But how much will it heat my frosty piss?

Yes, that's the first thing I did. My memory is fine, it's truecrypt.

TrueCrypt isn't without it's bugs. Both 5.1a and 6.0a have cost me two windows installs(one Win2k3, one Win XP pro), which couldn't be recovered with the recovery disk. 6.1a won't even install on my Inspiron 9400, giving me a "memory parity error" on the initial reboot test for full drive encryption. If you want something to trust your data to, truecrypt is not that program(yet).

Nope. The standard passport (not the card type) has a foil lining in the jacket, which makes it stay open. Renderman's covered this at HOPE, Shmoocon, and Defcon. It's really bad. Look for his "How do I pwn thee, let me count the ways" talk.

Actually the sleeve tends to make the passport stay partially open and act as a parabola, amplifying the signal from a distance.

But what if we don't die? What if we discover that we've been living in a black hole this whole time and the current universe's edges are simply the expanding event horizon? Living in a black hole within a black hole would be neat! I wanna press the red button :(

Because you're both paying for the same service. You are no more entitled than any other customer.

And I'll point out that in the case you linked to, again, it's PEBKAC. The result also would have been the same if he was doing backup tapes, so your point is moot.

Rebuilding the array incorrectly is PEBKAC. Unless you're using Promise cards to do your RAID, at which point your array will figure out a way to confuse array members anyways.

It's called swap, but at the prices for SSDs(and limited write cycles) you'd be better of getting *real* RAM. If you're at the limit for your board, UPGRADE!

Raid *is* a backup if you're doing raid 1, and you intentionally remove the "B" mirror to replace it with new disks. Rebuild the array. You've now got fresh drives as the B mirror, old drives as the A mirror, and a third set of drives to haul offsite. Yank the A mirror next time around, and you keep fresh drives in production with snapshots stored somewhere safe. It's all in how you use the technology.

Who's ethics, your's or mine?

Store copies of the Duke Nukem series on various forms of media and store it with it. Someone will throw it up on the then-ebay and a geek will buy it, the geek being compelled to play the prequels to Duke Nukem Forever the way they were meant to be played.

Try using links2. It'll give you graphical w/o requiring X.

Limiting autorun to CDs or DVDs doesn't help, because U3 flashdrives come with a rewritable partition that appears as a CD drive, which is also read only. Google "usb switchblade"