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  1. Re:More problems. on Land Rover Demos "Transparent Hood" · · Score: 1

    I think you need to go back to school and figure out the logic of the failure modes before commenting.

  2. Re:NoSQL? on Ask Slashdot: Which NoSQL Database For New Project? · · Score: 1

    Reports on big dbs are always the choke point.

    Lots of people, DBAs included, seem to miss this.

  3. Re:Use PostgreSQL on Ask Slashdot: Which NoSQL Database For New Project? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, as the submitter gave details later.

    Each customer is about 500k data points per year.

    Thousands of customers is a few hundred million rows, per year.

  4. Re:Do you need a database? on Ask Slashdot: Which NoSQL Database For New Project? · · Score: 2

    So, 10-20 thousand data points, per customer, per week?

    Or, at 100 customers, 50-100 million data points per year?

    Get a real database. And some real horsepower.

  5. Re:Please NOTE... on U.S. Supreme Court Declines To Rule On Constitutionality of Bulk Surveillance · · Score: 1

    You apparently haven't heard that tanks have improved since WW2.

    Go look up the UK Challenger 2.

  6. Re:Please NOTE... on U.S. Supreme Court Declines To Rule On Constitutionality of Bulk Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Tanks have come a long freaking way since WW2.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

    The only Challenger 2 destroyed was by another Challenger 2 tank.

  7. Re:Please NOTE... on U.S. Supreme Court Declines To Rule On Constitutionality of Bulk Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Can ANY of those 300 million firearms disable ONE of those "tanks".

    Maybe if they all fired at the same time.

  8. Re:Constitutional Court on U.S. Supreme Court Declines To Rule On Constitutionality of Bulk Surveillance · · Score: 2

    Well, I got it from the summary.

    The plaintiffs had bypassed the federal appeals court and applied directly to the high court, given Judge Leon's admission that the case had significant national security interests at stake. The Supreme Court's decision not to rule on the case means that an appeal will need to be submitted to the federal appeals court as per protocol,

  9. Re:Having a private pilots license on New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas · · Score: 1

    Only two orders of magnitude from airplanes!

  10. Re:Having a private pilots license on New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas · · Score: 1

    So sorry.

    It's only averaged ~40k deaths per year for the last 50 years.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

  11. About the same.

    AKA. figure it out yourself.

  12. In a plane you are likely to die.

    You and bussdriver are idiots.

    40,000 people a year die in cars in the US alone.

    700 people a year die in airplanes, in the whole world.

    http://www.thewire.com/nationa...

  13. Re:Sounds scary on New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas · · Score: 2

    To be fair, terrorism isn't significant to any discussion.

    Except spending government money. Then it's great!

  14. Re:Having a private pilots license on New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas · · Score: 2

    since car accidents are far less likely to result in fatalities.

    Except for the ~40,000 every year.

  15. Re:Where do you draw the line? on Should Microsoft Be Required To Extend Support For Windows XP? · · Score: 1

    They'll enjoy the respect people give them for having created them, and that will be all the compensation they need.

    Dumbest sentence I've read in a long time.

    Especially in a discussion about *business* practices.

  16. Re:Where do you draw the line? on Should Microsoft Be Required To Extend Support For Windows XP? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, maybe.

  17. Re:informal poll on Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A pirated copy of Win7.

  18. Re:Open source compiler on .NET Native Compilation Preview Released · · Score: 1

    Fine. Shift-5 then.

  19. Re:Given it's Android... on Amazon's Fire TV: Is It Worth Game Developers' Time? · · Score: 1

    Unlike a physical controller, you have to look down at a touch input.

    Even corners or center aren't always clear if you're not looking at it. Try unlocking your phone 10 times in a row without ever opening your eyes.

  20. Re:Warning Shot on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 1

    There's no money in that.

  21. Re:How does this affect dual-system chipsets? on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 1

    Yes, off by dozens of feet compared to the 11,000 miles the signal traveled.

  22. Re:100 watts?! on USB Reversable Cable Images Emerge · · Score: 1

    It's ok, they'll make it 100 watts at 120 volts.

  23. Re:Reversible on USB Reversable Cable Images Emerge · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please find one that has the explanation of a joke.

  24. Re:high iops != high IO (not always, anyway) on Ask Slashdot: Do Any Development Shops Build-Test-Deploy On A Cloud Service? · · Score: 1

    Depends on the type of install - decompress & scatter lots of small files or just copy one large app.

    But yes, I'm very familiar with IOPS - I have several 24xRAID of STEC s840 drives ~= 1M IOPS. Large dbs love them.

  25. While providing more security. Though not necessarily speed...