So this means he'll have to do a RAID array of punch tape.
Also, he's going to need a warehouse to store it. So it's going to cost a few million at the least to make really, really sure a hard drive doesn't go down.
This is Slashdot, until someone makes a Beowulf cluster of punch-card processing machines, we can't call ourselves geeks!
And, someone needs to compute how many punchcards it would take to back up Google. Oh yeah, I'll just google that;
Let's assume Google has a storage capacity of 15 exabytes, or 15,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. A punch card can hold about 80 characters, and a box of cards holds 2000 cards. 15 exabytes of punch cards would be enough to cover my home region, New England, to a depth of about 4.5 kilometers. That's three times deeper than the ice sheets that covered the region during the last advance of the glaciers.
I think acting like a human and making course corrections is why "some" of my fellow Americans have issues with the French. They mistrust and fear that thing called empathy and reflection.
The income range to be considered middle class:$25,500 – $76,500
The median middle class household income in 2012: $51,017 and in 1989: $51,681
Year inflation-adjusted median household income peaked at $56,080: 1999
Income needed in a two parent, two child home in St. Louis for an adequate living standard: $64,673 and in New York City: $94,676
The Problem
Share of self-described middle-class adults who say it’s more difficult now than a decade ago for middle-class people to maintain their standard of living: 85
85% say it's harder. I'd say another large chunk are kidding themselves. 99% might be a slight exaggeration -- but not by much.
Then there is the productivity increase (which means they need fewer workers) coupled with reduced pay -- and we can look at record corporate profits and know that it is not an equitable distribution.
This "Economics of Envy" title really pisses me off. What a smug point of view. The people who are doing great with the current system, will be really surprised one day when a rich person has to hire mercenaries with machine guns to protect their home. Escort their kids to private schools in bullet proof cars.
Other countries that have a huge wealth inequality do experience "trickle down" but it's usually as a ransom payment to return a loved one unharmed. There is buying and selling of guns and bullet proof cars as well to stimulate the economy.
Use all your economic matrixes or reasoned arguments. Blame problems on lax whatever or "the kids these days." The mob almost went extinct for a time but now we've got large street gangs and I suppose organized crime will be coming back because the justice system doesn't work for the "average" citizen. You remove those "overpaid union jobs" and -- surprise, surprise you get street gangs. "People shouldn't have kids if they can't afford it." Yeah, that's easy talk and not reality -- less money usually means more kids all over the planet.
The fact is, for most people, the standard of living and opportunity is going down. The Gazelles are fine to get a windfall -- the problem isn't in the horse trading. Of course the problem isn't just ONE issue of people making a lot of money in a company purchase. It's a lot of big money chasing big money and none of it helping the vast majority who will never be part of the Gazelle lottery.
There's an easy solution to this, or we can continue listening the Libertarian principles as if we all haven't heard these tropes since Adam Smith rolled over in his grave for hackneyed economics tailored to the rich. Someone will make a profit selling guns and one day someone will get one stuck in their face and all their intellectual arguments on how "this should be working great for you, young school kid with a record and no future -- maybe you haven't heard about being motivated, staying in school and getting your company bought by Facebook?" That of course, will get you shot as well as mugged, but good luck with that.
That was the argument for the past 40 years. And all boats have not lifted.
The entire problem is not represented with overpaying for a little software company and a few individuals getting the benefit. The problem is constantly rewarding the rewarded. People with opportunity and education do creative things because it is rewarding and make choices based on rewards available.
We just need to transfer wealth from those with a lot to everyone else -- like we did when America was the greatest economic power and had the best education.
Is everyone now going to treat this as complicated and cherry picking little points like "water is lost"?
The point is that eating meat, especially beef uses up a lot of water. The feedstock for cattle also uses up a lot of water. There is only so much fresh water to go around. Yes, we cannot know ALL the impact humans have, but MORE impact is more impact. Getting an idea of the numbers involved helps people make decisions -- better. We can know that something is a factor of ten more impact -- then we can adjust.
Nuclear energy also uses a lot of water. So does fracking. Often discussion are just in terms of relative pollution or cost, but the impact of nuclear or oil doesn't stop with just one or two measures -- there is an entire chain of impacts. So meat has the feed and the animal -- where the chain for plants is not only farming but also the pesticides and fertilizer.
We have to look at the world as having finite resources now, and we have to say; "What's the best use of such and such with this cost?" If we start publishing the water usage of materials, foods and other things -- people can make conscious decisions. Vegetarianism has a smaller water and energy footprint. It's not that complicated. What do we do with this information is what is important -- and making people aware.
