How exactly are they using "unfair competition" to destroy dropbox and other "major cloud syncing solutions"? Maybe they are pricing this so low that DropBox cannot compete on cost/volume. But for the others out there. iCloud/OnDrive (MS)/Sharefile (Citrix) etc, they have very deep pockets, and could on the same scale their pricing for the consumer. What is the actual cost to Google for their price/offering?
Why would they choose XP in the first place then, if total control matters? Closed source, locked binaries, and no way ever to get total control, or to strip out unnecessary components of the OS.
The screenplay had little to do with what Max Brooks wrote. Why take a source material and then destroyany hint of appreciation or respect for what made the original worthwhile. OK. Forget it. That book was marginal at best. But my point stands. The Stallone Judge Dredd movie was horrible because it dispensed with nearly all the source greatness. In it's place they had a roided up Stallone, with no helmet and Rob Schneider as a stapler.
It is scary that you do not realize how the two can apply the data differently. What the same set of data used by a government that seeks to control you vs what and how Google are capable of are entirely different.
I smell what you're steppin in. I'd like to make certain the data is only accessible for a particular instance or violation. It shouldn't be allowed to be used for mass population facial recognition, or NSA data grabs.
So my first thought is that 20TB is excessive. But if he and you are certain that the 20TB is all necessary then it is going to be expensive(ish). Buy a computer with a Perc controller and a used DAS/MD1200 from some supplier. I just bought one with 30TB of storage for 3K, with less than a few months of use on it. Take that and set up Syncback Pro on it to monitor for changes and set it to back up the new files/changes into the DAS backup folders.
20 TB is no small amount of data to accumulate. If it is precious and valuable and needs backing up then your friend needs to be prepared to accept the costs associated with protecting such a large quantity of data. If he balks at it, then ask him if the roughly 3.5 k would replace the lost files. People who have serious photography/lightroom habits are in a similar position. I spent about 40 hours trying to rescue and restructure the un-maintained mess of someone who couldn't be bothered to understand file folders and naming methods. When their primary drive failed, it was some effort to piece it all together from recoverable portions of their drive and files located across many folders on many different drives. Lightroom confused him more than manual placement would have.
If by trouble then you mean: Cannot be bothered to organize and maintain. then Yes I agree most people are too lazy to pay attention to their data and storage habits.
"In order for a democracy to work, the public has to have a choice."
Democracy is a mob rules scenario. It isn't about choice, and never has been. The Constitutional Republic I live in was designed to prevent the problems of Democracy. Laws and the Constitution were to prevent parties from over influence and were kept in check by laws first, and to prevent the ignorant masses from ushering away those rights at the behest of some corrupted party.
When did American become a Democracy in your eyes? When I was a child the pledge of Allegiance was to the Republic. There was never a mention of Democracy and or this two party system we have ill conceived today.
"I don't know why everyone says Apple needs to innovate they are doing fine without innovation really. Have been since Jobs went to Xerox-Parc and "innovated" the GUI and mouse for the first Mac."
Except for when they weren't doing just fine and were teetering on bankruptcy. People saying Apple needs to innovate are seeing the writing on the wall that once iPhones/iPads become stagnant like iPods and OS 9 did they will fail and fall quickly.
I was responding to a specific sentence. Reading that sentence and then reading my reply in context is part of communicating.
So how wildly popular and successful were they when Bill Gates had to loan them several hundred million to keep them as a competition? Seems like you are forgetting the years of PowerPC clones and when Steve was fired.
"That is, I think it would be more likely to corrupt the FBI than to clean up the NSA's investigation of Americans.
The FBI has been marvelously corrupt on its own. There have been articles discussing "off the record" the competition between the FBI and the NSA about who could collect more data on US citizens. The FBI has escaped being put under the microscope so far, but they have plenty of data access that the general public is not aware of. Hence the change in scope and terminology on their charter. Make it security and the protections of citizens under US law don't matter any longer.
Say I mine for silver as a business in a big plot of land, zoned to make it legal. I mine tons of ricks and those rocks have lots of silver in them. I let the rocks stay as rocks as long as i want. Can I be taxed by the IRS on the amount of silver in the rocks that sit in a pile? The silver amount hasn't been realized. They are a pile of rocks (raw material). They have no value until i separate the silver. The silver can be stored in a closet. It has no value until it is realized as a form of currency or traded/sold off. The IRS can tax me off the money made selling the silver or jewelry made off the silver. But they cannot tax me off the rock sitting in my backyard. Bitcoin has no inherent or realized value until it is used for a transaction. If i sell the bitcoin for USD then i can be taxed. If I use it to purchase a Tesla Roadster it can be taxed (the roadster purchase). The IRS cannot tax a bit sitting in a digital wallet until it's value has been realized or transacted upon.
