I'm not at all arguing that point. I don't even particularly care one way or the other. I'm more fascinated that everyone is so busy arguing over over everything other than this blatant leveraging of the situation.

Hear me out. I'm saying that if they wanted to arrest the kid, they would. They're intentionally publicly saying 'Gee, nothing we can do about this! If only we had some new laws for this new technology...'. I guarantee if they weren't playing that angle they'd just arrest him regardless of whether a crime has been committed or not as people got up in arms about the whole thing. This is an opportunistic play for more resources the way I'm seeing it.

That would be very reasonable. I'm very sure it also doesn't allow a new large budget to be appropriated and I almost guarantee the police are actually looking for new toys and less restrictions along with a bigger budget. I'd bet you a beer my interpretation is much closer to what you're going to see if the recent pattern holds. I am pretty sure of this: that quote wasn't an off the cuff remark; it clearly was a call for action while giving the preferred solution in a thinly veiled way.

OTOH, I'll be the first to admit that I very well could be wrong. We'll see how it plays out.

They're intentionally not finding a reason to arrest him and they tell you why right there. They want new laws. This is an underhanded attempt at manipulating the public and I very much suspect it will work if the comments on this story are any indication.

I say this as someone that runs ZFS on his backup/file server; if you do have to restore or resilver it can take a long while! A single slow drive in a vdev will limit the entire pool's IO (the extent of which is entirely dependent on topology, but the weakest link always crushes you in ZFS). After a handful of TB of data, even with a pool of mirrored vdevs and a flash cache device, the resilver for a single drive can take a day unless you've got some serious spindle count at high RPMs. Even SAS drives don't provide that many IOPS.

Agreed. I'd like to see the look on their face when they realize they have enough power for racks of servers but not nearly enough cooling. We've actually got a staging area at work where all of the power comes into the building, but it's only got enough cooling for a couple of racks (and not dense racks, at that) full time and then a couple of racks meant for short tests. Running everything full for any lengthy amount of time probably wouldn't fly even in the Minnesota winter with the receiving garage door open. To be fair, the room wasn't created for racks of full time servers on purpose.

My family is Swedish on my father's side (I'm American, about three generations removed). As I think about it, I'm not even sure what exactly Sweden exports. If I remember correctly your military even imports most of their equipment.

Anyways, you guys have a pretty direct democracy, couldn't you vote this down? Or is this a consequence of "too much democracy" and this is what the Swedes, as a whole, want?

I disagree with half the stuff you say, but I value your comments and still find great bits of insight in a lot of them. For instance, whenever you rant on Linux I usually read the entire post. Usually I agree with about a quarter of it, disagree with the rest and find things to think about on both accounts. I believe that you have a reasonable take even on things you don't necessarily like and usually avoid descending into 'troll' territory even when arguing. That's the kind of stuff I've only been able to find on Slashdot and why I keep coming back.

BTW, have you run your yearly "try Linux again" experiment recently? If not, don't bother with Fedora 22 - as a developer and avid Linux user/committer I can tell you it's pure crap driven by UX dorks. Very nearly completely unusable. Try a SUSE Linux build next time around. They haven't completely jumped the shark yet and still provide a reasonable, user friendly, stable build.