I won't stop eating meat, but I might just eat it once or twice a week
Ants lay down scent trails and have an intrinsic amount of deviation from a path. Over the course of ants going too and from a location, they will reinforce "better" paths -- not the most ideal because they cannot see the path or get a birds-eye view, but the combination of re-enforcing scent trails and adding deviations to the route build in a mechanism for improvement.
So collecting this kind of data will be useful for the biker to get better paths, and to find new interesting locations. And it will help planners to see where they can build locations.
To be more subtle; you create foods that render a population impotent in 3 generations -- irreversible after the 2nd generation has been weened on it due to transferrable chromosomal damage.
You'd make these seeds and gene modified animals grow faster, to outcompete the non-GMO foods.
I mean, if I were truly evil and out to destroy humans, I would consider Monsanto and ADM as superior to Skynet for ridding myself of pesky humans.
America did two great things; Drove out the royals and wrote the Constitution -- a model for real liberty the world over that was adopted and expanded by many other nations. And the other would be; the New Deal where Socialism made America the "Capitalist haven" from 1940 - 1980 that idiots say was entirely the result of the "free market."
So now you want to bring back the Tories who promoted class privilege?.. well I suppose it was only a matter of time. Can I hear a "whoop whoop" for Toxic waste? Someone around here has to be a fan of that.
"from the better informed perspective of Americans today" Better informed has to be another word for "reads propaganda from Think Tanks." And Slashdot needs a "Scary comment we all hope is parody" tag.
I think this completely nails the real agenda with the NSA.
The status quo abuse by Multinationals to reduce labor costs and resource expenditures requires a guarantee that "we the people" don't get in the way of their agenda.
The NSA is designed so that "no Founding Fathers" can ever spring up again in the USA.
I'm waiting for some genetic engineering to make a more complacent America. Likely it won't be all bad -- your "calm genes" will also help you be "Roundup Ready". The poisons that take out trouble-making Americans and weeds won't be hurting you as much.
Snowden's evidence of MANY instances of wrong-doing at the NSA is merely more evidence that he is picking on them.
It's really great that he keeps spooning out the damning evidence every other week. Instead of being honest, they keep jumping from one position to the next -- and then the next document release proves the lie to the position they staked out.
It's like Snowden is Global Warming and "did the scientists factor in that the Sun is hot?" is the latest talking point. There's going to have to be a new term for "getting owned". We are so lucky to get a hero who is this savvy.
The pro vaccination crowd seems to treat opposition as an assault on SCIENCE -- when it's really that we've got drug companies in charge of the studies today, and we have a huge credibility gap.
Now people are suggesting we FORCE parents to give kids vaccinations. You put a gun to someone's head to force them to do something, they are going to lose confidence in the health benefits just on principle. I see a new black market in fake vaccine documents in the near future if people lead with authoritarianism rather than getting rid of corruption at the FDA and giving it some real power to verify claims of drug companies again.
I see a lot more "railroading" and name calling with the pro-vaccine crowd. I don't have a blanket opposition to Vaccines, but I'm going with my own judgement that "early" vaccination maybe has been too ambitious before the 'blood brain" barrier develops in children.
I also think that people can no longer trust the FDA and the drug community -- and I don't say that as someone who is anti science, I say that as someone who has a great appreciation for hubris and the fact that profits come before truth. Lots of dangerous meds have gotten out and had cover-ups.
If we can't bring Bankers to prison for drug laundering and losing billions -- then how can we trust what we are "told" by authorities that turn a blind eye?
So yeah, I'm not "anti vax" -- I'm just not going to take any at all,unless I damn well have to. Anecdotally, my #1 health improvement was to reduce consumption of wheat and now I haven't even had a cold in 3 years. I used to take flu vaccines and get walking pneumonia about every 6 months. It had absolutely no use in preventing the flu for me.
This isn't like Climate Science or Engineering -- it's a more vague and complex system. And claims to how awesome vaccines are without good studies and well, authority figures with credibility are of course backfiring.
The trust is gone -- a few sniffles are the least of our problems.
I'm not a real fan of compulsory things like this.
We have this really, really powerful drug lobby in this country and what's to say in the future, they don't push out some drug that isn't effective, but they've already built this super cool; "Do this or you aren't a citizen" drug ordinance.
The bigger problem here is the blanket "immunizations are good for you" when maybe certain vaccines like Small Pox have a great track record, and other's like the flu vaccine might just be pre-selecting for people who can afford vaccines.
