Thats only half of todays UseNet feed, I guess it's going to be one for alt.boneless and another for the rest, then again by the time they arrive the UseNet feed will probably have doubled, I think I'll hang on and wait for a Positronic Matrix to hold a years worth of UseNet, assuming it doesnt come with a Sony Rootkit(TM) of course.
In the days when Wired was a must read Negroponte wrote about the 2b1 website, I checked it out and saw there was to be a conference about IT in the developing world, but didnt see Trevor Baylis, the creator on the wind up radio on the invite list, so I got his number (yes he is listed, on Eel Pie Island) and gave him a call, and he got himself invited to the shindig, and the rest is history, and no, this isn't a "wind-up" incase you were wondering:)
I discussed this with Peter Donaldson of the Neurological Prosthesis Unit in South London, it's like packet switching the British invent it but don't fund it and the Americans take it on, fund it and get all the money and glory, oh well.
Then why don't they spend the money they are using to kill a bunch of poor Arabs half way around the world on more staff and better equiped facilities? Remember the Germans did exactly this sort of thing back in the 1930s, the original concentration camps were for "terrorists" i.e. those that opposed the governments criminal acts. To quote Winston Churchill
The power of the executive to cast a man in prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government, whether Nazi or Communist.
Blair is going to go the way of every leader this country has seen that tries to impose tyrranny on the British people, it's no mistake that the words in Rule Britannia are -
I'm sure they'll have dumb stuff like ActiveX scripting in RSS feeds, plus I'd expect the feeds will have to be served by IIS, the security Swiss cheese of web servers, expect CodeRedRSS real soon now!
Actually the rationale for experimenting on those people was they they were untermenschen as opposed to Ayran ubermenschen, so it was the warped Nazi ideology of eugenics that led to it, and not a commitment to science.
If you look at the technology they use, which they call Petabox you'll find it is their own distributed filesystem which runs to about 100TB/rack, so if the drives end up on EBay it wont matter, unless someone is going to figure out what drives fit in what boxes in what order in the rack and can figure out how to read it all once they have reassembled it, so actually a single drive from the system is as useful as the XOR data drive in a RAID5 array.
Is lack of Preview on my part with the formatting, and for those who don't get the joke, Mr Memory meets an untimely demise before answering the last question.
What causes Pip in poultry? How old is Mae West? Who was the last British heavyweight champion of the world? How far is Winnipeg from Montreal? When did Florence Nightingale die? What is the height of the Empire State Building? What was the date of General Gordon's death?
and last but not least
What are the Thirty-Nine Steps? Come on! Answer up! What are the Thirty-Nine Steps?
Alteratively you could use a middleware layer, if your apps are calling XML-RPC / SOAP/CORBA interfaces then you can change the code at that level without impacting users with upgrades.
It was half meant in jest hence the "huddled masses welcome!", and in theory in some parts of Europe restrictions are tighter, however in Europe rules are ignored a great deal of the time, the exception being Britain which has people to inforce every stupid little rule, on the Continent people are more relaxed about these things, I remember when I was avout 12 and in France, I walked into a shop and bought a bunch large bangers (American:firecrackers) no problem.
You forgot the confusion over the site not being/.ed out of existance by the torrent of users and thus having someone post the full text on page XXXX of the comments.
Well you could develop RDF Schema for porn spammers that would include attributes as hair colour, nationality, age, soft, hard, images, video, etc. on the other hand you could just go to a password site and get the same thing for free.
They forgot to add that the torpedos had depleted uranium warheads and will likely contaminate yet another section of the UN with US "influence" for thousands of years.
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That it says you can get 480TB for $250K, so two of those would give you 0.96PB for $500K rather than spending 8 times that to get the other 0.04PB?
Surely that should be metha-phone?
Thats only half of todays UseNet feed, I guess it's going to be one for alt.boneless and another for the rest, then again by the time they arrive the UseNet feed will probably have doubled, I think I'll hang on and wait for a Positronic Matrix to hold a years worth of UseNet, assuming it doesnt come with a Sony Rootkit(TM) of course.
