I've bought tons of OCZ drives over the years. In my experience, you either get a good one, or a bad one. The good ones stay good, and the bad ones die quickly.

I've never had one fail after the warranty period was up, but I've had plenty fail within 2-3 months of purchase.

I'm not sure what their deal was, but in dealing with their support people and in general just hearing about how they operated, it sounded like they didn't actually know anything about how SSDs worked, but were just buying parts, "connecting the dots" on the schematic, and hoping for the best.

I'm not even convinced Sandforce knew how their own controller worked, until Intel figured it out for them (and had exclusivity on the fix).

I never tried any of the Indilinx drives. By the time those came around I was already soured on the reliability of OCZ products. Honestly I think they probably died because they tried too much to differentiate their products in the firmware, doing things that Sandforce probably told them would give unexpected results (like putting wait states in the state machine to slow drives down and sell them at a lower price point).

Who knows... now Toshiba can buy them and have some crappy SSDs to put in their crappy laptops.

...it has NOT CONCLUDED that it will not charge Julian Assange.

We have this unexplainable, sometimes completely irrational, and certainly short-sighted view of life. About half of all medical spending in the United States is spent in the last weeks of life, often just keeping a warm body alive long after the mind and soul have vacated it. Yet, as long as there is a warm pile of mushy innards there exotherming energy away, there will always by that crying, screaming, irrational family member (usually a woman) insisting that the mind and soul will return some day, if only everyone around would kneel and bow their heads to some fictitious diety.

What is it about human beings that gets them so unnecessarily attached to ugly bags of mostly water that will continue to exotherm away as long as a machine pumps oxygen into them?

I share Scott Adams' frustration with "the system." Really, the only opponents there are to assisted suicide, besides irrational relatives, are nursing homes, assisted living centers, and other charlatans, leeches, and vultures that will prey on your loved one's body until it can no longer convert chemical energy to heat. These are enormously wealthy corporations that steal BILLIONS of dollars from real, living, productive people just to keep bodies warm. They don't want to lose that income stream, and politicians certainly don't want to preside over losing those jobs.

So, we will never, EVER have assisted suicide. Ever. There will never, EVER be a humane and decent way to end one's life with dignity, respect, and calm acceptance. As long as irrational people can vote, and as long as there are billions of dollars to be fleeced from the estates of old people, the prohibition on assisted suicide will continue unabated.

Turning over your DNA to Google is just plain stupid. Believing you have some semblance of privacy with them is even more stupid.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Pat Buchanan has found a new audience.

Great.

I can promise you our government doesn't give two shits about protecting you from being scammed or harassed by overseas call centers.

US-based? Sure, because the government can make money "protecting" you by seizing the scammers' money and domestic assets.

Overseas? Forget about it. The government won't lift a finger because it can't legally just take anyone's money.

How well do you think they would be selling if the taxpayers were not footing the bill?

I live 11.6 miles from my company out in rural America. An EV would be great for my commute, except when I look at the $30,000-$50,000 price tag of an EV versus the $2500 price tag of my reasonably middle range carbon fiber road bike, which burns neither gas nor uses electricity, the EV just can't win.

For short commutes, the bicycle solution is orders of magnitude greener than an EV, and far far far cheaper, especially when health benefits and lower cost of medical care are taken into consideration.

The US Government will never place restrictions on its use of drones against the American People. Never.

I wanna get PAID. The implications will be far more profound in the tort law landscape as this technology is extended to be able to pinpoint the identity of someone who gave you any generic disease.

Think big. Think HPV, Hepatitis, Herpes, and the whole range of STDs.

Imagine the payout if you can prove that a wealthy person gave you the HPV that caused your cervical cancer? Imagine the payout your family will get if you die from it.

Trial lawyers are absolutely salivating over this, and I would not be surprised to see lawyers "investing" in this technology.

Gotta love the "I do this at home in my hobby time, and this is what I know, so therefore it must scale perfectly and infinitely and be applicable to all problems" crowd.

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.