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  • On the post: Guy Sues Apple For $25k Because His Time Capsule Device Died

    Zimzat ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2012 @ 01:22am

    What I wonder...

    What I wonder is why Apple doesn't make their Time Machine devices as RAID-0 with two mirror hard drives. That would the easiest way to ensure the backups are almost always available so you almost never lose historical data, even if one drive fails. That's what I have in NAS, is two 1TB identical drives. On the other hand that would increase the size and cost of the device.

  • On the post: Pixar Trademark Lawyers Being Kept Busy: Fighting Pixar Petroleum, While Being Fought By The Atlanta Braves Over 'Brave'

    Zimzat ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2011 @ 02:52am

    Re:

    Indeed.

    They're also not going to win the one regarding the Atlanta Braves either. Have you seen the trailer for the Brave movie? Pretty sure I didn't see an Indian or game of Baseball there.

  • On the post: How SOPA Will Be (Ab)Used

    Zimzat ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2011 @ 01:56am

    Re:

    Once upon a time bleeding was considered a valid way of curing all ails. Leeches, Trepanning, etc.

  • On the post: How SOPA 2.0 Sneaks In A Really Dangerous Private Ability To Kill Any Website

    Zimzat ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2011 @ 04:01pm

    Re:

    There's a new variation of Godwin's Law now.

    The idea of Scientology using these laws is frightening.

  • On the post: Freedom Of Information Document Dump From ICE About Domain Seizures Almost Totally Redacted

    Zimzat ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2011 @ 02:35pm

    Re:

    how many other countries would tolerate many of the comments that are regularly posted here.


    Just because we're not as bad as some other countries is no excuse not to try to be better. I see this line of reasoning all the time in many companies. "It could be worse" or "It's better than in [team/company/country]" is no excuse to stop trying to be better.

  • On the post: UK Domain Seizures: Nominet Admits It's Helped Police Seize 3,000 Sites

    Zimzat ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2011 @ 04:49am

    If they're so sure that these sites are illegal, why are they so afraid of facing the site owners in court?


    Because, just like for the site owner and the little guys, it costs them a lot more money to go to court. I doubt anyone is encouraging them to go that route if they have other means available, otherwise guess whose paycheck is getting cut and whose isn't to pay for these court costs.

  • On the post: Microsoft Highlights Why Google's 'Cheater' Accusations Ring Hollow

    Zimzat ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2011 @ 07:18am

    Re: Re: Two headed hydra that can't agree

    I don't want them to support Google (this doesn't have to be a one side or the other argument), but simply stop bashing Google as the main argument of their reporting.

    It's their opinion and they're allowed to it, though. This is my comment and I'm voicing my opinion. *shrug*

  • On the post: Microsoft Highlights Why Google's 'Cheater' Accusations Ring Hollow

    Zimzat ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2011 @ 05:37am

    Two headed hydra that can't agree

    I feel that there is a two-headed hydra at Techdirt and neither head agrees with the other.

    One head posts about how businesses need to learn to innovate, to compete, and accept that marketplace instead of falling back to legal protections.

    The other says that when there is something wrong with a copy we should leave it up to social shunning to make it right.

    And yet, despite the fact that Google has not, so far at least, fell back to legal protections, and is actually trying to leave it to social shunning, TechDirt posts are now trying to socially shun Google when they're the ones that were copied.

    Make up your mind.