You can count my DNA will be *great*, as I wank at least 4 times a day.
The problem, though, is that guys who don't get any and usually need to resort to those tactics are also less likely to be prime specimens. This would explain why the world seems to be getting dumber - those idiots who don't get any - when they *finally* do by some miracle, they have great chances of having stupid kids.
Tracks being closer together also means less movement track to track. Also means smaller heads, and smaller heads have less mass and are faster to move.
Which I might add also means less power and heat, which is actually the biggest factor in a server room these days. At my work(not a special case by any means), the two massive redundant AC systems for the server room use almost as much power as the entire rest of the company and servers combined. If they were to fail, the entire room would shut down in about 5-10 minutes from excess heat/go into protection mode.
This may be the breakthrough, though, that allows for the type of density that would be required for a human-analog type AI to be a reality.(currently it would take a small building to approximate a typical human brain)
Sadly, the end result will be bad for consumers. Other security companies will be badly hurt by the release of this freebie, and MS will go back to sleep, leaving the security marketplace to stagnate like the pre-Firefox browser market stagnated. *****
And the *real* problem isn't if, but WHEN, all of those systems are hit by a piece of mal-ware that is purposely written to defeat Windows 7's built-in AV. With everyone trusting and few people installing other products, it could be a potential nightmare if the mal-ware writers sit back and let everyone think Windows 7 has fixed the problem(ie - sit and do nothing for about 2-3 years then rip a huge hole in all of the machines at once)
Seems like a pretty huge gamble to not only saddle your client with a huge unpayable debt but also set precedence for future cases just on the hope that it would stir public opinion enough to overcome the powerful RIAA lobby and get favorable legislative action on the issue, meanwhile hoping you can somehow get the ruling reversed on appeal (maybe due to ineffective counsel?) If my lawyer tried a tactic like that, they would be fired well before the trial. *****
Yet, consider if you're in the situation where even a 50 or 100K judgment against you essentially destroys your life and is nearly unpayable. You have to eat and so on, and at even $1000 a month out of your paychecks, even 100K would take a bit over 8 years to pay off. I don't see how she has anything to lose here. At worst she declares bankruptcy and ignores at least 99% of the fine and isn't really any worse off than 100K or so worth of fines.
But, yes, it should be a simple "we caught you again this month - cough up $10 per song on this list".(rinse, repeat 100K+ times a month) At roughly $150 an album in fines, that is a strong deterrent to most people. The trick here is to be below an hour of legal work album, so they essentially HAVE to pay. The RIAA wouldn't even have to prove its case, either, because the charge is less than even an hours' worth of legal fees.
"Let's see - pay the RIAA $200 in fines or pay $250 an hour for a lawyer..."
That is just plain moronic. You do NOT ask for people's passwords ever. That's bloody ridiculous. You'll get a total of two types, liars who give you nothing or fakes, or idiots you actually give you this info. ***** Perhaps this is exactly what they want. An instant way to cull out applicants of higher than DMV worker IQ. Just perfect for obtaining drones who follow directions.
You said it for me.:) The difference between it working without crashing, nice and threaded, instantly, and web interfaces is enormous. I can get done in 5 minutes what it takes nearly 30 through Google. I hate wasting time and dealing with bugs.
It also is nice because what I've read and not read isn't in some cookie - the program is a dedicated reader that keeps it all straight. If I do want a binary, which we all do from time to time, it just does it all automatically.
You will have to likely upgrade to the top level service or business level service with your ISP if you download. You can saturate your bandwidth very quickly and they tend to get upset at that.
note - business accounts are never filtered or restricted by providers. Highly recommended as a result if you can afford the extra cost per month.
I find it interesting that was the new fads of Facebook and the like come and go, UseNet is still there and likely will still be around forever. Because it's the quickest, fastest way to discuss and deal with stuff that isn't loaded down with blogs and useless "me too" posts. The signal-to-noise ratio is very good if you're not in binary groups and if the feed filters spam.(or it's moderated)
And there's the physical speed issue. As the net and browsers get slower and slower, simpler is becoming a useful thing. I can get information and scan through my 30 or so groups in 5 minutes every day. Post a couple of things, maybe. Move on. All before I go to work.
For those who don't use UseNet, it is quite possible to do several pages of text a second at near instant speeds - faster in some cases than your email program. Forums seem hopelessly slow by comparison. Google groups is an exercise in self-torture.
