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  1. Re:Data loss on Terabyte Hard Drive Put To the Test · · Score: 2, Informative

    RAID-6 may seem inefficient, but it's superior to RAID 10 because it is capable of recovering from two drive failures, whereas RAID 10 may recover from two drive failures. It is possible to lose a second member of one of the mirrors before the first is rebuilt. In RAID 6, you already have enough parity data online to recover immediately from two simultaneous failures.

  2. Re:The sad thing is, someone's going to mod you up on Batteries the Focus of AT&T Investigation · · Score: 1

    Th funny thing is, censorship has nothing to do with net-neutrality!

  3. Re:Where will this madness end? on Charging the Unhealthy More For Insurance · · Score: 1

    And look how well that turned out. Auto insurance rates are outrageous in most areas of the USA.

  4. Re:Charge vegetarians less? on Charging the Unhealthy More For Insurance · · Score: 2, Funny

    I didn't realize there was so much red meat in cola. Or that fish was a vegetable!

  5. Re:Been there, seen that... on Coping Strategies for Women in IT · · Score: 1

    Uhh... the guy attacked him first.

    I guess in your movie, Indy would have just stayed home with his classrooms and dusty books like a good Quaker rather than chance an encounter with sword-wielding maniacs.

  6. Re:If guns stop crime then why crime in the USA? on The Study of Physical Hacks at DefCon · · Score: 1

    Do you really think all of those crimes are committed by legally acquired firearms?

  7. Re:Nice try, but... on Winnie Wrote a Math Book · · Score: 1

    Obviously then they should soldier on and continue doing the same lame ineffective thing, because to do otherwise would be "to stop trying". You sound like a certain president.
    Jimmy Carter?
    "Can't afford fuel to heat your house? Put on a sweater."
  8. Re:Sucks to be you, Elton on Elton John Says Internet is Destroying Music · · Score: 1

    He's pretty much proved that he doesn't even know what the internet is. Last time I checked, Pro Tools and Sonar weren't internet applications. He might as well suggest that telephones are bad for poetry, because you might read poetry to someone over the phone instead of meeting them in person in a coffee shop.

  9. Re:Scapegoat? Maybe, but he's still a moron. on Intern Loses 800,000 Social Security Numbers · · Score: 1

    Notice how neither graduate has any practical knowledge.

  10. Re:They've had this idea before... on Firefox Lite And Old PCs Could Crush IE · · Score: 1

    Again, you tried to get around your misstatement by changing the parameters of the discussion. An updated BIOS does not require special software to be installed on the PC. Please admit that what you claimed is caused by a hardware problem (the BIOS) and drop the discussion.

  11. Re:They've had this idea before... on Firefox Lite And Old PCs Could Crush IE · · Score: 1
    Obviously, you're begging for a citation: Description of the FAT32 File System

    Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, and Windows Me include an updated version of the FAT file system. This updated version is called FAT32. The FAT32 file system allows for a default cluster size as small as 4 KB, and includes support for EIDE hard disk sizes larger than 2 gigabytes (GB).
    ... and:

    FAT32 provides the following enhancements over previous implementations of the FAT file system:
    FAT32 supports drives up to 2 terabytes in size.

    NOTE: Microsoft Windows 2000 only supports FAT32 partitions up to a size of 32 GB.
    By supports, they mean Windows 2000 (or XP) won't allow you to format a >32 GB FAT32 partition. I find this amusing because when you said, "Fat32 has a hard limit of 32 gigs under win9x. Formatting them over this limit using another OS doesn't fix the problem," you revealed that you didn't know this. I note that you snuck this in:

    unless you have either win98 with all the patches already installed, or winme
    Sorry, too late. You made the absolute claim that >32 GB FAT32 partitions were unreliable. Obviously, your claim is based on anecdotal evidence (that is, one or more machines you used with a BIOS bug or a corrupted partition table exhibited the problem you described) which you have extended to all scenarios.
  12. Re:muggles still use e-mail, mail, phones, etc. on Kids Say Email is Dead · · Score: 1

    They do manage to keep finding innovative places to pierce or tattoo.

