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Comment Re:what is "Box" (Score 1) 44

Too bad the usability is worse than both combined.

Really Box is just a way for lazy corporate IT departments to spend money instead of do their jobs providing secure, functional file access services. The only people who like it are CIO type morons who don't know what their users need but are sure everything has to be outsourced.

Comment Re:some definitions for the non-native (Score 2) 92

Or more simply:

Oakland is pretty crime-encoouraging territory.

The best (most effective, and most efficient) ways to reduce crime are:

  * Improve neighborhoods to the point where they feel well kept, and try to ensure there's a feeling that most public spaces have people watching them by having housing facing those spaces.
  * Walk beats, be present in neighborhoods in a slow, ongoing way. Crime-in-progress tends to require police to be present for around 30-50 minutes for the actors to give up and wander off. Crime tends to be strongly discouraged though by regularly present officers who know the territory.

The problem here is that Oakland like most post-1930s cities is largely built in a semi-suburban pattern, with bones that work against neighborhood centers (which leads to blight) and don't have a strong sense of observation, which means crime feels free to happen.

In addition, it's not high density, so there's far too much territory to realistically fund a police force who actually walk beats. In addition, in a lot of neighborhoods the police would be afraid to do so.

So the obvious place to invest is in neighborhood center revitalization, encouragement of high quality urban development, and slowly getting rid of the semi-tenements that exist here and there. But that's long slow hard work. Gadgets are more fun.

Comment Re:What a farce (Score 1) 302

The only way to make currency impossible to counterfeit is to not have fiat currency in the first place, which means the people would choose something real to be money, I am talking about gold, and you can't really counterfeit that.

Crazy gold bug,

Gold-backed currency does not mean that everyone carries around gold in their pocket. It's actually quite a bit harder to accurately value and validate than paper currency with various anti-counterfeiting properties. Let me repeat that, physical gold is easier to counterfeit for typical casual excahanges than modern cash.

So in the realm of reality where cash has not been physical gold in living memory, nor will it be, gold-backed currency could only exist in a similar form as our current currency. And it would be subject to exactly the same forms of counterfeiting.

Just because the value of the valid currency would be, in your mind, ideologically pure, doesn't mean people can't fake it.

So now we see that your reasoning is entirely nonsense, which is always the case when gold bugs speak.

Comment Re:I believe that . . . (Score 1) 330

The problem is that Oakland doesn't have much of a tax base, but Rockridge is one of the few relatively monied regions.

Oakland has other problems that lead to fairly high crime rates (most violent crimes are actually down, but robberies are way up). So overall the costs of policing vs the funding are quite high.

Rockridge would rather split from Oakland and have their own police department and not have to finance policing the city at large. Since attempts to head that way haven't really gone anywhere, this is the next closest thing.

I think there's some space for a neighborhood watch plus to do some serious good. I'm not sure what this will turn out to be.

Comment Re:Mountain out of a molehill (Score 1) 456

Your position is ridiculous. You think everyone needs to be the same "for the children". That will never happen.

In practice the adopted kids in my school were never singled out. Typically the fact they were adopted was simply not known to most people, and even when it was known it was just another fact.

In practice the children of gay couples I know from 3-12 do not have problems in school because they have two moms or dads.

You can't justify preventing people from having kids because of some vague peer pressure idea.

Comment Not particularly new (Score 1) 314

It's common knowledge here in the San Francisco bay area, that the google maps traffic progress data is largely based on pickups of people's ezpass information along the highway at various points. This allows them to estimate flow by seeing how long it takes for cars to go from given points along the highway, which lets them determine if the highway is operating at reduced speeds.

Many people do not keep their ezpass available. Some do. Generally people seem happy that some tracking occurs to provide the public with a useful service.

Maybe that's the key difference. If NYC was providing realtime data to the public as a result, the public opinion would probably be different.

Comment Re:Stay away from OCZ and SandForce (Score 1) 512

*slightly* bigger datapoint. Work bought around 10 ocz drives for shared build machines. 3 failed within the first 6 months. This was around early 2012.

I wasn't really paying attention to the choices being made around then or would have warned away from that choice. I only found out after I started doing my own research into card-based flash storage that I asked about what we used (the second pass was violin cards) and found out we'd used ocz drives for the first failed experiement.

Comment Re:Do the math (Score 1) 512

Sure, you can compile in RAM, (my commercial work project with a ~4GB build tree does this whithout a ramdisk just fine) but linking in ram is right out.

And since in C++ linking is the slowest part by FAR on rotating disks, SSD offers an immense benefit.

If in some other language like pure C or ocaml, then this may be less true.

But then again just building the dependency graph for make wins so hard on SSD, there's still no reason to forgo it. And if you have to build ANYTHING with visual studio, the whole-project link-time optimizations make linking so expensive that you really desperately want the SSD.

Comment Re:Source code (Score -1, Troll) 211

Using msdos since 1990, /slash switches are overall less common on msdos and its children than -minus switches were.

Nevermind that / is a poor choice due to its meaning as a directory separator. (Yes, windows supports / as dir separator for the last ten years or more).

But please, parade your lack of familiarity with your platform more.

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