* Posts by Pahhh

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Sony threatens to ban PS3 jailbreakers from network

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@Agreed - Ban them from the PSN #

Ditto.

Not only am I not upset that Sony are going to block users that have hacked their PS3 going on PSN, I'm overjoyed.

A big amount of the nay-sayers dont even have a PS3 , they just enjoy a bit of Sony bashing. They can shut the heck up, "this isnt the console you are looking for".

For those of you that have a PS3 and really think the Other OS thing has affected your life, I think you telling lies. Without access to the graphic system, the Other OS option was lame. If you want to run linux, install it on something else where you can have more control and have a sensible amount of memory.

Grief and disbelief greet Elop's Nokia revolution

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Whatever.... but what about Qt?

Frankly Nokia been an irrelevant phone company for a while. From making great phones with simple interfaces to producing stuff that really doesnt capture anyones imagination.

Concerned whats going to happen to Qt though. Its a great toolkit.....

Your mind's '.brain' jpeg-like picture file format probed

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Starting reading the report...

Starting reading the report but then got to:

"We recorded from visual area V4 in awake fixating monkeys "

At that point I got scared / confused / sicknened and stopped reading. Still it looks interesting.

I'll watch a review of this on Horizon some day when they can at least try to keep my interest with interesting camera angles, emotive soundtrack and a voice over by husky sounding lady with a BBC accent without the mention of monkeys....

Don’t Look Now hailed top Brit movie

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IMDB rank vs Critics ranks

The IMDB rank works pretty well for me. Its amazing how often my rank on film is pretty similar to IMDB ranks. However, my view of a film and a critics view of a film are often at odds. Think we should just ignore the critics choice and go for viewers ranks.

Good call on "Trainspotting" being in the top 10 methinks... personnally I would have put Brazil, Clockwork Orange, the Wicker Man, Get Carter in the top ten too........

Sony Ericsson confirms PlayStation phone

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uhhmmmm....

Difficult. I somewhat married to the iPhone although must be said like the idea of this phone.

I know its Apple and Sony, but I cant help myself, I like their stuff......

@bunker - I suspect Sony going to try hard on this one. Its going to be a survival move getting the PSP on phones due to the drop in sales both Sony and Ninetendo have recently experienced.

The lowdown on storage and data protection

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@ammaross

"Such CDP systems would only benefit DBs if they grab the transaction log. Then you can have the DB roll back the log to a consistant state. The CDP system isn't, in itself, magical enough to do this on its own."

-- Yes the CDP system can and will capture the logs too. Yes, the roll back though will be done through the database. Its the only way I know of at least......

"Such a fail comment. In the event of a database foobar, that corruption is automagically replicated to your mirror. Same goes for corrupting (modifying/deleting) files. The only time mirroring to a hotsite is useful is for system failure. Server bursts into flames? No problem, we have a hotsite. Directory tree got deleted? You lose your zero RTO due to having to restore files."

--- Such a fail response..... thats what snapshots are for. Run snapshots on your mirrors (heck on your source too).

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Belts and braces

@steven jones - yes I agree that most self respecting databases can clean themselves up. Although I have some sympathy to your comment on the sledgehammer approach but in reality most admins arent DBAs, they dont understand the contents of the application and a recovery for them is all or nothing. In all honesty, if you were looking after a 3rd party application that had a database, you would probably do the same as the schemas arent often published.

"The easiest way to create a reliable, consistent backup of an application is to shut the application down and then backup its data. The shutdown will create a consistent state"

Good grief, this was the type of statement I would have expect in the 90s. Nowadays there are lots of perfectly acceptable ways of getting a consistent backup, from using an applications backup API to using a snapshot system that is application aware (such as VSS on Windows).

Even products like Symmantec's BackupExec will do a fair job. Or if you want belt and braces approach, a product like Cofio's AIMstor will give CDP combined with snapshot instances so you've got the frequent crash consistent images (ie every minutes) combined with less frequent recovery point which are fully consistent (4 times a day).

