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Insurance For Geeks?
esobofh asks: "It's commonplace to find actors and athletes insuring specific body parts against damage in the off chance that those body parts might sustain damage great enough to prevent them from earning an income without their use. Now that I'm making the big geek bucks, I wanted to explore insuring my hands. In the event that something might happen to them that might prevent me from typing, I want to cash out and "allow them to recover" in some tropical country - does anyone know which agencies would do this? and what sort of policy I would be looking at?" C'mon. If actors and athletes can do it, why not geeks? -
How Long Does A CD-R Last?
esobofh asks: "I would estimate it's been about four to five years now that making your own CD's and burning CD's in general has been a commonplace thing. I'm finding now, however, that CD-R disks that I purchased a few years ago, are completely unreadable now. Data and Audio. I'm listening to a backup of a Pink Floyd disk I created less than a year ago, and there is now a very intrusive static that wasn't present a month ago. The CD is in perfect shape, without scratches. Is anyone else noticing this with their personal CD-R collections? I'm finding it's especially affecting my KAO and ArtMedia disks, whereas my Sony, HP, Memorex and others seem to be fine. Any idea if certain hardware - DVD players, CD audio component players etc. - shorten the life of these discs? Or do I just live in some weird area of radioactivity that is killing them?"