Nobody knows who I am, but I've been there since they were RackShack. I used to run a web-hosting company, and I had my customers on there, but I moved most of them off to other companies when I shut my company down in '04. Maybe this will be the incentive to get the rest moved off. Mules and 2x4's and all that...
From what they were saying (I'm a customer, with both servers in that datacenter) it was a high-voltage transformer, so it might very well have been one that size. They did say it was much larger than the kind on power poles, but not indication of exactly how much it was handling. This is probably one of those times when architecture and esthetics took primary status over safety when the building was built. I would have thought a transformer as large as what blew up would be outside the building proper. At any rate, it's a major fustercluck that's going to take time to fix.
Maybe in the post-mortem, someone will figure out it's time to start looking at ways to use less power, maybe switching to servers that use the lower-power CPUs that are coming out, so that the very high power infrastructure isn't as necessary. I have a feeling there'll be a "fire sale" on server subscriptions once a lot of customers leave (I'm not one of them, but I will likely swap one of mine for another at another location, much much later).
There's not as much area when you move further north, so it's not surprising that the peoples up there would interact more. There's probably been some interaction with the Ainu people of Japan, too, due to many Caucasoid traits they have. The one thing about Homo Sapiens is, we tend to move around a lot.
Exactly my thought. ITER is costing US$ 9.3 billion. This costs 0.006% as much. If it is more than 0.006% as likely to work, then it's probably a good use of money. That reasoning works when you only consider one fringe idea. What happens if you try to fund *all* of them? You get "Ice IV" bridges on Jupiter, "spindizzies" and "Cities in Flight"?
Japan's birthrate has been dropping, and the number of young kids entering school as well. Fewer students means fewer engineering students, fewer doctors, fewer nurses, fewer firemen, etc. Japan and Europe are going to be hard-pressed to keep up their standards of living with shrinking enrollments. It will hit the US sometime later, although we seem to be okay with the "boomer echo" generation.
You know, this might have made more sense if someone had done an "Animal Planet" and tranqued him, to kind of slow his mouth down until his brain caught up.
I read through this twice, and I'm still not sure what his point was.
Like an earlier poster, I've been on the Internet for a long, long time (since early '89), and I've always known that no communication over the Internet is "private" unless it's encrypted, and even then the packets are always subject to copying. It's the way TCP/IP is set up, you have no control over where the packets get routed, and you have no control over what each router along each packet's path is allowed to do with those packets. Anyone who ever thought that the Internet was somehow "private" was either misguided or ignorant. Why do you think there was always a warning about sending passwords through email?
There are whole counties in Kentucky where even beer and wine are illegal. Google the phrase "dry county" and "wet-dry elections" and you'll see where. I know first-hand, because I grew up in one, city of Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky.
What was always interesting was how often the bootleggers sided with the preachers to keep the county dry, every time they held a vote.
Check the back of your next airplane ticket, or the folder it's in. Once you enter an airport, you are no longer on US territory, you are in international territory, and you aren't protected by the US Constitution. Therefore, anything that is permissible in international law is permitted by airport authorities, and you don't have the protections against abuse that the Constitution provides. I learned that in the 80's, well before the idea of hijacking an airplane to use as a weapon came about.
A lot of people don't realize that 3G is not necessarily 3G, since Japan is the only one that does 3G protocol over a frequency no other country uses. I got suckered by this when I bought my LG 3G phone at Cingular (later AT&T) and was assured that it would work in Japan. I found out that no US 3G phone will work in Japan, and I believe it's illegal to do so, due to the frequencies used. Likewise, I'm pretty sure you can't use a Japanese-legal phone in the US due to that frequency not being open for use here. Until Apple offers a really international iPhone, I'm holding off buying one. I can always rent one when I got to Japan.
I actually do believe in parallel universes (given that our own material space is but a single brane along higher dimensions), but I highly doubt that the laws of physics that exist in a parallel universe (or even a brane at a different "angle") would be similar enough to our own to allow for even a few femtoseconds of experience in the new world.
Please forgive me, but I can't help it: "Brane and brane, what is brane?"
I've often felt my brane was at a different angle than most...
Actually, they didn't all have valid visas, some had expired. Others bought ID at the 7-11 in Falls Church down near Seven Corners shopping center. Bought from the same kind folks that sell fake IDs to illegal aliens.
And our current "security theater" is as absurd as the "tollbooth scene" in "Blazing Saddles".
Because some of us are old enough to have been taught history in school. I remember standing at 11:11 and being silent for 2 minutes, and seeing poppies all around on November 11. Of course back then WWII had only been over for 20 years and WWI had been over for less than 50, so there were lots of veterans around, memories were still fresh for them, and they felt the lessons they learned were needed to be passed along.
