. . . to rebuild your array when one of these puppies fails? :-( I realize it's progress, but I'm just thinking of the practical realities of using individual drives this big in a NAS.

It doesn't matter how fast how fast your maglev trains go . . . until this tunnel in Baltimore is replaced, it's impossible for trains in the NE Corridor to run that quickly.

When you spike consumption in response to lower prices, the prices just go back up.

As with any commodity, this is only true if supply is static or falling while demand rises. The reason gas prices are currently falling is because supply of available oil is rising, largely due to new sources being made available.

or even simply returned to the public in the form of a rebate

Can you provide any evidence of when this has ever happened with a tax was applied to a commodity? In reality, any surplus will be retained by Big Oil. Lefties need to quit trying to hurt the middle class and working poor with all of these proposed "progressive" taxes that are actually completely regressive, disproportionately affecting those who can least afford to absorb them. How about stripping Big Oil of their subsidies for starters? The Democrats could have easily done this during the first half of Obama's first term, when they held the House, Senate, *and* Presidency, yet they chose to leave those surpluses intact.

To be fair, neither did the people who passed it.

What about older people forced to pay for pregnancy coverage they'll never use? What about healthy 20-somethings whose affordable plans (called "junk plans" by liberals, but perfectly adequate coverage for a demographic that very rarely needs anything but coverage in case of catastrophic events) were cancelled even after Obama LIED and said "if you like your insurance, you can keep it?" You don't want to mention those things because it's more regressive taxation from so-called progressives. If you liberals are hell-bent on getting rid of every inequality you think you see, why do you insist on taking money from your fellow middle-class Americans to do it instead of from the big corps you claim to despise so much? THAT's why ObamaCare is so damn unpopular, and part of the reason the Democrats will get wiped out in next week's elections. People are sick of your bullshit.

Members of the Society of Jesus (SJ) -- the Jesuits -- have long embraced science . . . in fact, they have made numerous significant contributions to the development of science. Science and Christianity, and particularly science and Catholicism, are certainly not mutually exclusive.

See page #27: https://portal.chicagopolice.o...

It's also important to remember that not all inner city gun violence is officially "gang-related" (as in, involved someone who was ACTUALLY a member of MS-13 or some other Gang (capital "G") that's being followed by the researchers). Here in the Baltimore Metro area, the rate of handgun violence is orders of magnitude higher in the city compared to the surrounding suburbs, and the motives are almost always drug-related (even if those involved weren't actually part of an official "gang"). Of course, both Chicago and Baltimore have some of the strictest gun laws in the country . . . clearly the answer is to tighten those even further and ignore the root causes of the violence.

I'm not sure why the GP was modded offtopic as the point is quite pertinent. These shortfalls are unfortunately typical of how local, state and Federal gov't in the US budget and spend money by "backing into" numbers. The process goes: 1) an administration or legislature comes up with some new program, initiative, or project that will cost an ocean of money way outside of the current budget allowance. 2) to fund their initiative, they hire their own "experts" to come up with absolutely batshit-crazy projections related to the revenue-generating mechanisms like new taxes, toll increases, etc. which don't account for realities like diminishing returns (i.e., small states with close geographic neighbors can only increase cigarette taxes so much before smokers just buy their death sticks in another adjacent state. For another example: you can only raise a toll on a bridge or tunnel so much until it's literally cheaper for people to take the long way around and gross revenues drop as you continue to increase the tax.). 3) the projected revenues in reality are many times more than the actual revenues that are collected. 4) Politicians spend the money they wanted anyway and then scream that they need to raise taxes to make up for the shortfalls due to their poor / bullshit planning or they'll be forced to shut down schools, libraries, etc. ("We need to do this for the children!") It's a scam that serves all 50 states well in varying degrees.

No reason not to have Gigabit Ethernet in the walls. A 1000 foot spool of CAT 5E is under $90 at Home Depot and a decent quality set of terminating tools is under $60. Gigabit switches are cheap now too. You'll also need something to use to fish the wires thru the walls. Make sure you know how to terminate your cables correctly or you'll slow things down due to errors (or they just won't work at all). You can buy pre-terminated cables but they're more expensive (but might be good if you're in a hurry).

Indeed. There is still a lot of womb for improvement.

Orwell said it best: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

This case illustrates why it's so important to have something like the recently-shut down TrueCrypt project out there. If prosecutors can't prove the existence of an encrypted volume, they can't keep you in jail for not giving up the keys for something which might not exist.

So when can we expect to see the diversity reports on players in the NFL and NBA? How about gender diversity as it relates to employment in the healthcare industry?

Yeah . . . no thanks. I don't need anyone negotiating my salary on my behalf. I don't need some deadweight lazy incompetent being promoted ahead of me just because they've been at the company forever. And as a manager, I sure don't need to lose the important ability to fire a worker who just isn't working out. If I don't like my job or my employer, I will simply leave and find a new one. This is technology, not bureaucracy . . . please don't try to ruin it for the rest of us.