I think Sony is not an improvement in terms of supporting evil. It could be argued that their divisions have little to do with each other, and the evils of Sony Music (rootkits, etc.) or Sony Computer Entertainment (playstation, dropping promised linux support, exposing customers with disregard for security), or any other scandals shouldn't reflect on their cameras. But, I think similar mentality seems fairly consistent through their corporate culture. I've written Sony off entirely.

for a comparable alternative, I have a couple of Contour cameras I've been quite happy with.

your link has only .pub files, though. I see no private keys here.

I'm pretty sure the word was 'mohel'

my favorite part is that slashdot (and wired) picks this up five months after it was news. much more thorough (and timely) article at techdirt: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111208/08225217010/breaking-news-feds-falsely-censor-popular-blog-over-year-deny-all-due-process-hide-all-details.shtml

SMART is good for telling you when your drives do have problems that need addressing. it's not so great for giving you assurance that your drives do not have problems - consider a positive smart result to be more of an "I don't know" than a "good". you should generally assume your drives can fail at any time. I don't think there's any way to reliably predict the sudden death of a drive.

thanks for that link.

I have seen on other articles a tag like "15pagesofads", which I'd suggest here

holy shit.

this might be the first time on the internet anybody has used the term "beg the question" correctly.

I'm a week late, but I witnessed it.

like a truecrypt hidden volume?

unfortunately, I live in 52318'; drop table 'tSalesTax'; --

that first one is really important and may be overlooked due to hiding in the subject line (I do not understand the tendency of people here to start typing in the subject and then continue in the body)

seconded for namecheap. I've had good experiences with them, albeit for my very-limited needs.