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Condensing Your Life on to a USB Flash Drive?
Fear the Clam asks: "My wife and I figure that if we plan for the worst, it'll never happen, so we've been putting together 'If public transportation bites it and we have two minutes to grab our stuff and start walking, never to return to NYC' getaway knapsacks. With luck they'll live in the closet forever.
Coincidently, this morning the New York Times has an article about what to take when you have to leave home in a big hurry [DNA verification required], and they suggest making a list of all of things like Social Security and credit card numbers, scanning birth certificates, marriage license and tax returns, and saving it all on a USB flash drive. Since this would be a complete identity kit, encryption is of utmost importance. What's the best solution? A flash drive that claims to encrypt or a platform-independent, self-extracting, encrypted file on a regular drive? Any suggestions for sturdy drives?" Of course, the choice of USB flash drive covers only a part of the problem. What other data would you put on this piece of "contingency hardware", and how would you protect the drive itself in case you did have to "swim for it"?
Which norrows your choices of weapons.
Perhaps a sling (if you have the time to practice).
I'm not sure about the legal status of black powder in NYC.
I'm also not sure about you status as a law abider, should you be on the smart side I'd suggest something in forty cal.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
That's a joke, but when Google releases their beta of their filesystem in some distant future...
a) Application Deployment as we know it will end....
b) Storage Management as we know it will end...
c) You won't need to be Linus to benefit.
Please, Dear Lord, Let me live to see the day!
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Thumbdrives are cheap - rebuilding your identity after Katrina or some other Bush "oops" is much more expensive.
Yes, yes, because the people in, say... Gulfport, MS, who watched their homes and businesses get scraped off their foundations by storm surge have Bush to blame? Come on, is that really helpful (even a little)? It definitely doesn't make your other perfectly good ideas seem any more credible. You can do better than that. Unless the sailors who died on the Cole without having mailing databackups to their families were the subject to a "Clinton oops." Or people who lost it all to Hurrican Floyd in South Carolina - Clinton oopses? It's just silly, man - you're usually less gratuitous than that.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Who are these retards who think Bush's failure in Katrina was his success in creating a hurricane? Is the guy who steps into the highway, getting smashed by a car, some kind of magical "car magnet"? Or just an idiot who can't be trusted to stay out of harm's way? You know, like cutting his Army Corps of Engineers requests for $70M to maintain levees for a Cat3 storm, when everyone knows a Cat5 is inevitable, down to $3M? Or putting a shithead like Mike Brown in charge of FEMA? Or staying on vacation while New Orleans drowns?
Man, you are really an asshole. Thousands of Americans who died last month could be alive today if Bush gave a shit about managing the country he's in charge of. And you spout BS like that? Why do you hate America?
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The problem here is when you run out of checks, you now have to go to your bank to get them out of your safe deposit box.
Err, wait a minute...
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