This is the biggest issue with digital information storage vs. paper, 10 gigs of digital information can be backed up in a few minutes onto another harddrive or tape and can be stored offsite. That same information on paper would be an enormous task to have offsite, not to mention any changes to the paper would be incredibly hard to track and backup, unlike digital.
People seem to forget that companies used to really worry about having a disaster that would wipe out their paper archive system. Some companies still store an enormous amount of irreplacible information on paper. Digital has made it possible to cheap multiple copies of huge amounts of information.
So while this might not be a great solution for 500 years of archiving data, it works great for people and companies now, and really whose gonna want to read an insurance database in 500 years. By that time the GM'd corn crops will have developped a collective mind an enslaved the entire human race.
If all you have is your cellphone and no home phone # like me, get a dedicated Voicemail number, they're like $5 a month and you can make it seem like its your home number with an answering machine. Give this number out as your home number on everything, then just check it every so often. Don't ever give out your cell number. It's cheaper than having a home phone line and you can give it to everyone, even credit card companies, which are the worst telemarketing offenders.
If your single and just need insurance because your self-employed go with a major HMO. They won't cost you much at all, probably less than dealing with ebay's system. Plus you don't need to be in good standing with ebay to use it. "oh no sir, I'm sorry, we can't operate until you take the link to your webstore off your auction pages"
I've got my license but I don't use it anymore. I mean what the hell for, talking to other ham ops on a repeater while driving around town. It's cool to do the Morse thing in a kind of nostalgic way, but really, the whole talk to people around the world lost it's cool factor with the advent of the interenet. Remember back in the day when you first got on the Internet through a shell account and opened IRC. I mean holy shit, I couldn't talk to people in Europe on my local BBS. And it was alot more interesting than talking to ham radio ops around the world.
Ham radio is somewhat(and a big somewhat) usefull for emergency communication. But lets get real, were emergency workers in 9/11 really relying on anything that the hams did. They all have there own emergency networks. Hams are great for private citizens to get word out of an emergency area to there family, but really thats about it.
In reality most hams are a bunch of old farts that have nothing better to do than make themselves feel important by doing this kind of thing. I mean its not a bad thing, it keeps the geezers off the road for a while and gives them something to do, but don't kid yourselves, grandpa isn't gonna be a key component in saving thousands of people in a nerve gas attack just by cranking up the ham station.
The obviouse solution is actually to buy alot of the copyprotected CD's and open them. Then return them as defective because they don't work on your computer, and as your computer doesn't have internet you can't sign up for the digital service either. Rinse and repeat.
If enough people do it, it'll create definite pressure on Universal.
Was that you the other day driving 55 in the white Oldsmobuick. The reason I zoomed around you was that you were doing 55 in the fast lane.
"I'm really tired of driving the speed limit when 95% of the rest of the drivers on the road pass you. It creates a hazard to not only me but to everyone else."
If 95% of the drivers on the road pass you then I guess it just creates a hazard to you, to everyone else(the 95%) your the guy doing 55 creating the hazard. By your own admittaly 95% of the people have to pass you. Your the bigger hazard, not the other way around.
Step on it grandpa.
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You can buy an electric scooter for under $300 that has a longer range and goes faster. It's smaller because you can fold it up. Its just as manueverable on city sidewalks(actually its better for sidewalks since its much more slender). And it's gonna be alot easier to fix since its just a damn battery and a motor, not 10 microchips and a gyroscope.
Plus you gotta worry about that thing getting stolen. Its pretty big so your probably not going to want to hall it up to your office or room, meaning now you gotta lock it up at the bicycle racks. However an electric scooter is much smaller and you can even get on an elevator with it.
Oh and did I mention that you'll look like the bigest fucking idiot on that thing. Good luck not getting your ass kicked. You'll be like one of those blow-up punching bags that you can't knock down.
Nice reporting. God forbid you should double check before you post.
This is typical EULA for any company's logo.
I also like the way you appended a retraction at the end of the article. The better thing to do would be to also change the article title to reflect the retraction.
You guys totally rip on Microsoft(and most of the time your in the right) and then when you clearly in the wrong, you tag a little change on the end of the article, but leave the errant title up.
I call shenanigans on this. Come on guys, slashdot is usually better than this. Check your sources and when your in the wrong fess up.
Much more reliable is not really true. I keep a copy of my Palm info on my PC, and also on Yahoo Calender and address book. That way if anything happens to my palm I've always got a copy of my important info on the web, or on my PC at home.
Plus I've got a MemoPad replacement program that encrypts memos for me. This allows me to keep all my personal info(DL#, CC#, Bank accounts, credit card contact info, usernames and passwords) in a safe place but always have them on me. Yeah the encryption can probably be broken pretty easily, but I figure if someone goes to all that trouble to steal my identity, they can have it. I need a new ID anyways, I've used this one all up, and I've got about 30 unpaid parking tickets I'll let the other guy have.
And then I've got DrugWars on it, oh and Avantgo for all my news. Its obscene how usefull this damn thing is.
Try one out for a month, you'll have a hard time living without it.
