That in fact is an ideal reason to do this, and twitter is nearly the ideal forum. The only hole in it is that some people aren't represented. Those who are over- or under-represented can be identified and the weight of their observations adjusted. But those who simply are not recorded will not have had an opinion at all.
The real problem here is, the LoC is a government entity, and all my experiences with technology provided by government entities has left me less than impressed. Searching the LoC's archive may get you a deeper set of results than searching Twitter (which cuts off results at an unpredictable time in the past), but I'm going to bet that the tool will be slow and have missing or cryptic features and will return the results in a format that's hard to work with. Certainly I don't expect them to provide inferential data mining or self-repairing regexes.
Can't wait for the first court case that turns on information recorded in a tweet in the LoC.
It's not the size. It's the fact that most Americans can't see through the sophistry of the GOP.
Back in the 1860s, the GOP was a real political party. But Lincoln warned us the "moneyed powers" were coming to take over the country, and they paid him back by taking over his party, first, in the 1880s. Ever since, the GOP is a division of the plutocratic hegemony of America.
Few other nations allow corporations to run as rampant as America does, because in few other nations have corporations owned half of the government for half their existence.
Maybe it's because tea-baggers are all the mouth-breathing racist hypocrites that the GOP's castoffs could herd together, instead of lifelong, skilled practitioners of an ancient art steeped in honor and self-control.
I would rather Twitter went into the offices of the CEOs of Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon, and says "we want a third of your SMS-fee revenues; and don't raise prices. Otherwise, we'll turn off Twitter."
Those guys would shit their pants and break a nail grabbing for the checkbook.
So what you're saying is, you hamstrung 100% of employees to still leave 10% of your employees vulnerable, when no doubt it only takes one opening for anyone to get to any information that matters on your network...
You mean the flaky one with the congenital deformities, who sometimes has answers you don't have yourself, who comes up with random shit out of the blue that you can only trust about 70% of, who always seems to be in legal trouble over stuff you learned not to do in kindergarten, and who hits you up for money every time you see him?
If you were thoughtful, instead of a talking-point parrotting teabagger, you'd be happy that the government is getting out of the space business and telling the business businesses to figure it out.
Because we're tired of coming up with all this cool space shit just so they can adapt it to their launch systems and still lose money launching our satellites under cost-plus contracts.
Or maybe the point is that business no longer knows how to stay in business, and new businesses need to come along and take it from them, now that the government is no longer propping them up by paying for all of the technology investment and absorbing the risk of failure.
BTW, how many of anyone have you organized in your life? By your logic, that makes you incompetent to judge the skills of anyone who has. You'll still be free to toss your vote in the trash next time around.
it's about a virus that mutates into other viruses and the team of young, hot scientists (i see angelina jolie as their mentor, Doctor Y) can only stop it by developing a virus to infect the virus...half tempted not to post this, because now that i think of it, it's a killer idea for a spec script...
1. it's not self-catalyzing, it takes iridium oxide which is what you might call highly uncommon (though they implied there might be others, but if they needed to start with Ir02 the list must have been very very short)
2. they didn't say under what conditions it reproduces, but i wouldn't be surprised if the open ocean isn't its best culture medium, or even a decent one
3. in order to get it to work for any sort of duration they had to encase the virus in a gel. now, unless they plan to mutate the virus to produce its own gel, or not to need the gel, it's not going to threaten very much of any body of water
4. we could use a little more oxygen, as ours is being bound up into CO2 by people who persist in believing that burning coal & oil is a god-given right
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Once you buy and install Windows, and turn on the automatic updates, you're essentially done maintaining it.
Installing additional software is generally as simple as letting it install itself.
Every version of Linux, however, including Ubuntu, requires some expertise in configuration and management of the OS. It's not nearly as hands-off a system.
It's nice to have the source code to mess with, or to enhance. But if I have to compile a new piece of software just to install it properly the first time, that's when *nixen completely fail the end user.
Thinking Ubuntu is better because a copy of it costs less is a classic case of penny wise, pound foolish.
Slashdot Mirror
Logical. If we get enough, we're more likely to get it right.
And I would bet the Library of Congress doesn't have to give a damn about copyright anyway.
50 million tweets/day
140 characters of message
60 bytes of metadata (timestamp, sender id, etc.)
10 GB of twitter archive per day
10 TB per 3 years
What does 1 TB cost these days? about $100?
Storage space will indeed be an inexpensive part of the cost, and will decline in price at about the same rate the traffic is growing.
That in fact is an ideal reason to do this, and twitter is nearly the ideal forum. The only hole in it is that some people aren't represented. Those who are over- or under-represented can be identified and the weight of their observations adjusted. But those who simply are not recorded will not have had an opinion at all.
The real problem here is, the LoC is a government entity, and all my experiences with technology provided by government entities has left me less than impressed. Searching the LoC's archive may get you a deeper set of results than searching Twitter (which cuts off results at an unpredictable time in the past), but I'm going to bet that the tool will be slow and have missing or cryptic features and will return the results in a format that's hard to work with. Certainly I don't expect them to provide inferential data mining or self-repairing regexes.
