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  1. Re:If 2. did occur on A 1.2 Petabyte Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    Dude! I'm no stinking freak! Why would I pet-a-cemetary? I bet those 0's and 1's have had their owners pet the monkey way too much anyway! *shudder*

  2. Re:Why do this? on Oracle Acquires Sleepycat · · Score: 1

    Job? Need a BS at least, preferably into something related to C programming, SQL or database theory.

  3. Re:What is the point of filesystem encryption? on UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows · · Score: 1

    hahaha. That's funny! Do you work for MS?

    I see that the only contact with encryption is MS own encryption facility on XP where it uses your XP password to encrypt your files. It's a bit more secure than printing it in the newspaper but not by much!

  4. Re:Its not competition - Oh yes it is on Oracle Acquires Sleepycat · · Score: 1

    What kind of a measure is that? ROFLMAO! Maybe it means that it is much worse and have more problems? Or it means that users of Oracle don't rely on Internet based forums to get answers?

    This got to be the funniest post of the year!

  5. Re:Why do this? on Oracle Acquires Sleepycat · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it can probably be forked off, not sure how the buys and the licenses work out, not my cup of tea.

    Transactional engine using filesystem? *shudder*

    I'm impressed that you think writing a transactional backend is no big deal. Want a new job?

  6. Re:Why do this? on Oracle Acquires Sleepycat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good Luck in writing a transactional backend engine. It's hard work and requires quite a few people with deep knowledge of databases on a very low level and I know since i work in the business. Add to the fact that you have to start from scratch, that you will have to come up with something that has enough performance to be a viable alternative and it needs to be tested thoroughly on all platforms and be wordsize and endian independent.

    Some people talk out of their behind.

  7. Re:One ring to rule them all? on Shuttleworth on Open Source Development · · Score: 1

    I see you have never had a job.

  8. Re:No camping! on Videogaming Keeps the Brain From Aging · · Score: 1

    No, they are: English, German, French, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish. I can also read and converse somewhat in Spanish, Italian and Russian.

  9. Re:Exactly... on Shuttleworth on Open Source Development · · Score: 1

    Leasdership is needed!

    In every project, no matter what it is, whether it's open source or sending a space probe to Pluto. There will always be decisions to make that is not going to be in favor of every person on the team. Sometimes you have to cut down, cut away, change and sometimes that process can be painful. Without someone who has the final word, anarchy and a "new geeky shiny thing" is the result.

  10. Re:That's all well and good... on KDE 4 Screenshots · · Score: 1

    Wmii is currently a usability nightmare from my perspective.

    Not often I see something as crappy as wmii. Good luck!

  11. Re:Regulating the internet is regulating informati on Why The Net Should Stay Neutral · · Score: 1

    Why should government stay out of libraries?

    I don't want to go to a private library and ask for a book that they don't have because their religious sponsors don't condone the contents. No thanks. Give me a government run library which has no limitation on the topics and have to bend over backwards for special interests (read money and relgion).

    Just because the US goverment is the most corrupt in the world, doesn't mean that it doesn't work fine in other countries.

  12. Re:JFS on A Good Filesystem for Storing Large Binaries? · · Score: 2, Informative

    many different things...

    Drilling data and real-time sensor data from oil-wells in the North-Sea is one example. Observational data from particle accelerators, weather data.... many areas have HUGE data storage requirements.

  13. Re:JFS on A Good Filesystem for Storing Large Binaries? · · Score: 1

    200-300MB are small files.

    How big are the files? Hundred of gigabytes? terrabytes? Most non-commercial filesystems are very inefficient when it comes to handling files in the hundreds of gigabyte size.

    Efficient handling of such large files requires that you also have disk hardware and I/O subsystems to handle it. If you have a large number of small files, the I have no idea, I only deal with VLF (Very Large Files, starting at 100GB+)

  14. Re:No camping! on Videogaming Keeps the Brain From Aging · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One of the conditions of mastering a language is that you actually are thinking in that language you are about to use. The hardest part is to actually change the mind in order to think in a foreign language. I speak 7 languages but I really only think in 4 of them.

  15. Re:Do they intend to 'keep' everything on Google Beta Testing "Gmail For Your Domain" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and what happens when they have an "accident" and your company's email is indexed and made publicly searchable via their webpage?

  16. Re:Fairness to who? on Netflix Throttling Heavy Renters · · Score: 1

    Huh?
    The more movies you rotate each month, the smaller the profit gets. At some point there is a break even point where they start losing money on you.

