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Fire Destroys Iron Mountain Data Warehouse, Argentina's Bank Records Lost
cagraham writes "A fire at Iron Mountain's data warehouse in Buenos Aires left the facility 'ruined' and killed nine first-responders, according to the Washington Post. The origin of the fire is unknown. The facility was supposedly equipped with sprinkler systems, fire control systems, and had a private emergency team on standby. Among the records destroyed are Argentina's bank archives, the loss of which could have some surprisingly far-reaching implications."
Kewl.
I'll probably be gone.
Well, hopefully that Iron Mountain facility was storing their backups offsite at a safe, secure location.
I've been coming to /. since before you had to register to comment.
This is the first design change that has actually made me consider leaving.
I'm masochistically viewing this story in slashdot beta. It's horrible.
A few replies down a tree, and comments are squished into a bar about 1/16 the width of the screen. Half of the left-hand side is taken up with whitespace and vertical rules, the right-hand side is taken up with ads.
The comment threshold system is fundamentally broken.
There's a stupid ever-present menubar at the top of the page.
The fucking 'dept' joke is *below* the summary, not above it. Why? Who the hell knows.
I'm pissed, because I've been coming to this site since 1998, I like the community, and I fear that a good chunk of the regulars will leave if Beta is really forced on us.
4-digit UID here.
Don't like the beta one bit.
Get off my lawn.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
McDonalds notes that the best people to own franchises are farmers, because they follow instructions to the letter. Since the McDonalds franchise model has been honed to perfection, the farmer-owned franchise is a guaranteed success.
The worst franchise owners are MBAs. They want to make changes, to do things "better", and this never works out in practice. The franchise instructions do things in specific ways for a reason, all the bugs have been worked out, and the franchise model really is the best way.
Slashdot is run by MBAs, they won't listen to us. They know better, because they are, like, business majors... ya know?
The biggest mistake MBAs make is thinking that management/administration is a plug-in skill - you can move to a different business and manage it without knowing the ins and outs of the business.
Any MBA can become a middle manager in, for example, a newspaper without knowing the newspaper business. It's all about managing people, getting projects done on time, and being a buffer between management and workers.
Any MBA can manage Slashdot, you only need to survey the landscape and implement all the features that make other news sites great.
Being like other sites will make Slashdot even greater!
My big issue with it is the crazy amounts of wasted whitespace. This is a trend in site layout that needs to die.
The survey asks:
What do you like the most about Slashdot Beta?
My response: "It encourages me to find and read new sites."
You are complaining about crappy stories and shitty web design, and then recommending Reddit as an alternative?
The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.
change happens, sure, but when change is for the worse should we really embrace it? There is no shortage of news sites on the internet, I think the majority of old users like myself still come here for the comments/discussion, and if a redesign makes the comment section less usable and so causes people to leave, what's left then?
-- the cake is a lie
This seems to be the standard way to make inconvenient records disappear. http://youtu.be/hZEvA8BCoBw
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Yea, if any of you haven't been in one of these data centers, the sear improbability of this kind of fire is staggering.
The rooms are usually kept so cold you need a jacket.
There are firewalls everywhere (and I mean the physical kind)
They have sprinkler systems in the looses sense of the term, They more likely dump CO2 to avoid damaging the equipment.
If all else fails the room seal and Halon dumps (or one of its alternatives) making combustion almost completely impossible.
The only way I could see it happening is if things were shut down for a test or something...
or some neighboring building that was much larger exploded or something.
Aren't there?
That's correct, only two digits are left. Also I never post anymore and barely read the site anymore.
There are firewalls everywhere (and I mean the physical kind)
And there is you have the culprit. Walls of fire should not be placed anywhere near anything you don't want to burn. "But the Mount of Doom has a lot of fire" you say. Yeah, and it didn't do them any good, now did it? Just use a few more Orc patrols and be done with it. It may seem more expensive, but at least you won't have problems with people accidentally catching on fire and burning everything.
Not quite. It was designed by someone who (sadly) knows what they're doing, and more importantly knows what advertisers currently want.
A lot of sites have shifted over to this kind of design, so Slashdot is far from alone. Advertisers like it for various reasons - mostly it comes down to ads being more eye-catching - and of course advertisers control the purse strings. But at the same time the public has also had it ingrained into their heads that such a design is the definition of "modern", and therefore any site not using such a design is by definition not modern, and therefore not worth their time ("the site's owners can't be bothered to keep up with the times?"). Which just leads to a feedback loop of advertisers liking it even more, since they want to advertise on sites that the public perceives as hip/modern so that their products are seen in a similar manner.
But the truly terrifying thing is that the industry isn't done yet. I can show you what the future will look like and it isn't pretty: http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/21/5307992/inside-the-mind-of-a-fanboy. By all accounts the advertisers seem to love it; the text is big and readable (i.e. not threatening), there's animation and lots of flashy effects, etc. It basically reads and behaves like an interactive glossy magazine (People, not Popular Science).
Not that I agree with any of this. Beta needs to be buried 6ft under in a grave lined with lead. But there is a method to their madness; despite what a lot of people here think, Dice hasn't gone off of their rockers. The rest of the world is just slowly moving on from text to images and iconography, as sad as that may be.
I'll probably be gone if this beta abortion becomes the only available interface. I mean WHAT THE FUCK?! This nazi piece of shit just imperiously throws away all of my paragraph breaks!
Come on, slashdot. Really? Admit failure. Fire whoever needs to be fired, and get back on track.
I mean jesus christ. Maybe I will even start a site to compete. One whose design is not brain dead and whose management will never become brain dead.
At your age, it's probably just cataracts.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!