How do you back up 6tb of data? With three 2tb hard drives. Even at today's prices, that's as little as $425 off the shelf at Best Buy (including tax) for three external USB2/3 drives. And RAID 0 for the only copy of your life's work? Come on, dude. Just...come on.
I hope you learned how to properly evaluate the value of your data and that you need to take reasonable steps to protect it.
BTW, break of a Jackson or three and buy yourself a 32-64 gig USB stick to store encrypted copies of the most "can't live without" data you have. Tax returns, family photos, etc. I have a tiny Patriot Flex hanging on my keychain with that stuff and larger caches on my netbook and notebook. Having a Big Ass Array (brought to you by Carl's Jr.) doesn't do much good if the building burns down.
Also, there are data recovery services that can get data from a broken array. They're expensive but they exist.
Actually, a small number of widely-used DRM methods is exactly what is required to ensure freedom from DRM. Ten years ago, there were a ton of different content protection strategies and very little content. It wasn't worth the effort of cracking every method in use. Now we've boiled it down to two major DRM methods and both have a ton of mainstream content. It's no surprise that both methods can be thwarted with a few clicks of the mouse.
Content I bought ten years ago is long gone because authentication servers no longer exist, the computers the content was tied to are long gone, the software doesn't run in Win7, etc. But the content I buy today gets stripped of DRM and copied to my array. From there, I can convert it to any format I want and read it on any device I want. That's only possible because Amazon (azw), Sony (epub), Barnes and Noble (epub), Apple (epub), etc. have created their "exclusive platforms" while failing to understand that content can't be controlled that way.
I've been reading a decent amount of self-published stuff over the past year and I've come across a lot of material that would be pretty darn good if only it had been given just the most basic pass by a competent editor. Misspellings, partially revised sentences, incorrect punctuation, etc. I'm hoping that, one of these days, I find a story compelling enough that I'll offer to pay for the services of a good editor. Then I could call myself a patron of the arts.
Remember when they merged and renamed all the AT&T Wireless stores Cingular...Then turned around a few months later and ditched the Cingular name, switching all the stores (including the newly acquired Cingular stores) back to AT&T? How many hundreds of millions of dollars did they piss away tossing out all those signs and replacing them? It wasn't like they just changed the name on the bills. They redressed every single store across the nation.
It's called "search". It would take tens of hours to manually sift thru all of my email and clean it up. And then I'd still need to use the search function to find stuff quickly. So what would I gain from this hypothetical cleanup scenario? I'd save maybe 2.5 gigs of storage. Be still my heart. It's a very poor economic tradeoff. My time (even unpaid time) is worth a heck of a lot more than that.
I don't understand this "cluttered" concept that seems to distress you. They're bits on a hard drive, not filing cabinets in my office. If I have 50 messages in my archive or 58113, it looks exactly the same to me. I don't even bother filing now that search tools have become so quick. If a message isn't above the fold in my mail client, I just search it. Takes about 4 seconds to search my entire archive. Less time than it takes me to move a message to a folder. Why on earth would I spend 5 minutes, let alone 50 hours, clearing out old messages?
Precisely. Even at today's prices, it's still pretty affordable to set up a fault-tolerant array with several tb of storage. Most 1080 movies compress to 8-10 gigs without much loss of quality. That's 100 HD movies per tb of storage, give or take.
If you do the math (and I did when it was on the ballot), it is impossible for this train to ever come even remotely close to breaking even even if every train moves at 100% capacity.
They're about to fire up a line from Fullerton to Vegas. The prices they listed were high, tho. Only a few bucks cheaper than flying and much more expensive than driving without saving any time.
Ah, there it is. "X Train" with an estimated start date of late 2012. $99 each way and 4.5 hours.
Actually, I think demand is very elastic at this point. It spiked like crazy over the last few weeks as people scrambled to buy as many drives as they could lay their hands on before all of the vendors jacked their prices. The high inflation caused a run on the existing supply. Now demand is going to plunge as people who were adding capacity, just because they could, stop buying drives. But I don't expect prices to come down even as the supply recovers. Insurance will pay to rebuild (and relocate if they're smart) the factories but we'll have inflated prices for a long time.
I'm too lazy to look it up but the figure I remember seeing is that 25% of the world's hard drive manufacturing capacity has been impacted by the floods so the markup shouldn't be anything like 150%. It's just like the time RAM prices went thru the roof years ago, far higher than should have been caused by whatever problem caused a temporary shortage and they stayed artificially inflated for years. Same thing's going to happen with hard drives. Manufacturers will milk this for years.
Back when the key was leaked, I figured the only thing that would keep it from being put to use was the lack of a practical use. But now there's talk of releasing movies on PPV in conjunction with their release in theaters. A device like this could have 1080 BD-quality rips of movies available on the internet the same day they're in theaters. Just grab the stream via PPV, compress it, and seed it. Also applies to any other PPV event that normally wouldn't be available anywhere but thru the cable company.
