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I agree with that, if that's the reason. But the reason can't be "because there's no possibility of evidence" on it. Now, the article is a little different than the headline, I'm just being clear.

That seems like a weird decision... I mean, even if the drive itself has failed it doesn't mean the platters have no data on them that could be recovered. Of course, the secondary question is whether the destruction was intentional or not, but as for the question at issue here, I don't see how a court could say that there is no evidence that was destroyed. The likelihood is completely opposite.

They charge more for BD, so why wouldn't they charge more for 4K? It's a good opportunity for them to be able to raise fees.

That's the point though... this really isn't a push for open formats. We could scour the web looking for mentions in a lot of places. Until it's actually close to a policy it means absolutely nothing.

Ooh look, a MEP said something! I think we should have a front page post on /. anytime Boehner says something too. I mean, seriously? Someone said something and it used a TLA so therefore it's /. news, apparently.

I have a Mac Mini server set up hosting about 8 TB of primary data on mirrored USB3 drives. I then have it running Time Machine on all of that to a 16 TB RAID5 array on a NAS. Total cost (not including the server itself)? About $1,000... and that's for two sets of backups, one for drive errors (primarily) and one that has an always-available actual backup.

I agree. I've been re-reading the entire Jack Ryan/John Clark chronology and it gets more boring post-cold-war and then much more boring post-9/11. Now the military fiction I read is the futuristic kind such as Honor Harrington.

Unless you're like a thousand years old there has never been a time it hasn't been political. The Olympics are entirely a political statement... it's all about interaction of nations.

Was Steve Jobs right? Is a single, restrictive & tested, marketplace the way to go?

Steve Jobs has never claimed credit for any of this. But what he did do is reinvent those things in ways that made regular people like them and want to use them.

They're only state of the art if you ignore the fact that Star Wars came out FIVE YEARS before it.

I don't think that term means what you think it means.