I'm not too sure what measures are realistic for a datacenter when the robbers are armed and carry the equipment they require to cut through walls.
The same measures they use in banks: reinforced walls and sensors that detect when they are being cut. Here in Buenos Aires there was a bank robbery where they cut the wall but the alarm had been turned off because of false alarms. Besides, if you read earlier comments, the cutting-through-the-wall part was fake.
That way you wouldn't have to take any measures to stop others from knowing your private stuff.
However, we value our privacy, so care about big broogle.
None of my friends, teachers or relatives knew about ID either (except my brother, who reads slashdot ocasionally), so I'll extrapolate that to Latin America.
What are the options for home users to backup tens or hundreds of gigs of data offsite?
The only reasonably priced one I can see is buying two external hard disks, keep one offsite and fetch it home each time you make a backup.
Maybe you shouldn't be backing up hundreds of gigs of data. The most important thing to back up is stuff you created (photos, essays, programs, whatever). Sure, losing your movie collection sucks but you can download^Wrip^Wbuy it again. Otherwise, use two external hard drives like you said.
I don't know what country you're from, but I can assure you I don't look down at you. What makes you think I do? What rights or freedoms have I taken from you?
He probably means the US government (whether americans are responsible for its actions is a different issue)
It's unfortunate that we have offended some cultures or have over-stayed our welcome, but, apart from the last few years under our current overlord, (who, unless you're an Iraqi, I assure you has done as much or more to harm us than he has to harm you), we haven't committed too many terrible wrongs against the nations where have military bases, compared to other empires in the past.
Maybe not where you have bases, but your country has a history of intervention in other countries which is usually detrimental for their population (for example, training latin american military personnel for torture and kidnapping, something with the Taliban, and generally supporting dictatorships friendly to the US)
Rather than running in fear to the waiting arms of a police state, we must each be willing to stand and fight, and possibly die, to protect ourselves and preserve our liberty. We must each be willing to accept that its a dangerous world out there, and that the safety offered by giving up our liberty to a government, is a dangerous illusion.
The meter was originally 1/10,000,000 of the distance between the equator and the North Pole along the meridian running through Paris. (No chauvinism there...)
Yeah, cause that meridian is so different to the rest _
So ignorance is bliss, is it? How, exactly, does sticking your fingers in your ears and going "La, la, la" in the face of evidence make you "enlightened"? What you're essentially saying is, "Thinking is hard and icky, so I'll just believe what the nice man in the shiny robes tells me." It's intellectually dishonest and ethically reprehensible.
Ignoring something that, by all conceivable tests, does not exist, also frees you from worry about that thing. And it allows you to focus on real experiences and seek real enlightenment.
But hey, enjoy your yummy Kool-Aid.
I vaguely recall Einstein was religious, and that didn't stop him from thinking and figuring lots of things out (even though it slightly hampered his objectivity when his findings didn't match his beliefs). If a person likes science, he isn't gonna stop researching because he believes in god. He won't stop caring about philosophy or other things either.
Well, evidently I am commenting on slashdot, while I have no plans to do so when following some random link. Of course, if the providers are more interested in profit and pushing for new members than in actually serving the content, fine. Thing is, it's not nice having to suscribe to every random website I wanna go to.
And it's particularly annoying when some results in google for programming questions or datasheets are just teasers to get you to buy some subscription to their service.
I guess I fail to see what's difficult about creating an account on a free service. Concerned about privacy? It's easy enough to set up bogus info. I guess I don't see the argument here.
People are people, and trying to ascribe any characteristics to a group like "indians are more in tune with the environment" is nothing but racism.
-jcr
Instead of calling him a racist, you could suggest that it's the society that is in tune with the environment, and not the race.
Most materials aren't reflective enough, the people who make laser etching machines can tell you how even the best mirrors (gold, polished to under a 1/4 wavelength) are only 80% reflective. That means 20% is being absorbed as heat. With enough power, you could burn through anything.
Slashdot Mirror
It is without children?
(Il est sans fille)?
Where do these tags come from?
Still, 1% might be too much
Sorry if you thought I was trolling, wasn't my intention.
That way you wouldn't have to take any measures to stop others from knowing your private stuff.
However, we value our privacy, so care about big broogle.
None of my friends, teachers or relatives knew about ID either (except my brother, who reads slashdot ocasionally), so I'll extrapolate that to Latin America.
Do cybercafes in the US have some weird upload cap?
Go to a cybercafe -> fast and cheap
They shouldn't count PCs, they have many more uses than just the internet.
Also, pirates counter global warming...
Well, evidently I am commenting on slashdot, while I have no plans to do so when following some random link. Of course, if the providers are more interested in profit and pushing for new members than in actually serving the content, fine. Thing is, it's not nice having to suscribe to every random website I wanna go to.
And it's particularly annoying when some results in google for programming questions or datasheets are just teasers to get you to buy some subscription to their service.
Most materials aren't reflective enough, the people who make laser etching machines can tell you how even the best mirrors (gold, polished to under a 1/4 wavelength) are only 80% reflective. That means 20% is being absorbed as heat. With enough power, you could burn through anything.