"that is why an RTO of zero is science fiction."

Really? Isnt this what mirroring is for? Or there are some products that do real time replication. In the event of a disaster they have the ability to achieve an instant uptime by restoring from the from the replicated image in such a way it prioritises the restore according to what is being access (bit like a HSM product). Asempra's product was an example of this.

Glasses-free 3D TV sales stumble

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Seen a good 3D tele that didnt needs glasses years ago...

Saw a 42" set by Philips called WOW 3D almost two years ago. It was actually very good when it displayed real 3D pictures rather than post-process pictures.

I dont know whats happened to them.

http://www.business-sites.philips.com/sites/philipsbs/3dsolutions/pressarea/pressreleases/philips_introduces_new_42_3d_lcd_display_for_stunning_3d_experience.page

Apple patents miracle combo mouse-keyboard

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@nemo2000

Thats EXACTLY what I was going to say?

You press a button and use the keyboard as a touch pad. It works surprisingly well. Shame the device is miserable at everything else......

Sony sues PlayStation 3 'hackers'

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How to get downvoted in this thread

How to effectively rack up lots of down votes in this thread:

1) Mention the fact that piracy is bad.

2) Locking down a platform to stop piracy is good.

3) Locking down a platform to stop cheat is good.

4) Having a locked down system that enables easy exchange/trade of games you own is good

5) Pointing out that Linux on PS3 was useless anyway for homebrew as you didnt have access to Sony's grahic libaries

6) Pointing out that loosing Linux was worth it if it maintains points 1-4 for the MAJORITY of people

Seems the downvoters are either XBOX owners who really will downvote anything that endorses anything that Sony does or PS3 owners who are so stupidely idealist that they dont appreciates that regardless what Sony's motive is, Sony's policy actually protects the majority of PS3 owner's interest (points 1-4).

I didnt like it when Sony decided to remove the Linux option. I'm a software developer and I loved the idea. But in truth I didnt put it to any use. Other than maybe turning the PS3 into a decent web browser it didnt have much application for domestic use (I have no interest in wiring up 100 PS3 together to number crunch).

What many people that keep bleeting about their civil liberties and their "freedom" dont appreciate, is that when you provide people suitable "freedom" it gets abused. When that happens we ALL loose out. If you use Law / Policing as an analogy, you will appreciate that removing both will actually mean you loose a lot more rights then you gain. You will loose the right to be safe for one that tends trump most other perceived freedoms. Same goes with the console lockdown, either grow up and get back on your XBOX, dont care which you going to downvote me anyway.

'Methanotroph' bacteria feasted on blown BP rig's methane belch

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Does that mean...

Does that mean if we kept our cows submerged underwater neck down, we could remove the "potentially" harmful greenhouse gases from farming?

Kinect blamed for Red Ring of Death outbreak

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Most reliable XBOX was in the closet...

When a new game comes out, gamers play it. More time a gamer is on the console greater the chance the console will burn itself out.

If the console happens to be an XBOX 360 (probably worse if its an older model) then greater chance there will be a spike in console failures.

Most reliable console is the one stored in the closet for 6month....

Patents do not protect small firms, says trade body

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Thats only the start...

Fighting against someone infringing your patents is a tiny part of the problem for small firms.

The initial problem is it cost real money to create the patents in the first place. Its not difficult to rack up legal bills of £5k-£10k per patent. If you can't afford to do that then you can fall foul of someone a few years later creating a patent for something you've already developed. Then you've got the nightmare situation of demonstrating prior art.

Which brings me to my next point. Large companies throwing often bogus patents at anyone that comes close to the solution. As a small company its hard to defend although the larger companies tend to prefer to pick on other large players.

And finally, patents can be a major hindrance to raising venture capital. VC want to say patents but not only that , they want to see that your offering isnt infringing on other patents. Patent checks can also be an extremely expensive activity if you intend someone to provide an "Opinion" that ther are no infringements.

