What I do outside of work, on my own time, is not my employer's business. You guys can try passing this law if you want, but it'll be political suicide and the courts will shoot it down faster than you can say "republican in a public restroom caught with a man."
It's called "optimization", and it's the responsible thing for a manufacturer to do for its shareholders. Same volume, same price, higher return on investment. If you don't personally like it, you can pay more for a device with better lower-end specs from someone else.
Are you some kind of capitalist apologist or something? I never offered an opinion on whether I like it or not, I was simply pointing out that this is what businesses do.
Same volume, same price, higher return on investment. If you don't personally like it, you can pay more for a device with better lower-end specs from someone else.
Perhaps you didn't read carefully enough my previous comment: All the manufacturers of mechanical drives are going to be doing the same thing. There isn't anyone else to buy these magical unicorns you speak of from.
And if 7,200 RPM drives can't be made more reliable for an affordable price, I expect that is why Seagate is dropping them completely.
Hybrids are a way to sell a slightly faster version of the mechanical drive for people on a budget who still need reliability.
Lolwut? You're taking the exact same product, gluing it to another product, and that improves reliability? What planet are you from where increasing the complexity of a device improves reliability? Engineers, software and mechanical, rely on the KISS principle for a reason -- it makes troubleshooting easier, and it improves reliability. Complexity is antithetical to reliability. If you want a classic example of how complex design can cause all kinds of reliability issues, look at the LOX engines on the space shuttle. Some of the most complex machinery ever designed -- and it was built top-down, not bottom-up. And every engineer who worked on it will tell you, they honestly don't know all the possible failure conditions because of that. It's simply too complex.
2000 called, they want their crappy hardware back.
Actually, this kind of thing has preceded every major storage advance in computers. As the replacement technology matures and becomes mainstream, the producers of the legacy technology cut corners on quality in order to maximize profit ahead of decommissioning of their production facilities for that technology. Zip disks, floppies, consumer tape drives, etc. All of these had major quality control issues near the end of their production runs. You would be hard-pressed to find a technology in this field that as it sunsets doesn't have its quality turn to absolute crap.
What Seagate is doing here is an attempt at prolonging that period to maximize profits on its existing (mechanical drive) production lines by gluing a turbo-charger onto the I/O equivalent of a four banger. They figure the consumers are idiots and will fall for four color marketing glossies saying these are the "fastest mechanical drives ever!" and boldly print the percentages all over the packaging... and then praying they don't look an aisle over and realize that a modest SSD would blow it out of the water for not much more cash. You can bet these drives are not built to the same specs or tolerances of previous models -- they will fail more often, and because of their hybrid nature, will be more difficult to recover data from when they do, if you can recover anything at all.
It's a douche move, but... it's sound business practice. Sell your customers down a river to keep profits up until you can turn up production on the Next Big Thing, and then try to buy them back later with discounts and deals.
So what you're saying is... you're making a literal for the children argument. You're actually making something... for kids. Damn. This hasn't happened in months in this country. You go girl. The last "for the children" I heard involved guns. I'd rather have kids learning how to make drones, death robots, and sentient AI, because at least that shit takes talent!:)
Rack Space... The Final Front Tier... These are the stories of the USS Cloud Storage. It's continuing mission... to seek out new code, to explore strange new infrastructure... to boldly go where too many men have gone before.
"Hello? Yes, I'd like to report a crime. Yeah, I found a large brick of marijuana inside a computer where I work. Yup. Sure, no problem. I'm at 123 Cloud Storage Lane. Yup. You want my what? Wait-- I think someone's coming. Oh shit, it's the guy!" (click) Ten minutes later and a hailstorm of bullets in a server room...
Sorry, you were saying cloud storage is immune to bullets? Please, continue.
You can, however, imagine their shock when the saboteurs encountered the 7000 volts.
The police arrested three people in a harbor, not pulled three bodies out of one. I know throwing a plugged in toaster into the bathtub with you in it is an efficient way to suffer a total existance failure. So that must mean voltage is less deadly the higher it is. I can't help feeling though like maybe we're missing something important here...
It did not have further details on who they were or why they would have wanted to cut a cable."
They probably thought it was copper cable. It sells for a pretty penny as scrap right now you know. Imagine their shock when they were told by the cops it contained only "worthless" fiber.
Thank you for standing up for what you believe in, guys! Commencing replacement with yes-men who will heed the siren call of their corporate profiteering overlords in 5...4...3...
