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  1. Re:this research makes some untenable assumptions on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 1

    I would call 2-4 weeks a long time. I guess they should buy slim jims and beer then instead of pop tarts and beer.

  2. Re:this research makes some untenable assumptions on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 1

    Why can they not go without food?
    Humans with normal body mass can go weeks without food, I would have to assume the obese could go longer. It would not be pleasant, nor healthy, but clearly they should last longer.

  3. Re:Poor statistics on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 1

    No, I mean if you are buying disks you get lots of storage in 2013 no matter what you select. The IOPS however are very expensive.

  4. Re:cement filled barrels? on Fixing Fukushima's Water Problem · · Score: 1

    I have not had mod points in over a year, numbnuts. I never meta moderate now that they changed how that works.

  5. Re:this research makes some untenable assumptions on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 1

    The obese and overweight will be at an advantage, they can go a long time without eating. I on the other hand would be in trouble in short order as I lack those kind of energy reserves.

    Beer provides clean water and many nutrients as well as valuable calories. Its dehydrating properties are far exaggerated. Poptarts are shelf stable, consumable without cooking, highly portable and as a survival food not too terrible at all. The combination seems fine for someone who merely needs to exist for a couple weeks at maximum while waiting for assistance.

  6. Re:From Someone Who Works in Boulder on Boulder's Tech Workers Cope With Historic Flood · · Score: 1

    Can't you get to the machine via VPN?

    Stay safe.

  7. Re:cement filled barrels? on Fixing Fukushima's Water Problem · · Score: 1

    In your case it is about unjustified claims. Asking for a citation is not trolling, kiddo.

  8. Re:BTW... on Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans · · Score: 1

    What do you mean unauditable?
    Do you mean inconvenient to audit? It might take a long time but there are methods to check how good the random number generator is.

  9. Re:Fascinating... on Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans · · Score: 1

    Why would they bother with that, when they can have someone working at the fab do it?

  10. Re:cement filled barrels? on Fixing Fukushima's Water Problem · · Score: 1

    Sure, but that does not mean that this could possibly contaminate the pacific enough to harm your local beaches.

    Hopefully, you realize responding to your comment directed to me is not stalking. So you backed away from claiming you're an expert now?

  11. Re:blame equality on Former DHS Official Blames Privacy Advocates For TSA's Aggressive Procedures · · Score: 1

    1. They spend lots of time with people
    2. they have relatively little air port traffic. Their major airport would be considered a regional port anywhere else.
    3. Policies that simply would not be used elsewhere. Turning away travelers because they have visited places you don't like is not something a free country should do.

  12. Re:Do the math on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 1

    So one guy who failed to to proper benchmarking before is your evidence?

    If you don't know what your bottleneck is going out to buy hardware is a stupid move.

  13. Re:Do the math on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 1

    How big are yours? Ram is cheap. You can get normal middle of the road laptops with 16GB of it.

  14. Re:Do the math on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 1

    A few grand? You can get 128G SSDs for $100.
    If you have a laptop simply their G load tolerance makes SSDs a no brainer.

  15. Re:Do the math on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 1

    You will however find that consumer SSDs beat the ever living shit out of any Enterprise SSD. Actually I have tested consumer vs enterprise hard drives and they are pretty close. That EMC box is doing a lot of magic to hide how bad hard drives are.

  16. Re:Poor statistics on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 1

    If you only care about storage space, take a look at $s per 1000 IOPs tell me how that works out. Failure rate per IOP would also be another bad story for HDDs since you need so many more of them.

  17. Re:Poor statistics on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 1

    Really? Nagios will not notice all those machines offline? You do have monitoring servers watching the other monitoring services right?

    How do you not notice for two days?
    If any machine at any site does not respond in ~3 minutes I know.

  18. Re:Poor statistics on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 1

    Storage is free, IOPs cost money. Welcome to 2013.

  19. Re:Poor statistics on SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% · · Score: 1

    If the drive fails, go get backups. Do not trust the data on a drive you believe has failed.

  20. Re:blame equality on Former DHS Official Blames Privacy Advocates For TSA's Aggressive Procedures · · Score: 2

    If you do that any bad actors will simply use those who do not fit your profile. See how silly you are being?

  21. Sounds like the lesser of two evils on Former DHS Official Blames Privacy Advocates For TSA's Aggressive Procedures · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sounds like the lesser of two evils to me. If you really think they would not have done both keeping data and the enhanced pat downs I have a bridge to sell you in New York. Slightly used.

  22. Re:Can we have someone go to jail now, please? on Exxon Charged With Illegally Dumping Waste In Pennsylvania · · Score: 1

    Because it has been leaking for an unknown amount of time, the 50k gallons is just what they can prove.
    The EPA made them remove topsoil, the water could well have made it much deeper.

  23. Re:Can we have someone go to jail now, please? on Exxon Charged With Illegally Dumping Waste In Pennsylvania · · Score: 1

    The problem is this is between those two. This might kill someone, or more likely simply take a couple minutes/hours/days/months/years off their lives.

    On top of it this is someone who claims to do this for a living. So make that a racecar driver that neglects his brakes.

  24. Re:M.Dell on Michael Dell To Buy Dell Inc. · · Score: 1

    1. I am the one who makes that decision
    2. I normally approve keyboards, ps2 for for sure USB as long as they are unaltered.
    3. Devs can do as they like since most have they own laptops that the company just reimburses for.

  25. Re:Can we have someone go to jail now, please? on Exxon Charged With Illegally Dumping Waste In Pennsylvania · · Score: 1

    I normally would not, but this is a public health issue. This is essentially a delayed assault on their neighbors.

    Sounds like they should have invested better.