Tarsnap or something similar - locally encrypted before it's uploaded, and the key never leaves your system.

Of course, then you have to back up the key, but that's a much smaller problem.

Sure, but the chances it will happen both locally and in the cloud, at the same time, is very small. If one fails, you recreate from the other.

Just to add to the choices others are giving, you could take a look at OwnCloud. If you are running a php-based website already you won't have to install any new server. (It does need an HTTP server, and has it's own interface.)

It exports things via WebDAV, and it has an Android client. (Or you can use other WebDAV Android clients.) So you can mount the server on you computer as a directory, and you can easily get stuff to your phone as well. The one thing is that you need to upload into it - not into whatever file system you have already. (Though you can mirror into it easily.)

Worth looking at, though it might be a bit more complexity and overhead than what you are looking for.

The claim is false: The NHTSA rates cars on a 5-point scale, and gave the Tesla S a 5-point rating, the highest they could get. This rating is based on several sub-ratings, where the Tesla also got 5-point ratings, in all categories.

Tesla is basically trying to claim for marketing purposes the fact that they got 5-point ratings in all of the subcategories (which isn't necessary for a 5-point overall rating, and in fact is extremely unusual, if not unique) means that they got 'better than a normal 5-point rating'. Which, ok, they did, but the rating only goes to five points. They can't create a new rating scale just for themselves.

I have no clue: The electric company doesn't even bother to read my meter. They just send me a bill for whatever they think I should owe.

(And no: I’m not joking...)

Those two statements, of course, are not mutually exclusive. ;)

The Supreme Court is more of a check than an active force - but it is a very powerful check. History has shown that if they act without caution, they can easily make things worse than they were before. (See, for instance, Dred Scott v. Sandford, one of the causes of the Civil War...)

They are willing to step on toes if they need to - lots of cases, recent and historic show that. But they prefer to avoid doing so unless they need to, because it can cause problems. If the other two parts of the government are working on an issue, it's generally better to let them work it out - there will be more voices heard, and it's easier to adjust and make changes.

Basically, they are respecting that the other parts exist for a purpose, and attempt to let them fulfill that purpose. The Supreme Court's job is to step in when the other two parts fail - and it's not clear that they have failed here yet.

Also: Congress is working on this issue. The Supreme Court really doesn't like to step on the toes of the other two parts of the government if it doesn't have to. Looking at the activity on this issue, it's likely they won't have to.

So, we can't be glad they changed their mind when they realized what they'd done?

He didn't say the USA is "laissez-faire anarcho-libertarian". He said it's "un by lunatics who still think laissez-faire anarcho-libertarian economic theory does anything but cause monopolism and boom/bust depression cycles."

Which gets us the worst of both worlds: It gets the government meddling of socialist systems, and the corporate meddling of capitalist systems, without the controls either provide. (Instead we socialize the controls of the capitalist systems, and capitalize the controls of the socialist systems.)

Apple's success record has never been 100%. It just has to be better then average for them to succeed.

Apple's been working on the dock port problem as well: IIRC, Recent OS updates will alert the user if you plug into a device that attempts to treat the phone as a USB storage device (instead of a battery), and require the user to allow it. (After unlocking the screen, of course, which means if it's locked and requires a password or fingerprint, you need the password or fingerprint.)

It's not a high-security device by any means, but the obvious pitfalls are being taken care of. I don't expect this bounty to be particularly hard, but it's probably going to be beyond the average thief.

Which would require a from-scratch cleanroom rewrite, probably.

They could probably work on that, but if the current license isn't causing to much trouble, they probably have more important things to work on.

Similar here. I found the performance of the RAIDz array smoothed out with a SSD ZIL drive. (Not the cache, the write-ahead log. The cache increased best-case performance, ZIL helped worst-case.) Most of even my tablet/laptop usage pulls data off the server, but the SSD boot drive on the desktop was a massive speedup, even if I mount the user data via NFS.

Well, then, think of it this way: Shooting yourself in public in front of the police station means they are spared the pain of uncertainty about what has happened to you.

Money - treated properly - is only a proxy for other things. It is a quantifiable measure of time and effort. Do you want people to spend time and effort worrying about whether you have killed yourself, where your body is, what's happened to it, etc., or do you want them to know the answers - even if they don't like them? That's the choice we are discussing. It's a bit easier to discuss in terms of money - but that doesn't mean I'm thinking of it that way.