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...high-tech - and essentially idiot-proof - alternative is to back up your stuff online. A growing number of companies will automatically sweep your hard drive and keep a copy of the information that is there in the internet "cloud." Many early adopters use Mozy or Carbonite, which allow users unlimited backup space for the cost of a latte each month. For the cost of a lobster, rival sites such as SugarSync offer additional features like non-emergency access to backed-up files - e.g., the ability to update something in your office that you were working on at home. (See five...
Thomas Vitale, a Syfy Channel executive, signed up for Mozy in early October, largely to safeguard his trove of family pictures. He and his wife have taken photos of each of their three daughters every day since they were born. Every month or so, he backs up the 25,000 photos, 1,000 videos and other files from nearly 25 years of PC use - which take up about 125 gb on his home computer in Manhattan - on an external hard drive that is not connected to his computer in order to keep it safe from viruses. In between these external...
...Dodd's bill was always cast as intentionally forward-leaning; even top aides and Administration allies said he wanted to start with an ambitious bill and scale it back from there. The question now is how far back that will be. Republicans say they are prepared to agree to something before the Christmas break, but only if Dodd dials back some of the more aggressive elements of his bill...
...wife, the slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who also faced corruption charges. (Zardari had previously served two stints and a total of 11 years behind bars, having been arrested, although never convicted, under former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, released when his wife came to power, and then sent back to prison after Sharif was reelected - before being freed under the deal with Musharraf.) (See pictures of Bhutto's village in mourning...
...brutal facts of these massacres are out in the public, it's very hard for any government ... to get this information covered up again," says Bruce Cumings, a professor of Korean history at the University of Chicago. "President Lee's administration is trying to get a lot of toothpaste back into the tube...