I take offence to this! It is an outrage! /froth

How the hell does changing the clock help more in Northern locales? I'm over 54 degrees north, and I can tell you DST simply is moving the goalposts. In the winter I go to work in the dark, I go home in the dark. 1h of oscillation in the clock does nothing* to help that. In the summer, the sun is up at 4 am, and goes down at about 10:30pm (right when I really* want more light, just when I'm trying to sleep).

DST is moronic, and gives absolutely no benefit except for a very narrow band of locations and a very few people whose schedules happen to match the changes. But the rest of us get to come along for the stupid pretend time changes. In an earlier post in this thread, someone mentioned that DST doubles* the time that many of us spend driving directly into the setting/rising sun, and I know that is my #1 problem with the stupid time dance every year.

Nonsense, I finally* got a call from Shaw after my second month of using 1Tb of my 200Gb cap, and they basically said, 'hey, quittit.' No threats, no charges. I have never* received any* copyright warnings either...

Refreshing to see the courts stand up for the citizenry, as opposed to the police. Makes me glad that whole "let's move to the states" plan my wife had fizzled....

No, it's not- you're works are copyrighted regardless of registration or not. I feel you're deliberately misleading us.

My workplace is smack in the (south) center of the city (of over a million people), but due to it being in an "industrial" area, there is absolutely NO high speed available. We're stuck with a $1200/month 5/5 wireless solution.

The local telcos and cable providers will gladly service us for about $50/month, after we spend $60,000-$80,000 to trench to the area (after which everyone else* in the neighbourhood will get to piggyback). Oddly enough, we're not jumping at this...

If this were the case, they would have simply looked at what her ratio was set at (most people have it at about 2, if I recall correctly). Therefore Jamie should be on the hook for 48 tracks, worth approximately $50. Instead, the RIAA folks want to punish her for every* illicit download of those tracks, making her an example. I would argue that this is still unconstitutionally excessive.

After working for a couple years in the aeronautics industry, with a sister who is a nurse and therefore in the healthcare industry, I have concluded that the maximum allowable work hours per (unit of time, ie, hours/day, hours/week, days scheduled in a row) is directly proportional to the likelihood of killing someone.

I was appalled to realize that you could be scheduled for 33 days in a row as a helicopter pilot, after which the regs stated that you are required to give 4 days off. Not counting travel time- often pilots are at least a day's travel out from home/civilization, which would eat up 2 of those 4 days off. My sister used to be required to work 24h shifts with astonishing regularity, and as far as I know that is still the norm.

He doesn't know plain English, it's clear from his fully buzzword compliant post that he's an MBA, and therefore unable to understand anything except his own greatness.

You forgot "Uniquely unique."

Probably too late, but be aware that the "developers are less than happy" link in the summary autoplays an ad for some marginally NSFW topics (not really NSFW but enough to make some uncomfortable- frank discussions of teen sex, etc.)

DON'T DO THIS.

We did this exact thing using WD Green drives for our 18Tb backup problem. Got two of 'em, planning on using their built-in rsync for onsite/off siting the data. Unfortunately, the units never broke 1MB/s transfer, and no amount of work with Drobo yielded faster performance reliably. Both of our units are now sitting unused, ($2500 each!), and we put the drives into a RAID-50 8 bay USB3 enclosure. The new unit runs about 150x faster, and ended up costing $400 (prices are for enclosures only, drives were additional).

Most disappointing was Drobo's support- they just seemed to shrug a lot, and were hyper-agressive about closing trouble tickets.

I've maintained for years that due to the inherent self interest of lawyers to making law inaccessible to non-lawyers (ie, convoluted law that requires a lawyer to understand), anyone who holds a law degree / has passed the bar should be prevented from ever holding public elected office where they can enact laws.

On a related note, one of the only places where we let people set their own salaries is politics too....

I'd far far far FAR rather live under Redford's Conservatives than the Wild Rose's "Hate the cities, bash the gays" neo-conservatives....

Here in Canada there are vast areas that can only be accessed by plane or ice road, so all the heavy hauling of equipment, gear, and non-perishable food gets set up in the winter. And yes, there are numerous vehicles sunk (though fewer than you'd think)- the semi's create a dip in the ice that can fracture when approaching the bank if you go too fast.