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Comment: the difference is (Score 3, Insightful) 400

by new death barbie (#43406515) Attached to: Speeding Ticket Robots — Laws As Algorithms

... that an actual cop will PULL YOU OVER to issue a ticket. The speeding behavior stops, and the roads become safer, at least while your car is parked at the side of the road, and hopefully remain safer when you proceed, suitably chastised. The cop has a chance to ensure that you are not inebriated or otherwise unfit to drive before he allows you to proceed. If you choose to speed again and he catches you again, you get stopped and a second ticket is issued. Repeat as necessary.

Issuing tickets based purely on observation fail to stop the illegal behavior and do little to make the roads safer, until much much later, when the ticket catches up with you in the mail (assuming a ticket is enough to change your behavior).

Data Storage

ZFS Hits an Important Milestone, Version 0.6.1 Released 99

Posted by samzenpus
from the brand-new dept.
sfcrazy writes "ZFS on Linux has reached what Brian Behlendorf calls an important milestone with the official 0.6.1 release. Version 0.6.1 not only brings the usual bug fixes but also introduces a new property called 'snapdev.' Brian explains, 'The snapdev property was introduced to control the visibility of zvol snapshot devices and may be set to either visible or hidden. When set to hidden, which is the default, zvol snapshot devices will not be created under /dev/. To gain access to these devices the property must be set to visible. This behavior is analogous to the existing snapdir property.'"

Comment: Insn't this how the 'cloud' is supposed to work? (Score 1) 280

by new death barbie (#42621187) Attached to: Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself

I travel anywhere in the world, plug my little USB-like device into a standard terminal device (display + keyboard + mouse), and my whole computing environment comes to me?

Granted, there are some concerns, data security being the greatest, network bandwidth following a close second. But if the 'cloud' was my personal server in my basement, and not in some third-party datacenter, it's starting to look very interesting.

Eventually, if the 'cloud' environment addressed data encryption for storage and if the network speed was sufficient (pretty big if's, admittedly), I could see this becoming the Next Big Thing for most casual PC users. Don't like Dell's cloud? Try Apple's. Or Google's. Or Amazon's. Or roll your own. Computing as a commodity service.

I would rather say that a desire to drive fast sports cars is what sets man apart from the animals.

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