Don't be so sure. Bush was elected to a second term. Ignorance was a valid claim for the first, but no one can say "gee, I didn't know" about his second term. Never underestimate the stupidity of large groups of people acting together.

Noticing that your backups have failed isn't the time to go searching for another backup solution.

That's fine it you're using it to make your files more accessible, but he is suggesting that it be used for backups. If you need to access the data, it means you probably don't have a local copy.

Until your cloud backup provider goes out of business or stops offering the service. You think rsync is a lot of work? Try keeping current on the status of Dropbox and SkyDrive services so you can pull your data before they disappear. I guarantee you that a properly stored external drive will outlive either of them.

Oh, and if you were trolling with that first post, kudos on playing it out so long.

Damn, Slashdot ate my Unicode beamed eighth notes.

Privacyyyy, at the Zuckerberg wedding / Who would have thought... it figures

And a slide-rule built into the bezel. Nice.

You haven't visited a car dealership lately, have you?

Personally, I'd prefer that my surgeon not be standing on one foot while wielding a scalpel.

He has to move the photos from one computer to another using sneakernet? How archaic.