Pretty good plan. I've had good results with a somewhat different approach, though:
Throw together a system with whatever you have lying around (needs a case with a lot of drive bays).
Buy 6 drives at best size/price point (was 120GB at the time). Configure them in a software RAID5.
Have your dinky power supply crap out on you 2 months later, in such a way that it cuts the power to one drive and then a few minutes later to a couple more (after the degraded array has been written to, of course).
Don't touch your newly useless array for a few months, hoping you can magically recover it.
Realize you don't actually need half a terabyte of pornography, and get a 250GB external firewire drive instead.
"Instead of reading one big 3tb drive, it will still read 1.5tb. Is this true?"
Yes... Fucking duh.... Have you even read the RAID 5 Wiki article?
Well, no, his 3x500GB array will still be 1TB, not 1.5TB - unless there's a new RAID level that magically gives you redundancy without using any space for it. A 3 disk RAID 5 is basically a terrible configuration, no matter what you do with it.
Seriously though, how hard is it to type "RAID" into Google?
Most "atheists" only say they are because they think its just so cool to be a rebel. Most haven't really thought it through.
That's gotta be one of the stupidest things I've read in a long time.
Of course I doubt there are any notable numbers of actual atheists out there - most of us are technically agnostic (or, better yet, nontheist), it's just that the popular meaning of the words got completely hijacked.
The government is the only way (pretty much) that pure research gets funded (ie research that produces actual innovation).
In 500 years when viability is the same as conception, it will no longer be a moving target, and then we can say that rights begin at conception, I suppose.
Somehow that doesn't sound convincing. For one thing, I don't think that's how "viability" works - better care can improve the chances for premature births (ie the "moving target"), but being able to grow an embryo in vitro isn't the same as it being viable (at least I think that's what you meant). Plus, if you can grow a viable fetus from an embryo, you can also fertilize eggs and grow those too - should eggs and sperm have rights then?
I don't know, I'm about as liberal as they come, but I don't think I have a problem with restrictions on extremely late term abortions. I guess I have to believe that there is no magic involved in the process: if there is no magic at conception that immediately makes a couple cells into a person (the "pro life" argument), there must not be magic involved at birth that would differentiate substantially a newborn and a viable fetus. Admittedly, that makes the intervening time a bit of a grey area.
Fortunately, we are talking about a tiny fraction of all abortions here (somewhere around 1% I think?) and that includes the cases where the mother's health was in danger. It just seems more or less reasonable that if you've stuck with it for 7 months, might as well give it a bit more time, pop it out and give it up for adoption - just to err on the side of caution.
Yeah, great plan - visualize the worst-case scenario, then start living it preemptively. "They can't take away the benefits of society if I give them up myself!"
How about I go do the donkey cart and beans thing when the "fragile infrastructure" actually crumbles on me?
Neither are C, ColdFusion, or NetWare certification - programming and software design are skills, as is network administration; what they list are called tools.
Right now the major issue is that laws designed to protect children can be used against children.
And here I thought that the major issue was that these laws can be used against innocent people or to mete out punishment out of all proportion to the crime. Or that it's absurd to apply "strict liability" to something this complex (as opposed to parking tickets).
Our science isn't advanced enough to generate one son from more than one female dog, damn it!
Actually, it is - there's still a male involved, but chimeras of two females are routinely made for various research purposes. I doubt anyone does this with dogs, but only because it's not very practical.
I have as much of a softspot for StarCraft as anyone, but from the screenshots SC2 looks like the same exact game with a graphics update, and the RTS genre has moved on in the last decade. It's kind of hard to get excited about playing the original StarCraft again after games like the Total War series, and heck, even EVE.
I don't think even the most overzealous MPAA sponsored digital security legislation covers knowing about an exploit, yet. In your situation the third party would be breaking the law, those who discovered the flaw would likely be breaking the law (under the aforementioned overzealous legislation), but I don't see what you could pin on those who paid for the information.
Oh crap, did I start a whole "My opinions about software are better than your opinions about software!" thing? I apologize.
I actually wasn't being disingenuous, the OP seemed to be scoffing at the concept that open sourciness should be a factor in selecting software, and I merely wanted to point out that for a number of people it is.
I don't know where you guys are getting "blindly follow ideology" from that; though I enjoy knowing that apparently this opinion makes me retarded.
However, we have not one but three continents named "America" (North, Central, South)
That's the point - the continents are "North America" and "South America", or "The Americas"; nothing but the country is every referred to simply as "America".
Also, "Central America" is not a fucking continent!
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Pretty good plan. I've had good results with a somewhat different approach, though:
Throw together a system with whatever you have lying around (needs a case with a lot of drive bays).
Buy 6 drives at best size/price point (was 120GB at the time). Configure them in a software RAID5.
Have your dinky power supply crap out on you 2 months later, in such a way that it cuts the power to one drive and then a few minutes later to a couple more (after the degraded array has been written to, of course).
Don't touch your newly useless array for a few months, hoping you can magically recover it.
Realize you don't actually need half a terabyte of pornography, and get a 250GB external firewire drive instead.
It worked for me.
"Instead of reading one big 3tb drive, it will still read 1.5tb. Is this true?"
Yes... Fucking duh.... Have you even read the RAID 5 Wiki article?
