AC is correct. Jamming GPS (or equivalent other satellite system) is trivial and has been done. It's a major system weakness.

A decade ago I would have believed this as gospel, now I'm not sure. It's difficult to believe the US voice any more.

If MS were serious they'd say ANY Apple laptop. After all, what are they going to do with the trade-ins, open a store? No, they'll destroy them.

Or they could just phone you.

Try finding a Windows or Linux computer with a Thunderbolt connector.

It's the best I can do!

Very insightful. Wish I had some mod points...

I'd like a really slow, large elevator containing a restaurant or a bar. Have dinner or get pissed on the way home! Perfect.

http://www.sony.co.uk/pro/prod... From desk models to Petasite. It uses cartridges of blu-ray discs, UDF.

Not for that reason only, but China has massive investment in the US in the form of US debts. China wouldn't want anyone defaulting. Nor would they like seeing the US$ fall in value.

No no no, only the stupid criminals get caught. The clever ones just carry on milking us. Some of these are called "bankers"; "politicians"; The already rich...

Electrocution = Electro + execution = dead! There's nothing mild about dead!

Latency will be affected by the return channel path (satellite or ground) and to a lesser extent, how far from the equator the flight path is.

If you're noticing data corruption on only 2TB it's probably not what we normally call bit-rot. A bit that changes state for no apparent reason within a very large set of data can be described as bit-rot, otherwise it's general data corruption which has many causes which all are understood: Poor media, poor transmission of data, overwriting of data etc. Once you've got the system sorted out so you don't get data corruption, start thinking about the nature of your data. How much redundancy is in it? If it's jpegs the almost none, so a single bit error could be serious to a file. If uncompressed TIFFs then there is a lot of data redundancy and the single bit error might only be an error of a single pixel, which you might not even notice. And finally, don't expect optical media to be safe from errors. Only use it as part of a DR plan.