Think about that again, only this time make it a women's league. How has your attitude changed?
Uh, I'm thinking a career change to "elderly newspaper writer" is in the cards? With my luck, they'll assign the noob (that being me) to the womens sumo wrestling team instead of beach volleyball.
If she actually takes the hit, and stops the car in its tracks, instead of being critically injured by it, then yes, she's ten times Brian Urlacher in my eyes.
Pro football players are occasionally critically injured while playing, and I think they should get credit for trying. So should granny in this scenario.
You make a boot floppy that defined your hardware.
The tradition of running a sysgen program to make config changes goes back a couple decades further, in the mainframe and minicomputer world. MVS, TOPS-10, OS/8, you name it.
Also, in the early linux pre modular kernel era, we did the same thing. I'm talking pre '95, pre version 1.2, or maybe version 1.3.
I try to walk away for five minutes every hour, two at the most. This makes a bigger difference than you might think.
This is also vital for deep vein thrombosis prevention, spinal posture related issues, keeping properly hydrated, the eyestrain issue you already mentioned... Also eliminates or reduces sleepiness and daydreaming.
Also if you're not just grinding, but actually thinking, a physical perspective change and a pause in the thinking for a couple minutes can often result in higher total overall productivity. If you're mind's blank, staring even harder at the whiteboard doesn't help nearly as much as a short walk. Occasionally surfing slashdot has been scientifically proven to dramatically increase overall productivity.
I would counter your argument with "Try to play any of these kids ball games". It actually does take skill.
OK, I play kids games. My personal specialty, which happens to be "hide n seek", when compared to:
AmFootball, Baseball, Basketball, etc. and my personal favorite - soccer.
demonstrates the sillyness of adults taking a kids game too seriously. Its just a kids game.
Nothing wrong with playing kids games with the kids, or joining an amateur league to meet people and/or an excuse to drink some beer after the game and/or an excuse for cardiovascular fitness.
I'm making fun of something entirely different, the pro athletes and fans that take those kids games waaaaaay too seriously, the sports media that (exclusively?) narrowcasts at a room temperature IQ level, the dumb arguments that if it doesn't involve a ball like object flying thru the air its not a "real sport" etc.
Any time you hear someone live or on TV yelling and screaming about some sports related topic, hey, its just a kids game.
The "sportyness" is in the endless practicing and learning how not to damage joints, tendons, ligaments, etc. Eating the right foods, supplements, etc. Balancing lifting with at least some cardio to get the fat percentage low enough. Also there is some real world utility to being strong, its more "serious" or "adult" than moving a ball around by kicking it or tossing it.
SCUBA diving
My mistake, I meant the guys whom are paid huge money to weld, repair ships, work on shallow water offshore oil facilities, etc. Those dudes are hard core athletes, the muscular ability required is way beyond watching the tropical fish from underwater. The kind of guy whom relaxes when he gets out of the water, not when hes in the water.
Football players aren't real athletes? Let see you take a hit from a 280 pound person that moves like a gazelle.
So, a little old lady whom takes a hit by a 3K pound car must be approximately ten times more of a "real" athlete than a football player?
You might want o rethink criticizing other peoples intellect until you've sharpened your ability to have a discussion.
You sound like someone who insults mathematicians because you don't understand the subject
I'm referring to the intellectual level of the coverage on ESPN, and to some extent the culture of willful stupidity that surrounds it. Try watching it sometime. Note, I used to be highly interested in football, watch all the Packers games. Its a game of considerable tactical maneuvering, strategic insight, logistical long term planning. That's what I got out of it, anyway. What I see in ESPN and media sports coverage in general is a bunch of "grunt grunt yell look at that hit grunt grunt" on to the next story, probably about the soap opera drama of the players, which actually has nothing to do with the game or sports itself. There's too much junk to filter to bother watching anymore.
You comments is stupid.