In the days when Wired was a must read Negroponte wrote about the 2b1 website, I checked it out and saw there was to be a conference about IT in the developing world, but didnt see Trevor Baylis, the creator on the wind up radio on the invite list, so I got his number (yes he is listed, on Eel Pie Island) and gave him a call, and he got himself invited to the shindig, and the rest is history, and no, this isn't a "wind-up" incase you were wondering :)
I discussed this with Peter Donaldson of the Neurological Prosthesis Unit in South London, it's like packet switching the British invent it but don't fund it and the Americans take it on, fund it and get all the money and glory, oh well.
Then why don't they spend the money they are using to kill a bunch of poor Arabs half way around the world on more staff and better equiped facilities? Remember the Germans did exactly this sort of thing back in the 1930s, the original concentration camps were for "terrorists" i.e. those that opposed the governments criminal acts. To quote Winston Churchill
The power of the executive to cast a man in prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government, whether Nazi or Communist.
Blair is going to go the way of every leader this country has seen that tries to impose tyrranny on the British people, it's no mistake that the words in Rule Britannia are -
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves
If anyone here is at UUNet NOC, could you do us all a favour and de-peer SBC, that would shut up this idiot CEO quickly, many thanks in advance.
I'm sure they'll have dumb stuff like ActiveX scripting in RSS feeds, plus I'd expect the feeds will have to be served by IIS, the security Swiss cheese of web servers, expect CodeRedRSS real soon now!
Actually the rationale for experimenting on those people was they they were untermenschen as opposed to Ayran ubermenschen, so it was the warped Nazi ideology of eugenics that led to it, and not a commitment to science.
If you look at the technology they use, which they call Petabox you'll find it is their own distributed filesystem which runs to about 100TB/rack, so if the drives end up on EBay it wont matter, unless someone is going to figure out what drives fit in what boxes in what order in the rack and can figure out how to read it all once they have reassembled it, so actually a single drive from the system is as useful as the XOR data drive in a RAID5 array.
I guess the marketroids are engaged in a spot of Websterbation...
Glad someone was paying attention, and the answer
Is there a connection between the two?
Is lack of Preview on my part with the formatting, and for those who don't get the joke, Mr Memory meets an untimely demise before answering the last question.
What causes Pip in poultry?
How old is Mae West?
Who was the last British heavyweight champion of the world?
How far is Winnipeg from Montreal?
When did Florence Nightingale die?
What is the height of the Empire State Building? What was the date of General Gordon's death?
and last but not least
What are the Thirty-Nine Steps? Come on! Answer up! What are the Thirty-Nine Steps?
Oh and I thought they had just got the byline wrong and it was really Verity Stob, thanks for clearing that up
Alteratively you could use a middleware layer, if your apps are calling XML-RPC / SOAP /CORBA interfaces then you can change the code at that level without impacting users with upgrades.
It was half meant in jest hence the "huddled masses welcome!", and in theory in some parts of Europe restrictions are tighter, however in Europe rules are ignored a great deal of the time, the exception being Britain which has people to inforce every stupid little rule, on the Continent people are more relaxed about these things, I remember when I was avout 12 and in France, I walked into a shop and bought a bunch large bangers (American:firecrackers) no problem.
Those American passports, Europe is nice, come over here, have some cheese and wine, and be free of your oppressors, huddled masses welcome!
Some bloggers are becoming journalists, the best example being Salem Pax
You forgot the confusion over the site not being /.ed out of existance by the torrent of users and thus having someone post the full text on page XXXX of the comments.
Become a freind of this class and get access to all those juicy protected and private members....
Stick with chemical and biological weapons, and be a part of the growing Open Sores Community...
That's a cheap gag...
Would you rather have the RIAA sit on the networks and monitor traffic themselves, or have the government do it for them?
Thats like asking Iraqi civilians if they would rather be shot dead by uniformed US soldiers or Halliburton mercenaries in civies.
Well you could develop RDF Schema for porn spammers that would include attributes as hair colour, nationality, age, soft, hard, images, video, etc. on the other hand you could just go to a password site and get the same thing for free.
They forgot to add that the torpedos had depleted uranium warheads and will likely contaminate yet another section of the UN with US "influence" for thousands of years.