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  1. Re:it costs more per gb than ram! on Intel Takes SATA Performance Crown With X25-E SSD · · Score: 1

    Actually, RAM-SAN has addressed these issues, only thing remaining is the price tag. Think they come in at around 430.000 IOPS, got full drive backup + batteries in a single "box". Would love to get one of those for my database.

  2. Re:Not a good price, actually. on Intel Takes SATA Performance Crown With X25-E SSD · · Score: 1

    So is ignorance apparently.

    SAS is duplex, SATA isn't. I'll take one SAS drive over 3 SATA drives any time when it comes to performance.

  3. Re:Good price, actually. on Intel Takes SATA Performance Crown With X25-E SSD · · Score: 1

    It sure depends on your environment, my database would love these drives. We are going to be no where near 100GB writes a day for a long time, but the massive IO increase would come in handy for our reads.

  4. Re:Privacy on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 1

    Well, first of all you really should take care of your Kb and KB. VOIP is around 80Kbit/s, that means 10KByte/s = 600KB/min = 18000KB/day ~= 18MByte/day.

    So you are off by a factor of 10. On top of that, storing data isn't just buying a hdd, yes it is the end point for the data, but you need infrastructure to carry that data, a cheap ass Dell SAN rack is around $2000 for 10 disc enclosure (or how many they can carry) on top of that you need hardware to carry the data, that means additional expenses, then you need some poor smucks to swap used drives, at 1 TB per drive we are talking 18 drives per million of people that will be filled per day - even if you are only covering 1/10th of the worlds population you are going to have quite a lot of people doing nothing but swapping out drives + locations to stored used drives (or if you want everything online you need lots and lots of rack space + power (which is going to be an even bigger post on your budget than the hardware).

    In essence, if NSA really where tapping everything around the world that would probably be the source of your current economical crisis and not the bankers having fun.

  5. Re:Privacy on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 1

    Also laws in some EU countries requires you to record packet data at certain intervals. And GP claiming it's impossible is just bonkers, it is just a matter of distributing the load (but very expensive).

  6. Re:How many? on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 1

    Depends on the database in question (and system on top of it).

    Ingress for instance has some very advanced auditing systems which would be able to find such a person.

    On the system I work on (also telecoms) we don't have that feature (Ingress is on paper a really nice database, but their sales team is bonkers), but we do track any access to the system for the exact same reason.

  7. Re:Sergeant Stronginthearm says... on New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you are the same coward replying to my other post, please show some links backing up your claims.

  8. Re:Sergeant Stronginthearm says... on New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps · · Score: 1

    Yeah because no one is driving around in a 20 year old hunk of junk Honda.

    And claiming speed limits are designed for revenue is just down right retarded, no one has to speed, just make sure you get out of the door in time - most of us can manage.

  9. Re:Revenue stream on New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps · · Score: 1

    Hope they revoke your license ASAP.

    Idiots like you should be kept off the road. So it's the middle of the night and that allows you to disregard other peoples safety because _you_ feel no one should be out driving/running/biking at that time?

    Well then smart ass, why are you out?

    When you crash - and you will - please make sure you hit the nearest tree rather than some poor innocent bystander.

  10. Re:wake up on IRS Looking at Google/Mozilla Relationship · · Score: 1

    Lets try this again. Mozilla realized that the IRS might not agree with their tax exempt status back in 2003, so they put money aside to cover the taxes should the IRS reverse its decision.

    We are now in the year 2008, five years after Mozilla took steps to cover their arses. This isn't some random new idea from Microsoft when their last diabolic scheme to take over the world failed, this is just sane business practice.

    And as the AC said, seek help, you really need it.

  11. Re:Yea, microsoft is guiltless on this one too on IRS Looking at Google/Mozilla Relationship · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How on earth did you get modded insightful for that piece of fear mongering?

    Mozilla knew this might be coming - they put money aside for this eventuality already in 2003. But nice try.

  12. Re:Another Con on Real Name For Open Source Development? · · Score: 1

    Was met with the same clause in a contract for a part time job, I told them I couldn't sign it since most of my work done in private was for the University and thus belonged to them.

    Also, as it turned out, that kind of contract was not enforceable for a part time hourly paid job (talked to the union - yes they do work as intended in Denmark).

  13. Re:More customer data... on $1M Reward Offered To Nab Data Breach Extortionist · · Score: 1

    That sure depends on what country you are in.

    Some years back a kid in Denmark got hit with attempted hacking because he was port scanning sites, the court found him guilty because he not only had NMAP but other tools that in conjunction could be used for hacking.

