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  1. Re:Advatages of ZFS over BTRFS? on OpenZFS Project Launches, Uniting ZFS Developers · · Score: 1

    btrfs is still considered experimental by the devs zfs is used in production.

    Past that btrfs does not seem to support any sort of ssd caching wich is realy a requirement for any modern fs.

  2. Re:Student remember best by writing notes on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1

    Funny I got tested years ago as a child and retain much less while taking notes.Some kids learn that way they really need to stop pushing the one "true" method as there is none.

  3. Re:Solidarity on Student Arrested For Using Phone App To 'Shoot' Classmates · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only people that should be facing criminal charges are the school admins and police that were involved. The kid is 15. What moron make an interfering with a school a criminal law??? It's the inmates responsibility to attempt escape, POW 101 :)

  4. Re:You already have something like this on your ca on NYC Is Tracking RFID Toll Collection Tags All Over the City · · Score: 1

    Have fun associating those licence plates with bureaucrats, they figured out this ploy and used "terrorism" as a rational to shield them from discovery. After all we have to protect our bureaucrats from terrorists don't ya know.

  5. Re:Not radio communications? WTF?! on Court Declares Google Must Face Wiretap Charges For Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    Bad analogy, When there front door starts seeping outside the property and uses a shared resource maybe, till then apples and oranges.

  6. Re:The cloud is nearly never a good idea on Ask Slashdot: Cloud Service On a Budget? · · Score: 1

    Lol if 13mbs is affecting lan performance you have serious issues. Still using a 10mbs hub?

  7. The cloud is nearly never a good idea on Ask Slashdot: Cloud Service On a Budget? · · Score: 1

    Hire a network consultant to fix your broken internet. After that's done have them figure out how you guys can scale. It's probably not a great idea to have to send all this stuff to you office. I am assuming your using GPU's those can be rented and/or bought. You probably want a system that can be distributed fairly well.

    The cloud is a buzzword not a product. A coloed 1ru server can hold about 40TB of bulk storage, Most colos will lets you use nearly unlimited inbound traffic (normal ratio is 1 to 10 inbound to outbound and they pay for the higher of the two) so it's effectively a free resource. Past that whatever you need to process that data can be shifted into colo. Two or more sites in the long term with cross failover and load balancing is probably you best long term position.

  8. Re:Not radio communications? WTF?! on Court Declares Google Must Face Wiretap Charges For Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    What idiot thinks unsecured wifi is private? Same for baby monitors cordless phones etc. It's one thing if it's trivially encrypted.

  9. Re:Time for an entropy server? on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 1

    Centralized is bad. You would be far better off making a usb entropy source in open source hardware. Multiple eyes looking at the chip design and simple enough to send out to various fabs. Multiple supply chains makes it harder to tamper with. I cant think of anything simple enough to be made with basic parts as to not require a fab but my analog EE foo is weak.

  10. Re:Reviews needed: programs, protcols, algorithms on Schneier: The US Government Has Betrayed the Internet, We Need To Take It Back · · Score: 1

    SSL was broken by design. The requirement for trusted cosigners is far to easy to corrupt. The NSA just needs a copy of one of there signing keys and they can man in the middle at will with a few administrative subpoena's . You can band aid the client side sure. The best bet seems to be dnssec rooted at the various country TDL's but that's just spreading the potential abuse around. Requiring multiple pathways to agree could help alleviate that, say having two or more mutually hostile nations.

  11. Re:Leapfrog implies better on How Africa Will 'Leapfrog' Wired Networks · · Score: 1

    Run fiber on batteries all the time. Your average refrigerator on telephone pole has 24 hours of batteries. A lot of Africa needs a ton of infrastructure something China is happy to give them.

  12. Leapfrog implies better on How Africa Will 'Leapfrog' Wired Networks · · Score: 1

    Wireless gets them some access which is better than nothing but not even close to fiber. Your not going to magic around the spectrum issues .

  13. Funny thing that hey were willing to pay for them and probably top dollar at that (car manufactures rarely go for cheap) thus they will find a way to make more.

  14. Re:Actually, you do not have the freedom to exceed on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    Nope driving not a privilege it is a necessity, same thing goes with buses, planes, rail, and boat. Freedom of movement is a basic right, you need it to utilize freedom of association, freedom to assemble, etc. We have been on a slippery slope since the buggy makers were throwing on requirements trying to prop up there industry.

