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This answers most of your questions and does so using data based on a large dataset.
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf

If you are concerned about reliability I suggest using an Intel SSD. Their failure rate is very low.

lynx http://nixsrv.com/llthw

Cached version while it's down. I don't even see mention of curl! That zany CEO of FaceBook used it in that Social Network movie! It was so much hax! And there is only mention of installing files on debian/ubuntu, not with fedora's yum! Some people like to imagine they're eating really really really good food while they install stuff! And it needs more bangs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc8M9-LoEuo

Cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Asynesthesiam.com%2F%3Fp%3D218&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Just for your reading pleasure, Google's cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://synesthesiam.com/?p=218

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http://blog.instagram.com/post/38252135408/thank-you-and-were-listening

Our intention in updating the terms was to communicate that we’d like to experiment with innovative advertising that feels appropriate on Instagram. Instead it was interpreted by many that we were going to sell your photos to others without any compensation. This is not true and it is our mistake that this language is confusing. To be clear: it is not our intention to sell your photos. The language we proposed also raised question about whether your photos can be part of an advertisement. We do not have plans for anything like this and because of that we’re going to remove the language that raised the question.

No, it was the Doctor...

Automatic weapons are already rare and tightly controlled in the United States, and their "effectiveness" is questionable in these types of situations. No, you don't need anything fancy like that to create such a tragedy. A simple hunting rifle or handgun are all that one needs.

One of my friends is a teacher in a school about 15 miles away from this incident. He tells me that the gunman carried one of these besides the hand guns.

If that doesn't work, try the google cache
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324478304578171623040640006.html

December 12, 2012, 10:30 p.m. ET
U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens
By JULIA ANGWIN

Top U.S. intelligence officials gathered in the White House Situation Room in March to debate a controversial proposal. Counterterrorism officials wanted to create a government dragnet, sweeping up millions of records about U.S. citizens--even people suspected of no crime.

Not everyone was on board. "This is a sea change in the way that the government interacts with the general public," Mary Ellen Callahan, chief privacy officer of the Department of Homeland Security, argued in the meeting, according to people familiar with the discussions.

A week later, the attorney general signed the changes into effect.

Through Freedom of Information Act requests and interviews with officials at numerous agencies, The Wall Street Journal has reconstructed the clash over the counterterrorism program within the administration of President Barack Obama. The debate was a confrontation between some who viewed it as a matter of efficiency--how long to keep data, for instance, or where it should be stored--and others who saw it as granting authority for unprecedented government surveillance of U.S. citizens.

The rules now allow the little-known National Counterterrorism Center to examine the government files of U.S. citizens for possible criminal behavior, even if there is no reason to suspect them. That is a departure from past practice, which barred the agency from storing information about ordinary Americans unless a person was a terror suspect or related to an investigation.

Now, NCTC can copy entire government databases--flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and many others. The agency has new authority to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, and to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior. Previously, both were prohibited. Data about Americans "reasonably believed to constitute terrorism information" may be permanently retained.

The changes also allow databases of U.S. civilian information to be given to foreign governments for analysis of their own. In effect, U.S. and foreign governments would be using the information to look for clues that people might commit future crimes.

"It's breathtaking" in its scope, said a former senior administration official familiar with the White House debate.

Counterterrorism officials say they will be circumspect with the data. "The guidelines provide rigorous oversight to protect the information that we have, for authorized and narrow purposes," said Alexander Joel, Civil Liberties Protection Officer for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the parent agency for the National Counterterrorism Center.

The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution says that searches of "persons, houses, papers and effects" shouldn't be conducted without "probable cause" that a crime has been committed. But that doesn't cover records the government creates in the normal course of business with citizens.

Congress specifically sought to prevent government agents from rifling through government files indiscriminately when it passed the Federal Privacy Act in 1974. The act prohibits government agencies from sharing data with each other for purposes that aren't "compatible" with the reason the data were originally collected.

