I concede that SATA may be able to work well with ZFS. Assuming a competent admin, non-buggy software, quality hardware, and an organization willing to spend the extra to have the aforementioned requirements.

a) was my biggest point. We agree. I've just seen this sort of foolishness far more often in hacked together ZFS systems because people think they can build enterprise-class systems with software alone. My point is that hardware matters too. Fuck timeouts, if someone tried to skimp $20/TB on their storage I will not be responsible for their data. They probably won't pay me anyways.

b) I wasn't aware of that as the root cause, so thanks for the explanation. I'll look into it out of curiosity, but not because it is my job to find/fix Solaris's bugs.

Most of what I work on needs IOPs far more than TBs. Most demand 5 9s or better, and many can't tolerate any data loss. I'm happy enough with SAS for primary, tyvm.

I'm sure you already know this, but for others reading: I've seen a heck of a lot of problems on SATA raidz2s. For the love of FSM, Bob, God, or all that is holy, do not use Green drives! Use SAS if you want reliability and performance.

Your list is a bit off. #5 should be "Be black and murder a white girl", #6 white male.

I've asked the same thing for a while (and here on /.). As for selling the videos online, Big Sister in the Czech Republic did this. The sex was free for male guests, but they had to pay a small entrance fee and sign the contracts.

FTFY.

I find it incredibly frustrating... a company that seeks to manage the world's information can barely acknowledge feedback, let alone give outward signs of responding to it.

If it gets stolen, the thief has until 5 minutes after I realize it was stolen (probably ~30m). They have to break my phone's encryption or guess my PIN, then figure out my google password and login to my account. All before I login and disable google authenticator, generate new backup codes, and switch to a different 2-factor system.

To keep my account, they also have to remove every possible avenue of account recovery I have.

Authenticator isn't perfect, but combined with Google's other security features, I have to say my Gmail account is among the most secure accounts I have. At least from non-state actors.

It [gun acquisition by felons] is only nominally illegal and rarely enforced. You may think that makes it "illegal", but if you can easily do something with little risk of getting caught, it's effectively closer to legal. California just funded an effort to seize weapons from felons known to have them, but I doubt many red states are doing this.

Many of the proposed laws are designed to make it harder to do things that are currently illegal. What's the point in making it illegal for felons to buy weapons when they can untraceably do so without background checks?

Can you imagine the conservative reaction to liberals pursuing gay marriage in this fashion? Pass a law saying the government is forbidden from collecting gender information, couples can legally marry without any paperwork, etc. and then randomly revoke a handful of marriage licenses during traffic stops. I'm sure the Freedom Lovers would support that.

Stop! Godwintime! Is it hypocrisy for a rapist to call Hitler a murderer? Now that the purge is complete, the GOP is almost exclusively hateful, at least in terms of policies and rhetoric. And with the Southern Strategy it has become an umbrella organization for hate groups. I'm going to write a list of hypothetical people and let you guess which party they most likely belong to:

• Someone who advocates the violent overthrow of the federal government
• Someone who believes certain types of doctors deserve to be murdered
• A KKK member
• Someone who believes the poor are moochers
• An old man who calls a young woman a slut
• Parents who disown their child for their sexual choices

The DP has their share of assholes, but, while the GOP encourages their crazies, the extreme left is not tolerated within the Democratic Party.

He is full of shit. Normally I respect your views, but this time you are too.

You honestly think an NSA-led program to collect every single email, phone call, and text message wouldn't be classified? Really?

Intelligence sources and methods are always classified. The FBI has access to plenty of classified in national security issues... they're just not, as the article said, able to use classified in court. Aside from the legality concerns, doing so would expose sources and methods.

For the same reason, the FBI doesn't go arresting every jackass/whistleblower who talks about classified programs on CNN. Some of them are exposing classified, but others are spouting bullshit to further their careers. Arresting only the latter would verify their validity (exposing methods/sources), and arresting both types wouldn't go over well. Although it might make CNN somewhat respectable again.

Now that law enforcement are calling pressure cookers WMD, I think it's safe to say you are describing a high yield explosive.

So you're saying Exxon is an "energy company" because oil is "just 1 product"? Really? That's like saying McDonald's isn't a fast food place because they also sell bottled water. Oil and oil byproducts compose the vast majority of Exxon's operations. Natural gas too, of course, but renewables and other energy sources are pretty minor in comparison. 1%? Don't have recent figures.

Gosh, that's amazing! If you start your graph right in the middle of the great recession, it looks like the S&P 500 was doing really well and energy companies barely held. Of course, if you step back a bit you'll see energy companies did fairly well during the bust. Exxon outperformed the S&P 500 over the last 10 years (+144% vs +70%). And it yields decent dividends, too.

Hell, Exxon is doing so terribly they can't even beat their 2008 record of $45.22 billion annual profit on $482 billion revenue. But I guess it's hard being the most profitable company in the world with a P/E of 9 when investors think facebook is worth buying at P/E of 1,800+ and 1/5th the market cap.

While quite obviously true, you leave out one important fact: policy decisions determine which energy source is cheaper. And there is no "neutral" policy that leaves the market undistorted.

Good points, even I didn't know a few of these. A few oddities worth mentioning (because they bother me so) are 1) re-signing like the 101 North/South to East/West in parts of LA and 2) Hawaii has interstates *facepalm*. Yes, I know why, it just drives me crazy when I am there.

That may be true elsewhere, but whoever designed this section of the 405 was not good.

Nearly every onramp or interchange has 1-2 "lane ends" mergers as it merges with the 405, and usually another within 500 feet. The result? 30+ minute waits at interchanges. Turns out Americans are even worse at lane merging after they've waited 30 minutes and just done two of them in the last 1/10th of a mile.

Who needs to lay transcontinental fiber? The country is already absolutely blanketed in fiber, much of which is dark. In terms of wiring, the last mile is the missing link, not the backhaul or backbone.

I think you have a very misguided view of "intent". He intended to publicly release the documents. He knew their classification level and its definition (that the information would harm the US and help its adversaries). Any reasonable person with an IQ over 70 would understand that publicly releasing documents would mean that everyone, including the US's adversaries, could get a hold of them.

Thus, he deliberately released documents that he knew or should have known would aid the enemy. By your logic, murder isn't murder if the perpetrator says they just wanted to shoot someone in the face but didn't really want to kill them.

"I was just whistleblowing!" is only a viable defense in these situations when the person is exposing serious criminal wrongdoing committed by the government. If Manning had read these documents, perhaps he would have known that he wouldn't accomplish this goal...