How many of those "cloud-based" solutions are written in PHP, Java, or Python and hosted on LAMP servers? You know, the ones with "Enterprise" features and "24x7 availability", and stiffly worded SLAs?

Lots and lots.

Working at such a hosted solution provider, we replace 50 to 100 onsite servers with 1 or 2 of our own and profit immensely on economies of scale. While we diligently scan uploaded data for viruses, we also benefit from having robust security, firewalls, and rapidly updated servers. In nearly 10 years of doing business like this, we've had zero virus outbreaks and uptime approaching 4 nines. We don't get complaints about our reliability, a few hours of downtime per year.

I've been hearing about the end of hard disks for a long, LONG time now. RAID1 was supposed to be dead a decade ago, RAID5 a few years back.

Strangely, rumors of their deaths have been repeatedly found to be greatly exaggerated. Speeds have improved, (though not kept pace with the sizes of drives), and so has reliability-per-bit.

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Not cheap though...

Complaining about the price ($125) for a book like this is penny-wise and pound-foolish, IMHO. Spending a few hundred dollars every so often at the local book store on good, meaty howto books that you take the time to read is one of the best investments you could ever make. It basically doesn't matter how much you know already, knowing more pretty much always pays!

20 years ago, I got started in the tech industry with a $60 book, "Upgrading and repairing PCs". Although it was somewhat wordy and tended to repeat itself annoyingly, studying that book carefully gave me the tools I needed to start a successful computer repair store. (back when knowing how to dumper the IO address of a controller card was something you needed to do to get it working)

I've switched around the business several times, and make a very, comfortable living today based primarily on the knowledge I obtained by reading beefy, knowledge-packed "expensive" books like this.

Knowledge is power, and in today's world, that translates to $$cash$$.

So people could claim to be Anon, when in fact they are not.

Statements like these make it clear that you do not understand Anonymous. It's not like there's a registry of dues-paying members of anonymous. For example, with the Chanology project, lots of people took part who had nothing to do whatsoever with the DDoS bunch.

There's no membership. There's no dues. You are Anonymous because you say you are, and that's pretty much it, since the standard, dictionary definition of anonymous is really all that applies.

They will still be needed, of course, for some jobs where only such a monster can help, but I think the US should look on these as potential future museum pieces

Why? Technologies don't necessarily become obsolete! Despite thousands of years of active development, science has yet to find a suitable replacement for the wheel.... Some technologies are mature and viable basically forever.

If printed parts actually performs better, than I might agree with you. But I'm in no hurry to deprecate anything that obviously works so fabulously well.

Came here to say this. We still "record" things even though we don't use records. Why should this be any different?

I don't think that the counterargument is weak at all because Oh look! Another awesome cat video! You gotta check this out! And that means that what were we talking about again?

Effective lightning protection is layered. One of the best things you can do to stop errant radio waves from messing with you is to build a Faraday cage around your house. That will provide an effective defense against lightning strikes from outside the home.

However, this won't protect you from lightning strikes that occur INSIDE the Faraday cage. To defend against that, you need to not only have everything inside a Faraday cage, with a household surge suppressor, you also need to have a separate Faraday cage around every electronic device in the home, each with its own surge suppressor. It may seem a bit awkward, having to crawl inside a cage to watch TV or play computer, but it's worth it!

That way, when the aliens attack with their pulse EMP weapons, you will be blithely unaffected and will be able to sell your stereo on Ebay when everybody else's has been blown to 5h17.

Seriously, why is this important? If you care about your device, get a $10 surge suppressing power strip and call it good. I've already had several devices saved by such devices, when my parent's house was hit by lightning, it blew out their TV/VCR, microwave, telephone, and just about everything else in the house, except for the computer that I'd insisted they buy a SS power strip for.

Came here to see this, glad to see I wasn't disappointed. Flowers for Algernon is the only thing I ever was made to read in school that actually made me cry.