> I've had HDDs give me warning, and I've had HDDs fail without any warning. People have gone to their backups and found them unreadable.

Absolutely agree here - a backup is only as good as the system used to validate it. But as we've seen since this service was mentioned, Google have already been found to be re-processing the images sent to it (I've seen mention of RAW images which were quite significantly compressed), so they're just as good/bad from a backup integrity point of view.

At least one can monitor one's own in-house disks and backups!

Not that long ago I went hog wild over something that turned out to be a genuine bug in the Firehose. On top of that, it was very old news anyway. This time the hog was not let loose, and frankly, all the little bitches whining and crying about it are entertaining me.

Thanks for your hard work, btw. /. is a great place to be.

Backup...using a Google service? I prefer my backups to be reliable and private, thank you. Although hard drives do occasionally tell me "Hey, you've got a week to get your shit off me, ner ner!", at least they can't help it.

That web site is not an advocate for "mens rights", it's a flaming, garish train wreck of a crock of shit. (Tell us how you really feel)

"For me, it's the same thing". For the rest of us, it's obviously very different. Now shut up and go run your little moon.

Their pop-up advertising their own damn newsletter, or something, still managed to get in my way after about 20 seconds. I then closed the tab as I don't like being accosted while browsing.

There's a place for obscenities and your reply was exactly that place. To reply appropriately: Fuckin' A!

You are Kyril Bonfiglioli and I claim my five Jersey Pounds.

I once worked with a small web site owner to help clean up phishing sites that were on his site. We had a bit of trouble finding the last one on the server, a mix of my inexperience with web server configs and lacklustre support from his web host. Site Lock were convinced his site was 100% clean, even when the owner kept giving them the URL of the phishing site which was still working. They kept saying his site was clean, he has nothing to worry about! And to keep your site clean, why don't you pay us $LOL to help keep it secure?

This article is about 15 years late. Malware via adverts/trackers has been around since before the word "phishing" was coined. If the advertising industry gave any shits about fixing this, they'd have done it by now as it's a very simple problem to fix. But surprise surprise - they don't care, and neither do the sites complicit in selling their users to the advertisers!

Whatever you do don't mention the Superfish. I mentioned the Superfish but I think I got away with it.

I tried to do their free "Introduction to Linux" course, and got as far as the second section. Before I finished it I was overwhelmed by the navel-gazing and felt it should be renamed to "Indoctrination to Linux". I tell you what, though. I sure do know that Linux powers millions of devices from hobby horses to fridge magnets to spaceships! There are millions of devices using Linux, all under the power of some head penguin wearing a mortarboard.

In all seriousness I do have a good attention span, I can grit my teeth and labour past the bullshit and as a Windows monkey I genuinely wanted to try this approach. I just couldn't hack it.

note to self: stop punning when you start the sentence with "in all seriousness".