For sure there a paths to losing data with ZFS, as I have learnt painfully too. At the same token, when I sat down and honestly reviewed my own actions, I was also part of the problem... I will continue to rely on ZFS to keep my data safe, I have upgraded all volumes with irreplaceable data to triple raid. I check the system logs for drive errors and run regular scrubs on the volumes. ZFS is a very reliable car, but like any car still needs an oil check and someone paying attention to the warning lights. ... and I make backups....

Actually it requires an increased probability of collision between two particles so they can fuse. This can be achieved by increasing the density or the speed of the particles. Neither are dependent on either gravity or magnetism. These two forces drive the containment field for the reaction: gravity for the Sun, magnetism for the Tokamak.

What most posters seem to miss about the Tokamak in general is that the whole plasma physics and magnetism is very well known, highly detailed in models and executed on very large supercomputers. Every experiment in a Tokamak provides new data to calibrate the models. The scientists have a very good understanding of where they are headed, engineering is trying to keep the pace.

Severance tax may be applied in the US, but is it applied to the bulk of oil extraction?

Sinking a US carrier by being undetected has been demonstrated. see http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/boats/boat_walrus2.htm

US carriers have been routinely sunk by canadian, australian, dutch and english subs. As another commentator mentioned, aircraft carriers are great for projecting power against an inferior enemy, not as much when facing a sophisticated foe.

Having used both name/password, electronic tokens etc. to access my financial data, I would like to see an objective analysis of their security. I personally prefer the electronic tokens used by several Dutch banks (ING, Rabobank, ABN AMRO), above the name/password features used by American banks (BofA, Wells Fargo, Chase, JP Morgan, Credit unions, etc.). But the main question is: how do they perform in real-life? Which schemes lose more money to scamming or phishing?

Evaluating the performance of my parents (70+) with modern authentication schemes, does not bode well. My parents are generally unable to distinguish phishing mail from real mail - how should banks balance the convenience of email against the requirements for safety?

Can anyone point to objective evaluations of bank security and authentication schemes?

The market is anonymous, unless you and our 'friend' agree on which product to trade you have no way of identifying the other party. On popular products, i.e. Google or Apple, this is impossible. On other products liquidity (trade volume) is so small that such transactions would stick out like a sore thumb.

On top of that, it will take a lot more than two lines of code to defeat all the checks and balances in trading code. These checks and balances usually trace their origin to things having gone wrong in the past. I would expect all trading firms to have good source code management systems, your 'enhancement' will not go unnoticed.

Thanks, I now appreciate the dilemma faced by the jury when interpreting and judging the actions of all parties involved.

It's a sad case, I hope he gets sentenced to time served. He will be punished more than enough whilst trying to put his life back together again.

Thank you for your post, and thank you for your jury service.

Without access to all the evidence and testimony presented in court, I am still stuck with one question: Was justice served?

Based on your comments I concluded that Terry Childs did violate the law, and that in your opinion the whole situation was handled badly by all parties involved. Since law only exists within the context of human society, I find it dissatisfying that the human context was removed when you were instructed to apply only the law. By your own comments you were unhappy with the conduct of both parties in this trial, but what in your opinion would be a just outcome, in other words, how would justice be best served?