Is this one of those "On this day in history..." stories? Because analyzing caller voice patterns for stress has been SOP for the big boys for years. A pretty common way to get out of the voice prompts and to a person who will likely be competent enough to help you is to swear profusely at the voice recognition system. You'll then often be passed to a senior CSR who can get shit done. The catch is that they're authorized to hang up on you more quickly than a regular rep if you continue to swear once they're on the line.
I guess the news here is that the existing technology is being used to present automated scripts tailored to the individual caller.
Pretty much. Next time read the friggin' contract, subby. If you don't adhere to the terms of the contract and the government finds out, this could well be your company's last government contract. If you're lucky.
A tracking system is going to be spendy and probably useless. Do you really think the cops are going to make recovering your scooter a high priority? Do you really think you're going to go all Internet Tough Guy and break into someone's garage to get it back? (Remember, you just admitted to being a Scooter Guy so we all know that won't happen.)
Just insure it against theft. If it gets stolen, you should have the money for a replacement within a week. The deductible will be less than what you would have spent on your tracking system.
Authentication is only accepted from readers registered to the account.
Reading is fundamental. You don't use "the store's reader". You plug your reader into the store's interface which then makes its own secure connection to the site requiring authentication then passes a "yes or no" response to the local system. Lose the reader and you need to revoke authorization for the lost reader and obtain a replacement.
Exactly. I can get my monthly allotment of 250 gigs in a matter of days at the slowest speed the cable company offers. Why would I pay more money to get there faster? I'd rather have half the speed with no cap.
Put a USB fingerprint reader on a key fob. The device makes a secure connection to the service requesting authentication and does its magic. Authentication is only accepted from readers registered to the account. For really secure access (banking and such), send an SMS to the user's validated cell phone or an email to their verified email account with a one-time code that the person has to enter before it expires in a minute or two.
There are plenty of ways we can provide secure authentication that doesn't rely on memorizing random character strings. Trouble is, "the world" needs to agree on a standard and implement it.
Because we no longer have the infrastructure and skills necessary to manufacture the goods we need. Even if cost wasn't a factor, we don't have the ability.
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How do you back up 6tb of data? With three 2tb hard drives. Even at today's prices, that's as little as $425 off the shelf at Best Buy (including tax) for three external USB2/3 drives. And RAID 0 for the only copy of your life's work? Come on, dude. Just...come on.
I hope you learned how to properly evaluate the value of your data and that you need to take reasonable steps to protect it.
BTW, break of a Jackson or three and buy yourself a 32-64 gig USB stick to store encrypted copies of the most "can't live without" data you have. Tax returns, family photos, etc. I have a tiny Patriot Flex hanging on my keychain with that stuff and larger caches on my netbook and notebook. Having a Big Ass Array (brought to you by Carl's Jr.) doesn't do much good if the building burns down.
Also, there are data recovery services that can get data from a broken array. They're expensive but they exist.
Actually, a small number of widely-used DRM methods is exactly what is required to ensure freedom from DRM. Ten years ago, there were a ton of different content protection strategies and very little content. It wasn't worth the effort of cracking every method in use. Now we've boiled it down to two major DRM methods and both have a ton of mainstream content. It's no surprise that both methods can be thwarted with a few clicks of the mouse.
Content I bought ten years ago is long gone because authentication servers no longer exist, the computers the content was tied to are long gone, the software doesn't run in Win7, etc. But the content I buy today gets stripped of DRM and copied to my array. From there, I can convert it to any format I want and read it on any device I want. That's only possible because Amazon (azw), Sony (epub), Barnes and Noble (epub), Apple (epub), etc. have created their "exclusive platforms" while failing to understand that content can't be controlled that way.
Please spend that money to hire editors!
I've been reading a decent amount of self-published stuff over the past year and I've come across a lot of material that would be pretty darn good if only it had been given just the most basic pass by a competent editor. Misspellings, partially revised sentences, incorrect punctuation, etc. I'm hoping that, one of these days, I find a story compelling enough that I'll offer to pay for the services of a good editor. Then I could call myself a patron of the arts.
Remember when they merged and renamed all the AT&T Wireless stores Cingular...Then turned around a few months later and ditched the Cingular name, switching all the stores (including the newly acquired Cingular stores) back to AT&T? How many hundreds of millions of dollars did they piss away tossing out all those signs and replacing them? It wasn't like they just changed the name on the bills. They redressed every single store across the nation.
Does this mean I'll finally have a use for my Y2k bunker? If so, I should get busy building it.
It's called "search". It would take tens of hours to manually sift thru all of my email and clean it up. And then I'd still need to use the search function to find stuff quickly. So what would I gain from this hypothetical cleanup scenario? I'd save maybe 2.5 gigs of storage. Be still my heart. It's a very poor economic tradeoff. My time (even unpaid time) is worth a heck of a lot more than that.
