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  1. Re:huh? on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    They still release less mercury than the coal plant would have when powering the old style light.

    If you eat tuna you have no room complaining about a CFLs worth of it spilled in your home.

    Joe public needs to be encouraged to recycle them, preferably with a fine of a few thousand dollars for tossing them out.

  2. Re:Special situations on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Incandescent bulbs are still legal as heating devices, so you will need to provide some evidence that the law is forcing the easybake oven to be redisigned.

    Actually incandescent bulbs are not being banned at all, only bulbs that do not produce a certain amount of light per watt.

  3. Re:Virtual Research? on Xerox Opens Virtual Research Lab · · Score: 2

    It's virtually limitless, virtually any kind.

  4. Re:US to Europe: deal with it on Libya SIGINT Jamming Satellites, Towers · · Score: 1

    Sometimes it takes more fortitude to stand by and let history happen. The Libyans need to do this for themselves. They have enough history of people doing things for them, they call that period colonialism.

  5. Re:Should of finished the job Days Ago on Libya SIGINT Jamming Satellites, Towers · · Score: 1

    Well that, or Zombie Regan was trying to push the "Sell weapons to our enemies" button.

  6. Re:Seriously? on Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Developer Preview Available · · Score: 1

    I thought Kia reliability was pretty good these days. My gf owns one, only seems to need regular maintenance so far.

  7. Re:How does this go with european data privacy? on Google Launches New Assault On Microsoft Office · · Score: 0

    I keep trying to install it but it always fails. Where the fuck are the linux binaries?

  8. Re:What is the point of OSX server? on Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Developer Preview Available · · Score: 0

    If your backup is live, it is a copy not a backup. If your backup is not offsite, it is a copy not a backup.

    RAID0 is not a *Redundant* Array of Independent Disks. If you want speed buy another disk and use RAID10. If you can stand to rebuild from scratch feel free to ignore me.

  9. Re:What is the point of OSX server? on Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Developer Preview Available · · Score: 0

    RAID is not backup and backup is not RAID. You need both.

    Time Machine plugged into a local on site powered on storage is not a backup, it is a copy. Backups have to be powered off and off site. Tapes are good for that, so are drives if you use more than one as spinning discs are mighty fragile.

  10. Re:What is the point of OSX server? on Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Developer Preview Available · · Score: 0

    Backups don't replace RAID and RAID does not replace backups.

    They won't because small companies do not.

  11. Re:As they say in Kentucky, Satisticals! on Study Calls Craigslist 'a Cesspool of Crime' · · Score: 1

    There was an article about this in the New York Times a few weeks ago and how the author was defrauded of several thousand dollars for a fake vacation rental that seemed "too good a price to be true" and involved wiring money to the UK.

    The author was an idiot. These same scams occur in classifieds in newspapers, via old fashioned mail, over the phone and every other method of communication we humans have cooked up. I bet the author avoided mentioning those other common sources of this old scam. Here is a nice tip for you, if a deal seems "too good a price to be true" it is. Here is another free one, if it involves wiring money out of the country it is a scam.

  12. Re:misunderstandings on Study Calls Craigslist 'a Cesspool of Crime' · · Score: 1

    Conspiring to commit a crime is a crime. Hiring a hooker or hitman is a crime. So then you have now committed a crime. GP said before they commit a crime. All of your examples are after a crime was committed.

  13. Re:so... on Study Calls Craigslist 'a Cesspool of Crime' · · Score: 2

    I was not aware paper could suffer from jaundice.

  14. Re:Which is ridiculous..... on Study Calls Craigslist 'a Cesspool of Crime' · · Score: 2

    The amount of gang violence has gone up as spirograph sales have gone down. Coincidence? I think not!

  15. Re:misunderstandings on Study Calls Craigslist 'a Cesspool of Crime' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you have craigslist, the the AG knows where to look and it is a GREAT tool to find and arrest criminals before they commit the crime.

    If they have not committed a crime yet, they are not criminals.

  16. Re:Seriously? on Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Developer Preview Available · · Score: 1

    Not a real doll either, this one is a living and breathing human female a year younger than me. Surprising I know.

  17. Re:Yay on Feds Help You Find Your Fastest Internet Service · · Score: 1

    Honestly, this is the sort of thing the government should do. For capitalism to work you need informed actors. Where it falls short is that it is using company reported speeds rather than actual speeds for these connections.

  18. Re:Not accurate results on Feds Help You Find Your Fastest Internet Service · · Score: 1

    Do you live in a cave?
    Satellite access is available near everywhere, if you have a working cell phone odds are 3G Internet service is available.

  19. Re:Betting pool on Feds Help You Find Your Fastest Internet Service · · Score: 1

    Actually it is baseband, but the marketing folks have now ruined even more of our language.

  20. Re:Seriously? on Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Developer Preview Available · · Score: 1

    A Drobo? Are you fucking kidding?

    They are slow, expensive, and poorly built. I say this as someone who got a test unit from CDW and nearly fell off his chair laughing after running bonnie++ on it.

  21. Re:Seriously? on Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Developer Preview Available · · Score: 1

    Nope, most of those machines are long gone, I only keep the interesting stuff.

    I have a live in girlfriend, so the last date was maybe Saturday when we went out to dinner, bar, etc.

  22. Re:Seriously? on Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Developer Preview Available · · Score: 1

    It will also have more downtime that a real setup, which is fine for some folks.

    The reality is that is a good plan that no small business will ever follow that plan. They will also complain about the downtime and never take the spare mac mini off site.

  23. Re:Seriously? on Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Developer Preview Available · · Score: 1

    You can put normal 2U servers on 15A 120V, no reason to use desktops based on your power requirements.

  24. Re:What is the point of OSX server? on Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Developer Preview Available · · Score: 1

    Those people do not need a server OS then either.

    In some cases desktops can work for this purpose for some amount of time. In every case I have seen it resulted in lost data and much downtime. In the end the small businesses decided that it was worth it to either outsource or spend a couple grand on some decent hardware.

  25. Re:What is the point of OSX server? on Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Developer Preview Available · · Score: 0

    The PSU they might be able to skimp on, not having RAID is insane. This means lose one hard drive and there goes your data. These folks will not have real backups.