Comment Re:Murika the solution (Score 1) 202
Or ship garbage from NYC that always seems to be in the news for a barge without a dock
Comment Re:100 percent of 1 is 1 (Score 1) 400
It's just the Hotel California, you can check-in, but you can never leave!
Comment Re:Way to miss the mark Amazon. (Score 1) 66
I watched a few of them, one really sucked, but they was no scripted-reality, so that was refreshing.
Comment Re:good. (Score 1) 341
Many of our old aircraft are sold to alies, like the OV-10 I worked on in the early 80's are now either in Columbia or in use in California for civil fire control
Comment Re:Is it really circulating? (Score 1) 583
It can be used to buy some things, I accept them as payment for VPS hosting, but only 1% or less use them as a payment option. I tend to think it is mostly horded
Comment Re:Buy Now! (Score 1) 583
Comment Re:SELL!!! (Score 1) 583
My exact thought when it reached $50, but I still have a small amont, not totally out. You never go broke taking profit
Submission + - Raided for running a Tor exit node (lowendtalk.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A Tor Exit node owner is being prosecuted in Austria. As part of the prosecution all of his electronics including over 20 computers, his cell phone and hard disks have been held by the authorities. This brings up the question: What backup plan if any should the average nerd have for something like this?
Comment Re:bcache (Score 2) 331
Lets you use any SSD as a cache in front of another filesystem.
It would be niftier if it would let you use it as a block cache in front of any filesystem, instead of just one located on a specially-prepared partition. dm-cache will do this but isn't up to date.
Maybe Flashcache would be a better choice for some. I use this as a read-cache on several VPS nodes and the results are impressive.
Comment Re:What is NTP? (Score 1) 160
What Wikipedia doesn't tell you is that Skynet had humble beginnings as a network clock...
Bow to your Cyberdyn Overlords.
Comment Re:Do you need a clock? (Score 4, Informative) 160
Any idea how much bandwidth this would involve?
About 1kbit on average, so nothing really. I've provided a pool server for a couple of years now, you have to run ntpd anyway, might as well join it to the pool if it is not going anywhere (IPwise) any time soon.
Comment Re:Warned about what? (Score 1, Informative) 465
And when that happens, you are no longer in a 'free Democracy', if the USA was ever one to begin with.
Why would you ever think it was? The United States of America has always been a Republic.
Comment Re:Great (Score 4, Interesting) 151
I'd be seriously amazed if they aren't already doing this.
I tend to agree, and while shocking about India, it is also refreshing they are being upfront about it.
Comment Re:How many Amendments are left ? (Score 1) 1009
... but private citizens who own guns outnumber the police and military by around 10 to 1.
You really think that an organized military and police force can be stopped by citizens (including grandma) with their
Do you really think the military, in some portion, will not side and fight with the people?
Comment Re:You're asking in the wrong place (Score 1) 375
I would ignore the suggestions to look at lowendbox, unless you are willing to trade price for stability (which is not always a bad tradeoff, just be sure to do it consciously)
How can you say this and feature a LEB staple on the page in your sig?