It would be nice if someone couldn't maliciously delete the contents.
There are very few electronic devices' whose storage can survive being shot with a 12 gauge. Data deletion doesn't necessarily require a dialog box with an 'Okay' button on it.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos must not give much direction to his crew about running things right.
The default policy is set to private and Amazon provides extensive documentation and support should customers wish to secure things properly. 5 out of 6 did, and think the sixth is a blithering idiot. How is Bezos responsible for the sixth guy shooting himself in the foot as when he was handed the gun it clearly said "Do not pull trigger while pointing at self."?
You're a nice person, girlintraining, and I like your posts, but I think you misread his post and a personal attack is unnecessary.
I don't take well to overly-judgemental people, even when it's not me they're judging. Claiming everyone who uses one of those websites is narcissistic is mean-spirited. I'm normally nice on here because most of the people who I reply to are thoughtful, well-reasoned, and at least marginally informed on what they're commenting on. They don't resort to classist attacks on others to get their point across.
And I heard his point loud and clear: I just don't think it's relevant. Encryption would be a lot more prevalent, and it's easy to use -- if you've ever used the websites he ranted about, you've used encryption. Consumers everywhere get shafted by encryption thanks to DRM in everything... so it's not like this is a scary and hard to use technology... the only difference is, it's being used for everything but their benefit.
To say there's no demand because of a vast conspiracy of law enforcement and corporate malfeasance is intellectually dishonest. There is demand. There'd be a lot of demand if it was out there and people knew it. Of course, this assumes such a company would survive being audited every day of every month for the rest of its existance and having a permanent surveillance van in its parking lot. Because it may not be illegal to build it, but law enforcement sure as hell is going to intimidate you for doing so.
Personally, I'm at work all day, and don't want someone stealing something delived off my porch while I'm at work. I'd prefer a locker I can pick up things from that will be secured until I can get at them.
Drop boxes for mail have been around since the 1600s. But hey, if you want to drive across town because you need the excercise, rock on man.
Not everyone works at home, has a stay-at-home spouse, or lives in an are where they trust no one will every steal a delivery left out. Please.
There were two shootings in my neighborhood last night. My mail is kept in a lock box and shipments that won't fit are kept at the post office... which is located four blocks from here, not 15 miles like Walmart. But don't let me interrupt a perfectly good internet rant with logic and facts. Please, continue.
People don't bother reading the manual. Then, everything explodes. How is this news? Please, find me a person in this industry who doesn't know what RTFM means. "Idiot who didn't RTFM exposes personal info." Those of us in the industry have a term for when things like this happen: Tuesday.
What'll be news is when they say "And then the manager and personnel responsible went to jail, because their idiocy cost tax payers millions in lost productivity spent fixing their credit reports and financial lives."
Would a WiFi SD card to a laptop in the car do the same job? I don't know whether those SD cards store stuff permanently or just long enough to transmit it. Or maybe it's configurable to erase after transmission?
Besides the major article on Slashdot just this week about how those cards are so exploitable it makes Java look like Fort Knox, sure. Great idea! One problem: The dude asked for an encrypted storage device. People who ask for things like this generally are against the idea of wirelessly broadcasting their personal data.
Amazon is rolling out offering same-day or next-day delivery across the entire country. Why the hell do I want to drive across town to a Walmart to pickup my stuff when I can have a guy deliver it to my door? The country's postal service isn't going anywhere; It's still the only way to legally serve a large number of documents, send bills, etc. No, the only thing the USPS needs to fix is its budget: They need to pare-down their offerings and focus on what they're still needed for: envelopes, small packages, and letter delivery services. Their problem is that they bloated up while companies like FedEx and UPS took over the lucrative markets of large package delivery and organized to provide rapid package services worldwide. Now they need a strategic refocusing... but to say they're dead because of Walmart?
No. There's not a substantial market for it. The market is for things that make it _easier_ for people to post every last second of their lives online (Facebook, Twitter, Vine, Instragram, Youtube, etc). The vast majority of the public will see encryption or anything else that interferes with instant narcissism as broken.
Amazon says "No." There is a growing market for dashboard cameras. And they're cheap. Really cheap. Forbes even published an article last month suggesting that they may become mandatory on new cars. As far as people posting "every last second of their lives online." You should really google "russian dash camera". They love posting those things online. It's quite the rage right now. No sir, you are dead wrong.