Well, no, his 3x500GB array will still be 1TB, not 1.5TB - unless there's a new RAID level that magically gives you redundancy without using any space for it. A 3 disk RAID 5 is basically a terrible configuration, no matter what you do with it.
Seriously though, how hard is it to type "RAID" into Google?
"hardware and software to communicate and to solve problems together"
This is freaking slashdot - could we get something a little more technical in the summaries?
Because frankly, slashdot has been very disappointing in this regard.
You are one of those people who clog Wikipedia with painfully irrelevant "Internet zeitgeist" crap, aren't you?
Please tell me they don't have anything at Kuang Grade, Mark Eleven yet - we are so fucked if they do.
I'm sorry but the campaign to save the StarTrek Enterprise series for a 5th year was far larger.
Yeah, I feel sorry about that too.
Most "atheists" only say they are because they think its just so cool to be a rebel. Most haven't really thought it through.
That's gotta be one of the stupidest things I've read in a long time.
Of course I doubt there are any notable numbers of actual atheists out there - most of us are technically agnostic (or, better yet, nontheist), it's just that the popular meaning of the words got completely hijacked.
Yeah, but doesn't he dress like a woman or something...
Wait, what?
Government should not be funding research.
The government is the only way (pretty much) that pure research gets funded (ie research that produces actual innovation).
In 500 years when viability is the same as conception, it will no longer be a moving target, and then we can say that rights begin at conception, I suppose.
Somehow that doesn't sound convincing. For one thing, I don't think that's how "viability" works - better care can improve the chances for premature births (ie the "moving target"), but being able to grow an embryo in vitro isn't the same as it being viable (at least I think that's what you meant). Plus, if you can grow a viable fetus from an embryo, you can also fertilize eggs and grow those too - should eggs and sperm have rights then?
I don't know, I'm about as liberal as they come, but I don't think I have a problem with restrictions on extremely late term abortions. I guess I have to believe that there is no magic involved in the process: if there is no magic at conception that immediately makes a couple cells into a person (the "pro life" argument), there must not be magic involved at birth that would differentiate substantially a newborn and a viable fetus. Admittedly, that makes the intervening time a bit of a grey area.
Fortunately, we are talking about a tiny fraction of all abortions here (somewhere around 1% I think?) and that includes the cases where the mother's health was in danger. It just seems more or less reasonable that if you've stuck with it for 7 months, might as well give it a bit more time, pop it out and give it up for adoption - just to err on the side of caution.
As far as I can see, there's no way to configure a modem into the non-laptop models.
A what?
Yeah, great plan - visualize the worst-case scenario, then start living it preemptively. "They can't take away the benefits of society if I give them up myself!"
How about I go do the donkey cart and beans thing when the "fragile infrastructure" actually crumbles on me?
Neither are C, ColdFusion, or NetWare certification - programming and software design are skills, as is network administration; what they list are called tools.
You mean it will be correctly identified as a problem and fixed? God I hope not - that would be awful.
Switch to someone that provides IPv6 (or use a 4-to-6 connection), IPv6 mandates support for multicast.
Hmm, that's like telling someone who's complaining that horses are hard to find to get a unicorn instead.
or are they just continuing a scare campaign with no real ability to leverage the patents they claim open source is infringing?
I see no reason to think they don't have (legally) valid patents that open software infringes, or that they wouldn't be able to defend them in court.
Right now the major issue is that laws designed to protect children can be used against children.
And here I thought that the major issue was that these laws can be used against innocent people or to mete out punishment out of all proportion to the crime. Or that it's absurd to apply "strict liability" to something this complex (as opposed to parking tickets).
Our science isn't advanced enough to generate one son from more than one female dog, damn it!
Actually, it is - there's still a male involved, but chimeras of two females are routinely made for various research purposes. I doubt anyone does this with dogs, but only because it's not very practical.
Good point, otherwise.
So, in practice, I bet there'll be little difference between the end product and YouTube.
There'll be more porn. More, weirder porn. I'm looking forward to it.
Regardless, this: "we use information about an electron's charge state in computers today" is still a ridiculous statement.
I have as much of a softspot for StarCraft as anyone, but from the screenshots SC2 looks like the same exact game with a graphics update, and the RTS genre has moved on in the last decade. It's kind of hard to get excited about playing the original StarCraft again after games like the Total War series, and heck, even EVE.
I don't think even the most overzealous MPAA sponsored digital security legislation covers knowing about an exploit, yet. In your situation the third party would be breaking the law, those who discovered the flaw would likely be breaking the law (under the aforementioned overzealous legislation), but I don't see what you could pin on those who paid for the information.
Oh crap, did I start a whole "My opinions about software are better than your opinions about software!" thing? I apologize.
I actually wasn't being disingenuous, the OP seemed to be scoffing at the concept that open sourciness should be a factor in selecting software, and I merely wanted to point out that for a number of people it is.
I don't know where you guys are getting "blindly follow ideology" from that; though I enjoy knowing that apparently this opinion makes me retarded.
I think software should not be discriminated on the basis of not being FOSS.
And I think it should. Guess that's why different things matter to different people.
However, we have not one but three continents named "America" (North, Central, South)
That's the point - the continents are "North America" and "South America", or "The Americas"; nothing but the country is every referred to simply as "America".
Also, "Central America" is not a fucking continent!