Comment Re:I cant buy Pi day greeting cards..... (Score 3) 218
This is my one-year anniversary. The beauty if marrying an engineer is she didn't bat an eye when I suggested getting married 3/14 at 1:59 PM.
Comment Re:reduce the amount (Score 2) 983
Agreed.
Regardless of whether or not 20TB is hording / excessive / inefficient, what it almost certainly is is replaceable. Let's face it, you aren't CERN, most of you data is probably media that you can reacquire with relative ease. It's not being stored because it's irreplaceable it's being stored because it's convenient. A RAID isn't too bad, but add in managing backups and where has that convenience gone? If it costs $10+/month to backup your ripped/downloaded movies, why not just sign up for Netflix?
Just make a list of all the replaceable data (e.g. videos you have the original disc for) you have and then buy an external hard disk / Blurays to back up the rest. If you lose your RAID, well, it'll be annoying to rebuild, but you built it once... (Besides, I doubt you could restore 20TB over residential internet less time!)
Some people have different use cases. A few years back I was visiting a friend in the boonies in Egypt and brought a TB of American movies and music along explicitly for her (she was putting me up for free while I was on a research project). With my 50Mbps connection and 250GB monthly cap, I could recreate the entire shebang in 4-5 months, but with her iffy ISP, she couldn't hope to download everything from me in her government's lifetime.
Comment Re:Hmmm... (Score 4, Funny) 983
Once again a slashdotter is advocating to take away a musician's right to make a prophet.
Comment Re:A simple dock with the basic apps (Score 1) 287
My experience is the simpler the better. I replaced my 60 year old mother's XP with Xubuntu. I didn't apply much of th eye candy, made sure to install Teamviewer and a cron job to pull security updates once per week. Her only complaint was that her ancient Canon printer wasn't compatible. Five minutes on NewEgg fixed that.
Comment Re:Apply to jobs (Score 1) 451
Granted it's been going on for ages, but the most egregious examples are far more recent.
Comment Re:Apply to jobs (Score 4, Informative) 451
I ran for Congress two years ago at age 29. I won the Democratic primary for my district and ran on a technocratic platform. I'd advise anybody with an IQ over 100 to stay the hell away from politics. It is soul-crushing, the people you meet are loathesome, and since the wide-spread adoption of gerrymandering most elections are foregone conclusions anyway. I lost the election with 40% of the vote, went back to being a full-time server admin and couldn't be happier.
Comment Re:App permissions (Score 1) 333
AOKP has App Ops. I'd prefer a more active solution, but it's great for removing GPS and contact requests from flashlight apps.
Comment Re:Based on what study (Score 2) 226
Couldn't you say that about most distractions? Is it safe to converse with a passenger? Is it safe to have the radio on loud, or at all? You'll never be able to eliminate all risks from driving (it is the single most dangerous thing most of us do on a daily basis). Anecdotally, I believe that navigating with an HUD displayed on eyewear or on a windshield is far safer than a 4" LCD screen mounted somewhere on the dash, or a similar screen held in the lap.
Comment Re:equal treatment (Score 2) 226
Apply this to other areas as well. A few weeks ago a friend called me up at midnight because his car had broken down in the boonies. I was awoken out of a sound slumber and was amazed at how dulled my reflexes and decision making capabilities were. For all intents and purposes I was in a drunken state of mind while at the same time being stone sober. Personally, I'd rather be on the road with somebody with a light buzz than with a parent in a car yelling at her kids and otherwise distracted.
Comment Re:There is but one true password manager (Score 1) 445
Beat me to it.
Comment Re:It's about time. (Score 1) 731
In the states we don't use petrol. We use gas.
Huh, I'm a United Statsian born and raised, and I've never used a duck to power my automobile.
Comment Re:It's about time. (Score 1) 731
Holy shit! If you have trouble memorizing a couple of 4-6 digit numbers, maybe money isn't for you. This American is ready to ditch the antiquated system that we currently use in favor of a technology updated within the last decade.
Hackers Penetrate Top Medical Device Makers 76
An anonymous reader writes "Hackers have penetrated the computer networks of the country's top medical device makers, The Chronicle has learned. The attacks struck Medtronic, the world's largest medical device maker, Boston Scientific and St. Jude Medical sometime during the first half of 2013 and might have lasted as long as several months, according to a source close to the companies."
Comment Re:Sensitive information? (Score 1) 152
Yes...but he is still a racist. As a man of Hispanic genetic heritage, I refuse to even travel through Arizona. He, and the bigots that keep voting his racist ilk in are ensuring that people like me don't spend a dime there.
Comment Re:They don't deserve it anyway. (Score 1) 430
Don't forget about Pamela and her Permian Pals.