Then there are those dormant patents that are waiting to trap companies. The idea has not been implemented, the patent is vague and all the patents have done is hamstrung anyone that is actually trying to produce something for real.

I understand the need for patents on things like drugs where the cost of research and then drug approval necessitates your effort is protected. But there isnt a place for software patents, they hinder innovation rather than promote it.

Trust and risk in the cloud

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Who can you trust?

The problem is who can you trust? With CloudSstorage for instance, very prominent companies have kicked off services. Companies like EMC and Sun. But then they pull the service. Where does that leave you?

Then you got the retail behmoth Amazon. No signs of their S3 service being dropped but then there are questions concerning how reliable they really are after a few high profile outages last year.

Moving up the food chain though, lots of Cloud services are here to stay. Email (gmail, hotmail, yahoo mail) , CRM (Salesforce, SugarCRM), Webhosting (too many to quote).

Its difficult to spot exactly what applications commerically succeed and dont on Clouds. To me at least, the pattern isnt clear.

Google Chrome OS mauled by Richard Stallman

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Stallman = Irrelevant

For every ounce of wisdom he may deliver, he dumps one ton of irrelevant misguided crap.

Like any good charlatan, he teases you with half truths and makes causal links to utter nonsense.

Analysing anything he says is painful. You have to pick out the bits that make sense, and generally are common sense, out of the crude evangelising of his deluded life beliefs.

I know I will get downthumbed for my comments but just before you do, do me a favour. Spend the time and watch some of his lectures. There are plenty out there on YouTube. At the very least, watch one from start to finish. He is a brilliant speaker and really quite engaging. Albiet delusional. Here is one of his milder ones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNBMdDaYhZA

David Attenborough dino doc shows limits of 3D TV

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3D No Glasses = Today

For those of you that keep winging about the need of 3D glasses to watch 3D, sets are available that enable you to watch 3D content without glasses.

I saw a Philips 3D unit well over a year ago ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOWvx ) that did this. Oh yeah, it was great too.

I believe other manufacturers now have units that display in 3D without glasses too.

Saying all that, I'm not a big fan of 3D as someone already pointed out , it does cause some element of eye strain. Guess you are used to focusing for different depths and artificial 3D messes that up. But maybe you will get used it.

Of course it is still to some extent a "gimmick". In the same way that Moving pictures, Colour TV, DVDs and 5.1 surround sound was. It adds another level of perception and of course no-one wants that !!!!!

This year's DSLR stars

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@dodge

No I'm not talking bollocks. You've chosen not only to be offensive but also interpret my post for something it wasnt.

I said that good MP and ISO arent gimmicks. I explained why too. I didnt say it was the end all and be all of a good camera.

I didnt get my 5D MK II until I could afford some corresponding quality glass to go with it ( L lens and some good primes).

Go back to your cave.....

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I missed one of the "I", its a mark 2. Hence the movie mode.

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@Tim #3

Lol

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Nahhh....

@fuzzy wotnot - I've got both a Canon 450D and 5DMKI., I can profess I can focus jack all on LiveView on manual on either cameras. In fact the only time I use LiveView is if I'm trying to take a picture over someones head. Can the 550D be different?

@HarryTheSnotGobbler - more megapixels isnt a gimmick. If you can perform a pretty large crop but still retain good amount of resolution, thats worth its weight in gold. ISO count isnt a gimmick either - if you can take pictures in low light condition without a flash and without a crazy amount of noise, thats of immense value. But I agree, the review was a bit naff - mind you I'm biased as I never use the video feature in my 5D.

Channel Five to air Walking Dead

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@Forget walking dead #

Not sure about anyone from Hollywood making any 2000AD stories, they make such a mess of them.

Needs to be under some control of the orginal writers to keep the spirit of the stories. Hate it or love it, Harry Potter is true to the books and thats a good thing if you dont like the author or the plot.

