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  1. Re:Why? on Best eSATA JBOD? · · Score: 1

    Use a JBOD enclosure to present the physical devices to the OS where you can do your own logical volume creation and management (such as with ZFS). Just because he wants a JBOD enclosure doesn't mean he's going to use the physical volumes individually.

  2. Re:I stopped reading the summary on Best eSATA JBOD? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Until your controller goes berserk and craps all over your disk or your other disk fails in the middle of the rebuild. Or...

  3. Re:Good thing it wasn't O'hare on ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention · · Score: 1

    He knows the law and he's correct and you're not. Here's a summary of Illinois: http://www.rcfp.org/taping/states/illinois.html

  4. Re:Begging the question on Inside AMD's Phenom Architecture · · Score: 1

    Troll? It's an honest question and was answered quite well by people that responded. Well done abusive moderator.

  5. Excellent article on Jonathan Coulton, a Day in the Life · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Refreshing. FTA:

    Indeed, running a Web store has allowed Coulton and other artists to experiment with intriguing innovations in flexible pricing. Remarkably, Coulton offers most of his music free on his site; when fans buy his songs, it is because they want to give him money.

    I had never heard of him but I am definitely going to take a listen. What's remarkable to me is that people find the idea that people will pay for value ... remarkable. The whole article is peppered with great examples of how Coulton embraces people using his work -- he even says it is a way to get him exposure. Most excellent.

  6. Begging the question on Inside AMD's Phenom Architecture · · Score: -1, Troll
    Do you think this architecture will help AMD regain the lead in its multicore battle with Intel?"

    Did they ever have the lead?

  7. 2.25G in a car? on Earthlike Planet Orbiting Nearby Star · · Score: 2, Informative
    1) 2.25 times that of our own gravitational pull would not be ideal for us to live but, it doesn't mean nothing could live there. I pull 2.25g's with my car on a dry skid pad, I have not died yet.

    Is your daily driver a formula 1 prepped vehicle? If not I seriously doubt you pull more than 1G on a dry skid pad. (when you say "my car" I'm assuming you are speaking of the vehicle you regularly drive). One of the best production cars for skidpad grip is the Ferrari Enzo and it "only" pulls about 1.05G.

  8. HR 1525 on Spy Act of 2007 = "Vendors Can Spy Act" · · Score: 1

    While doing research to write Congressman Kline (2nd District, Minnesota) I came across HR 1525 (I-SPY act, much coooler name) that appears to be a competing piece of legislation that is much more palatable.

  9. Ok, so it all worked out on The Germs' Drummer Arrested For Carrying Soap · · Score: 1, Funny
    But the cops test his soap for a date rape drug? Did they bother to stop for a second and consider the likeliness of application? "Oh, honey, why don't you take a drink of this soap, it's delicious."

    My favorite part of the interview (second link):

    There's a lot of buzz about that movie. Have you seen it? Not yet. I got to watch the kid who plays me, and that was awful. He's nothing like me, and it was the worst thing ever, for a while. For a while? So he got better? No. But worse things have happened to me since then.

  10. Huh? on Hackers Invited To Crack Internet Voting · · Score: 1
    FTA:

    "When Scytl presented the system, everybody was impressed on the security features. It is covered by international patent and it has been declared secured by no less than Switzerland and everyone in the global community should respect that decision," Tuason told reporters in a conference Tuesday.

    Switzerland is now the global arbiter of the well defined "secured" and the global community should accept that? Huh? This quote is either a really bad translation or high comedy.

  11. Makes the first post in the previous /. thread on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Team Not Art Thieves · · Score: 1

    more insightful than funny, right in one.

  12. Interesting idea on Faster P2P By Matching Similiar Files? · · Score: 1

    Thought of this a while back on a similar subject: taking bittorrent as an example you track a file (or set of files) and the torrent has presized chunks that are hashed. A simple extension may be to change that relationship from one to many to many to many. Share a set of chunks and this particular torrent uses the following chunks (identified by their hash). Obviously this would cause overhead issues but would address the issue in TFA (which, being new here I did not read).

  13. Sure, cheating is bad on Blizzard Seeks to Block User Rights, Privacy · · Score: 1

    But cheating is not the focus of why this is very scary. I'll stipulate that a) cheating in MMORPGs or any multiplayer game is bad and b) Blizzard's EULA specifically restricts cheating and they have every right to ban you.

    That said, they are attempting to completely redefine how copyright works and if they are successful it will have a serious effect across the industry. They've realized that there is pretty much no way they can effectively scan users systems (which if you agree to the EULA you've agreed to) so they are attempting this legal approach which is based on dubious legal theory. If they win your ability to do pretty much anything with the software you've installed on your system (like run it) can be tangled with "protection mechanisms" that further restrict your rights to use the software. The DMCA is being abused here and THIS is the thing the OP has a problem with.

    FTR, I played WoW when it first came out but their EULA was so far reaching and invasive that I cancelled my accounts after two months. With this latest effort by Blizzard to redefine copyright law I will not be buying another of their products, even if they lose this case.

  14. Re:IP in Space on IPv6 Tested in Space · · Score: 1

    Only an astronaut would be able to say this. (IP in space ... messy without the proper container)

  15. Integra Telecom on How Does Your ISP Handle Top-Usage Customers? · · Score: 1
    Integra is a regional operator that (I believe) is based here in Minnesota. I my area (southwest suburbs) they are the incumbent telco and they offer a DSL package. After having to deal with Comcast in the NE burbs and Qwest DSL in Flagstaff I am pleased as punch with Integra. The advertised bandwidth is met both directions, they don't filter traffic, they don't care that I run my own servers and best of all when I called tech support and asked for a PTR record they knew what the hell I was talking about and had it done in 5 minutes.

