Attached Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15620.html

You might not "get" that Gilmore article I linked earlier without some background. Here's a good backgrounder on the IDE scheme, coming to a hard drive near you real soon. Gilmore is pretty philisophical obviously. He goes futher than I in many respects. But this is indeed the issue of the day, and why I think you see it touching a nerve here. For me, CL is becoming, in whatever small way, an early adopter of this sort of "taking over my hard drive" idea. If I had some extra bucks right now, I'd invest in several hard drives and leave them in their wrappers for a while. --Snazzy