Comment Re:Go to your room and no video games! (Score 1) 341
I wish I could mod you insightful.
Comment Re:Well, (Score 1) 340
Or you're running Windows. I've set up an internet connection for a family friend where only one computer was connected to the DSL modem but I configured it to use NAT anyway. This wasn't something I particularly liked, but I'm sure he's never experienced any drawbacks from it and no matter what he does with Windows, there's always going to be a little extra layer of protection.
Submission + - AOL, Netflix and the end of open research (cnet.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: In 2006, heads rolled at AOL after the company released anonymized logs of user searches. With last week's announcement that researchers had been able to learn the identities of users in the scrubbed Netflix dataset, could the days of companies sharing data with academic researchers be numbered? Shortly after the AOL incident, Google's Eric Schmidt called the data release "a terrible thing," and assured the public that "this kind of thing could not happen at Google." Will any high tech company ever take this kind of chance again? If not, how will this impact research and and the development of future technologies that could have come from the study of real data.
Comment Re:Topped out a 30GB harddisk? (Score 1) 266
To take this one step further, it would be extremely nice to have the OS and some commonly used files available on the NAND drive and another hard drive available inside the notebook. Most of the time I would be able to run with the hard drive unmounted and powered off, saving a nice amount of power, and when I needed access to those files OS X could spin up the hard drive and mount it with no problem.
