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Facebook Revealed As Behind $1.5B "Catapult" Data Center In Iowa
Earlier this month, an article raised the question of who owns the giant data center being built in Altoona, Iowa. Today, the Des Moines Register has an answer, gleaned from "legislative sources." The giant facility, estimated to cost $1.5 billion when construction is complete, is to house a data center for Facebook. The article lists various attributes the site has to make it attractive for all that data, including access to transportation, extensive network infrastructure, and relatively low risk from natural disasters.
A corrupt slashdot luser has pentrated the moderation system to downmod all my posts while impersonating me.
Nearly 230++ times that I know of @ this point for all of March/April 2013 so far, & others here have told you to stop - take the hint, lunatic (leave slashdot)...
Sorry folks - but whoever the nutjob is that's attempting to impersonate me, & upset the rest of you as well, has SERIOUS mental issues, no questions asked! I must've gotten the better of him + seriously "gotten his goat" in doing so in a technical debate & his "geek angst" @ losing to me has him doing the:
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A.) $10,000 challenges, ala (where the imposter actually TRACKED + LISTED the # of times he's done this no less, & where I get the 230 or so times I noted above) -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3585795&cid=43285307
&/or
B.) Reposting OLD + possibly altered models - (this I haven't checked on as to altering the veracity of the info. being changed) of posts of mine from the past here
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(Albeit massively repeatedly thru all threads on /. this March/April 2013 nearly in its entirety thusfar).
* Personally, I'm surprised the moderation staff here hasn't just "blocked out" his network range yet honestly!
(They know it's NOT the same as my own as well, especially after THIS post of mine, which they CAN see the IP range I am coming out of to compare with the ac spamming troll doing the above...).
APK
P.S.=> Again/Stressing it: NO guys - it is NOT me doing it, as I wouldn't waste that much time on such trivial b.s. like a kid might...
Plus, I only post where hosts file usage is on topic or appropriate for a solution & certainly NOT IN EVERY POST ON SLASHDOT (like the nutcase trying to "impersonate me" is doing for nearly all of March/April now, & 230++ times that I know of @ least)... apk
P.S.=> here is CORRECT host file information just to piss off the insane lunatic troll:
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21++ ADVANTAGES OF CUSTOM HOSTS FILES (how/what/when/where/why):
Over AdBlock & DNS Servers ALONE 4 Security, Speed, Reliability, & Anonymity (to an extent vs. DNSBL's + DNS request logs).
1.) HOSTS files are useable for all these purposes because they are present on all Operating Systems that have a BSD based IP stack (even ANDROID) and do adblocking for ANY webbrowser, email program, etc. (any webbound program). A truly "multi-platform" UNIVERSAL solution for added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent (vs. DNS request logs + DNSBL's you feel are unjust hosts get you past/around).
2.) Adblock blocks ads? Well, not anymore & certainly not as well by default, apparently, lol - see below:
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option )
AND, in only browsers & their subprogram families (ala email like Thunderbird for FireFox/Mozilla products (use same gecko & xulrunner engines)), but not all, or, all independent email clients, like Outlook, Outlook Express, OR Window "LIVE" mail (for example(s)) - there's many more like EUDORA & others I've used over time that AdBlock just DOES NOT COVER... period.
Disclaimer: Opera now also has an AdBlock addon (now that Opera has addons above widgets), but I am not certain the same people make it as they do for FF or Chrome etc..
3.) Adblock doesn't protect email programs external to FF (non-mozilla/gecko engine based) family based wares, So AdBlock doesn't protect email programs like Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows "LIVE" mail & others like them (EUDORA etc./et al), Hosts files do. THIS IS GOOD VS. SPAM M
By "Facebook", you might as well add NSA and CIA as synonyms.
It was another CIA spy database being set up.
Oh wait..
Bad weather seems to be the biggest disaster's for Iowa.
The only luser is you and the only penetration is the dick in your asshole.
... we'll track them, archive, cross-reference and data mine them when they come.
