Maybe they shouldn't fly planes in the sky then. Nature's got tons of these autonomous drones they call "birds". Which seem to hit planes with considerable frequency and seldom cause any significant damage, I might add. The average seagull has more mass than the average drone.

In this story's context? I imagine one of those helicopters swinging their big heavy water filled bucket into one would sort its hash quite impressively. Similarly, I'm sure a Martin Mars water bomber wouldn't even scratch its paint hitting one head on.

I still prefer hardware RAID because of trouble I had with those legacy issues yes, but I also got very used to the convenience of letting the RAID card manage the storage and having Linux only deal with the device the card presented to it instead of managing each drive. I also think the RAID cards' management software and hardware monitoring is superior, I've had a few software RAIDs have a disk fail without proper alerting and had more than one close call as a result. This newest info on the SSDs having problems is just more icing on the "yep, my way is the right way" cake. YMMV of course.

Why in God's name are you using SSDs in a server (production or not) without using hardware RAID? And none of that fakey-RAID that Linux sees right through either, I might add. From what I can see it's a problem between Linux trying to manage TRIM and the drive getting confused. Cut out the middleman, RAID them and underprovision a bit to give the drives more life, and then let Linux only see the storage presented by the RAID card and let the card itself handle communication with the drives.

Of course they're relevant, maybe not for laptops so much though. I have a bunch of servers using 512GB 840 pros in our datacenters, and when we EOL those drives, these 2TB models should be at the same price we paid for the 512GB parts so we'll get to quadruple our storage for the cost of the EOL refresh. Nice.

> Intimidation is not an excuse.

And how much comfort would that line bring you as you sat in the front row at your kid/sibling/parent's funeral? There's a reason the mob uses those tactics, because they work.

If you read the article, it seems most of their bonuses were payments in physical violence and death threats against their families if they didn't cooperate.

I've had lots of company sponsored training, one company even paid for some university courses in my field that I requested. At no point in time were there any obligations or conditions put on receiving the education/training, save that the university courses I had to have a passing mark in or I'd need to reimburse the company for the cost of the courses. That was definitely not an issue.

> They've also completely failed to consider that just as quickly a one website may rise to prominence, another may equally quickly supplant it. Look at Facebook replacing MySpace for example.

Are you deliberately avoiding the elephant in the room? Reddit themselves owe their initial success to Digg spectacularly shooting themselves in the foot and then hobbling around trying to insist it's just a flesh wound.

All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again... again...

> That is not uncommon in Europe when such training is extensive and expensive. It is often provided with a clause that if the employee is leaving the company within a x number of years, an equivalent share shall be reimbursed.

To a North American that's a pretty alien concept. What happens if someone is terminated instead of choosing to leave? Seems like there could be some abuse there if there isn't a provision for only paying from voluntary departure.

> Furthermore Greece paid the developers education in the expectation it would be a wise investment in the future (education == long term investment).

So what is your point with this? You want to bring back modern slavery? If you get an education paid by the state, you are not allowed to leave the state? Like in Soviet times?

Or to localize it, how many people on Slashdot have had their employers pay for them to attend training, courses, even further their educations? Does that mean that those employees should be forced to pay back that education if they move to another company, or worse should they be prevented from leaving for X number of years to get the company their ROI? If the answer is no, then why even mention it about the Greek dev?

Uh... doesn't rsync have a flag to only sync files that are newer? If 80 people did their work and saved it on the new box, how did rsyncing their data from the old box overwrite newer files?

Quebec hasn't heard of the 20th century in many cases, I'm sure they think a proxy server is someone who gathers up votes for public company AGM vote issues.

>Does it really? Or does it make using a taxi service a better value so that the usage of taxis overall grows? Do we really want to subsidize a jobs program for taxi drivers or is there a better way to employ those resources? While there is some clear disruption going on it's not at all clear that that is a bad thing.

This is a problem. I mentioned this elsewhere that everyone's thinking about the taxis vs Uber problem, but nobody is thinking about the bigger issue coming down the road: Self driving cars. When those hit the streets there are going to be some enterprising companies that run fleets of self driving taxis, and more importantly a lot of the car cooperatives/collectives will have their own stocks of on-demand vehicles that people pay per-use instead of owning. By 2030 if not sooner, there aren't going to BE any taxi drivers. Or Uber drivers. And a lot less truck drivers, and delivery drivers, etc. There will be thousands of jobs in each city permanently gone. Something has to be done to plan for that.

It's very interesting to watch this unfold in France and elsewhere, but I think that the drivers and taxi companies are spending a ton of their powder fighting the immediate problem with companies like Uber and ignoring the medium term threat that will ultimately put them all out of business in the next 10-15 years. Self driving cars. There aren't going to be any jobs driving taxies by 2030 if not sooner in 1st world nations at the rate developments are going. There needs to be planning done now to handle what's going to happen when thousands of drivers are out of work, but of course nobody is thinking about it.