For all of my important files (family pictures & videos, financial records, etc.), I have a RAID 1 array with dedicated hotspare, and use the Syncrify software (essentially a UI wrapper around rsync) to do nightly, incremental, versioned backups to a server that I maintain at a friend's house ~75 miles away. My next step is going to be moving the backup server to a RAID 1 array as well.

"Over the years, Diaconis and his students and colleagues have successfully analyzed the effectiveness of almost every type of shuffle people use in ordinary life."

All Shuffles? What about the Truffle Shuffle? After all, that is the most important shuffle I can come up with.

Unfortunately, many schools are having a hard time paying their teachers, let alone a competent IT staff. Such advancements are rarely possible without the proper technical support. Maybe if we could get the federal and state governments to actually fund schools, we could move them into the 21st century.