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Comment Re:ZFS features and data loss (Score 1) 279

a ZFS with deduplication and compression on a desktop will mosty kill the desktop

Dedup, yes--its usefulness is very limited, and it requires tons of RAM. If you need to ask, don't use it. If you don't need to ask, you already know not to use it. Compression, OTOH, is generally a net gain for performance, unless the desktop is running on a Pentium 3.

Auto-repair is limited and checksum is good to know that one file is bad, but will not recover it.

It will recover (transparently) it if you have enough redundancy (RAIDZ, a mirror, copies=n). Otherwise, you're right--it can't fix corrupt data out of thin air. What FS do you think can do this?

Comment Re:About as relevant as the "criticism" in TFA (Score 1) 279

And honestly, there is no way I can merge any of the ZFS efforts until I get an official letter from Oracle that is signed by their main legal counsel or preferably by Larry Ellison himself that says that yes, it's ok to do so and treat the end result as GPL'd.

...but who was asking about merging ZFS into the kernel? It would be nice if he wouldn't go out of his way to break it (which he's done), but even that isn't so much the issue. And his broad statement to "Don't use ZFS. It's that simple." is simply irresponsible.

Comment Semi-automatic weapons (Score 5, Informative) 404

Yes, if it's a manufacturer's FFL (TFA didn't specify, but it seems to be the case from context), it does cover production of semi-automatic firearms as well as pump-action, bolt-action, revolvers, and most others. Machine guns are separate, being (as TFA notes) covered by the National Firearms Act, not the Gun Control Act. For right now, federally speaking, domestically-made semi-automatic firearms don't have any special or unique status. If Senator Feinstein gets her way, of course, that will change, but it's the case currently.

Comment Re:That is seriously an unhealthy amount (Score 1) 642

Simply put, you thought wrong. It also is not illegal to attempt suicide in the United States. If you attempt suicide, you can expect to be locked up, but that won't be because you broke the law--it'll be for your protection, and you'll be "locked up" in a hospital. And generally, that will be for no more than a few days.

Comment Re:Wiring the money unsafe? (Score 3, Informative) 179

I suspect the poster you're replying to is actually talking about the money transfer services like Western Union, not true bank wire transfers. Wire transfers have to go into a bank account, and the ownership of that bank account is known (by the receiving bank, at least, if not by the sender). They're not used very often in the U.S., though, because they tend to be expensive--$25 to send, and $15 to receive, seem to be common fees, though they can vary.

Comment Re:Only compared to the utopic myth of USA (Score 1) 105

So if I were to dig up dirt on someone to damage their reputation, EVEN THOUGH true, I can be sued for libel because my intent wasn't to spread information necessary but to damage someone (the difference being the Halloween Documents vs your credit card details.

You're right, you can't be sued for libel in the U.S. for that. You can, however, be sued on one of the invasion of privacy torts (publication of private facts, most likely). Just because it's true doesn't mean that you have absolute license to print it.

Comment Re:Certain victory? (Score 1) 156

No, the "merits" had already been decided--due to Spamhaus' default (for whatever reason, they didn't properly argue to the court that they weren't subject to its jurisdiction), e360 had already "won" on the merits. The only question remaining was how much harm they had suffered from Spamhaus' actions--and since they didn't produce any appropriate evidence on that subject, they were awarded $3.

Spamhaus almost certainly would have won on the merits, if they had competently argued them. Alternatively, they probably would have gotten the case dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction, if they had competently argued that. As it was, they didn't competently argue anything until it was too late to avoid judgment against them.

Comment Re:OK, a translation (Score 1) 589

Precisely. The concerns listed at Justin Mason's site are incorrect, and no parens are needed here. However, the search as written will not run, because the "and pre/2" is syntactically incorrect.

And yes, as some others have speculated, the ! is the approximate equivalent of the * in the computer world--it's a wildcard matching any number of characters (but on LexisNexis, unlike in *nix, it can only be used at the end of a word).

Comment Re:Little explanation? I think there's enough. (Score 1) 681

"I'm one individual that is damn abrasive. And oversensitive at times. And I've grown a hell of a lot in how to deal with people because of the flamewars as well as the cooling off periods."

Grown so great, indeed, that your given name is not worthy enough to dignify your comments, Mr. Coward.

Ernest Tomlinson.

P.S. If you have to tell people how mature you are, you've probably got some way to go before you get there.

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