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  1. Re:still to expensive for me on Amazon Wants To Replace Tape With Slow But Cheap Off-Site "Glacier" Storage · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't we be able to do 5 hours to first byte, four hour delivery SLA, do you think it take more than an hour to put a tape into a load port and have the robot import and inventory it? Also I don't have the numbers handy but I know it's WAY less than $30k/month for the offsite storage, we were looking at $.75/tape for permanent withdraw and it was going to save us less than storing them for two years.

  2. Re:still to expensive for me on Amazon Wants To Replace Tape With Slow But Cheap Off-Site "Glacier" Storage · · Score: 1

    I have to pay that for someone to go pull my tape right now, and someone to drive it directly to me. We have a need for a same day restore maybe once a year so it's not a big expense and once we go to D2D2T the need goes away completely unless the datacenter has blown up and the replica hasn't worked and the replicated backup hasn't worked (aka nobody cares what it costs to pull the tape). I have some 6k LTO3/4 tapes offsite, what would that cost in Glacier again?

  3. Re:still to expensive for me on Amazon Wants To Replace Tape With Slow But Cheap Off-Site "Glacier" Storage · · Score: 1

    We spend in the same range, two hour delivery at $80 per delivery, four hour is somewhat less, NBD is included since we have tapes moving in and out every workday.

  4. Re:still to expensive for me on Amazon Wants To Replace Tape With Slow But Cheap Off-Site "Glacier" Storage · · Score: 1

    Wow, I figure 1.5x physical capacity for FULL tapes, realistically we're below physical capacity since only weekly fulls backups end up with a significant percentage of full tapes. We backup a mix of databases, email, file, and system drives. What kind of backups are you guys running that you get such high compression rates?

  5. Re:Here I come. on Near-universal Mexican Healthcare Coverage Results From Science-informed Changes · · Score: 4, Informative

    Uh, by just about every objective standard the US is one of the lowest developed nation when it comes to healthcare outcomes is and absolutely the worst when it comes to outcome per dollar spent. How anyone who has ever been involved with the US system of healthcare providers and insurance companies could want to keep it is beyond me.

  6. Re:Another reason... on Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking · · Score: 1

    Apple's revenue comes from selling ads? Oracle's does? IBM's does?

  7. Re:not worth it in most cases on IEEE Seeks Consensus on Ethernet Transfer Speed Standard · · Score: 1

    Perhaps more importantly when you combine storage, VM migration, and network traffic onto a pair of interfaces 10Gb is often barely enough and really requires some type of QoS so that migration traffic doesn't starve network or more importantly storage traffic.

  8. Re:Another reason... on Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking · · Score: 1

    Expecting random DNS servers to respect TTL is incompetence if you work in the real world. Whenever I make a DNS change on the public internet I expect that a certain percentage of clients will not be able to reach the new destination for up to 72 hours. Of course if your clients are competent enough to modify a HOST file then you can probably just tell them to point their DNS client at Google's anycast DNS servers which respect TTL.

  9. Re:A new version of Super Mario Bros 2? on Review: New Super Mario Bros. 2 Illustrates Nintendo's Greatest Problem · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought! I'm still not sure if I like SMB2 or SMB3 better, but a graphical update of either would likely be better than NSMB2.

  10. Re:Recourse on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 1

    Actually in the US the current law of the land is that binding arbitration clauses in contracts are are in fact binding. It's the second worst ruling of the Roberts court after Citizens United.

  11. Re:Here's where I see it on Is Windows 8 Microsoft's Riskiest Bet? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The problem is that Windows 8 DOES offer a lot of enterprise features (SMB 3, Powershell 3, Windows to go, fast boot, secure boot, among others) but most shops will forgo those due to the horror of trying to spring "Modern UI" on their users.

  12. Re:ask for more than that on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't ask for additional money because you're unlikely to get it and because you did get use of the service for a period of time.

  13. Re:Recourse on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd file in small claims court for the original amount paid. If they don't send a representative you win a default judgement and send them a letter including the court document link. If they don't pay you turn them over to a collection agency (trust me NO company wants a collection agency showing up in a credit report).

  14. Re: progress on GCC Switches From C to C++ · · Score: 1

    Ah, I see you're a conservative software engineer.

  15. Re:Oh, the delicious irony! on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not his opinion, he works in information warfare aka he's a paid troll. It's not about disagreeing with his position it's about the fact that we once again have an official propaganda office which is targeting American citizens.

  16. Re:Mighty broad definition of "language" there on Khan Academy Launches Computer Science Curriculum · · Score: 1

    damn autocorrect...

