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Comment Re:The Real Travesty (Score 0) 2219

by AnRkey (#46184379) Attached to: Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds!

As someone who gave testing the new design some effort (in a helpful community member beta-test sort of way) I noticed right-away the ability to switch to classic (which they didn't have to do).

But you seem to have failed to notice how badly the site was broken - and their announced intent to end support for Classic. Offering a choice between chocolate and rotting fish guts for dinner tonight is nice and all, but being told that regardless of what we chose tonight that from Tuesday onward it would be forever rotting fish guts... well, that kinda takes the pleasure away from the chocolate.

I seem to have had this now misguided impression that there was a healthy professional element of the community here who would give constructive feedback but all I've seen is a mob of angry comment children.

We did give constructive feedback - back in October when the Beta debuted. They completely failed to take that feedback into account or to make material changes to the Beta. We told them comments were broken, they're still broken. We told them the UI was unacceptable and broken, it's still unacceptable and broken. (Etc... etc...) That is why everyone so pissed.

The look and feel of /. is what makes it home to me. They need to leave the site looking like it does, this is our comfort zone. Bugs and shit like that can still be tolerated, but remodeling my much loved online geek home is not acceptable at all! In a word, FUCK!
Government

Amazon Sells Out Predator Drone Toy After Mocking Reviews 147

Posted by samzenpus from the general-tron's-secret-police-confession-kit dept.
parallel_prankster writes "Amazon users are addressing the drone controversy with sarcasm. Maisto International Inc.'s model Predator drones are selling out on Amazon.com Inc.'s website as parody reviews highlight how the toys can help children hone killing skills, mocking a controversial U.S. practice. The toy is a replica of the RQ-1 Predator, an unmanned aircraft that the U.S. Air Force has used in combat over Afghanistan, Pakistan, Serbia, Iraq and Yemen, according to the product description on Amazon. Only one of the $49.99 military-style toy jets is available for purchase on Amazon's site, which is brimming with assessments laced with dark humor. 'You can't spell slaughter without laughter,' one pithy joker wrote."

Comment Re:Not worth it. (Score 1) 260

by AnRkey (#39886949) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: DIY NAS For a Variety of Legacy Drives?

I agree to an extent. Take anything SAS or SATA that's 1TB or greater and re-think the project with just those. Sell or recycle the rest of the drives. Depending on your needs the remainder should be RAID-1, 5 or 6'd (using software RAID if speed isn't an issue) and then put on an OpenFiler or FreeNAS box. Anything non-replaceable should then be backed up to a respectable backup provider in addition to your home-grown solution.

We need more information though -- what are your actual drive sizes and what do you want to put on this NAS?

I use freenas in enterprise situations. It's solid, reliable and it works! For a good, low powered machine that runs as an ISCSI target, use a HP Microserver with a 2GB flash drive slotted into the machine inside. It will take 4 drives and another 1 if you convert the ROM bay. I have 4 running 24/7 and they have not let me down yet. R
Medicine

Drug-Free Organ Transplants From Unrelated Donors 83

Posted by Soulskill from the just-say-no dept.
ananyo writes "Researchers have for the first time managed to give patients a complete bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor. The recipients were also able to accept kidneys from the same donors without the need for immunosuppressive drugs. Normally, such transplants would trigger graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) — an often deadly complication that occurs when immune cells from an unrelated donor attack the transplant recipient's tissue. The researchers report that five of eight people who underwent the treatment were able to stop all immunosuppressive therapy within a year after their kidney and stem-cell transplants, four of which came from unrelated donors (abstract)."
Space

Asteroid Will Make Close Pass To Earth 119

Posted by samzenpus from the skin-of-your-teeth dept.
The Bad Astronomer writes "News is starting to spread about a small 45-meter-wide asteroid called 2012 DA14 that will make a close pass to Earth on February 15, 2013. However, some of these articles are claiming it has 'a good chance' of impacting the Earth. This is simply incorrect; the odds of an impact next year are essentially zero. Farther in the future the odds are unclear; another near pass may occur in 2020, but right now the uncertainties in the asteroid's orbit are too large to know much about that. More observations of DA14 are being made, and we should have better information about future encounters soon."

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