... That could save money and trouble: Insure the Driver, not the Car. In the State of Utah, if you (an individual, no family, etc) have 4 cars that are capable of being driven (registered, etc) you are REQUIRED by law to have insurance on each vehicle...so figure as cheap as you can per vehicle and times that by 4 or as expensive as you can imagine, and times that by 4... Why not figure the most expensive to insure vehicle that you own, and just charge you that much...then you could drive any other car you own, and it would be covered, because your insurance is geared to the most expensive to insure car... This makes sense because you can only drive one vehicle at a time. Then I could also drive other people's vehicles (no real special rider needed) because my insurance would be on ME and not on the car... Rental agencies do this to some degree... As for this idea...I don't see what the problem is. Each year you go in for Safety and Emissions inspections, just have the agency take the odometer reading and report back to the insurance company, who then figures the miles driven by a simple mathematical operation called "subtraction"...who then sends you a bill for the insurance on the miles driven (or an estimate of the miles you drive per year, making up the difference (to you or to them) in subsequent years...) How much more simple could it be?

If it really takes that much money to redesign a web site, I'LL TAKE IT! I have a small group of people who could have this done in phases throughout a year, for a heck of a lot less (we do it all the time) so this would be an incredible UPGRADE!

I worked for Microsoft for over 6 years, and I swore, when I left, that I would find a better way. I ran into Ubuntu Linux after going from Red Hat, to Fedora, and Suse... I tested it out for some time, setting up a server to handle all those functions I was paying hundreds of dollars for. Then I converted all the machines over that I own, and I have been more than happy. Every machine I set up has a RAID, My "user" machines all get RAID 1, my server and my play machines get either RAID 5 or RAID 6 I have had drives go bad, operating system troubles, hardware troubles, and everything imaginable. My data is still safe. Stuff that I have collected for 10 or more years, files, mails, etc... I don't worry about any of it. I tried raid in Windows, and without purchasing expensive hardware, forget it. It doesn't work, or at least, it doesn't work well. While I worked at Microsoft, I went in for a "blue badge" interview. While I waited, a currier brought in a box for a group in building 53. This box was a copy of Red Hat Enterprise. I thought that was funny, but when the guy came to pick it up, he explained that they had sensitive data on their servers, and they couldn't trust that data to Windows Server Addition, (back in the Win 2K days). If Microsoft cannot trust their own software, why should I?

I researched Drobo, and found it to waste too much space, not to mention that the network add-on is expensive...and then reduced to usb transfer rates... I have a Buffalo on my desk, and it is ok, but if you need speed, that isn't a way to go. I found that I could buy a real RAID card and roll my own RAID NAS with little trouble and get great speeds out of it. Later I purchased a micro board, it has 6 sata ports, and I have a Software Raid running on Ubuntu server, with all the necessary bits for SAMBA, XFS, CIFS, etc. I have 6 disks all in raid and a Gigabit ethernet...faster than anything I have purchased previously...does a good job too...

A recent Business Week article indicated that we are loosing the Cyber War. I work in Computer Forensics and one of the obstacles I see (regularly) for a secure computer (secure data) is the operating system being used. We have had little choice but to use Windows or Macintosh for the past 10 years, and according to Secunia, Windows is still unpatched (XP has 13% unpatched vulnerabilities and Vista has 12%). With the current state of the economy, and with the prospect of loosing the so called "Cyber War", what are the governments plans to save money while increasing security, without affecting the Rights and Freedoms we currently enjoy on the Internet?