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  1. The choice is simple on Morality of Throttling a Local ISP? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Petition for your boss to do the right thing.

    While you're petitioning, do what your boss tells you.

    If what your boss tells you to do is unethical, quit, and tell him why in your resignation letter.

  2. Re: Firefly on What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows? · · Score: 1

    I completely agree. I can't believe that after what he experienced with Firefly that Joss Whedon is back in bed with Fox. It's like he's a masochist.

    Dr Horrible should have set the stage for online episodes via Hulu. Hell, I know I watch Hulu more often than I turn on my TV.

  3. Re:ebay maybe? on What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    If they want my IM logs that bad, let them have it.

  4. Re:Not *actual* fingerprints on Cheap Scanners Can "Fingerprint" Paper · · Score: 1

    They changed the text after it went live (and I posted my comment). You aren't going crazy.

  5. Re:4-Foot Drop = Rugged? on Dell's Rugged Laptop Doesn't Quite Pass 4-Foot Drop Test · · Score: 1

    That's amazing! I would never have imagined something like that from "phones? we don't have phones here"-amazon.

    Really glad you were able to get that taken care of. You should definitely tell that story more, and write a review on the Kindle maybe. That's the rare CS story that you like to hear about.

  6. Re:ebay maybe? on What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you feel the need, but so far, no one has even done zeros.

    http://16systems.com/zero/

  7. Re:ebay maybe? on What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Not even necessary

    http://16systems.com/zero/

  8. Re:4-Foot Drop = Rugged? on Dell's Rugged Laptop Doesn't Quite Pass 4-Foot Drop Test · · Score: 1

    wow, that's really weird!

    When I think of e-paper, I think of the roll-y bendy kind. I never thought of it as being rigid. I always thought it was the electronics which housed the paper would break first.

    Are you able to get a replacement for your kindle?

  9. Not *actual* fingerprints on Cheap Scanners Can "Fingerprint" Paper · · Score: 4, Informative

    Features that act like fingerprints.

    Things like fiber arrangement, etc

  10. Re:Or worse... on Dell's Rugged Laptop Doesn't Quite Pass 4-Foot Drop Test · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yea...just stupid in general.

    of course, if you had the hot spare marked somehow, I don't believe pulling that out would cause a rebuild.

    Wear and tear on the chassis and sled, yes, and still counts as stupid, since this is IT, and one in a million things happen every day.

  11. Re:ebay maybe? on What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Or just do

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk bs=1k

    It hasn't been successfully recovered from, to my knowledge

  12. Re:Like my "dent-proof" carafe on Dell's Rugged Laptop Doesn't Quite Pass 4-Foot Drop Test · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Reminds me of the idiots who try to impress people with their IT redundancy by pulling a disk out of an array while a VIP is in the room.

    Some day, a rebuild will fail, and you're going to have to work all night to fix your data. Stupid.

  13. Re:4-Foot Drop = Rugged? on Dell's Rugged Laptop Doesn't Quite Pass 4-Foot Drop Test · · Score: 1

    If e-paper ever improves enough, this would be an excellent place for it.

  14. Re:Lojban on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions · · Score: 1

    Are you implying that the computer hasn't been programmed to lie?

  15. Re:Lojban on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions · · Score: 1

    But asking the question is so much easier than coming up with the magical query which will return the right "I'm feeling lucky" result, which is really the answer you want.

  16. Re:Lojban on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions · · Score: 4, Funny

    three, sir

  17. Re:Oh Really? on Audio Watermarks Could Pinpoint Film Pirates By Seat · · Score: 1

    And run a Chinese fire drill immediately after each flash...

  18. Re:This bodes well on Audio Watermarks Could Pinpoint Film Pirates By Seat · · Score: 1

    You don't, by chance, work in software licensing, do you?

  19. This bodes well on Audio Watermarks Could Pinpoint Film Pirates By Seat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Am I going to get treated like I do by the airlines every time I want to watch a movie?

    In order for this to track us at all, we'd need an ID to buy a ticket, need to show ID to get into the theater, have assigned seats, and they would have to change the audio slightly on every showing.

    Maybe I'll just stay home and download them instead...

  20. Re:Some information about HA on Best Solution For HA and Network Load Balancing? · · Score: 1

    Hey, thanks a lot. I appreciate it!

  21. Re:1000+ a day isn't very much on Best Solution For HA and Network Load Balancing? · · Score: 1

    I'd love to just sit in the accounts receivable office to hear the phone calls. "This months bill is due, that will be $415,000. Would you like to make that payment over the phone."

    Something like this is very much how a large part of the real world works.

    If only the comment about the money for the hardware was the way the real world works...

  22. Re:STOP. You have no idea what you're doing. on Best Solution For HA and Network Load Balancing? · · Score: 1

    It's been said before, but HA isn't just about load. Sure, he mentioned load balancing, but the HA part may be the more important.

  23. Re:Some information about HA on Best Solution For HA and Network Load Balancing? · · Score: 1

    I'm curious about DRDB. I've heard of it before, but not much, and never talked to someone using it.

    What happens in the event of a network disconnect, where the servers get out of sync?

  24. God call, submitter! on Best Solution For HA and Network Load Balancing? · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing you didn't link to your existing site if you're worried about 1000 visitors a day...

  25. Re:1000+ a day isn't very much on Best Solution For HA and Network Load Balancing? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think it's sort of fortunate that the submitter was vague. This way, I get to read about all sorts of HA solutions, where as if he really wanted 2 apache servers and a hot/cold mysql instance, I'd have been way more bored ;-)