The market is very much alive and growing fast. And nowhere is "instant narcissism" listed in the reasons people are buying them. Security. Safety. Documenting scams people try to pull (Drive a nice car? Got nice insurance. Target for a personal injury scam). Documenting the police "No officer, I wasn't speeding, and this GPS-enabled dash cam proves it." The only "instant narcissism" I see is from a jaded troll on slashdot going for extra karma by dragging in a favorite scratching post for the slashkiddies: Hipsters. And hey, while I appreciate the sentiment, you're just flat wrong here.
Are there any solutions for the niche market of the paranoid photographer/videographer?"
Why yes, yes there is. It's called building it yourself. While encryption isn't illegal, you may have noticed despite the obvious benefits and lack of drawbacks to the consumer, it isn't found pretty much anywhere. This is deliberate: Various law enforcement agencies that don't want to be found out make backroom deals to keep companies from providing this most useful of features because it would make their job more difficult. Or at least, so they say. In truth, they just want access to "ALL THE THINGZ!" regardless of whether there's a legitimate judiciary need for it. And encryption means they'd have to serve warrants and stuff to get the keys, not just go clandestine copy-pasta on your personal data.
So your niche market isn't niche at all -- it would already be out there, if not for the authoritarian governments of the world (I'm looking at you "free" western society). Now with that out of the way, you can roll your own easily. Embedded devices with a USB connector and linux are a dime a dozen, and most sport the ability to store data to an SD or CF card, as well as boot off of them. It's possible to create one-way encryption so something can be written to using a public key, but only decrypted using a private key not located on the same physical device. This would provide you with a tamper-evident system, and simultaniously provide full protection for your privacy; You can't recover the data without the key, and the data cannot be modified without it either.
I would like to see something radical happen which promotes actual technological innovation and hinders all this IP bullshit.
Many moons ago, now long-forgotten to most of the younger crowd that's moving into spaces like this, there was an informal ideology known as the hacker ethic. One of them, was that knowledge is power, and so it should be shared freely. The right to learn, and the duty to teach, went hand in hand in our community. It didn't matter what laws they passed telling us we couldn't speak, we couldn't teach, couldn't learn -- which is what intellectual property is fundamentally about. We did it anyway. And they called us criminals, they passed laws, they tried to delete us from the network we built, and loved, and replace it with paid shills, corporations, and tons and tons of advertising. And none of that gave a damn about learning, or teaching -- it was about consumption.
And today, kids these days, they think that consuming their content, their pre-processed and devoid of flavor "knowledge", is what learning is today. And us, those who were here first... it's painful to watch. Sometimes so much so, we have to turn away from our hobbies for awhile, get up, go outside, because the saddest words ever said are "What might have been!" We failed you. The next generation. But we tried. Oh damn, we tried... We thought it would be enough. Nobody could control the internet!
We never thought that every government in the world, even traditional enemies, would ally themselves with one goal: Destroy this new vessel of human freedom.
We never thought it would become the tool of your oppression.
"UEFI has been implicated in the death of Samsung laptops running Linux."
Yes, it was seen shortly after the murder skipping down the road giggling, its hands covered in blood, counting the money Microsoft had given it to silence the rival gang members.
The fact of the matter is, they already have over 1% of the population in prison.
Technically, 0.7%, but it's a very misleading statistic. 9.2% of blacks are in prison right now. Now, I'd love to hear an argument that explains how 70% of the prison population isn't white, while making up only 20.04% of the general population. The author's original point wasn't that they want to arrest everybody -- it's that they want the abilty to arrest anyone. And they certainly show a strong preference towards arresting certain classes of citizens. Mind you, that's 9.2% right now. That doesn't count probation, or the knock-on effects of being unable to find a decent job ever again unless it's also criminal, etc., etc. They don't have to jail everyone to take away their freedom -- you don't need walls to limit a person's potential, you just need a reason. And that was the OPs point, and mine. And it's a point you missed because you didn't dig into the statistics.
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What I do outside of work, on my own time, is not my employer's business. You guys can try passing this law if you want, but it'll be political suicide and the courts will shoot it down faster than you can say "republican in a public restroom caught with a man."
It's called "optimization", and it's the responsible thing for a manufacturer to do for its shareholders. Same volume, same price, higher return on investment. If you don't personally like it, you can pay more for a device with better lower-end specs from someone else.