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This is the biggest issue with digital information storage vs. paper, 10 gigs of digital information can be backed up in a few minutes onto another harddrive or tape and can be stored offsite. That same information on paper would be an enormous task to have offsite, not to mention any changes to the paper would be incredibly hard to track and backup, unlike digital.
People seem to forget that companies used to really worry about having a disaster that would wipe out their paper archive system. Some companies still store an enormous amount of irreplacible information on paper. Digital has made it possible to cheap multiple copies of huge amounts of information.
So while this might not be a great solution for 500 years of archiving data, it works great for people and companies now, and really whose gonna want to read an insurance database in 500 years. By that time the GM'd corn crops will have developped a collective mind an enslaved the entire human race.
If all you have is your cellphone and no home phone # like me, get a dedicated Voicemail number, they're like $5 a month and you can make it seem like its your home number with an answering machine. Give this number out as your home number on everything, then just check it every so often. Don't ever give out your cell number. It's cheaper than having a home phone line and you can give it to everyone, even credit card companies, which are the worst telemarketing offenders.
If your single and just need insurance because your self-employed go with a major HMO. They won't cost you much at all, probably less than dealing with ebay's system.
Plus you don't need to be in good standing with ebay to use it.
"oh no sir, I'm sorry, we can't operate until you take the link to your webstore off your auction pages"
I've got my license but I don't use it anymore. I mean what the hell for, talking to other ham ops on a repeater while driving around town. It's cool to do the Morse thing in a kind of nostalgic way, but really, the whole talk to people around the world lost it's cool factor with the advent of the interenet. Remember back in the day when you first got on the Internet through a shell account and opened IRC. I mean holy shit, I couldn't talk to people in Europe on my local BBS. And it was alot more interesting than talking to ham radio ops around the world.
Ham radio is somewhat(and a big somewhat) usefull for emergency communication. But lets get real, were emergency workers in 9/11 really relying on anything that the hams did. They all have there own emergency networks. Hams are great for private citizens to get word out of an emergency area to there family, but really thats about it.
In reality most hams are a bunch of old farts that have nothing better to do than make themselves feel important by doing this kind of thing. I mean its not a bad thing, it keeps the geezers off the road for a while and gives them something to do, but don't kid yourselves, grandpa isn't gonna be a key component in saving thousands of people in a nerve gas attack just by cranking up the ham station.
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The obviouse solution is actually to buy alot of the copyprotected CD's and open them. Then return them as defective because they don't work on your computer, and as your computer doesn't have internet you can't sign up for the digital service either. Rinse and repeat.
If enough people do it, it'll create definite pressure on Universal.
Was that you the other day driving 55 in the white Oldsmobuick. The reason I zoomed around you was that you were doing 55 in the fast lane.
"I'm really tired of driving the speed limit when 95% of the rest of the drivers on the road pass you. It creates a hazard to not only me but to everyone else."
If 95% of the drivers on the road pass you then I guess it just creates a hazard to you, to everyone else(the 95%) your the guy doing 55 creating the hazard. By your own admittaly 95% of the people have to pass you. Your the bigger hazard, not the other way around.
Step on it grandpa.
You can buy an electric scooter for under $300 that has a longer range and goes faster. It's smaller because you can fold it up. Its just as manueverable on city sidewalks(actually its better for sidewalks since its much more slender). And it's gonna be alot easier to fix since its just a damn battery and a motor, not 10 microchips and a gyroscope.
Plus you gotta worry about that thing getting stolen. Its pretty big so your probably not going to want to hall it up to your office or room, meaning now you gotta lock it up at the bicycle racks. However an electric scooter is much smaller and you can even get on an elevator with it.
Oh and did I mention that you'll look like the bigest fucking idiot on that thing. Good luck not getting your ass kicked. You'll be like one of those blow-up punching bags that you can't knock down.
-BlingBlings
Nice reporting. God forbid you should double check before you post.
This is typical EULA for any company's logo.
I also like the way you appended a retraction at the end of the article. The better thing to do would be to also change the article title to reflect the retraction.
You guys totally rip on Microsoft(and most of the time your in the right) and then when you clearly in the wrong, you tag a little change on the end of the article, but leave the errant title up.
I call shenanigans on this. Come on guys, slashdot is usually better than this. Check your sources and when your in the wrong fess up.
BlingBlings
--Flossin it Slashdot style.
Much more reliable is not really true. I keep a copy of my Palm info on my PC, and also on Yahoo Calender and address book. That way if anything happens to my palm I've always got a copy of my important info on the web, or on my PC at home. Plus I've got a MemoPad replacement program that encrypts memos for me. This allows me to keep all my personal info(DL#, CC#, Bank accounts, credit card contact info, usernames and passwords) in a safe place but always have them on me. Yeah the encryption can probably be broken pretty easily, but I figure if someone goes to all that trouble to steal my identity, they can have it. I need a new ID anyways, I've used this one all up, and I've got about 30 unpaid parking tickets I'll let the other guy have. And then I've got DrugWars on it, oh and Avantgo for all my news. Its obscene how usefull this damn thing is. Try one out for a month, you'll have a hard time living without it.