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  1. Re:Inside my HD there are two very important files on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    We once had rule of law, now we have gitmo and people being forced to testify against themselves. They will beat you with a wrench or waterboard your or just leave you in a cell forever if they want. The only excuse they need is "national security".

  2. Re:Oh yawn on Cops Set Up Extortion Sting On Symantec's Source Code Thieves · · Score: 2

    Self interest is the root of evil. Those people being mutilated happens because it is in the self interest of the mutilator. You are trying to argue shades of gray here.

  3. Re:Regulations... on Credit Suisse Traders Manipulated IT Systems To Hide $500m Losses · · Score: 1

    Every business has regular audits now and there's nothing to prevent that from continuing, and there's plenty of reasons why it should continue. Any business or bank unwilling to submit to such things would soon run out of people willing to invest in it. Word gets around. "Don't trust those guys!"

    You mean like Madoff? No one noticed until it was too late.

    People aren't stupid, generally speaking. We can tell the good from the bad, we can vote with our feet, and we can learn from experience. We can also be pretty powerful when we band together in a common interest

    People are in general not knowledgeable about things outside their fields, their is no banding together when you are tricked.

    All I'm saying is, the way it's done now by gov't TLAs is horrifically expensive and provably doesn't work, so why do we bother handing that function off to gov't when we're better equipped to do it ourselves at far less cost and social/societal disruption than when gov't does it?

    Without the force of law none of this would be done at all, you are dreaming. This can either be done via the Govt or not at all. There is no way a company's own auditors will leak anything if they are not in fear of the law. They are being paid by those being audited, they will lie to keep that job. See Madoff again.

    I don't believe this is Utopia, just reality. Your method would lead to weekly Madoff scams and Monthly bank collapses.

  4. Re:Regulations... on Credit Suisse Traders Manipulated IT Systems To Hide $500m Losses · · Score: 1

    The CFO would never mention it.

    They can't be done by ourselves. These banks will never let you see their books. Even if they did you do not have ability nor the cash needed to go after them.

    I wish your ideas had a chance of working, but they are as much flights of fancy as a Communist Utopia is.

  5. Re:Lesson of the day: on Google In Battle With Its Own Lawyers · · Score: 1

    Go take a look at the open source world someday - there's your utopia of simplicity and accessibility created by geeks with no external constraints - like those awful managers and marketing drones - forcing them to make things needlessly complex and inaccessible to the average user.

    Your misunderstanding on that one, those are supposed to be simple and accessible for developers not average users.

  6. Re:fsck speed, want safety on What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most people are worried more about cost then reliability.

    Most people is often a category that does not do things the best way or the right way.

  7. Re:Regulations... on Credit Suisse Traders Manipulated IT Systems To Hide $500m Losses · · Score: 1

    If they never told them, how would they sue?

    Might work, is better than provably does not work. Which is what you are suggesting. They already can do those things and they don't.

  8. Re:Regulations... on Credit Suisse Traders Manipulated IT Systems To Hide $500m Losses · · Score: 2

    Under the most libertarian policies, Credit Suisse would never have told the investors anything.

    Unburdened by onerous regulation and worried about their reputation, wanting to retain their customers, CS would save money and face by lying to the public.

    Regulation is the only recourse. It is not perfect and people do corrupt the system, but it is the only option we have.

  9. Re:fsck speed, want safety on What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage · · Score: 2

    You need to be writing that data to two or more, more really, filesystems at the same time. Streaming replication.

    Redundancy can be backups, if they are in different locations and proper versioning is used.

  10. Re:fsck speed, want safety on What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage · · Score: 1

    Basically that.
    They don't want you to know how little they know. If they used the same name over and over that pattern would be visible.

    Or maybe, yeah probably, ALIENS!

  11. Re:fsck speed, want safety on What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage · · Score: 1

    I never said such a thing. If you are fscking you are doubting your filesystem and there fore should already be restoring your backups. If you get lucky and everything is ok all you lost was a little time, if not you are ready to roll out the machine the backups went too.

  12. Re:fsck speed, want safety on What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage · · Score: 2

    No, its primary job is to tell you about integrity of the filesystem. Any attempt at fixing it is secondary.

  13. Re:Restore time on What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage · · Score: 1

    Seconds?

    When you have that much data and you need high reliability you are doing streaming replication to multiple devices and layering other backup methods as well.

    Any idea what the cost of just trusting that the FSCK fixed the problems on 72TB of data your business needs could be?

  14. Re:fsck speed, want safety on What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage · · Score: 1

    I am not retarded, that is why I have an UPS and I even know how to use tune2fs.

  15. Re:fsck speed, want safety on What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because sometimes it does work. Relying on any such software is stupid.

    While the FSCK/CHKDSK runs you restore onto another machine. This way if the check finishes first, you can use it until you can switch over to the restored machine. It also can save your ass if you are not smart enough/fortunate enough to have good backups.

  16. Re:fsck speed, want safety on What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage · · Score: 1

    No, just the truth from a real live sysadmin.

    If the question had been how effective a chkdsk was I would have said the same thing.

    Grow up.

  17. Re:fsck speed, want safety on What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you need to fsck you should already be restoring from backups onto another machine.

  18. Re:Regulations... on Credit Suisse Traders Manipulated IT Systems To Hide $500m Losses · · Score: 1

    No it places a limit on it that just cannot be increased. This is not the same as infinite. If you are looking at death for your crime, you might as well kill any witnesses. Your failed logic has lead to many murders.

  19. Re:Regulations... on Credit Suisse Traders Manipulated IT Systems To Hide $500m Losses · · Score: 1

    It would never even be discovered under the most libertarian business policies.

    Last I checked I did not get to vote on how much theft occurred. Taxes are many things, theft they are not. That bumper sticker logic shows how little you really think about these issues.

  20. Re:Passover lamb on How Far Should GPL Enforcement Go? · · Score: 2

    Go take your medicine. You need it.

  21. The Real Reason for this is that it is a SCAM! on FDA Regulating Your Stem Cells As Interstate Commerce · · Score: 0

    The real reason the FDA is trying to step in is that this is a procedure is a medical scam. No different than if I offered to cut off the lobes of your ears to treat deafness.

  22. Re:I'm all for keeping E85 if ... on Is E85 Dead Now? · · Score: 1

    Corn sugar is dextrose, not HFCS.

  23. Re:Oh, the Horseshit You Will Print! on Predicting Life 100 Years From Now · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You spelled "War of Southern Treason" wrong.

    The South started the war, so I fail to see how it could be Northern aggression.

  24. Re:Electric vehicles on Can NASA Warm Cold Fusion? · · Score: 1

    United Nuclear has it for sale. Buy some now, and hold it all you like. Do wash your hands after though, heavy metal poisoning sucks.

  25. Re:Links to Aspartame on Multiple Sclerosis Damage Washed Away By Stream of Young Blood · · Score: 1

    Why not just embed the charging system in the road?
    If was only done on the freeway that should be enough. That way you can drive unlimited distance on the freeway + 100 miles worth of battery should do.

    The added cost seems to be the only real issue.