I use fsarchiver, and as far as I can tell it is better in every way than ntfsclone, clonezilla, et al.

And replace Obushma with who? Down with the Republicans! Down with the Democrats!

Say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss.

Reality is not an agenda.

I know this is overkill compared to SFV, but I set up an OpenSolaris server using ZFS to ensure my data is uncorrupted. Every block has a checksum which is checked every time I read it, and also checked when a monthly scrub (health check) is run. I have 2 mirrored 2TB drives, which is enough for all of my home photos and videos. ZFS has mirroring and RAID built in. I also run a monthly script to 'zfs send' just the incrementally changed data to a second OpenSolaris server under my desk at work.

Yes, C4 going off near the Pentagon would cause a frenzy of authoritarian crackdowns, civil rights removals and economic damage. It would be quite successful in its goals.

Yes. Physicists. Oh, and video game players. Physicists and video gamers. Oh, and those degenerate Dungeons and Dragons players. Physicists, video gamers, and D&D players. Not too sure about Harry Potter fans either.

I'm all for a cleaner fork of Firefox, but I am curious: Just how does someone get "very rich" by making a better version of a free product and giving it away for free?

Can I get fizzy drinks with umbrella straws at the 'awesome bar'? If I can, I am SO there!

Stupid reaction on the cops part. These protests have been completely ignored by the media until the cops started beating heads.
Even topless women protesters didn't get the media interested.

Copy one thousand blocks of bread to standard output. I think it means feed a thousand people. It should have been written

dd -n 1000 if=/dev/bread

Perhaps when there is nothing left to do we can spend some of our idle time getting food to the other 6 billion that don't have any.

Are you serious? Programming jobs are all being sent to India and other cheap but educated places. Many IT jobs require your physical presence, especially at small and mid-sized companies where they don't have the infrastructure to virtualize everything.

I'm in the field. Guttman hasn't been accurate for over a decade. Modern drives pack the bits much closer together. Nothing can be recovered after a single wipe with all zeros or better all pseudo-random. Even Guttman himself acknowledges this: "For any modern PRML/EPRML drive, a few passes of random scrubbing is the best you can do."

"There will be lawyers"

There always are...
Like bacteria, you can assume they will always be probing every orifice looking for a way to disrupt you.

I'd like one of those glow-lights that reveal the presence of bacteria and make people exclaim in disgust, "Ewww! They're all over everything! They're all over ME!"... except this glow-light reveals the presence of lawyers and the friction and cost they introduce into everything we do, "Ewww! There is litigation all over everything! It's chilling effect is all over ME!"...

Today PETA announced they have acquired the web site 4chan and will be using it, unmodified, as a promotional and educational tool to help protect animals through a mix of animal suffering footage and porn.