How about my code that uses 1000 CPU cores to solve the 3D Navier-Stokes equations using a spectral element method?

Yeah, this again. IIRC, Lincoln and Cadillacs used to have this feature in the 80s. There's a reason it never caught on then, and that's because it's not very useful.

All HID systems are self levelling. It's just that self levelling only works in 90% of the cases. Pothole? Doesn't work. Going over a gradually changing slope? Doesn't work. And perhaps the worst part: car becomes ~10 years old and self-levelling system has experienced sensor failure? You're officially a safety hazard.

And it only takes that one second to spoil your night vision for the next two-three minutes. In a city, it may not be a problem, but when you're driving through the forests of northern Sweden and you really want your night vision at its best to spot any moose crossing the road, it's bloody dangerous to have someone's low-beam HID blind you.

IMO, HID should be disallowed for all low beams, and should be freely available for all high beams. This would solve all the problems, except new cars would not look as "cool" as they do today.

If you say "other electric cars", perhaps no. But it is well known that production of electric cars is much more polluting than production of ICE cars. See e.g. this recent peer-reviewed article.

Here, let me point you towards a recent article in the Journal of Industrial Ecology which shows that the production of batteries for the longest-range Tesla S emits roughly as much CO2 as driving 50 000 miles (depending on the car you compare with).

[citation needed]. Better make that "Life cycle analysis needed". I agree with your points regarding reducing local emissions, which is very important in many cities, but I haven't seen a single complete life cycle analysis of any current production electric vehicle that gets significantly better than an equivalent gasoline powered car.

Au contraire. See e.g. the rants of people who have to implement UEFI support in Linux: http://lwn.net/Articles/444666/

Remember: remote wipe without a foolproof and frequently used backup strategy is a very very bad idea.

Indeed. USB stick with "insert favorite linux version" installed, and just enough things to allow you to SSH home and access whatever you need (VNC for the GUI stuff). Make sure the USB stick is read-only, no personal stuff whatsoever stored on it, and password-protect the SSH key.

Can't tell if trolling or really serious.

Come on, now. 1080p is the max resolution of an HDTV (higher res is normally called 4K). Are you saying that you play games on your HDTV at higher resolutions than the max resolution? If your intention is to have a 4K monitor and sit reaally close to it to cover most of your field-of-view, then you're doing it wrong. It's cheaper and much better to have multiple monitors, since then you can curve them around you.

Grrr... Third such unsubstantiated statement from you on this story. Seriously, do you have any shred of evidence suggesting Steam is planning to centralize the gaming hardware and stream the games from the cloud? Cause you're the only person that seems to believe so.

[citation needed]

No, no-one will install games on this thing. It's not like Steam has the most successful gaming app store ever.
(I'm guessing you mean "install from a third party", and that will probably be difficult, yes.)

This doesn't make sense from a lot of perspectives. One is latency. Another is the fact that they've spent a lot of time, money and PR on making a box+OS to actually run games on, including large improvements to the Linux GPU drivers. A third is the fact that all previous attempts have failed, see OnLive.

I would mod you up if I wasn't out of points.
And I too think lavarnd.org being down at this moment in time is semi-spooky.

Since you're an experienced ZFS user, do you have any recommendations for how to sync the systems described below?

I have a setup simliar to the one you describe. One box at work with 2x3TB with ZFS and mirroring (raid1), similar box at home. The box at home is fairly recent, so I haven't gotten a good system for synchronizing them yet. My internet at home is 50/10 Mbps, work is much faster. The idea is that I backup both my personal photos (originates on home box, usually ~10 GB a month) and my work data (created on the work box, usually a steady stream of 1 GB per week and bursts of 10-50 GB occasionally). If possible I would like to have some directories on the work box that are not synchronized to the home box.

If the fact that both computers are sources of new data is a problem, I guess it's possible to modify that workflow.

And any other recommendations for ZFS? I scrub the pools weekly, but otherwise treat it as zero-maintenance.