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Comment Re:Those aren't "real" giga/tera (Score 0) 548

Sugar-coat it however you want, but hard disk manufacturers did this for selfish marketing reasons only. A Seagate ST-225 20 megabyte drive is about 21,000,000 bytes. A 360K floppy disk is 362,496 bytes formatted. 256MB of RAM is 262,144K, or 268,435,456 bytes. It was only when some manufacturer couldn't quite fit a gigabyte on a hard disk that 1,000,000,000 bytes became "good enough" to call a gigabyte.

Comment This isn't a victory for Behring-Breivik. (Score 3, Insightful) 491

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

Comment Re:You forgot something (Score 3) 73

PC Perspective's new testing demonstrates the triple RAID-0 array having just 1/6th of the latency of a single drive.

That was with a queue depth of 16. Not exactly representative of a normal desktop user.

It's reasonable for peak power user load. Folks running / considering triple SSD RAIDs are not exactly 'typical desktop users' :)

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