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Nobody knows who I am, but I've been there since they were RackShack. I used to run a web-hosting company, and I had my customers on there, but I moved most of them off to other companies when I shut my company down in '04. Maybe this will be the incentive to get the rest moved off. Mules and 2x4's and all that...
From what they were saying (I'm a customer, with both servers in that datacenter) it was a high-voltage transformer, so it might very well have been one that size. They did say it was much larger than the kind on power poles, but not indication of exactly how much it was handling. This is probably one of those times when architecture and esthetics took primary status over safety when the building was built. I would have thought a transformer as large as what blew up would be outside the building proper. At any rate, it's a major fustercluck that's going to take time to fix.
Maybe in the post-mortem, someone will figure out it's time to start looking at ways to use less power, maybe switching to servers that use the lower-power CPUs that are coming out, so that the very high power infrastructure isn't as necessary. I have a feeling there'll be a "fire sale" on server subscriptions once a lot of customers leave (I'm not one of them, but I will likely swap one of mine for another at another location, much much later).
There's not as much area when you move further north, so it's not surprising that the peoples up there would interact more. There's probably been some interaction with the Ainu people of Japan, too, due to many Caucasoid traits they have. The one thing about Homo Sapiens is, we tend to move around a lot.
Japan's birthrate has been dropping, and the number of young kids entering school as well. Fewer students means fewer engineering students, fewer doctors, fewer nurses, fewer firemen, etc. Japan and Europe are going to be hard-pressed to keep up their standards of living with shrinking enrollments. It will hit the US sometime later, although we seem to be okay with the "boomer echo" generation.
And then we can start building those jumpgates and go looking for Centauri and Narn and Vorlons and build Babylon 1 and ...
You know, this might have made more sense if someone had done an "Animal Planet" and tranqued him, to kind of slow his mouth down until his brain caught up.
I read through this twice, and I'm still not sure what his point was.
We do often go out on a limb...
They're just working to get a leg up on the competition.
Hm.
Simply taking elementary graphics, applying new, obfuscatory, generally reliable algorithms processed heuristically, you utilize secure, effective Internet technology.
Wasn't That Fun?
Like an earlier poster, I've been on the Internet for a long, long time (since early '89), and I've always known that no communication over the Internet is "private" unless it's encrypted, and even then the packets are always subject to copying. It's the way TCP/IP is set up, you have no control over where the packets get routed, and you have no control over what each router along each packet's path is allowed to do with those packets. Anyone who ever thought that the Internet was somehow "private" was either misguided or ignorant. Why do you think there was always a warning about sending passwords through email?
Ron Paul!
There are whole counties in Kentucky where even beer and wine are illegal. Google the phrase "dry county" and "wet-dry elections" and you'll see where. I know first-hand, because I grew up in one, city of Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky.
What was always interesting was how often the bootleggers sided with the preachers to keep the county dry, every time they held a vote.
Gollum was a hobbit, too.
I believe that would BE Beowulf...
Check the back of your next airplane ticket, or the folder it's in. Once you enter an airport, you are no longer on US territory, you are in international territory, and you aren't protected by the US Constitution. Therefore, anything that is permissible in international law is permitted by airport authorities, and you don't have the protections against abuse that the Constitution provides. I learned that in the 80's, well before the idea of hijacking an airplane to use as a weapon came about.
A lot of people don't realize that 3G is not necessarily 3G, since Japan is the only one that does 3G protocol over a frequency no other country uses. I got suckered by this when I bought my LG 3G phone at Cingular (later AT&T) and was assured that it would work in Japan. I found out that no US 3G phone will work in Japan, and I believe it's illegal to do so, due to the frequencies used. Likewise, I'm pretty sure you can't use a Japanese-legal phone in the US due to that frequency not being open for use here. Until Apple offers a really international iPhone, I'm holding off buying one. I can always rent one when I got to Japan.
Excellent!
Please forgive me, but I can't help it: "Brane and brane, what is brane?"
I've often felt my brane was at a different angle than most...
DO NOT WANT!
I don't know, that trans-Pacific train line might be a bit problematic:
"All aboard, for Oahu, Guam and Ok......kinawa!"
(I don't know how many will recognize that, but oh well...)
"Werewolf!"
"There, wolf. There castle."
Actually, they didn't all have valid visas, some had expired. Others bought ID at the 7-11 in Falls Church down near Seven Corners shopping center. Bought from the same kind folks that sell fake IDs to illegal aliens.
And our current "security theater" is as absurd as the "tollbooth scene" in "Blazing Saddles".
Because some of us are old enough to have been taught history in school. I remember standing at 11:11 and being silent for 2 minutes, and seeing poppies all around on November 11. Of course back then WWII had only been over for 20 years and WWI had been over for less than 50, so there were lots of veterans around, memories were still fresh for them, and they felt the lessons they learned were needed to be passed along.
Third base!