FTFA: "Seagate Technology Inc. plans to increase disk capacity by 10 times with new technology it has just patented, meaning a computer hard drive could soon be storing as much as a terabyte of data."
Now, I have a crappy little 250 gig I've been using for years. 10x 250 = 2500. How does TFA say it can increase the disk capacity 10x and get 1 tb? Increase the max theoretical storage?
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. It's not going to work very well. You are going to run out of lube and the drive is going to fry. That isn't a good thing. Since it's based on the writing to the drive, those programs which make sure to clear your data by writing random stuff to your drive a few times will actually lower the ability of the drive to function. You could have a virus which destroys your drive by writing to a drive all the time. Or you could do that yourself before the warrenty fails.
This will most limit the life of the drive. Moreso depending on applications.
The rule is the oldest guy in the majority part is President Pro Tempore. That is currently Stephens so he got the job.
If the Democrats take over Robert Byrd will once again get the job. Byrd, a former KKK member, is the most senior Democrat in the Senate. Prior to Byrd, the Proesident Pro Tempore, was Strom Thurmond who set the record for filobuster at 23 hours against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
From Wikipedia: Byrd has also referred to his Klan membership as a mistake of his youth. In 1997, he told an interviewer he'd encourage young people to become involved in politics, but: "Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena."
You're the kind of nay sayer that says that since Duke Nuke'em: Forever has been in production for the last decade it probably isn't worth caring about.
I, for one, wait with baited breath for FreeDOS 1.0, and Duke Nuke'em: Forever... which will be out "when it's done." (Read: Any day now.)
Anybody who says waiting for vaporware is like watching grass grow is just crying over spilled milk the cow jumped over the moon the queen of heart of the problem child.... Apparently there might be some psychological drawbacks to waiting on such things.
Well, the risks of a global DNA database are one thing. However, it is possible to still have the risks without you personally participating. You would be able to find anybody in the tree even if they are not already in the tree. You find a DNA sample at a crime scene and could check the database and find the biological father of the suspect, who may not even know he had a son.
Yeah, a quick database going back several generations would be pretty nice, and wouldn't require much data at all.
My point is that there is so much information in DNA it might be possible to trace every ancestor we have for thousands of years with a look at everybody's DNA as a whole. We could locate select a mutation on any single chromosome and trace that chromosome to to a specific family. We could cross reference this with other mutations on other chromosomes and after a while you would be able to put together a good family tree going back until the point where the number of individuals is too small to figure out which gene goes where. Which would be several thousand if not tens of thousands of years.
>>Although there is no gene/set of genes that determine "race" because it is a social concept, the term is most likely used when a certain combination of genes that is prevalent in a "race" is found in a person.
The point is that there is no gene or set of genes which determines race. Rather there are frequencies of genes which differ by region. In the tropic areas darker skin is more common, this is not to suggest there is a gene or gene set is unique to any group. Certainly there are probably a number of people commonly thought of as white who have a functional gene for skin melanin, just as the other allele is very likely present within other populations.
The point is, within the gene pool the divisions of "race" are artificial. Subsets of genes within a certain range are not a valid basis for anything. This is the reason the test cited by the above post is due to fail, because you can't mark any gene as being restricted to any one "race".
Genetically we are not white, black, asian, mexican, hawaiian, german, dutch, danish, irish, middle eastern, or jewish... we are human. The only time race matters is when people think that race matters.
You can however, very accurately trace lineage with genetics. Given the Y chromosomes of every man on the planet you could track down anybody's family and how related they are to any other man. Given mitochrondrial DNA you could do the same for the maternal line. Given all the genes as a whole and all the junk DNA in them, you could track down anybody and exactly how they fit into global family tree. We could trace down each individual gene to it's source and assemble an amazingly complete ancestor list (nameless ofcourse) in the process.
Genes are very very real, races on the other hand are pretty much nonsense.
The man is the President Pro Tempore. If the President, Vice President and Speaker of the House die... he becomes President of the United States....... oh shit.
Exactly. There are no real differences. Slight frequencies differences based on areas. But, there isn't really any biological race as such. It's mostly social ideas and racism.
The test is probably real, it's just that there isn't really set "race genes." There are plenty of dark skin genes in whites as well as white skin genes in blacks. It's just the frequency is really low. The genetic differences are a couple cosmetic things and they are only in lower frequency. If any "race" were removed from the gene pool, almost no genes would be removed. Those that were would probably be removed from small family groups before the gene got popular.
In any event, yeah the test is probably mostly bs.
>>The thing about the MIHOP people is that they start with the strong belief that Bush is evil. Given that, it's easy to believe he knew about 9/11 but let it happen...