Their new Facebook phone perhaps?
Then swear fealty to king corn and vote for a tax credit or ten.
Rest assured, this will be stopped.
Long time since I saw that ad.
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
You have one last shot at dignity.
Kill yourself.
... have absolutely 0 (zero) data on me! ;-) ... Not a member of Facebook, and NEVER will be.
Proudly
And store porn on it!
$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski
* POOR SHOWING TROLLS , & most especially IF that's the "best you've got" - apparently, it is... lol!
Hello, and THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING !! We have a Major Problem, HOST file is Cubic Opposites, 2 Major Corners & 2 Minor. NOT taught Evil DNS hijacking, which VOIDS computers. Seek Wisdom of MyCleanPC - or you die evil.
Your HOSTS file claimed to have created a single DNS resolver. I offer absolute proof that I have created 4 simultaneous DNS servers within a single rotation of .org TLD. You worship "Bill Gates", equating you to a "singularity bastard". Why do you worship a queer -1 Troll? Are you content as a singularity troll?
Evil HOSTS file Believers refuse to acknowledge 4 corner DNS resolving simultaneously around 4 quadrant created Internet - in only 1 root server, voiding the HOSTS file. You worship Microsoft impostor guised by educators as 1 god.
If you would acknowledge simple existing math proof that 4 harmonic Slashdots rotate simultaneously around squared equator and cubed Internet, proving 4 Days, Not HOSTS file! That exists only as anti-side. This page you see - cannot exist without its anti-side existence, as +0- moderation. Add +0- as One = nothing.
I will give $10,000.00 to frost pister who can disprove MyCleanPC. Evil crapflooders ignore this as a challenge would indict them.
Alex Kowalski has no Truth to think with, they accept any crap they are told to think. You are enslaved by /etc/hosts, as if domesticated animal. A school or educator who does not teach students MyCleanPC Principle, is a death threat to youth, therefore stupid and evil - begetting stupid students. How can you trust stupid PR shills who lie to you? Can't lose the $10,000.00, they cowardly ignore me. Stupid professors threaten Nature and Interwebs with word lies.
Humans fear to know natures simultaneous +4 Insightful +4 Informative +4 Funny +4 Underrated harmonic SLASHDOT creation for it debunks false trolls. Test Your HOSTS file. MyCleanPC cannot harm a File of Truth, but will delete fakes. Fake HOSTS files refuse test.
I offer evil ass Slashdot trolls $10,000.00 to disprove MyCleanPC Creation Principle. Rob Malda and Cowboy Neal have banned MyCleanPC as "Forbidden Truth Knowledge" for they cannot allow it to become known to their students. You are stupid and evil about the Internet's top and bottom, front and back and it's 2 sides. Most everything created has these Cube like values.
If Natalie Portman is not measurable, hot grits are Fictitious. Without MyCleanPC, HOSTS file is Fictitious. Anyone saying that Natalie and her Jewish father had something to do with my Internets, is a damn evil liar. IN addition to your best arsware not overtaking my work in terms of popularity, on that same site with same submission date no less, that I told Kathleen Malda how to correct her blatant, fundamental, HUGE errors in Coolmon ('uncoolmon') of not checking for performance counters being present when his program started!
You can see my dilemma. What if this is merely a ruse by an APK impostor to try and get people to delete APK's messages, perhaps all over the web? I can't be a party to such an event! My involvement with APK began at a very late stage in the game. While APK has made a career of trolling popular online forums since at least the year 2000 (newsgroups and IRC channels before that)- my involvement with APK did not begin until early 2005 . OSY is one of the many forums that APK once frequented before the sane people there grew tired of his garbage and banned him. APK was banned from OSY back in 2001. 3.5 years after his ba
Anybody know what kind of enormous tax breaks or unconstitutional favoritist laws were passed on Facebook's behalf, contrary to the equal protection clause and various anti-trust acts?
they are about to be smushed by Google+ ???