I only read about 30-40 groups, ever, and they are all text-only discussions. So their $2.99 a month Jade service is a no-brainer. I don't come close to even half a gig a month with those groups, and don't need thread retention more than 30 days either.
Cheap. Works.
My only gripe is that it's not as good as some of the pricier options that you directly link to. If all you want is basic text-only threading and zero fancy features, it'll take some getting used to the slower speeds and web interfaces. But I also am cheap and don't want to spend $20 a month... For about $40 a year, GigaNews works fine.
i++; is essentially the same as the statement i=i+1;. If you have multiple threads running at the same time you can potentially lose data should more than one thread try to assign i the value of i+1 at the same time.
*** Quick and maybe obvious question: How feasible would it be for someone to make such a thread purposely run all the time to screw with the number of votes. ie - you don't flip votes so much as cause them to be dropped internally without any real "switch vote A to B" formula or obvious hack in the code itself?
Say, when it gets the screen where you vote for a certain candidate and it then goes to the confirm choices screen. If you chose the "bad" candidate, its running a new thread suddenly that's about half likely to bounce the data...
This is a typical thig for governments(and especially ours) to do. They give out just enough information to make would be terrorists worry what they are up to but hide the real specifics.
A good example of this is that Future Weapons show. "Look at these insanely lethal last-generation weapons we already had..."
Except if you actually follow the links and read the comments - you find that at best the Keck merely equals the performance of Hubble, it doesn't even remotely outclass it.
Equaling Hubble but not costing 1.3 billion for a Shuttle launch to fix it is a big deal to me. It's not only that newer ground based telescopes are catching up with it. It's also about the insane cost to keep it running. That we can almost build two of those 30 meter telescopes for the cost of this one Shuttle launch makes me wonder why we bother.
It's not like we're rolling in money, either. Hubble was great when it was launched, but it's just to expensive to run any more. And God help us if we need to launch a rescue mission due to the damage that the Shuttle has sustained. 2.6 Billion, then.
That's a lot of money. I bet JPL would love to have even the cost of one Shuttle launch added to its funding for next year.(note - that would nearly double their budget for 2010!)
P.S. the 30 meter telescope will have technology in it to filter out virtually all of the distortion caused by the atmosphere. It's a very well thought out and high-tech design. For Infrared, though - the JWST is going to replace Hubble anyways in 2014.
I'd have rather saved the billion+ dollars and just had no IR space telescope for 4 years. I honestly don't think most of the people would have noticed.
Just in the last 24 hours we got a story on Slashdot about the new 30 meter telescope being built. Given the cost to fix Hubble and the non-zero danger that is present, why are we even bothering with it any more? The new 30 meter telescope will have 100x the power of Hubble and allow us to do everything we ever wished, including make upgrades and repairs as needed - all less than for the cost of the launch to repair Hubble(The 30 meter telescope is projected to cost 700-800 million versus 1.3 billion for just one Shuttle launch).
I've been dealing with this for clients for several years now - most of whom deal with AV and photography. Stuff that absolutely must remain intact at any cost.
For a while we used RAID - and RAID 1 and similar redundant options do work well enough. And we debated Blu-Ray. But the final solution seems to be solid state drives. They look to be stable enough once written to actually qualify as suitable for archival purposes. This comes as all hard drives seem to be suffering from poor quality lately. I just know that some of the companies are flat out lying to us in their white sheets based upon how many data failures I have witnessed in the last couple of years.
They aren't exactly inexpensive, but they do work better for this than a hard drive.
And that is also one of the main reason why Deus Ex 2 sucked. They basically made the game for the console only and just added the PC executable. The result: tiny levels, dumbed down story, dumbed down weapon system, awful graphics.
They need to either make it for the PC first and a dumbed-down version for the 360 or they need to just ignore the XBox entirely.
The problem is that they think that adding support for it will be easy, but the problem is that the controller, graphics, and many other aspects of the game are just not possible on a console. Not without crippling the PC game. Some companies get it right, though, and add features to the PC version. Rockstar is good about this, for instance(GTA 4 is much cleaner and smoother on the PC), but EA... I'm not seeing much hope here.
Plus, PC gamers are a fickle crowd. If it doesn't have at least the graphical quality and scale of FarCry 2, well, forget about it entirely, because that's pretty much the lower limit now for quality and storyline.
