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by tsuraan 17y ago
You appear to feel that "the only real differentiator between Zumodrive and Tarsnap is the integrity of the code that implements the service". I didn't see that as being an architectural critique, but a commentary on the quality of source
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by tsuraan 17y ago
You completely missed the point. To access data from ZumoDrive (according to the article), all that you need is access to the EC2 instance that hosts the service. There's no need to break any encryption because ZumoDrive apparently uses S
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by tsuraan 17y ago
So that's going to be our victory then? We'll be getting a new copyright law with more term extensions, three strikes, ISP enforcement, and god only knows what else they manage to cook up, but at least we get to read it before congress pas
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I guess that's a valid point of view. For me, I have an interesting job with some hypothetical equity. I don't know its supposed value, and quite possibly never will. It's not something I stress about, but if it someday becomes valuable,
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by tsuraan 17y ago
You would honestly rate a programmer based on his knowledge of business finances? That seems more than a little mad.
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by tsuraan 17y ago
For FreeBSD, there's Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ( http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ ), and for Solaris there's nexenta ( http://nexenta.org ). I'm guessing Solaris won't have useful drivers for your netbook, but FreeBSD might. It's alway
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by tsuraan 17y ago
So, you support multiple backends (looks like two, moving towards four), but as a user, I have to choose one? Is there a plan for a RAID-type storage? One of my big fears about cloud storage is that when a provider decides it's done with
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I've never been a Solaris fan (used it in school, and it's running one one of my old Ultra2s), but I really do love zfs. Every week it scans all my drives to ensure my data's really still there, and my file server sends me email when thing
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by tsuraan 17y ago
In gentoo, I think it's part of the plan9port package. Is there something like that for debian/ubuntu?
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I haven't been keeping up on this much, but they were Mac laptops, right? Boot it holding apple+T (I think), and it acts just like a normal firewire hard drive. No physical damage required.
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I obviously can't speak for anybody else's experiences, but every time I've gone into a cave, the group has spent several minutes in the pitch dark, being quiet. I can't really imagine anybody not doing that; going into a cave without expe
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by tsuraan 17y ago
So it looks like there are two bearings on the inside of the wheel, and probably a third against the tire? I wonder how wobbly that gets when the tire pressure drops. I would think that just having a triangle inside the wheel with bearing
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by tsuraan 17y ago
And there's telnet:towel.blinkenlights.nl, which has quite a bit of starwars ep4 as ascii art. mplayer also has a -vo ascii feature that will render any video in ascii art.
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Another fun thing to do is use an empty entry, like mv .xinitrc{,.bak} or, if you have some stuff mounted under another mountpoint, such as when installing gentoo: umount /mnt/gentoo/{proc,dev,boot,} That empty entry expands t
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Wow, I've never seen that before. I'm also not sure I'd say a solution that uses bytecode rewriting is really working within the language, but that's a pretty interesting package anyhow.
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Python's answer to blocks tends to be the with statement, so your example would look like with task('name') as t: # do stuff with t It's not really the same; the task object doesn't have control over whether the block is actually
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by tsuraan 17y ago
The ruling isn't really about speech, though, it's about money. The ruling doesn't affect any person's ability to speak, it affects a company's ability to spend its money on political candidates, with a clear expectation of a positive ROI.
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I find it really strange that they advertise 720p playback, but they didn't give it a 720p screen. I would expect the device to have a 1280x720 resolution display (like some netbooks) instead of a 1024x768. I'm not sure what their target
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by tsuraan 17y ago
There are two blockout clones for Android: one named Blockx, and the other named Blockout. I haven't tried either, but the spirit of the game is apparently still alive.
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Is that the directive in response to the guy that started his blanket on fire? I'm pretty sure that expired December 30, 2009. Or has there been a different change to TSA policies?
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by tsuraan 17y ago
The vaio z series (mine is the z590, but I think the current one is z610 or something) have an optional larger battery that gives a claimed 9 hours of battery life. If I shut off all radios, dim the screen, and work in terminal mode, it ca
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Agreed. My gf has the Nokia Booklet, and its 11 hour battery life really is sweet. She charges it at night (some nights), and then can just use it all day without any worries. The downside is that a 1280x720 display just doesn't show all
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by tsuraan 17y ago
You would buy a GPU from AMD or nVidia to explore the middle ground between GPU and CPU? How does that work?
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by tsuraan 17y ago
CPUs (or cores in a CPU) have a pretty small instruction cache. On a Core2, I believe it's 32K cache per core. It's somewhat expensive (slow) to fetch instructions from RAM to L1, but once code is in L1, reading from it is immediate, or c
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by tsuraan 17y ago
It's around 200 for downvoting, but I think upvoting is a lot lower. Closer to 20, I think, but I've been able to upvote for a really long time.
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I've only been a customer for about 5 years, but in that time I've heard their CEO saying they won't be banning or hunting down people who use their phones for tethering, I've seen them roll out the Android phone before anybody else, and I'
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I don't think I've made any point yet; I'm mostly fishing for information from people who actually do know things, and trying to figure out if what's on my mind makes any sense. Two possible advantages (for people) of individual ownership
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Ok, so basically corporations can "own" patents and copyrights because nobody's made a stink about it, and it seems to be working out pretty well? The big reason I've been thinking about this is because I'm wondering what would happen if in
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Yeah, corporations are legal people, but can they invent or create? Maybe it is a legal truth that they can, but I'm guessing you could put a corporate charter in a room with pencils, paint brushes, raw material, etc for a million years an
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I can see how inventors can grant _rights_ to their patents to other entities. I don't see how they can grant _ownership_ (whatever that really means) of their patents to third parties. The constitution allows the government to grant the

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