  14. Re:Piracy != Lost Sales on Independent Dev Reports Over 80% Piracy Rate On DRM-Free Game · · Score: 1

    Demos can be severely limited, and also as creature creator showed us, they might piggyback some very very unwanted software.

  15. Re:Hobby chemist on How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists · · Score: 1

    I haven't tried Pad Thai myself, but quick look at Wikipedia tells me it contains chili and fat. The reason why GP might be able to eat it but not have it pass is because the chili is "contained" (not native, can't come up with a good word) within the fat. When I make my chili con carne I use dark beer and dark chocolate (the real kind of chocolate) to mask the fiery wrath of my Dorset Naga

    The combination will make a really nice meal where the heat of the chili is easily bearable while consuming it, but when the body processes the food you will have a very very interesting sensation as the capascin enters the blood (usually you will get an itching sensation in the extremities and you will start to sweat - hallucinations are optional).

    I can imagine the GP will have an even more intense experience (which include having a lot of pain on the toilet) since his body obviously isn't used to consuming hot food. (Also avoid eating extremely hot food if you got Polyps or Hemorrhoids, can get real bloody (or so I'm told))

  16. Re:what's scarier, or not on 40-Gbps DDoS Attacks Worry Even Tier-1 ISPs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well there are all sorts of neat tricks, but basically its the same.

    First you get yourself a bunch of zombies, these can hammer away at whatever speed they got uplink - but instead of hitting the target directly you use BGP routers (hopefully most are now immune to this) and make ICMP packets claiming to be from your victim, this way the BGP routers will respond to the ping effectively making a reflected DDoS (RDDoS). The neat thing is its pretty hard to figure out where the traffic is coming from because you need to contact whoever administrates the BGP router - and you can't block the traffic since the BGP routers are kinda important for your connection(s).

  17. Re:A matter of time. on 40 Years Ago, the US Lost a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah because no one is going to notice a bunch of middle eastern men running around Thule Airbase drilling holes in the ice?

    Also considering how much alcohol they consume up there any extremists are going to have a real hard time keeping their cover.

  18. Re:Stop treating the customer like a criminal. on PCGA To "Take Up the Challenge of Piracy" · · Score: 1

    Usually you can skip it, but you have to hit menu at the right time (there is a 1-2 second flashing with something like: "hit menu now to skip trailers").

  19. Re:Stop treating the customer like a criminal. on PCGA To "Take Up the Challenge of Piracy" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not only do you get the piracy thing, but also lately quite a lot of DVDs I've bought came with commercials for other movies. With the anti piracy (don't steal this movie) and FBI warning (smart one to show in Denmark) and absurd long menu sequence and commercials for other movies (skip able) it took almost 4 minutes before I got to see my movie - and you have to sit through it every bloody time you want to watch it. Next time I'm downloading!

  20. Re:I can't bring myself to have much pity for them on Circuit City Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can keep arguing from here to hell freezes over, but it wont make it true.

    By reading this response you owe me 1 million dollars. You had the right to not read it, but read it voluntary and now owe me a million dollars.

  21. Re:corporations on Four Google Officials Facing Charges In Italy For Errant Video · · Score: 1

    Well you never know when you are flying and gets diverted to some country where you have a warrant.

    Also it would be more like any country in the EU since we got deals for exchange of wanted criminals.

  22. Re:Filter Lines on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    You can assign the paste option for a specific button:
    set pastetoggle=
    Just hit F9 in insert mode and it switches to paste, hit it again to get out.

    And if you want to wrap a long line you can use gq, this will wrap to your current textwidth setting - also, if you got a couple of short lines you want nicely wrapped you can mark them with visual and use gq, vim will then collapse them to whatever fits within textwidth.

  23. Re:Simple solution... on D-Link DIR-655 Firmware 1.21 Hijacks Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    My WRT54GL can easily handle 3-4MB/s (byte) both directions (hardwired).

  24. Re:Coral to the rescue on T-Mobile G1 Rooted · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've never understood why so many web programmers insist on parsing E-mail addresses, very few are capable of doing it correctly. I usually use splab+someidentification@mydomain.tld - this way I can track where I submitted the address they got - but since programmers insists on parsing the E-mail address they almost always considers + to be invalid.

    Just send the person a confirmation E-mail and bobs your uncle.

  25. Re:Another helpful hint on EA Recommends Hilarious Work-Around For RA3 CD-Key · · Score: 4, Funny

    Think the joke went so far over your head it managed to achieve static orbit.

    The point is, even though you mathematically should get the right one in half of the key space, in practice it will always be at the very end - thus if you considered starting at A, reverse and go with Z.

    Of course as we know this wont work since that would mean the key would be at A anyways.