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Comment Already did that (Score 1) 321

by aneremite (#30095152) Attached to: Time To Ditch Cable For Internet TV?
I ditched my cable for internet "tv" almost a year ago. With a combination of netflix, hulu, and others here and there I haven't regretted it once. I work from home and have 2 paths to the internet and with the exception of 1 power outage when my cable wouldn't have been viewable anyway I've never not been able to watch something I chose when I chose.
Data Storage

RAID's Days May Be Numbered 444

Posted by kdawson from the time-to-try-flit dept.
storagedude sends in an article claiming that RAID is nearing the end of the line because of soaring rebuild times and the growing risk of data loss. "The concept of parity-based RAID (levels 3, 5 and 6) is now pretty old in technological terms, and the technology's limitations will become pretty clear in the not-too-distant future — and are probably obvious to some users already. In my opinion, RAID-6 is a reliability Band Aid for RAID-5, and going from one parity drive to two is simply delaying the inevitable. The bottom line is this: Disk density has increased far more than performance and hard error rates haven't changed much, creating much greater RAID rebuild times and a much higher risk of data loss. In short, it's a scenario that will eventually require a solution, if not a whole new way of storing and protecting data."
Privacy

Palm Pre Reports Your Location and Usage To Palm 314

Posted by Soulskill from the caught-palm-red-handed dept.
AceJohnny writes "Joey Hess found that his Palm Pre was ratting on him. It turns out the Pre periodically uploads detailed information about the user to Palm, including the names of installed apps, application usage (and crashes), as well as GPS coordinates. This, of course, is without user consent or control. The only way he found to disable the uploads was to modify system files."
The Almighty Buck

"Cash For Clunkers" Program Runs Out of Gas 594

Posted by timothy from the spend-all-you-want-they'll-print-more dept.
Ponca City, We love you writes "The Washington Post reports that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has called members of Congress to inform them that the 'cash for clunkers' program will be suspended because the program has run out of money, and congressmen say they intend to ask the Obama administration to divert some funding from the existing economic stimulus package to maintain a scheme that they see as genuinely stimulative. 'Clearly, this has been a very stimulative program that's got consumers back into the car market. It's our hope that possibly more funds can be made available,' says Cody Lusk, president of the American International Automobile Dealers Association." If there is more funding, though, a report on CNET says it may come out of money to have been set aside for renewable energy loans by the US government.
Privacy

UK Plans To Monitor 20,000 Families' Homes Via CCTV 693

Posted by timothy from the words-fail-but-pictures-deliver dept.
metrix007 points out a story in the Sunday Express with more surveillance-camera madness from the UK, where the government now wants to place 20,000 CCTV cameras to monitor families ("the worst families in England") within their own homes, to make sure that "kids go to bed on time and eat healthy meals and the like. This is going too far, and hopefully will not pass. Where will it end?"

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