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  1. Re:I vote no-NAS on Ask Slashdot: Stepping Down From an Office Server To NAS-Only? · · Score: 1

    Especially when this is only a couple hours work for someone with any real knowledge. Provided hardware is supplied, you are talking about under $500 of labor to have a better system that can easily be remotely maintained and patched.

  2. Re:I vote no-NAS on Ask Slashdot: Stepping Down From an Office Server To NAS-Only? · · Score: 1

    Even NAS functions like file permissions and file snap shots can get crapped up easily in every NAS I've ever seen. I would use a stripped down Linux running SAMBA over any commercial NAS. Some of the open source NAS software also works well, but many of them are more like NAS/SAN hybrids.

    IMHO the ability to maintain your hardware with low cost off the shelf parts is also a killer feature of the Linux Samba NAS.

  3. Re:Common sense on Finding Fault With Anti-Fracking Science Claims · · Score: 1

    Despite my above comment, I support gun rights. I, however, see no need to carry a gun on my person at all times and I doubt the sanity and maturity of those who do. Some prove me wrong, but the majority proves the stereotype.

  4. Re:Common sense on Finding Fault With Anti-Fracking Science Claims · · Score: 1

    I would have been pissed if anyone near me started shooting back. Sounds like an easy way to get a lot of hot lead headed your way.

    The correct response is to keep your head and use the cover of darkness to flank your opponent. Too many people lose their head and think only of survival, having a gun would not help them and would hurt those around them.

    One person with a cool head has been the deciding factor in many shooting incidents.
    That being said, this guy was really prepared and responding to his attack may have been the equivalent of storming the Maginot Line.

  5. Re:Common sense on Finding Fault With Anti-Fracking Science Claims · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the hucksters that set up fake charities to skim dollars from the generous and naive.

  6. Re:Weigh with average income on If You Lived In Riga, You Wouldn't Bother To Cut the Cord · · Score: 1

    I bet he pointed his own dish, if he had someone good position it and cleared the necessary sight-line, most of his problems would go away.

  7. Re:That looks nothing like a power strip on The DARPA-Funded Power Strip That Will Hack Your Network · · Score: 1

    UPS's smooth power and provide some surge protection. However, the only real value in any surge protector is the extra outlets, and the insurance that will replace your equipment after a surge destroys it. Most good brands list their policy on the side of the box.

  8. Re:two quick points... on Viacom and DirecTV Reach New Agreement · · Score: 1

    For a long time Nick had the only real sitcoms left on TV. The regular broadcasters all went to reality TV, or dramas.

  9. Re:two quick points... on Viacom and DirecTV Reach New Agreement · · Score: 1

    Their original programming is great, and I would much rather watch my free on demand offerings from HBO or Showtime, then pay $4.99 to see it a month or two earlier. If I'm that interested, I will hit the redbox, or I saw it in the theater.

  10. Re:two quick points... on Viacom and DirecTV Reach New Agreement · · Score: 1

    Then you should have been backing direct TV, because this was exactly their argument. If you are raising prices this much, let our subscribers choose which channels they want a la cart.

  11. Re:two quick points... on Viacom and DirecTV Reach New Agreement · · Score: 1

    Print advertisers know that pay papers are going to people who read them, not inflated numbers where 500 are "distributed" to a grocery store and most are used to wrap fish. Free paper readers are not as valuable because the cannot be correctly quantified. That's not the case with television.

  12. Re:two quick points... on Viacom and DirecTV Reach New Agreement · · Score: 1

    Kind of makes one understand why comcast can't grasp that Google is paying for internet service and their customers are also paying for internet service. They don't see a check from Google, so in their mind Google is a free loader.

  13. Re:two quick points... on Viacom and DirecTV Reach New Agreement · · Score: 1

    IMHO Disney is worse then Nick. Both have tween programming that heavily pushes boyfriend / girlfriend relationships at much too early an age and also tends to reinforce the idea that the strange kids never change and its ok to exclude someone. However, Disney is much heavier handed in their tween propaganda, Nick has more of a tendency to show various types of people in a positive light.

    I'm not sure it's intentional, more laziness on the writers part, but the story-lines will veer deeply into the I changed myself for my boyfriend and now he loves me territory. Then they will tag some feel good message on the end that doesn't make sense and seems to make kids more jaded.

    Disney also heavily cross promotes things, although Nick is getting worse about this. I have never seen a Disney show get cancelled. They basically pick a child star and ram it down their audiences throats. The young audience is mostly not capable of noticing, and enough of their age group picks it up to make it part of the tween culture.

    In closing, I hate Disney and try to avoid it for my children as much as possible, and I'm not the only one. http://www.newint.org/easier-english/Disney/diswomen.html

  14. Re:Two steps forward, one step back on Dell To Offer Ubuntu Laptops Again · · Score: 1

    you can now, just checked.

    humorously, the OS button is a windows logo, but the only option on the page is ubuntu.

  15. Re:GM crops are partially the answer on China Third Country To Be Hit By 'Brown Tide' · · Score: 1

    So you advocate a top down planned economy for everything, or just population?

    I'm sure you have heard the popular saying, "if you take away legal guns, only criminals will have guns", now imagine only criminals and most backward countries are having children...
    Is what you picture good for the human race or the planet?

  16. Re:No, it'll just be an OPTION on Will Speed Limits Inhibit Autonomous Car Adoption? · · Score: 1

    They could also allow user control with autonomous corrections to avoid collisions and such. This would allow the user to control speed and set speed before turning over to the computer system.

  17. Re:No Surprise There on Apple Exits "Green Hardware" Certification Program · · Score: 1

    So everything has to be shipped instead of recycled locally. That is exactly why they are not certified.

  18. Re:Touchdown or Good on Ask Slashdot: Managing Encrypted Android Devices In State and Local Gov't? · · Score: 1

    Looks like Touchdown is Android only, while Good supports ios, android, and windows.

  19. Re:Show us your papers on DHS Still Stonewalling On Body Scanning Ruling One Year Later · · Score: 1

    touche'

  20. Re:Buying Windows does some good in the world! on Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception · · Score: 1

    to be fair, we the people could nullify that $1.6T tomorrow if we wanted to, however most voters feel that the benefits do no outweigh the drawbacks.

  21. Re:Buying Windows does some good in the world! on Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception · · Score: 2

    The pope is only never wrong when he declares himself to be "not wrong". The Humana Vitae ecumenical is authoritative, but not infallible as pointed out by Pope Paul VI himself. It also went against the majority opinion of every council that studied the issue.

  22. Re:Catholic != papist on Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception · · Score: 2

    So your saying the Catholic church is like the GOP? Interesting...

  23. Re:Buying Windows does some good in the world! on Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception · · Score: 1

    Gov has more regulations and subsidies on food and that market is fine (for consumers).

  24. Re:The Dangers of NFC on Apple Hacker Charlie Miller To Demo Dangers of Near-Field Communications · · Score: 2

    And phone companies have a long history of being nothing but trustworthy, it's why they consistently the most loved companies in consumer surveys.

  25. Re:Show us your papers on DHS Still Stonewalling On Body Scanning Ruling One Year Later · · Score: 1

    We would probably have "boots on the ground" in Best Korea, or Iran if McLame was in office.