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  1. Re:Class actions on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 1

    No, making lawyers rich and giving squat to the aggrieved parties is what Class Actions are for. This is what Small Claims is for.

  2. Re:Start at the beginning. on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 1

    No; if the crooks don't pay up, taking time value of money into account fully, sue the crooks' asses in Small Claims for sure.

  3. Re:Class action on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 1

    Bingo. People are so illiterate on this subject.

  4. Re:Class action on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 1

    Dear Textdrive/Joyent: good luck with that, you mother loving crooks.

  5. Re:Class action on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 1

    Inflicting arbitration as a term of sale represents an unbalanced contract with the corporation exerting its superior weight unfairly.

  6. Re:Ask for a refund on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 1

    Look up "Present Value" and "Future Value". The amount invested at present value stands at the original dollar value inflated to today. The amount STOLEN is the future value of that money at client's actuarially expected death, minus the present value.

  7. Re:ask for more than that on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 1

    Start with a Demand Letter. When that fails ...

    He should sue for triple the amount paid, plus accumulated interest. Plus, as you say, damages - costs incurred to move his content.

    For example in Massachusetts under Small Claims "If a claim falls under Chapter 93A , and involves unfair or deceptive business practices, double or treble (“triple”) damages may be awarded for a total of up to $6,000 ($2,000 x triple damages)."

  8. Re:I don't want a linux based "software system" on Tesla CTO Talks Model S, Batteries and In-car Linux · · Score: 1

    OS X uses a mach kernel with a BSD userland and a custom Apple GUI on top. (I know it's pedantic. I can't help it.)

    Actually, if you want to be pedantic, that's incorrect. OS X uses the XNU hybrid kernel, combining Mach with pieces of the BSD kernel, plus I/O Kit. Yes, the userland is basically BSD with an Apple GUI.

  9. Re:range on Tesla CTO Talks Model S, Batteries and In-car Linux · · Score: 1

    You apparently did not do the actual maths.

    Electric: 0.09 euro/kWh, or about 0.025 euro/MJ
    Gasoline: 1.5 euro/liter, or about 0.047 euro/MJ

    In other words, the energy for electric costs half that of gasoline, and that's still excluding the much higher efficiency of the electric car. Per driven kilometer, it is even more extreme.

    If you don't like electric for it's limited range and slow charging times, sure. But despite the expensive batteries, it's getting damn close to the gsaoline cars.

    Your numbers are suspect. Here are the actual figures for electric cost:

    Austria 0.18 euro/kWh
    Belgium 0.19
    Denmark 0.26
    France 0.13
    Germany 0.24
    Italy 0.25
    Netherlands 0.24
    Spain 0.18
    Sweden 0.18
    UK 0.13

    I didn't consciously cherry pick those numbers, and Estonia and Bulgaria are the only ones I see under 0.10. I'd say the true figure is at least twice what you claim, wiping out your supposed cost advantage.

  10. Re:lol on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 1

    Post is still insightful.

  11. Re:Really?!! Shocking!! on Use Google's Nexus 7 Tablet As a VoIP Phone, For Free · · Score: 1

    Google Voice doesn't allow you to make outgoing calls directly from the tablet

    Can you elaborate on that? I don't understand the mechanism. I can certainly make outgoing calls directly from my PC and my laptop. How is the tablet any different?

  12. Re:T-Mob on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap US Cellphone Plan With an Unlocked Phone? · · Score: 1

    Isn't great? T-Mobile coverage isn't GREAT???

    Anybody who lives in a country with an actual working, non-embarrassing infrastructure note ... AT&T coverage isn't "great" - to be charitable. T-Mobile coverage is a JOKE. If it works where you live, and you don't travel beyond major cities, fine; you're golden. Otherwise, so sorry.

  13. Re:t-mobile on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap US Cellphone Plan With an Unlocked Phone? · · Score: 1

    I guess it would be really torturing the word boondocks to use it in connection with the National Seashore, but the outer arm of Cape Cod is made up of six towns with 2100, 2700, 3400, 5500, 6300, and 6600 year-round population. With some limited black hole exceptions, 3G coverage is fine throughout this 151.9 square mile area. That's a density of only 175 per square mile.

