> The *HAM radio enthusiast community* has helped keep communications going for disaster areas ...FTFY. YW. HAND.

--Yah, srsly - these geniuses never watched "Demolition Man"?

/ ratburger FTW

--Forced to agree. Longtime yahoo email user (over 10 years) and they have f*cked it up so bad that now I have to switch. Shame, too - I really liked them up until they took Tabs out of their email. Between google and yahoo, I no longer trust yahoo.

--You sound like a Luddite. Sure, in a blue-sky world ALL filesystems could have ZFS capabilities. But the ZFS implementors decided to get past all the cruft and implement it from scratch, and for the most part they've done a fantastic job. Quit complaining and being bitter and try FUNDING CODE DEVELOPMENT on the dev mapper subsystem if you want to see it happen in the next 5-10 years, or it likely never will - it's easier right now to keep those features at the FS level. LVM(+RAID) on Linux is a *horrible* hack in comparison to ZFS.

--Btrfs is playing catch-up tho; realistically I prolly wouldn't trust it entirely for the next 1.5 - 2 years, but it does have some things that ZFS lacks (more flexibility, and supposedly stable on 32-bit systems.) Once it matures it will be a fine alternative/complement to ZFS, and *damn* the layering violations - as long as it Just Works.

--I wish I had mod points; I'd mod you up in a heartbeat for saying exactly what I wanted to say to the OP idiot ;-)

--Call me old fashioned, but my 1st job was literally bagging groceries - so I like having someone else bag them when I shop. I *hate* self-checkout stations - I flat-out refuse to use them.

--When I go into a fast-food restaurant, I like being able to tell a person what my order is. It gives them a job to do (and income, even if it's not really enough to live on by itself), and some human interaction for me. I have no desire to punch a possibly complex, 1-off order into a limited touchscreen interface if I'm feeling like getting something different today - that's their job.

--Try and take that away, and workers should rise up en masse and demand protection from the law - because *millions* would be put out of work if we tried to automate all the Mcdonalds. We have so many people out of work as it is, why would you want to make it worse? That's why the tax laws haven't been reformed BTW - you can't put all the H&R Block, etc tax preparers out in the cold with nothing to fall back on.

--Our best bet is expanding into SPACE - we need a new Frontier.

--America was arguably at its best as a country when we were expanding into the West. After WWII (and especially Vietnam), we started the long slide downhill. 'Murika is becoming East Germany with all this spying bullshit anymore - give us a new planet to build on already. The Moon is right there and not being exploited yet - that would be a good start. After that, the asteroids. And after that, we can terraform Mars. Give us a dream!

--As long as it has Goodyear on it and resembles the old ship, it will always be the Goodyear Blimp. Just like we always refer to the Sears Tower, Marshall Fields, and Wrigley Field. Nostalgia has intertia.

/ ask a Chicagoan

> OTOH, the US is very sensitive to the loss of their manpower. If too many US soldiers die in a war half a globe away, the general sentiment towards the war can very quickly change. This ain't WW2 anymore where something like that could work. Vietnam already showed that it's easy to lose support at home if too many of our boys die in what is then deemed a "pointless war". Drones work beautifully here because nobody gets hurt.

--And at that point, war becomes a video game. $Side1 sends our robots against $Side2, few to no human beings are in danger, and the war never stops.

--I remember that I had to register for the draft when I came of age. Using Human fighters and human-controlled battle engines keeps the proper perspective - war is hell, and there really needs to be a damn good reason for it. There's no good reason to let robot armies demolish each other just to keep being replenished, or have one side's robot army deploy against (fairly) defenseless/underarmed humans.

--Science fiction has gone over this extensively - looks like some people need to read up and learn from it.

/ I ain't no fortunate son, etc

--Now THAT is an interesting idea. +2, would advocate more research into this.

--Personally, the rare times when I have an awesome dream, I want to go back to sleep and resume right where I left off...

--Thanks for that. I remembered something along that line when I saw this article but couldn't recall it exactly.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wik...

" Never build a prison that you wouldn't like to live in yourself "
/ Havelock (Lord) Vetinari, Ankh-Morpork

> When I was jumping between stations every few days, I was irritated that the Ubuntu FIrefox felt Ubuntu-y (Edit > Preferences?) and not like the Firefox I used on Windows (Tools > Options).

--That is a huge pet peeve for me, too. I wish they would make the Linux/etc versions just use Tools\Options, because it makes more sense. Edit menu is for copypasta text, and Find.

--Running behind a proxy can help. Try the Squid VM to start with:

https://communities.vmware.com...

--A fairly accurate summation. I would only amend it thusly:

EXT4 = most current open journaling filesystem in widespread use on Linux systems; Successor to ext3 and generally faster

btrfs = journaling filesystem with more bells and whistles than ext4; Functionally designed to compete with (and mostly equivalent to) ZFS, and may have more features for home/average non-Enterprise users

frontend to YaST = graphical utility to command line versions of various Linux setup/configuration tools

--Say, thanks for that - I hadn't heard of Elio and didn't know they had a dealership in my town. Might be my next trike, and WAY cheaper than what I had been saving up for!

--You obviously have no idea. I subscribe to both Netflix and Amazon Prime, and Netflix consistently has *way* more title availability. I have something like 470 titles in my DVD queue - Amazon has no such thing. Streaming is NOT all that and a bag of chips; however, it is nice to have while I'm waiting for the next set of DVDs to arrive in the mail.

--Amazon also charged me extra $ to watch "The Raven" with Vincent Price, even tho I have Prime. Honestly, if it weren't for the discounted shipping, I wouldn't bother with Prime. However, since I'm already paying for it I've been ordering a lot more from Amazon (instead of newegg and tigerdirect.)