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Intel supercharges storage Atoms

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They should have done this a long time ago

For a NAS/Home-Server solution, making it as low power as possible is a good thing but while being good on power consumption, the Atom processors are pretty severely underpowered. Take the "Black Dwarf" mod from Will Urbina - http://www.willudesign.com/Black_Dwarf/BlackDwarf.html - in particular this quote:

" the CPU jumps to around 80% when writing files to the raid array"

Usually these systems are just doing reads, which isn't so bad, but for certain use cases the current Atoms seem to be really inadequate.

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Police slam internet justice - then use it themselves

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Adapt or GTFO

Their first complaint about jurors not doing their own research, I agree with... but that's nothing new. Here in the states - sorry I'm not too familiar with how juries work in the UK - there have always been problems with Jurors watching news stories or reading articles about the trial they are sitting in on, which typically leads to their dismissal or a mistrial. A jury should only be judging based on what is presented in court. Blaming this pre-existing condition on teh interwebz is ill-informed.

The second complaint about victims finding their own perps online thereby invalidating a photo or some other type of "pick them out of a lineup" challenge... on that all I can really say is WOW, are these officers completely batshit retarded? It's possible that the lineup is some sort of procedural requirement I guess, but this still makes no sense. What they're ultimately complaining about is the public doing their job - which is not a new phenomenon either.

Strangely enough my friend's car was stolen the night before last. He went online to check his toll records and saw that it had exited off the tollway in a neighboring city at 3 AM. He informed the investigating officer, who - we suspect - contacted the neighboring city's police department, who put out an APB on his vehicle and it was found within roughly 14 hours of being stolen. I raise this issue for one point only - the officer investigating the issue did not get all pissed off about the victim helping out his investigation. We were able to provide useful information that would have taken him much longer to find - assuming he ever looked where and how we looked to begin with - and it helped him solve the case. In this case everybody wins.

For the sexual assault/rape case referenced in the article I can see how both the victim and her friend repeatedly looking at the perp's Facebook page could make the prosecution more difficult, but telling an assault/rape victim to sit around and do nothing while the cops go off and do their thing is somewhat offensive - as is the coppers whinging about it after the fact like 11 year old girls.

They need to grow up or GTFO

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Best Buy slaps 'God Squad' priest with cease-and-desist order

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Trying to understand the legal basis of this claim

The real question here is if Mr. Strand, in putting this sticker on his car, is acting as a private individual or as a representative of his church. Seems to me that the case that this is a trademark issue between his church and Best Buy is at best specious.

No matter what we may think about Mr. Strand, his church, or his religion - the legal precedents seem to imply this is a free speech issue and that Best Buy would be hard pressed to win if this dispute went to trial. If I were Mr. Strand's lawyer, I would argue - and rightly so I might add - that his remake of the Geek Squad logo was a simple parody and reference the wealth of precedent from Starbucks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks#Parodies_and_infringements) to back it up.

If he also had an advertisement on his vehicle for his church, or was using the parodied logo to otherwise sell goods and services, or was selling the stickers... it might not be so clear cut.

That said, trademark lawsuits here have gone haywire lately with more-money-than-Apple charity "Susan G, Komen Race for the Cure" suing other charities using the term "for the cure" in their pursuit to cure obviously less important illnesses and issues.

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