Increasing the community sounds all well and good, but I would prefer a quality community over a quantity community. Some of those GPL folks are real wing nuts.

It's OK to have slaves if they are brown. But you shouldn't give them stock options, a retirement plan or a path to promotion.

Young, white skin, doesn't speak with an accent. Passing grade is 2 out of 3 or better.

What is this, a job for Scientology Programming?

Git is useful and obtuse, which is the most satisfying kind of useful.

Seems just as likely that non-ionizing radiation from a Wi-Fi router causes hyper-intelligent babies. I mean if nobody is going to do any experiments before they open their mouths there is really no limit to the amount of speculation.

This is not a technology problem.

The sale of RC aircraft may need to further regulation. So far it's been mostly a self regulated process through the AMA helping RC pilots follow safety procedures and comply with FAA rules. But most hobby shops will sell you anything you want without checking for an AMA card, but some of them do at least mention it to those new to RC.

A callsign, license and test, like done in HAM radio, seems like the obvious solution to me. Hobbyists need to understand the rules and be liable when they break them.

It's been self regulating until recently. RC pilots generally belong to the AMA and the rules for the AMA include putting your name and address inside your aircraft.

Theoretically the AMA also provides insurance for the pilots, but I don't think anyone has ever been able to collect on that in 50 years.

I'm pretty sure sunscreen causes cancer.

While I appreciate the suggestions to use software RAID, and I do prefer the flexibility and recovery of MD or LVM, they are not a panacea. Software RAID doesn't make a glitch in DMA to your multiple AHCI ports not erase your super blocks or write different data to each drive despite configuring the software to use RAID-1. (yuck, it was a real mess)

Ideal would be redundant controllers for each disk, I've worked on such products in the past, but they are too expensive outside of an enterprise environment. And even if you also support live offsite replication (like this product did), you should still do offline backups such as tape. All that fancy stuff just lets you recover from serious issues more quickly, it doesn't completely eliminate the need for backups.

Being able to move the indicator up the scale with your mind like in Forbidden Planet. That's probably the only fair IQ test.

is a good way to accelerate the amount of space junk in orbit.

At least someone here gets it. Even the industrial stuff is pretty much a figurative duct tape that loses support as soon as the last contract expires. And losing support on this stuff is catastrophic because most embedded SW products need persistent maintenance to keep going. I really do think the poor quality is an elaborate plan to for users to upgrade.

Instead of creating a building that stands for centuries or a machine that works reliably for decades, I get to design software for the technological equivalent of underwear. Sure it might look like a cool phone, tablet or game console, but it ain't meant to last.

It was $520 B in 2014 alone. What does that have to do with a Cold War that has been over for decades?

I've had controllers failures on RAID that ended up corruptiong a lot of data despite the drives functioning propertly. So I've switched mainly to tapes. For my home use I managed to get two DAT/DDS drives for a reasonable price and bought a case of tapes, should last me quite some time. My backups are quite small. I don't need to backup my movies, since I already have the DVDs of them. For me 36GB of photos is a few life times worth. And tax pdfs, source code, and various musings tend to compress really well. But obviously these smallish tapes are not a solution for everyone.