    So, their advertising is false, they screw up their customers. Sounds good to me! USA - where companies are free to screw you and get away with it!

  17. Re:Cartoons on Danish, Western Websites Under Attack · · Score: 1

    The anger over the cartoons and the defacing of websites are only the preparation for, and this is where I don my 2006 (c) Ultra-shiny TinFoil hat, model TopHat and blow dust of my conspiracy gene, the coming attacks on the Olympic Winter Games.

    I hope I'm wrong.

  18. Re:Careful..... on Surveillance Is on the Rise, Straining Carriers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Indeed!

    And that is why the new jews of USA are the sexoffenders. You see them on newschannels and shows all the time. Now you have laws in some areas that they can not live within certain distance from schools etc. Some even ban them alltogether. It looks more and more like Germany in the 30's. Who are next? Gays? Women who have abortions? People who don't like religion?

    It's not a slippery slope anymore but it's amazing that people never learn from history...

  19. Re:It's not just commercial interests with money.. on NASA Science Under Attack · · Score: 1

    Rather than give money to the CANDIDATE, it should be given to the PARTY and they should finance the campaign and use the money given to them as they see fit. The problem here is that it's not eklection of political parties or ideas or programmes, but elections of individuals who have a multitude of political ideas that ranges from the insane to the downright laughable and very often is different from the party they are dandidating for.

    Politics in USA is an individual sport whereas in, ley's say, Europe, is a team sport. Plus, you have no repsonsibility in politics. When was the last time you saw, let's say, Secretary of State in studio of a news channel, having to answer unfiltered difficult questions and on a regular basis? Same goes for the rest of the American nobility, esp the Lords and Ladies of the Senate. The lower part of the nobility in Congress are more kean on getting facetime on Tv for their often insane ideas. Add to that a president who is as religiously deranged as the iranian president and the cup is full. Oh, and don't for a second think that things would be better with Democrats. It doesn't matter whether it is R or D, they are both doing the same dance.

  20. Re:Old but with a new twist. on NASA Science Under Attack · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ay, that's pretty much how it is here.

    I've been living and working in USA for almost a decade now and it never ceases to amaze me how brainwashed Americans are when it comes to "left", "socialism", "government" etc. No wonder either when you have one of the most corrupt political systems in the world with 2 parties, right and even more right and both of them consists of spoiled millionair brats without contact with the average americans. You can see it clearly on photo-ops they have with people in real jobs, they look like a fish out of water and they couldn't care less about the person they are posing with or what they do.

    The American election system is designed with corruption in mind. Each individual candidate must finance their own campaign and herein lies the problem. You need lots of money to reach an office and you can get that money (and office) if you crawl in bed with corporations. The congress, senate and the White house are the biggest whorehouse in the world, filled with political whores. The politicians couldn't care less about the people who actually elected them, they are owned by the ones who financed them and they show that on a daily basis.

    Since the political fauna is very limited in this country, mainly Democrats and Republican, everything is seen binary. The problem is that USA applies this same binary view on the rest of the world when it really is a hexadecimal world. This is one of the reasons why USA is so hated around the world, their simplistic worldview does not coincide with the rest of the world's worldview.

  21. Re:open source? on New Photo Fraud Detection Software · · Score: 1

    I'll be watching for the program in alt.binaries.warez.* hierarchy....

  22. Re:Can't limit it to tech companies on Congressmen Condemn Companies for China Policies · · Score: 1

    Anyone with a 2 bit sense of economics knows that USA currently is owned by 2 "families", the Saudi's and the Chinese. USA can not do anything that opposes those 2 countries out of fear of economical retributions. USA of today is a vasall state of Saudi Arabia and China and in a few years time Spanish will be the official language if USA.

  23. Re:1 Peta?? How many on Petabyte Storage Array · · Score: 1

    Call me when I can get an ipod sized device with 1 petabyte disk :)

  24. 1 Peta?? How many on Petabyte Storage Array · · Score: 2, Funny

    JPEGS would that be?

  25. Re:Sheer Hypocrisy on Google's Action Makes A Mockery Of Its Values · · Score: 1

    Ahhh the irony...

    Less than a decade ago people like you would not have touched China with a 10 foot pole, but now when they start letting American companies make money off China, you are all over them.

    The dollar sure makes for strange bedfellows!