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  1. I have a similar configuration at home. zfs send/recv is a godsend for backups in that you can have all of the old snapshots sent as well as the current top level and it ship only the data that has changed not everything.

    I have run this configuration where I have had controllers, power supplies, multiple drive (more than 2 at the same time) go bad and it still kept on chugging with no errors and full confidence in the data.

  2. Re:Oops on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Fifth option:

    Have the ad blocker read, run, but don't render the ad. The site can't tell the difference. The browser can just isolate the ad site in its own little unique world per site you are visiting from. Now you start to look like hundreds of different single time users.

  3. rpm for linux does't work centos 6 on Vivaldi Hits Its First Beta (vivaldi.com) · · Score: 1

    $ vivaldi-beta

    /usr/bin/vivaldi-beta: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (required by /usr/bin/vivaldi-beta)

    If they are going to build a binary, then at least staticly link it.

  4. Re:No justification for the current media pricing? on With Cinavia DRM, Is Blu-ray On a Path To Self-Destruction? · · Score: 1

    Can we have the executives charged for impersonating a federal officer?

  5. Re:Obviously on Open Letter By Eric S. Raymond To Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    If they want to call it Intellectual Property then have it taxed like
    property. Donâ(TM)t want to pay the tax, then it becomes property of the
    government which would make it fall into the public domain. Have the owner declare the value. The higher the value the higher the taxes. Have âoetheftâ values limited to a percentage of the value declared. Have an online site with all âoeCopyrightâ information escrowed. No item filed, no copyright. Makes everything easy to check and verify.

    Please note, make a clam something is your when it is not, then that is a fraud. If a corporation make a fraudulent claim then the directors are liable for fraud and should be jailed for it.

  6. The new low price for music downloads. on Study Says $2.3B in Net Radio Royalties by '08 · · Score: 1

    If internet radio sends only a single copy of the music (At the new low low price of $.0008 per performance) And then sends play lists. The radio station has only played it once. How long it is "cached" on the user's computer is not something the radio station need to deal with. Once "cached". Under fair use it can be put on iPods and other media players.

    Looks like a good deal to me.

  7. Welcome to Canada on Music Industry Loses In Canadian Downloading Case · · Score: 1

    Please check your gun at the border.

  8. Re:IMPORTANT: Please translate. Infringement Doc. on SCO To Show Copied Code · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The iBCS loader was written by Eric Yongdale.
    He also wrote the syscall dispatch.
    I then coded the first set of dispatches
    which were little more than a 1:1 mapping of system call number to linux function by the same name.
    This was in 1993.
    Mike Jagis re-wote large chunks of this to support other non-SCO versions using the same syscalls.
    Between Mike adding code and I merging it, it grew
    to support most applications. I used perl's test set compiled on a SCO box to test that the iBCS code worked.

  9. Re:IMPORTANT: Please translate. Infringement Doc. on SCO To Show Copied Code · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wrote the iBCS modules. There is NO AT&T or SCO code in it.

  10. Cell phones on "Super-DMCA" Outlaws Ph.D. Thesis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does this mean that ALL cell phone must provide the phone number to caller ID.

  11. XBox as Linux workstation on XBox Released · · Score: 1

    Stop thinking of the XBox as a game console and think of it as a subsidized Linux workstation. It would be the ultimate irony that the only people to buy the XBox are Linux supporters.

  12. Re:What I Teach My Students on Java as a CS Introductory Language? · · Score: 1

    I think Ruby would be a better first language. It has a more normal (C like) syntax. It has the power of perl It is fully object oriented. 1.to_s() works (try that in java) Its available for Windows and Linux.

  13. Re:Supply and Demand on Death of the General Purpose PC · · Score: 1
    CPRM is the BEST thing to happen to having secure systems. All we need to do is encode everthing with our private key and noone can then gain access to our personal data. We will have systems that law enforcement can't access. If the system is stolen or you leave a company, the disk become totally useless. It will be illegal for Microsoft or the US Government or the RIAA to access any information on your system. Your encoded MP3s will be protected. You can't be prosecuted for Copyright violation since it is illegal to access the contents of your system. You are protected by the DCMA since every directory listing is covered by your compilation copyright :-)

    Stupid laws cut both ways.

  14. Re:Perhaps just remove the actual text copies on Microsoft Asks Slashdot To Remove Readers' Posts · · Score: 1
    First: trade secrets are not protected once they have been revealed.

    Second: Under copyright you are allow to quote small sections when making a cometary. Using that rule if a large group of people took one of the copies and divided up the document in to 1% chunks, they could then proceed to quote the original, and make a comment on it. (Using something as simple as: it sucks, or great idea, is perfectly valid).

    Now they post each of there articles on the original document, complete with the quote to a common web site.

    Next someone creates a set of links such that the quoted sections can be read in the original order.

    Lastly someone takes all of the sections and creates a new document that is a compilation of the original quotes. You place that under a new compilation copyright and allow any to copy it for any purpose.

    Automating the process is left as an exercise to the OSS community.