One day I'll start actually reading posts, not just flicking over them with my eyeballs on autopilot. I read "I read 'Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A Bomb'" and thought "So what? Isn't that exactly what the headline says?"

jigga what? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frIA7tuBqqY)

I ignored your comment due to: Lack of notoriety, lack of proper citation, inconsistency with the style guide, and of course my severe aspergers.

On the flip side, the FBI wouldn't have been sued unless they did something wrong. Right?

I wish they would have just future proofed java by porting it to html5. Then they wouldn't have to rewrite their pdP-1 emulator. Plus, according to inception the whole thing would end up running faster.

So the conclusion is a stretch? Cool, thanks for the info.

The headline should just read "Confidential data not safe"

Why would anybody have bought a high end Symbian device a month ago? I doubt most honest responses include "meaningful transition to next OS"

Not really, they used their flextime. More like "nokia employees got benefits"

Sure, but how does the phishing work, exactly? You're going to send an email to their hotmail account asking them to login to their gmail account? You're going to typosquat at fmail.com?

Actually, there will be backup codes, which is similar (no index):

Of course he applied economics only halfway. He could have sold the algorithm to someone with lower opportunity cost. Someone who makes $100 a day should be willing to split the $600 with him.

I'm pretty sure the "real idea" is for people who actually use the bridge to pay for its construction and maintenance.

How big is this commission? I'm thinking maybe call and say you want to cancel, then let them "convince" you not to. Rinse and repeat times 100. Get all your friends to do it.

Probably not worth the trouble, but fun to dream.

If your data is too large to transfer over your internet connection, I think you need at least 3 drives. That way, you never have ALL your drives in the same place at the same time, even when backing up. You don't want some power surge to take out your main drive and your off-site backup on the one day the off-site backup is on-site for data transfer.

I keep two drives at home and one at work. Once a week I backup my main drive to the on-site backup. Once a month I bring the backup drive to work and bring the work drive home. Before and after each back-up, I check data integrity using ZFS (I scrub the main drive before back-up, and the back-up drive after back-up). Although you can use any method you like to detect corruption, you definitely need some mechanism to prevent copying a newly corrupted JPG over your good backups.

Sadly, all of the above was learned from real life failures.