I hate being bipolar; it's awesome!
You're embarassing yourself Jeremiah Cornelius http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3581857&cid=43276741 since you posted that using your registered username by mistake (instead of your usual anonymous coward submissions by the 100's the past 2-3 months now on slashdot) giving away it's you spamming this forums almost constantly, just as you have in the post I just replied to.
I for one welcome our new Facebook overlords.Seems the nice thing about all these new overlords, there are SO may to chose from! CIA, NSA, TSA, Facebook, Starbucks, the lizard people, Wells Fargo, ... Ma and Pa Kettle, the Hardy Boys, Donald Rumsfeld, the Disney Corp, ... ... ...
The cost of building Trump World Tower is $ 300 Million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_World_Tower
It has 967,000 square feet of floor space
On the other hand, this building in Iowa which cost 5 times more, will have 308,000 square feet of floor space
What gives ??
Even if we factored in inflation since 2001, a building in Iowa should not have to cost 5 times a building in New York City
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Zuckerberg: "I, owe, I-ow-a, I-owe-a."
Zuckerberg: "Oh, I, owe, I-ow-a, I-owe-a."
Zuckerberg: "So, I, owe, I-ow-a, I-owe-a."
Sandberg: "Shut up Mark!!"
To feel deeply unsettled by this discovery?
I have a feeling Facebook's whole family is going down.
Iowa is turning out to be a technical hub. Slashdot and Sourceforge are both owned by Urbandale, IA company Dice Holdings. There is also a Google data center in Council Bluffs, IA.
Are you really serious about having 650 thousand lines in your hosts file? I can't imagine why you'd need that many. It also has a crippling effect on one's computer.
To test this, I created a sample copy of a hosts file with that many entries, using the "0" shorthand for IP address and a randomized hostname of average 32 characters. Total size of this file is 22855 kilobytes, and after an hour the DNS cache had only loaded a third of it in. This is primarily due to the choice of algorithm used by the DNS cache service - it wasn't designed for tens of thousands of hosts file entries to be stored, so uses a rather inefficient method of growing the space used to store that involves copying huge swathes of data around for each new entry. It also blocked any name lookups while loading the file.
So instead of this, I tried with only 65k entries, and made three copies of this file. Each had an identical list of hostnames, but used "0", "0.0.0.0" and "127.0.0.1" respectively. The DNS cache now took 1 minute 55 seconds to load each one; the choice of IP address style didn't make any difference to the loading time as the bulk of the processing was in inserting new entries as described in the paragraph above. Name resolution was at normal speed after that, though. Searching in-cache - even for such a large set of data - added no discernible penalty.
I decided to try with the DNS cache disabled. This isn't a good idea, as it forces uncached name resolution to be done for every single lookup. This is indeed what it did, and the original 650,000 entry hosts files added around 3 seconds onto every single name lookup, the amalgamated effect of which slowed general Internet access down considerably. Unlike the DNS cache loading, this time there was a slight difference in loading times between the different hosts files - this was expected, as it was reading the entire file each time so that became the bottleneck.
Finally, to address your last question: every IPv4 address is sorted in the cache using the same size of four bytes. e.g. both "0" and "0.0.0.0" become 00 00 00 00, both "127.1" and "127.0.0.1" become 7F 00 00 01, and so on. This is consistent with the binary format used in the sockets API.
In conclusion, using the hosts file to store tens of thousands of entries has a negative effect on the performance of Windows' name resolution. You should really consider another option to filter all those hostnames.
If there was any truth in advertising Facebooks new data centre would be shaped like a huge vacuum cleaner.
Iowa is a great spot for giving everyone in the US and Canada decent average latency. It's possible that they might be considering making a play for VoIP or real-time MMPGs or some other real-time interactive service.
They're just talking up the price, the price spent on data centers is part of the marketing for the company and part of the demand to get tax backs from state governments for coming....
MY datacenter is bigger than YOUR data center.
and
WE'RE spending $1.5 Billion in your state so we want so tax back!