Are you some kind of capitalist apologist or something? I never offered an opinion on whether I like it or not, I was simply pointing out that this is what businesses do.
Same volume, same price, higher return on investment. If you don't personally like it, you can pay more for a device with better lower-end specs from someone else.
Perhaps you didn't read carefully enough my previous comment: All the manufacturers of mechanical drives are going to be doing the same thing. There isn't anyone else to buy these magical unicorns you speak of from.
And if 7,200 RPM drives can't be made more reliable for an affordable price, I expect that is why Seagate is dropping them completely.
As has been covered before, reliability is not what is driving these changes.
Hybrids are a way to sell a slightly faster version of the mechanical drive for people on a budget who still need reliability.
Lolwut? You're taking the exact same product, gluing it to another product, and that improves reliability? What planet are you from where increasing the complexity of a device improves reliability? Engineers, software and mechanical, rely on the KISS principle for a reason -- it makes troubleshooting easier, and it improves reliability. Complexity is antithetical to reliability. If you want a classic example of how complex design can cause all kinds of reliability issues, look at the LOX engines on the space shuttle. Some of the most complex machinery ever designed -- and it was built top-down, not bottom-up. And every engineer who worked on it will tell you, they honestly don't know all the possible failure conditions because of that. It's simply too complex.
2000 called, they want their crappy hardware back.
Actually, this kind of thing has preceded every major storage advance in computers. As the replacement technology matures and becomes mainstream, the producers of the legacy technology cut corners on quality in order to maximize profit ahead of decommissioning of their production facilities for that technology. Zip disks, floppies, consumer tape drives, etc. All of these had major quality control issues near the end of their production runs. You would be hard-pressed to find a technology in this field that as it sunsets doesn't have its quality turn to absolute crap.
What Seagate is doing here is an attempt at prolonging that period to maximize profits on its existing (mechanical drive) production lines by gluing a turbo-charger onto the I/O equivalent of a four banger. They figure the consumers are idiots and will fall for four color marketing glossies saying these are the "fastest mechanical drives ever!" and boldly print the percentages all over the packaging... and then praying they don't look an aisle over and realize that a modest SSD would blow it out of the water for not much more cash. You can bet these drives are not built to the same specs or tolerances of previous models -- they will fail more often, and because of their hybrid nature, will be more difficult to recover data from when they do, if you can recover anything at all.
It's a douche move, but... it's sound business practice. Sell your customers down a river to keep profits up until you can turn up production on the Next Big Thing, and then try to buy them back later with discounts and deals.
So what you're saying is... you're making a literal for the children argument. You're actually making something... for kids. Damn. This hasn't happened in months in this country. You go girl. The last "for the children" I heard involved guns. I'd rather have kids learning how to make drones, death robots, and sentient AI, because at least that shit takes talent! :)
Ooh, you're cruisin' for some troll points, I can smell it. Any real geek would know that the in TNG version, "man" was replaced with "one"!
What is this, some kind of jedi mind meld trick to distract us from the real issues here?
*cough*
Rack Space... The Final Front Tier... These are the stories of the USS Cloud Storage. It's continuing mission... to seek out new code, to explore strange new infrastructure... to boldly go where too many men have gone before.
Unless it's cloud storage!!
"Hello? Yes, I'd like to report a crime. Yeah, I found a large brick of marijuana inside a computer where I work. Yup. Sure, no problem. I'm at 123 Cloud Storage Lane. Yup. You want my what? Wait-- I think someone's coming. Oh shit, it's the guy!" (click) Ten minutes later and a hailstorm of bullets in a server room...
Sorry, you were saying cloud storage is immune to bullets? Please, continue.
You can, however, imagine their shock when the saboteurs encountered the 7000 volts.
The police arrested three people in a harbor, not pulled three bodies out of one. I know throwing a plugged in toaster into the bathtub with you in it is an efficient way to suffer a total existance failure. So that must mean voltage is less deadly the higher it is. I can't help feeling though like maybe we're missing something important here...
It did not have further details on who they were or why they would have wanted to cut a cable."
They probably thought it was copper cable. It sells for a pretty penny as scrap right now you know. Imagine their shock when they were told by the cops it contained only "worthless" fiber.
What have you done to stand up for what you believe in today? Post a one liner on slashdot is as good as piss in a boot.
I signed into the website first. More than you did, man. More than you did...
