You can just use Amazon S3 Storage. .10 per GB would mean $50 per month for 500 GB.

If you use EC2 for a simple virtual server you can mount the S3 volume onto your virtual server.

If you are like me and prefer rackspace virtual servers, then you can still mount the S3 volume with something like jungle disk.

You can then use something like Jungledisk to mount it as a volume on both machines, server and source machine.

Rackspace has basic virtual servers for like $10 a month.

So $10 for basic virtual server. $50 for 50 GB of disk storage on S3, plus $5 a month for jungle disk.
$65. Is that within your budget for a short term project?

Jungle disk is not required to make it work, but its only $5, and can make it simpler to mount the volume. If you use a virtual server on amazon EC2 you can actually just mount the 500GB volume.

I don't think money laundering means what you think it does. They do use the Cell Phones to transfer money, but has nothing to do with the laundering of the money. According to the 7 minute audio, they STILL need to use the services of money launderers.

If I am paying per click for certain search terms, then this data SHOULD be passed along. The other alternative is to just get a bill from google and trust that it is accurate?

As an advertiser I need this information. First to make sure I get the clicks google is charging for me, and more importantly to determine which words don't have a conversion rate worth paying for.

Received the invite. Thanks!

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The article talked a lot about transportation costs. Were they just comparing transportation costs? What about the environmental impact of keeping the A/C running and lights going all day in the store?

Very very short on details.

True. Wish I could edit it.

INCORRECT:
The FBI is NOT prioritizing copyright over missing persons.

CORRECT:
The FBI has a backlog of missing person DNA to run in the DNA labs.
The FBI is increasing the amount of manpower assigned to copyright.

I don't know how much the FBI should spend at all on copyright, but it is a bit of a stretch to take the current facts and say that copyright is prioritized over missing persons.

If you move forward with this, one option is to setup your car as a repeater. You can park your car at the trailhead and turn on the repeater in your car. Then the idea is to hopefully hit your car from your handheld, then your car can hit a repeater. In addition to the additional radio in the car that supports Cross-Band repeating, you will need to add a battery or two to your car, and a fresh one in the trunk.

Like others have all pointed out, the handheld frequencies are all generally line of site. This could mean that in a real emergency, you may need to climb to the top of the nearest peak to actually have line of site to anyone. Then once on the top of the peak you may find that your cell phone works as well!

Amateur radios work great in the backcountry in communicating with your own party in a different campsite or at a base camp while you continue on up to a summit.

The SPOTs as you have already researched works pretty well. I especially like the non-911 "Help" button, which just sends a predefined message to someone. I think this is a great feature, as you may need someone you know to start hiking up to you to help you out, but may not need a full Search and Rescue.

I would agree with your comment if you could flip a coin a 100 times and have it land that way at least 3 of those 100 times.

As others stated RDP and VNC. Personally I love the logmein app. Works through all the little firewall issues in most locations.

I thought the Data Signal, repeated every 15 minutes roughly contained date/time and clock corrections? You might be drifting for 15 minutes at a time I guess...