Comment It was the magical water fairy. (Score 1) 168
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Comment Re:Dave with a V (Score 1) 419
I'd like to propose a new Internet meme: "Dave with a V".
Dave is clearly spelled with an N.
Comment The sky is falling! (Score 2) 121
First space balls, now this?!
Comment A little under capacity, but perfect otherwise! (Score 2) 355
With drive capacities soaring, I wonder if you'll really need 10 drives.
You might want to try something like a fractal design array. It's a small htpc case for a microatx board. It has mounts for six 3.5" drives, and these days a microatx board will have everything you need, including integrated video for all your playback needs.
Comment Blender to verify astronomical findings? (Score 1) 179
Seems a little less than professional there, NASA.
Comment No, it's not safe. Here's why: (Score 2) 332
There used to be a post worth modding 5 points here.
Comment Steve Jobs is dead. (Score 1) 1880
I've got nobody telling me how awesome Apple is any more!
Comment Next up, antimalware built into boot sectors. (Score 2) 104
Naturally, we'll just make a boot sector with virus protection code that loads before anything else.
Yo Dog, I heard you like bootsectors. So I put a bootsector in your bootsector, so you can boot, while you reboot!
Submission + - Occupy Wall Street Informant Receives Death Threat (threatpost.com) 2
Gunkerty Jeb writes: Thomas Ryan, the independent security consultant who released a trove of e-mail communications from the Occupy Wall Street protesters, said he has been the target of numerous hacks and has received death threats after revealing information on the protestors plans to authorities.
In a conversation with Threatpost on Monday, Ryan, who is a managing partner at the New York-based security consultancy Provide Security, said that he has been forced to delete his social media accounts to fend of attempts by hackers to compromise them, and faced attacks and threats of violence from those sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement and the group.
Ryan alleges that Anonymous, the amorphous hacking collective linked to attacks on Sony, the security firm HBGary and others, is fomenting the Occupy Wall Street protests, not merely defending them.
In a conversation with Threatpost on Monday, Ryan, who is a managing partner at the New York-based security consultancy Provide Security, said that he has been forced to delete his social media accounts to fend of attempts by hackers to compromise them, and faced attacks and threats of violence from those sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement and the group.
Ryan alleges that Anonymous, the amorphous hacking collective linked to attacks on Sony, the security firm HBGary and others, is fomenting the Occupy Wall Street protests, not merely defending them.
Comment Genius, but a bad man and certainly no visionary. (Score 0) 1613
Jobs achieved a lot in his life time. Looking at what he did though... It was just stuff that big corporations have been doing since corporations existed. Control your market. Stand for things that will make you money. Screw everything else.
If Jobs hadn't been in computers, the last 10 years would have progressed the industry significantly more. We wouldn't have appletards that don't know how to actually _operate_ a computer. It would have become a necessary skill for success. Instead we had a general dumbing down of the computing populace.
People would understand their digital rights. People would know how to interact with a filesystem, and not just iTunes. And everyone would have higher quality music.
Comment Stale news... (Score 2) 138
It was the first controller on the market. It's got two ports each rated for 6Gbit/sec and it's connected via a single PCI-E x1 lane that's theoretical maximum is 5Gbit/sec.
Nobody should have been surprised by this at all. The information was readily available.
Basically, it's suitable for a single device that's sata6, and won't outperform the sata3 controller in some areas.
The device was only meant as a stop gap for bleeding edge users to get the capability.
Comment It's great for sharing schematics. (Score 1) 70
I know a schematic has to be out there, and I don't want to make one myself. Where do I go? Now I'll check Circuit Bee before wasting time searching for one on google or making one myself.
Comment Half the story. FB MySQL - 500k transactions/sec (Score 1) 509
Not mentioned is that Facebook's implementation of MySQL uses a custom engine and can perform about 500,000 transactions a second with only 1.2Gb/sec worth of bandwidth. A far cry from 'regular' MySQL and performs better than many enterprise products like Postgre.
That's one of the primary beauties of MySQL, the engine can be changed to suit your needs.
Comment Progress is progress. (Score 1) 228
You go this way, I go that way. We'll find out which works better.
Unfortunately that's what it's going to come down to, and someone's going to suffer. That's America. Go capitalism! My quick buck at your expense.