But the Federal Privacy Act allows agencies to exempt themselves from many requirements by placing notices in the Federal Register, the government's daily publication of proposed rules. In practice, these privacy-act notices are rarely contested by government watchdogs or membe

I prefer Bob and Doug McKenzie's conversion chart, as demonstrated by using a 6 pack of regular beers.

so you double it and add 30, so 6+6+30 = 42 metric beers.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lcy6SsoqelsJ:www.bobanddoug.com/sounds.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

• Before June 3 (sorry, cannot find any links): BATS,NASDAQ propose "flash orders" to SEC, (weakly) justifying compliance with existing regulations
• June 3: DirectEdge announces support for flash orders
• June 5: NASDAQ offers FLASH orders
• June 5: BATS offers BOLT orders
• June 7: BATS CEO newsletter discusses hazards of flash orders, two days after the initial release
• June 30: BATS CEO newsletter defends fairness of specific BOLT implementation, reiterates hazards of flash orders in general
• September 1: BATS ceases BOLT orders
• September 1: NASDAQ ceases FLASH orders
• September 18: SEC rule proposal to ban flash orders
• November 20: BATS supports the SEC's proposed ban on flash orders
• November 20: DirectEdge opposes the SEC's proposed ban on flash orders

So yeah, the particular article you linked is abso-darned-lutely correct about flash orders. But it's wayyy out of date. If you read through the various exchanges' discussions and comments, there's some very interesting back-and-forth going on:

• DirectEdge accuses NYSE of being anti-competitive: NYSE did not implement flash order types, and it was expected that these orders would shift liquidity to NASDAQ/BATS/DirectEdge. All exchanges acted in their own self-interest here, because NYSE is the figurative gorilla in the room.
• BATS implements "me too" functionality to keep in competition with NASDAQ, but is very quick to distance itself from the controversy.
• Several exchanges highlight the (historically) new trend of liquidity moving into dark pools, and the risk which that poses to price formation in the normal exchanges. Hey, looks like they were right!
• Everyone releases news in lock-step. It's like a big game of chicken, nobody wants to publish early because it just gives "ammo" to the others.

386DX? Luxury.

Any from North Dallas? Did you compare actual living costs between the two?

I added more details in another response here. I was born and raised in North Dallas, but I really don't like area. When I was job hunting, I only looked for opportunities in Austin, Seattle, or Silicon Valley.

My family still lives in DFW, and constantly raves about how cheap everything and how low taxes are. Then again, they have never lived anywhere else. To be honest, I felt the same way until I followed my wife to Hawaii and Japan. After living in the heart of other major cities, extended stays in Seattle, and backpacking through Europe, I realized I don't care for the suburban lifestyle anymore.

So, I'm picking up and moving to SF. Maybe it works out, maybe it doesn't. I've regret missing opportunities in the past, and am not going to make the same mistakes again. I'm not going to live my life on cruise control. This post (cache version) resonates with me a lot.

The Wayback Machine never indexed it, but Google cached it. Here's the "Services" page. Apparently with piracy, "more than one area of expertise is required" so this group also provides Adoption, Medical Malpractice, DWI, Bankruptcy and Divorce services as well.

The domain was registered in 2005 and updated yesterday, so that's probably when it was parked.

The Wayback Machine never indexed it, but Google cached it. Here's the "Services" page. Apparently with piracy, "more than one area of expertise is required" so this group also provides Adoption, Medical Malpractice, DWI, Bankruptcy and Divorce services as well.

The domain was registered in 2005 and updated yesterday, so that's probably when it was parked.

I will have to give the Note a look. The Wacom RF tech is spooky accurate(and, incidentally, pretty cool looking. An entire multi-layer PCB antenna array, sorry about the shitty scan, crammed in behind the screen.) Trouble always was that the 'Tablet PC's were still basically just laptops with particularly unreliable hinges and the freestanding tablets(in addition to being alarmingly expensive) didn't allow you to write on whatever you were annotating...

It is out there, and should stay there. Keep a copy, post links to cached copies (here's one and here's another, marked up with "WITHDRAWN". .

Right because the best measure if how well the iPhone is doing is by looking at Amazon's website. Last time I checked, Apple has its own stores and sell them through carriers.

LOL the selling figures for the whole of china

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com.hk&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http://data.eguan.cn/yidonghulian_147283.html&usg=ALkJrhi2UMQ3zW-yIsGyynI-urAOZLDDkg

Apple is 4.2% and Android 90.1% nothing to do with Amazon.

I looked through the cached page, and it was a little disturbing to see a false positive. Specifically, Hallie C. She may or may not be a racist, but clearly the evidence that I saw on the blog was not sufficient to call her one. Apparently she complained that proposed race-based quotas would remove a requirement to work hard in order to get a job (which seems plausible, since it de-emphasizes merit-based competition in order to consider instead the color of your skin). And so our blogger claimed she was saying black people are lazy. Whatever, dude.