In sums greater than 20 cents, pennies are not legal tender. You can, but are not required, to accept them as payments, just as in the US one could, but is not required to, accept Swiss Francs or Euros for a debt.
I imagine it is fairly similar with other coins, but I do not know what the limit is. **** The smallest normal denomination of paper money, whatever that is, can't be rejected. And there are stories of companies and people doing exactly that - delivering an enormous wad of dollar bills.
Note: Section 102 of the Coinage Act of 1965 and section 392 of Title 31 of the United States Code say: "All coins and currencies of the United States, regardless of when coined or issued, shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties and dues."
But the Treasury Department says there is no federal law requiring that a private business, person or organization must accept currency or coins as a payment for goods or services. This does not apply to government fines and fees, which they must accept in any manner in which you deliver it. (though they CAN require you to give them rolls of coins instead of loose ones)
Note - if the company does accept cash normally, it is assumed that $1 bills also can be paid, or any combination of paper currency. They don't care, actually - they'll take it all in a bag to the bank and the bank will run it through money counting machines and have it done in a few minutes or hours at most. Coin counting machines are even faster.
BTW - a million dollars in $1 bills is about a 3 ft cube. Paying even this large of an amount in "small change" like this wouldn't phase The Government in the least.
Of course, there's nothing to stop a few million people from "donating" all at once to the RIAA's cause to "help wipe out those dirty pirates".(as an example) The idea in this case would be to clog the law firm with mail and paperwork until they would spend days going through it getting to the real deliveries. Enough of this and it starts to hurt their ability to actually sue people. The Post Office wouldn't care - they've got their (now - sigh) 44 cents an envelope in fees.
Think of it as a reverse junk-mail tactic.
I think this would have worked better for TPB to have taken this type of "donation" tactic as well, since they are opening themselves to a whole can of worms the way they announced it.
The trick is to send in what's equivalent to a normal "unit" of their currency.
For instance, while a company can chose not to accept pennies, they must accept dollar bills. Sending them 3,000,000 envelopes with a single dollar in them would be a scummy but legitimate tactic. Wouldn't cost them millions - but likely a month and hiring a bunch of temps to deal with it all.
Well it's not really a dumb idea. They are trying to make the company give up on the fine by causing them to go into the minus for handling such low amount of money. By doing this , the music company would give up and they wouldn't have to pay the fine. ****
Since this is a civil case involving infringement and not physical theft(ie - actual crime you could do time for - at least not yet), this tactic would also work with the RIAA as well. The only reason the RIAA even bothers to go after people is purely because they think that they can make money off of it eventually. Make it too difficult to collect and watch them stop suing people.
Just suppose that foreign crackers penetrated the air traffic control system or the power grid and either caused massive casualties due to lack of air traffic control or they turned off the lights to major portions of the country also causing significant casualties and economic losses. Further, let's suppose that we are able to identify the source of the attack. It sounds like the majority of the posters so far think we ought to call up their ISP and ask that their account be terminated.
I think the real reason that we are doing this is to force the governments in question to actually crack down on their own problems. Russia won't want to risk an international incident, for instance, and will gladly remove the botnets running out of their country if they have to. So will China. Probably with lots of bullets and other measures if need be.
And as for it not causing harm, well, besides my ex having 4 layers of protection and not doing anything wrong either, I just spent 6 hours fixing her bot infested machine. And then there's what happens if say, they compromise a site with personal data on it for 160,000 people...
Looks like it. they're all borked. Every single one of them. I said so in the title, and I only bother reading the title in Slashdot stories these days.
http://4onlineshop.stores.yahoo.net/an5insax1ram.html The ANS9010 and 9010B suffer no such issues since they are ram-based. They also have a CF backup slot in addition to a backup battery. Very slick and a better solution for a boot drive than a typical SSD if you absolutely must have maximum speed. Pricing with RAM is comparable to an enterprise-level SSD, just roughly 1/2 to 1/4 the capacity is all.
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You can count my DNA will be *great*, as I wank at least 4 times a day.
The problem, though, is that guys who don't get any and usually need to resort to those tactics are also less likely to be prime specimens. This would explain why the world seems to be getting dumber - those idiots who don't get any - when they *finally* do by some miracle, they have great chances of having stupid kids.
Tracks being closer together also means less movement track to track. Also means smaller heads, and smaller heads have less mass and are faster to move.
