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Comment They all do it. (Score 5, Insightful) 213

Google, deviantArt, Facebook, et al, they all have very similar or same wording in their TOS's. Point is, if they transfer data from your account to someone else's account, it is considered distribution, performance if they show video to others, etc, etc. So they need you to license your stuff to them so they're permitted to carry out their services. The fact that it, on paper, gives them right to do many other things is worrying, but not at all unusual. Good thing about Dropbox version is that it at least has the "to the extent we think we think it necessary for the Service." That is an improvement.

Comment Re:An hour? (Score 1) 162

The SAS 6G and SATA 3 (6Gbps) models of SSD go up to over 500GB now. Reading that in a few minutes is no big deal. Even the SATA II Intel 320 series does 600GB and sequential reads at 270 MB/s, which would be 600GB in (600000/270 seconds) - 2222 seconds or just over 37 minutes. My laptop has a better data rate, but I use off-brand components :-). This is no problem at all.

You have to use Western Digital Caviar Black 3.5" SATA 500GB hard drive (WD5002AALX).

Comment Re:An hour? (Score 1) 162

You won't be able to push any more than 18 gigabytes in a minute through SATA-II and that's in theory. So theoretically one could read a 500 GB drive in ~28 minutes, but the drives just aren't nowhere near as fast. Then again, maybe your Barracua is many fold faster than Barracudas. I know my Sonny cassette player was faster than that from Sony.

You should try Sany. Way faster than even Sonny. The only problem I had with it is it would only read the cassette once and then you need a new player... and a new cassette.

Comment Re:Who do you want reading your docs? (Score 1) 200

What self-respecting conspiracy theorist buys a foil hat?
How would you know it isn't defective or hasn't been tampered with?

No, the truly paranoid must make their own hats.

Is it bugged? I'm asking you: IS IT BUGGED?! Why won't you answer me? OMG, maybe the CIA got to you. Shit, I've gotta hide somewhere. But there's nowhere to hide! NOWHERE TO HIDE!

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