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  1. Re:Um 10 years ago? on Imagining the Google Future · · Score: 1

    IIRC, it was nowhere.

  2. Re:You don't see these in shops on Innovative Christmas Light Setups? · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't mean anything in finnish, so I wrote that in english on my xmas-lights.

    And to the parent's parent, this was a suprise to my bandwidth ;) No harm done though.

  3. Re:If it only burned ice... on Making Fire From Water · · Score: 1

    No, I call hydrogen flame with some oxygen in it clean fire and I call water much safer fuel for me than zippo gas that burned my hand.

  4. If it only burned ice... on Making Fire From Water · · Score: 1

    We could have light in northern Finland during winters

    But on the serious side, I would love to get one of those gadgets at home. Clean fire is always welcome in my home. Altho one incident with zippo gas brought me a month's worth of sickleave, this fireplace would have MUCH safer fuel... yeah, hook me up with one of these!!

  5. Re:Those PDF's again... aaargh on Why I Hate the Apache Web Server · · Score: 1

    To this and to the post previous to this, no it is not tough, but should I be required to check the url before clicking on it? I know this topic has been on and off in here many times before, so I won't get excited about it.

    I think it is like the "CAREFUL, WET FLOOR IS SLIPPERY"-signs... it is courtesy to announce before hand that some results of going forward might be unwanted.

  6. Those PDF's again... aaargh on Why I Hate the Apache Web Server · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Could the on-duty-editor-at-the-moment PLEASE add small note after the links IF TFA is in fact A PDF file. Please? That is NOT too much to ask, I hope. Sorely hope.

    And no, I didn't RTFA, which was in fact TFPDF.

  7. Re:Not until a HDD failed on me... on Basics of RAID · · Score: 1

    ummm.. not sure anymore. Not actually sure anymore which one I got. 01 or 10... with 4 disks, it doesn't really matter as long as only one drive fails before the array is rebuilt. Of course, if pair1 A and pair2 A drives fail at the same time, despair ensues, but if the two concurrently failing drives are A and B in their separate pairs, it is still rebuildable.

    But I really don't remember if mine was RAID10 or not. Performance-wise, I am not sure which is better even..

  8. Not until a HDD failed on me... on Basics of RAID · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had my system hard drive fail fatally on me, emails and so forth, only some random backups elsewhere. Right then and there I decided that no more will a hdd failure steal my stuff from me and bought 4x120gb drives (size/price ratio at time was optimum) and a Promise controller. Now I got ca. 240gb RAID 01 setup, mirroring gives reduncancy and striping keeps the array at least as fast as those drives used separately.

    One hdd did fail on that array, and I just replaced it with warranty replacement hdd. No hassle, just carefree usage.

    The piece of mind is worth LOT more than those extra drives. I DO NOT like the menial job of building the OS from zero to working state, just because of a hardware failure, WHEN I can just as well avoid it.

    Proability of a failure greater than zero (0) is not zero. And I like it to be zero.

  9. Anti-piracy indeed... on U.S. High Level Anti-Piracy Post Created · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They have this new post for fighting piracy, that's all great and stuff, but howcome the biggest antipiracy news concerns torrentsites and so forth? Those sites are not earning with the piracy, and because of that, are not the biggest pirating people anyhow.

    People who sell pirated products (movies games and all other stuff that can be pirated) have MUCH more motivation to do their "job" and in my mind, de facto are MUCH more to blame about this whole piracy problem.

    Of course, without the releasing groups there wouldn't be pirated goods for the sites or the sellers either... But still, the sellers are the biggest culprits in here...

    Or then I am totally wrong, again. Would be the first time tho. To be wrong again.

  10. Terrorists would give the keys? on British Police Demand Access To Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    I mean hey, if they intend to make fighting terrorism easier with the demands for encryption keys, I find it highly unlikely that anyone plotting something like the london attacks, would be willing to give any keys to the police, not even the car keys. How do they think this will help anything actually?