You do know that the "food pyramid" was "shaped" by industry lobbyists don't you? It's why we had that wretched "grains" as the huge base a while ago. Now it's vertical striped so each group can get it's due. You can however throw out the dairy column as you can live your whole live after the first few months without dairy.
If we look at the Paleo diet (the one humans had for a long time), then fruits, nuts and occasional meat -- that's what we are designed for. Grains are "nice" but the Corn, Soy and Wheat we have today is so toxic with Gluten and other formations that it's hardly a "health food" though if you eat it moderately and exercise -- it should be OK for most (but not all) people. Veggies are also a good addition.
So it should be fruit, nuts, beans, veggies -- and maybe Meat. The rest is market driven nonsense.
Yes but what is actually tweaking hormones? Perhaps it's the stomach bacteria itself.
Now I might get no positive karma like this and treated like a homeopath, but I predict that the future of dieting will be gut bacteria transplants, and then you will "crave" foods that are good for you. The correct bacteria will tweak your hormones and you will not be addicted to alcohol, or sugar, or chocolate -- no more blaming people for being "weak", no more fatty jokes, no more diet plans for the stars.
The bacteria that live inside us have had millions of generations to tweak our compulsions -- and they release the endorphins to reward us for sugar, fat, salt and meat.
Well I suppose in order for the Broadcasters to maintain the fiction of being broadcasters, they have to broadcast -- but they make money now with a subscription and commercials and syndication.
Having someone RECEIVE the signal and make it easy for you to get the programming -- well, that flies in the face of burying the broadcast signal in the basement, in a filing cabinet, with a sign posted "tiger might kill you."
And a Copyright is a Copy Legacy, to bequeathed to those with the blood of the line of Disney, or the house of Time Warner. Don't look for the barony of News Corp however, in 20 years they drop the pretense and just call themselves House Harkonnen and they will have the spice channel on exclusive contract.
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So this means he'll have to do a RAID array of punch tape.
Also, he's going to need a warehouse to store it. So it's going to cost a few million at the least to make really, really sure a hard drive doesn't go down.
This is Slashdot, until someone makes a Beowulf cluster of punch-card processing machines, we can't call ourselves geeks!
And, someone needs to compute how many punchcards it would take to back up Google. Oh yeah, I'll just google that;
Let's assume Google has a storage capacity of 15 exabytes, or 15,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. A punch card can hold about 80 characters, and a box of cards holds 2000 cards. 15 exabytes of punch cards would be enough to cover my home region, New England, to a depth of about 4.5 kilometers. That's three times deeper than the ice sheets that covered the region during the last advance of the glaciers.
http://gizmodo.com/if-data-was...
I think it's important to know that Google's data would be three times thicker than the glaciers during the ice age. It's strangely comforting.
70 TB tape backup; http://www.zdnet.com/blog/stor...
No this was from "Silk Road." It just took a while to find the bitcoin in the virtual sofa. Damn that Simms game has gotten laggy.
I think acting like a human and making course corrections is why "some" of my fellow Americans have issues with the French. They mistrust and fear that thing called empathy and reflection.
Yeah, that's what I figured as well.
Can't you just feel the respect from these spooks?
Well I found that median income (adjusted for inflation) is down over the past 15 years;
http://billmoyers.com/2013/09/...
The income range to be considered middle class:$25,500 – $76,500
The median middle class household income in 2012: $51,017
and in 1989: $51,681
Year inflation-adjusted median household income peaked at $56,080: 1999
Income needed in a two parent, two child home in St. Louis for an adequate living standard: $64,673
and in New York City: $94,676
The Problem
Share of self-described middle-class adults who say it’s more difficult now than a decade ago for middle-class people to maintain their standard of living: 85
85% say it's harder. I'd say another large chunk are kidding themselves. 99% might be a slight exaggeration -- but not by much.
Then there is the productivity increase (which means they need fewer workers) coupled with reduced pay -- and we can look at record corporate profits and know that it is not an equitable distribution.
This "Economics of Envy" title really pisses me off. What a smug point of view. The people who are doing great with the current system, will be really surprised one day when a rich person has to hire mercenaries with machine guns to protect their home. Escort their kids to private schools in bullet proof cars.
Other countries that have a huge wealth inequality do experience "trickle down" but it's usually as a ransom payment to return a loved one unharmed. There is buying and selling of guns and bullet proof cars as well to stimulate the economy.