Which I might add also means less power and heat, which is actually the biggest factor in a server room these days. At my work(not a special case by any means), the two massive redundant AC systems for the server room use almost as much power as the entire rest of the company and servers combined. If they were to fail, the entire room would shut down in about 5-10 minutes from excess heat/go into protection mode.
This may be the breakthrough, though, that allows for the type of density that would be required for a human-analog type AI to be a reality.(currently it would take a small building to approximate a typical human brain)
I bet 90% of home users will be stupid enough to think that it is effectively built-in AV though.
Actually, in Soviet Russia, protesters pacify YOU!
No, they just get shot.
Sadly, the end result will be bad for consumers. Other security companies will be badly hurt by the release of this freebie, and MS will go back to sleep, leaving the security marketplace to stagnate like the pre-Firefox browser market stagnated.
*****
And the *real* problem isn't if, but WHEN, all of those systems are hit by a piece of mal-ware that is purposely written to defeat Windows 7's built-in AV. With everyone trusting and few people installing other products, it could be a potential nightmare if the mal-ware writers sit back and let everyone think Windows 7 has fixed the problem(ie - sit and do nothing for about 2-3 years then rip a huge hole in all of the machines at once)
Seems like a pretty huge gamble to not only saddle your client with a huge unpayable debt but also set precedence for future cases just on the hope that it would stir public opinion enough to overcome the powerful RIAA lobby and get favorable legislative action on the issue, meanwhile hoping you can somehow get the ruling reversed on appeal (maybe due to ineffective counsel?) If my lawyer tried a tactic like that, they would be fired well before the trial.
*****
Yet, consider if you're in the situation where even a 50 or 100K judgment against you essentially destroys your life and is nearly unpayable. You have to eat and so on, and at even $1000 a month out of your paychecks, even 100K would take a bit over 8 years to pay off. I don't see how she has anything to lose here. At worst she declares bankruptcy and ignores at least 99% of the fine and isn't really any worse off than 100K or so worth of fines.
But, yes, it should be a simple "we caught you again this month - cough up $10 per song on this list".(rinse, repeat 100K+ times a month) At roughly $150 an album in fines, that is a strong deterrent to most people. The trick here is to be below an hour of legal work album, so they essentially HAVE to pay. The RIAA wouldn't even have to prove its case, either, because the charge is less than even an hours' worth of legal fees.
"Let's see - pay the RIAA $200 in fines or pay $250 an hour for a lawyer..."
And they get their money as well.
That is just plain moronic. You do NOT ask for people's passwords ever. That's bloody ridiculous. You'll get a total of two types, liars who give you nothing or fakes, or idiots you actually give you this info.
*****
Perhaps this is exactly what they want. An instant way to cull out applicants of higher than DMV worker IQ. Just perfect for obtaining drones who follow directions.
You said it for me. :) The difference between it working without crashing, nice and threaded, instantly, and web interfaces is enormous. I can get done in 5 minutes what it takes nearly 30 through Google. I hate wasting time and dealing with bugs.
It also is nice because what I've read and not read isn't in some cookie - the program is a dedicated reader that keeps it all straight. If I do want a binary, which we all do from time to time, it just does it all automatically.
You will have to likely upgrade to the top level service or business level service with your ISP if you download. You can saturate your bandwidth very quickly and they tend to get upset at that.
note - business accounts are never filtered or restricted by providers. Highly recommended as a result if you can afford the extra cost per month.
I find it interesting that was the new fads of Facebook and the like come and go, UseNet is still there and likely will still be around forever. Because it's the quickest, fastest way to discuss and deal with stuff that isn't loaded down with blogs and useless "me too" posts. The signal-to-noise ratio is very good if you're not in binary groups and if the feed filters spam.(or it's moderated)
And there's the physical speed issue. As the net and browsers get slower and slower, simpler is becoming a useful thing. I can get information and scan through my 30 or so groups in 5 minutes every day. Post a couple of things, maybe. Move on. All before I go to work.
For those who don't use UseNet, it is quite possible to do several pages of text a second at near instant speeds - faster in some cases than your email program. Forums seem hopelessly slow by comparison. Google groups is an exercise in self-torture.
Another vote for GigaNews.
I only read about 30-40 groups, ever, and they are all text-only discussions. So their $2.99 a month Jade service is a no-brainer. I don't come close to even half a gig a month with those groups, and don't need thread retention more than 30 days either.
Cheap. Works.
