Can you explain what "assets" Toshiba got to start their 3.5" drive business? Are HGST and Toshiba making very similar 3.5" drives?

Can't help with that one at all.

Create a new steam account for every game you buy, have each account share it's library with all of your friends.

Is this one of those blogs generated with markov chains?

I get deja vu every time I see that Parallela schematic: http://www.tilera.com/sites/default/files/productbriefs/PB01...

A couple of thoughts.

WD lists their 2.5TB drive as having "Non-recoverable read errors per bits read" as "<1 in 10^14" and the drive has about 2 x 10^13 bits, so while the chance of an error in one whole disk read is non-trivial, it's not 100%.

Mirroring will still work fine as long as the error is detected. The chance of read errors in the exact same sector of two disks should still be small. Silent errors were always a problem for mirroring.

At what point do we as consumers start considering drives to be defective? Is the underlying ECC suffering because of the need to hit greater storage numbers?

For a moment I thought you were going to say that your microwave scanned the QR to automatically set itself.

Every 6 months (or 90 days) the judge hauls you in to court and orders you to give up your password until one of you breaks.

I know there was a guy who spent years in jail on a contempt charge related to his divorce (the ex-wife claimed he has lots of money hidden about). I'll see if I can find a link for it.

EDIT: Here it is: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09192/983301-454.stm

This is my Q6. I picked A but the test wants C.

http://imgur.com/VyW30

Except you can put a wallet on a thumb drive, and literally put it in a bank (safe deposit box).

Exactly, make sure the only copies of the wallets with your money are on non-networked, non-running hardware, preferably just straight up storage media, and secure it physically. You can make it as secure as you can possibly make anything. Hell, you could even get it insured.

Though interestingly, your bank isn't generally required to repay you for losses in your safe deposit box unless it arises from their negligence.

Probably makes sense to print it out on a sheet of paper and put it in there too.

I thought maybe User Mode Linux had been improved, but this just talks about boxes and lines.