Thank you for standing up for what you believe in, guys! Commencing replacement with yes-men who will heed the siren call of their corporate profiteering overlords in 5...4...3...
My previous post wasn't off topic, THIS one is. Stop modding me 'offtopic' because you disagree with me, that's what 'overrated' is for, idiot.
It would be nice if someone couldn't maliciously delete the contents.
There are very few electronic devices' whose storage can survive being shot with a 12 gauge. Data deletion doesn't necessarily require a dialog box with an 'Okay' button on it.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos must not give much direction to his crew about running things right.
The default policy is set to private and Amazon provides extensive documentation and support should customers wish to secure things properly. 5 out of 6 did, and think the sixth is a blithering idiot. How is Bezos responsible for the sixth guy shooting himself in the foot as when he was handed the gun it clearly said "Do not pull trigger while pointing at self."?
You're a nice person, girlintraining, and I like your posts, but I think you misread his post and a personal attack is unnecessary.
I don't take well to overly-judgemental people, even when it's not me they're judging. Claiming everyone who uses one of those websites is narcissistic is mean-spirited. I'm normally nice on here because most of the people who I reply to are thoughtful, well-reasoned, and at least marginally informed on what they're commenting on. They don't resort to classist attacks on others to get their point across.
And I heard his point loud and clear: I just don't think it's relevant. Encryption would be a lot more prevalent, and it's easy to use -- if you've ever used the websites he ranted about, you've used encryption. Consumers everywhere get shafted by encryption thanks to DRM in everything... so it's not like this is a scary and hard to use technology... the only difference is, it's being used for everything but their benefit.
To say there's no demand because of a vast conspiracy of law enforcement and corporate malfeasance is intellectually dishonest. There is demand. There'd be a lot of demand if it was out there and people knew it. Of course, this assumes such a company would survive being audited every day of every month for the rest of its existance and having a permanent surveillance van in its parking lot. Because it may not be illegal to build it, but law enforcement sure as hell is going to intimidate you for doing so.
Personally, I'm at work all day, and don't want someone stealing something delived off my porch while I'm at work. I'd prefer a locker I can pick up things from that will be secured until I can get at them.
Drop boxes for mail have been around since the 1600s. But hey, if you want to drive across town because you need the excercise, rock on man.
Not everyone works at home, has a stay-at-home spouse, or lives in an are where they trust no one will every steal a delivery left out. Please.
There were two shootings in my neighborhood last night. My mail is kept in a lock box and shipments that won't fit are kept at the post office... which is located four blocks from here, not 15 miles like Walmart. But don't let me interrupt a perfectly good internet rant with logic and facts. Please, continue.
People don't bother reading the manual. Then, everything explodes. How is this news? Please, find me a person in this industry who doesn't know what RTFM means. "Idiot who didn't RTFM exposes personal info." Those of us in the industry have a term for when things like this happen: Tuesday.
What'll be news is when they say "And then the manager and personnel responsible went to jail, because their idiocy cost tax payers millions in lost productivity spent fixing their credit reports and financial lives."
Would a WiFi SD card to a laptop in the car do the same job? I don't know whether those SD cards store stuff permanently or just long enough to transmit it. Or maybe it's configurable to erase after transmission?
Besides the major article on Slashdot just this week about how those cards are so exploitable it makes Java look like Fort Knox, sure. Great idea! One problem: The dude asked for an encrypted storage device. People who ask for things like this generally are against the idea of wirelessly broadcasting their personal data.
(self-explanatory subject)
Amazon is rolling out offering same-day or next-day delivery across the entire country. Why the hell do I want to drive across town to a Walmart to pickup my stuff when I can have a guy deliver it to my door? The country's postal service isn't going anywhere; It's still the only way to legally serve a large number of documents, send bills, etc. No, the only thing the USPS needs to fix is its budget: They need to pare-down their offerings and focus on what they're still needed for: envelopes, small packages, and letter delivery services. Their problem is that they bloated up while companies like FedEx and UPS took over the lucrative markets of large package delivery and organized to provide rapid package services worldwide. Now they need a strategic refocusing... but to say they're dead because of Walmart?
Please.
No. There's not a substantial market for it. The market is for things that make it _easier_ for people to post every last second of their lives online (Facebook, Twitter, Vine, Instragram, Youtube, etc). The vast majority of the public will see encryption or anything else that interferes with instant narcissism as broken.
