Thanks.

Hum... the LTO-6 tapes are only 2.5TB native ( 6.5TB with 2.5 compression, that won't apply to media files).
Someone said there's 4TB tapes now, it looks so but news about this are rare...

for some reason it's seldom thought that we could just remove the bad policies that prevent price elasticity (which is a very important component to the free market).

Economy exists to fulfil people's needs. Price elasticity endagers this by putting people out of work. Some elasticity is necessary, since it acts as a control signal for production chains, but too much takes the system out of its operational parameters. This could be prevented by guaranteeing an unconditional sufficient minimum income to live on, but that conflicts with the prevailing mythology of justification through hard work, and would likely create its own problems. Not that there's much choice as automation proceeds to shift limiting factor of industrial output away from manpower to energy and raw materials.

It is irrational - but sadly common - to place maximum effectiveness of a system over the very end the system exists to achieve.

I had only hard of LTO tapes quite recently, and I did a very tiny bit of poking around. The latest generation is LTO-6, whose tapes can hold 2.5TB each (uncompressed). The tapes themselves are quite modestly priced -- an LTO-4 tape cartridge (800GB uncompressed) costs about $30 each.

The drives, however, are not cheap. New drives appear to start at around $1200. Used drives are all over the place -- I've seen some on eBay with an opening bid as low as $350. Also, all LTO drives appear to have either an LVD SCSI or a SAS interface, which means you'll also need a controller card. There appears to be no such thing as a SATA LTO drive.

Plus you get to re-live all the joys of selecting tape vendors, and placing bets on whose tapes are going to last for 20 years.

My apologies, you are correct, I had mentally attributed the wrong identity to you and I do apologize for the confusion.

"Holy leap of logic, batman! If you are trying to make a point you need to fill in the blanks."

I assume you mean to say you are not aware of the circumstances surrounding the drafting and passage of the Mulford act?

Simply googling black panthers gun control will give you several thousand hits, many from left wing organizations I assume you will find more credible than the others, but the story is widely reported and well documented.

The Black Panthers organized militias to defend their neighborhoods, they asserted their second amendment rights, and the California political establishments, both sides, united thunderously to strip them of those rights in response. That was in 1967.

As someone pointed out in a previous story, the real problem is that the Constitution has no teeth. :(

A lot of truth there but not this:

"Well, it used to be that Android was basically a linux distro."

No, it really never was. Because when you say a linux distro what you are actually thinking of is a GNU distro, and android never attempted that at all. It's always been it's own wierd little proprietary linux offshoot and I guess it's nice that people are starting to see it that way, but it's silly to pretend it's a change, it was this way from the start.

I say you are wrong, but this guy said it better.

Pardon what may be a stupid question, but does the FB port need X-Windows at all?

If not just run multiple browser windows using multiple virtual consoles, Alt-F1 Alt-F2 etc switches back and forth. You could have chrome in one terminal, bitchX in the next, editor of choice in the third, and so on.

- yes, today more people realize that it is better to be free than "the ruled". As an anarcho-capitalist / libertarian / objectivist I welcome the use of technology to let people to get from under the oppression of these rulers.

"As desperately as he has tried to get me to, I have never, not once, called smitty racist. Even as many times as he has called me racist without anything to support his claim, I have never called him one."

So what was this?

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4867351&threshold=-1&commentsort=1&mode=thread&pid=46446651#46448255

"Wow, if your beliefs are rooted in such certainty, then obviously what other people observe must automatically be wrong, right?"

Not at all. They must be seeing things from a different point of view somehow. It may not be a *better* point of view - but it's possible it could be, and at least it might be something interesting.

I think that's the difference between me and most of the partisans for either side. I am actually fine with disagreement, I find it interesting, as long as it can sustain a conversation on a somewhat higher level than 'nuhuh' 'uhuh'

As to the policy itself, it's mostly an insulting annoyance for rural folks (though we, and I think not without cause, worry that it will slide down the slope and become worse) but not yet a truly enormous, practical problem on a day to day basis. For a great many minority residents of US citizens, it is a daily threat. Decent citizens in our urban slums (of any color, but obviously demographics means this hits minorities disproportionately) are caught in a cruel trap between the cops and the criminals.

It's no mistake that the modern era of victim disarmament laws started in California and were aimed directly at the Black Panther Party.

Uwingu is even more legitimate because the name you choose is registered in book form at the US Copyright Office.

To /.ers saying that 1TB+ tapes would be a good idea to do this backup, please:

Add some references and price of such hardware and media that would suit best home usage.

not by Alexis de Tocqueville though:

``The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.''

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A...

earliest known occurrence is as an unsourced attribution to Tytler in "This is the Hard Core of Freedom" by Elmer T. Peterson in The Daily Oklahoman (9 December 1951): "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."

Aw come on. You have no problem at all flat out calling others racist for their politics so you dont get to call foul now. Fair for the goose is fair for the gander.

And I gotta say, it's certainly not a rigorous academic article just an essay, and I still dont agree with it all, but there is a core to what he is saying that seems indisputably true.

Victim disarmament laws are historically a racist phenomenon and even though I dont believe any current advocates of them would admit racist motivation today the actual effect remains strongly racist as well. It's hard to look at laws that originated in racism, that clearly have a racist effect, and not suspect that those currently supporting the continuation of those laws may be motivated at least in part by implicit racism, even if I accept that they are not consciously aware of it. Implicit racism is very real. To some degree it's probably truly unavoidable for people who grow up in an environment which fosters it, such as the typical US urban area.

The bit about the rural/urban divide in America is an observation I have made many times in the past. There are two Americas and we dont really even speak the same language. Sometimes we understand foreigners better than we understand each other.

No, the Pope does not have a salary.
Not even sure the guy has a bank account.
Clearly we're not speaking of any general case here; merely pointing out that there are more dimensions to the question of power than your over-simplified, carnal model encompasses.