The M-DISC has a limited lifetime warranty covering defects in materials and workmanship of the product when the product is used as directed and data is written to the M-DISC using an M-DISC READY Drive. Verification that an M-DISC READY Drive was used to write data may be required. If this product is found to be defective, it will be replaced at no cost to you. Product replacement is your sole remedy under this warranty, This warranty does not apply to normal wear or to damage resulting from abnormal use, misuse, abuse, neglect or accident, or to any incompatibility or poor performance due to the specific computer software or hardware used. Consequential or incidental damages, damage to property, liquidated damages, special damages, and any damages for loss of use or data are excluded. Defective discs will be replaced with a new, functionally equivalent blank disc only.

Well, at least they'll give your grand kids new media........

Your best bet is to pick more than one. You have a better handle on your needs and recovery point objectives than anyone here. Pick two (or even three) strategies that fit your needs and utilize both. Finding out you picked wrong usually happens at the very worst moment. Duplicating your efforts adds an awful lot of cushion.

The only problem with Logitech mice is the Logitech software. I hate, hate, hate it.

I've got a big, heavy, Gigabyte Aivia Krypton Ghost mouse.You can modify the internal weighting to your liking. It's got the scroll wheel but it's big and grippy. You could also map away the scroll entirely, or map a side button for that dangling ring finger. One caveat is their software too. If you're on OS X, you need to set the mouse up the first time in Windows. It's an annoyance but it's a really good mouse. Maybe you can get an old school Sun3 mouse before they went to a wheel. You'd have to build/buy an adapter but it's be unique.

Who the hell writes this crap? Internet cables?

Tampermonkey lets you add/remove scripts on the fly without needing to restart.

Then there is z/VM -- this is IBM's software crown jewel of mainframe software. This is where most shops run virtualized Linux servers. Create, start, stop, reconfigure guests as needed. You can reallocate storage among guests very easily. You can create software-only (virtual) networks for the guests.

Sounds like a wicked expensive VCenter cluster.

Even back in the 80s, I had a teacher fail me on a programming assignment because I was using things she hadn't taught yet. This isn't a 'new' problem. It's difficult for teachers to stay on top of the required curriculum and still have time to be continually training.

This isn't a new idea. Sun's QFS did this (as do several other multi reader/writer filesystems) it's mostly locking data.

So the utility company can ask for a rate hike because "people aren't using enough electricity...."

Boot into single-user mode and soak up the goodness of ed, the only available text editor.

vi works just fine in single user, you just need to set a few variables first.

My VM box is like the Roach Motel; messages check in but they don't check out. I'm not even sure I remember my VM password.

Unfortunately, security is a cost center, not a profit center. That doesn't sit well with the MBA types. Security does not support the success of a business in any obvious way - so we have to use metrics to show value.

QNX has been the choice for realtime OSs for a long time. Blackberry has little to do with that but they certainly are trying to cash in on it.

I believe the "Firewalling" comment was likely in regard to packet inspection, not port filtering.

The analysis doesn't blame Korea or anyone else, it's the media taking that route. The analysis just lists the file targets and the information you'd want to see if you have a match; e.g.

File: igfxtrayex.exe
Size: 249856 bytes (244.0 KB)
MD5: 760c35a80d758f032d02cf4db12d3e55
PE Compile Time: 2014-11-24 04:11:08
Language pack of resource section: Korean

It seems sans-bullshit to me.