Amazon says "No." There is a growing market for dashboard cameras. And they're cheap. Really cheap. Forbes even published an article last month suggesting that they may become mandatory on new cars. As far as people posting "every last second of their lives online." You should really google "russian dash camera". They love posting those things online. It's quite the rage right now. No sir, you are dead wrong.
The market is very much alive and growing fast. And nowhere is "instant narcissism" listed in the reasons people are buying them. Security. Safety. Documenting scams people try to pull (Drive a nice car? Got nice insurance. Target for a personal injury scam). Documenting the police "No officer, I wasn't speeding, and this GPS-enabled dash cam proves it." The only "instant narcissism" I see is from a jaded troll on slashdot going for extra karma by dragging in a favorite scratching post for the slashkiddies: Hipsters. And hey, while I appreciate the sentiment, you're just flat wrong here.
Are there any solutions for the niche market of the paranoid photographer/videographer?"
Why yes, yes there is. It's called building it yourself. While encryption isn't illegal, you may have noticed despite the obvious benefits and lack of drawbacks to the consumer, it isn't found pretty much anywhere. This is deliberate: Various law enforcement agencies that don't want to be found out make backroom deals to keep companies from providing this most useful of features because it would make their job more difficult. Or at least, so they say. In truth, they just want access to "ALL THE THINGZ!" regardless of whether there's a legitimate judiciary need for it. And encryption means they'd have to serve warrants and stuff to get the keys, not just go clandestine copy-pasta on your personal data.
So your niche market isn't niche at all -- it would already be out there, if not for the authoritarian governments of the world (I'm looking at you "free" western society). Now with that out of the way, you can roll your own easily. Embedded devices with a USB connector and linux are a dime a dozen, and most sport the ability to store data to an SD or CF card, as well as boot off of them. It's possible to create one-way encryption so something can be written to using a public key, but only decrypted using a private key not located on the same physical device. This would provide you with a tamper-evident system, and simultaniously provide full protection for your privacy; You can't recover the data without the key, and the data cannot be modified without it either.
I would like to see something radical happen which promotes actual technological innovation and hinders all this IP bullshit.
Many moons ago, now long-forgotten to most of the younger crowd that's moving into spaces like this, there was an informal ideology known as the hacker ethic. One of them, was that knowledge is power, and so it should be shared freely. The right to learn, and the duty to teach, went hand in hand in our community. It didn't matter what laws they passed telling us we couldn't speak, we couldn't teach, couldn't learn -- which is what intellectual property is fundamentally about. We did it anyway. And they called us criminals, they passed laws, they tried to delete us from the network we built, and loved, and replace it with paid shills, corporations, and tons and tons of advertising. And none of that gave a damn about learning, or teaching -- it was about consumption.
And today, kids these days, they think that consuming their content, their pre-processed and devoid of flavor "knowledge", is what learning is today. And us, those who were here first... it's painful to watch. Sometimes so much so, we have to turn away from our hobbies for awhile, get up, go outside, because the saddest words ever said are "What might have been!" We failed you. The next generation. But we tried. Oh damn, we tried... We thought it would be enough. Nobody could control the internet!
We never thought that every government in the world, even traditional enemies, would ally themselves with one goal: Destroy this new vessel of human freedom.
We never thought it would become the tool of your oppression.
"UEFI has been implicated in the death of Samsung laptops running Linux."
Yes, it was seen shortly after the murder skipping down the road giggling, its hands covered in blood, counting the money Microsoft had given it to silence the rival gang members.
Kuro5hin is announcing a cloud storage service.
At least they didn't sell out. Now if you'll excuse me, I have somewhere -1 to be... Truth hurts and all that.
The fact of the matter is, they already have over 1% of the population in prison.
Technically, 0.7%, but it's a very misleading statistic. 9.2% of blacks are in prison right now. Now, I'd love to hear an argument that explains how 70% of the prison population isn't white, while making up only 20.04% of the general population. The author's original point wasn't that they want to arrest everybody -- it's that they want the abilty to arrest anyone. And they certainly show a strong preference towards arresting certain classes of citizens. Mind you, that's 9.2% right now. That doesn't count probation, or the knock-on effects of being unable to find a decent job ever again unless it's also criminal, etc., etc. They don't have to jail everyone to take away their freedom -- you don't need walls to limit a person's potential, you just need a reason. And that was the OPs point, and mine. And it's a point you missed because you didn't dig into the statistics.