It was Vint Cerf who said that, one the fathers of the 'net (he co-designed TCP/IP).

Essentially he thinks people should be printing their photos?! LOL

How about store your data in redunant storage systems, and regularly replace the storage medium (drives, flash, etc). And as technology updates (I/O etc) adapt it when you can. I have always seen data storage systems as living breathing systems that require regular maintenance, part replacement, etc. I have a box of every hard drive I've owned since 1994. They're all in anti-static bags (more than one hundred drives. That box is utterly impossible to pickup you need to use a dolly to move it. Anyway I've yet to comb through all of them, but I have them organized so that I hit the oldest drives first, over time. All the important stuff I want in my storage system.

But back to the OP of this article, I think it's an extremely easy task. Assuming the drive is intact and functioning that is. There's so many options (and the little USB and eSATA adapters are incredibly useful). I use them all the time. I have an eSATA dock that does SATA and IDE.

Very, very true. Over my life I've killed a few drives trying to use the power adapter in the field. Now I either bring a power supply with me, or bring it back to the office.

Lawrence Lessig was so seriously influenced by Aaron Swartz with his ideas and his question to Lessig, “How do you ever think you’re going to make any progress on these issues so long as there’s this corruption in the way our political system works?”

Lessig's response to this conversation was, “This was Aaron, this was the way he worked,” Lessig said. "It was never, ‘This is what you should do.’ It was, ‘What about this? Shouldn’t you be thinking this?’ And it made you recognize that if you wanted to be the person you thought you were, you had no choice but to yield.”

Personally I've supported MaydayPAC and have tried to help spread awareness of it. I do wish Tim Wu and Zephyr Teachout had won in NY this summer. However I'd actually rather see Tim Wu (the man who coined Net Neutrality) as the chairman of the FCC.

I was thinking about Al Swearengen too, when I saw the original submitter's name. Too funny.

To quote the GREAT Al Swearengen (slightly on-topic):

Every fuckin’ beatin’ I’m grateful for. Every fuckin’ one of them. Get all the trust beat outta you. And you know what the fuckin’ world is.

âoeBe curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.â

â Aaron Swartz

Hey, don't knock the TSA––they're not completely useless: They have a VERY amusing Instagram feed.
http://instagram.com/tsa

I'd take John Oliver's approach to rebranding the NSA. He suggested "Mr Tiggles" with a pink background and smiling cat, to General Keith Alexander.
How about "Mr Tiggle's Friend, the Fuffy Bunny"

- All those tools built in the 70s for UNIX and ported / rewritten many times over the years.
- Also, Model M keyboards (even though I use my MBP15r for everything, I still need those keyboards).
- Atari 2600 - it just feels better than playing on an emulator.
- I suppose electricity and the wheel - two of the greatest inventions.

THIS

Seriously, how did this get promoted?

Or non-Windows users can use GasMask to accomplish the same thing: http://www.clockwise.ee/gasmask/

OR they went to the suburbs first because running fiber in a metropolis such as New York City is complicated and expensive. In Manhattan the average monthly apartment cost of $3,973 I'd hardly say it's full of poor people. Yes, Verizon covered the rest of the state with FIOS long before it made any decent headway in NYC, but now they're reaching the end of their agreed upon timeline to complete their network buildout (which provided them fewer obstacles than other companies).