  15. Re:Say what you will on Dark Day In the AWS Cloud: Big Name Sites Go Down · · Score: 2

    Oh it's possible to do just rather expensive to do well. Disk based bits don't work as sync writes past a region take far to long. Higher up the stack you can deal with 35-70ms of network latency. But now it's not mysql with any old crappy php code.

      AWS is PHB buzzword like IBM a decade and a half ago it makes the VC guys happy that you fixed your scaling issue. In reality everybody else's scaling issues now impact you.

  16. Re:Suggestion List on Uncle Sam Finally Wants To Hear From Us On Digital Copyright Law? · · Score: 1

    2 Needs a work for hire exception. If I pay for something to be done by default I should own the copyright. In some ways this needs to be stricter the majority of wedding photographers love to try and keep copyright took forever to find a good one that understood this.

  17. Have full cable with premium channels on Why Internet Television Isn't Quite Ready To Save Us From Cable TV · · Score: 1

    I still use sickbread, I tried cablecard and recording that way far to much was block off unless I went with MS lock in. I still have cable it goes nowhere because the bundle is cheaper that the internet by itself.

  18. Re:No notice, no reference on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    Agreed anything more than the HR yea he worked here has become a legal mine field.

  19. Hint go back to making good networking kit on Cisco Slashes 4,000 Jobs · · Score: 2

    Cisco now has one of just about everything in a search for ever increasing profits. They are getting killed in the market technologically there 10ge port densities are horrid.

  20. Re:Effective for some, not all on The Science of 12-Step Programs · · Score: 1, Troll

    12 step programs success rate is the same as the spontaneous success rate. AKA it is not effective. It is a pseudo religious cult that the government forces people to got to. I'm sure addicts can use help dealing with there addiction but that costs real money not just free use of a church basement, coffee, and a doughnut spread.

  21. Re:Is this realy that hard on Crunching the Numbers On Shared Cellphone Contracts · · Score: 2

    Lets not forget included tethering sprint wanted like 50 bucks to tether and it was only wifi and that is per phone. Ting I can tether wifi or bluetooth no added charge. My nexus 7 hooks up via bluetooth whenever it's not in wifi range. Mind you this was a few years back before I switched things may have changed.

    Added ting bonus is the best customer support I've had since Nextel was business only. There heritage of being from tucows really shows, little things like a tech with a clue picking up on the 2nd or 3rd ring.

    As I said though if you only need one line republic wireless 20 bucks flat.

  22. Is this realy that hard on Crunching the Numbers On Shared Cellphone Contracts · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Republic wireless for one/two phones or heavy usage. Ting if three or more moderate usage. Using ting I'm paying 56 a month for as the sole phone for 3 people, replaced a sprint 3 phone family plan that after all the hidden taxes fee's etc .was about 160. Sure I had to buy phones but they have low end droids for less than most carriers monthly fee. My nexus 4 was 4 ish months of savings and this is before you could port cheap refurbished sprint phones..

  23. Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    SSD's are no different get two with the longest warranty. The primary failure mode is running out of write cyles in which case it's still all readable. I've got nearly 1k ssd drive in production a mix of enterprise and cheap consumer ones expect a 3-5 year life span same as a HDD doing the same job.

    Even in my own home all the PC save the headless server are solid ssd 60-250GB in size. The server uses HDD's in raid and backups go to a USB3 to Sata adapter via bacula and are moved offsite and migrated into a RAID (zfs with dedupe, separate write and read SSD's) before being returned home. I've been tempted to put in a point to point 10gb ethernet or infinband between the server and gaming PC and put some SSD"s for at least read acceleration into the server.

  24. Re:Really? Political correctness? on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    The Doctor is highly intelligent and shown to eat meat for years why would he become vegan?

    His regeneration seems to be somewhat affected by his state of mind, if he wanted to be a woman he would be.

    Color is irrelevant, time lords also were pretty pasty white and had some form of English accent.

    Muslim, again highly intelligent why would he take up primitive superstition?

    Regeneration allows him to fix physical handicap thus he should never need a wheelchair in the long term.

  25. Re:Opted out on First California AMBER Alert Shows AT&T's Emergency Alerts Are a Mess · · Score: 1

    It's all for PR. Amber alerts are a "think of the children" with little use. It keeps people scared and thus voting in the existing politicians.