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Comment Re:They can either do it openly or covertly (Score 1) 353

Hi. Welcome to San Antonio (Or Austin. Or Dallas. Or Houston...)

Our options are: TWC, MAYBE Grande Cable (if you're far enough into the sticks), DSL (if you're close enough) or UVerse (If they've passed your place).

So, umm, yeah.

Go fuck yourself. You live in pretty much the only major metro where you have a choice. Congrats. Want the other 295mil Americans to crowd into Seattle?

Comment Re:contractor position? (Score 1) 675

And you know that, how?
Most transplant surgeries -start- in the mid-100k range. Where the hell do you get your 'data' that that sort of thing is "only" $10k?

Continuing, it is illegal in most states to not have auto insurance. If you are driving un-insured, you're an asshat and part of the problem.

Second, and more personally, my hospital bill from being run over by a pickup truck was over $30,000. I required 2 operations to put one of my legs back together, and spent 4 days in the trauma center. That's also not counting the post-release physical therapy and checkup appointments. Thanks to insurance, I was out my $500 deductible and a couple $10 copays, -total-.

3. I have a dental bill for $1200 that I'm responsible for all of $90 thanks to the piddling amount per month that I'm paying for Dental insurance.

In essence - you're either a complete tool and a moron, or you're 21 and still think you're indestructible.

In either event - you're an idiot.

Comment Re:Linux is more young geek friendly (Score 1) 596

Of course, there are all sorts of 'hosted' email products where you don't even have to look at Zimbra - you can pay someone else to worry about the server side headaches - and thousands of businesses are doing exactly that - IT should be about enabling companies to focus on their 'core' business, not about hacking a configuration file in order to get mail working properly for the new guy that is insisting on using his iPhone 3g v2...

Earth

A Sixth Region In the Magnetosphere 69

Roland Piquepaille writes "As you probably know, Earth's magnetosphere, 'the invisible bubble of magnetic fields and electrically charged particles that surrounds and protects the planet from the periodically lethal radiation of the solar wind,' was discovered in 1958. Until now, it was believed to comprise five regions, including the ionosphere or the Van Allen radiation belts. Now, a US research team has discovered a sixth region, called the warm plasma cloak."
Data Storage

Long-Term Personal Data Storage? 669

BeanBagKing writes "Yesterday I set out in search of a way to store my documents, videos, and pictures for a long time without worrying about them. This is stuff that I may not care about for years, I don't care where it is, or if it's immediately available, so long as when I do decide to get it, it's there. What did I come up with? Nothing. Hard Drives can fail or degrade. CD's and DVD's I've read have the same problem over long periods of time. I'd rather not pay yearly rent on a server or backup/storage solution. I could start my own server, but that goes back to the issue of hard drives failing, not to mention cost. Tape backups aren't common for personal backups, making far-future retrieval possibly difficult, not to mention the low storage capacity of tape drives. I've thought about buying a bunch of 4GB thumb drives; I've had some of those for years and even sent a few through washers and driers and had the data survive. Do you have any suggestions? My requirements are simple: It must be stable, lasting for decades if possible, and must be as inexpensive as possible. I'm not looking to start my own national archive; I have less than 500GBs and only save things important to me."

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