... which demonstrates that you don't understand the problem. See, people die and will die in every production car ever made. Accidents happen, and with enough money spent, virtually every single death could be prevented, with enough additional shielding, crumple zones, and whatnot. But the result would be a car that nobody could afford, not even by a long shot.

So, in a very literal sense, every single car you've ever driven is a balance between the amount you're willing to pay and the amount of risk you're willing to assume. At what point does a death become a death due to a design flaw? Well, guess what: there is no obvious, intuitive "line" that would be easy to sue over.

An ignition switch occasionally dies? Would you *want* a car company that didn't improve its designs as it learns more about them? But on the balancing side, you literally cannot afford to pay for a car getting a recall every time an improvement is made.

There are a ton of shades of grey, and it's not callous, it's just sensible business to balance costs with safety. Doing it any other way would be the foolish way to do things.

The annoying facet of this topic is the repetitious use of belief rather than actual data on whether this even works. Surely this regulation exists somewhere. I neither have, nor want, a phone.so I have no horse in this race. Ask yourself how many phones are going to be remote wiped and/or killed by silly users who "think" they have "lost" or had their phone stolen. Be interesting to see which groups are pushing, and who financing, this service. Cynical much? Why yes.

I can totally see mounting one of these on my Intel Galileo so it has awesome storage for a serious drone AI package and a ton of capacity for recording video and sound. Whether by air or ground. Give it IR, radar (EMCON'ed of course) and LIDAR. Wrap it all up in some RAM (Radar Absorbing Material) and they'll never 'see' it coming. Yeah!

OK, so I'm not serious, still neat though! On second thought, except for the aerial vehicle (lowest price I've seen is $699.00) it really is doable.

I have ten drives here: 2 x 60 GB, 4 x 128 GB, 3 x 160 GB, all 'normal' SSD's, and one 240 GB PCIe. All of them are backed by an UPS. Oh, I forgot the ones in the portables and tablets which also count as battery backed since they also do an orderly shutdown when the batteries are nearly drained. Still I do not expect any hard drive to operate without loss of data when the power is ripped out from under the device, whatever storage device is under scrutiny. Sorry, but many operating systems cache writes and data loss happens even with journalling. You can turn that off at the cost to throughput. That's why I used device quick disconnect option on systems with no UPS elsewhere. I imagine having capacitors is nice as an added level of protection. Hell, I almost certainly have them on the PCIe at the least as defense against power-loss is a feature. Still, expecting total loss protection from just the drive, mechanical, solid-state, even tape or or optical disc is not entirely rational.

How many billionaire CEOs have courted you personally?

Not enough though. One can never be courted by too many billionaire CEOs.

Properly setting up a mail-server is not for everyone and, from far too many (tens to hundreds of thousands of) examples, properly secure. Frankly, even with this audience, I wouldn't expect everyone here to be able to do so either. Sorry folks! Sure sounds nice right up to the point reality slams a blacklist on your server, even assuming your ISP hasn't blocked it or isn't on the blacklist to begin with.

I've never considered Microsoft 'evil.' Self-centered and only looking out for only it's own interests,ya but that's pretty much par for the course with most corps and people. I still hold corporations and people accountable. I always have. Just as with Yahoo giving the PRC the contents of an email account resulted in the closing of my accounts with them, so that is what has happened with Microsoft. These weren't the 7 GB freebies either. I'll wait and watch to see if their is an actual behavioral change, are corresponding change in the ToS/EULA. Promises don't mean a thing here. Change.

That thought immediately occurred to me as well.

Printing presses are also increasingly under pressure (no pun intended) by start ups like Lulu that essentially print books on demand.

If BTRFS bit rot detection is anything like ZFS' then it most certainly can check for bit rot and correct it automatically.

Actually, I remember reading a study a while back covering this very subject. In fact, having passengers in the car engaged in conversation actually improved driver alertness because the passengers would pause talking, stiffen, make a sharp breathing noise, or other indications of tension causing the driver to be on alert even when otherwise oblivious to the driving risk.

In practice, it's like having "more eyes on the road" even when they aren't driving.

Well, isn't this your lucky day, then? ZFS on Linux works now, today, without the use of FUSE. Nothing about the license conflicts prohibits use or distribution, just distribution together. I have ZFS/Linux servers in production right now, and they are quite stable. Starting with a vanilla install of CentOS, the instructions are roughly:

1) Install the yum repo file.
2) yum Install kernel-devel zfs
3) Start the ZFS service.
4) Start creating ZFS volumes....

A reboot isn't typically necessary... (though not a bad idea)

Heck, my Father in law spent most of his childhood writing his name wrong when his parents forgot how they'd spelled it on the birth certificate! He found out about it when he got his driver's license as a teen...

I mean, if a kid's parents can't be trusted to spell a guy's name right, how do you figure a secretary is going to get it right 100% of the time?

All true. These aren't present. We end up watching Hulu/Comcast most of the time, and every week or so rent or use "noncommercial distribution" for a prime movie or show. (Often, you can't even rent/buy a particular movie online, thus the noncommercial options)

Today, we watched "The day the Earth stood still"... a wickedly good movie, even if in black & white. Yeah, 100% satisfying...

Truly, I don't understand them making episodes otherwise streamed not available for viewing historically. Don't more eyeballs translate into more revenue?

Listen guys I know a lot of people are complaining about Oculus going to Facebook. Carmack is a total genius.

There are a couple of reasons this probably happened.

This is from Carmack's message when he joined Oculus Rift as CTO last year.

I believe that VR will have a huge impact in the coming years, but everyone working today is a pioneer. The paradigms that everyone will take for granted in the future are being figured out today; probably by people reading this message.

Carmack probably started the ball rolling to get Facebook interested. Carmack has always had problems with massive user connectivity to his systems. He has never really been able to manage it very well or he would have pioneered a MMO. His focus has always been geared towards bringing fast paced FPS game engines to market but they almost always lacked very good latency or rendering when more than 16 people would join a game. Facebook has been working on connectivity since day one. Carmack probably wants them involved so he can access their complete knowledge base.

I think this is a calculated move by Carmack. He's also going to shake things up at Facebook.

I think he's gonna have a positive effect on Facebook and also on Zuckerberg, who has lacked a moral mentor that will possibly be found in Carmack.