You must be joking. Mechanical hard disks do not have wear leveling. They only have some extra space to remap some individual failed sectors. The media of a mechanical HDD does not really wear out anyway.

So what? A meteor could crash on your computer too. RAID still offers extra protection against loss of data.

That has nothing to do with using RAID or not. Even normal backups wouldn't survive that, unless they are in a fireproof container or stored off-site.

Hah hah! That is no guarantee. Very often the "response" is just crickets chirping. The actual benefit of Linux is that you can hire your own engineers to write code to the kernel or other open source components.

A content-aware firewall made of rubber is the professional solution.

As far as I know, it's a Windows-only malware. There's some technical details in F-Secure's blog. Of course a Linux or FreeBSD version could also be created, as there is plenty of vulnerabilities in those operating systems too.

Newer codecs would still have inflated the hardware requirements. H.264 takes more crunch than MPEG-2. However, as you point out, the main problem is that the YUV overlay is not used in web browser video players. One can see the difference when he downloads a video from YouTube with youtube-dl or plays it via MiniTube: the CPU usage is much lower.

I suspect Dice doesn't do nearly as much datamining as Google.

Uuhh, nerd rage. Sent from mother's basement and spoken out with a nasal "young Bill Gates" voice.

And the one weird bot somewhere deep Russia which posts the random "m0d do3n must charted have BSD come as" message to every article.

But it's the perfect match for a modern microsecond-long attention span.

He could still release it as open source to allow for a "kit" which could be assembled over a weekend without properly understanding how it works internally.

There is also the Finnish demoscene event Assembly.