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  1. Re: Enterprise Storage on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Store a Half-Petabyte of Data? (And Back It Up?) · · Score: 1

    good price. My last HD purchase was a WD Elements pocket 2TB for £69.99 from DSG. For some reason it doesn't suffer the problem my WDE 1TB has in that that one powers down and I have to hardcycle it for the system to pick it up again. It wouldn't be that annoying except that I use that one for music.

  2. Re:It's going to be a joyous day on Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Revealed In MPAA Emails · · Score: 1

    you mean like the US Supreme Court?

  3. win for the BBC on EU May Become a Single Digital Market of 500 Million People · · Score: 1

    ...who now potentially have 500 million people to extort TV tax out of.

  4. Re:It's going to be a joyous day on Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Revealed In MPAA Emails · · Score: 4, Insightful

    to be replaced by someone potentially a lot worse. Like, say, the offspring of Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair and Ted Turner.

    No, News Corp needs dismantling.

  5. Re: You don't. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Store a Half-Petabyte of Data? (And Back It Up?) · · Score: 1

    that's all right because we have public officials who leave backups on public transport...

  6. Re: Enterprise Storage on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Store a Half-Petabyte of Data? (And Back It Up?) · · Score: 1

    I just had an underpants spooge.

  7. Re:Talk to Vendors on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Store a Half-Petabyte of Data? (And Back It Up?) · · Score: 1

    Seconded. I use laptop EIDE drives for my network scratch - it's great, the array runs at saturation for my Gigabit network. And at 2TB, that volume isn't too shoddy on usable space either.

    For archival storage (for some measure of permanent to not include removable tape) I use huge drives in quick-release caddies and set to JBOD and simply diff the data daily. Once the drive's full, out it comes and in goes the next empty. Full drive goes offsite. Working volume is around 14TB right now, that's a RAID6. All commodity x86/x64 gear. My network volumes are all running in a wooden footlocker on an Athlon64 3400+ clocking at 800MHz.

  8. I felt a great disturbance in the Force on Senate Passes 'No Microsoft National Talent Strategy Goal Left Behind Act' · · Score: 1

    as though ten million IQ scores suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly zeroed.

    I fear something terrible has happened.

  9. Re:A better way on Firefox Will Soon Show You Which Tabs Are Making Noise, and Let You Mute Them · · Score: 4, Interesting

    what I want is each tab to be a sandbox as tight as a Virtualbox VM that I can just pause just like I can with a Virtualbox VM session, preferably to happen when I take focus off it.

  10. you learn something new every day! Didn't know about the #flags thing.

  11. Re:In other news... on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    uh... the topic was California, when did we go a quarter way round the globe??

  12. Re:France is a Major Exporter of Electricity on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    it's more a side point that you may have missed, that not all the French nuclear generating capacity is actually located in France. ;)

  13. Re:Legislate 50% less consumption? Good fucking lu on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    how much toxic stuff do wind generators emit again?

  14. Re:Legislate 50% less consumption? Good fucking lu on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    my mother is replacing her 35 year old Belling electric cooker. Yes, the last two rings (out of four) and the oven have just quit on her in the last month, all she has left is the cool side of the grill.

    That thing came with a ten year warranty. It lasted three and a half fucking decades.

  15. Re:Legislate 50% less consumption? Good fucking lu on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    last time I bought a "Challenge" drill from Homebase it lasted precisely two 40mm deep 8mm wide holes in masonry before the motor burned out. That thing went back, it's been Bosch chucks and Black & Decker motors and gearboxes from secondhand stores ever since. Since I'm too broke to afford a Milwaukee or a Makita...

  16. Re:In other news... on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    what about those DC lines coming in from the North? Where are they going?

  17. Re:France is a Major Exporter of Electricity on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 2

    they may be able to reduce the amount they generate once the Chinese Government get done building the six nuclear reactors along the South coast of England. I shit you not, they have got the no-bid contract. http://www.world-nuclear-news.... (and yes, the plants we have now are owned by the French).

  18. Re:Legislate 50% less consumption? Good fucking lu on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 4, Insightful

    not difficult since the EU have already legislated maximum wattage ratings for vacuum cleaners, kettles, space heaters, boilers, immersion heaters and shower units.

    Which makes not a lick of sense since you just end up using the appliance for longer to get the same fuckin' result. Carbon footprint remains the same.

    These would be the same tools who mandated the use of CCFL lights which contain mercury and white phosphorous, over incandescants which contain a chemically inert gas and a chemically inert filament inside a chemically inert container.

  19. crybaby cabbies on Uber Faces $410 Million Canadian Class Action Suit · · Score: 1

    so Uber's already got a judgement in favour, in Canada no less, and these dolts are like, what? The way I'm reading it, this would be like Microsoft suing Apple for taking PCOS marketshare.

    Makes no fucking sense. I hope this suit is thrown out with costs.

  20. Re:This is a joke, right? on Interviews: Brianna Wu Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    no, I'm a realist.

    Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. We haven't seen ANY evidence of ANY description.

  21. Re:Original Report on HP: Smartwatches Are a Major Security Risk · · Score: 2

    just the ones which connect using the Bluetooth protocol.

  22. one word on HP: Smartwatches Are a Major Security Risk · · Score: 1

    Bluetooth.

  23. Colour me impressed on 19-Year-Old's Supercomputer Chip Startup Gets DARPA Contract, Funding · · Score: 1

    Most 19 year olds' idea of achievement is not puking up on the front doorstep after a particularly brutal night out boozing. For all you doubters: can we see how this chip performs in the wild before making judgement, please? To Thomas: will the chip ever see a retail shelf in say a personal supercomputer like the NVidia Tesla?

  24. Re:Ah yes, let's talk about gender politics some m on Interviews: Brianna Wu Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Born on Mars where everybody is equal and lives to 203. I heard there was good beer here, so I sold up and moved to Earth.

  25. Re:This is a joke, right? on Interviews: Brianna Wu Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    no I'm not. According to Ms. Wu's logic, if a man hits a woman she should get protection from the local police to the point where the man is floored and double tapped. If she hits him, it's "self defence" all the way. I'm not an MRA, this is the reality of the situation and they want MORE.