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GeekNights 20101014 - Burgle Burgle!
Tonight on GeekNights, Scott regales us with tails of burgling that are unfortunately first-hand. But before that, CVS is in trouble for being lax with a stupid law, and old people are afraid of young people, but will shop more if they get rid of them.
- Rym's Thing - Man Jumps out of Skyscraper on Fire
- Rym's Thing - Why the man jumped
- Scott's Thing - Brazil's Currency Crisis
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The Wii Bowling robbery was actually the police stopping in the middle of the raid to play some Wii Bowling.
(Seriously, add a function to let me embed mp3s or tell me how to use the one that currently does.)
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Once I pass $6,500 spent in the year, I get 5% back on gas pump, grocery store, and drug store purchases. After I put all my bills and just about every expense on there, I get approx. $600 every year on the same month that my homeowners insurance is due (which while more than renters insurance, is less than $600), so I never even feel the effect of that once-per-year expense. Holding 1-month's pay in my bank account as it waits to pay the credit card bill also triggers a "no ATM fees" reward, meaning that in the rare event I cannot use my credit card, I can go up to biggest rip-off ATMs at the most convenient places and laugh at the $4 fee.
When visiting Rym's I brought up Google Earth and played "See if I can pick out Rym and Scott's house in Beacon, using only clues remembered from the podcasts." I think I managed, on my second attempt, to point to the building next door to their house.
Maybe its just my brain that rarely forgets random factoids. I wish it was better at remembering more important things, like people's names.
One thing I like to do is to keep my save game on my carry around USB stick. If I got robbed, and they took my consoles, insurance would replace that no worries. But since I was recently playing Borderlands with a friend online and we had invested nearly 80 hours into it, loosing my character would be DEVISTATING! Sure, its just a game, but when we log in twice a week, fire up the voice chat, have a catch up and then play some of the end game content together, for me to loose that would be MUCH worse than loosing the hardware itself.
That avenue of social interaction would effectively been stolen from me as well.
I have everything important to me backed up in an external, but I just keep it in a fire and water proof box along with important documents & such. If I got burgled they'd probably just walk off with the box thinking it could contain valuables.
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There are many other solutions as well, such as Carbonite.
You have to assume that every hard drive you own could crash or be lost at any moment simultaneously. They are untrustworthy as fuck. You've heard enough horror stories. Don't become one.
Ultimately, you can gain sufficient protection against hard drive failures with your own backups rather than cloud storage. The main issue, however, is that unless you are able to keep your data in two different physical locations at once, you're at risk of losing the data to fire, burglary, and the like, and that's where cloud storage comes into it.