Entirely offtopic, (and I am prepared for the karma hit) but today is my birthday!

I do both. local backups and remote. Not advocating one over the other, but I have used Crashplan for the last two years and am happy with it. $60.00 a year and it has saved me twice. Currently I have 788.4GB backed up on it - they are very very loose about the amount you can back up (thankfully)

Guess that says something else about me as well. I lived in a shady part of South Florida for a bit. I owned a shotgun and a pistol at the time. If someone was egregious enough to break in, I was prepared (with training and legally owning said firearms).

When I moved elsewhere, I sold them, as I could not justify a pressing need for them anymore. Yes, I agree with the GP - civilized may not have been my adjective of choice, perhaps "appropriate" would be better. Sure seems appropriate enough to defend myself and my property if someone is going to be bold enough to commit a break-in. How is defending yourself considered to be barbaric?

In Soviet Russia, the dog throws...wait, that doesn't make a lot of sense.

In Soviet Russia, the electronics steal...huh, what?

In Soviet Russia, dogs steal elec.....hmmmmm

little help here, guys?

Indeed. I don't like the idea of standing out in any fashion. In this case, hiding your SSID will attract more attention then not, IMO

I don't know about the hiding portion - any hacker with any skills at all are going to find them. I for one would be far more interested in someone who hides their SSID than someone in a faceless mass of wifis. Makes me think that they are relying on being hidden, and thus have fewer layers of defense.

Unless they have Space Police out there. Who knows how this would turn out, but it does raise another issue - when we finally get off of our collective asses and start a more aggressive space program(s), who the heck is gonna regulate commodities, etc out in space?

Yup, but you need an appointment (don't do a walkin for God's sakes!) and be sure to make a backup of your stomach as they are not responsible for previously undigested substances.

Man I had such a flashback....New Year's Eve, 2002. My dating partner at the time was out of town, so I hunkered down to do some UO - a game I had put about four years into by that time.

My little excursion out for the evening as a Tamer turned into an epic battle for both my and my irreplaceable pets - a Nightmare (fire breathing horse) and my Dragon. This was before pet summoning etc....you could spend hours finding the perfect beastie to tame, then spend hours more honing their skills. By hours, I mean weeks, months, etc. Once they died, they died.

And mine did. After about a two hour struggle (went down a bad tunnel into a spawn of Balrons then got flanked by another set) both pets went down. I ported out...confused, sad, befuddled as to what happened, distraught...those little pixels were under my watchful eye for two frigging years, and now they were gone. Gone!

A way to say even though I have never logged into Eve, I know what that feeling is like. Emotional? Yep. Boring, nope.

Don't worry - we'll do the security review for you!

This should be modded up for your username alone lol

Like, never. Out of the box and away she goes...good luck to thee!

Same :)

Agreed, with the caveat that not all Muslims are assholes, just like all of X are not Y. But seriously, this bleeding heart trend on Slashdot and widespread US bashing is getting really old......

It's out of the ordinary enough to own guns AND post on a popular forum that you wish to kill children. God, are people really this dense? 2+2 do add up to 4 you know...