I rarely have ever run into a hard drive go bad within a year (24" iMac though was a very expensive and notable exception).

I HAVE however run into my fair share of HDDs go bad within 3 years and definitely 5 years.

So -

Does anybody know which manufacturers offer the BEST warranties? Here I was just getting ready to order some 3TB SATA 7200RPM drives for my Drobos.

I don't care what loopholes he's able to use, doing that is still a douche move.

(Typed from my Apple Wireless Keyboard into a Safari textbox running on Mac OS X Lion on my 27" iMac. I love the products, but the more I learn about Jobs the more disgusted I become at him.)

The man was fracking prick.

Well, some of us just aren't as smart as you and we'll just have to learn to get by.

It's been 20 years since I was in school. Forgive me for not having 100% recall on the migratory patterns of neolithic South American protocivilizations.

Indeed! My bad. Mea culpa.

Well, the Mayans did used to occupy that area. A super-volcano erupting would end their civilization as they knew it.

Me too, but that's not quite exactly what I said:

I'd much rather see a version of Firefox that used DuckDuckGo by default (http://ddg.gg)

I mentioned nothing about the current administration.

I was talking about the United States as a whole.

Ergo, the United Conservative Fascist States of America.

Which, I hate to be the one to also tell you there's no such thing as the Easter Bunny, but we *are*.

In most (all?) other western Democracies in the World other than us (including Canada):

Our "progressives" are considered "conservatives" by the rest of the World.

Our "conservatives" are considered "fascists" by the rest of the World.

This is not a red-state/ blue-state/ republican/ democrat issue.

This is fact.

Which makes it even more funny when conservative blowhards banty about the word "socialism" to refer to anything the current administration does.

The United Conservative Fascist States of America

but how is this "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters."

I already read CNN & Google News.

I already knew this.

I did not need to read this on /. .

Re-posting because I forgot to login:

In a perfect World that would work, and Companies would notify their customers of the threat and come up with a game plan to mitigate the vulnerability.

In the real World Companies aren't going to do Jack Schitt unless their hand is forced.

And for me, as the Customer, I'd much rather know that a threat exists so *I* can be proactive and try to mitigate the threat than rely on some Company sitting on a vulnerability for months and years while they devise a patch or hotfix all the while I — the customer — am in the dark, and the bad guys have an opportunity to exploit the vulnerability.

Ethical Disclosure is a fallacy.

If you find a vulnerability, disclose it. Publicly.

And yes, I work in Information Security. Vulnerability Management even. Go figure.

The only thing laws like this will do is force I2P and Freenet to become more popular.

Which — ironically — is a blessing for those that use both of those services as it would make both of those networks more robust and viable.

.I2P

http://www.i2p2.de/