Go into the Dell "Work" section of the site - you can get this with i7 CPU, more SSD capacity options, etc.

If you want them to be forced to provide you with high-speed Internet, then you need to support government regulation. This is the result of less regulation; they attempt to pick-and-choose to whom they provide service to maximize profit.

Yep. And this costs way less than bringing in and swapping out a part.

I don't see any real reason not to just spin the spare drives.

But it still has to reside on physical disks, just like virtual servers still have to run on physical hardware. There are hundreds of cores in a high-end Cisco UCS installation, on dozens of blades. The UCS can optimize what goes where for the IT group, but in the end that's all about density and the actual relationship between physical cores and virtual cores allocated to VMs is probably not as leveraged as you seem to think it is, especially for high-load usage.

There still has to be disks, there still has to be RAM, there still has to be processors, there still has to be I/O.

Well, you and the other four of you can still buy the Lenovo Thinkpad line, like the Yoga 12.5" or Yoga 14", or the Helix...

I've had Thinkpads several times over the years and use one now. I've accidently hit the pointing stick while typing more than I've used it. They're solid machines so that's why we continue to buy them, but the pointing stick is definitely a niche feature.

I assumed they got one of those surplus Nitrogen tire filling setups from a closed-down service station.

Nitrogen is already 78% of the atmosphere. All they'd have to do is inject pure nitrogen at a rate equal to natural atmpsoheric air entering the structure and they could claim that they reduced the oxygen, as it would drop from about 20% to about 10% that way.

I'm actually curious if this would be low enough to require special breathing equipment or not. I'm no chemist or earth scientist, but I think it's worse on the top of Everest than it would be in this server room.

So you're saying they just don't need U?

Or how about having the array swap in spares.
Every few weeks or so one of the spares could start to act as a mirror of an active drive and once that drive is mirrored you swap the active drive to the spare and the spare to the active?

Around here, ATMs are freestanding outside under an overhang (typically for drivethrough) or are built into the side of a building (walk-up or drivethrough). It's exceedingly rare for an ATM to be indoors unless it's in a shopping center. It's hot here though, and it doesn't rain much and snows maybe once every 20 years, so there's little need to protect ATMs from the elements.

If you attempt to blow the gas back at the theives through vents on the sides of the ATM, they'll just start bringing plastic sheets with them. They'll run their hoses and their ignition wires, wrap the freestanding ATMs in plastic and tape it down, then fill it with gas and blow it.

I don't expect that bombing will be the method used here. I expect they'll simply steal a nice one-ton pickup, ram the ATM off its slab and smash it into the building, back up and ram it a few more times until it breaks open, then grab the cash boxes and go. Or they steal one with a liftgate, ram it off its foundation, load it into the truck, and drive off. That way there's no charges for arson or explosives.

For colocated space, yes.

For an organization like the one I work for, with server room space to spare, it wouldn't be too bad. We could probably triple our rackspace dedicated to disk and still have room to spare, and we have the HVAC to match. That's kind of what happens when equipment gets more condensed and virtualization enters the fray. Can't virtualize a storage array obviously, but can replace the space that application servers took with storage as the space is freed up.

The phased array will have to be even larger than the dish to get the same beam size.

There are several implementations of OpenPGP on Android and IOS. These guys have one that's coming along nicely and has OK email and XMPP integration (because they actually wrote a decent API for (de)crypting).

Of course, your keys are only as secure as your phone... which isn't very. Google, the carrier (for stock, branded phones), and who knows else can remotely swipe the key from your device. There is rudimentary support for secure elements like YubiKey, though.

Simple answer is you take them to court for not paying but do it now while the merger is in the works.
I really hope that this merger fails like the TMobile AT&T merger did but since the current president does not need to get reelected I have little hope.
He is hoping his legacy will be opening Cuba.

They actually DID disband the army. The GP's post included two negatives that cancelled.

By disbanding the Iraqi Army they not only got rid of personnel that could have been used in the projects to rebuild the country, but they released tens of thousands of armed men with at least nominal training in the use of common weapons in the region. With no way to make a living or to feed their families, they resorted to either criminal enterprise, banding into factions with others based on religious lines for support, or to insurgency in order to fight against the occupying force.

If they'd kept them intact taken over control of them and continued to pay them, my guess is that a lot of these problems wouldn't have manifested so strongly. If the goal was to try to transition to a stable country under other leadership anyway.