I see approx $50 per 1.5 TB tape plus a $1500+ drive, or $150 per 3TB hard drive. Admittedly, there is a crossover point - at about 90TB (and $4500). And this is for a home NAS?
That's what's strange about this announcement to me... I've worked at the same place for 13 years now, and the benefits - retirements, health care, vacation time - have all gone steadily in one direction: down, down, down. Please, god, does this mean we've reached the low ebb of the benefit-slashing trend?
The summary isn't clear (and the link is just to a blog that seems to have moved on...) about whether he's requesting copies of his medical data, vs. technical information that would allow him to interoperate with the device such as extracting data from it himself. I would imagine they are treated differently under the law.
They weren't caught by anybody; they actually tried to trigger their devices, which were not effective. But if the defense is good enough to prevent an effective attack, that is the goal.
I find the comparison to the 911 hotline or avionics (in the summary) almost offensive. This $400,000,000 "loss" is just ownership changing hands in a zero-sum game; nothing was actually destroyed. Even individual investors (who spread their bets) were probably on both the winning and losing sides.
It's NOT the same as airplane full of people being destroyed or an ambulance failing to show up. In fact, all the money the summary suggests pouring into perfecting HFT software would be a waste and a loss to the economy overall. The real question is how can we fix the incentives to get those HFT developers back working on avionics or 9/11 call centers or something else with real value?
Why have would-be terrorists resorted to increasingly bizarre and ineffective weapons - the shoe bomb, underwear bomb, and chemical cocktail? If they thought they could, obviously they'd just bring some hand grenades, and you can be darn sure those would work every time.
A lot of TSA criticism comes from people who want stringent security for "those people" but not for "us" - meaning white people, grannies, etc. But if you think about it for a few seconds you know where that leads.
Personally I would scale back the TSA and the nekkid scans, but as a value tradeoff, knowing it would come at some cost to security.
If I'd known it was going to get technical I wouldn't have mis-quoted my wikipedia link. Here is what it actually says: " For driving skill, 93% of the US sample and 69% of the Swedish sample put themselves in the top 50% (above the median). "
So my only recourse for buying some cancer medicine that turns out to be sugar pills would be calling the manufacturer a liar? After I'm dead, that is?
Superficially, yes. But in reality everything has limits. Open source has always been a bit different from public domain, just as Communists have locks on their doors and Libertarians support laws against murder.
The fact that they're de-toxing the soil 40 years later tells me there's a difference. Simple slash-and-burn at least allows regrowth if the farmers go away.
why the "diet" dp? trying to cut back on sugar, are ye? duh, wunder if yer 'merican.
I agree the "diet" appellation we still use here in the US sounds a bit odd compared "lite" as used most other places.
But yeah, it's the sugar. In a 32 oz drink that would be 90 grams of sugar and 360 calories. That's like eating an entire second hot fudge sundae (370 cal), except ALL of it is sugar.
A plain McDonald's ice cream cone has 150 cal, 18g sugar, 4g protein, 2g sat. fat, so it's actually relatively sane for a treat. I know, it's not the same as Haagen-Daaz, but personally I like it.
McDonald's has sort of won me over too... I like their hot fudge sundae and for about $2.50 total I can get that, plus a 32 oz diet Dr. Pepper. Fountain drinks aren't always equally good everywhere, but IME theirs are consistently good. Subway for dinner then McDonalds for dessert and I am happy.
Drag racing probably started out as two guys competing to see whether the Ford or Chevy could haul a bale of hay uphill faster.
Fast-forward a couple decades, and the only competitive drag racers are cars that can't burn normal gasoline or haul even 2 people and can literally barely turn at all.
Weird stuff happens when you optimize along one or two dimensions only.
The cloud is a wonderful idea in principal, but we need a completely different outlook on it. And possibly a hell of a lot of new laws governing ownership of the content.
That is what will happen.
Do you keep your money in a bank, or do you feel safer with cash (or gold nuggets) under your bed? People happily transfer their life's work into the cloud every day when they deposit their paychecks. There is trust, both in the banks and the government defining and enforcing rules. As people increasingly rely on other clouds, there will eventually be lawsuits to settle these disputes and new regulations to protect consumers/users.
This is usually dealt with by simply letting something sit at room temperature for several hours before powering it on... There is no excuse for stupidity. Why is this on slashdot as news?
Maybe because what you said is NOT the same as what Facebook is doing? If simply letting the servers warm up gradually at the destination works fine, why are the spending extra money on heated delivery trucks?
