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  1. Netflix is actually $9.99 in the US now.

  2. Re:ZFS is nice... on Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux · · Score: 1

    DKMS is not the only way to install ZoL though. It can be built and install perfectly fine without DKMS and I do this for some of my machines.

    That being said I have been using DKMS on a Debian box for 3 years now and have gone through many, many ZoL upgrades and many kernel upgrades and have never had any issue with the upgrading not going smoothly. Sounds more like a problem with the ZoL maintainer for RHEL.

  3. Re:ZFS is nice... on Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux · · Score: 1

    Because there isn't a conflict if done right.

    People that claim there is a conflict generally don't understated how the licenses actually work and what they allow and don't allow.

    Tthere is no legal issue preventing the sources from being combined because neither the CDDL nor the GPL place restrictions on aggregations of source code, which is what putting ZFS into the same tree as Linux would be. Binary modules built from such a tree could be distributed with the kernel's GPL modules under what the GPL considers to be an aggregate. These concepts have passed legal review by many parties.

  4. Re:ZFS is nice... on Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux · · Score: 1

    FreeNAS only needs 8GB of RAM because of the OS is tunes, not because of ZFS. FreeNAS runs entirely in RAM.

    The FreeBSD manual and the Solaris manual both state 1GB of system RAM to use ZFS. I'm running a 40TB ZFS pool with 16GB of RAM and performance is excellent.

  5. GroupMe on Ask Slashdot: Simple, Cross-Platform Video Messaging? · · Score: 1

    GroupMe checks every box you listed.

  6. Price increase for some people. on Sprint Drops Two-Year Contracts · · Score: 1

    The price would be an increase for some people.

    Take my plan for instance. Right now I buy my iPhone from AT&T on a subsidy for $200. The normal full price is $650, so the subsidy is $450 less.

    Now my monthly cost of the contract is $50/mo. It's a 5-line FamilyTalk plan which costs $60 + 10 per additional line ($100 for 5 lines so $20 per user) and then plus whatever your data plan is. My data plan is $30/mo for unlimited data. Adding both together makes my monthly share of the bill $50.

    If we take the $450 subsidy amount and divide it out into 24 months, which is how often I get another subsidy upgrade, that's $18.75/mo. There is no plan to get equivalent service to what I have now for 50 - 18.75 = 31.25/mo.

  7. Re:What's the cap? on Comcast Launches Streaming Service and Unveils Pricing For 2G Fiber · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the announcement: "This tier is exempt from usage caps/usage-based billing, but actual speeds vary and are not guaranteed."

  8. Skynet on Linux Kernel 4.1 Will Be an LTS Release · · Score: 4, Funny

    Guess it means this picture makes sense and we are all doomed soon.

    https://lh5.googleusercontent....

  9. Re:Exodus on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 1

    Someone didn't see Interstellar, heh.

  10. Was for me. on Video Games: Gateway To a Programming Career? · · Score: 2

    I'm only 27 but I started playing computer games when I was really, really little and the games came on 5.25" floppy disks. I never had a console, only computers.

    I never wanted to actually be a video game programmer, but computer games are what made me so interested in computers in general. I definitely did my fair share of video game hacking and modification and reverse engineering as well as making helper tools and scripts for myself and my friends.

    I went into a Software Engineering program in college because of this interest and have been a software developer for 5 years now and it's been great.

  11. Tastes haven't really changed. on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1

    I listened mostly to Jazz and Classical since I was about 12 and being 27 now it's still what I mostly listen to.

  12. Re: I know that happened to me. on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1

    They don't "make you". It's just the default recommended way. There are other ways to load and manage music on your iOS devices. I don't even have iTunes and have no problems loading Music, Books, and Videos onto my devices.

  13. Re:danger vs taste on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    Maybe they would simply be even fatter if they were drinking regular?

  14. Technically good, but... on Comcast Officially Gives Up On TWC Merger · · Score: 1

    I understand this is a good thing in general.

    However I kind of feel it sucks for me. I have TWC in my area and the best plan I can get is 100/5. 5 measly Mbps upload...

