The only reason RAM exists is because it's many magnitudes faster than "disk". Once non-volatile memory is up to the same speeds as volatile, RAM will cease to exist
That's what they always said, and I suspect always will.
My big ass hairy guess is the systems algorithms automatically controls what is stored and what is dropped without human intervention, and any real attempt to permanantly store any particular thing would mean basically shutting down the collection system. The size of the system the NSA is using would have to be mind-boggling, the amount of data coming in is staggering; new stuff has to be incoming faster than any backup could ever keep up with. It's highly likely that new stuff would over-write old stuff, making it impossible to secure particular records reliably.
I'm sure that there has to be some metadata system that ranks how long and in what detail data is to be retained, and what most of us boring normal people is downgraded faster than people that keep tripping the filters, the NSA has to be bumping up against the limits of what is possible to do on a regular basis; I'm amazed they actually can do what they are doing.
Every time he looks into a mirror in prison, Pierre D. Martin can blame his face for putting him behind bars.
No Dude, poor life choises put you behind bars, the best years of your life down the tubes for a smartphone. This is a perfect example of how stupid is a action verb, not a state of being.
Yes, but Congressman Mike Rogers said he was a Russian spy. Surely a US Congressman wouldn't lie about important stuff like that?
Well he is a spy, and he is in and talking to the Russians, so that's pretty much the definition. Snowden pretty much knows it's either co-operate or get your ass shot full of peanut oil before getting the dunk in ice water; so I doubt there will be anything that the Russians would want to know, that Snowden would be able to keep from them.
The panama canal has locks mostly because the ships have to be lifted and dropped 85 feet, the tides would be more of a problem because they would be of opposing phase i.e. when pacific side is low the atlantic side is high, the typical sealevel difference of 8 inches would have a challenging current of about 6 MPH but it wouldn't be insurmountable.
Ocean currents and Prevailing winds push water around but,
According to a recent report from the UN Environment Programme, sea level is rising in the Pacific around the Marshall's at a much higher rate than elsewhere in the world. The rate of rise between 1993 and 2009 was 12mm per year, compared with the global average of 3.2mm. Climate change helps seas disturb Japanese war dead
the Marshal Islands (not realy Islands but coral atolls) are really unlikely to have graves washed away because the sea-level rose a half inch, more likely it was factors like increased water consumption due to population depleteing the ground water and causing subsistance, and paved roads reducing replenishment from rains.
Don't forget that the ion trail behind a meteor is also pretty turbulent so there would also be all kinds of doppler shifts, trying to calculate an emission freq is likely meaningless.
Took me 2 weeks to figure out what it was, I upgraded from win3.10 to win95 so I was happily using my nice comfortable file manager from win3.10 in win95, getting a clean install of win95 was a shocker.
It a lot easier to have a start menu and not use, than to need it and not have it. With a start menu you can find things you only use once in a blue moon without cluttering up your screen shortcuts and have windows nag you about deleting unused icons.
The Deutsche Bundespost was the federal German government postal service created in 1947 as a successor to the Reichspost. On 1 July 1989 as part of a post office reform, Deutsche Bundespost was split into three divisions (also called public enterprises), one being Deutsche Bundespost Postdienst.... November 2000, Deutsche Post AG went public. It was the largest initial public offering of the year in Germany and the third-largest worldwide.....
Currently,[when?] 24.8% of its shares are held by the state-owned KfW bank(German government-owned development bank, based in Frankfurt. Its name originally comes from Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, meaning Reconstruction Credit Institute.) , 74.5% are freely floating; 67.0% of which are held by institutional[who?] and 7.5% by private investors.... In July 2002, Deutsche Post acquired a 25-percent share in DHL from Lufthansa Cargo and increases its majority stake to 75 percent. On 1 April 2003, the Group began re-branding some 20,000 parcel delivery vans throughout Germany in the new DHL design. Deutsche Post increased its share in the international courier and express business to 100 percent in December 2002.... Deutsche Post
So basically a company isn't saying they didn't assist in espionage against the country it was once part of it's government and still owns almost 25% of the company. That would be like the USPS not saying they didn't helping the Mossad spy on Obama.
Makes you wonder if the new UPS employment applications will ask if you are an agent of a foreign or domestic government. Also it's interesting that with the brouhaha over the NSA's tapping Merkle's cell phone that the Deutsche Post that they couldn't just flat out say "No."
You should be able to go to a government web site and enter a persons name to check and see if they have vaccinations, STDs, etc.
nobody as far as i know is advocating a publicly-accessible database here, are they? we already have large data stores full of patient information and i still am not able to look up my neighbor's medical records on the internet.
When your kids get on the short bus, driven by the guy in a full HazMat suit, people will pretty much figure it out.
evolution *requires* all life coming from a common ancestor
I could except *implies* but *requires* requires evidence and there is none. If the condition for life occurs, and it does occur, why would it occur once and only once?
Actually there is considerable evidence that the person we now refer to as Jesus Christ was a real flesh and blood historical person; even if many aspects of his life have been exagerated for other people's political gain.
We're running about $3.5K/acre in Michigan for tiled ag land, volunteer fire dept., Sherrif has 2 cars on patrol, internet is either 4G or satelite and our electric grid is single phase.
