Absolutely, however they still kill beneficial bacteria as well as pathogenic ones and thus most of the time do more harm than good.
Exactly! When you kill off the good bacteria, the bad ones can establish a foot-hold. This is a very dangerous trend (blame the gd education system for cranking out millions of half-educated fools).
A hospital in Europe did a study on surgical scrubbing comparing anti-bacterials with probiotics (yogurt washes, basically) and the patients in the 'yogurt' group did better.
How does that price compare to the computer with hotswap bays you need for backing up to HDDs?
Not to mention the price difference between jukeboxes, which really go in favour of tapes?
To be fair, most people going to hard drive backup are re-considering the whole backup picture.
I've walked clients through this a few times, and typically we wind up with a full ZFS-based server, with data compression, de-duplication, and months of on-line backups, with pairs of drives going offsite daily (ideally in two directions).
Based on average compression and de-duplication ratios, you're looking at about $9000 for a system that can manage about 200TB of data. Perhaps a bit more if you want to keep lots of offsite copies.
One client was so happy about having realtime access to 6 months worth of revisions, he decided it would be best to buy two systems set up with realtime replication, just in case one went down or needed maintenance.
So, yeah, 9 cents per gigabyte is high these days, but it's really a higher level of computing.
That's still 46TB worth of hard drives for the cost of the enclosure that lets you read the tape before buying tape
It's 35TB because the drives are $129 for 3TB drives, but you've bought two of each and set up mirrors, so you have redundancy, which you don't have with the tapes or tape drive.
One night a hard drive and tape drive is going to fail, and the next day there will be a flood in the data center, and the guy with the redundant hard drive is going to be OK while the guy with only one tape drive just lost a day's worth of data.
eGold was a site that did paypal for gold, and failed miserably
Right, because it was regulated out of existence, not because of lack of market demand. The government hates competition, especially with a superior product.
It would seem so. I would think that a better way of doing steganography would be to hide data in the audio itself, or in details of the encoding.
Right, which is already known how to do. You'd just need to apply enough forward error correction to survive the codec. Ideally, you'll embed already encrypted and compressed data so it looks like noise.
Actually, hrm, are there any cryptographically secure FEC methods?
MapReduce is too simple for all acclaim. It's too obvious.
Yeah, we did these in first-year algorithms class - they called them scatter/gather at the time. Google's insight seems to have been doing this with key/value pairs and making it an n-stage operation for application-independent parallelization.
Which, of course, the USPTO threw a patent at. So, here were are, stuck with it until 2024. Yay, government.
There was a story a few years back about a university (Scandinavia?) that spends the winter pumping water to freeze into a giant block on one part of campus, and then come summer, they just pump coolant through the block as it melts.
Pumping water is apparently much cheaper than traditional cooling.
Anybody know how broad Google's map/reduce patents are?
It's been said that the whole reason Oracle bought Sun was to clobber Google with the Java patents so they could cross-license the map/reduce patents and get back to an Oracle database that could scale.
Regardless, corporations should just release their software and fight it out in court later (sorry, real people, you can't play) but now that this is out, things might get more interesting in the patent wars.
Maybe some enterprising people can make it work for them.
If it outputs to HTML5 and the input can be generated by multiple programs, it might be worth using.
I went to a demo in Boston when Flex was just released and I have to admit it looked very cool. Then I learned it was soup-to-nuts proprietary and went on to the other sessions.
I have a bunch of spam sitting here in my 'abuse' folder with the unique e-mail I gave to Asics in 2004 when I bought some shoes. Their privacy policy clearly says they won't sell my address but they surely did.
I tried complaining to the e-mail address in the privacy policy (it bounces) and via Twitter (it was ignored).
Anybody ever try to enforce the CAN-SPAM Act against a website operator for violation of a privacy policy? I read something about $16,000 per infraction.
My daughter come home from 2nd Grade every week with a list of 'sight-words' to focus on - that is, words that were intended to be immediately recognized, not sounded out.
Glad modern science has caught up with elementary school.
OK, here's a thread to post the links to all the haters' comments where they guaranteed that Google had gone Evil and would never release ICS source.
Granted, I full well expect six people will rebuff, stating that since 4.0.1 was released but not 4.0.0 that they were precisely correct and that this is proof of Google's evil intentions.
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Absolutely, however they still kill beneficial bacteria as well as pathogenic ones and thus most of the time do more harm than good.
Exactly! When you kill off the good bacteria, the bad ones can establish a foot-hold. This is a very dangerous trend (blame the gd education system for cranking out millions of half-educated fools).
A hospital in Europe did a study on surgical scrubbing comparing anti-bacterials with probiotics (yogurt washes, basically) and the patients in the 'yogurt' group did better.
Most of the ones I see contain tetracycline, which is the problem
I think you're confusing tetracycline and triclosan (which is commonly used in anti-bacterial soaps).
I personally won't let triclosan in my house (it has its own set of problems) but the mechanism of action isn't the same as tetracycline.
How does that price compare to the computer with hotswap bays you need for backing up to HDDs?
Not to mention the price difference between jukeboxes, which really go in favour of tapes?
To be fair, most people going to hard drive backup are re-considering the whole backup picture.
I've walked clients through this a few times, and typically we wind up with a full ZFS-based server, with data compression, de-duplication, and months of on-line backups, with pairs of drives going offsite daily (ideally in two directions).
Based on average compression and de-duplication ratios, you're looking at about $9000 for a system that can manage about 200TB of data. Perhaps a bit more if you want to keep lots of offsite copies.
One client was so happy about having realtime access to 6 months worth of revisions, he decided it would be best to buy two systems set up with realtime replication, just in case one went down or needed maintenance.
