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General Discussion / Re: Partition Info Gone
« on: November 26, 2009, 03:18:20 am »
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General Discussion / Re: Chrome OS -- Concept
« on: November 25, 2009, 12:22:43 am »
You should read Googles privacy policies before you criticize the, since you are making ridiculous and untrue claims about what they do with your information. Google does not share information they collect via your use of Google services (gmail, gdocs, etc) with anyone. When one pays for ads, they get anonymous statistics about the people who view them (what country they are from, etc). When one uses YouTube insight, the same rules apply...and so on down the list. This is not to say that Google has this information and is hiding it; in their privacy policies, they guarantee users that they will not store your personal activity for longer than 24 hours. The 24 hour window allows them to associate different requests with a single session, and at the end of the day the link between you and that session is destroyed. This is their policy across the board.
When you use services like Google Docs, you're obviously associating a document with your account, so you are vulnerable to hackers, subpoena, etc., but that's also true for files stored locally. I haven't read the privacy policy in regards to documents stored on Google Docs, but if it was fishy I would have heard about it by now. When Google Chrome came out, their privacy policy was fishy, and the world declared shenanigans on them, so they changed it.
In any event, the idea behind this operating system is to accommodate people who already do some portion of their computing in the cloud, and want the ability to do that on a netbook without all the extra bells and whistles to slow them down. It is not designed to force the masses in to getting rid of their hard drives.
When you use services like Google Docs, you're obviously associating a document with your account, so you are vulnerable to hackers, subpoena, etc., but that's also true for files stored locally. I haven't read the privacy policy in regards to documents stored on Google Docs, but if it was fishy I would have heard about it by now. When Google Chrome came out, their privacy policy was fishy, and the world declared shenanigans on them, so they changed it.
In any event, the idea behind this operating system is to accommodate people who already do some portion of their computing in the cloud, and want the ability to do that on a netbook without all the extra bells and whistles to slow them down. It is not designed to force the masses in to getting rid of their hard drives.
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General Discussion / Re: DROID
« on: November 24, 2009, 11:59:57 pm »
For one, because it's not as if the Droid's keyboard is debilitating. Besides, the phones aren't locked down - you can download a rooted ROM from Motorola! It's not a big hurdle, it's just that these devices JUST came out, and hackers are still appreciating how shiny their brand new screen is.
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General Discussion / Re: DROID
« on: November 24, 2009, 10:38:21 pm »So moto takes better advantage of android, but possibly a less physically aesthetic phone. OK.The Eris has a better keyboard, but that's a Sense UI thing, which will be ported to the droid by the hacker community in time.
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General Discussion / Re: DROID
« on: November 24, 2009, 04:59:48 pm »The price is already $99 with a contract.My mistake, this is for the DROID ERISaccording to the best buy circular, it's going to be $99 on Black Friday with or without a contract.I wouldn't be surprised if they offered that deal with a contract, but I'd be shocked to see it without.
I've spoken with friends that have fiddled with both the Droid (motorola) & the Eris (HTC), and they all pref'd HTC. I was partial to the moto, but apparently build quality is lacking. I will have to decide later, but have yall heard/experienced similar?The Eris has a clearly superior design - no one has questioned that. The Moto Droid has better hardware, and ships with the stock ("Google Experience") Eclair, while the Eris is running a Verizon-ized Cupcake. Don't be misled in to thinkin the Eris is more capable simply because it comes with all that flashy HTC Sense UI stuff; the hacker community is eager to bring Sense UI to the Moto Droid once there's a root available.
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General Discussion / Re: Chrome OS -- Concept
« on: November 24, 2009, 01:35:05 pm »The "I have nothing to hide so I don't need privacy" argument is nonsense.Agreed!
A naïve user can attempt to avoid Google's services but almost every site uses Google Ads. This is one of Google's big guns for gathering Internet usage behavior from even those users who avoid the search giant. It's simple, a user visiting any site with Google Ads (most) instantly reveals their visit to Google.Your bank knows where you've been every time you use plastic to pay for something. Does that mean you should pay for everything with cash? There is no point in preventing Google from collecting this information, because a) it's not sensitive, and b) the reason they're collecting it in the first place is to make your internet experience better, not to find ways to con you in to buying crap you don't need, or to sell your profile to the government, or to spam your inbox. I don't see the privacy issue here. Who cares if Google knows what porn you look at? It just means your porn searches will be more relevant to what you're looking for. BFD.
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Regardless of dodging Google, you shouldn't be so eager to give up user freedoms or privacy regardless of Google's capabilities to track users. I personally think Google is the new Evil Empire and I cheer the real OS and security advances made in Microsoft's research OS singularity.
