In a Russian experiment in 2010 and 2011, six men agreed to be sealed up in a mock spaceship simulating a 17-month Mars mission. Four of the six developed disorders, and the crew became less active as the experiment progressed. 'I think that's just an example of what could potentially happen during a Mars mission, but with much greater consequence,' says Dr. Beven. 'Those subtle changes in group cohesion could cause major problems.'"

That happens on earth as well, it's why you have vacations or risk a burn-out.

Fair(er) pricing.

IIRC Ibm's power 6 architecture outperformed intel's then current offering.

So Hard-drive water cooling ? Isn't condensation always an issue when you freeze ?
You're not filling the baggy with silicagel or something like that, so frozen crystals inside will melt when taken out.
What about putting tape on the electronics (pcb) and condoms/hoodies for the connectors ?

They also have an "encrypting circuit boad" that fails very easily, leaving your data encrypted. Don't buy the MyBooks !

Is this the birth of Godzilla ?

It's also hard to gauge the opponent's level, especially since expertise isn't a stepped ladder but more of a gradient.
We don't know how high up we are and we don't know how low the others are.

And then your brother marries a Chinese woman.
Now you've got to learn Mandarin or Cantonese or shunt her out of your "loved-ones-group".

Compared to Iraq, Libya was a big success.

You're not discussing, you're bullying.

Google's play store ! And the "guarantee" up to some point that apps will work on their machine now and the next one.

The bigger question, though, is WHY THE FUCK can't we either disable whole-drive encryption, or at least set it to a key WE control, with some means to read the bits from even a drive that's totally nonfunctional SATA-wise (JTAG, SPI, whatever) and reconstruct it offline?

Can we do that with mechanical drives ? As someone who has to do quite a lot of data recovery recently (thank you WD 3TB Green)
I'm very interested in knowing how, also the WD Mybooks come with a hardware encryption PCB.
Has anyone had success of bypassing/cracking those, since they fail fairly often and the data on the disk is "scrambled" without them.

How do you really know what you need? Which specs are really relevant?

The easies method: You open a taskmanager and have the user recreate its troubled session.
Then you look at what is starved (memory, cpu, IO) and by whom and you upgrade hardware
and tweak/replace the software if possible.

Sometimes you need to do this over a longer period then it's time to write some scripts to poll /proc, performance counters via WMI.

Oh no it's the "We want a stable ABI" crowd again.

There never was a 10.5, you might mean 10.2.