I don't understand this "cluttered" concept that seems to distress you. They're bits on a hard drive, not filing cabinets in my office. If I have 50 messages in my archive or 58113, it looks exactly the same to me. I don't even bother filing now that search tools have become so quick. If a message isn't above the fold in my mail client, I just search it. Takes about 4 seconds to search my entire archive. Less time than it takes me to move a message to a folder. Why on earth would I spend 5 minutes, let alone 50 hours, clearing out old messages?
...the Leather Goddesses got it.
I don't communicate with friends via email.
Precisely. Even at today's prices, it's still pretty affordable to set up a fault-tolerant array with several tb of storage. Most 1080 movies compress to 8-10 gigs without much loss of quality. That's 100 HD movies per tb of storage, give or take.
No, he doesn't. He just has to keep the receipts for the purchases.
If you do the math (and I did when it was on the ballot), it is impossible for this train to ever come even remotely close to breaking even even if every train moves at 100% capacity.
They're about to fire up a line from Fullerton to Vegas. The prices they listed were high, tho. Only a few bucks cheaper than flying and much more expensive than driving without saving any time.
Ah, there it is. "X Train" with an estimated start date of late 2012. $99 each way and 4.5 hours.
Actually, I think demand is very elastic at this point. It spiked like crazy over the last few weeks as people scrambled to buy as many drives as they could lay their hands on before all of the vendors jacked their prices. The high inflation caused a run on the existing supply. Now demand is going to plunge as people who were adding capacity, just because they could, stop buying drives. But I don't expect prices to come down even as the supply recovers. Insurance will pay to rebuild (and relocate if they're smart) the factories but we'll have inflated prices for a long time.
I'm too lazy to look it up but the figure I remember seeing is that 25% of the world's hard drive manufacturing capacity has been impacted by the floods so the markup shouldn't be anything like 150%. It's just like the time RAM prices went thru the roof years ago, far higher than should have been caused by whatever problem caused a temporary shortage and they stayed artificially inflated for years. Same thing's going to happen with hard drives. Manufacturers will milk this for years.
Back when the key was leaked, I figured the only thing that would keep it from being put to use was the lack of a practical use. But now there's talk of releasing movies on PPV in conjunction with their release in theaters. A device like this could have 1080 BD-quality rips of movies available on the internet the same day they're in theaters. Just grab the stream via PPV, compress it, and seed it. Also applies to any other PPV event that normally wouldn't be available anywhere but thru the cable company.
That's okay. The world needs ditch diggers, too.
Is this one of those "On this day in history..." stories? Because analyzing caller voice patterns for stress has been SOP for the big boys for years. A pretty common way to get out of the voice prompts and to a person who will likely be competent enough to help you is to swear profusely at the voice recognition system. You'll then often be passed to a senior CSR who can get shit done. The catch is that they're authorized to hang up on you more quickly than a regular rep if you continue to swear once they're on the line.
I guess the news here is that the existing technology is being used to present automated scripts tailored to the individual caller.
Pretty much. Next time read the friggin' contract, subby. If you don't adhere to the terms of the contract and the government finds out, this could well be your company's last government contract. If you're lucky.
I came here to say the same thing.
A tracking system is going to be spendy and probably useless. Do you really think the cops are going to make recovering your scooter a high priority? Do you really think you're going to go all Internet Tough Guy and break into someone's garage to get it back? (Remember, you just admitted to being a Scooter Guy so we all know that won't happen.)
Just insure it against theft. If it gets stolen, you should have the money for a replacement within a week. The deductible will be less than what you would have spent on your tracking system.
Authentication is only accepted from readers registered to the account.
Reading is fundamental. You don't use "the store's reader". You plug your reader into the store's interface which then makes its own secure connection to the site requiring authentication then passes a "yes or no" response to the local system. Lose the reader and you need to revoke authorization for the lost reader and obtain a replacement.
Exactly. I can get my monthly allotment of 250 gigs in a matter of days at the slowest speed the cable company offers. Why would I pay more money to get there faster? I'd rather have half the speed with no cap.
Why, yes, I am on "probation". Why do you ask?
Put a USB fingerprint reader on a key fob. The device makes a secure connection to the service requesting authentication and does its magic. Authentication is only accepted from readers registered to the account. For really secure access (banking and such), send an SMS to the user's validated cell phone or an email to their verified email account with a one-time code that the person has to enter before it expires in a minute or two.
There are plenty of ways we can provide secure authentication that doesn't rely on memorizing random character strings. Trouble is, "the world" needs to agree on a standard and implement it.
Because we no longer have the infrastructure and skills necessary to manufacture the goods we need. Even if cost wasn't a factor, we don't have the ability.