Also, the chairman of the Maine Republican party. If black people are not known to live in a town, yet they are bused in to vote, it is legitimate to ask questions about that. Sorry, it just is. If he's mistaken about the demographics, let him be duly raked over the coals for crying wolf unnecessarily. But why call him a racist for apparently being a watchdog against voter fraud?

This blogger was apparently in over his head, and most definitely does not have my respect. Glad his site is down.

Replying off-topic but it's relevant:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahellothereracists.tumblr.com

Here's a cached version, since the site is no longer available.

To MINIMIZE diskboundness (you get flushes to disk though on writes when devices are marked dirty, but it is a DELAYED WRITE, just like a cache, but the idea is to AVOID DISK of course, which is what those devices, do).

See here -> http://manage-sqlserver.blogspot.com/2012/08/flush-dirty-pages-to-disk-in-sql-server.html

* This has been going on since SQLServer for a LONG TIME, & in its "cousin" Sybase as well (& I'd be surprised to see that other large "industrial strength" DB engines don't actually since it works for performance avoiding diskbound I/O slow).

I was part of a team doing contracted work for a company that is a certified MS partner in a product that was a FINALIST for 2 yrs. in a row @ MS TechEd 2000-2002 that used ramdisk devices to go even a step better with the current DB engine of that day from MS in SQLServer, & this was their HARDEST CATEGORY TO DO WELL IN mind you, "SQLServer Performance Enhancement" (that mirrored back to disk for maintaining proper state of course of data inserted, updated, deleting ("flagged dirty")).

LONG before that is where I got the idea since I had been putting DB data from tinier DB engines like DBase III into memory that way, like temp scratch work tables into memory & boosting their performance on ramdisks for example, for ages before that... it works to avoid diskbound thrash slowdowns.

APK

P.S.=> See here -> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:p6nJSK4_kv0J:http://euclid.ii.metu.edu.tr/~is503/library/TeachYourself_SQLServer65_21Days/ch20/ch20.htm%2B%22SQLServer%22+and+%22database+device%22+and+%22in+memory%22&hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&gbv=1&ct=clnk

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"Memory

SQL Server requires RAM to hold all data, index, and log pages in memory. It also holds compiled queries and stored procedures."

... apk

"When the Navy conducted tests on another Thresher-class vessel, it found that the pressure drop across the component at high flow rates caused entrained moisture to accumulate on the strainers and form enough ice to block the air flow. Venturi cooling, as this phenomenon is called, was thought to be the reason that the Thresher's attempts to blow its main ballast tanks were ineffective." source.

"Thresher's inability to blow the ballast tanks had nothing to do with the reactor shutdown. It was a separate problem that unfortunately reared it's head at the wrong time. The blow system had plenty of capacity and it can be manually operated. That was not the problem. When the high pressure air that was used to blow the tanks left the storage banks, it passes through the control valves that keep it in the banks under pressure. Anytime a compressed gas expands, it cools rapidly. As the very cold air passed through the valves, frost began to form due to the presence of moisture in the air. It very quickly built up (a matter of a few seconds) and froze solid in the valves. The solid ice stopped the air just as effectively as shutting the valves, thus the Thresher was unable to blow her tanks. This problem was discovered in one of the Thresher's sister boats when a test was conducted alongside the pier. Everyone involved was shocked at what happened. This discovery resulted in an immediate redesign of the whole ballast tank blow system. The valves were redesigned and moisture traps were installed in the air lines. The new design was completely effective and it eliminated the problem. Unfortunately, it was far too late for the Thresher's crew." source.

The fantastic, insightful website http://natesilverwrong/ website was very helpful in showing me how Silver would be entirely proven incorrect, with quotes from lots of people about why he would be shown as an idiot, and his methods were skewed.

It seems to be down now. Not really sure why. :-)

Because you mistyped the url. :)

Actually, the site really is down. Guess someone was embarrassed. The cache still exists, though the site seemed to be completely devoid of content anyhow.