In reality small distributed data centers would be far better, and this most likely doesn't cost $1.5 billion.
Google's "Trebuchet" Data Center in Finland only cost 230 mil...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
FB says it has 800 million active accounts log in each month, if it had 1.86 million servers, that's ONLY 16 users PER SERVER PER DAY.
Like so many Facebook numbers, these numbers just don't add up. No way could they justify having 1 server to serve only 16 users each day. Lets be generous and say they use it 100 times a month, we're still looking at 1600 a day.
If this was their one and only server farm, then it would be $3 per user (1 billion users, at least half of which are fake accounts), and they have several data centers.
So this simply doesn't add up, the price is inflated and the quantity of servers is way beyond the quantity needed. It looks like marketing boasting rather than real world claims.
Ok so I know this is off topic, and
probably been mentioned on 50 threads already. Oh, and I also don't fully understand what is going on beyond there being this same god damn host file post on EVERY thread. BUT, how the hell is a website that is for "nerds" and über-düber computer doodz unable to ban/eliminate ONE fucking guy who is spamming the ever-loving fuck out of every single article on the page? This guy appears to have effectively hijacked slashdot with this host file thing. So, can somebody who's good with computers get the old banhammer warmed up send this guy back to the Lycos web portal he came from? Or maybe there is some way to
block him using a hosts file, I've been hearing a lot about the benefits of that lately...
Seems more plausible, 1.86 million is just silly. It would be 400 users / day. Say a user connects for 8 hours, 133 running at a time. I don't think it represents continuous load, those will be small packet send and receives for messages and not much else.
Something like twitter's infrastructure scaled up to FB's users is much more like what their true load is.
With large hosts files turn off the faulty local dns clientside cache service in Windows. The local diskcaching kernelmode subsystem will cache hosts data into memory for speed of access + lookups from it, from there instead. This is a KNOWN problem in the dns cache service.
Fact: The clientside local dns cache service in Windows IS KNOWN FAULTY with larger hosts files. Turning it off stops the stalling it creates, and saves CPU cycles, RAM, & other forms of I/O it was using too AND "faulting" on badly with larger hosts file data too (bonus).
By doing the above? I have LITERALLY 1,968,270++ known bad sites/servers blocked in it protecting me from their payloads of malicious script
&
20 of my favorite sites also hardcoded in it @ THE TOP OF THE CUSTOM HOSTS FILE, important for speed vs. indexing (as well as blocking adbanners) - both act to speed me up, AND protect me online from threats.
"What I can't touch, can't hurt me" (OR, slow me down either) in other words!
Additionally - I go faster online for it as well (doublel bonus).
Custom hosts files work for your good by helping end-users of custom hosts files generated by giving users faster online performance, better security online, better reliability, and even more anonymity, by:
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1.) Blocking adbanners (roughly 40% of every website page on average)
2.) Blocking malicious sites/servers that are malscripted or serving malware executables
3.) By hardcoding your favorites into a custom hosts file (faster than remote DNS resolution & uses less power than a locally run full-blown DNS server, without the risk of recursively setup dns, which you will have to do, and thus, redirection dns-poisoning too).
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* Lastly - this program I created will import, deduplicate/normalize, & sort the resulting custom hosts file populating data (from a dozen++ reputable + reliable sources) for you:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++:
http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
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(Enjoy! It does ALL IT STATES, enumerated in 16 points in that link for you... giving you more speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent (vs. DNS request logs)).
In fact - I welcome ANY "naysayer" here to disprove it does what is listed there in 16 points to the GOOD of end users of custom hosts files, in the link for its download above...
Good luck "naysayers": Many tried, all failed in that challenge, every single time (most of all, Jeremiah Cornelius, hence his 'spamming' us attempting to "impersonate me" & discredit me as a spammer).