If the same level of control could be afforded by the 2000AD writers, then yeah it would be good. 2000AD is a goldmine of good stories and characters. Too many too mention..... although I would like to mention the ABC warriors and Nemesis :)

How I went from punting PCs to betting a quarter billion on Betfair

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@Why so many gambling stories?

So what? I'm finding them interesting and I'm not into gambling.

If they piss you off, I suggest you go and read something else.

Selling Apples to Japan: Complicated as a Nipponese typewriter

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@First to support Japanese

Its a US problem methinks. They fail to reconginse a Pound Sign isnt a "#".

'Looking and acting like an employee' didn't make him one

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Seems to me that are two issues that are being confused...

Seems to me that are two issues that are being confused...

Firstly he was a contractor. He WANTED to be a contractor and as such he has no rights as a perminant employee. End of story , you down thumbing contractors can sob your heart out as much as you like.

The second issue is that of IR35 which is about tax law not employment law looks at things differently. I agree that tax law and employment law dont really match up but frankly we could set the tax man on him to make his life even more hell as he appears to be working for a single employer and as such he may have got some tax breaks as a contractor (expensing this and that or whatever other schemes) which means not only is he out of work, he owes the tax man some money at he was really working for a single employer under stealth.

Ha!!!

Apple throws a wobbly over Steve Jobs dolly

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@Apple logo #

Dude... its the Apple logo. By your argument anyone that did a 3D extrude of a company / product logo would avoid copyright infringement. That would mean that if I to make a 3 millimeter thick badge of say.... uhm... IBM's logo, I wouldn’t be infringing.

Your argument is plainly stupid without going into a debate how it differs to the Coke bottle.

Now go straight to bed without dinner and think about how silly you are......

Top Ten Arcade Classics

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Sorry..... you are right Defender and Joust were Williams - I feel ashamed.

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I have had to have ONE arcade game.. mine will be

If I had to have one arcade game - we talking stand up and play , I choose Atari's Defender.

I remember when the game first arive and the haunting stereo sounds - the sound and speed of action was every thing. A true adreline fueled game.

If I had to own one arcade machine, it would be Defender.

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So many to choose from ... top 10 cant be made.

Good list although I do agree there are some serious omitions:

- Asteroids (this really really ought to be there)

- Scramble (this is such a classic, cant believe no-one mentioned it)

- Xevious

- Donkey Kong (classic although i didnt like it)

- Joust (More early Atari goodness)

- Nemesis (a trully great game - think its called something outside UK)

- Marble Madness

- Missile command

Notables:

- Gorf (that game used to freak me out as it used to be first game i remember that talked)

- Mr Do (irrating)

- Pheonix (fantastic shoot'em up)

- Galaga (as above)

- Frogger (annoying buy... hey its a classic)

- Pole Position (its a classic)

- Robotron

- Track'n'Field

- Galaxian

- Moon Cresta

- Castles

- Paper Boy

I remember some other vectar oldies like Tailgunner and Space Wars ( PvP only game - awesome), Space Pirates.

Crap too many. Uhmm... wasted youth :)

Brits say 'no, no, no' to 3D TV

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@Am about to buy one. #

I thought they were just pointless until you pointed out Gran Turismo in 3D. That would rock (assuming it actually does come out on the 24th).

'Plastic surgeon' cuffed for in bar boob checks

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Go legit, join the TSA

If you want to grope boobs, bums and groins without a medical qualification, join the TSA.

Alleged bad Appler should pay back $1m

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Work for WallMart ....

Try working for Walmart.

If they as much as accept a beer from a supplier they will get sacked and the supplier will be dropped. Heaven forbid if they accept things like pens, mugs or baseball caps.....

How I built a zero energy cost, zero carbon home server

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WD MyBook World

I dont know the Western Digital MyBook World hasnt been mentioned.

