http://archive.is/wGLnS 395 million to deal with such problems, yet the dam still sits there, untouched.

The only failure here was the lack of maintenance.

Hm.. No. I don't believe this. I do believe that money was never spent on critical projects such as regular and on going maintenance of core infrastructure that California needs to survive. Rather the people of California would rather spend their money on trains between wealthy areas.

Sorry but I recall the Federal government spent nearly a trillion dollars some 8 years ago to correct these issues, most of which ended up in the same pockets as before and very little repair or improvement took place.

Yeah, I had read some place that the problems in both spillways where noted by federal inspectors 12 years ago and since then nothing has been done. I remember living there a decade + ago and had graybeard friends that always wondered why they never performed any kind of maintenance on any of the dams in NorCal. The first time Folsom dam was worked on with any serious effort was after one of the primary sluice gates catastrophically failed. So hearing about Oroville is par for the course. California has bigger ticket items to spend money on I guess.

I guess plant splicing and selective breading do not count as genetic modification. Who knew? Must have meant direct genetic modification.

SAS PCIe and software raid is the way to go these days.

Seagate builds almost a million drives a day of various models. WD is right up there as well, some models are built down to a price to keep them cheap. If you're spending more than the bare minimum on the drives you're likely not going to have too many problems.

I was just thinking this after reading the article. Two things to consider here. 1) They lie all the time about various economic numbers, forecasts etc.2) communism is great a creating "jobs" even when people don't want them.

Dilbert, is that you?

Does anyone know if this feature is back yet? I stopped upgrading KDE because I like having different background images per-desktop and this feature was dropped in favor of the somewhat clunky activities system.

https://www.kde.org/announceme...

I'm not suggesting that innovation doesn't exist elsewhere. Not at all, what I said, which I thought I was very clear about was where the hub is located, and it's not eastern Europe or Asian countries.

I can get my hands on non-counterfeit 18650 and A123's!!