Actually "let it happen" are the LIHOPs. The MIHOPs believe that they "made" it happen.
They put explosive charges in the twin towers! They guided the planes by remote! They fired a missile at the pentagon!
I personally don't have faith in the administration to have the foresight to let such a thing happen for politcal gain or to orchestrate such a plan. Which leaves me with the offical story, they were amazingly incompetent and ignored all the warning signs.
>>>>So Bush takes office, the NSA starts wiretapping everybody? >>Is there any evidence from TFA that the Bush Administration ordered the NSA to do this?
I never said Bush ordered a damned thing. I said that Bush takes office and the NSA starts wiretapping everybody. 9-11-01 -7 months == 2-11-01. This is when Clinton was out and Bush was in. I was noting that the two things happened together. I didn't suggest the former caused the latter, that would be cum hoc ergo propter hoc, which is a logical fallacy. I was just noting what was in TFA. Bush gets elected and the NSA starts wiretapping everybody.
In a couple decades somebody is going to start a great project to just check people's DNA and plug them into a world family tree. The Y and mitochrondial dna would be great, we could probably trace anybody right to their family. Similar things are being done between species where DNA tests are providing actual relationships between animals as such. Someday we will be able to find a DNA sample and even if it's not in the database we will be able to find out exactly who his parents are.
"See the NSA already started to take the civil liberties away and they wanted more so they planned out 9/11."
MIHOP == Made IT Happen On Purpose.
As if, a president so incompentent as to do nothing when the security agencies started seeing red isn't enough. He has to part of a criminal cabal to do it their damned selves.
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>>Slashdotters, on the other hand hate christians or any other person who preaches against what Slashdotters do, and will attack them.
Nonsense fellow slashdotter, that's not the party line....
Wait, you're a Christian aren't YOU! Damn it! I HATE YOU!
Bootleg unauthorized edited DVDs are bootleg unauthorized edited DVDs, they aren't lions. Get over yourself.
If I want to beat my father to death with a shovel, how does that affect you? If Mormon's aren't logical, how does that affect you?
Yeah. It is really stupid for a blue-law wielding busybody to invoke a nonsense defense. But, he really liked his copyright infringing material!
Wow, that is fricking **KINKY**!
Certainly, my right to punch ends at my nose. But, how does getting an abortion physically harm you? How does it "punch you in the nose" so to speak?
Sweet, so anybody try calling that and giving it random numbers?
FTFA: "Seagate Technology Inc. plans to increase disk capacity by 10 times with new technology it has just patented, meaning a computer hard drive could soon be storing as much as a terabyte of data."
Now, I have a crappy little 250 gig I've been using for years. 10x 250 = 2500. How does TFA say it can increase the disk capacity 10x and get 1 tb? Increase the max theoretical storage?
Yeah, but so is gum under your chair.
Tell me when they pay me to use that crap.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. It's not going to work very well. You are going to run out of lube and the drive is going to fry. That isn't a good thing. Since it's based on the writing to the drive, those programs which make sure to clear your data by writing random stuff to your drive a few times will actually lower the ability of the drive to function. You could have a virus which destroys your drive by writing to a drive all the time. Or you could do that yourself before the warrenty fails.
This will most limit the life of the drive. Moreso depending on applications.
Cute comment, but in this case, inaccurate.
Check again, moron.
Cute comment, but in this case, inaccurate.
The rule is the oldest guy in the majority part is President Pro Tempore. That is currently Stephens so he got the job.
If the Democrats take over Robert Byrd will once again get the job. Byrd, a former KKK member, is the most senior Democrat in the Senate. Prior to Byrd, the Proesident Pro Tempore, was Strom Thurmond who set the record for filobuster at 23 hours against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
From Wikipedia: Byrd has also referred to his Klan membership as a mistake of his youth. In 1997, he told an interviewer he'd encourage young people to become involved in politics, but: "Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena."
If ever there was an underrated troll post...
You're the kind of nay sayer that says that since Duke Nuke'em: Forever has been in production for the last decade it probably isn't worth caring about.
... Apparently there might be some psychological drawbacks to waiting on such things.
I, for one, wait with baited breath for FreeDOS 1.0, and Duke Nuke'em: Forever... which will be out "when it's done." (Read: Any day now.)
Anybody who says waiting for vaporware is like watching grass grow is just crying over spilled milk the cow jumped over the moon the queen of heart of the problem child.
Well, the risks of a global DNA database are one thing. However, it is possible to still have the risks without you personally participating. You would be able to find anybody in the tree even if they are not already in the tree. You find a DNA sample at a crime scene and could check the database and find the biological father of the suspect, who may not even know he had a son.
