison of Galaxy S To iPhone · · Score: 1

    Well, Google's approach is to ask the government to force Apple to license their patents out.

    I wonder if Google knows what a patent means - exclusive use is part of the terms for granting a patent, IIRC.

  10. Re:Who else copied Apple? on MS-DOS Not Stolen, New Forensic Analysis Concludes · · Score: 1

    No. Gnome is by Miguel who has an unholy fascination for all things Microsoft.

  11. Re:Alternatively... on MS-DOS Not Stolen, New Forensic Analysis Concludes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Did Bill Gates pay $50k for QDOS? Or did he not? It's pretty simple...

    If he did, it wasn't stolen, he owns it.

  12. Re:Glad to be an Android user.... on YouTube App Removed From iOS 6 Beta4 · · Score: 1

    Apple has always pushed for browser apps. If you wanted to write native apps, they provided tools, but they had always pushed browser apps.

    But I supposed facts are too inconvenient for you.

  13. Re:Glad to be an Android user.... on YouTube App Removed From iOS 6 Beta4 · · Score: 1

    If Apple wouldn't cave in to the damned cell phone companies, do you think they'll cave in to a little search/ad company...?

    Remember, the first iPhone hadn't even been seen by AT&T, and Jobs refused any of the crapware AT&T foisted on all you non-Nexus Android users...

  14. Re:Glad to be an Android user.... on YouTube App Removed From iOS 6 Beta4 · · Score: 1

    And guess what, you have a choice. Stay with iOS 5, and keep the darn app, or move to iOS 6, and download the youtube app.

    Is that really so difficult for you?

  15. Re:Glad to be an Android user.... on YouTube App Removed From iOS 6 Beta4 · · Score: 1

    You do realize it is because Google wouldn't give those features to Apple, without Apple giving more screen real estate to Google "come on, we want our Logo there!!!"

  16. Re:Glad to be an Android user.... on YouTube App Removed From iOS 6 Beta4 · · Score: 1

    Come now, you're trying to inject sense into this. Not allowed!

  17. Re:Glad to be an Android user.... on YouTube App Removed From iOS 6 Beta4 · · Score: 3, Informative

    What has that got to do with anything? You *DO* realize that youtube is available via the Safari browser too, right? And that you can put a shortcut to it in your screen? And the mobile version can pull down better resolution stuff..?

    A lot of people prefer to use the mobile version of youtube rather than the app. With the app, you can't even copy a damned url link.

  18. Re:Downward Spiral on YouTube App Removed From iOS 6 Beta4 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Awww, do you need someone to hold your little hands?

  19. Re:Landing will never work on Curiosity Lands On Mars · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Apparently it worked this one time...

  20. Re:Slow day? on Apple Is Giving Away Its Secrets By Litigating · · Score: 2

    I'm with you. I read through the article, and I want my 2 minutes back. Though, that link to the patent for sawing the woman in half might have been worth it.

    The things they "revealed" are just standard shit people do in development work. $100mil for iPhone marketing is chump change - J&J spends billions in marketing annually. Hell, AT&T spent $150mil in marketing the Lumia - so fucking what?

  21. Re:Is Apple using undercover marketing? on Apple Is Giving Away Its Secrets By Litigating · · Score: 0

    And they have that many people lining up around the block and having fights over the iPhones on launch dates? Seriously?

    Apple doesn't have to copy RIM for that kind of bullshit

  22. Re:Oh lord on Apple Releases iOS 6 Beta 3 For Developers · · Score: 1

    Well, it's the idiots that give you the "Android is so big" range. Without them, how many percent of the market does Nexus own again?

  23. Re:Oh lord on Apple Releases iOS 6 Beta 3 For Developers · · Score: 1

    Apparently you don't know how to read. Check out that "non-Google manufacturers" part.

  24. Re:Still? on Apple Releases iOS 6 Beta 3 For Developers · · Score: 1

    I should have said *non-Nexus* Samsung phones. Oh well.

    Wait! Did Samsung release the roms for this phone, or did Google...?! Heh :) I might still be safe! :)

  25. Re:Still? on Apple Releases iOS 6 Beta 3 For Developers · · Score: 1

    Cyanogen is half crippled on these phones without appropriate drivers for gps, camera etc. If that counts as "working" for you, great! More power to you!