Are you sure you know what bitcoin is? Comments like yours would say otherwise. There is a laundry list of what is useful about bitcoin. To deny they exist is bias or ignorance. You may have issues with it, but that doesn't make your comment true.
Frankly, the whole cut your head off and stick it on a pike is going too far. You think saying that to someone is even remotely appropriate? This is slashdot, but still claiming the want to look up into the lifeless eyes of someone and wave is shameful and you should pause and reflect about yourlife and what you are bringing to the table here. This site has been my homepage since pre y2k and your comment goes down as the one that made me ashamed to actually be part of this community. Please don't lump "me" into your "WE want" asshattery. I'm not fond of the beta but please don't think your sentiment is even remotely appropriate, or that everyone stands beside you.
The same logic can be applied to phone carriers who deny updates to promote people buying new phones. Personally I'd love to see lawsuits coming out to Verizon who withheld updates to a popular phone because they didn't want an app to compete with their future business possibilities.
There was a statue on the cover. There were also a bunch of dead lizard men who used it as a place of worship. There were also characters stealing the gems from the eyes, who presumably had killed the flesh eating Lizard Men. Which part was Satanic? Killing the flesh eating disciples/worshipers of the Demon God or stealing the gems from the eyes of the idol?
Creating a taxonomy and giving hit points and an alignment to such evil demons as Garl Glittergold shows a kid how to worship a pagan deity.?
I think they are more afraid of public protests tarnishing the image of America over seas. (like that is what would cause it) more so than terrorists. What sort of terrorist attacks a military base? They aren't unprotected or civilian and becomes a form of military attack.
Didn't he just inherit it from the TIA which was defunded by congress under Poindexter? Then blame him... Passing the buck because you inherited something doesn't mean you aren't guilty. If you don't stop the abuses you are promoting them.
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How exactly are they using "unfair competition" to destroy dropbox and other "major cloud syncing solutions"?
Maybe they are pricing this so low that DropBox cannot compete on cost/volume. But for the others out there. iCloud/OnDrive (MS)/Sharefile (Citrix) etc, they have very deep pockets, and could on the same scale their pricing for the consumer. What is the actual cost to Google for their price/offering?
Why would they choose XP in the first place then, if total control matters? Closed source, locked binaries, and no way ever to get total control, or to strip out unnecessary components of the OS.
I thought this discussion would be full of people denying we ever went to the moon. I guess my brother doesn't read /.
Why not use truecrypt? Free and free. If their AV is any indication on how they develop and maintain PGP I won't go near it.
The screenplay had little to do with what Max Brooks wrote. Why take a source material and then destroyany hint of appreciation or respect for what made the original worthwhile. OK. Forget it. That book was marginal at best. But my point stands. The Stallone Judge Dredd movie was horrible because it dispensed with nearly all the source greatness. In it's place they had a roided up Stallone, with no helmet and Rob Schneider as a stapler.
It is scary that you do not realize how the two can apply the data differently. What the same set of data used by a government that seeks to control you vs what and how Google are capable of are entirely different.
I smell what you're steppin in. I'd like to make certain the data is only accessible for a particular instance or violation. It shouldn't be allowed to be used for mass population facial recognition, or NSA data grabs.
So my first thought is that 20TB is excessive. But if he and you are certain that the 20TB is all necessary then it is going to be expensive(ish). Buy a computer with a Perc controller and a used DAS/MD1200 from some supplier. I just bought one with 30TB of storage for 3K, with less than a few months of use on it. Take that and set up Syncback Pro on it to monitor for changes and set it to back up the new files/changes into the DAS backup folders.
20 TB is no small amount of data to accumulate. If it is precious and valuable and needs backing up then your friend needs to be prepared to accept the costs associated with protecting such a large quantity of data. If he balks at it, then ask him if the roughly 3.5 k would replace the lost files. People who have serious photography/lightroom habits are in a similar position. I spent about 40 hours trying to rescue and restructure the un-maintained mess of someone who couldn't be bothered to understand file folders and naming methods. When their primary drive failed, it was some effort to piece it all together from recoverable portions of their drive and files located across many folders on many different drives. Lightroom confused him more than manual placement would have.
If by trouble then you mean: Cannot be bothered to organize and maintain. then Yes I agree most people are too lazy to pay attention to their data and storage habits.
"In order for a democracy to work, the public has to have a choice."
Democracy is a mob rules scenario. It isn't about choice, and never has been. The Constitutional Republic I live in was designed to prevent the problems of Democracy. Laws and the Constitution were to prevent parties from over influence and were kept in check by laws first, and to prevent the ignorant masses from ushering away those rights at the behest of some corrupted party.
