Are you saying you use external firewire drives in a RAID?
RAID is not for data retention. Nowadays, it is only for 2 things:
creating huge volume sets
protecting against physical disk malfunction.
What I'm talking about is stand-alone disks physically separated, and only one plugged into the machine at any one time. Rotate them on a weekly (or monthly) schedule.
Nevertheless it's a difference whether politicians fly in (like Rumsfeld) to make the deals
Don't forget Chirac! (Yes, I know he's not German. But he lives next door. And he likes to bad-mouth America...)
or whether (like in Germany) companies export technology illegally. In Germany, this caused a scandal and the prosecution of officials of the companies.
Or whether, like in the US, Loral pays off (President) Clinton in order to be able to sell sensitive missile know-how to the CHICOMs.
If you're like me, you don't want to buy a bunch of identical disks at once for home use.
Why not? A few 250GB drives in external firewire (which is my choice) or USB enclosures would give you excellent security by rotating them off-site and "in another room" on a monthly basis.
But, I have at first the pictures in my mind, where Rumsfeld is meeting Sadam selling him US C-Waepons.
Or, maybe you remember the Antrax hipe? Wasn't it come from your own laboratories?
So the best would be to sweap before our own doors - right?
Saying
France and Germany are guilty
does not imply
America is innocent.
I was responding to a post (at least they're building search engines and space exploration vehicles) that basically said "Europe is morally superior to the the US", and I was just reminding him that it's not.
He suggests we should be writing a practical guidebook printed on long lasting paper containing "the basic accumulated scientific knowledge of humanity."
Send a bunch of scientists off to a deserted island and have them write the Encyclopedia Tera?
To do what? What's accurate GPS tracking gonna do for them that they can't already do?
Standard Soviet-style RPGs are dumb direct-fire weapons, no different (in targeting) from the 65 year old Bazooka & panzerfaust.
A satellite-guided man-portable missile is just the next step in smart-weaponry, since heat-seeking missles (like the SA-2 and the Stinger) have been around for decades.
Crash planes or send rockets to important landmarks? They already know where those are, don't need GPS for it. And you don't need GPS to put a bomb in a subway.
I'm thinking more of a laser range finder that, when attached to a "Galileo unit" and the RPG launcher, would instantly calculate the location of any fixed or slow-moving target, virtually guaranteeing a hit by the RPG.
And you don't need GPS to put a bomb in a subway.
No, but if you want a guaranteed hit on the lead car of subway, while, for example, it's pulling in to the station, it would be useful.
The point is, what assurances can the EU give that they won't behave like the US, and why should we believe them?
Or worse. What if the French and Germans get in another spat, or a latter-day Dominique de Villepin gets pissy the next time Bill O'Reilly decides to talk about Freedom Fries?
No, but it does for a GPS guided RPG. Those are much harder to intercept too.
What a clever idea. 30 minutes after Galileo goes live, the Russians will be demonstrating them to the Iranians, who will then give them to any Islamist group that asks for them.
The ONLY people who would have any chance at all of understanding the program would be anal-retentive naval history buffs! And the scope of it was supposedly amazing. If my friend was to be believed, this was an old-fashioned, NON-OO, structured-programming project with hundreds or maybe thousands of variables, all spaghetti code, everything named after fucking BOATS!
This has to be an Urban Legend.
Why? I heard something similar, back in my early programmer days. Since this was a mainframe COBOL shop in the late 80s, the project was a big COBOL system from the early 70s, and it was an ex-priest writing all variable names in latin.
Yes, dying at age 0 certainly does bring down the average life expectancy.
What good pediatric care does not do, though, is have any effect on whether I die at 30 from formerly common diseases like dysentary, smallpox, influenza, etc.
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RAID is not for data retention. Nowadays, it is only for 2 things
What I'm talking about is stand-alone disks physically separated, and only one plugged into the machine at any one time. Rotate them on a weekly (or monthly) schedule.
Nevertheless it's a difference whether politicians fly in (like Rumsfeld) to make the deals
Don't forget Chirac! (Yes, I know he's not German. But he lives next door. And he likes to bad-mouth America...)
or whether (like in Germany) companies export technology illegally. In Germany, this caused a scandal and the prosecution of officials of the companies.
Or whether, like in the US, Loral pays off (President) Clinton in order to be able to sell sensitive missile know-how to the CHICOMs.
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/about/
If you're like me, you don't want to buy a bunch of identical disks at once for home use.
Why not? A few 250GB drives in external firewire (which is my choice) or USB enclosures would give you excellent security by rotating them off-site and "in another room" on a monthly basis.
Or, maybe you remember the Antrax hipe? Wasn't it come from your own laboratories?
So the best would be to sweap before our own doors - right?