Its a Linux based small board with a harddisk. Its preconfigured to be a file server but can be tweaked to serve web pages. Some people have even put a media server on it.

Considering 1/2 the solutions mentioned so far involve using a harddisk for mass storage, you might as well use that device. I think I picked mine up for around £110.

Thats a Linux machine, with 1TB of harddisk with network connectivity.

Ok, its not the fast machine on the planet and the RAM is low - 32MB - but for most things you dont need much.

A thought anyhow. Here is some info to what people used them for:

http://martin.hinner.info/mybook/

Google accused of hard-coding own links in search

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Could be antitrust, not convinced though

I think Google have the power to be provide anti-trust results. I think it probably is a real issue.

I am not sure however if the example is clear cut. Its clear that Google tries to do some contextual search. It knows for instance that CSCO is more likely to by a stock ticker than anything else. It probably has algorithms for search results that are more relevant to the context. As such they can optimise their own pages to be search friendly to their own search engine.

Try a search of "map XXXXX" where XXXX is your postcode. Do the search in Google, Yahoo, Bing. In Google number 1 link was Google maps (no surprise). Yahoo had completely random and generally useless links, Bing had Google maps 2nd .

Problem is of course, Google dont publish how they do the ranking so they have an immediate advantage in knowing what to do to optimise their pages for search engines.

'Super-secret' debugger discovered in AMD CPUs

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FFS - its NOT A BACK DOOR

For goodness sake, this isnt a back door that will allow hackers to break security of an AMD based system. This ONLY works if you have your hardware enabled for debugging. I doubt that off the shelf hardware will let you do this and it certainly not a factory default.

The only repercusion is that is if by using the full debugging mode they get a chance to spot some generic vulnerability either in the processor or in the software in the OS. The later I guess they could have done with an Intel anyway or with anyone that has a full blown ICE.

PS3 jailbreak seller hits back with firmware downgrade

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@There already is dumbass. #

I dont think you can compare writing something in Flash with exploiting the capability of the PS3 hardware now?. Think you need to re-evaluate who is the dumbass.

Another point, the OtherOS option was screwed anyhow as Sony didnt provide / allow to talk to the accelerated graphic hardware thereby making it useful for Homebrew.

I agree that a homebrew kit would be awesome, unfortunantly it increases the changes of someone finding an exploit so I doubt we will see it happening - which is a shame.

Apache threatens Oracle with Java exit

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Stallman is never right ...

" Stallman was right" - never. If he was, it must be by accident.

At least the fascist closed source boys will let you make a living from writing software. Stallman just wants you to work for the generosity of mankind - thats fine but it dont pay for beer, food, beer, morgage or beer.

PS not a fan of Java or Oracle either. ASF are cool though.

Gov may restrict unfair dismissal claim rights

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As someone said tricky....

I suspect there are unscrupelous employers who may abuse the system but as was mentioned earlier on, the employee is very well protected.

I used to be in a large organisation and I had a guy that was useless but to fire him would be legal hell. It wasnt just that it was a waste of money, the fact the guy was still being employed was just getting other employees down. In the end I just fired him telling him that it wasnt going to work out. We organised a payoff. Really the fact I had to do a payoff wasnt right.

Now I've got a small company, I really cant afford to have that type of situation so I dont give people the benefit of doubt. If after 6 months I dont think its going to work out, I choose to let them go rather than invest time trying to make it work.

Also for small companies, the maternity leave is a massive issue. Fortunantly it hasnt ever come up , somewhat helped by the fact that female software enigineers are few and far between.

No wonder CompSci grads are unemployed

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Naaahhhh... it hasnt changed

I got my CS Hons 20 years ago and although I got a lot of out of the course, its because I was interested in the subject. The bits that made me commercially viable were all self taught during the period of the course. So many graduates were useless then as they are now.

Software was in my blood since I had a BBC but for a lot of CS students its a career path and there is no passion there. It makes all the difference.

