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On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:01:21 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> That's not a very good indication; reinstalling an OS is easy. Suppose
>> the system were being used to do cancer research; that could be years
>> of work lost. Of course if it were, they'd *better* be running
>> backups, too.
>
> It would be very foolish to do something important and not make
> regular
> backups. A simple hard drive failure can destroy all of your work at any
> moment. Or a power surge (it's not even rare that lightning has fried a
> computer so completely that all data has been irreversibly lost).
> Especially in the latter case (and tons of others, such as a fire) you
> can't even rely on RAID for safekeeping.
Of course it would, but just because someone's being foolish doesn't make
it OK to hack their system and destroy it because you think they're the
source of problems on your system.
Jim
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