Not for $700+ for an obsolete laptop, there aren't.

It would be a decent one for a CA, to keep in the safe.

To the military I say: buy the best on the market, with a proven track record, with a slight bias for buying local.

Not here - the DoD is spending $2B to design a new rifle, rather than just adopt the AK74M, which has all the features it wants and many allies already use.

"'Cause commies, son."

But does it run Windows?

publically funded projects to bring high speed broadband

In the US we gave our telcos massive tax cuts in the 90s in exchange for fiber rollout. The telcos took the money and ran.

Faraday cages are nice until you need to stick a wire through them to plug into the wall. Enjoy your battery life (and/or jiggawatt laser outside pointed through the mesh at a solar panel inside)

This is how we're going bring our keepers to their knees, and eventually break out of the Matrix. We spend imaginary money on imaginary storage and then put all sorts of high-entropy stuff on it and run calculations to verify that it's really working, but they have to spend actually real resources, to emulate it.

Sloppy calculation tip: 24*365 = 10000.

If you're Sloppy enough to accept that premise, then at 10 cents/KWHr, a Watt costs a dollar per year. It makes your $28 turns into $32, but hey, close enough. When I'm shopping, I can add up lifetime energy costs really fast, without actually being smart. Nobody ever catches on!

Now I'm curious what happend to Case1, Case2, and Copy of copy of case3 [8].doc.

This is why I deal with equipment where I can A) crossship (bonus points for letting me ship the drive faceplate instead of the whole thing) and B) swap the drive out myself.

zpool create -o ashift=12 -o autoreplace=on raidz2 sdc sdd sde sdf sdg sdh spare sdi sdj

Alright, fine, ashift=12 is newer than 2009, for 2TB+ drives. And always use /dev/disk/by-id for your sanity.

Thanx for the note! :)