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Comment Re:Prior art (Score 1) 77

Longer, if you think about it. Before you were distinct from your mother, you were a parasite within her. Before that, you were an egg cell in her ovaries. She was born with the egg that later became you intact, so you are as old as your mother is. But what is true for you is true for her; she is as old as her mother. You are as old as your grandmother. You are as old as the predecessors of humanity. You are an ancient entity that has periodically (no pun intended) remade itself based on external genetic material.

Comment Re:Police (Score 1) 584

Most of /.'s opposition to government mandates (laws) about firearms aren't their concern for hunters and hobbyists. The purpose of the American second amendment was to guarantee that the new government's citizens' access to weapons be impossible to subornso that, if necessary, the people could take up arms against a tyrannical form of said new government. Keep in mind that when these laws were enacted, every kind of projectile firing apparatus was military grade hardware. That is what the people are guaranteed.

Comment Re:2,500L @ $1/L vs. $millions. Liberal math. (Score 1) 242

I propose that the weight savings will result in trucks that are more heavily loaded, not lighter trucks going down the road. Logistics is expensive, and if you're running into legal weight limits, a lighter trailer cal allow heavier loads --> fewer trips --> greater savings in driver time, trucks, maintenance, fuel, etc.

This may be negligible due to the low density of packaged consumer products and volume limitations.

Submission + - Who makes the best disk drives? (zdnet.com) 1

Hamsterdan writes: Backblaze, which open sourced their Storage Pod a few years ago, is now giving drive failure rates. They currently have over 27,000 consumer grade drives spinning in Backblaze storage pods.

Almost 13,000 each are Seagate and Hitachi drives, almost 3000 Western Digital drives and a too small for statistical reporting smattering of Toshiba and Samsung drives.

One cool thing: Backblaze buys drives the way you and I do: they get the cheapest drives that will work. Their workload is almost hundred percent write. Because they spread the incoming writes over several drives their workload isn't very performance intensive either.

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