I use ZFS even on consumer devices, these days. Parity checks all the way!

Thanks for the details. I agree and had the same experience, trying to figure out if an AMB motherboard supports ECC or not. It is almost impossible to know ahead of trying it. At least we have ZFS now for parity checks on cold storage.

Interesting, I was not aware! Do you have a statistics for the bit flips in RAM %? My feeling would be its the majority of bit flips that happen, but I can be wrong.

I don't understand why ECC memory is not the norm these days. It is only slightly more expensive, but solves all these problems. Some consumer mainboards even support it already.

I don't browse US newspapers that often, but I regularly observe blocked ones, particularly smaller ones. Non-deterministic, e.g.: New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Dallas Morning News, Virginian-Pilot. Beyond that, a lot of CA and San Francisco Government and local utility services are geo-restricted (which I think, from a security standpoint, makes at least somewhat sense..).

Btw. asking once is enough ^^