The laser was meant to drill a hole in his head but someone set it to "Stun". Give it a second to charge up and I'll bring up back into conformance with the treaty...

Now bullies are going to beat them up to take their fingerprints. That might be less fun.

A Darwinian solution to the problem is right on track!

Hey! It COULD work! If everyone had 30cm lips! They'll use Steve Tyler for the proof of concept!

You can kludge on encryption in the pipeline:

http://sourceforge.net/project...

As far as I'm aware, you don't need 'dump' with ZFS. You create a snapshot, then 'zfs send' that snapshot off to your backup storage. Can be done on a live filesystem. Delete the local snapshot when you're done copying it off. ( http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E187... )

I dunno about ZFS for Linux, but FreeNAS's ZFS has NFSv4 ACLs. Are these not sufficient?

...federal officials forced American tech companies to participate in the NSA's controversial PRISM program.

You misspelled "illegal." HTH. HAND.

"So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth. And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space 'cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!"

Yes. Alas, this is a consequence of ZFS's COW (copy on write) design.

In a filesystem like EXT3, if you open a file, seek to some offset, and write new data, EXT3 will write the new data to the existing disk block in place. ZFS, however, will allocate a new block for that offset (copy on write), write the modified data to it, and update the block chain. The result is that it's apparently very easy to badly fragment a ZFS file (do a Google search for "ZFS fragmentation" to see various stories and tests people have written).

You can apparently mitigate the problem by occasionally copying the entire affected file -- Oracle's own whitepaper on the subject apparently reads, "Periodically copying data files reorganizes the file location on disk and gives better full scan response time."

Bottom line: ZFS is not a panacea, nor is it simple. There are myriad options, and trade-offs to all of them.

Get rid of your dictator and adopt a representative democracy and it will be over. Indeed, nobody could have thought it would go on this long.

Arrays in C++ start at 0. I'm pretty sure you can set a pointer into the middle of the array in C++ and do this by indexing the pointer. I know you can do it in C -- a couple companies ago I deployed something that did that into production code, mainly to keep the design review board on their toes. They weren't, and it got deployed that way. I thought it made more sense that way anyway, so I never mentioned it. It's entirely possible it's already confused the hell out of a code maintenance guy, but hopefully he'll think it makes more sense that way too.

Sends an alert when you're in too deep. Version 1 doesn't do anything due to a developer's misunderstanding of the requirements.

Pff. You sound like the kind of person who would want to make a phone call on your phone. They don't like your type, down at the Apple Store!

You could apply hardware to the DRIVER that prevents them from texting while driving. That seems to work more effectively than more complicated technical solutions.