Good guess: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nEFkMNuGCSg/UJDpHCW4-DI/AAAAAAAAe50/p17nbSQHynw/s640/disnay.jpg

You could probably do a GIS, but here's what I got: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l0Ex80FUwbs/TueRBWaMwXI/AAAAAAAARR8/7SpbgVEsLF8/s1600/google%2Bpolice%2B666.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/phandroid/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/KOREAPOLICEGOOGLE.jpg https://doc-08-8g-3dwarehouse.googleusercontent.com/3dwarehouse/secure/hhulr73hmmak89paul31eote4ben7ngk/56qnjuc9i64jub1ebqpel3f5tg68rrd2/1351404000000/lt/*/9f4e6547a96c8b03203f35d9b3b48203?ts=1250444857000&ctyp=other

Google cache

The site was changed after this Slashdot article. Google cache doesn't have a summary:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XKirCMDUSBkJ:mediagoblin.org/+mediagoblin.org&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=ubuntu

On the contrary; it depends on how valuable your data is. Google's paper on hard drive failure rates notes that a drive with a single remapping is 15 times more likely to fail in the next 60 days than a disk with no remapped blocks.

Granted, the annualized failure rate for the first 3 months after the remapping is still only ~19% for such a drive - but do you want to take a chance that your drive is about to die?

For those who are interested the white paper is titled "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population" and can be found here. It is a fairly short read (13 total pages) and quite interesting if you are into monitoring stuff.

this man has turned every cheek on his body

Apparently, there are kangaroos in Austria too.

Google did a study on consumer grade drives a while ago...

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf

And here's how NetApp (one of those "enterprise" guys responded)...

http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/26/netapp-weighs-in-on-disks/

This tidbit known mostly to industry insiders is largely true, especially when comparing comparable drive sizes. But how storage arrays handle the respective drive type failures is what continues to perpetuate the customer perception that more expensive drives should be more reliable. One of the storage industry’s dirty secrets is that most enterprise and consumer drives are made up of largely the same components. However, their external interfaces (FC, SCSI, SAS or SATA) and most importantly their respective firmware design priorities / resulting goals play a huge role in determining enterprise vs. consumer drive behavior in the real world.

Run mars. Run.

Mod him down if you like, but it's true.

Among the highlights:

-Asian Americans outscored every Asian country, and lost out only to the city of Shanghai , China's financial capital.

-White Americans students outperformed the national average in every one of the 37 historically white countries tested, except Finland (which is, perhaps not coincidentally, an immigration restrictionist nation where whites make up about 99 percent of the population).

The figure shows that failures do not increase when the average temperature increases. In fact, there is a clear trend showing that lower temperatures are associated with higher failure rates. Only at very high temperatures is there a slight reversal of this trend.

See the end of page 5 of the whitepaper, beginning page 6 for a graphical view.
The high temperatures of the quote are 45 to 50 C.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Cz8btbroP6Q/UFEhDZP216I/AAAAAAAKA_Q/aVZGOnND7-Q/s1091/CameraZOOM-20120912185414906.jpg

This is foolish arrogance. In my thirty years in this profession I have worked with many people who thought their code was 'self documenting'; all of them were wrong, and faced with their own code two years later I doubt any of them could immediately follow it.

I claim my code is Self Documenting, and I can absolutely & immediately catch the past train of thoughts by following tracks of code lain down even a decade ago or longer. Not that I'm saying you're foolish or arrogant yourself (although this may be the case), it's just that what you call 'self documenting code' I call 'self commenting code' -- There is a subtle but significant difference.

I never liked the term 'self documenting code' meaning expressions that describe themselves implicitly. I always thought 'self documenting code' would be better defined as code with good descriptive comments along with the reasonable symbol names. I consider my comments part of the code when I say that my code is self documenting. I use descriptive doc-comments, as well as code-comments and generate documentation from the code itself with Doxygen. My source code editor understands the comments. When I hover over or [context-key] while on an occurrence of a variable, function, structure, etc I'm shown the remarks for that symbol or its type. This helps considerably increase my productivity; Eg: The order of method parameters and descriptions of data fields can be accessed immediately as I type rather than requiring me research external documentation. Thus, taking the time to write good documentation within the code itself actually pays off by allowing me to write more code faster. Since my source code files are sufficient input for the generation of a fully descriptive HTML (or LaTex, PDF, etc) documentation I assert that my sources are 'self documenting code'. As for merely using symbol names that comment on their purpose: I call this 'self commenting code' instead.

For my fist games I used ANSI / ASCII art necessarily for "graphics", so naturally I insist my source code editor include line drawing and texel raster tools at the very least in order to make self illustrating comments. It's too bad the text based image formats (like SVG) are so damn verbose, and code editors don't display such as graphics within the source. Addressing this and adding graphical features to my source code editor is on my //TODO list; Now, that would be truly Self Documenting.