I saw the "story" and all the ridiculous spin when it came out this week. All he said is the US won't be the leader in every endeavor; other nations will do things too. And he said NASA isn't planning to go it alone to Mars. Neither of these means NASA won't be the leader in space exploration.
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I see approx $50 per 1.5 TB tape plus a $1500+ drive, or $150 per 3TB hard drive. Admittedly, there is a crossover point - at about 90TB (and $4500). And this is for a home NAS?
No, pick all three. Hard drives are faster, cheaper, and higher capacity than tape.
Put another way, if 100 slashdotters had to answer the question "pico = 10^x", does anybody really think we'd all get it right?
That's what's strange about this announcement to me... I've worked at the same place for 13 years now, and the benefits - retirements, health care, vacation time - have all gone steadily in one direction: down, down, down. Please, god, does this mean we've reached the low ebb of the benefit-slashing trend?
The summary isn't clear (and the link is just to a blog that seems to have moved on...) about whether he's requesting copies of his medical data, vs. technical information that would allow him to interoperate with the device such as extracting data from it himself. I would imagine they are treated differently under the law.
They weren't caught by anybody; they actually tried to trigger their devices, which were not effective. But if the defense is good enough to prevent an effective attack, that is the goal.
It's NOT the same as airplane full of people being destroyed or an ambulance failing to show up. In fact, all the money the summary suggests pouring into perfecting HFT software would be a waste and a loss to the economy overall. The real question is how can we fix the incentives to get those HFT developers back working on avionics or 9/11 call centers or something else with real value?
A lot of TSA criticism comes from people who want stringent security for "those people" but not for "us" - meaning white people, grannies, etc. But if you think about it for a few seconds you know where that leads.
Personally I would scale back the TSA and the nekkid scans, but as a value tradeoff, knowing it would come at some cost to security.
If I'd known it was going to get technical I wouldn't have mis-quoted my wikipedia link. Here is what it actually says: " For driving skill, 93% of the US sample and 69% of the Swedish sample put themselves in the top 50% (above the median). "
Ha ha ha... classic...
Did you know 93% of drivers consider themselves better than average?
We will trade you water in return for solar energy!
So my only recourse for buying some cancer medicine that turns out to be sugar pills would be calling the manufacturer a liar? After I'm dead, that is?
If you read the article, most of it is actually about underwater drones that go out hunting for mines - hardly something missiles are good for.
Superficially, yes. But in reality everything has limits. Open source has always been a bit different from public domain, just as Communists have locks on their doors and Libertarians support laws against murder.
The fact that they're de-toxing the soil 40 years later tells me there's a difference. Simple slash-and-burn at least allows regrowth if the farmers go away.
I agree the "diet" appellation we still use here in the US sounds a bit odd compared "lite" as used most other places.
But yeah, it's the sugar. In a 32 oz drink that would be 90 grams of sugar and 360 calories. That's like eating an entire second hot fudge sundae (370 cal), except ALL of it is sugar.
A plain McDonald's ice cream cone has 150 cal, 18g sugar, 4g protein, 2g sat. fat, so it's actually relatively sane for a treat. I know, it's not the same as Haagen-Daaz, but personally I like it.
McDonald's has sort of won me over too... I like their hot fudge sundae and for about $2.50 total I can get that, plus a 32 oz diet Dr. Pepper. Fountain drinks aren't always equally good everywhere, but IME theirs are consistently good. Subway for dinner then McDonalds for dessert and I am happy.
Luckily I've never had a problem with stoop theft though.
Drag racing probably started out as two guys competing to see whether the Ford or Chevy could haul a bale of hay uphill faster.
Fast-forward a couple decades, and the only competitive drag racers are cars that can't burn normal gasoline or haul even 2 people and can literally barely turn at all.
Weird stuff happens when you optimize along one or two dimensions only.
That is what will happen.
Do you keep your money in a bank, or do you feel safer with cash (or gold nuggets) under your bed? People happily transfer their life's work into the cloud every day when they deposit their paychecks. There is trust, both in the banks and the government defining and enforcing rules. As people increasingly rely on other clouds, there will eventually be lawsuits to settle these disputes and new regulations to protect consumers/users.
Maybe because what you said is NOT the same as what Facebook is doing? If simply letting the servers warm up gradually at the destination works fine, why are the spending extra money on heated delivery trucks?
I was thinking maybe Jesus...
I saw the "story" and all the ridiculous spin when it came out this week. All he said is the US won't be the leader in every endeavor; other nations will do things too. And he said NASA isn't planning to go it alone to Mars. Neither of these means NASA won't be the leader in space exploration.
Liar.
But from current predictions it appears to me that birth control will save us.