    If we got Comcast instead I would have been able to get their 105/20 plan which would have quadrupled my upload speed.

    I just want more upload and now that this sale is dead I feel like i'm years away before TWC ever increases their upload speeds...

  15. Re:New version imagery not as good... on Google Sunsetting Old Version of Google Maps · · Score: 1

    This is my point. There are beautiful 45 degree maps of many, many places (like where I live) that don't have 3D maps. As far as I'm concerned this is a regression that I dislike.

    45 degree maps have been available at my location since 2012. I'm not holding out for 3D maps at my location yet any time soon.

    https://www.google.com/maps/pl...

  16. Re:New version imagery not as good... on Google Sunsetting Old Version of Google Maps · · Score: 1

    I guess I just really think the 45 degree maps look better, and especially since you can actually view what you are looking at from all 4 sides which results in different 45 degree images of the same location when you rotate the old maps.

    When I rotate a tilted map in the new maps nothing happens except a rotation of the image which is just wrong from that tilted view.

    I found this which is a list of all the 45 degree locations:
    https://www.google.com/maps/d/...

    But sadly the only way to access the imagery is in the old google maps which is going to be turned off "soon". That's my whole concern heh.

  17. Re:New version imagery not as good... on Google Sunsetting Old Version of Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Actually, the new Image was zoomed in full there. The old image still had 2 more closer zoom levels.

    Here is the comparison at full zoom:

    Old:
    http://i.imgur.com/RbyDNj3.jpg

    New:
    http://i.imgur.com/gg3ZeN0.jpg

    Just check out the difference for yourself. Check out any area in say a 50 mile radius of Milwaukee, WI for example on the new Google maps vs the old:

    Link to old:
    https://maps.google.com/maps?o...

    Compare the closest 3 zoom levels of the old google maps to the new maps especially.

  18. Re:New version imagery not as good... on Google Sunsetting Old Version of Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Correct, and I am asking where are the 45 degree maps on the New Google Maps?

    It's a regression that I don't like :P

  19. Re:New version imagery not as good... on Google Sunsetting Old Version of Google Maps · · Score: 1

    That wasn't even the full zoom level though.

    Here is comparison of full zoom level.

    Old:
    http://i.imgur.com/RbyDNj3.jpg

    New:
    http://i.imgur.com/gg3ZeN0.jpg

    Just see for yourself in your browser.

    Take a look at any part of the map within say a 50 mile radius of Milwaukee, WI for example. Notice the difference in the 3 closest zoom levels of the Old maps compared to the new.

    Old maps link:
    https://maps.google.com/maps?o...

  20. New version imagery not as good... on Google Sunsetting Old Version of Google Maps · · Score: 2

    Consider these 2 Google Maps views of the same location.

    Old Google Maps:
    http://i.imgur.com/qtJHOVM.jpg

    New Google Maps:
    http://i.imgur.com/Yop9CEJ.jpg

    The old Google Maps had far higher quality imagery, at least around me.

  21. They make special NAS products that are designed to be fireproof and waterproof.

    https://iosafe.com/products-2b...

  22. Re:get a fire proof data safe... Problem solved. on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Storing Data To Survive a Fire (or Other Disaster) · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Browsers getting too complex on Every Browser Hacked At Pwn2own 2015, HP Pays Out $557,500 In Awards · · Score: 1

    Do you really not see the point of web applications that can work on ANY OS be it desktop or mobile, on any platform?

    It's about efficiency and it's just not efficient to develop and maintain applications for all the platforms, there are just too many and they are all different.

    Browsers are the common denominator.

  24. Re:Not particularly useful, unfortunately on Endurance Experiment Kills Six SSDs Over 18 Months, 2.4 Petabytes · · Score: 1

    How is it not useful?

    According to the tester:
    Unpowered retention tests were performed after 300TB, 600TB, 1PB, 1.5PB, and 2PB of writes. The durations varied, but the drives were left unplugged for at least a week each time.

  25. Long live the Terminator! on Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons · · Score: 1

    Coming soon...

    https://lh5.googleusercontent....

    (notice the kernel version)