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  1. Re:Google operating system? on Zero Day Hole In Google Desktop · · Score: 1

    In fact, the classic Unix design is very desktop unfriendly. Unix design has nothing to do with good/bad desktop. c.f. NeXT, OSX. The desktop apps could treat devices as raw block devices if they wanted, no file system mount semantics to worry about.

  2. Re:This'd be a feature of printing money. on Job Cuts For Dell, Motorola, and Circuit City · · Score: 1

    for 1 month?

  3. This'd be a feature of printing money. on Job Cuts For Dell, Motorola, and Circuit City · · Score: 2, Informative

    printing presses -> inflation -> interest rates -> bad times.

    HTH.

  4. WTF? on Microsoft Vs. TestDriven.NET · · Score: 4, Funny

    You may not work around any technical limitations in the software. Really? I'm going to have to go over my Windows EULA again. Does it contain that phrase? In which case it is clearly against the EULA to install ANY additional software beyond the basic operating system, clearly doing so would be working round technical limitations.
  5. Wireless/USB MP3 players? on TurboLinux to Sell Wizpy Media Player Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Anyone recommend one?

  6. Intellectual Property on Canadian Movie Camcording Addressed With Legislation · · Score: 1

    If you can have intellectual property, (and obviously the use of these words is to deliberately conflate the concept of owning ideas with the law on physical property ownership).

    Shouldn't you be held liable for any damage (whatever it is) which that property causes? After all, ideas can be dangerous and, until now, they have not been thought to be ownable...

  7. Isn't this just on Intel Shows Off 80-core Processor · · Score: 1

    A transputer which was around in the 80s?

    Hmm has it really taken 20 years of research or ... Wonders... 20 years later... Patents...?

  8. So where's the link? on Google Street View Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    How are we to be expected to comment if we can't see the cat in the window?

  9. Wot no exit procedures? on The IT Department as Corporate Snoop? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's almost impossible not to occasionally catch sight of something sensitive when you work in IT; Employee databases, email folders/logs, web browser histories, chat logs etc etc.

    More than any other reason, this is why your IT team should be well paid and why duties should be segregated.

    Course there should be documented exit procedures for HR and IT when people leave.

  10. And the true irony on Video Game Documentary Stirs Up Controversy · · Score: 4, Funny

    A competition where even the winners are losers.

  11. going equipped on Germany Declares Hacking Tools Illegal · · Score: 1

    http://www.police-information.co.uk/legislation/le gislationindexeng.html#G

    It's the intent which matters. Doesn't matter what the tool is.

  12. Re:Um... on Next Windows To Get Multicore Redesign · · Score: 1

    f they can re-write the OS kernel for pervasive multithreading, then they can once again force users to upgrade all of their software...again. So basically, their economic model is going to require users to remain several years behind the state of the art in system architecture so that the can be constantly drip fed updates and "complete redesigns".

    I'll also point out that the repeated use of "completely redesigned" by MS executives sets f*cking huge alarm bells ringing. Not what I want from an OS. I suspect that most businesses would be similarly alarmed. Wouldn't it be nice if they could just get it right...

  13. rsync on Syncing Music Players In Linux? · · Score: 1

    HTH

  14. Um... on Next Windows To Get Multicore Redesign · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Didn't they only just fundamentally rewrite Windows Vista?

  15. Why are you still a customer? on Who's Trading Your E-mail Addresses? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you want Ameritrade to take notice then dump them.

  16. Re:Real SANs do more on Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs? · · Score: 1

    You can buy 10Gb ethernet to run iSCSI for less than FC. Or, you can easily run quad Gb cards for much less. It makes huge sense to use the same technology for your LAN & SAN. In terms of reliability & performance it's fairly simple to design a system which is both fault tolerant and fast.

  17. Re:ok for low end, not for high on Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs? · · Score: 1

    And if you don't mind the server being your single point of failure. HA Linux is pretty trivial to set up, but it does require an experienced admin, which isn't needed so much with your typical NAS.
  18. It's about the admin, not the hardware on Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs? · · Score: 1

    NAS stuff tends to be plug and play. No admins required. Or at least, minimal admins.

  19. Inductive charger? on Microsoft's Multitouch Coffee Table Display · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No? Pfft...

  20. Does Myth have Bayesian content selection yet? on Screencasts of Installing MythTV Via MythDora 4.0 · · Score: 1

    Really, with tens of channels, never mind hundreds, I've long since given up trying to find stuff worth watching, that's what computers are for.

    Tivo was great, but it's no longer available in the UK and my hardware's been disassembled and the big drives recycled.

  21. Re:A better approach to parallel programming on Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard? · · Score: 1

    It should be a system based on elementary communicating objects. Kind of like... Clients and servers?

  22. And for *everything* hobbity on Ask Turbine's Jeff Anderson About LOTRO · · Score: 1
  23. Read The Selfish Gene on The Drive For Altruism Is Hardwired · · Score: 2, Informative

    As you point out his genes actually gain a survivability boost. It probably feels good in order to reinforce the behaviour.

  24. Nothing to do with globalization on British Record Companies Win £41m In Damages · · Score: 0

    And everything to do with protectionism. It is indeed the political favouring of the producer over the poor.

  25. MS *doesn't* lie at all on New Zealand Rejects Office For Macs · · Score: 2, Informative

    They tell you out in front what to expect from their software.....

    You did read the EULA didn't you? No? Really?