Saying
does not imply
I was responding to a post (at least they're building search engines and space exploration vehicles) that basically said "Europe is morally superior to the the US", and I was just reminding him that it's not.
Nothing more, nothing less.
All Capitalist Warmongering "companies" are Running-dog Lackeys of the Imperialist Western Military-Industrial Complex.
Boy, you sure didn't pay enough attention in Dialectics, huh?
It's been 2 hours and this hasn't even been modded +2 Funny. I guess Slashdotters aren't as politically aware as they think they are.
Great, if not moderately obscure, reference. Foundation is a great series.
Obscure? It was voted the Hugo Best All Time Series. http://worldcon.org/hc.html#ats
compassionate organization
Christianity hasn't been a compassionate organisation since 312 CE.
This aptly describes US defence and areospace industry.
And Airbus.
Besides, last I checked, Google wasn't part of the military-industrial complex.
at least they're building search engines and space exploration vehicles instead of nuclear weapons.
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You do realize, don't you, that France is a nuclear power[0], and sold[1] to Iraq 12.5kg of 93% U-235 and "research reactor".
And lets not forget the direct German help[2] in creating Iraqi chemical weapons.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_and_weapons_o
[1] http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/facility/osira
[2] http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/cw/az120103.ht
Does this mean we're all going to turn into Mel Gibson and Tina Turner lookalikes?
Or, you might be the dweeby little auto-mechanic/train-station manager.
He suggests we should be writing a practical guidebook printed on long lasting paper containing "the basic accumulated scientific knowledge of humanity."
Send a bunch of scientists off to a deserted island and have them write the Encyclopedia Tera?
To do what? What's accurate GPS tracking gonna do for them that they can't already do?
Standard Soviet-style RPGs are dumb direct-fire weapons, no different (in targeting) from the 65 year old Bazooka & panzerfaust.
A satellite-guided man-portable missile is just the next step in smart-weaponry, since heat-seeking missles (like the SA-2 and the Stinger) have been around for decades.
Crash planes or send rockets to important landmarks? They already know where those are, don't need GPS for it. And you don't need GPS to put a bomb in a subway.
I'm thinking more of a laser range finder that, when attached to a "Galileo unit" and the RPG launcher, would instantly calculate the location of any fixed or slow-moving target, virtually guaranteeing a hit by the RPG.
And you don't need GPS to put a bomb in a subway.
No, but if you want a guaranteed hit on the lead car of subway, while, for example, it's pulling in to the station, it would be useful.
The point is, what assurances can the EU give that they won't behave like the US, and why should we believe them?
Or worse. What if the French and Germans get in another spat, or a latter-day Dominique de Villepin gets pissy the next time Bill O'Reilly decides to talk about Freedom Fries?
No, but it does for a GPS guided RPG. Those are much harder to intercept too.
What a clever idea. 30 minutes after Galileo goes live, the Russians will be demonstrating them to the Iranians, who will then give them to any Islamist group that asks for them.
Will they cheerfully sell centimeter-accurate receivers to all buyers, even Iran and North Korea?
Probably.
But even if they don't, EU will license the tech to the PRC, and the PRC will sell it to them..
Try telling that to an airplane pilot!!!
A Boeing 737-600 is 31.2m long and 12.6m high. Thus, when flying at 425kt, a 1m discrepancy is less than noise.
I was trying to be funny, but I guess I wasn't.
It was funny, actually.
The ONLY people who would have any chance at all of understanding the program would be anal-retentive naval history buffs! And the scope of it was supposedly amazing. If my friend was to be believed, this was an old-fashioned, NON-OO, structured-programming project with hundreds or maybe thousands of variables, all spaghetti code, everything named after fucking BOATS!
This has to be an Urban Legend.
Why? I heard something similar, back in my early programmer days. Since this was a mainframe COBOL shop in the late 80s, the project was a big COBOL system from the early 70s, and it was an ex-priest writing all variable names in latin.
To me, a mistake would be logging onto the system once after getting fired. I don't think that the guy made a "mistake".
A mistake would be forgetting to return the SecurID.
What he did took malice and forethought. The lightest thing you could call it would be a "lapse of judgement".
When did jedis enter this discussion?
I can't tell if you're dryly funny or just clueless.
this is the most different design I've seen for decades.
Everything old is new again.
In the 80s, both the PCjr and some Amiga models had side expansion "busses". Back then, they were called Sidecars.
Life expentancy is your expected life at age 0.
Yes, dying at age 0 certainly does bring down the average life expectancy.
What good pediatric care does not do, though, is have any effect on whether I die at 30 from formerly common diseases like dysentary, smallpox, influenza, etc.
People are living longer largely due to decreased infant mortality.
How does decreased infant mortality affect whether I die at 35y, 50, 65 or 80?
Sanitation, nutrition and vaccinations are why life expectancy shot up during the 20th century.