As for Java, I was quite cinical until recently. I need C++ programmers but found that when i targetted C++ programmers I got a lot of people that really cant code in OOP fashion as many evolved from C. I then broadened the net and was interviewing Java coders. They wrote in OOP fashion because thats all they know and they were able to transition to C++ in a heartbeat. Now I favour Java developers for C++ position. Stange, but true.

So although I will continue to take the piss out of Java , as a learning language its excelent. And the reason why we dont code in Java is because there is a performance aspect to what we do and Java stuff runs 1/2 the speed or worse. Other than that, seems quite nice.

I also believe that students should be tought about the internals, it helps. But again this has always been tought to varying degrees. I remember to my dismay 15 years ago having to describe the difference between heap and stack whilst helping one my development groups trying to identify the cause of a memory leak and looking completely in the wrong place.

Top Ten Retro PC Games

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Yeah I agree that Quake should have been over Unreal Tournement.

And yeah, what the heck happened to Civ?

HP whips out iPad challenger Windows 7 fondle-slab

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@I found a use #

Yep, I agree. The amount of time I whip out my iphone to look something up at dinner table or in front the telly - a table (whoevers)t is the perfect tool for this.

The business use for it on vertical markets are clear, for general use I dont know.

Nice toy to have around.

Cameron cocks up UK's defences - and betrays Afghan troops

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@richard 69

Let me make it clear to you Richard - You obviously didnt read the article.

The point of the article was that the plans leaves us wasting money on things that are no longer relevent where we should be putting money on things we need. There could actually be a saving if we cut what is obsolete and spend more economically on what we need.

You got the "fucking" point now? There, I'm macho like you now by swearing.

Tape backup could be binned soon

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@weak

Errr lets analyse your points shall we:

1. Tape is much cheaper than disk in £/Tb

Disagree. A tape might have a better $/TB but it fails on cost of ownership. Tapes require tape drives and tape libraries. Further you can get more efficiency from backup products that employ disk storage strategies such a de-duplication.

2. Disks can't be easily sent off site.

Well thats the WHOLE point of RDX????

3. Tape remains the offline daddy.

See 2.

4. Disk remains is the nearline bitch.

See 2.

RDX brings the benefit of cold storage (ie now power requirenment when offline) and removable media that tape has but with the benefit of fast random access.

For over 10 years people been saying tape is dead but until RDX they hadnt addressed the need for cold and removable media. Now I actually think that tape as we know it might come to an end.

Spycam school to pay damages for kiddie snaps

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@To Ross 7, Pahhh, and Yet Another AC #

I dont mind being downvoted. I dont mind being corrected either. My statement wasnt there to gain popularity contest or to shock.

What I did try to do, and obviously completely failed, is try to attach an element of perspective to this whole situation.

There is so much written about double standards of the state and our continuing erosion of our privacy and people being deliberately pervi.

I am father and I really care about issues like this. Nothing would appaul me more than the idea of some pedo watching my son. But I see this case for what it is. A misguided attempt to secure equipment. But somehow you guys have all turned this into state run pervs being protectected by a the state. Well I am calling it out as I see it and I think most of the comments are complete bullshit!! - downvote me , I dont care, most of your guys lost common sense it seems.

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Guys... get a grip

Before all of you keep posting at this outrageous invasion of privacy and the criminal intent, why dont you find out WHY the pictures were taken?

The laptops contained software to help them combat theft. System takes pictures every 15mins and I assume broadcasts them when it is believed the laptop is stolen. The issue was that the some of the pictures were triggered when they shouldnt have been , ie a laptop werent stolen. One case was because the student had not renewed the insurance allowing him to take the laptop off campus and when the laptop went off campus it started snapping.

Thats why there is no criminal intent. It is also probably why there were probably few students that got paid out.

Cant say I like it but it isnt some pervi scam that many of you are suggesting so get a grip!

