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  1. Re:Oh good on Four X25-E Extreme SSDs Combined In Hardware RAID · · Score: 1

    Also, the disk has a write cache so you can keep sending data even while it's moving data around. I don't think there is a universal implementation out there, but even normal HDD do the same type of stuff when it notices a sector is going bad. (I don't know the specific's on how that works, but look up Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology or SMART HDD.)

    Anyway, lazy writes are not a problem as long as you can read from the cache so I don't know how you would notice without doing some strange things with your data.

  2. Re:Oh good on Four X25-E Extreme SSDs Combined In Hardware RAID · · Score: 1

    No, the controller will move the system file even it's just been sitting there for months.

  3. Re:Oh good on Four X25-E Extreme SSDs Combined In Hardware RAID · · Score: 1

    Think of it like this let's say you have a 1MB log file that changes every hour, and 1 MB system file that never changed. You keep writing that log file to the same place until 1,000 times. The drive then says ok if that file is really volatile let's swap the log and system file so the log file is in a place that's been overwritten 2twice, and the system file is in a place that's over written ~1,000 times. You can then write to that log file 1,000 more times and now the average usage of the disk is ~1,000 times in both areas.

  4. Re:LOL on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 1

    Flyingsquid is thinking of the children you insensitive clod.

  5. Re:Magazines are dying as a format. on What, Me Worry? MAD Magazine Going Quarterly · · Score: 1

    That's good info. I would like to add that changing your diet involves changing the ecosystem living in your intestines. So large shifts can cause temporary discomfort as the stuff living in your guts adapts to the changes in your diet. There are some supplements that will aid this transition but the simplest solution it to slowly shift your diet.

  6. Re:Subject on $6 Billion Proposal For High-Speed Internet Grants · · Score: 2, Informative

    Plenty of Democrats where unwilling to support it so without republican support the bailout would not have passed. (It failed the first time.)

  7. Re:Congestion? on Comcast's Congestion Catch-22 · · Score: 2

    Not the big guy's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network I think Comcast is a Tier 2 and pays for some, but not all of their traffic.

    As a result, the term Tier 1 Network is used in the industry to mean a network with no overt settlements. An overt settlement would be a monetary charge for the amount, direction, or type of traffic sent between networks.

    Common definitions of Tier 2 and Tier 3 networks:

            * Tier 2 - A network that peers with some networks, but still purchases IP transit or pays settlements to reach at least some portion of the Internet.
            * Tier 3 - A network that solely purchases transit from other networks to reach the Internet.

  8. Re:Food nor Drug on First Human Embryonic Stem Cell Study Approved · · Score: 4, Informative

    The FDA also approves medical devices like pacemakers. While the name might not cover such things the agency covers a lot of ground.

  9. Re:Economics in one Lesson on Cape Wind Ready To Bring First Offshore Wind Farm · · Score: 1

    Words have meanings, unfortunately for you they also mean things which you did not intend. Plenty of people don't pay their taxes and nothing happens to them so while Coercion is accurate you need to use the full meaning of the word. Because, there is nobody actively pointing a gun at you.

    "Coercion (/ko().()n/) is the practice of compelling a person or manipulating them to behave in an involuntary way (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats, intimidation, trickery, or some other form of pressure or force." "The term is associated with circumstances which involve the unethical use of threats or harm to achieve some objective, but maybe equally often applies to other means of influence such as sweet talking, begging, charming, lying, and seduction." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercion

    Usage > http://www.answers.com/coercion

    Some people speak of cultural coercion when the fear of falling out with the group may force people into wearing a certain style of dress, publicly reciting a creed or a pledge of allegiance which they find ethically reprehensible or starting to smoke when they would have preferred not to etc. Within the definitional framework adopted here, all such things amount to (psychological) coercion if and only if the fear of falling out with the group is the result of purposeful threats by someone. See Peer pressure, Sociology of religion, Pledge of Allegiance.

    Some people include deception in their definition of (psychological) coercion. Yet deception does not generally involve any threat at all, as it works by creating a mere false perception by the victim of his or her given transformation rules.

  10. Re:Economics in one Lesson on Cape Wind Ready To Bring First Offshore Wind Farm · · Score: 1

    Nobody is free of coercion. Why do you think we spend so much fucking money on advertising?

  11. Re:Mystery Pits on Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump · · Score: 1

    The US military was also expecting up to 100,000 casualty's on their side in the first IRAQ war. They basically pick a number out of their ass and double it because low balling it is bad. See IRAQ war II.

  12. Re:On a serious note... on Chu's Final Breakthrough Before Taking Office · · Score: 1

    GR says black holes can't shrink because not even light can escape them but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation breaks this idea. "Ordinary quantum field theories, which form the basis of modern elementary particle physics, are defined in flat Minkowski space," "Attempts to generalize ordinary quantum field theories, used in elementary particle physics to describe fundamental interactions, so as to include gravity have led to serious problems. At low energies, this approach proves successful, in that it results in an acceptable effective (quantum) field theory of gravity.[164] At very high energies, however, the result are models devoid of all predictive power ("non-renormalizability").[165]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity#Relationship_with_quantum_theory

    And when you refuse to allow any assumption you will be paralised with indecision.

