Idiocracy, here we come!!

"The years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes the genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections."

This or this are already waiting for you. ;)

I don't understand how people like Simon Hackett can't get their ideas heard by their government (the same thing happens in the US government, unfortunately). I watched his video a while back and it highlighted how much waste / over engineering was going into their NBN, and his ideas to simplify the service would considerably reduce the cost...

If I'm not mistaken, OSX was based on BSD, not Linux...

Oops... That should be "your tax revenue", not "your're"... Can't believe I did that... :(

As vehicles become more fuel efficient, the amount of tax you collect goes down. We are facing that problem in several states in the US, and said states are supposedly giving more thought to pay-as-you-drive taxes instead of more gas taxes (which, even if you do raise the taxes, as cars become more fuel efficient, you're tax revenue still declines).

Lies... All lies... Everybody knows there aren't any Girls on Slashdot (let alone the internet)... :P

That'd be all well and good, if we were talking about RIM/Blackberry, but the article you linked has *NOTHING* to do with the topic at hand...

I'm pretty sure you meant, "Ain't nobody got time for dat!"

False -- I've done it on a number of occasions (to drives I didn't care about), and was able to run the drives for months without their covers. I'd still be using the drives if I had need for drives as small as they were (somewhere in the 80GB range)...

Would I use a drive in this state for something critical? No, but saying you immediately lose the data if you pull a drive cover is just flat wrong.

I know I'll probably see negative moderation as a result of what I'm about to post (being as I'm about to talk up WHS2011 in a Linux related thread), however...

I stopped using RAID in any of my systems after I started using WHSv1. WHS2011 has the same feature -- live system backups. If a drive fails, I pop in a new one (of any type/size), boot a CD that came with WHS (essentially a WinPE environment with a recovery software baked in), select my backup (I save 7-10 days -- I forget what it's set to), and in about an hour my system is back to the state of the last backup. WHS is set to perform the system backups between 00:00 - 02:00 every night. The very first system backup is a 'full' backup, the rest are 'diffs'. I've had to use this feature on two of my systems, so far, and both were because of crappy WD drives (OOOOHhhh, I hate that brand soooo much). It came in really handy when I switched both my primary desktop and my laptop from mechanical HDD's to SSD's. I forced a backup, swapped the drives, and then restored...

This way, either my WHS storage pool (based on StableBit's DrivePool product) or my workstation HDD's can fail, and I can easily recover. It's automagic, manageable via a single UI, and because of DrivePool, I can easily increase the storage space at any time (without interrupting other users of the storage pool). /me puts on his asbestos underpants

Are you sure?

Thanks, Balmer! I'll keep that in mind next time...

Mitt, is that you?

I should have mentioned -- I'm also paid via direct deposit. If my 'default' pay were via one of these crappy cards, I'd do *whatever* paperwork was needed to get a normal check or direct deposit...