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Comment Re:In Australia this has been handled legislativel (Score 1) 342

I don't know of an airline in .au (other than weight challenged ones) that charge for carry-on.
though the rest of your issues are quite valid. prices advertised are usually ones without checked luggage. Choosing a seat in advance of check in (when booking) is extra, Better seats are extra, upfront seats are better (i don't see how these are better when flying the cheaper airlines as they typically do fore and aft boarding)
priority lanes are also not included

Submission + - Jack Daniels Shows How to Write a Cease and Desist Letter (mashable.com) 2

NormalVisual writes: When the Jack Daniels distillery recently became aware of a book whose cover they felt substantially infringed their trademark, they didn't go into instant "Terminator mode" — instead, they wrote a very thoughtful, civil letter to the infringing party, and even offered to help defray the costs of coming into compliance. I believe plenty of other companies (and many in the tech world) could use this as an example of how *not* to alienate people and come off looking like a bunch of greedy jerks.
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Submission + - Portal 2 is officially in spaaaaaaace! (playerattack.com)

dotarray writes: The Space Core from Portal 2 has finally completed its mission, thanks to an anonymous tech at NASA. A little laser engraving here, a little sense of humour there, and one of the panels of the Japanese HTV-3 resupply craft now features everybody's favourite personality core, headed towards the International Space Station.

Comment Re:btrfs needed the work (Score 4, Insightful) 385

no because if you lose a disk in a striped array you lose everything. (perhaps you are thinking raid1 in which case it protects you from disk failure but does not provide backups)

but soon they will be working on a btrfs send\receive system so you would be able to take snapshots and push to another disk

IMO there are a number of different failure states that you must cater for.
1. Human failures (the oh shit I deleted something): a snap shot capable file system helps protect you from these (not perfect but fairly good)
2. Hardware failures (disks are dead): traditional backup systems work here (or btrfs\zfs send\receive) disk failures can have reduced impact due to mirroring your data (or strip plus parity) checksums and COW help defend against silent failure
3. Software failures (the OS is hosed, partition table is dead): traditional backup systems work here (or btrfs\zfs send\receive) (though COW file systems and marking shit read-only helps)
4. oh shit the building burnt down: Hope you do offsite backups

BTRFS helps in the first 3 by bringing awesome features to the table (snapshots, COW(so you can walk back up the tree to recover) and mirroring your data on multiple disks) but is only something that can supplement a backup system not replace it at all

only a good backup system helps in the 4th situation.

Comment Re:btrfs needed the work (Score 5, Informative) 385

well comparing it to lvm ignores a significant amount of what btrfs is
you would compare it with the entire stack
mdadm + lvm +ext 3/4

btrfs gets you:
Checksums on data
mirrored metadata on a single disk
lots of flexibility (online resizing and reshaping(single disk to raid 1 to 0 to single disk (or some variant of it) ( additionally raid5/6 like systems are coming)
easy striping and mirroring across different sized disks
snapshots
and probably more go check https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/

Comment Re:Nothing to see here.... (Score 1) 383

That sounds a lot like wakefields bullshit study that was was retracted by the lancet and had his former co authors removing their names from their interpretation of it's results due to his deliberate fabircation of results and fraud

Hell Wakefield lost his medical license for his malpractice in that "research" project

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