Also consider the fact that there are bullies out there that can grow an extreme level of hate - like Breivik - and as well there are bullied people that as long as they remain anonymous behind a handle they are reasonably protected against physical attacks.
So please save us from the world of "1984", or is it maybe the world of "Max Headroom"? Won't really matter, but it looks like the western world is going that way right now - more or less forced by the US.
You can probably print it on archive-persistent paper instead in binary form with ECC coding. Then scan it back into the system whenever necessary.
The disadvantage would be the huge amount of paper and storage facilities needed.
Personally I would go for a solution involving 2-3 independent nodes with a RAID array on each and then replication between them. At least one of these nodes shall be on a remote location to cover for any cases where a fire or theft occurs.
If you don't feel secure enough then you shall go for a "cloud storage" as a secondary backup.
Right now it seems like the best solution is to have servers that replicates the data between them and use classic hard disks.
Two or three servers with a RAID setup on each. Hotswap disks are preferred since disks do fail now and then. Synchronize between them using rsync, and have the servers at different geographical locations. (at least have one hosted at a friend - or at work.)
Another factor is that with increased experience you don't do the same mistakes again.
A young programmer may be very good and specialized in a detail making the most of a single building block while an old programmer also has the ability to break down a problem better and get it structured. And an old programmer has gained the experience that tells him where it is important to focus on problems and where it's less important. This will be extra important when you do multi-threading and concurrent access to data. It's easy to screw up those parts - especially if you are inexperienced. A young programmer can get something that works perfect as long as it runs as a single task but when there is concurrency the whole world gets into a brain hemorrhage. An experienced programmer can figure out ways around problems like that and still allow for a solution with good performance - sometimes with simple "ugly" tweaks that ensures that concurrency won't occur frequently. Those tweaks may mean that the system that should have been perfectly symmetrical in distribution of load isn't in reality but it's not visible unless you know what to look for.
An example analogy would be a motorway scenario where you have four lanes of traffic. The "ideal" scenario would have been to spread traffic on all four lanes and allow lane changes whenever necessary if one lane gets 'full'. But a lane change means interaction between lanes and can slow down the overall traffic. If traffic was locked to a single lane then the overall speed might be higher since a 110mph lane won't get interference from a 25mph lane.
Or as a system I have been working on - the previous generation had 4 threads sending commands and expecting responses from several devices (let's say 40 devices). These threads were always running, and commands for a specific device could show up in any thread. As soon as one device got "sick" and didn't answer or was slow in response this affected commands to all the other devices. A revised way of doing it was to start a device dedicated thread instead for each of the devices that were of interest. Since not all devices were of interest all the time threads could die after a time and be started when needed. This way a single malfunctioning device wouldn't have an impact on all the other devices.
The amount of nukes around today is just insane. There is no real need for the amount that exists. Keep the nuclear submarines and then have a few land based nukes on ICBM:s and you will have enough.
The only reason why there are so many is because there is a fear that none of them will reach the target before being shot down. However that risk is relatively small.
What you really shall worry about is if a nuke is smuggled into a major port in a container and go off on the ship. That would take out the port for a considerable time.
The shuttle is dumped now - for good and bad.
- It's a relatively expensive tool for space launches, which makes it bad.
- It's very versatile compared to many other solutions, which makes it good.
If the humidity is low from the beginning it might work fine, and setting up a system using evaporation of water can be very effective. In reality that method has been in use in some areas of the world for a long time. Way before the use of modern air conditioning units as seen here.
The next question here is - is this a US problem or a global problem?
I'm wondering since I bought a graphics card with a HDMI port and then a HDMI to DVI cable to be able to use a third display on my computer. If not having that cable it would have been rather annoying if it was purely for some stupid license reasons.
As customers we need to make a point sometimes to stop some stupidities.
It would help them a lot to remove those settlements that are outside the borders of Israel. Right now they look like the German extensions right before and at the beginning of WW II. Lebensraum was the term.
So Israel are very much like the Nazis - way too like to be comfortable. The differences are mostly geographical and the fact that the world actually watches them.
1. Settlements - Lebensraum. 2. Lesser people - everyone not born a Jew. 3. Concentration camp - the whole of Gaza. (OK, they don't go in and gas them, they starve them instead.)
Think of it as - what if the decision had been to allocate the whole of Florida instead for all Jews and just push away all the residents there to somewhere else without any or very little support.
You mix up the official standpoint of the US and the standpoint by action.
Look at all the action the US takes these days (actually since the beginning of the Reagan administration) and you see that the gun is what the US lives by in foreign politics, and "freedom" is a freedom from everyone not thinking "The American Way".
Being an European citizen I remember thinking when Reagan entered office "Oh Shit - WW III is coming.". If the USSR hadn't bent over we may well have had that...
I would say that if Israel is going to survive in the long run they need to get their act together and not be a general pain in the butt for all their neighbors. Especially now since the US has an economic situation that's not very promising. What if the economic aid that the US provides Israel disappears?
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The code may still be covered by copyright.
Or is it an asocial networking site? What is the difference?
What defines a social networking site? Slashdot is in reality one form - rather geeky, but also a form that actually has evolved and works.
There are limitations on Slashdot, but it's also relatively open. And the moderation system usually works.
Trolling! - on Slashdot? That hasn't happened yet!
Also consider the fact that there are bullies out there that can grow an extreme level of hate - like Breivik - and as well there are bullied people that as long as they remain anonymous behind a handle they are reasonably protected against physical attacks.
So please save us from the world of "1984", or is it maybe the world of "Max Headroom"? Won't really matter, but it looks like the western world is going that way right now - more or less forced by the US.