So much to do, so little time.

Google Cache worked for me, link here

Awwwwwwww.... they removed and disabled commenting.
Google Cache to the rescue!

copypasta'ed here: http://pastebin.com/XVj6CS1W

They also updated the original post:

As background, our system works like this in order to support a large volume of broadcasters using our free platform. Users of our paid, ad-free Pro Broadcasting service **UPDATED CLARIFICATION and those users who notify Ustream in advance they have rights permissions (however Ustream's messaging to our broadcaster community is not as clear as it should be. We are resolving this now) are automatically white listed to avoid situations like this and receive hands-on client support.

No, it even says ornithographic in his picture. Clearly, ornitho (bird) + pornographic = ornithographic = bird porn. Probably shots of Okinawa Woodpeckers and Fluffy-backed Tit-Babblers, and the occasional Brown Booby. Oh, the jokes are endless. Dammit now that I started it I can't make it stop....

They're more similar to phone interfaces than desktop interfaces, but they're not the same. It's too bad Android courses are emphasizing that. Apple specifically recommends designing individual app UIs for iPhones and iPads, even if they're combined in one app. Some of the most used UI elements, split views and popovers, aren't available on the iPhone. Looks like Google agrees.

NSA moves home base from Ft. Meade Maryland to Denver http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dbBkfIFSq3gJ:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php%3Faz%3Dview_all%26address%3D132x2408935%2B%22NSA%22+and+%22Denver%22&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&gbv=1&ct=clnk

AS WELL as Augusta Ga. getting the NSA too (highest city on East coast US iirc).

CIA moves HQ from Langley Virgina to Denver http://imaginativeworlds.com/forum/showthread.php?12940-CIA-left-Langley-for-Denver

Jesse Ventura's "Denver Airport" documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9EpqBf0oCY

All/each moving to the "mile-high" city... why? Look up "US Naval Map" on GOOGLE -> http://theintelhub.com/2011/05/14/u-s-navy-map-showing-large-areas-of-u-s-submerged-happening-now/

Which Planet-X/Niburu is rumored to cause, damaging the New Madrid Fault flooding the central US, and the coasts will be gone.

Edgar Cayce (20th century very reknowned & respected psychic, an interesting man in & of himself, do look into he) even predicted the SAME map almost, decades before.

Then, there's the "mayan calendar" (which I think's b.s.), Revelations Chapter 8 Verse 10 iirc on "WormWood", Mother Shipton, & Nostradamus.

(want more?)

John Moore's show's had NSA, CIA ("lettered agencies" folks), gov't. officials + military men (high ranking officials) on it, as well as JPL & NASA folks.

I hope it's all b.s. & wrong. I really do. What a shame to wreck our civilization, for all of its faults (men themselves in collective secret societies jockeying for "power" since they have 2" penises imo).

Google Sky also has been BLOCKING the area Niburu is allegedly coming at us from (33 degree southern angle iirc, & google said "it's a bug in how the images stitch". Now, I am a coder, and that's bullshit. Why that image only?)

That's all in addition to my first post to you. Again - Food for thought. I am only scratching the surface of it from memory too. There's more if you dig.

Google cache is seeing the same thing I'm seeing here.

Saw this the other day and found it rather amusing.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s-q59Ddhask/T-7gqITVmTI/AAAAAAAACRQ/v1EjsKgB-bY/s973/the_apple_cycle.jpg

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:052C3LmAKlwJ:http://www.waylanderskeep.com/2009/12/jewish-talmud-quotes/%2B%22waylanderskeep.com%22+and+%22jewish-talmud-quotes%22&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&gbv=1&ct=clnk

Cached copy here http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:052C3LmAKlwJ:http://www.waylanderskeep.com/2009/12/jewish-talmud-quotes/%2B%22waylanderskeep.com%22+and+%22jewish-talmud-quotes%22&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&gbv=1&ct=clnk

There is (a very slow loading) Google cache version available.

You didn't miss much, here's the cached article

In my opinion it's a lousy written piece with half of the sentences being there for the sole purpose of filling white space.

Always check Google's cache.

I've been using this scheme for about one year on the nightly version which is automatically updated by firefox PPA channel. It also works on the current stable version.

Nice screenshot.
Can you tell us where I can download your "5 modpoints" extension ? *ducks*