You're exactly on the money!!! What's needed is a cataloging app that keeps the canonical data store in sidecar files. Picasa is "almost" there. In recent versions it writes most of its data to .picasa text files (an open data format). This provides future portability because another app can read those .picasa files and the image files to rebuild the database. Hopefully, Google will continue to expand Picasa so that it writes all info to .picasa files as well as keeping a local database current. The local database provides excellent app performance, and the sidecar files provide for future portability when Google decides to walk away from Picasa--which they inevitably will.

The researcher, journalist, and most cyclists are making the classic correlation is not causation error. See the following site for lots of humourous versions: http://tylervigen.com/

Let's also outlaw secret courts, non-transparent legal processes, unfettered wire tapping, etc. This action against the EPA seems to be nothing more than a way to distract voters away from the government's illegal actions.

You are confusing ability with interest. No matter how much ability someone has, if the activity doesn't interest them then they will not pursue it. This whole get woman involved in tech thing has become very tired. /. needs to stop posting these articles.

Anyone with a serious interest in this subject needs to read "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom Demarco & Timothy Lister. They present empirical research data gathered in the 1970s that demonstrates the real productivity gains to be made through housing staff in appropriate office space. Note: open offices and cubical jungles do not constitute productive environments. The numbers tell no lies.

But, "Rape, burn, pillage, rape" is so much more alliterative than the correct form.

http://www.theonion.com/video/braindead-teen-only-capable-of-rolling-eyes-and-te,27225/

In other news, government officials announced they have conclusive evidence that the information leaked by Snowden is causing an acceleration in global warming.

I'm a ReadyNAS owner. I have ignored recent firmware updates from Netgear simply because they have become incompetent at releasing firmware that actually functions. I keep my ReadyNAS far away from the Internet, and so my level of risk is low; as well, I have stopped upgrading: Netgear's release quality is simply too poor to allow me to risk the upgrade.

I agree. Telling porkies is their specialty.

Now you're dreaming in Technicolor. The liar might get a promotion for their behavior, but there certainly won't be any negative consequences.

The advice I've replied to is exactly right. In my case, I fly almost every week on business, and I buy my own laptop. By the end of the second year, I almost always experience some type of failure in my laptop--either failure of a component or an accident (liquid into the keyboard). I always buy the all-perils warranty for my laptop and I always come out ahead. I am out at the extreme upper end of the bell curve, and so I benefit at the expense of the insurance company.

One of the benefits of the warranty (on my HP laptop) is that I buy the onsite, next business day service. So, no matter where in the world I am working--and I work in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia--an HP tech shows up and fixes my laptop without the need for me to visit a service centre or return my laptop to depot by courier. This is part of the business value to me.

However, I do not buy any other extended warranties; because in all the other situations I am not out at the extreme end of the risk curve and so I will always lose.

I should add that I use X1, http://x1.com/, to index and access the Aid4Mail converted emails.

I gathered up all my historical email records a few years ago, and used Aid4Mail to convert all the various mailbox formats to the common format I use today. Choose a format that's convenient for you, and standardize on it. Here's the product website: http://www.aid4mail.com/

This assertion flies in the face of common sense; pollen from this seed will float through the air and contaminate non-engineered fields and now those farmers will also have a percentage of their crop that produces sterile seed. This time, lawsuits will flow in the opposite direction: farmers who replant seed will sue Monsanto due to reduced germination rates and reduced yields in future years.

This is exactly what will happen, and so Monsanto will put and end to many farmers' current practice of saving part of this years crop as next year's seed--since their seed yield will be reduced they negatively impact their future yield due to a percentage of the seed being sterile.