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  1. RAID array on a spare box on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Personal Data? · · Score: 1

    I run a RAID5 array on a spare box for backups, totaling 8TB before file system and RAID takes out its chunk. It's only turned on during backups, and is a fairly cheap solution for lots of storage if you look for sales on drives.

  2. Re:Tax too high and it stops. on Indian Government To Tax Angel Funding · · Score: 0

    Tata isn't exactly a startup that this would affect...

  3. Re:DCMA applies? on Kim Dotcom's Assets Seizure Order Ruled "Null and Void" · · Score: 3, Informative

    This was gone over quite a bit in the original posts. They do host files. They would save space by hashing files and sending multiple links created by multiple users to the same single file on their servers. Then, when a DMCA request was issued, they'd remove the single users' link that they had gotten the request for, and not the file itself.

  4. Re:Pointless, will not work without a monopoly on Microsoft Patent Monetizes Your TV Remote · · Score: 2

    It also helps that /. has a relatively low number of unintrusive ads anyway.

  5. Re:Damn unfortunate on Rutgers Student Ravi Convicted of Bias Intimidation and Spying · · Score: 1

    Obviously the people doing the assaulting and lynching didn't give a flying fuck about those laws, and the people doing the investigating at the local level didn't like niggers either. That's why the laws exist - make damn sure the punishment fits the aggravated crime that it is.

  6. Re:Damn unfortunate on Rutgers Student Ravi Convicted of Bias Intimidation and Spying · · Score: 2

    Moving on, I am concerned that Ravi was tried on various "hate crime" related charges. There really isn't a place for these in a democratic society. The social or physical characteristics of the victim shouldn't matter for the most part.

    Tell that to the African-Americans who marched to abolish "separate but equal" and were subsequently beaten, terrorized and lynched in droves....

  7. Re:I think you just hit on the crux of the problem on Stolen iPad's Reported Location Not Enough To Warrant Search, Say Dutch Police · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The thing is, all of that detective work is completely and utterly inadmissible in court. They need to do it, otherwise the chain of custody is broken and they can't prove it wasn't tampered.

    I honestly don't know why they can't use that as a reason to investigate (i.e. go search the guy's house), since they'd then have proof that he was in possession of stolen goods, but that first bit is their logic.

  8. Re:Maybe they wouldn't need all 25 people on Facebook Has 25 People Dedicated To Handling Gov't Info Requests · · Score: 1

    Now, is this actually applicable to a service like Facebook? It seems to be written in a fashion that implies it's meant for Telecoms and the like. I'd be interested in the legal definitions of "electronic communication service" and "remote computing service", in particular. The first definitely sounds like it's a physical infrastructure company, while the second may be broader.

  9. Re:ie6 on Google Chrome: the New Web Platform? · · Score: 1

    Chrome is smooth without GPU acceleration on my rig, while IE9 requires the hardware acceleration to be smooth at all. You can enable GPU acceleration for Chrome in about:flags too, FYI.

  10. Re:What is wrong with traditional webpages? on Google Chrome: the New Web Platform? · · Score: 1

    They need to provide the most relevant ads in order to make their money. When a user searches for something, Google needs to be serving the ad that's as well associated with the search term as the search results themselves, and just as wanted by the user, or they will not get a click through, and will not make money.

  11. Re:ie6 on Google Chrome: the New Web Platform? · · Score: 1

    IE is definitely not the best browser out there, at least right now. Chrome is way faster, and by virtue of throwing out some of the traditional design conventions, acts as more of a "window out" than application in and of itself.

  12. Re:Electronics lifecycles seem to be shorter in US on It's Not All Waste: The Complicated Life of Surplus Electronics In Africa · · Score: 1

    That's because your P3 can handle the workload. The Core, or Xeon, is going to be way more power efficient when you're dealing with higher volumes of calculation, which would require multiple P3's.

  13. Re:and where is exactly the problem? on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 2

    Maybe it's because of the actual passage's wording, rather than the kiss on the cheek alone being homoerotic?

  14. Re:and where is exactly the problem? on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Muslims are not a single unified group. They are extremely diverse, spread throughout every continent, speaking nearly every language, and are thus each subject to different beliefs about the world around them. Just as you don't expect two Muslims in the US to believe exactly the same thing, a Muslim each from Saudi Arabia, Kuala Lumpur and the US will believe differently on many issues.

  15. Re:Sometimes on New Intel 520 Series SSD Taps SandForce Controller · · Score: 1

    I was paranoid for a while too. I got two SuperTalent drives, hooked them up in RAID0, and have been doing weekly images because of the track record they have obtained. A year and a half later, they're still surviving.

