Random Image Thread XXXVIII: And there go my nipples again.

[MaachaQ]

I would imagine there are rules against accessing private data on the drives. If the drives are damaged or deleted and have been written over, it takes really expensive equipment to recover those files and they're not going to have that in a simple repair shop.

My husband was quoted $300+ to try to recover files off a damaged laptop harddrive recently (pretty sure its physical damage, since plugging it in via USB it shows the drive but no usage info, and is inaccessable by any program). I really didn't want to lose the photos and family videos that I had on it, but the price is just too high... I could see a business using the service to recover financial records, but what kind of lay-person would pay that much just to get back some files? I'm still trying to locate backups of the stuff that was on the drive before we send it in to be replaced, but the drive itself is pretty much shot at this point >.>

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[Galkaeater]

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[Hatedregret]

So much black hair.

[Melena]

With the warranty on my laptop, if anything goes wrong then they will replace the laptop, or give me equal credit towards buying a new one. I brought it in to them and they wanted to charge me $60 JUST to do a backup before sending it in. I laughed in their faces and told them that I could get a new 500gig external HD for with that money, do it myself, and still have at least ~450gig of new porn space.

Pic related, it's the one that should be arriving Thursday

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This is probably a question for tech, but think those guys that get sent all these laptops to "fix" are bored enough to restore deleted files just in the off chance of finding something juicy? I have a bunch of noodz of friends that I don't really want getting out there, lol

There are rules but it's not going to stop your typical geek squad or frys tech from looking. Most will open files to make sure the recovery is good and if they see something juicy they will will poke around. Best was one of our senior techs when I worked at frys was doing a multi drive recovery, was all home made porn, guy came in with his wife who we didn't realize was the chick, smoking hot indian girl and all he could do is drool. Also if we find anything illegal, we are obligated to report it and we required customers to sign that they have nothing illegal, they are the owner of the files etc and that we have to report to the police if anything is illegal (child porn, etc). Our store never found any but another store, wish I could remember the location found some child porn and ended up breaking a small local ring to that area.

[Vriska]

I was there two days ago. The other windows of that store are probably better. Theres also like five of that woman, and STILL people were waving at her in the windows and shit, trying to see if she was real (and presumably an identical quintuplet?)

[Kerberoz]

Really no reason to trust your shit to repair shops... ever. It's cheaper to just buy extra hard drives in the first place and backup irreplaceable files. Hell, encrypt it and toss it on cloud storage (Amazon gives you like 5GB free, plenty for anything non-media) too.

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[Spoony Bob]

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[Qeomash]

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[Cleverness]

The animal quotes in FFT for that option were so heart wrenching. They might as well release a new version playing the abandoned animals song from the commercial when you hover over it.

[Caiyuo]

Seriously. Also:

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[Necronus]

When I read the Chocobo's name, all I thought was:

[Guitarman]

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[TacoTaru]

I actually thought that was the joke <_<. Glad I'm not the only one.

[Eticket]

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That took a bit of work to clean up.

[Guitarman]

^ty good sir. dunno what happened.

[Niiro]

The animal quotes in FFT for that option were so heart wrenching. They might as well release a new version playing the abandoned animals song from the commercial when you hover over it.

In Tactics Ogre it's even worse, not only are they all sad about leaving but you're actually auctioning them off for money and suddenly "dragon steak" and "cockatrice meat" become available for purchase...

North America and South America do not end and start with the same letter.

checked wiki, and apparently America is recognized as a continent by some models, but then so is Eurasia, so 41 is wrong either way

I grew up on the 7 continent model, didn't know there was any other model

A bit late but: if you define continents as being contiguous landmasses, of which there are only 4, then not only do they all start and end with the same letter but they're all 'A's too.

America, Afro-Eurasia, Australia, Antarctica

[Nekonaruto]

^ We were taught 5 continents: America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.

[Raelia]

^ We were taught 5 continents: America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.

Was too imbalanced in Risk, which is why they changed it.

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I did always like the 'devastated territories' in this, which could block a path completely or make new bottlenecks. Dropping from the moon was cool too, if a tad hard to pull off. Too bad the rest of the special rules were generally shit. Who ends a game of Risk after five turns? Seriously?