Use all your economic matrixes or reasoned arguments. Blame problems on lax whatever or "the kids these days." The mob almost went extinct for a time but now we've got large street gangs and I suppose organized crime will be coming back because the justice system doesn't work for the "average" citizen. You remove those "overpaid union jobs" and -- surprise, surprise you get street gangs. "People shouldn't have kids if they can't afford it." Yeah, that's easy talk and not reality -- less money usually means more kids all over the planet.
The fact is, for most people, the standard of living and opportunity is going down. The Gazelles are fine to get a windfall -- the problem isn't in the horse trading. Of course the problem isn't just ONE issue of people making a lot of money in a company purchase. It's a lot of big money chasing big money and none of it helping the vast majority who will never be part of the Gazelle lottery.
There's an easy solution to this, or we can continue listening the Libertarian principles as if we all haven't heard these tropes since Adam Smith rolled over in his grave for hackneyed economics tailored to the rich. Someone will make a profit selling guns and one day someone will get one stuck in their face and all their intellectual arguments on how "this should be working great for you, young school kid with a record and no future -- maybe you haven't heard about being motivated, staying in school and getting your company bought by Facebook?" That of course, will get you shot as well as mugged, but good luck with that.
That was the argument for the past 40 years. And all boats have not lifted.
The entire problem is not represented with overpaying for a little software company and a few individuals getting the benefit. The problem is constantly rewarding the rewarded. People with opportunity and education do creative things because it is rewarding and make choices based on rewards available.
We just need to transfer wealth from those with a lot to everyone else -- like we did when America was the greatest economic power and had the best education.
Is everyone now going to treat this as complicated and cherry picking little points like "water is lost"?
The point is that eating meat, especially beef uses up a lot of water. The feedstock for cattle also uses up a lot of water. There is only so much fresh water to go around. Yes, we cannot know ALL the impact humans have, but MORE impact is more impact. Getting an idea of the numbers involved helps people make decisions -- better. We can know that something is a factor of ten more impact -- then we can adjust.
Nuclear energy also uses a lot of water. So does fracking. Often discussion are just in terms of relative pollution or cost, but the impact of nuclear or oil doesn't stop with just one or two measures -- there is an entire chain of impacts. So meat has the feed and the animal -- where the chain for plants is not only farming but also the pesticides and fertilizer.
We have to look at the world as having finite resources now, and we have to say; "What's the best use of such and such with this cost?" If we start publishing the water usage of materials, foods and other things -- people can make conscious decisions. Vegetarianism has a smaller water and energy footprint. It's not that complicated. What do we do with this information is what is important -- and making people aware.
I won't stop eating meat, but I might just eat it once or twice a week
Ants lay down scent trails and have an intrinsic amount of deviation from a path. Over the course of ants going too and from a location, they will reinforce "better" paths -- not the most ideal because they cannot see the path or get a birds-eye view, but the combination of re-enforcing scent trails and adding deviations to the route build in a mechanism for improvement.
So collecting this kind of data will be useful for the biker to get better paths, and to find new interesting locations. And it will help planners to see where they can build locations.
To be more subtle; you create foods that render a population impotent in 3 generations -- irreversible after the 2nd generation has been weened on it due to transferrable chromosomal damage.
You'd make these seeds and gene modified animals grow faster, to outcompete the non-GMO foods.
I mean, if I were truly evil and out to destroy humans, I would consider Monsanto and ADM as superior to Skynet for ridding myself of pesky humans.
Replace "robot" with "noble industrialist" and you've got a compelling explanation for Globalization.
It's still cheaper to raise humans to act like sex robots;
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/...
Tax dollars used to fund schools by a mechanism called "taxes."
Schools are stupid because we've got stupid people on school boards being elected on wedge issues. The Corporate funded schools aren't any better.
America did two great things; Drove out the royals and wrote the Constitution -- a model for real liberty the world over that was adopted and expanded by many other nations. And the other would be; the New Deal where Socialism made America the "Capitalist haven" from 1940 - 1980 that idiots say was entirely the result of the "free market."
So now you want to bring back the Tories who promoted class privilege? .. well I suppose it was only a matter of time. Can I hear a "whoop whoop" for Toxic waste? Someone around here has to be a fan of that.
"from the better informed perspective of Americans today"
Better informed has to be another word for "reads propaganda from Think Tanks." And Slashdot needs a "Scary comment we all hope is parody" tag.
I think this completely nails the real agenda with the NSA.
The status quo abuse by Multinationals to reduce labor costs and resource expenditures requires a guarantee that "we the people" don't get in the way of their agenda.
The NSA is designed so that "no Founding Fathers" can ever spring up again in the USA.
