IBM's XIV storage platform does this. Has it's own UPS and pushes data to disk from cache when the power goes out.

It really doesn't make sense for large organizations who are supporting mission critical apps. There probably aren't any managers on the planet who will willingly make the decision to support it themselves because one critical issue and it's their job. Instead, they'd much rather have a 3rd party to strangle if and when they have a critical issue

Shearing load results in the slab foundation separating from the slab in a non-uniform matter (which is a very, very bad thing) while the dimensions of both the slab and house remaining constant. You can also get cracks inside the house that are the result of one portion of the house moving in a different direction, than the rest (i.e. more shear load).

If it were a compressive load on my slab then yes, but this is shearing damage.

A majority of them are too small to be felt, but we have had 5.9's and 4.0's before. Even a 3.5 can easily be felt if the epicenter is close enough (of which, my house is only about 3-4 miles away from the epicenter of quite a few of them). The big deal is that it's starting to damage buildings. My house is developing a few cracks here and there, and some people are even getting serious enough as to having some foundational issues. When did it all start? When they started fracking. When did it stop? When they paused fracking for a while. When did it start up again? When they started fracking again. I know correlation does not equal causation but damn if that doesn't provide at least some necessitation to investigate.

Wasn't this a Youtube viral vid at one point?

Should we get together a bunch of slashdotters to contribute to a community fund to purchase the documents and release them? I'd definitely fork out some cash for this.

Ok, I'm going to be a buzz kill and respond with a non-sarcastic idea, but maybe it was a device that communicates via quantum entanglement. Technically those could communicate without regard to time as well, and entanglement communications is dirt simple compared to the massive effort of time travel.

Ok, I'm going to be a buzz kill and respond with a non-sarcastic idea, but maybe it was a device that communicates via quantum entanglement. Technically those could communicate without regard to time as well, and entanglement communications is dirt simple compared to the massive effort of time travel.

Well we could always go with the classical definition of female within most mammals (yes I know exceptions exist) in ability to bear young. She may be a sterile subject or she might be a hostile subject for such, but does she have the remote capability of doing so =naturally=

And as much as I hate defending government, a DNA sequence is probably a heck of a lot less invasive and humiliating than what she's probably going through right now.

Seriously though, we live post-Genome Project, is it REALLY that difficult to just sequence her DNA to see if there exist two X Chromosomes without a freaking political scandal?