The data from the Blackblaze study is fine, it's not flawed, it's real. The issue is how it's being interpreted and the conclusions drawn from it and also with the lack of more data such as how old were the drives that failed vs. the one that were being "very reliable" etc...

Two things:

1) TotalBiscuit is part of the Polaris MCN. He's also a partnered channel... thus he did not face recent wave of bullshit from Youtube and the music industry. AngryJoe is also part of Polaris IIRC but only an affiliate so the BS wave hit him as hard as it did the others. He is slowly recovering

2) Sleazy Youtube MCN + sleazy software and hardware company == love. MS and Machinima sitting in the money tree....

Just a re-negotiation. MS has to give up a few inches (read money) and it will have these idiots by the balls, again. It's Windows 7 that they want? Fine... it looks like that's where the next version of Windows will, finally, be able to provide a proper desktop where it's needed and a touch interface if the hw supports that. Yay! They/we won! Right?....Guys?....

I'm not getting my hopes up. HW manufacturers are a bunch of pussies.

Don't use those nasty digital currencies because we have no control over them and make no money on your transactions.

Also because: terrorism, child porn. criminals, insert_scare_word here...

Nokia: We swears! We swears on.... on the preciousssss.

And we all know how well that went. Just wait until there'll be another, more "friendly" commissioner or until they'll "persuade" the current one.

Ed Bott has been sucking the Microsoft tit for years and he loves it. But don't believe me, go check his articles up on ZDnet and see just how many of them cover all things Microsoft.

In one of his articles he tells us just how much he loves Outlook.com. Link provided for convenience:
http://www.zdnet.com/why-i-use-outlook-com-for-my-custom-email-accounts-and-how-you-can-too-7000015546/

Yes people still use it to make money. Like these guys: http://www.ritlabs.com/

Yeah. Sure it is. Got proof?

Soccer addiction, basketball addiction, golf addiction, any_sport addiction along with other addictions such as gardening, collecting stamps, book reading and whatever other activities can be considered as being fun, entertaining and thus "extremely" addictive.

This the good old panacea that people were selling in dark bottles in the old days. Here buddy drink this and you'll re-grow your hair and your dick will be hard as a rock! Honest!

My position is that they address the problem in a completely wrong manner. It's in the part that you've completely left out when quoting me.

So how do they plan to mitigate accidents caused by tired and overworked drivers? Do they also plan to install heart monitors in case people have heart-attacks? Those happen. What about drunk drivers? What about steering and breaking faults. How many people die because of those?

The thing is that these bastards can't provide roads that have enough capacity to support the current and future car traffic so they try to impose half-assed measures like these instead of figuring out how to make vehicle travel both faster and safer. I've got an idea. Ban all vehicles and go back to riding horses and horse pulled carriages. Those go nice and slow. Awesome!

Fucking bureaucrats.

Humans are simply not built for monotonous, repetitive activities. Driving is one of those. If you look at the main cause of accidents there is rarely faults in the machinery it's humans that are either sleepy, drunk or just plain dumb. I really do want to see smart roads and smart cars.

Ugh we really need to learn to let machines do the jobs that we simply can't do well in a consistent manner.

When you know you depend on silicon designed by others. Here's the thing.I bet Canonical would very much rather have everything on that thing be open-source because if something breaks it's way easier to debug than having to bang your head against the wall that a binary blob of anything represents.

Try to buy an SSL certificate with 1024 bit keys. I dare you. Double dare you. Yeah, you won't be able to.

What will be news is the myriad of devices that have crappy firmware which relies on the old keys for all the wrong reasons.

No matter how much I'm trying to train my brain it still thinks that insects and their larval forms are absolutely repulsive. You can't defeat that unless you have grown up eating those things and then it's the norm. In a "survival" scenario we might be able to overcome the repulsion as the hunger sensation might override our other instincts. Anyway, I reckon that, for my remaining life span, pigs, cows, chicken, turkeys, rabbits... etc won't go extinct and neither will we suddenly lose the ability to grow them..

Ugh that risotto with grubs did not help either... yuuuuucckkkkk! Bleah! Ugh!