Considering how cheap Amazon S3 is, off-site backups are finally a real solution for the average person.
Wow, how do you figure that cheap? Am I missing something? From the calculator on their site it looks like making a 250GB backup would cost you ~$50 the first month, and then ~$25 thereafter (assuming you could do an rsync style backup and your data doesn't change much).
And you ever need to get that 250GB back, it's gonna cost you $40 just to download it!
No thanks. For the cost of one month of service I could buy a TB drive and do it myself
They get what's essentially a contour map of your body. Big deal.
Have you been keeping up with the news lately? They get a high resolution pictures of your genitals which are stored and/or sent over the network to other government computers.
It really doesn't take anything more complicated than that.
Yeah right, like I'm going to wait for Obama to send it through the US post. YAWN. Wake me up when he's using FedEx Priority. At least I can get delivery confirmation on my Backberry.
Until the cameras have intelligent aperture, unlimited storage and battery life, AND use FedEx Priority, I'm not interested
and you've got armed police ready and willing to shoot you, too. It must be awful living in the US, with that constant threat over you all the time.
Sadly, this is true and one of the main reasons I'm afraid to move back to the US. The police are horribly corrupt. Cops can beat you, shoot you, steal your things, whatever. There is absolutely no recourse either, and the worst that can happen to a cop is for him/her to get paid leave.
HOLY MACRO!