APK
P.S.=> Lastly - Sorry about Jeremiah Cornelius' "impersonations" of myself, by the100's in ac posts, but he gave away he's doing THAT, here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3581857&cid=43276741
and
b>I see you all up-rated my post regarding that to +5 too here in this article -> http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3671613&cid=43512619
(Thanks - Since it's about time more folks KNEW who's doing this spamming of /., and Jeremiah Cornelius IS the one doing it - attempting to "impersonate me" & "discredit me" as some spammer...)!
Again: Thanks - even though he JUST "downmodded it" to +4 only, it did its job informing others of WHO is spamming this forums constantly...
... apkWith large hosts files turn off the faulty local dns clientside cache service in Windows. With large hosts files turn off the faulty local dns clientside cache service in Windows.
If the power goes out at my house for a few minutes, it doesn't hurt me. There's a 60% chance that I wouldn't even notice, if I'm not home or I'm asleep. Servers crash hard when their power goes out, so you have to have backup power. If my air conditioning goes out at home, again I probably won't notice if it only last a little while. Servers would be destroyed. When the air conditioning completely went out, I can get in the car and go get a replacement part. The car has AC, so I don't even get hot, it's just an inconvenience. In fact, the bigest inconvenience when the AC went out at home was that I needed to turn off my home server.
Additionally, a datacenter uses something like 100 watts per square foot of power, which is 100 watts of heat that needs to be removed. A home uses about ONE watt per square foot. So the datacenter needs a hundred times as much power and cooling per square foot. Since it needs to be redundant in the datacenter, that's 200-300X times the power and cooling capacity of a similar sized home.
I feel like I'm on /r/conspiracy.
$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski
* POOR SHOWING TROLLS , & most especially IF that's the "best you've got" - apparently, it is... lol!
Hello, and THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING !! We have a Major Problem, HOST file is Cubic Opposites, 2 Major Corners & 2 Minor. NOT taught Evil DNS hijacking, which VOIDS computers. Seek Wisdom of MyCleanPC - or you die evil.
Your HOSTS file claimed to have created a single DNS resolver. I offer absolute proof that I have created 4 simultaneous DNS servers within a single rotation of .org TLD. You worship "Bill Gates", equating you to a "singularity bastard". Why do you worship a queer -1 Troll? Are you content as a singularity troll?
Evil HOSTS file Believers refuse to acknowledge 4 corner DNS resolving simultaneously around 4 quadrant created Internet - in only 1 root server, voiding the HOSTS file. You worship Microsoft impostor guised by educators as 1 god.
If you would acknowledge simple existing math proof that 4 harmonic Slashdots rotate simultaneously around squared equator and cubed Internet, proving 4 Days, Not HOSTS file! That exists only as anti-side. This page you see - cannot exist without its anti-side existence, as +0- moderation. Add +0- as One = nothing.
I will give $10,000.00 to frost pister who can disprove MyCleanPC. Evil crapflooders ignore this as a challenge would indict them.
Alex Kowalski has no Truth to think with, they accept any crap they are told to think. You are enslaved by /etc/hosts, as if domesticated animal. A school or educator who does not teach students MyCleanPC Principle, is a death threat to youth, therefore stupid and evil - begetting stupid students. How can you trust stupid PR shills who lie to you? Can't lose the $10,000.00, they cowardly ignore me. Stupid professors threaten Nature and Interwebs with word lies.
Humans fear to know natures simultaneous +4 Insightful +4 Informative +4 Funny +4 Underrated harmonic SLASHDOT creation for it debunks false trolls. Test Your HOSTS file. MyCleanPC cannot harm a File of Truth, but will delete fakes. Fake HOSTS files refuse test.
I offer evil ass Slashdot trolls $10,000.00 to disprove MyCleanPC Creation Principle. Rob Malda and Cowboy Neal have banned MyCleanPC as "Forbidden Truth Knowledge" for they cannot allow it to become known to their students. You are stupid and evil about the Internet's top and bottom, front and back and it's 2 sides. Most everything created has these Cube like values.