Can't wait for the first court case that turns on information recorded in a tweet in the LoC.
They should have been archiving Usenet from the beginning.
It's not the size. It's the fact that most Americans can't see through the sophistry of the GOP.
Back in the 1860s, the GOP was a real political party. But Lincoln warned us the "moneyed powers" were coming to take over the country, and they paid him back by taking over his party, first, in the 1880s. Ever since, the GOP is a division of the plutocratic hegemony of America.
Few other nations allow corporations to run as rampant as America does, because in few other nations have corporations owned half of the government for half their existence.
Maybe it's because tea-baggers are all the mouth-breathing racist hypocrites that the GOP's castoffs could herd together, instead of lifelong, skilled practitioners of an ancient art steeped in honor and self-control.
But in that system the hydrogen isn't liberated, meaning you can't make money selling the free energy.
So it'll never be developed beyond the concept phase.
Sorry.
I would rather Twitter went into the offices of the CEOs of Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon, and says "we want a third of your SMS-fee revenues; and don't raise prices. Otherwise, we'll turn off Twitter."
Those guys would shit their pants and break a nail grabbing for the checkbook.
Tablet computing has been around for a long time.
And the exact form factor, and almost its exact name, were being discussed long ago:
"PAD" Computer
redfoxtx 06-10-2002, 01:56 PM
http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-1793-PAD-Computer.html
Steve Jobs seems to think he invented it, and the idea of calling a tablet a "pad".
Steve Jobs: 'Pad? That's my word'
New frontiers in control freakiness
Rik Myslewski in San Francisco
Posted in Mobile, 13th April 2010 20:11 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/13/jobs_claims_pad_trademark/
At some point, someone needs to stand up to this lunatic.
...because the Windows Registry is a secure source of information...
So what you're saying is, you hamstrung 100% of employees to still leave 10% of your employees vulnerable, when no doubt it only takes one opening for anyone to get to any information that matters on your network...
Wikipedia is your friend
You mean the flaky one with the congenital deformities, who sometimes has answers you don't have yourself, who comes up with random shit out of the blue that you can only trust about 70% of, who always seems to be in legal trouble over stuff you learned not to do in kindergarten, and who hits you up for money every time you see him?
They can't stop you. They can only intimidate you.
There's a reason pros use a soldering-iron stand that encloses the business end and leaves the handle in the most accessible position.
Laying your iron down on the table or a prop is lazy and sloppy.
If you were thoughtful, instead of a talking-point parrotting teabagger, you'd be happy that the government is getting out of the space business and telling the business businesses to figure it out.
Because we're tired of coming up with all this cool space shit just so they can adapt it to their launch systems and still lose money launching our satellites under cost-plus contracts.
Or maybe the point is that business no longer knows how to stay in business, and new businesses need to come along and take it from them, now that the government is no longer propping them up by paying for all of the technology investment and absorbing the risk of failure.
BTW, how many of anyone have you organized in your life? By your logic, that makes you incompetent to judge the skills of anyone who has. You'll still be free to toss your vote in the trash next time around.
So?
I'd bet that 100% of paper money that has been in circulation for more than ten days has detectable levels of fecal coliform bacteria on it.
they're going to have to make mine first
it's about a virus that mutates into other viruses and the team of young, hot scientists (i see angelina jolie as their mentor, Doctor Y) can only stop it by developing a virus to infect the virus ...half tempted not to post this, because now that i think of it, it's a killer idea for a spec script...
1. it's not self-catalyzing, it takes iridium oxide which is what you might call highly uncommon (though they implied there might be others, but if they needed to start with Ir02 the list must have been very very short)
2. they didn't say under what conditions it reproduces, but i wouldn't be surprised if the open ocean isn't its best culture medium, or even a decent one
3. in order to get it to work for any sort of duration they had to encase the virus in a gel. now, unless they plan to mutate the virus to produce its own gel, or not to need the gel, it's not going to threaten very much of any body of water
4. we could use a little more oxygen, as ours is being bound up into CO2 by people who persist in believing that burning coal & oil is a god-given right
Once you buy and install Windows, and turn on the automatic updates, you're essentially done maintaining it.
Installing additional software is generally as simple as letting it install itself.
Every version of Linux, however, including Ubuntu, requires some expertise in configuration and management of the OS. It's not nearly as hands-off a system.
It's nice to have the source code to mess with, or to enhance. But if I have to compile a new piece of software just to install it properly the first time, that's when *nixen completely fail the end user.
Thinking Ubuntu is better because a copy of it costs less is a classic case of penny wise, pound foolish.
But when we fielded some honest tube-thumpers, everyone said it was lame:
So is this thing about calling out the dilettantes with vague, demonizing similes.
Thin air is made of atoms.
It's where plants get the carbon that they turn into, well, plant material. (Yep. Giant redwoods are mostly distilled air.)
So from the evidence you present, I deduce that you are a plant.
I dunno.
Looking back on the history of the future, it seems Voyager 6 did alright for itself, even if it did get kind of a big head about it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V'ger
... To explore strange new worlds; To seek out new life, and new civilizations; To boldly go where no man has gone before.
We're gonna need a bigger boat.