When did American become a Democracy in your eyes? When I was a child the pledge of Allegiance was to the Republic. There was never a mention of Democracy and or this two party system we have ill conceived today.
Chrome OS is sold on machines using ARM procs. to power the system. Which of them are using AMD or Nvidia GPU's and drivers?
So what exactly was it that sent them to near bankruptcy in that era? successful innovation? or a lack thereof?
"I don't know why everyone says Apple needs to innovate they are doing fine without innovation really. Have been since Jobs went to Xerox-Parc and "innovated" the GUI and mouse for the first Mac."
Except for when they weren't doing just fine and were teetering on bankruptcy. People saying Apple needs to innovate are seeing the writing on the wall that once iPhones/iPads become stagnant like iPods and OS 9 did they will fail and fall quickly.
I was responding to a specific sentence. Reading that sentence and then reading my reply in context is part of communicating.
So how wildly popular and successful were they when Bill Gates had to loan them several hundred million to keep them as a competition? Seems like you are forgetting the years of PowerPC clones and when Steve was fired.
It is that way already in the US. Cable co's leased lots of spectrum and sat on it. If it is cheaper than having to compete they will do it.
"That is, I think it would be more likely to corrupt the FBI than to clean up the NSA's investigation of Americans.
The FBI has been marvelously corrupt on its own. There have been articles discussing "off the record" the competition between the FBI and the NSA about who could collect more data on US citizens. The FBI has escaped being put under the microscope so far, but they have plenty of data access that the general public is not aware of. Hence the change in scope and terminology on their charter. Make it security and the protections of citizens under US law don't matter any longer.
So the strippers or prostitutes don't get caught on video. This is a bachelor party fun bus it sounds like.Use a bouncer if that is the case.
Say I mine for silver as a business in a big plot of land, zoned to make it legal. I mine tons of ricks and those rocks have lots of silver in them. I let the rocks stay as rocks as long as i want. Can I be taxed by the IRS on the amount of silver in the rocks that sit in a pile? The silver amount hasn't been realized. They are a pile of rocks (raw material). They have no value until i separate the silver. The silver can be stored in a closet. It has no value until it is realized as a form of currency or traded/sold off. The IRS can tax me off the money made selling the silver or jewelry made off the silver. But they cannot tax me off the rock sitting in my backyard.
Bitcoin has no inherent or realized value until it is used for a transaction. If i sell the bitcoin for USD then i can be taxed. If I use it to purchase a Tesla Roadster it can be taxed (the roadster purchase). The IRS cannot tax a bit sitting in a digital wallet until it's value has been realized or transacted upon.
Bitcoin wasn't "designed" to do anything useful.
Are you sure you know what bitcoin is? Comments like yours would say otherwise. There is a laundry list of what is useful about bitcoin. To deny they exist is bias or ignorance. You may have issues with it, but that doesn't make your comment true.
Frankly, the whole cut your head off and stick it on a pike is going too far. You think saying that to someone is even remotely appropriate? This is slashdot, but still claiming the want to look up into the lifeless eyes of someone and wave is shameful and you should pause and reflect about yourlife and what you are bringing to the table here. This site has been my homepage since pre y2k and your comment goes down as the one that made me ashamed to actually be part of this community.
Please don't lump "me" into your "WE want" asshattery. I'm not fond of the beta but please don't think your sentiment is even remotely appropriate, or that everyone stands beside you.
The same logic can be applied to phone carriers who deny updates to promote people buying new phones. Personally I'd love to see lawsuits coming out to Verizon who withheld updates to a popular phone because they didn't want an app to compete with their future business possibilities.
There was a statue on the cover. There were also a bunch of dead lizard men who used it as a place of worship. There were also characters stealing the gems from the eyes, who presumably had killed the flesh eating Lizard Men. Which part was Satanic? Killing the flesh eating disciples/worshipers of the Demon God or stealing the gems from the eyes of the idol?
Creating a taxonomy and giving hit points and an alignment to such evil demons as Garl Glittergold shows a kid how to worship a pagan deity.?
How so?
" Now the police can look at your driving habits during a traffic stop.
Are you certain they have a right to investigate the data without due cause or a warrant? Would it even be relevant to the case at hand?
I think they are more afraid of public protests tarnishing the image of America over seas. (like that is what would cause it) more so than terrorists. What sort of terrorist attacks a military base? They aren't unprotected or civilian and becomes a form of military attack.
Didn't he just inherit it from the TIA which was defunded by congress under Poindexter? Then blame him... Passing the buck because you inherited something doesn't mean you aren't guilty. If you don't stop the abuses you are promoting them.