So, yeah, 9 cents per gigabyte is high these days, but it's really a higher level of computing.
That's still 46TB worth of hard drives for the cost of the enclosure that lets you read the tape before buying tape
It's 35TB because the drives are $129 for 3TB drives, but you've bought two of each and set up mirrors, so you have redundancy, which you don't have with the tapes or tape drive.
One night a hard drive and tape drive is going to fail, and the next day there will be a flood in the data center, and the guy with the redundant hard drive is going to be OK while the guy with only one tape drive just lost a day's worth of data.
Or double the cost of tape to make up for that.
Their claim is that disk space is too expensive for anything more. And, no. I don't know why they don't get fired for telling such a poor lie.
They have a bonus structure based on budget underruns, as do their bosses.
IT guys don't say, "oh, no, I couldn't possibly use more hardware."
Tape has a low cost per gigabyte but a very substantial fixed cost - a high capacity tape drive cen easily set you back a few thousand pound.
Double that if your data is really important. It's much easier to have a spare 3TB SATA disk on the shelf than another LTO drive.
Lots of people can't risk losing 1 day's data, and it's not just affluent companies.
much of it owed in the currency of the debtor, and with happy thoughts and optimism as collateral, no less
I can haz debt monetization too?
eGold was a site that did paypal for gold, and failed miserably
Right, because it was regulated out of existence, not because of lack of market demand. The government hates competition, especially with a superior product.
cash is better than gold most of the time
Unless you count the past 12 years....
It would seem so. I would think that a better way of doing steganography would be to hide data in the audio itself, or in details of the encoding.
Right, which is already known how to do. You'd just need to apply enough forward error correction to survive the codec. Ideally, you'll embed already encrypted and compressed data so it looks like noise.
Actually, hrm, are there any cryptographically secure FEC methods?
MapReduce is too simple for all acclaim. It's too obvious.
Yeah, we did these in first-year algorithms class - they called them scatter/gather at the time. Google's insight seems to have been doing this with key/value pairs and making it an n-stage operation for application-independent parallelization.
Which, of course, the USPTO threw a patent at. So, here were are, stuck with it until 2024. Yay, government.
"The collaboration with Intel is bring us just that."
I've been seeing some nice AMD ads in the credits of animated movies lately.
Intel: "what can we do?"
Seeing the world as a cartoon might be great.
This actually came up in conversation the other day.
Friend A: Seeing the world as a cartoon might be great.
Friend B: I recommend a dosage of 200mcg.
Because cancer is clearly not a big deal.
And yet, it's a larger threat than airliner terrorism.
There was a story a few years back about a university (Scandinavia?) that spends the winter pumping water to freeze into a giant block on one part of campus, and then come summer, they just pump coolant through the block as it melts.
Pumping water is apparently much cheaper than traditional cooling.
Less than GWB, the most frequent vacationer president of all time?
Nah, he was always playing golf or clearing brush for the cameras. Michelle rents out castles in Spain for her and her 400 most-trusted advisors.
Magnitude vs. frequency (ignoring that one is actually an elected office). Both are the 1% anyway.
"Not to my knowledge" "We don't discuss operational details", etc.
Oh, just shut up, pay, and obey the 1% already!
Anybody know how broad Google's map/reduce patents are?
It's been said that the whole reason Oracle bought Sun was to clobber Google with the Java patents so they could cross-license the map/reduce patents and get back to an Oracle database that could scale.
Regardless, corporations should just release their software and fight it out in court later (sorry, real people, you can't play) but now that this is out, things might get more interesting in the patent wars.
Get a used phone and sign up for Page Plus Cellular.
Would the gov't approach Apple to spy on your phone?
They might, but without being a wireless carrier, there aren't already laws that force them to do so.
They might cooperate, the government might go USAPATRIOT on them, but it's not quite so cut-and-dry.
the idea of a carrier pushing through a wifi network with enough coverage space is laughable.
Yeah, but a hybrid design could have worked and been good for market tie-in.
"Free calls near a Mac" was something I posted about here soon after the iPhone was introduced. I thought it would increase the sales of both.
But, I think the AT&T contract probably prevented that, and by time it had gone non-exclusive Jobs had decided to kill the Macintosh line.
It's been down and flat since 2000.
And it's a Dollar-denominated stock, so you have to adjust for inflation as well ("oddly", Yahoo! doesn't offer that as a charting option).
Maybe some enterprising people can make it work for them.
If it outputs to HTML5 and the input can be generated by multiple programs, it might be worth using.
I went to a demo in Boston when Flex was just released and I have to admit it looked very cool. Then I learned it was soup-to-nuts proprietary and went on to the other sessions.
What if the website operator violates the terms?
I have a bunch of spam sitting here in my 'abuse' folder with the unique e-mail I gave to Asics in 2004 when I bought some shoes. Their privacy policy clearly says they won't sell my address but they surely did.
I tried complaining to the e-mail address in the privacy policy (it bounces) and via Twitter (it was ignored).
Anybody ever try to enforce the CAN-SPAM Act against a website operator for violation of a privacy policy? I read something about $16,000 per infraction.
My daughter come home from 2nd Grade every week with a list of 'sight-words' to focus on - that is, words that were intended to be immediately recognized, not sounded out.
Glad modern science has caught up with elementary school.
OK, here's a thread to post the links to all the haters' comments where they guaranteed that Google had gone Evil and would never release ICS source.
Granted, I full well expect six people will rebuff, stating that since 4.0.1 was released but not 4.0.0 that they were precisely correct and that this is proof of Google's evil intentions.