Windows 2012 has built-in post processes duping so just upgrade your system: http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2012/05/21/introduction-to-data-deduplication-in-windows-server-2012.aspx

It's strange how most slahdotters are fundamentally Luddites. Controlling for genes that are linked to alcoholism or schizophrenia are no-brainer ways of employing technology. Parents already make decisions on a wide range of items that will affect their children well into adulthood from their diet to whether they will be sexually mutilated (circumcised) and society has no problems with it.

You should always have a local copy... like with dropbox...

watch the D8 conference with ozzie and monkeyboy being interviews...very ackward.... ballmer was clueless about the cloud and amazon... and ozzie actually made some sense... ozzie then gets sacked

Socrates made this argument in the Meno a couple thousand years ago.

really... does anyone use CDs anymore? Especiallly CDs filled up with a bunch of crap?

Wasn't Vista supposed to have some amazing new file system as well? At least one year it out when all the cool new features of the OS were announced. In the end nothing shipped and it took another 3 years after that to clean up the mess with Win 7. Win 8 smells like a disaster in the making.

Oh yes poor Intel got really screwed and abused by Microsoft...and those suckers at Dell and HP as well. And of course the smart hardware providers like Sun and SGI who would never compromise their moral compass by using inferior MS software - they did really swell. your statements are fatuous ...if you have one ounce of business sense you can make a killing as a hardware partner with the evil empire..

how many macs do you have? If you have 5000+ Macs how are you going to do AV management, configuratin management, configuration drift and all the other operations management service lines you need in an enteprise to be ITIL and CoBIT compliant?