    If I was a terrorist with encrypted material about bombing or something like that and the british police demanded the encryption keys, I would rather go to jail in contempt or whatever, than 'cuz of those plans. I think the police knows this already...

  11. Assembly NOT in football stadium on 100Mbps Home Internet Service Next Year in Finland · · Score: 1

    I have never been at the parties, but I still know that they are not held in a stadium, but an Icehockey-arena in Helsinki. I wonder where that football stadium thing came from...

  12. Re: Deterrent on German Youth Convicted for Sasser Worm · · Score: 1

    I don't think at all, that one person should be punished harder just to teach OTHERS not to break the law.

    It's like I would get one slap on the face for stealing apples, and since all the neighbourhood was watching the slapping, I get another slap to teach others a lesson... Punishment should NOT get bigger because of any other person MIGHT do the same.

    Deterrent-punishments sucks.

  13. freezing water on Researchers Make Bendable Concrete · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the material won't bend/stretch at all, it might shatter, this new elastic concrete supposedly kand bend at least a little, so it could withstand the freezing expanding water. At least I think that the freezing expansion is not enough to stretch the new concrete to it's limits.

  14. Re:woulda been nice to know it was PDF ... on U.S. Government Issues Report on VoIP Security Holes · · Score: 1

    I always check the statusbar/etc. to see where a link goes before I click on it. Usually it is clear enough. And usually, at the sites I trust, it is not faked url even.

    Might be helpful to you too. :)

  15. Re:What do Swedish Pirates themselves have to say? on Anti-Piracy Bureau of Sweden Planted Evidence · · Score: 3, Funny

    That sounded A LOT more like dutch than swedish... :)

  16. PETA? on Wisconsin Researchers Create Nano-Bio-Circuits · · Score: 1

    Peta Wilson? Wasn't that... oh never mind...

  17. Re:Closing in advance of raids on TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org Go Dark · · Score: 1

    They would have to prove that charged data was copyrighted. And just based on byte count, you cannot do that. At least not in here.

  18. BT tracker versus Legit arms dealer/car dealer on MPAA Goes After More Bittorrent Site Operators · · Score: 1

    I might be way off base, but if someone uses a gun to commit a crime, is the arms dealer breaking any laws? Shouldn't ATF sue that arms dealer for making that act of crime possible? No, and neither should MPAA/RIAA sue bt trackers. But hey, what can they do about it...

    I mean, bittorrent tracker's are not the ones breaking laws. Not to my knowledge at least.

    Making something possible that is illegal, is not illegal per se. IANAL tho.

  19. The tracker in Finland got busted.. on Examining Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    So, even IF piratebay tracker would have been in Finland, it wouldn't be there anymore.

    But luckily it was and still is in Sweden.

    (All Finnish trackers I know of, are closed, not by authorities tho)

    And, About US copyright laws... unfortunately Microsoft asked local police to investigate and so on... prolly old news already...

  20. Re:Closing in advance of raids on TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org Go Dark · · Score: 1

    Torrentbits only had a record of the amount of seeded/leeched stuff. They did not keep a log of files seeded/leeched. You cannot sue someone based on only the amount of data transferred.

  21. Re:Ummmm,,, cue cards? on Build Your Own Teleprompter · · Score: 1

    just have someone to flip those cue cards in place of the powerbook. Still one would be able to look at the lens. Much cheaper. Altho, if you already have that powerbook...

    nice idea.

  22. Hopefully they sue themselves out of business on No Honor Among Malware Purveyors · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That way, competition would again benefit us, the regular consumer.

    Personally, ad/malware is one of the rare reasons I would encourage less strict weapon laws... :)

  23. blogger as the only seeder.. on Blog Torrent Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Kinda nullifies the idea of shared bandwidth supplying doesn't it?

  24. Re:dedicated mousepad vs batteries... on Wireless Mouse with no Batteries · · Score: 1

    What gave you that idea? Is the kindergarten the only place you have gotten them for free?

  25. So uncool... on Wireless Mouse with no Batteries · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The parent of this has nothing to do the grandparent of this... And please feel free to mod THIS one down, not the parent of this :)