My only gripe is that it's not as good as some of the pricier options that you directly link to. If all you want is basic text-only threading and zero fancy features, it'll take some getting used to the slower speeds and web interfaces. But I also am cheap and don't want to spend $20 a month... For about $40 a year, GigaNews works fine.
i++; is essentially the same as the statement i=i+1;. If you have multiple threads running at the same time you can potentially lose data should more than one thread try to assign i the value of i+1 at the same time.
***
Quick and maybe obvious question:
How feasible would it be for someone to make such a thread purposely run all the time to screw with the number of votes. ie - you don't flip votes so much as cause them to be dropped internally without any real "switch vote A to B" formula or obvious hack in the code itself?
Say, when it gets the screen where you vote for a certain candidate and it then goes to the confirm choices screen. If you chose the "bad" candidate, its running a new thread suddenly that's about half likely to bounce the data...
This is a typical thig for governments(and especially ours) to do. They give out just enough information to make would be terrorists worry what they are up to but hide the real specifics.
A good example of this is that Future Weapons show. "Look at these insanely lethal last-generation weapons we already had..."
Usually FUD is a bad thing, but not always.
Except if you actually follow the links and read the comments - you find that at best the Keck merely equals the performance of Hubble, it doesn't even remotely outclass it.
Equaling Hubble but not costing 1.3 billion for a Shuttle launch to fix it is a big deal to me. It's not only that newer ground based telescopes are catching up with it. It's also about the insane cost to keep it running. That we can almost build two of those 30 meter telescopes for the cost of this one Shuttle launch makes me wonder why we bother.
It's not like we're rolling in money, either. Hubble was great when it was launched, but it's just to expensive to run any more. And God help us if we need to launch a rescue mission due to the damage that the Shuttle has sustained. 2.6 Billion, then.
That's a lot of money. I bet JPL would love to have even the cost of one Shuttle launch added to its funding for next year.(note - that would nearly double their budget for 2010!)
P.S. the 30 meter telescope will have technology in it to filter out virtually all of the distortion caused by the atmosphere. It's a very well thought out and high-tech design. For Infrared, though - the JWST is going to replace Hubble anyways in 2014.
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/
I'd have rather saved the billion+ dollars and just had no IR space telescope for 4 years. I honestly don't think most of the people would have noticed.
Just in the last 24 hours we got a story on Slashdot about the new 30 meter telescope being built. Given the cost to fix Hubble and the non-zero danger that is present, why are we even bothering with it any more? The new 30 meter telescope will have 100x the power of Hubble and allow us to do everything we ever wished, including make upgrades and repairs as needed - all less than for the cost of the launch to repair Hubble(The 30 meter telescope is projected to cost 700-800 million versus 1.3 billion for just one Shuttle launch).
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/13/2010241&from=rss
Hubble's already outclassed by Keck as well - so ground-based telescopes already make it almost entirely redundant.
I've been dealing with this for clients for several years now - most of whom deal with AV and photography. Stuff that absolutely must remain intact at any cost.
For a while we used RAID - and RAID 1 and similar redundant options do work well enough. And we debated Blu-Ray. But the final solution seems to be solid state drives. They look to be stable enough once written to actually qualify as suitable for archival purposes. This comes as all hard drives seem to be suffering from poor quality lately. I just know that some of the companies are flat out lying to us in their white sheets based upon how many data failures I have witnessed in the last couple of years.
They aren't exactly inexpensive, but they do work better for this than a hard drive.
And that is also one of the main reason why Deus Ex 2 sucked. They basically made the game for the console only and just added the PC executable. The result: tiny levels, dumbed down story, dumbed down weapon system, awful graphics.
They need to either make it for the PC first and a dumbed-down version for the 360 or they need to just ignore the XBox entirely.
The problem is that they think that adding support for it will be easy, but the problem is that the controller, graphics, and many other aspects of the game are just not possible on a console. Not without crippling the PC game. Some companies get it right, though, and add features to the PC version. Rockstar is good about this, for instance(GTA 4 is much cleaner and smoother on the PC), but EA... I'm not seeing much hope here.
Plus, PC gamers are a fickle crowd. If it doesn't have at least the graphical quality and scale of FarCry 2, well, forget about it entirely, because that's pretty much the lower limit now for quality and storyline.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/uc-berkeley-suffers-breach-of-student-health-data/
The email informing students of the breach was sent on May 8th. It was all over the news last Friday.