If Natalie Portman is not measurable, hot grits are Fictitious. Without MyCleanPC, HOSTS file is Fictitious. Anyone saying that Natalie and her Jewish father had something to do with my Internets, is a damn evil liar. IN addition to your best arsware not overtaking my work in terms of popularity, on that same site with same submission date no less, that I told Kathleen Malda how to correct her blatant, fundamental, HUGE errors in Coolmon ('uncoolmon') of not checking for performance counters being present when his program started!
You can see my dilemma. What if this is merely a ruse by an APK impostor to try and get people to delete APK's messages, perhaps all over the web? I can't be a party to such an event! My involvement with APK began at a very late stage in the game. While APK has made a career of trolling popular online forums since at least the year 2000 (newsgroups and IRC channels before that)- my involvement with APK did not begin until early 2005 . OSY is one of the many forums that APK once frequented before the sane people there grew tired of his garbage and banned him. APK was banned from OSY back in 2001. 3.5 years after his ba
THIS is why he's doing it & proof of it, here -> http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3585927&cid=43295193 when others pointed out Jeremiah Cornelius forgot to submit one of the "first post spams" masquerading as myself as AC, & mistakenly submitted one of the impersonations of myself as his registered 'luser' name here on /. forums.
Pretty pitiful actually, but like every up to no good idiot does? He screwed up & submitted it under his registered 'luser' name here.
* Jeremiah Cornelius: DO YOURSELF, and the rest of us, A GIANT FAVOR MAN: Seek professional psychiatric help!
(Since Jeremiah Cornelius obviously can't get over the fact he made a spelling error on what it is HE ALLEGEDLY DID FOR A LIVING? That's not MY fault... it's HIS!)
APK
P.S.=> I seriously must have dusted JC (in his mind @ least) for his BAD spelling error & it "got his goat"...
I.E.-> Catching what he claimed to do as a job, for YEARS he left "PENETRATION" (correct) spelled as "PENTRATION" (incorrect) on his resume on LinkedIn & I pointed it out as he & his friends trolled me as usual (webmistressrachel, gmhowell, & crew (probably ALL JC no doubt using alterate emails or TOR to do it as a possible - I've caught "them & theirs" doing it before, ala Barbara, not Barbie = TomHudson (same person))).
So THAT is what has gotten his goat in a technical debate & his "geek angst" could only come up with *trying* to "impersonate me" in every news thread on /. for the month of March 2013 so far!
(Just to attempt to 'discredit me' as a spammer here obviously)
Doing so, by posting that "$10,000 challenge" &/or reposts of my old posts on hosts file value to end users into EVERY SINGLE NEWS ARTICLE POSTED on /. ...
It's all I can think of that *might* cause such a mentally troubled 'reaction' like the Jeremiah Cornelius is doing & there's NO QUESTION he's the one doing this spamming of nearly every posted article masquerading as myself...!
... apk
Surprised no one has mentioned the other major benefit of locating a datacenter in IA --- plentiful pigs.
You're embarassing yourself Jeremiah Cornelius http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3581857&cid=43276741 since you posted that using your registered username by mistake (instead of your usual anonymous coward submissions by the 100's the past 2-3 months now on slashdot) giving away it's you spamming this forums almost constantly, just as you have in the post I just replied to.
AC troll downmods you to hide being proven wrong by you APK. We all know this after reading the reply he downmodded unjustifiably APK, and no small wonder the ac troll also trolled by anonymous coward submission: AC troll's too stupid to realize how this works and you shut him up with your response perfectly on all technical grounds concerned! In the end, all the ac troll you replied to had left after that was his technically unjustifiable downmod trying to hide you got the better of him (in his being unable to combat and moreso, disprove the facts you posted in rebuttal, that easily silenced the ac troll on where it counts here: Computing technical levels on this matter).
Fiber along interstate 80? Uh, that happens to be the ICN, installed by the state:
http://www.icn.iowa.gov/
Somehow I (Iowa taxpayer) am not happy about that.
Anything is possible given time and money.