Yes, disks are cheap

The power to run and cool them, and the space to hold them on your data center floor, are not.

...so I use Hosting Matters. Been using them for years, they're cheap, provide MySQL and cpanel access, sftp, and ssh (if you ask). Their rates are reasonable, and -- bonus -- every time I've filed a help ticket, I've gotten a response in hours*, and it's always been knowledgeable.

*Once it took 12 hours (essentially overnight) and the support rep apologized for taking so long.

I think there's an actual Slashdot preference setting that hides tags.

I honestly don't know any more, I have so many ad blockers, script blockers, greasemonkey scripts, firefox extensions, CSS modifiers, and other stuff filtering down every site I really couldn't tell you which particular one shut off the damn tags.

Android has limited multitasking that isn't terribly intuitive to use

You don't "use" multitasking on Android at all; it's completely transparent to the user, since all activities can be fully stopped and resumed.

Yet all I hear on /. is "iPhone, Android, iPhone, Android" ALL FRACKING DAY LONG. It's like WebOS isn't even on your radar,

I tried WebOS and I like neither the hardware, nor the software, nor the programming model. In addition, it looks to me like the company is going to die. Why would I care about WebOS?

Depending on how important/inflammable this document is, I might look into buying a cheap 20GB laptop hard drive, installing ubuntu, going to a star bucks, doing the above and then "disposing" of the drive and all media so that there are no questions.

For this to work you would also have to change your wireless interface's Ethernet MAC (hardware) address. By default this is a vendor-specific code that is probably unique enough that it could be used to link you to the upload. This would require that (a) the coffee shop kept some kind of long-term logging on their wireless device, (b) the authorities were able to trace the upload to the coffee shop, and (c) the police had some kind of suspicion of you already. All are improbable, but none are impossible.

Most wireless cards will let you change the hardware address. I'll leave instructions for how to do that to the enterprising googler.

The alternative is to use a cheap throwaway laptop with wireless, or a disposable wireless ethernet card.

(Yes, it's paranoid, but so is the original question.)

Google doesn't agree:
1.0 mpg = 86 furlongs per firkin

Enterprise tape has a proven 20-year shelf life, no HDD does.

That may be, but I've lost track of the number of times (as a storage engineer) that I've seen tape backups go bad. Even "enterprise-quality" tapes. I think the claims don't match the reality.

Hard drives die too, but in the case of drive storage (1) it's a lot easier to verify your backups on a periodic basis, like every month; and (2) you can suffer a failure or two (depending on your RAID setup -- most people wouldn't run anything more than RAID-5 for backups) and react accordingly to preserve the data in full.

Of course, if you're really serious about your backups, you back up to disk and THEN offload to tapes and keep those offsite.

The legislators have thought of that. It's an infraction, rather than a misdemeanor, so it's an administrative fine -- it goes on your driving record, but not your criminal record.

Because it's a criminal charge, you aren't given the right to face your accuser.

It's a perversion of justice for the profit of the state, but right now the judges let it pass constitutional muster.

Or at least, I hope it will.

I've been playing RTS's off and on since C&C and Warcraft (the original), and I've always had a love/hate relationship with them. I love the strategy and tactics of the genre, but the whole concept of "micro" and continuously abysmal unit AI just infuriates me.

For instance, in the dominant RTS paradigm, if I have a group of units standing in a group in my base, I get two choices: leave them in "free acting" mode, where if they're attacked by some plinker my opponent sends, they'll rush headlong into whatever danger lurks outside the base, outside the range of my fortifications; or they can stand there in "hold" mode, and get picked off impassively by ranged enemy units as their mates stand around watching them bleed.

Why can't I tell them to automatically scatter and get behind fortifications to fight back? Or maybe retreat to draw the enemy into range of my big, immobile guns/cannons/wizards/what have you?

Since micro is so much harder on a console than a PC, my hope is that console RTS developers will address some of these issues, to reduce the frustration of unit management.