  16. Re:Scan for quality? on Google Starts Scanning Android Apps · · Score: 2

    Facebook is definitely one of the most widely used, and awful as well.

  17. Re:Or your PR dept. (Rovio is lying) on Angry Birds Boss Credits Piracy For Popularity Boost · · Score: 1

    Rovio put out a free version with Ads for iOS, and don't even have a paid, ad-free version on Android.

  18. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: Does Europe Have Better Magazines Than the US? · · Score: 0

    Just incase you're interested and come back, here's a fact about how ridiculous that argument is. At 200 mph, 500 feet of distance that you can see is traversed in 1.8 seconds, rounded up. You're completely and totally fucked if something is in the road, since 3/4 of a second is how long it takes to realize there's something in the road, and another 3/4 of a second to get your foot on the brake. Also, I see employees stocking up at night regularly at many stores, specifically supermarkets and big box stores (i.e. Walmart, Target), where the lot always has a whole bunch of cars after closing. There is no public transport to take in the vast majority of the US, and running a bus across the many-miles-long roads with population densities of less than 1 person per 10 square miles is ludacris. Efficient = better implies that the end product is exactly the same, which it is not in the case of JIT heaters - a point you missed while exclaiming that efficient = better.

  19. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: Does Europe Have Better Magazines Than the US? · · Score: 0

    Yes, burning up fossil fuels just to keep warm water when no one needs it is of course more intelligent, sensible and rational. Or simply typical american over-the-top mind-set of exaggerated wasting of resources.

    First, there's a possible advantage to having warmer water available than a JIT can provide, so the quality of the end product isn't the same. That's an assumption that efficient = better requires. Second, the JIT units require more fuel to be burned per time it's on, so depending on the usage, you can burn more fuel with a JIT than a water heater.

    Yes, 'cause supermarket employees are surprisingly no slaves. But, there are small stores in europe like 7-11 open 24h (for example in Sweden). However, why should a large supermarket be open 24/7? Makes no sense.

    Most are restocking at night; having one cashier pays for itself if there's something like one customer per hour, since they're usually minimum wage employees.

    No. It is just properly taxed to discourage fat and lazy people from driving with their stupid SUV each and every yard instead of walking where appropriate.

    You can't get anywhere at all in the vast majority of the US without driving. Since more time is spent in cars, as is neccesary in the US, this

    That's why more people die in car accidents in the USA than in Europe. (measured in road fatalities per vehicle-km as well as in deaths for road traffic accidents per 100,000 inhabitants). Face it and deal with it : americans are the worst car drivers of the western world. (well, except perhaps the french who are lunatics)

    makes more sense as well. It's rare for a person in the US to not own at least one car if they live outside of New York City, and a few other ubercities.

    For your information : the autobahn is not lit at all, and the modern autobahn has at least 3 lanes, some even 4 lanes. The 2 lanes are relicts from the 50s and all of them will be rebuild to have at least 3 lanes. The difference to the highway is : unless otherwise specified (restricted) they are save enough to drive your $supercar legally to the max. (yes, even 200+ miles per hour)

    200+ mph on an unlit road, when headlights give you a max of 100 feet view distance, seems like the worst idea conceivable.

  20. Re:Not Surprise for MegaUpload on Megaupload Drops Lawsuit Against Universal Music · · Score: 1

    The leadership is liable when the leadership are the ones openly admitting in email that they are violating copyright themselves. Criminal neglect is also a crime, too, otherwise it wouldn't be criminal.

  21. Re:Not Surprise for MegaUpload on Megaupload Drops Lawsuit Against Universal Music · · Score: 2

    I imagine the personal copyright violations are illegal under NZ law.

  22. Re:So what should we make first? on Y Combinator Wants To Kill Hollywood · · Score: 1

    This guy doesn't seem like a douchebag at all. /sarcasm

    I was talking about 0 completed works, not 0 work done on the game that's going to be on the platform.

  23. Re:So what should we make first? on Y Combinator Wants To Kill Hollywood · · Score: 1

    Build your comical fighting game. Not like those don't exist on PCs. Build the party game in XNA - not like porting from that platform to XBLA is hard. They'd let you pull it onto XBLA then; it's a matter of not giving an open platform to someone with zero work done in the field where a certain level of quality is expected by users of the marketplace.

  24. Re:Nintendo is one of the gatekeepers on Y Combinator Wants To Kill Hollywood · · Score: 1

    You can build any game for the PC, or any other console, and Nintendo would allow you a dev license. It's not like it has to be the same exact genre as the next game you intend to build after getting that license.

  25. Re:Then change the preferences to lock Asia out. on US Losing R&D Dominance To Asia? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You should be granted citizenship here for graduating here. That's how you keep the talent trained here.