Yes. New OS, new program updates, new whatever, next month/year they're gone. Photos from my teenage years aren't going to be updated, videos of family/friends aren't going anywhere. Those live on spinning media in a ZFS array.

It's called a poor choice of words ;)

I tried Solaris several times, every time it felt painful to me. I thought using BSD/Linux would be helpful but I felt like a total nub in it, perhaps if that was the first OS I tried I'd have thought differently but I just couldn't make the transition. I got it up and running well enough to handle my backup server since BSD didn't have v21 yet but once FreeBSD 9 came out I swapped over.

I hate Oracle because of the smelly dump they took in Sun's pool and implying that I'm supporting them in any way was annoying. I accept it was a joke to you, it wasn't to me.

I know, but it was licensed in such a way that didn't prevented FreeBSD to use it. So Sun wasn't against giving their code away, they were against forcing other people to give their code away just because they used Sun's code. This falls back to the whole BSD/GPL licensing debate. I think both camps are great, BSD eeks out a hairs breadth because if every lawyer died tomorrow BSD wouldn't care, Linux would cry itself to sleep without lawyers, they rely on copyright law just as much as Disney does... they're just not evil about it.

Maybe that's why they need the cash and aren't doing it for free? The cash goes somewhere, it doesn't just cease to exist when it hits kickstarter. Not every actor expects a seven digit salary, some guys are willing to work anything to pay the bills. If they can find a way to work on something they enjoy AND it pays the bills? Well that'd be just awesome.

Sun had great engineers, Solaris is/was trash, but the ideas they came from it are brilliant. Oracle just bought them, they've brought nothing to the table since their purchase. Thankfully FreeBSD isn't ideologically prevented from incorporating ZFS and other good ideas from Solaris the way Linux is. Just because Oracle pissed in Sun's pool doesn't mean that the ideas are suddenly crap. Or do you refuse to use Libre Office because Open Office exists even though its now a part of the Apache foundation? Choose your ideological wars better, open source doesn't care who came up with the idea, just how its licensed and Sun did a good enough job giving back to the community that Oracle can't stop it.

That being said, ZFS is awesome, if you're not using it, try it. It's hungry for resources but having 4 drives drop out of an array at the same time due to a faulty backplane and ZFS not giving a shit was nice.

I chose to interpret "storage" as "not temporary". All my long term storage is on ZFS arrays that do use ssd's for caching. Cameras and phones have sd cards but I don't count them. Camera cards are used until its backed up. Androids memory was copied from the backups for use, deleted once I don't care about it anymore. My OS is on an SSD, but its not used for storage, its used for running my OS. Dedicated game drive is also SSD, not used for storage, used for running games. Only place I store data is a ZFS array, if it isn't ZFS, its only temporary.

I use to do that. I've moved over to encrypted database with one long ass password to access a list of unique passwords for each account. With 300+ passwords across various personal and business sites there just aren't enough ways to mix up 5 different passwords varying from 8-12 characters. You're going to have repeats, even if you combine multiple passwords, cut them in half and glue them together, or intermix every other character like I did before I swapped to a db. I ended up forgetting what method I used to mesh the passwords together after the 100th account.

I know I'm replying a million years later but ... Phoenix has got to be one of the ugliest places on the planet I can imagine living short of a tar pit that's on fire. Yes there are some beautiful locations in Arizona, but Phoenix specifically at best has some beautiful homes... which would be even more beautiful anywhere else, maybe even in that tarpit as the flames would look pretty badass next to a pool. That being said I have friends who live there and their mortgage/taxes vs mine .... no contest, cheap living there.

You must live in Phoenix Arizona if you think there isn't anything worth taking in the USA. Living on the coast I can totally see why someone would want to take us over, it's beautiful here.

Did you just poorly explain your analogy or have you never actually worked with BGP? You can announce your ips over one uplink, switch it to another uplink, then move them to a third all in a few minutes if you feel like it. You could tunnel your traffic across the internet and announce them from japan if you're bored enough. DNSSEC and BGP have nothing to do with each other and should never be compared to one another. BGP is proof positive that anarchistic systems DO work and trying to make it fall in line with some sort of structure is worse than the occasional screw up that can happen by some fat fingers.

There have been many multi touch implementations, just because someone was the first to file doesn't mean they were first to think up the general concept. Hell any kindergartner that's given some finger paint is prior art for 'multi touch' as far as I'm concerned.

Such changes occur routinely. You'd be amazing how many small providers sell their companies after only a few months/weeks. Many times they just log in and change the information themselves without any human interaction. I'm actually a bit surprised any human interaction was needed for that sort of change. We don't know the specifics of how the information was changed but if they use a secret phrase and the person who put the change in was able to find it what was the ISP supposed to do? Call the person at home for every single account change no matter where they are located globally? Treat national clients as special because they don't involve international charges for the $4.99/mo account? We don't have enough information to truly judge whether or not the ISP is to blame. The submitter provided nothing but rage in his post. He acts as if it was 100% the ISP's responsibility to catch this and there was nothing within his power to prevent it from occurring. I find that doubtful as someone in a related business.

Safe doesn't mean invincible. It just means every known and theorized situation has a counter measure. If something from left field occurs then its a new test in the "known" category. Stuff breaks, bad things happen, we move forward and adapt, its what makes us spiffy creatures.