    If we were small towns in Vermont with similar populations, we would be SOL. I guess the reason we luck out on coverage is because we are a huge tourist spot in the summer. It's funny, though; some of the beaches themselves are in the black holes!

  14. Re:lol on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 1

    Insightful post, keep making idiotic mods if you must.

  15. Re:And who will they be watching? on Grumman Building Football Field-Sized Robotic Surveillance Blimp · · Score: 1

    Sounds like your citation-free post is just parroting a second hand reference to the rather breathless, and uncorroborated, 2007 report that was in the Telegraph five years ago. A single missile fired, unnamed sources, lots of conjecture, the attack was readily defeated. So if sensational reports are that the Taliban has had numbers of SAM-7s for years, and all they lack is BATTERIES for their old Stingers, how is it that there has not been widespread use and some successes? Hmm? I smell crap. Whether it is purposeful fantasy, or mistaken guesswork, it ain't happenin'.

    And all those so-called suitcase nukes we have been told have been floating around in wrong hands for years? How is it none of those has been used?

  16. Re:And who will they be watching? on Grumman Building Football Field-Sized Robotic Surveillance Blimp · · Score: 1

    They don't have any SAMs of any kind. The only interference with aircraft in flight in Afghanistan is light automatic weapons and the odd lucky hit by an RPG if you are slow and under a couple of thousand feet.

    Look, the Taliban don't even have a single brain between them, that works properly. All they are good at is blowing themselves the fuck up; sadly, taking out actual useful human beings with them in the blast radius.

  17. Re:certainly much simpler than on In Brazil, All Vehicles Must Have Radio IDs By 2014 · · Score: 1

    Um, cocaine is not an opiate.

  18. Re:lol on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 0

    Post is insightful you stupid moron moderators.

  19. Re:solution on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    Why?

    Examine the command. He's packing the files into a tar format stream, then unpacking it back into files on the other end. He's doing the same number of source opens and destinations creates; moving the same number of bytes; but he's adding a step.

  20. Re:solution on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    Not any more than cp -rp

    Examine the command. He's packing the files into a tar format stream, then unpacking it back into files on the other end. He's doing the same number of source opens and destinations creates, but he's adding a step.

  21. Bullshit on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's bullshit. The poll is an outright conniving intentional lie. All the well known polling organizations are corrupt and involved in multiple conspiracies.

    Anyone who believes this shit believes in the tooth fairy and Santa Clause, has bought the Brooklyn Bridge multiple times from the same scruffy guy in rags pushing a pram full of possessions down the street, denies that American elections are rigged, and really believes Hitler and the North Korean prick got 99% of the vote in their respective elections.

  22. Re:pump it into the air on US Freezes Nuclear Power Plant Permits Because of Waste Issues · · Score: 1

    Patterson - Thank God!
    Cdr. Ferraday - Yes; thank God, Patterson. And I'll thank the Electric Boat Division; that covers us either way.

  23. Re:solution on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. It's slower. Informative, my ass.

  24. Re:thorium cycle on US Freezes Nuclear Power Plant Permits Because of Waste Issues · · Score: 2

    I stopped bothering to analyze the code as soon as I saw that there was no attempt whatsoever to make the code exception safe. Whoever wrote that crap is never getting a C++ programming job from me. They've got too much to learn.

  25. Re:pump it into the air on US Freezes Nuclear Power Plant Permits Because of Waste Issues · · Score: 1

    <facepalm> In other words, your own reference says it melted down. "Melted down" does not mean "completely melted down to the last molecule". Melting is melting. "We didn't learn for years—until the reactor vessel was physically opened—that by the time the plant operator called the NRC at about 8 am, roughly ½ of the uranium fuel had already melted." ... "It was later found that about ½ the core had melted, and the cladding around 90% of the fuel rods had failed, with 5 ft (1.5 m) of the core gone, and around 20 short tons (18 t) of uranium flowing to the bottom head of the pressure vessel, forming a mass of corium."

    Sheesh.

    There was comparatively little radiation release off premises. You would have better luck to just concentrate on that fact.