Comment Re:A silly question (Score 1) 135
On a related note, I can't understand why someone can't actually provide HARDWARE write protect on a USB stick
If you're looking for one I've been using one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820709013&cm_re=kanguru_flashblu_ii-_-20-709-013-_-Product
Running a persistent Linux OS off of it and the hardware write protect switch is nice as Windows tries to helpfully format anything that's not FAT/NTFS. Of course I've gotten kernel panics more then once booting off this when I forget to turn it back, as it fails to remount the root filesystem R/W...