Otherwise you can't get anything done online.

So then fire the agency’s criminal investigations unit.

Or the alternative high end & hot? Will Late & Lame sell or will they give them away?

Just for clarity, I'm not going to run the backup/archival system as an FMPro consultant will do that.

I need to get some more background, so I have knowledge of where the tradeoffs are. I know this is done all the time, but I'm sure there are still choices to be made.

What is the best overview doc/book out there for covering backup-archiving options?

I want to be more conversant with the subject before starting work with a FileMaker Pro DB consultant.

I will be doing a mission critical but small database, so data storage size won't be an issue as far as existing 1-4TB HDDs go & RAID arrays. Losing a day's or even an hour's data entry is not an option.

Great answer!

So once people say we will limit "abusive patent litigation" what does that mean?

You worked for 5 years to solve a particular problem and found a unique way to solve it and successfully got a patent or two or three on your solution.

Should the government now come in and pass a law that says "Bud, you can't sue to get patent royalties?"

That takes away your asset value, does it not? How do you define "abusive"? Is it only when you sue a Fortune 500 company? Is it only when 20 other patent holders sue a particular company? Or is it only when those companies have lots of lawyers to lobby the US Congress?

Answer the questions!

And If they are more intelligent and accomplished than Earthlings, then our search for signals from within 100 light years should have discovered some of their radio transmissions by now.

14,600 star systems within 100 light years means that probably a majority of them, if they have more intelligent life than here on Earth, might not yet have received a recognizable signal from Earth.

So if we wanted to signal a civilization on the other side of the Milky Way (assuming we could muster the power), We would have to aim the focused radio beam on where that world would be in somewhere 50,000-100,000 years from now and they in turn would have to know the signal is coming and instantly reply to where we would be in another 50,000-100,000 years.

The whole communication thing is a total joke.

Any smart civilization would just want to make their world a nice place to live for as long as they could.

The way you find new solution paradigms is to jump in with both feet.

HP already announced memristor development 5 years ago. My guess is the HP Labs team are going to make all sorts of discoveries as they work through the entire design of the "Machine."

I'll bet HP's OS is a variant of UNIX or Linux to suit the new hardware to get developers on board.

Well, Meg Whitman had the guts to say "Find them some money" when HPLabs proposed the "Machine." I wish HP all the success.

It is about time some corporation stepped up to the plate other than Apple and jump-starts mega-improvement in major devices.

My first time sharing "Mini-computer" (was not mini sized), desktop engineering computer (using mag-strips pre-HP45), & then the HP35-41-45-75 were all incredible computing devices for their day.

2 Things: 90--100 million non-working adults & lowest labor force % in 45 years.

Did TrueCrypt go down because the NSA pulled their programmers off the team?