They should get a different job then. When you find one that isn't shitty and thankless, let us know.

The job of police officer is not nearly as dangerous as your friends would have you believe. Again, if they don't like it, they can GTFO.

If they enlisted, the gun wasn't put in their hands, they reached out and grabbed it. Yet again, their personal choice.

Randos, with guns, authority, and an us vs. them attitude. If you are talking about the so-called "good cops", then show me the story where the "good cop" turned in his co-worker for corruption, violence, etc, and wasn't persecuted by his remaining co-workers. Until police end the Blue Code of Silence (Blue Wall, Blue Shield), then there is no such thing as a good cop. Police who won't enforce the law against other police are just as bad as the law breaker.

You are correct. That should have been grouped with the CIFS/NFS statement. looks around for the "edit post" button

Did your "something usable" include jailed instances of Plex media server, DLNA server, OSX time machine service, and bittorrent client, all with web GUIs? I've done Solaris, FBSD, and linux admin, and probably could have set all that up, eventually. I set it up, plus CIFS, and NFS shares, in an afternoon on FreeNAS.

It's the plugins for all those that really sold me on using FreeNAS instead of rolling my own.

Wait a minute. Where did I object to what he is doing? I objected to the logic being used in your argument. Reading your post again, I think I misinterpreted what you were trying to say. I think we're on the same side here, as I support what this guy is trying to do.

I don't think you are applying logic very well here, or possibly you are being intentionally obtuse. In all of your examples, the actor is in a situation where general safety guidelines are in place and expected to be followed. None of the described activities has any expectation of danger of injury.

The expectation being that the restaurant is going to serve food that is not dangerous to eat. The food might not be tasty, the service may be poor, and the prices may be high, but there is an expectation that the person walks out physically unharmed.

Again, the expectation is that the equipment is functional. The family is not guaranteed a fun time, but they at least expect to not be injured.

Same as above. The expectation is that established rules for safety will followed.

Football is inherently dangerous, and participants should have no reason to believe injuries are not a potential outcome. If there is a governing body that tries to downplay the chance of injury, tries to encourage participation while recovering from injury, or tries to discourage rules and equipment changes that would limit prevent injuries, they should be subject to scrutiny up to and including being sued, just as the restaurant, lift, and cinema owners in your examples would be.

From the summary, "They can't really spin the drives faster than 7,200 RPM without increasing heat and the rate of failure. "

I don't see an assertion in the summary, or the article, that drives are physically limited to 7200 rpm. You couldn't finish the sentence before replying?

Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein.

I don't have a problem with those public officials being monitored while they are on the job. The police, who generally carry guns and have a growing reputation for abusing the powers granted by their position, seem like a good place to start.

I'm confused. Bitlocker is available starting with Windows 7, just not in all the consumer oriented releases. I'm not trying to suggest that Win7+bitlocker wouldn't be vulnerable to the problem of MicroSoft having the ability to decrypt the data, with suitable persuasion from a government, but just noting that MS does have encryption options available.

I believe there have been at least two stories about netflix support of linux clients.

I saw it, but didn't make the connection :-( You are correct that judges will often give instructions that make it seem as if jury nullification does not exist, and that the written law and judges orders are the only available options.

In addition, don't dare let on to the judge or DA that you know what jury nullification is during the voi dire (jury vetting and selection process) part of the trial. You'll NEVER sit on a jury if the judge and DA think you are going to judge the defendant AND the law.

Not true. The jury has the ability to judge the law unjust, and acquit the defendant, even if they are shown to be guilty of breaking the letter of the law. This is known as jury nullification, and has been a part of western common law for centuries.

There are things, and they are bumping. I guess that makes your statement correct.

It goes back further than that. See the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances. During the breakup of the USSR, Ukraine agreed to give up their nuclear arsenal in exchange for assurances from Russia, the US, and the UK that Russia would respect Ukrainian sovereignty. The memo doesn't require military intervention by the US or UK in the event or Russian hostility, but it does justify a military response if it comes to that.

Another vote for bambuser.

You can (appear) to close the app, while it will continue to record, even if you lock the phone.