I'm waiting for some genetic engineering to make a more complacent America. Likely it won't be all bad -- your "calm genes" will also help you be "Roundup Ready". The poisons that take out trouble-making Americans and weeds won't be hurting you as much.
Snowden's evidence of MANY instances of wrong-doing at the NSA is merely more evidence that he is picking on them.
It's really great that he keeps spooning out the damning evidence every other week. Instead of being honest, they keep jumping from one position to the next -- and then the next document release proves the lie to the position they staked out.
It's like Snowden is Global Warming and "did the scientists factor in that the Sun is hot?" is the latest talking point. There's going to have to be a new term for "getting owned". We are so lucky to get a hero who is this savvy.
The pro vaccination crowd seems to treat opposition as an assault on SCIENCE -- when it's really that we've got drug companies in charge of the studies today, and we have a huge credibility gap.
Now people are suggesting we FORCE parents to give kids vaccinations. You put a gun to someone's head to force them to do something, they are going to lose confidence in the health benefits just on principle. I see a new black market in fake vaccine documents in the near future if people lead with authoritarianism rather than getting rid of corruption at the FDA and giving it some real power to verify claims of drug companies again.
I see a lot more "railroading" and name calling with the pro-vaccine crowd. I don't have a blanket opposition to Vaccines, but I'm going with my own judgement that "early" vaccination maybe has been too ambitious before the 'blood brain" barrier develops in children.
I also think that people can no longer trust the FDA and the drug community -- and I don't say that as someone who is anti science, I say that as someone who has a great appreciation for hubris and the fact that profits come before truth. Lots of dangerous meds have gotten out and had cover-ups.
If we can't bring Bankers to prison for drug laundering and losing billions -- then how can we trust what we are "told" by authorities that turn a blind eye?
So yeah, I'm not "anti vax" -- I'm just not going to take any at all,unless I damn well have to. Anecdotally, my #1 health improvement was to reduce consumption of wheat and now I haven't even had a cold in 3 years. I used to take flu vaccines and get walking pneumonia about every 6 months. It had absolutely no use in preventing the flu for me.
This isn't like Climate Science or Engineering -- it's a more vague and complex system. And claims to how awesome vaccines are without good studies and well, authority figures with credibility are of course backfiring.
The trust is gone -- a few sniffles are the least of our problems.
I'm not a real fan of compulsory things like this.
We have this really, really powerful drug lobby in this country and what's to say in the future, they don't push out some drug that isn't effective, but they've already built this super cool; "Do this or you aren't a citizen" drug ordinance.
The bigger problem here is the blanket "immunizations are good for you" when maybe certain vaccines like Small Pox have a great track record, and other's like the flu vaccine might just be pre-selecting for people who can afford vaccines.
You do know that the "food pyramid" was "shaped" by industry lobbyists don't you? It's why we had that wretched "grains" as the huge base a while ago. Now it's vertical striped so each group can get it's due. You can however throw out the dairy column as you can live your whole live after the first few months without dairy.
If we look at the Paleo diet (the one humans had for a long time), then fruits, nuts and occasional meat -- that's what we are designed for. Grains are "nice" but the Corn, Soy and Wheat we have today is so toxic with Gluten and other formations that it's hardly a "health food" though if you eat it moderately and exercise -- it should be OK for most (but not all) people. Veggies are also a good addition.
So it should be fruit, nuts, beans, veggies -- and maybe Meat. The rest is market driven nonsense.
Yes but what is actually tweaking hormones? Perhaps it's the stomach bacteria itself.
Now I might get no positive karma like this and treated like a homeopath, but I predict that the future of dieting will be gut bacteria transplants, and then you will "crave" foods that are good for you. The correct bacteria will tweak your hormones and you will not be addicted to alcohol, or sugar, or chocolate -- no more blaming people for being "weak", no more fatty jokes, no more diet plans for the stars.
The bacteria that live inside us have had millions of generations to tweak our compulsions -- and they release the endorphins to reward us for sugar, fat, salt and meat.
Well I suppose in order for the Broadcasters to maintain the fiction of being broadcasters, they have to broadcast -- but they make money now with a subscription and commercials and syndication.
Having someone RECEIVE the signal and make it easy for you to get the programming -- well, that flies in the face of burying the broadcast signal in the basement, in a filing cabinet, with a sign posted "tiger might kill you."
And a Copyright is a Copy Legacy, to bequeathed to those with the blood of the line of Disney, or the house of Time Warner. Don't look for the barony of News Corp however, in 20 years they drop the pretense and just call themselves House Harkonnen and they will have the spice channel on exclusive contract.
Is it $100 each time, or is that $100 for the development kit?