  13. Re:Not necessarily on Kids Say Email is Dead · · Score: 1

    The heck with that. If these kids have two brain cells to rub together, they'll figure out how to sign up for Hotmail.

  14. Re:Wasted chance on Fox News' FTP Password Anyone? · · Score: 1

    Who cares? Suggesting that the war must have been solely motivated by greed is a circumstantial ad hom.

  15. Re:idiots on Duke Wireless Problem Caused by Cisco, not iPhone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hate that phrase: "any way, shape, or form." What's wrong with "in any way?" Do issues have a shape or form?

  16. Re:The best part. on Police Given Access to Congestion-Charge Cameras · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that these abuses happened under the watch of FDR, who shows up repeatedly in lists of "greatest presidents" along with others such as Lincoln, who suspended habeas corpus, and Kennedy, who was responsible for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Just a warning to the average Slashdot "DuBYa and Ch3neey es teh DEBIL!!!111hallibruton" ranter: we should be fighting evil ideology, not necessarily the evildoers.

  17. Hilarious comment on the article on Senate Committee Passes FCC Indecency Bill · · Score: 1
    The first comment on the article is hilarious:

    Goy (gentiles...I.E. those who are not Jewish), are to stupid.
    Submitted by You can not stop us (not verified) on Fri, 2007-07-20 15:21.

    Of course we as a country should have no rules.

    No conduct.

    We should be able to subtly program small children into the ways of perversion, lust, greed and self-centered living.

    We do this through "slip of the tongue" statements, and we hide very well under the "freedom of Speech" amendment in order to do so. We are experts in subterfuge, we the zionist-talmudic-Jews who run the media and the ADL and the ACLJ and the ACLU.

    We are the most effective at hiding our nefarious actions, we can program your children while you work your life away (YOU DUMB WAGE SLAVE YOU)....while we program your children to discard you, disobey you, become perverted and generally godless.

    America, you are in our grasp (the zionist-talmudic-cyrpto-so-called Jew), and their is nothing you can do to stop it.
    Everything but the drinking of children's blood and holocaust denial!
  18. Re:no loss on Web-based Anonymizer Discontinued · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Freedom of speech" doesn't mean you get to be anonymous. It never has.

  19. Re:"Eco-friendly" computer on $298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware · · Score: 1
    You forgot:
    • Taking a road-trip in a small SUV that gets 20 MPG --> terrorist.
    • Flying in a private jet to an eco-maniac convention to rail against GWB, talk radio hosts, conservatives, and "global warming deniers" --> eco friendly.
  20. Re:Rabbits? on 1935 Meccano "Dam Busters" Computer Restored · · Score: 1

    I recommend wave after wave of needle snakes. Then gorillas.

  21. Re:"Wants a tribute"? on Japan to Tax All Unlicensed Wireless Devices? · · Score: 1

    Over here (in the US), the money for that comes from other taxes. If corner drug dealer has 5 cellphones, and I only have 1, why shouldn't he pay more taxes? And the neighbor down the road that has no cellphone... Why should he sponsor regulation of my luxury item?
    I'm paying school taxes, even though I have no children. I don't agree with it, but apparently the politicians do.
  22. Re:Even Bluetooth? on Japan to Tax All Unlicensed Wireless Devices? · · Score: 1

    Who wants to bet that you're a troll who doesn't know how to close his tags properly?

  23. Re:In the United States... on Optimum Copyright Period Decided by Math · · Score: 1

    That's the problem with Slashdotters: they're more interested in attacking corporations than defeating bad ideas. Disney's not the problem: the law is.

  24. Re:that's a good point on Baby Mammoth Found Intact · · Score: 1

    So I suppose natural selection is bad when it comes to humans? Are we special or just naked apes? Come on!

  25. Re:it's not that mysterious what caused extinction on Baby Mammoth Found Intact · · Score: 1

    whenever mankind shows up, the slowly reproducing, tasty giant beasts and megafauna disappear, sometimes pretty quicky
    The average slashdot troll is a slowly reproducing (VERY SLOWLY=never) giant beast, and they are still here. Must not be tasty.