Radios and sat phones are already standard equipment on mountains like Rainier. This device is interesting, but it just seems to be a less reliable way of accomplishing the same thing you can do with a radio or sat phone. Also, when you get above 13,000' or are hanging out in the crater, let me know how excited you…

Nah, just giant ravens.

That makes sense. I was doing a rough calculation off my surely much slower software RAID6 with consumer-level drives.

Ahh, very interesting. Thanks for this info Ian Case! My knowledge of such things is fairly limited—I run a Linux box with 7 drives in software RAID6 so I'm always curious how it's done on a larger scale.

Yea, I suppose independent volumes in JBOD and Netflix just ships a replacement when one fails. Or the site replaces the drive and Netflix just pushes an update to it. If they're already pushing daily 7TB upgrades, what's another 4-6 TB?

I'm curious how the storage is partitioned across all those drives. One giant multi-level array? Several individual RAID6 arrays?

I wonder if they count the "bike lanes" where 3 feet next to the curb are sectioned off with a white line—the three feet constantly full of gravel, potholes, and "repaired" potholes.

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Step aside with your logic! ComEd should ignore this clearly less important business of powering the city and instead focus on fighting crime!

Effectively.

I'm primarily a cyclist and I'm with you on this. I treat a stop sign as a yield sign so it works like this:

14 years and 3 console generations later, it's still sold new on Amazon for $14. As someone who invested in 3 copies 8 years ago, this annoys me.

Yea, it's more like a boat. But it does have a mesh floor so you can have your feet in the water!

This list needs more Sea Doo 8-person Mega Island: http://www.amazon.com/Island-Person-…

Easy... I'm not looking for a fight. And the fact that I called that vague "girl" "whiny" is because the person I was responding to, caught1, referred to her as "some whiny girl."

Er... yes. I tend to use the two interchangeably for pretty much anyone under 40 (and that will probably increase as I approach 40). But I can see how that comment would come off as odd without knowledge of this...

Yea, you'd hope most women would have figured out that weight training is a good thing, but I don't think we're there yet. I do think we've at least started to move away from super-skinny being the ideal body shape for a woman (or at least I hope so).

As a guy who has done CrossFit for a few years (note: I have no interest in debating the merits of CrossFit, so let's not go there), this is the number one concern I get from girls asking if they should try it. I try to explain to them that to get legitimately "bulky" requires tons of heavy lifting, eating tons of…

I was wondering the same thing. I imagine that's the first thing I'd do if I got in that ring.

Psh, Kenny Powers tried to jump a distance of a mile. It also didn't go as planned.