    I think science has a great understanding of most of what you can see and touch and many things you can't see or touch, but once you look at things outside of human sizes and time scales things are just odd. When you look closely Light which seems so simple, it does some strange things, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment) and while the earth might seem vary stable that's not really true on longer time scales. It's the same reason people have trouble understanding evolution we just don't think on billion year time scales. Even if you do the math this is going to seem strange (http://www.astro.queensu.ca/~musgrave/cforce/blackhole.html)

  13. Re:On a serious note... on Chu's Final Breakthrough Before Taking Office · · Score: 0

    Your assuming General Relativity is correct, however General Relativity demonstrates that F=MA is wrong. And QM demonstrates that General Relativity is wrong. Physics works for a wide range of situations, but it's still a patchwork of interlocking theory's with some interesting holes. When you assume something is correct in untested situations it's going to bite you. Light and Anti Matter both respond to gravity, but no experiment has demonstrated that they produce gravity. The way that 2 masses interact is probably a result of how they bend space so it's not just a question of how much mass they have but how much that mass bends space.

    PS: Do Anti Protons have gravity, I would assume so, but I understand it's an assumption without support.

  14. Re:Stock Market on One In 100 Carry Mutation For Heart Disease · · Score: 1

    Ok, some people care about other humans that they don't know.

    While anti smoking campaigns increase the cost of heath care the reduction in human suffering is considered a net gain. As a sociopath you probably have problems understanding much of human behavior, but just consider people consistently act in what you might consider strange ways. Even if you don't understand peoples motivations they still exist and drive peoples behavior. With a little effort you can probably work out the logic, even if you don't have an emotional reaction to such things.

  15. Re:Stock Market on One In 100 Carry Mutation For Heart Disease · · Score: 1

    Do you honestly feel the only reason to have seat belt laws is to reduce the cost of socialized medicine? Does the loss of life angle mean nothing to you?

  16. Re:On a serious note... on Chu's Final Breakthrough Before Taking Office · · Score: 1

    In theory you could have something that resisted acceleration, but had zero or negative gravitational mass. What if positrons had negative gravity how would you measure it? And what about light it interacts with gravity and resists acceleration, but does create gravity? Can you make a black hole by shining enough light into the same area?

    PS: As I understand it there is no such thing as negative gravity but until you measure it we are just guessing.

  17. Re:Won't Help Big Three on Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think people are missing the idea. You only get money when you are scraping your car. Let's say you take that ~4k and buy a 3 year old Civic. Well the used Civic market would improve so more people might decide to trade their Civic in and buy a new one but they don't get a credit. Net result trading in an old clunker a far more fuel efficient car and costing the government ~4k.

    There will probably be some limitation that the car must be in use, but it's still a begging for people to dump a lot of old cars that are not in active use. AKA the old pickup truck that you use every other month is now worth 4k.

  18. Re:LittleBigPlanet on Do Game Demos Have an Adverse Effect On Sales? · · Score: 1

    Do you really think there are 24 great games released every year? Because after a while you have most of the good classic games and each new title is not just competing with new games but all the games you already have.

    I buy ~1 game a month, keep one MMO subscription at a time, and game tap and I have way more fun games than I have time to play them. EX: I got Fallout 3 a while ago and I have yet to open the package.

  19. Re:As always, amatuers like you fail at stocks on Steve Jobs Takes Leave of Absence From Apple · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can the iPod connect in SSH2 to a server on the other side of the world ?

    Yes. You can SSH from the iPod touch. There are SSH clients for the iPhone for ~3$ in the app store. You can also SSH to the iPhone / iPod, but that's a separate issue.

  20. Re:$400 a month? on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    Look into a solar hot water system. In Florida the ROI vs electric heat can be under 5 years and as you are removing energy from the conservation cap. Solar electric IMO is still pricey in most areas.

    PS: You might want to look into adding some exterior shade to cut down on your heat gain.

  21. Re:Bigger Problems Then Taxes on IRS Eyeballing Virtual World Tax Policies · · Score: 1

    No, the median tax payer pays ~50%. The major taxes in the US are Medicare, SS, Income tax, Sales tax, and Property taxes. Out of these Medicare and Income tax scale with income but as a percentage SS, sales, and property taxes tend to drop as peoples income increases.

  22. Re:Err..what? on Spiraling Magnetic Signal Shows Up In the Cosmic Background · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Galaxies are not the only way to get stars. Back then your basicly collecting huge clumps of hydrogen and helium so while the star might become a black hole fairly quickly it still starts as a huge star.

  23. Re:"The only fireproof way of safeguarding your da on "Smash Your Hard Drive" To Fight Identity Theft · · Score: 2, Informative

    Heating a destroys the magnetic domain's long before it melts. As density increases the ability to do data recovery when things go bad keeps decreasing.

  24. Re:ObBab5 quote on Why Does the US Have a Civil Space Program? · · Score: 1

    We don't need to go to space, when the time comes we could just move the earth. Now it would cost a lot of money and energy but it is an option.

  25. Re:Let's rephrase : scientists say, kill manned sp on Why Does the US Have a Civil Space Program? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The military seems to have zero interest in maned space flight due to 4 issues.

    1) Why send a person when you can send a bomb?
    2) It's hard to do stealthy reentry.
    3) How do you get people home once they are there?
    4) It cost way to much to send enough people do do something meaningful vs flying someone in from a near by base.