I wasn't arguing that he was in the right, even if I got a kick out of what he did. Vigilantism deserves to be punished. I was arguing, however, that if you're going to be a criminal, at least be smart about it. Driving around all day blasting illegal EM noise is just as stupid as robbing a bank without a mask on. I suppose we're fortunate that so many criminals aren't smart.

If you wanted to do this without getting caught, keep the jammer turned off but within reach. When you see a driver on their phone, run the jammer for just long enough to drop their call. May also be wise to do this sparingly, and not on a daily commute route. This guy was asking to get caught.

Not really. Hardware RAID5 uses a parity disk to allow sectors to be read when an unrecoverable read error (URE) occurs on one of the member disks. RAID6 will allow unrecoverable errors to happen on two member disks. But in cases where the member disk doesn't encounter a read error, but instead happily reads back a block of data with a flipped bit, RAID isn't going to help you. ZFS/Btrfs would have helped you though.

I think it's because they are in an "innovate - iterate" cycle, and they are incompetent at getting things right the first time they try them. Partly due to their own shortsightedness, and sometimes due to third party hardware and software vendors

95 - innovate - was seen as a good release when it came out, because innovation was needed - but in reality, it was a steaming pile of unreliability
98 - iterate - improved stability from 95 - was a good OS (by the time we got SE anyway)
{ ME - innovate - sucked major ass for no good reason
{ 2000 - innovate - good release but lack of drivers and compatibility held it back
XP - iterated on 2000, bringing it into the home, and probably their most successful product ever
Vista - innovate - new kernel and driver model - sucky reception, basically due to the ecosystem not being ready for the changes
7 - iterated on Vista - home run, straight out of the park - they didn't try to do anything too shocking here, just delivered a good product
8 - innovate - let's re-write the book on UI - flop
9 - iterate on 8 - I actually expect it to be a good release

/my theory

The staff are probably just trained to repeat SeaWorld's official stance on Orca lifespan, outlined here: http://seaworld.com/en/truth/k... Sounds like they'll need to update their figures now that this granny's been found. Follow the menus to read the rest of the "care" / Blackfish rebuttal section of their web site and decide for yourself.

Following the law literally and blindly is the only fair way to have laws. If laws were followed in a fuzzy and highly interpretive manner, would you not have even more examples of sports jock heroes getting away with rape, even more black people being found guilty disproportionately, creepy guys on a sex registry getting convicted while a pretty white girl with a tough luck story gets a jury's sympathy, even more police abusing and twisting laws to pick and choose who goes down, etc. It's just as bad as laws that everyone breaks routinely, so stop being thoroughly enforced. It just opens up an avenue to selectively charge people with something when you don't like them. In a biased world filled with people with their own ideas of justice, morality and carrying their own prejudices. The law is the framework we have to achieve fairness and consistency.

I'm certain it'll only ever be police officers who access this feature, and only when they have reasonable cause.