Ah, interesting. It seems that the wall we're hitting now is heat management. Maybe this is a theoretical limit based on other measurements?10GHz is not the precise frequency. The idea is that, somewhere around that order of magnitude, other factors (namely, current leakage) become such a large issue that it's probably going to break Moore's Law. Heat management has been the foremost limiting factor for a few years now, and it hasn't been enough to break Moore's Law (yet?). It's my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) that with each advance in transistor technology (we're at 45nM now, I think?), there's an equivalent reduction in power consumption, and therefore heat.
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General Discussion / Re: DROID
« on: November 24, 2009, 01:21:03 pm »I would definitely like to see this... I live in the most populated part of Idaho, and on top of a Plateau... Where do you get your information? I worked as a Data Technician for VZW and worked directly with the NRB...I'm not authorized to distribute the information. I didn't personally pull it, but the data came directly from the RNC logs, via our VPN with VZW's production radio network.
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[x86] Announcements / Re: Server maintenance is coming!
« on: November 24, 2009, 02:23:43 am »
Simply having the computer on does not wear the drive at all, since the drive will just shut itself off when it's not in use. When I buy a new hard drive (or other hardware), the old one it replaces usually goes in to my dedicated server box, where it is hammered on constantly until it dies. I'm not sure why so many people are jumping at me as if to say I'm not taking care of my disks, since the shortest period of time I've killed a drive in was over 6 years, which is more than 3 times longer than the warranty lasted.
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General Discussion / Re: Chrome OS -- Concept
« on: November 24, 2009, 02:16:44 am »My biggest issue is that "Cloud Computing" seems like 1960s thinking all over again. It reminds me of time sharing, except on a larger scale. Netbooks running Chrome OS are merely modern terminals to Google's time sharing system. Personal computing is an evolution from this sort of thinking. You really want to give up personal computing because every virtual thing you own and do is conveniently accessible from Google? There are advantages, namely if your laptop is stolen, you haven't really lost your data. But how often does that happen? Is it worth sacrificing personal in personal computing? Giving Google all your personal data and exposing all your data/application usage patterns also seems like a huge mistake...encrypted/anonymous or not. This really seems like a step in the wrong direction and I hope consumers make the right choice. Mass adoption of Chrome OS could have serious consequences on the types of computers vendors produce and sell in the future.If you don't want to use it, no one will make you. However, if you think that using this OS is going to expose anything about yourself to Google that they don't already have, you're either delusional, or very good at avoiding Google at all costs. In either case, I think you're just spreading FUD. Google goes out of their way to provide full disclosure about all of the data they collect, and when they are collecting it. They have reasonable policies about storing that information, and the company widely idealizes personal privacy. They have built their business around aligning their interests with consumer interests, and they're not going to sacrifice the that reputation over your personal/private information.
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General Discussion / Re: DROID
« on: November 24, 2009, 02:09:42 am »according to the best buy circular, it's going to be $99 on Black Friday with or without a contract.I wouldn't be surprised if they offered that deal with a contract, but I'd be shocked to see it without.
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[x86] Announcements / Re: Server maintenance is coming!
« on: November 23, 2009, 03:18:12 pm »
Oh, neat. I'll have to check that out the next time I need to download one of those.
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[x86] Announcements / Re: Server maintenance is coming!
« on: November 23, 2009, 03:11:15 pm »I have yet to have a harddrive fail on me that I didn't do something malicious to. Taking care of your parts really isn't that difficult.Harddrives have moving parts, and the ferrous material doesn't last forever. I've yet to have a harddrive fail before I moved its data to a fresh drive, but I've had many (at least 5) harddrives that I've owned long enough for them to die of normal wear. These days, I generally only buy WD Black drives, which come with a 5 year warranty, so I imagine those ones will last much longer.
I'd like to learn Xen, but we use VMWare at work so I'm used to it, and I've gotten accustomed to VMWare Server's stupid little quirks.I'm using Virtual Box at home because it was free (read: easier to download) and does what I need. If I had the time to screw around with it, and another machine to play around with, I would love to learn Xen. Right now, my 3 machines all have their own purpose - my Linux box has to have 98% uptime, or I'll lose money, so that one's out. My main machine is for gaming, which I'm not willing to sacrifice. I could do it on my Mac, but the harddrive is so slow that backing up takes forever, so I just don't feel like doing it.
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Botdev / Re: [JS] Clean Slate WebBot
« on: November 23, 2009, 01:34:23 pm »Since when?Since even IE supports OO JS manipulation of the DOM. Document.write() is slower, because the browser has to bring up the HTML parser, and follow the whole chain as if it were re-rendering the page from scratch.
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Entertainment District / Re: Hammerdin
« on: November 23, 2009, 01:32:33 pm »
Wasn't this posted here like 6 months ago?
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[x86] Announcements / Re: Server maintenance is coming!
« on: November 23, 2009, 01:31:52 pm »
It it xen, or an application-level VM? I was reading about xen the other day - cool stuff.