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Comment Re:TLDs are almost worthless (Score 1) 300

I encourage you to purchase something like the three-penny black, or somewhat cheaper postage stamp from the same issuer, and carefuly look upon it for "England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland [or N. Ireland or Eire or also something about the tiny islands, etc]; UK; GB; etc." Having failed to discern these markings then wonder why that is. Apparently, having invented the postage stamp, Britain didn't feel it had to add the nationality thereupon. Similarly, the United States of America, having invented the internet, somehow forgot to impose on its system a requirement of 'us' meaning "we" the "US" who invented this on their thing. Later, other adopties considered what woud be benefical to their existence and things like "Xe.com.HiddenInArabianNaziLand" might be found through "Xe.com" "Blackwater.com" and etc., though only the first naming is definitive. Should an Iowan, in the USA, seek to create "Blackwater.com" wherein she or he provides data files on the foreigner Xe's wickedness, it is likely a *just* ICANN would grant said Iowan the address despite Xe's history prior. Oh, and ICANN and/or Slashdot submitter: marlboro.com?! Way to guarantee destruction of this idea by 10s of dozens of nation states.

Comment Re:Short answer (Score 1) 1115

Socrates was screwed out of over 3.7 million drachmas because that thief Plato wrote down Socrates's voice works in scroll-form. Always insist on "and in any other form of communication media" clauses in your notices (avoid the "hail muse" invocations: they seldom enforce intellectual property rights) and, just by doing so, prove you're smarter than Socrates.

Comment Re:I'm betting (Score 1) 206

And the NJ plant probably didn't mix the paint/stabilizers/decals. And there was no residues dumped somewhere. And the raw materials, grinding, solvents-mixing, bottling and shipping all were carefully done too. And the paint brushes were cleaned in a full recovery of toxins system. All is well, everywhere. Please don't waste these expensive testers pointing downstream, at any lots of affiliates, or within 2.3 km near the Atlantic.

Comment Re:Crazy talk! (Score 1) 745

Woah, my hypocritical bullshit detector just flashed defcon 5...
You should a child rapist be put in prison for any longer than any other sort of rapist?

And my idiot detector just went off the scale. He was talking about the difference between rape and statutory rape which by definition is a non-rape crime made up by the government and designated to be rape. NOT about a person's ability to defend themselves, or their age.

Comment Re:Scope (Score 1) 745

Actually it is even more limited than that - they have to be mentally ill as well as "sexually dangerous".

Another obvious issue with this ruling is that "Sexually Dangerous" just sounds like a Prince song.

So clearly it wouldn't be safe to let Prince out of prison.

Comment Re:This is why Android could take over the market. (Score 2, Funny) 186

Sounds like what you want is Gentoo: phone edition. Plug in your phone, type emerge --sync && emerge phone-image on the PC, wait overnight while the image compiles, then dd onto /dev/phone. If it crashes, do another emerge --sync and see if emerge phone-image compiles something new, then dd that. Call^W Email work and tell them you'll be late because you're compiling your phone OS again. They'll understand.

Comment Re:XP + 3 TB?? (Score 1) 467

Why would anyone running XP fork over the dough for a 3TB HDD? XP is 9 years old and Win7 is a very good replacement for newer machines, particularly ones who's owners might want a 3TB drive for.

Because I play games and value that 20% extra performance when playing buggy, unoptimised console ports.

XP Service Pack 3 is just over two years old (April 2008).

Comment Re:Why?? (Score 1) 753

And the people who design cars wouldn't have money to keep designing cars. And all of the advancement and innovation that we've seen since the first car would continue because people like to do things like this, it's not always about the pay cheque.

There, fixed that for you.

Just think, if everyone had a universal constructor what need would there be for money? In a land of no scarcity there is no expensive goods to trade for other expensive goods, you simply create what ever you needed/wanted so people will create new things because they want new things, because they have good ideas and most importantly because they can. People don't design cars just for the money, they do it because they like it. Most creators/inventors create for the love of creation first, making money off it is an added benefit.

Frankly I'm tired of this idea that money is the only reason people do anything, I doubt many inventors has held this belief which is why they so often die poor.

Comment Re:2TB with 512-byte sectors (Score 1) 467

I have just done this with one of our new file servers. Dell supports EFI. You can partition it however you want, but if you are making a raid 5 array, you are better to make one huge drive (mine was 4.5tb) and then partition it off. You need to use EFI in this situation. The OS (non efi) will not accept a "slice" of your giant disk to boot on. This is because as i understand it, you cannot put and MBR on it. SOOO, you can get a boot drive, and make it its own array, wasting 2 1.5tb disks (or whatever) or you can let windows make its mandatory efi partitions,( 1x 100mb and another system one i think around the same size) and then give 60gb or whatever to your OS drive. That way everything is fault tolerant on the array.

Like i said i just did this last week with 2008 server. It may not be 100% correct, but it got the job done. I had never done anything with efi before, and did have to do some console commands in the windows installer to prepare the disk, but it was pretty easy.

Comment Re:Get a real OS? (Score 1) 467

The story has been tagged "getarealos", presumably in response to the DOS-based limitation. But yet DOS has OS right in it - can you really be more real than an OS with OS in the name?

No, but within that set of OSes, you can get CentOS.

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