Ha Ha! http://zfsonlinux.org/

There you go. Fully native ZFS on Linux. No more FUSE.

The thing with data is that it can get stolen without you noticing, it'll still be there when you need it, but it's value will be less as someone else may also have used it. Due to regulations, It's actually harder to copy money than just raw data.

I would trust the cloud with bits encrypted locally by myself, but not much else.

Most important features users expected from Java 7 have been pushed back to Java 8. Which will come out next year. Maybe. And which will be required to preserve backward compatibility with previous source, forcing hard compromises to be made (see generics in 1.5). Real improvements to Java will now be be mostly on the JVM, to help these new languages grow, as Java the language painted itself in a corner a while ago.

Except in french, where PET translates to FART. Oh well, It might sell well in some perverted Parisians circles.

At this point in time, I think still making this kind of point is pedantic. Linux IS part of the Unix family for all purposes, except maybe to some some shady attorneys.

I would even dare to say Linux is truer to original Unix than OS X in spirit, through its cheapness, pervasiveness and divergent implementations.

Because MS makes money on licensing OS shipped pre-installed on machines. New servers are so powerful that partitioning makes sense, and VMWare is now an alternative OS to Windows Server when you order a new server. VMWare is actually a customized Linux + virtualization tools. The tools & services shipped with with VMWare have started exceeding the classic definition of VM host, they now have partitioned Java containers running directly on the host. In a short time, they'll have native VMWare business applications (DB, Web servers) running in soft partitions (jails) that don't require a guest OS to run, turning VMWare into a full fledged server OS. Which means no more Windows. Oops.

Why the heck they did buy Sun then? It's not like Sun was standing in Oracle's way. I'll never understanding this kind of corporate merger shenanigans :

1. Buy undervalued tech outfit for billions $$$
2. Scrap technology within said outfit
3. ???
4 Profit!

Still surprises me how everybody accepts that kind of cryptototalitarian shit while saying while saying "OMG SHINY APPS!!!". Next thing you know, the economy is down for good, the chinese take over, then nobody cant say crap while they get painfully raped up their sociopolitical collectives arses. Fascism? There's an app for that!

radioactive woosh for you.

It's the psychological damage from repeated quakes that'll be the worse. Gaia's just rubbing salt in the japanese open flesh wound, over and over. If I'd be japanese, I'd be quite cross at this fucking planet. Cue in massive JAXA funding for moonbase in 3, 2, 1...

Sorry, but this it stupid. The real brains that we'd need to trust is in the SERVER code. And all of Google's procedures. Knowing what the client is up might make some feel good, but this all very centralized.

We also have plenty of rogue AC on /. lately.

What if... The channels which are being used by malware were the same used by Bob and his friends? Do you think they would have an incentive to close them, or keep them open?

Oracle.xxx would actually make a lot of sense. Considering that their prices and policies are so obscene.

They wanna make sure it (the domain) doesn't come back. They wanna make sure those pesky hippies with their open-source sandals and well-engineered hemp shirts go somewhere else, somewhere that is NOT ORACLE. Because to have the PRIVILEGE of being served by an Oracle web server, you should be wearing an Armani suit, a silk tie and matching pointy italian shoes.