Good job EU, now force them to support RCS

If my blood is at a lab i would expect laws to protect my blood against searches without my permission. Especially if that blood is taken from a minor who can't even consent.

Is keeping more Russians in the dark the best idea? At least with internet access the citizens in Russia stand a chance of learning that vlad is invading Ukraine and not buy into the propaganda.

I understand why Cogent, Lumen and everyone else is cutting off Russia, but in terms of cutting of communications it will make it easier for vlad to control the message which may not be the best thing.

I do a lot of contracts and having people sign with their finger on a touch screen is annoying, especially older people. The angle is awkward. Carrying around a usb signature pad is also annoying and not worth the hassle. I doubt any of the software i use could take advantage of this, but it's a use case that could work.

It's almost as if facebook was originally made to creep on women.

I'm all for snubbing out racism... but this is probably one of the most PC Babies thing I've seen yet. This is such a reach i'm pretty sure someone pulled a muscle.

As an avid gun enthusiast I think smart guns are an awful idea and so does everyone i know who shoots. This is /. so I'll start with the technological reasons first.

There are two types of smart gun technology out there.
1) Fingerprint: yeah ok, give me a fingerprint reader that works every time and i'll consider it. Are my hands sweaty? Am I nervous shaking? Covered in dirt? Mud? Sweat? How about Blood? It's winter I"m wearing gloves now what? Will it still work in all those conditions and more?
2.) RFID: this is a wireless signal. Wireless signals can be jammed. If cops/military start carrying smart guns with rfid we'll see this happen no doubt in my mind. Even if they don't people will still figure out how they work and hack them for fun.

But they keep your guns from being used when their stolen. Sure if hackers never exploit the technology, no one figures out how to disable/remove it, and if no one ever posts howtos on youtube... that will never happen...right?

When i carry my gun i need to know it will work every time because if i ever have to use it(very unlikely) it's because i feel my life or someone else's life is depending on it. Even then, I don't know it will work every time. Every now and again you can get a bad/light primer strike not igniting the round, a jam, a misfeed, a broken part like an extractor or mainspring, the list goes on. Guns mostly work all the time, the failure rate is very low, and they're mostly all built on technology that's largely unchanged for over a hundred years for a good reason, it's reliable and works. If you are carrying a gun for self protection, duty, hunting or any other lawful purpose you want it to go bang every single fucking time. Show me a technology that cant be exploited, disabled, and will have zero chance of negatively affecting reliability and then we'll talk. Until then get the hell off my lawn. #'MURICA

Do you need to back up all 20 TB? Or is half of it crap you got from usenet/torrents?

I run a 24 TB usable zfs array that I snapshot regularly so I can restore an event like me being a dumbass and doing an rm -rf /Array/.

As far as backups I separate my content into 3 major categories.
original content - this stuff i backup regularly to 2 locations. it contains things like home movies, pictures, documents, etc. I copy to a usb drive and to a cloud backup service (I use crash plan). It's stuff I can not replace and would be devastated if I lost it.
rare content - stuff that's hard to find. I back this up too, but only 1 location. It's mostly static, it consist of things that took a lot of time and effort to find but are probably still replaceable. I back it up to the cloud only.
replaceable content - stuff that's backed up already on the bit torrent network. It's mostly media i just hoard that i download off of usenet. If i lose it it's not a big deal.

So let me get this straight. I already pay at&t over 100$ a month, but I can't use my cell phone in my new apartment because I have a crappy signal (other providers are fine, but I'm locked into my contract for another year), so I can PAY them for a device to make calls over MY internet connection so they don't have to upgrade their shoddy network! bah humbug!

Note I do have at&t and have no issues at home, but this is the situation a friend of mine is going through and they want him to buy this device to use a service he's already paying for.