Angry Birds tweet fury at Redmond

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@shak

yes, indeed. Still it was certainly wrong to use their icon without permission to promote their goods. Its a clear case of trademark infridgement.

If Microsoft want to sell lots of handsets it just needs a few apps with the word Halo in it and that will get the teenage boys market. Come up with an app that syncs with Outlook properly,dynamically and easily that will probably capture the business user's interest. An app to easily transport data would be something that iPhone users would appreciate. Just a bit of imagination really... oh its M$...forgot.

Texas Chain Saw Massacre declared top horror flick

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@Er

Many people accociates Aliens with Alien. Those two are completely different types of films. Alien is a horror. Aliens is a great action movie.

A horror doesnt have to be a gore-fest although both of Alien and Jaws actually do quite well.

Horror films incite suspense, fear, disgust,nightmares ? I think they do as well as any movies of that genre.

Somehow, many people equate slasher gore movies to be horror movies - well guess what they thats not the only kind.

Horror movies is about putting you in a place and situation you dont want to be. Films like Alien, Jaw, Hostel all work with different plots but are all horror movies.

Judge orders turnover of woman's deleted Facebook posts

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For those that have sympathy with her....

like many posters, I.m not saying she is guilty of fraud but there is obviously a disconnect between how she reports her disability and what might have been posted on facebook.

Its not unreasonable to check this. No-one is saying that a disability is on or off, but if someone is saying that it is at one end of an extreme and yet it is at another, it may make a material difference to their lives and hence their compensation. In fact, I would have hoped that some of the posters that have contact with people with delibating disabilities would have more sympathy to this court action as they should welcome a just outcome, which ever it is.

Lastly remember, SHE IS SUEING THE MANUFACTURER OF A DESKCHAIR claiming that their chair caused her injury and made her bed bound, resulting "loss of enjoyment of life" (her claim).

If it turns out that :

a) she isnt actually as bed bound as she states

b) she is enjoying her life by having activities away from the home (going on holiday etc),

then there is a disconnect. Injury claims are based on the level of injury (demonstrated by her disability/ability) and concequently the defendent (the chair manufacturer) is perfectly entitled to put forward that actually she isnt as disabled as she makes out.

Their defendents comments:

"reveal[ed] that she has an active lifestyle and can travel and apparently engages in many other physical activities inconsistent with her claims in this litigation."

Car wrecks rise after texting bans imposed

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@Why are new parents allowed to drive? #

Well, I think new "Zombie" parents are quite safe albeit very slow. Having a newborn baby sundenly gives you a sense of how vunerable people are and obviously how precious your new passenger is.

I was a right jerk before I had my son. I very quickly calmed down following his birth. Tired or not, I was a safer driver. Now my son is much older and I'm back to being a complete jerk.

Texting while driving is insane. I can see why it is banned and should be banned. Unfortunantly covert texting is even more dangerous so it kind of creates an odd situation. Dont think there is an answer.....

CIA used 'illegal, inaccurate code to target kill drones'

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Seems to me everyone is wrong

IISi has no legal obligation it seems to try to delivery what the customer wanted in the timeframe that they needed. But they could have done. They could have given them what was being asked even with known glitches as long as there is full disclosure. Heck a "proof of concept pre-release". Its the customers responsibility to then make judgement on whether they were happy with this.

Turns out the CIA were happy with the margin of error. Depending on its use , they might not be unethical about it either. Like a previous poster wrote, if you are dropping ordinance with a 60m radius the potential that you are going to be off target by 13m is irrelevant.

But ISSi were bureaucratic about it.

Netezza's response was bad but not surprising when backed into a corner.

If I was Netezza, I would look at my contracts closely so in the future you are protected against situations like this. I would also choose partners that are willing to try their damnest who have the same level of urgency as you have.

Given full disclosure, it is up to the CIA to decide if / when / how the technology should be used, not ISSi.

No doubt I will get flamed for siding against the "innocant party who tried to do the right thing".

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