Yeah, a quick database going back several generations would be pretty nice, and wouldn't require much data at all.
My point is that there is so much information in DNA it might be possible to trace every ancestor we have for thousands of years with a look at everybody's DNA as a whole. We could locate select a mutation on any single chromosome and trace that chromosome to to a specific family. We could cross reference this with other mutations on other chromosomes and after a while you would be able to put together a good family tree going back until the point where the number of individuals is too small to figure out which gene goes where. Which would be several thousand if not tens of thousands of years.
>>Although there is no gene/set of genes that determine "race" because it is a social concept, the term is most likely used when a certain combination of genes that is prevalent in a "race" is found in a person.
The point is that there is no gene or set of genes which determines race. Rather there are frequencies of genes which differ by region. In the tropic areas darker skin is more common, this is not to suggest there is a gene or gene set is unique to any group. Certainly there are probably a number of people commonly thought of as white who have a functional gene for skin melanin, just as the other allele is very likely present within other populations.
The point is, within the gene pool the divisions of "race" are artificial. Subsets of genes within a certain range are not a valid basis for anything. This is the reason the test cited by the above post is due to fail, because you can't mark any gene as being restricted to any one "race".
Genetically we are not white, black, asian, mexican, hawaiian, german, dutch, danish, irish, middle eastern, or jewish... we are human. The only time race matters is when people think that race matters.
You can however, very accurately trace lineage with genetics. Given the Y chromosomes of every man on the planet you could track down anybody's family and how related they are to any other man. Given mitochrondrial DNA you could do the same for the maternal line. Given all the genes as a whole and all the junk DNA in them, you could track down anybody and exactly how they fit into global family tree. We could trace down each individual gene to it's source and assemble an amazingly complete ancestor list (nameless ofcourse) in the process.
Genes are very very real, races on the other hand are pretty much nonsense.
Show some respect!
... ... oh shit.
The man is the President Pro Tempore. If the President, Vice President and Speaker of the House die... he becomes President of the United States.
People that disconnected from peers should be beaten with a broken pipe. He's not the only one with metaphors.
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Exactly. There are no real differences. Slight frequencies differences based on areas. But, there isn't really any biological race as such. It's mostly social ideas and racism.
The test is probably real, it's just that there isn't really set "race genes." There are plenty of dark skin genes in whites as well as white skin genes in blacks. It's just the frequency is really low. The genetic differences are a couple cosmetic things and they are only in lower frequency. If any "race" were removed from the gene pool, almost no genes would be removed. Those that were would probably be removed from small family groups before the gene got popular.
In any event, yeah the test is probably mostly bs.
>>The thing about the MIHOP people is that they start with the strong belief that Bush is evil. Given that, it's easy to believe he knew about 9/11 but let it happen...
Actually "let it happen" are the LIHOPs. The MIHOPs believe that they "made" it happen.
They put explosive charges in the twin towers! They guided the planes by remote! They fired a missile at the pentagon!
I personally don't have faith in the administration to have the foresight to let such a thing happen for politcal gain or to orchestrate such a plan. Which leaves me with the offical story, they were amazingly incompetent and ignored all the warning signs.
>>>>So Bush takes office, the NSA starts wiretapping everybody?
>>Is there any evidence from TFA that the Bush Administration ordered the NSA to do this?
I never said Bush ordered a damned thing. I said that Bush takes office and the NSA starts wiretapping everybody. 9-11-01 -7 months == 2-11-01. This is when Clinton was out and Bush was in. I was noting that the two things happened together. I didn't suggest the former caused the latter, that would be cum hoc ergo propter hoc, which is a logical fallacy. I was just noting what was in TFA. Bush gets elected and the NSA starts wiretapping everybody.
In a couple decades somebody is going to start a great project to just check people's DNA and plug them into a world family tree. The Y and mitochrondial dna would be great, we could probably trace anybody right to their family. Similar things are being done between species where DNA tests are providing actual relationships between animals as such. Someday we will be able to find a DNA sample and even if it's not in the database we will be able to find out exactly who his parents are.
What? Don't you listen to Specter? They found some expired milk in the fridge or something... it was urgent!
I can see their argument now.
"See the NSA already started to take the civil liberties away and they wanted more so they planned out 9/11."
MIHOP == Made IT Happen On Purpose.
As if, a president so incompentent as to do nothing when the security agencies started seeing red isn't enough. He has to part of a criminal cabal to do it their damned selves.
So Bush takes office, the NSA starts wiretapping everybody? I bet the MIHOP nuts are going to make a mountian out of this fairly large hill.