"Curiosity sent a picture down to us, and it looks a lot like Earth." "Curiosity sent a picture down to us, and it looks a lot like Arizona." "Curiosity sent a picture down to us, and it looks a lot like Utah."

Go back to where you came from :) Kidding, welcome to the US where everyone is either an immigrant or the descendent of one.. Have you tried Boost Mobile?

I recall the old days of EMS where a piece of software would double your memory by compressing/decompressing on the fly, whatever happened to those?

No need to blame anyone when they openly take credit.

This is like asking if it would be possible to use floppy disk to retrieve a 1MB file, I (and others) don't see the point of your question,hard disk drives are a lot cheaper, substantially faster and a lot more reliable. The time is takes for the tape drive to boot up, get mounted to the OS file system and access the area where the file is located is ridiculously long.

Exactly and since when are people able to determine if a agency able to do its job properly? Are we experts in security enforcement?

On a totally unrelated note, although related to the mass population: Poll finds that 54% of Americans believe that Iraq had WMDs Poll finds that 54% of Americans believe we are defending our country by being thousands of miles away in Afghanistan Poll finds that 54% of Americans believe the hijackers were from Iraq / Afghanistan Poll finds that 54% of Americans believe they actually vote for the president of the US Of course these numbers are made up, but you get the point...

Check out cpio under Linux or many Unix flavor OS, cpio can span backups over multiple target media. Make sure to test backup AND just as important: restore.

I don't think tape is a good idea for large backups, mostly because of the restore times it would take, tapes are sequentially read/written so a search and restore for data at the end of the tape would take a very long time.

Nuclear power will never be safe enough as long as no solution is presented for nuclear waste. First we need to figure out why we need to enlarge the panama canal, this is a discussion that will shed light to many things are heading in the wrong direction on our planet and as a people....

Deforestation and the killing of wild animals faster than they can reproduce is the reason why water doesn't replenish quickly enough. Killing animals deprives their predators from food and so on, this affects the whole ecosystem in which these animals live. Deforestation prevents water from remaining in the soil and so on.

And so you think that this balances things out? The difference here is that the NYC police can take action against citizens, you can spy on the police all day long and you can't do squat, revenge never works people, diplomacy does, we need to talk and discuss what is going on and arrive at better laws to protect both the police and the people they are trying to police.

please give an example. Any software that provides statistics, problem solving, etc.. can make great use of higher math, did you know you can solve word problems in complex math equations, fairly easily actually vs writing countless lines of code.

Oh boy. The difference between programming with Math and without it is huge, first off many programmer write elaborate lines of codes that can be replaced with a single like of "math well spent". A very simple example of the Modulus function which I'm not going to explain, I've seen 10 lines code that mimics the modulus function, why, because the programmer is math-illiterate, other functions such as divisions or more complex can be easily achieved by binary math, the same goes with trigonometry, and more important calculus differential equations and statistics-related functions. Those who say math isn't need in programing don't know what they are missing, it's like saying multiplication is not needed, unless you are writing "hello world" code all day long.

So the Government can confiscate & delete but not the people, nooooww I get it...