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Submission + - Nokia gets own "Lex Nokia" snooping law in (www.hs.fi)

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notany
notany writes: "It seems that Nokia is too big company for Finland (5 million people). Nokia lobbyists can push unconstitutional law trough legislature without much effort. After Nokia was caught red handed two times (1. Prosecutor: Nokia dug up e-mails in effort to plug information leaks in 2000-2001 (18.4.2006), 2. Nokia snooped on employee e-mail communications in 2005 (9.6.2008)), it desided that law was wrong and Nokia has right. So started relentless lobbying and pressure against politicians. Parliament's Constitutional Law Committee asked opinions from eight leagal experts and all were in opinion that law proposal is against constitution. Committee ignored advice and declared that proposed law is constitutional."

Comment Re:Developers section red now ? (Score 1) 387

by notany (#26131695) Attached to: 64-Bit Java For Linux

Or you could just use Smalltalk, where any number that fits in a pointer-sized variable is stored like that and anything that doesn't is transparently promoted to an object.

That's implementation dependent, but I think most good Smalltalk and Lisp implementations do it like that. If you reserve two tags for immediate integers (one for positive, one for negative), you lose only two bits. Having 64-bit system, and memory access as bottleneck, that's incredibly good solution. Completely future proof solution even.

Comment Solution for servers, and data storage (Score 5, Interesting) 508

by notany (#24889979) Attached to: Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement?
Filesystem was so big issue in my work that we bite the bulled and tried first Open Solaris and then switched into Nexenta http://www.nexenta.org/ Nexenta is OpenSolaris kernel GNU/Debian/Ubutntu userland. What this gets to you is ZFS and RAID-Z and RAID-Z2. When you get used to the fact that your filesystems has end to end quarantee of data integrity by hashing (even cryptographic hashing if you want, you feel uncomfortable with any other filesystem. In home I still run Linux on my laptop, but I made my own NAS that ruons with Nexenta.
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