In sums greater than 20 cents, pennies are not legal tender. You can, but are not required, to accept them as payments, just as in the US one could, but is not required to, accept Swiss Francs or Euros for a debt.
I imagine it is fairly similar with other coins, but I do not know what the limit is.
****
The smallest normal denomination of paper money, whatever that is, can't be rejected. And there are stories of companies and people doing exactly that - delivering an enormous wad of dollar bills.
Note:
Section 102 of the Coinage Act of 1965 and section 392 of Title 31 of the United States Code say: "All coins and currencies of the United States, regardless of when coined or issued, shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties and dues."
But the Treasury Department says there is no federal law requiring that a private business, person or organization must accept currency or coins as a payment for goods or services. This does not apply to government fines and fees, which they must accept in any manner in which you deliver it. (though they CAN require you to give them rolls of coins instead of loose ones)
Note - if the company does accept cash normally, it is assumed that $1 bills also can be paid, or any combination of paper currency. They don't care, actually - they'll take it all in a bag to the bank and the bank will run it through money counting machines and have it done in a few minutes or hours at most. Coin counting machines are even faster.
BTW - a million dollars in $1 bills is about a 3 ft cube. Paying even this large of an amount in "small change" like this wouldn't phase The Government in the least.
Of course, there's nothing to stop a few million people from "donating" all at once to the RIAA's cause to "help wipe out those dirty pirates".(as an example) The idea in this case would be to clog the law firm with mail and paperwork until they would spend days going through it getting to the real deliveries. Enough of this and it starts to hurt their ability to actually sue people. The Post Office wouldn't care - they've got their (now - sigh) 44 cents an envelope in fees.
Think of it as a reverse junk-mail tactic.
I think this would have worked better for TPB to have taken this type of "donation" tactic as well, since they are opening themselves to a whole can of worms the way they announced it.
The trick is to send in what's equivalent to a normal "unit" of their currency.
For instance, while a company can chose not to accept pennies, they must accept dollar bills. Sending them 3,000,000 envelopes with a single dollar in them would be a scummy but legitimate tactic. Wouldn't cost them millions - but likely a month and hiring a bunch of temps to deal with it all.
Well it's not really a dumb idea. They are trying to make the company give up on the fine by causing them to go into the minus for handling such low amount of money. By doing this , the music company would give up and they wouldn't have to pay the fine.
****
Since this is a civil case involving infringement and not physical theft(ie - actual crime you could do time for - at least not yet), this tactic would also work with the RIAA as well. The only reason the RIAA even bothers to go after people is purely because they think that they can make money off of it eventually. Make it too difficult to collect and watch them stop suing people.
Just suppose that foreign crackers penetrated the air traffic control system or the power grid and either caused massive casualties due to lack of air traffic control or they turned off the lights to major portions of the country also causing significant casualties and economic losses. Further, let's suppose that we are able to identify the source of the attack. It sounds like the majority of the posters so far think we ought to call up their ISP and ask that their account be terminated.
I think the real reason that we are doing this is to force the governments in question to actually crack down on their own problems. Russia won't want to risk an international incident, for instance, and will gladly remove the botnets running out of their country if they have to. So will China. Probably with lots of bullets and other measures if need be.
And as for it not causing harm, well, besides my ex having 4 layers of protection and not doing anything wrong either, I just spent 6 hours fixing her bot infested machine. And then there's what happens if say, they compromise a site with personal data on it for 160,000 people...
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/uc-berkeley-suffers-breach-of-student-health-data/
Nah, that could never happen... I mean what are the chances...
the hacker thinks to himself
1. stick me in a cold, dark, room.
2. feed me old, stale food.
3. keep me away from friends, family, and girls.
4. keep me awake all night.
5. do a low level reformat on them from orbit.
That said, I personally think it's long overdue that we started treating these botnets and hacking rings as criminal organizations.
Looks like it. they're all borked. Every single one of them. I said so in the title, and I only bother reading the title in Slashdot stories these days.
http://4onlineshop.stores.yahoo.net/an5insax1ram.html
The ANS9010 and 9010B suffer no such issues since they are ram-based. They also have a CF backup slot in addition to a backup battery. Very slick and a better solution for a boot drive than a typical SSD if you absolutely must have maximum speed. Pricing with RAM is comparable to an enterprise-level SSD, just roughly 1/2 to 1/4 the capacity is all.