    DSLreports.com is also a good place for information about this particular subject. I used be CIO for a regional broadband company and the sad thing is that less than 10% of the user base uses 90% of the bandwidth on the average network. Getting rid of those people is much cheaper than putting in WDM or other expensive technology to increase bandwidth. More troublesome to me are companies that have something like a Packeteer shaping the traffic and they don't let their consumers know (we did this).

    Anyway, Integra gets a big thumbs up from me so far.

  16. Advocacy or idiocy, it's all in the approach on Oracle Linux Adopters Suffer Backlash · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It really is sad to hear of the "zealots" that pull stunts such as calling a company and heckling them for a choice that doesn't impact the zealot one bit.

    It's idiocy like this that gives any advocacy a bad name.

  17. No? on Private File Sharing To Remain/Become legal In EU · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I read TFA, nowhere did I see that "private file sharing" would remain or become legal. What I did read is that the EU is attempting to harmonize the criminal code around commercial piracy. This harmonization could actually be _detrimental_ to private file sharing because it introduces an element of Napster to the member states (not that the article was hugely detailed but a site like Pirate Bay -- not in the EU, just an example -- could be considered profiting from copyright infringement and be prosecuted under something like this).

    Anyhow, nowhere in the article does it say private file sharing for non-commercial purposes will be legalized, it only addresses it by saying that it isn't addressing that aspect.

  18. Re:hot spot misdirection on Windows Vulnerability in Animated Cursor Handling · · Score: 1
    What part of your research led you to this conclusion?

    What might an attacker use this function to do?
    An attacker could try to exploit the vulnerability by creating a specially crafted web page. An attacker could also create a specially-crafted email message and send it to an affected system. Upon viewing a web page, previewing or reading a specially crafted message, or opening a specially crafted email attachment the attacker could cause the affected system to execute code. While animated cursors typically are associated with the .ani file extension, a successful attack is not constrained by this file type.
    Perhaps you could expand your research into the actual issue. (Above italics taken from the microsoft advisory, clearly indicating that arbitrary code can be executed and it's not a "relocated hot spot").

  19. Re:oldie but goodie on Windows Vulnerability in Animated Cursor Handling · · Score: 1

    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin /MS05-002.mspx It's a new vector on an old problem as the parent said, it's been around a while.

  20. Re:Do we have to stoop so low? on USPTO New Accelerated Review Process · · Score: 1

    You may have missed the point.

  21. Subsidies stink on Dept. of Energy Rejects Corn Fuel Future · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The corn based ethanol craze is founded in subsidies, not practicality. I grew up on a farm in southeastern Minnesota and came to loathe subsidies, PIC setaside acres, furloughs, etc. All kinds of ways to make money to do nothing that didn't benefit the family farm (which ours was) but ultimately lined the pockets of corporate farmers with lobby interests.

    When I went to college (in Morris, Minnesota) there was an ethanol plant in town and I researched ethanol production just to provide some context to the awful smell (think rotting sileage) that hit my apartment complex when the wind was right. Even back in 1990 there was little justification to use ethanol because of the high energy use for production, the increased end-unit costs because of the need to blend at the POS (because ethanol absorbs water it needs to be mixed into the blend near the end delivery point) and the other implications for vehicles (reduced power/volume, injection issues, etc). The investment that the government has made has been misplaced. It purely subsidizes this waste instead of promoting the development of more efficient production/end product. The plant in Morris is still producing the exact same product in the exact same way, the only difference is now (16 years later) they are making money hand over fist.

    Finally, corn requires a tremendous amount of water to grow. When we grew corn we didn't irrigate but big corporate farms cannot resist. The Oglalla aquifer is draining, which is a big deal. Irrigation for crops of all sorts are the primary culprit but the impact is larger -- most of the 'breadbasket' of the US is dependent in many ways on the viability of the Oglalla aquifer.

    I am stunned and pleased that the DOE has stepped up and stated what should be the obvious. I hope that people following the stories realize that subsidies without measurable and definable goals have no place in our "free trade" economy (tongue in cheek there).

  22. Re:Do we have to stoop so low? on USPTO New Accelerated Review Process · · Score: 1

    Have you heard of the National Socialist German Worker's Party?

  23. Absolutely impressive on Leaked Microsoft Dossier on Journalist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some folks may not be impressed by this but after reading the whole thing I have to applaud M$ PR firm. They do their research extremely well and prepare the employee so thoroughly for what is going to transpire that I'm in awe. I've never worked for a huge company with a "good PR machine" and I've given interviews before -- what I wouldn't have done for this kind of prep!

  24. Oh, a reason to keep the subsidies! on Scientists Powering Batteries with Soda, Tree Sap · · Score: 1

    Sugar has long been a highly subsidized crop. With all that's happened for corn since we decided to make ethanol a national strategy, perhaps we can justify keeping crazy sugar subsidies so we can power computers.

  25. Diebold doing themselves no favors on Diebold Sues Massachusetts for "Wrongful Purchase" · · Score: 2, Informative
    I was just reading the other day that Diebold (which is a very old company) is looking at possible exit strategies from the electronic voting arena because of the "bad name" it is giving them. (read more here)

    Not only are their machines vulnerable (which is what gives them a bad name) they then exacerbate the situation with a ridiculous lawsuit like this? "We didn't win the contract and there is no evidence of wrongdoing but we either want the court to award us the contract or re-open the competition." It's even more absurd because the selection process in the public sector is very open and very documented. While 9 million is a lot of money, I don't think it's worth the rep hit they are going to take, yet again.