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Comment Amazon already censoring their ebook catalogue (Score 1) 548

Way back in 2011, Amazon already started censoring what they choose to sell - it was reported right here on SlashDot.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/15/0254250/amazon-removes-yaoi-manga-titles-from-kindle-store

Since then, I boycotted them. Looks like another bunch of companies just made the list.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 319

Fifteen!? Luxury! From the UK you're looking at about 24 hours *flying* time, ignoring any time on the ground when you stop over somewhere in the middle. It's a good job I enjoy reading on flights :) Faster planes would be good... faster and more efficient planes would be amazing!

Comment Re:Busy databases (Score 1) 464

NetApp are being somewhat inconsistent. Their technical presentations and their website differ (possibly because it is more straightforward for them just to say "yeah, RAID-DP is RAID-6" because it is easy to understand).

If you consider RAID-6 to be the generic term for any dual-parity RAID protection, then sure, RAID-DP is RAID-6. However, the technical implementation is more like RAID-4 with two different parity calculations. The parity disks are dedicated rather than distributed.

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What's Keeping You On Windows? 1880

tearmeapart writes "It may be time again for another discussion/flamewar on the reasons why a lot of us are (still) using Microsoft. The last big discussion on Slashdot was close to 10 years ago, and a lot has changed since then: Windows XP and 7 have proven to be stable (and memories of Windows ME are mostly gone.) There are many more distributions for Linux, especially commercial options. Distributions like Ubuntu and CentOS have made GNU/Linux more friendly. Options for word processing, spreadsheets, etc. have grown. Apple and their products have changed considerably, though their philosophy hasn't. Microsoft Silverlight came and is on the way out. Wine and solutions like Transgaming have matured. So... why are a lot of us still using Windows? What would it take for us to switch?"

Comment Re:Whaddayamean "long term"? (Score 1) 149

The failure mode that is easiest to manage is when they completely fail.

Good luck to you with disks that fail silently over a long period of time, corrupting your data without you knowing about it.

Some correct fixes for this are combinations of RAID, backups, a filesystem that checksums data and metadata (BTRFS, WAFL, ZFS). Limping along on half knackered drives is probably one of the worst things you can do.

Comment Re:funny and ironic (Score 1) 446

Or, instead of thinking better of mugging little old ladies, Mike now carries a gun himself. Because he's a drug-addict, he doesn't adopt the same decent moral stance that you do on the use of guns. He's quite happy to shoot, because he's a used to an environment where little old ladies are legally able to pull out a gun and shoot him in the face.

It's my belief that by permitting guns as part of normal everyday society, an arms-race is started. The "bad guys" aren't worried about the legal use or ownership of guns (they're the bad guys remember, what's the problem with breaking just one more law!), so they're nearly always 1 step ahead.

Comment Re:I'm immune! (Score 1) 315

Most cell towers are not omni-directional, they are segmented. It's quite common to have 3 or 6 separate segments on a cell.

It's possible to get quite an accurate arc depending on local configuration, from just a single segment. It improves significantly with two adjacent cells and dependent on the local configuration of the segments you could get a single location (dependent on whether the segment arcs intersect once or twice). The more segments per tower, the greater your chance you can pinpoint with just two towers.

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