Pretty much this. What's the difference between bad music music and bad food?, you can die from bad food. You don't hear the restaurant industry complain that people can cook at home, do we?

>Computers do not supply intelligence, they can remember rules, and can do math.

Most employees in retail these days do not supply intelligence, and they can't remember rules or do math.

>The majority however would do nothing but become restless, and that would lead slowly to fighting each other.

Computers have proved that otherwise.

iPhone apps, Xboxes, Minecraft, GTA, etc, has shown us that already a decent part of the population will keep itself busy with entertainment.

would have been awesome had this happened a year or two ago when the company was on the upswing, not shortly-to-be-passé.

Part of the problem with tech industry is that company lifecycles are shortening even faster than product lifecycles.

If it takes two or three years between the decision to go public and the actual IPO (plus another 6-12 month lockout period afterwards), and a company can only exist for 5-10 years before it becomes obsolete, the time between the decision to exit and the actual exit takes up a huge portion of the company's arc.

The VCs who backed GRPN and ZNGA made bank. Almost nobody else did. Sometimes you get lucky, like GOOG and LNKD, who raised enough capital to wall themselves off from competition. Sometimes a company can re-invent itself, like AAPL, AMZN and NFLX. Sometimes, you can find a sucker willing to pay top dollar for a worthless asset - MySpace had a good exit and left someone else holding the bag.

But those are the rare successes. Most of the time, the founder rides the rocket all the way up and all the way down to the ground, and even he ends up getting a fraction of what could have been made if he'd only shopped the company out earlier.

It's incredibly difficult to build a sustainable business in this industry. If you catch the big industry cycles: mainframe to micro, micro to client-server, client-server to cloud (mainframe), you can do so. Get out of sync with the industry fads - whether you're 1-2 years early or 1-2 years late - and your company will not outlast the pendulum swing. The optimum strategy is to find a fad, slap something together for $X, and try your damndest to get acqui-hired for $2X in a 1-2 year timeframe. Lather, rinse, repeat. If it's so important to be a CEO, sell the damn company anyways, and use the money you made off the last one to start the next one.

I agree with everything you said, other then "RAID's only purpose'. RAID also allows you to create volumes of much larger sizes then the original disks and allows greater read/write and IOPS by treating many disks as a single device.

RAID is NOT a backup.

Raid does only a few things...

Depending on level, allows you to survive $X number of disks failing.

Allows you to 'stripe' a file system across multiple drives for increased performance or size.

It does not protect any other problem, such as raid card failure, filesystem corruption, rm -rf, or any other number of problems that can occur.

That is a common method of failure in flash, but not the only one. There is also the failure mode where the drive goes read only and you can recover data from it to a new drive.

Always been able to recover platter drives?, maybe you've been very lucky then. Many drives fail in methods that are expensive (taking guts out and putting them in new case, or replacing drive controller) or impossible (hard drive patter shatters, happens in notebook drives). .

Thanks, Frederik, for learning so much in your time with us that you were able to teach, through your example, some of us how to write. Enjoy Heechee heaven, and if you ever figure out how their ships work, come back and see us sometime. (Thanks again. I just realized how the ships work. You pick up a book, you open it to page 1, and *poof*, you're there.)

-Tepco reported that the radiation level was 100-millisieverts. It now transpires that 100-millisieverts was the highest reading that the measuring equipment in use was capable of displaying.

What the actual fuck. How could such a stupid mistake be made?

I appears he gave a few specific people methods on how to avoid the feds on specific (federal) crimes they had committed, that in itself could be (and was) considered aiding.

The prosecution is using it as a religious platform for their pseudoscience saying that any negative speak of their golden cow (polygraph tests) is an affront to god and country.

Essentially the government is trying to frame the issue that anyone that does anti-poly is a child molesting terrorist so they can control the discussion and then control debate on they laws surrounding it.

Reading the article, I 'think' he was aiding specific people that had committed crimes (gave methodology how to get around what they did), and that is how he was charged. The issue is fed.gov is using this as a platform to give the appearance he was charged just for teaching anti-poly alone to cast a net of FUD around other who do so.