I have a dSLR with a 32GB SD card. I have an old Asus Eee 1000HA netbook with a 2GB RAM upgrade and Win7Pro. I upgraded the hard drive to a 750GB because of all the media I like to keep portable. When I go on holiday, I snap all the pics I like with my dSLR, and when I get back to the car/hotel I just run a simple batch file script that mirrors them all locally to the netbook to a datestamped folder with robocopy. That way I have a day-by-day structure to the archive (not that file datestamps arent enough, really). Following this, the script checks to see if my external USB drive is connected, and mirrors to that from the netbook's local drive. If the drive is not connected, it skips this step. After the copy completes, and all the files are verified, it wipes the SD card. Back into the camera it goes. Simple.

If I have internet access available, I run a second script that connects to my VPN box at home and launches a second robocopy to my desktop's fileshare. This way I can dump and wipe my SD card even if I don't have internet. The automatic syncing method is too unsure for me. This way, I'm responsible for my own data. If I wanted, I could chain them into one script very easily, but I prefer to have the dump as a quick option independent of the upload.

Sometimes people just make this too hard. I wrote the scripts in about 5 minutes, and didn't have to add any software (since my netbook runs Win7Pro). I already had VPN set up for secure remote operations, so no additional steps were needed. If you didn't have VPN, I'm sure you could manage with sFTP too, for the long haul home. Filezilla is free, so in all you can have a total investment of $0 and just a bit of time.

Pity that a licensed tech won, but who can blame people when you have the hardware accelerated decoding in billions of handsets worldwide. I'm not opposed to people making money, but not at the cost of making devices prohibitively expensive.

Here's to hoping that "Fair, Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory" licensing fees stay that way.

Not really... I WAS one of these kids. Well, I was when my Grandfather built HIS house.

Because of what I learned watching and helping my grandfather with projects like this, I became an engineer. I enjoy building things, from models to houses. I plan to build my own once I manage to find some suitable land.

Kids today are so distracted by over 9000 activities around them, that it's no small wonder why most are diagnosed with ADD. Picking a task and sticking with it until it's finished is a valuable skill itself. I loved building that house, and knowing while I lived in it, that I was responsible for making it a reality. I knew that behind walls in my house were framed-in doors, just in case we ever decided that we needed a door there later. Planning ahead was how my grandfather rolled. As a 5-year-old, I had intimate knowledge of the construction of that residence, and I LOVED IT!

I won't deny my kids the same experience of knowing that you brought something into existence with hard work and willpower OTHER than an unwanted welfare child.

Well, I think that's what they might have been going for when they noted that 96% of devices had been accessed, but then specifying all the OTHER areas of the phone that were accessed, such as passwords and other more gray areas of privacy. They also included stats about accessing corporate networks, and that's something I'd never delve into unless all other attempts at scrounging contact info had failed.

That said, if he wasn't using good passwords, I'd probably pity him. Who puts those damn things in a text file, anyway?!?
(besides nitwits)

I always look for a contact named ME, HOME, MOM, WIFE, ICE, etc. so that I can find out who the phone belongs to and get it properly returned. I also look through the photo thumbnails or check a logged in Facebook or Twitter profile to see if I can locate a selfpic for current or future identification of the owner when I return the device. I have returned no less than 10 phones this way. Some might call this a little invasive, but I do make an honest effort to refrain from prying TOO much outside of attempts to attain reasonable owner contact information. I have also returned a locked phone by contacting the carrier and reporting the IMEI number and allowing the carrier to contact the owner and arrange a return.

My phone has basic owner info on the lockscreen and a warning that 10 lockfails = wipe. I have had my phone returned to me once this way. There was no failed attempt to bypass my lock.

Sometimes there are good people in the world. I try to be among them.

I think it's more about creating an artificial bone to custom specifications that can be used in the creation of other items. As they stated, bone has a great strength to weight ratio, similar to the way spidersilk is stronger than steel fiber at the same scale. Nature is a hell of an engineer. It might take millions of years to get something right, but the field trials yield awesome results... and it never leaves Beta. Kinda like Google...

Sadly, the usual lawyers that go into public defense are ones that have a good sense of public justice and decency but are of only average skill.

The problem is that all the REALLY good lawyers have developed a mercenary-like tendency to work for whatever law practice or client that can provide sufficient financial compensation to access the latest model BMW. That is the reason that tort reform has been such an important issue. It is important to ensure that both parties in a legal battle have access to equal and fair representation.

Unfortunately, this rarely happens.

Precisely.
AT&T doesn't even consider Sprint and Nextel to be competitors in most markets, anyway.
T-Mo has been pushing the "2 Lines, Unlimited Everything for $50/line (100.00+Tax monthly bill)+ free smartphone w/2yr contract" deal lately. I have an Unlimited AT&T plan that I pay 132.00/mo. per single line.
I went into the AT&T store and asked about their competing plan...

Surprise... They don't have one.
Competition my ass.

The cellphone business is just Collusion that our government is supposed to protect us from. It's Big Corporation and Big Government fucking each other right in our front lawn for everyone to see.

The Wheel of Government turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving Constitutions to become memories that become legend. Legends fade to myth and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Bush-Obama Administrations by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a Movement of the People began in The United States of America. The Movement was not THE beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Government. But it was A beginning.

That'd be a Beer and a Hockey Stick if we're talking about Canada.
I'm pretty sure the Carrot and Stick would work in Mexico, though. They all ride burros down there anyways.

On the inside of my eyeballs... DUH!!!

Competition my ass... Hey AT&T.... Where's my $49.99 Unlimited Voice/SMS/Data plan option to compete with T-Mobile's current advertising blitz?

Oh. My bill is still $132.00/month for Unlimited Voice/SMS/Data?
Yeah... That's what I thought.

Yeah, but the Enforcement Droid Series 209's OS was a buggy piece of shite, as the franchise hammered home after 3 titles.
- It can't hear the disarmament of it's arrestees, and so slaughters them.
- It can't manage to question why a police car might need to park illegally on private property.
- It didn't notice the Cobra Assault Cannon that Murphy was toting, until a nanosecond before 2 rounds blew it to hell
- It can't walk down the street without getting stuck in a manhole.

ED-209 was a satire of corporate greed, overdevelopment, and overbudgeting to make an inferior product intended to saddle taxpayers with a lame duck project for long term ("Spare parts for 20 years! Who cared if the damn thing worked!" - Dick Jones), to turn a profit.

That said, it's just another example of how ED-209 sucked that it was hacked to be "Loyal as a Puppy."
Also keep in mind that it was stated earlier that she was doing Calculus homework, and conversing on-the-level with a PHD in cybernetics later in the movie, so I imagine that she might be a touch above average in her skills.

P.S. The reason Robocop's OS is so solid is that he runs on a "Lifetime of On-The-Street Law Enforcement programming..."
...and DOS.