It's not that you can't knock down trees, it's just that the shape of the trunk (basicaly round) and the wood being wet and more flexable makes it easy to overestimate the effects of a given explosion on trees.
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Sure they are, Cable companies like Communists are all about controling acess to desired resources; one just pretends to be ethical.
The only reason RAM exists is because it's many magnitudes faster than "disk". Once non-volatile memory is up to the same speeds as volatile, RAM will cease to exist
That's what they always said, and I suspect always will.
Sure your Honor no problem, What's your Email address and do you want us to CC to the EFF as well?
How much is that measured in semi-trailors loaded full of mylar punched tape?
My big ass hairy guess is the systems algorithms automatically controls what is stored and what is dropped without human intervention, and any real attempt to permanantly store any particular thing would mean basically shutting down the collection system. The size of the system the NSA is using would have to be mind-boggling, the amount of data coming in is staggering; new stuff has to be incoming faster than any backup could ever keep up with. It's highly likely that new stuff would over-write old stuff, making it impossible to secure particular records reliably.
I'm sure that there has to be some metadata system that ranks how long and in what detail data is to be retained, and what most of us boring normal people is downgraded faster than people that keep tripping the filters, the NSA has to be bumping up against the limits of what is possible to do on a regular basis; I'm amazed they actually can do what they are doing.
No Dude, poor life choises put you behind bars, the best years of your life down the tubes for a smartphone. This is a perfect example of how stupid is a action verb, not a state of being.
Yes, but Congressman Mike Rogers said he was a Russian spy. Surely a US Congressman wouldn't lie about important stuff like that?
Well he is a spy, and he is in and talking to the Russians, so that's pretty much the definition. Snowden pretty much knows it's either co-operate or get your ass shot full of peanut oil before getting the dunk in ice water; so I doubt there will be anything that the Russians would want to know, that Snowden would be able to keep from them.
The panama canal has locks mostly because the ships have to be lifted and dropped 85 feet, the tides would be more of a problem because they would be of opposing phase i.e. when pacific side is low the atlantic side is high, the typical sealevel difference of 8 inches would have a challenging current of about 6 MPH but it wouldn't be insurmountable.
Ocean currents and Prevailing winds push water around but,
the Marshal Islands (not realy Islands but coral atolls) are really unlikely to have graves washed away because the sea-level rose a half inch, more likely it was factors like increased water consumption due to population depleteing the ground water and causing subsistance, and paved roads reducing replenishment from rains.
Don't forget that the ion trail behind a meteor is also pretty turbulent so there would also be all kinds of doppler shifts, trying to calculate an emission freq is likely meaningless.
I here the CIA loves to hire PhD in History and really likes other humanities majors.
WOW a car analogy with a buttplug in an anti-microsoft rant, to you Sir I am in awe.
Besides all the shiny marketing, they are admittedly designed with usability in mind, which Microsoft seems to have forgotten how to do.
The word "forgotten" may be too generous.
Took me 2 weeks to figure out what it was, I upgraded from win3.10 to win95 so I was happily using my nice comfortable file manager from win3.10 in win95, getting a clean install of win95 was a shocker.
It a lot easier to have a start menu and not use, than to need it and not have it. With a start menu you can find things you only use once in a blue moon without cluttering up your screen shortcuts and have windows nag you about deleting unused icons.
Just because the Boss bought some stupid shit while I was laid-off, doesn't mean I'm not stuck with it when I came back.
who is "they" that would want to say "no"?
"they" would be,
So basically a company isn't saying they didn't assist in espionage against the country it was once part of it's government and still owns almost 25% of the company. That would be like the USPS not saying they didn't helping the Mossad spy on Obama.
Makes you wonder if the new UPS employment applications will ask if you are an agent of a foreign or domestic government. Also it's interesting that with the brouhaha over the NSA's tapping Merkle's cell phone that the Deutsche Post that they couldn't just flat out say "No."
I got it in Basic Training back in 1973
You should be able to go to a government web site and enter a persons name to check and see if they have vaccinations, STDs, etc.
nobody as far as i know is advocating a publicly-accessible database here, are they? we already have large data stores full of patient information and i still am not able to look up my neighbor's medical records on the internet.
When your kids get on the short bus, driven by the guy in a full HazMat suit, people will pretty much figure it out.
evolution *requires* all life coming from a common ancestor
I could except *implies* but *requires* requires evidence and there is none. If the condition for life occurs, and it does occur, why would it occur once and only once?
Actually there is considerable evidence that the person we now refer to as Jesus Christ was a real flesh and blood historical person; even if many aspects of his life have been exagerated for other people's political gain.
Well, it is still religion.
Gaia is the god this time.
Are you referring to catastropharians of the Zombie apocalypse order or the Thermageddon order?
We're running about $3.5K/acre in Michigan for tiled ag land, volunteer fire dept., Sherrif has 2 cars on patrol, internet is either 4G or satelite and our electric grid is single phase.
It's not that you can't knock down trees, it's just that the shape of the trunk (basicaly round) and the wood being wet and more flexable makes it easy to overestimate the effects of a given explosion on trees.