  17. Re:Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond... on BBC Delivered 2.8PB On Busiest Olympics Day, Reaching 700Gb/s As Wiggo Won Gold · · Score: 1

    Huh? The 720p feeds were around 6.5Mbps. I did have to use FF as the builtin flash plugin for Chrome didn't want to use hardware acceleration for some reason so it was jumpy as all get out, the Adobe plugin used through FF was as smooth as you can expect from a live event (the archived footage was as smooth as any other stream HD content IME).

  18. Re:Mighty broad definition of "language" there on Khan Academy Launches Computer Science Curriculum · · Score: 1

    LOGO, then BASIC then whatever you want but that's the way I'm planning to teach my son. LOGO gives instant gratification and BASIC is well, as easy to understand as a Turning complete language can probably be.

  19. Re:QR on Alternative To QR Code Uses NFC and Cheap Rectennas · · Score: 1

    We used QR codes to check in users at an industry conference. The users just presented a printed invitation or placed their phone or tablet under the scanner and it brought up the checkin URL on the receptionists machine which automatically informed the person they were having the meeting with that their guest had arrived. Very clever and MUCH faster than the process used at previous conferences.

  20. Re:Missing the point? on Alternative To QR Code Uses NFC and Cheap Rectennas · · Score: 1

    Yes, and like Que:Cat it will have WAY more use for tech hobbyists then it ever does for advertisers. Imagine being able to pass your phone over a box and get an inventory of the contents without ever opening it. I can imagine it being especially useful for someone who is blind or nearly blind, just swipe your phone near a container and it reads you the contents aloud.

  21. Re:What is the difference to the end user? on Nokia Spinning Featurephones as Smartphones · · Score: 1

    For under $100 I can get a LG Optimus with more ram, a slightly slower processor, but which runs native Android apps instead of J2ME so it's effectively significantly faster. I'm not locked into their carrier for apps and can run almost anything in the app store. I've owned both an S40 phone and an Optimus and I'll take the Optimus every time.

  22. Re:Vital Question . . . planning ahead on JPMorgan Chase Spends $500 Million On a Data Center · · Score: 1

    If that were to happen I'd hope it would also involve enshrining Glass Steagall into untouchable law so that they couldn't re-form ala the terminator or AT&T.

  23. Re:Oh, shut up, but Remember on JPMorgan Chase Spends $500 Million On a Data Center · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quite the opposite, the CRA (of 1977!,) requires
    CRA lending needed to be done "consistent with safe and sound operation." In 1999, banking regulators issued guidance concerning sub-prime lending and made the point that CRA lending needed to be responsible -- well underwritten, well priced, and understandable by the borrower.

    Also

    With respect to performance, Canner and Bhutta did three types of analysis. First, looking at mortgages originated between January 2006 and April 2008, they found that sub-prime and Alt-A loans originated in zip codes with incomes just below the level that "counts" for CRA purposes performed slightly better than those originated in zip codes with incomes just above the CRA level. They also looked at the performance of first mortgages originated under the affordable-lending programs of NeighborWorks America, most of which counted for CRA purposes, and found that these loans had delinquency rates lower than sub-prime or Federal Housing Administration loans, and foreclosure rates lower even than prime loans. Finally, they noted that only about 30 percent of foreclosure filings in 2006 took place in CRA-eligible zip codes. link

    That's right, tightly regulated lenders making first mortgages under the CRA had a lower foreclosure rate than largely unregulated lenders making other types of mortgage loans including prime loans. Blaming the CRA for the foreclosure crisis is the reddest of red herrings and allows the true culprits (independent mortgage originators and their enablers in the securitization arms of the big banks and the credit rating agencies) to walk away scott free.

  24. Re:The Real Question: on Could You Hack Into Mars Curiosity Rover? · · Score: 1

    Because they were able to add all sorts of cool code after the launch. The problem is that after they added that cool code the flight and surface code no longer fit into RAM so they placed a shim for the surface code into RAM which can be used to bootstrap the more feature rich code from flash. The code is well tested and the fallback is to reload the original codeset from the other flash. There's really not a lot of risk beyond the kind of random stuff that can happen any time you change state in a working system.

  25. Re:Bruce still has a shot on No Bomb Powerful Enough To Destroy an On-Rushing Asteroid, Sorry Bruce Willis · · Score: 1

    Actually it's likely it would have been more than 100MT with the U-238 tamper, in Ivy Mike 77% of the total energy came from fast fission of the tamper, for castle Bravo it was estimated to be 66%.