You can probably print it on archive-persistent paper instead in binary form with ECC coding. Then scan it back into the system whenever necessary.
The disadvantage would be the huge amount of paper and storage facilities needed.
Personally I would go for a solution involving 2-3 independent nodes with a RAID array on each and then replication between them. At least one of these nodes shall be on a remote location to cover for any cases where a fire or theft occurs.
If you don't feel secure enough then you shall go for a "cloud storage" as a secondary backup.
The downside with Adaptec is that they don't have the best performance - even with raw access to the disks through the controller.
Right now it seems like the best solution is to have servers that replicates the data between them and use classic hard disks.
Two or three servers with a RAID setup on each. Hotswap disks are preferred since disks do fail now and then. Synchronize between them using rsync, and have the servers at different geographical locations. (at least have one hosted at a friend - or at work.)
That's reserved for the triad and for the priests preaching about Trinity.
Oh - and it's also if you happen to have this video.
If only USPTO was responsible for sharing the costs of a failed patent they wouldn't allow them so easy.
Another factor is that with increased experience you don't do the same mistakes again.
A young programmer may be very good and specialized in a detail making the most of a single building block while an old programmer also has the ability to break down a problem better and get it structured. And an old programmer has gained the experience that tells him where it is important to focus on problems and where it's less important. This will be extra important when you do multi-threading and concurrent access to data. It's easy to screw up those parts - especially if you are inexperienced. A young programmer can get something that works perfect as long as it runs as a single task but when there is concurrency the whole world gets into a brain hemorrhage. An experienced programmer can figure out ways around problems like that and still allow for a solution with good performance - sometimes with simple "ugly" tweaks that ensures that concurrency won't occur frequently. Those tweaks may mean that the system that should have been perfectly symmetrical in distribution of load isn't in reality but it's not visible unless you know what to look for.
An example analogy would be a motorway scenario where you have four lanes of traffic. The "ideal" scenario would have been to spread traffic on all four lanes and allow lane changes whenever necessary if one lane gets 'full'. But a lane change means interaction between lanes and can slow down the overall traffic. If traffic was locked to a single lane then the overall speed might be higher since a 110mph lane won't get interference from a 25mph lane.
Or as a system I have been working on - the previous generation had 4 threads sending commands and expecting responses from several devices (let's say 40 devices). These threads were always running, and commands for a specific device could show up in any thread. As soon as one device got "sick" and didn't answer or was slow in response this affected commands to all the other devices. A revised way of doing it was to start a device dedicated thread instead for each of the devices that were of interest. Since not all devices were of interest all the time threads could die after a time and be started when needed. This way a single malfunctioning device wouldn't have an impact on all the other devices.
In reality - software patents are just stupid - and the consumers has to pay.
The amount of nukes around today is just insane. There is no real need for the amount that exists. Keep the nuclear submarines and then have a few land based nukes on ICBM:s and you will have enough.
The only reason why there are so many is because there is a fear that none of them will reach the target before being shot down. However that risk is relatively small.
What you really shall worry about is if a nuke is smuggled into a major port in a container and go off on the ship. That would take out the port for a considerable time.
CPU:s are binary, then we use Octal or Hex to represent the contents of the binary structure because it's more convenient.
Not very different from any other huge organization.
The shuttle is dumped now - for good and bad.
- It's a relatively expensive tool for space launches, which makes it bad.
- It's very versatile compared to many other solutions, which makes it good.
Why not Wikileaks while you are at it?
And drop them at 4chan too while you are at it.
And when Windows 8 comes companies are still struggling to migrate from XP.
But Microsoft has control.
So now we can soon have economic swings turning from a hype to a depression in no time at all.
What takes 238 seconds today would have taken a month in old times.
I'm not sure if this is good or bad.
Nothing witty or original about it.
Just reality.
If the humidity is low from the beginning it might work fine, and setting up a system using evaporation of water can be very effective. In reality that method has been in use in some areas of the world for a long time. Way before the use of modern air conditioning units as seen here.
The next question here is - is this a US problem or a global problem?
I'm wondering since I bought a graphics card with a HDMI port and then a HDMI to DVI cable to be able to use a third display on my computer. If not having that cable it would have been rather annoying if it was purely for some stupid license reasons.
As customers we need to make a point sometimes to stop some stupidities.
It would help them a lot to remove those settlements that are outside the borders of Israel. Right now they look like the German extensions right before and at the beginning of WW II. Lebensraum was the term.
So Israel are very much like the Nazis - way too like to be comfortable. The differences are mostly geographical and the fact that the world actually watches them.
1. Settlements - Lebensraum.
2. Lesser people - everyone not born a Jew.
3. Concentration camp - the whole of Gaza. (OK, they don't go in and gas them, they starve them instead.)
Think of it as - what if the decision had been to allocate the whole of Florida instead for all Jews and just push away all the residents there to somewhere else without any or very little support.
However - who controls the border to Gaza - even to Egypt?
And I wouldn't be surprised if the Greece actions in the matter was controlled by a decent bribe - the corruption in Greece isn't unheard of.
You mix up the official standpoint of the US and the standpoint by action.
Look at all the action the US takes these days (actually since the beginning of the Reagan administration) and you see that the gun is what the US lives by in foreign politics, and "freedom" is a freedom from everyone not thinking "The American Way".
Being an European citizen I remember thinking when Reagan entered office "Oh Shit - WW III is coming.". If the USSR hadn't bent over we may well have had that...
I would say that if Israel is going to survive in the long run they need to get their act together and not be a general pain in the butt for all their neighbors. Especially now since the US has an economic situation that's not very promising. What if the economic aid that the US provides Israel disappears?