Well sorry if I hit a little too close to home with you. I'll stick to less controversial topics, like bashing religion and race in the future. Geeze. It's just a kids game, nothing to get worked up about.
That said, I think football and soccer would be funnier if the scoring team tea-bagged their rivals every time they made a point.
Turnabout is fair play, you really want the halo team to dance, hug each other, and rub each others butts after a kill and then take a shower together after the game, while the elderly newspaper writers watch, er, I mean interview them? I could do without that creepy stuff.
Almost no one watches real athletes like mountain climbers, weight lifters, soldiers qualifications courses, or deep sea divers. No one watches real gamers like hard core strategic wargamers. Just big steroid addicts playing kids ball games, and twitchy shooters.
Another similarity is the media coverage is scripted to an intellectual level that makes a typical Noggin/Nick Jr/PBS Sprout cartoon sound like PHD thesis material. Ever catch some ESPN while working out in the gym? All simple one syllable words, lots of grunting.
That's how we wore ours out. They claim we scraped all the plating away, corrosion set in.
We test our ATS's quarterly
We ran our generator same day every week for a half hour under actual load. Got to keep the diesel fresh and get the engine oil hot thus water-free. I suppose it depends on the climate.
The useful lifetime of the building is just -slightly- longer than the useful lifetime of the computer, you know ?
Careful careful, nothing public schools like to do more than grub for money by holding press conferences showing the kids are still using textbooks from 1970.
Maintaining 10 quad-seat machines should be less job than maintaining 40 single-seat ones.
Unless they have a dell onsite service contract for the off the shelf 40 single seats so downtime is minimal, but the weird quad seat things need mail order or ebay type repairs. Generic is always cheaper than niche name brand.
I know, that they don't know, that you exist, and they'll be very excited to meet you. They/us think the best thing out there is the Luxeons series, and I think they'll find your website very interesting indeed.
Could Sherline (and other US manufacturers) scale up production to meet demand if we no longer imported the Chinese shit? And at what cost?
Well, machine tools, ironically, are made by computer controlled machine tools. So, its kind of like that bacterial growth thing where one bacteria with an infinite supply of food could replicate itself into the mass of the moon in a month or whatever. So this is a very poor example. Better doom scenario would be, say, the Japanese car manufacturers falling off the face of the earth, that would be trouble indeed, because it takes so long to build a car factory.
Then again, demand is not that great in the depths of the Great Recession. So, you might be wondering how the factory is going to handle a move from 100% demand to 200% demand, but I'm thinking its going from 75% capacity with first shift only, to maybe 75% capacity first, second, and maybe a third shift. No big deal, really. And you can always farm stuff out, temporarily. I'm sure there are plenty of small business owners would would like to get a piece of the action. Personally I have the education, tools, skills, and time to assemble and test motor controllers, maybe I'd get a nice side job out of it, or more likely someone nearby them in CA would get the contract.
There is not exactly a shortage of unemployed blue collar workers, a shortage of surplus machine tools, a shortage of empty factory space, a shortage of raw material (weird rare earths used in motors excepted, etc). Now if that happened at the absolute peak of the boom rather than now during the depths of the Great Recession, you might have a problem, yeah. But at 20% unemployment per shadowstats.org, I'm thinking we have a wee bit of excess capacity that could handle quite an extra load.
As for cost, the banks control that, as most businesses operate on Net30 agreements and capital expenditure loans and such. This specific example is way too easy as master machinists use machine tools to... make more machine tools... etc until the entire mass of the earths crust is CNC milling machines. Which would be very interesting to see. So they can grow organically, but other companies might have a bit of trouble.
And don't forget that Sherline is by no means alone. Their competitor Taig Machine Tools is also made in the USA... If Sherline doesn't scale up fast enough, Taig will eat their lunch. Or vice versa.
Really, you want to run VGA/DVI cables around your house instead?
I'm going to have to run AC to each frame anyway, since I'm not going to have extension cords dangling everywhere, so may as well run some VGA. Pulling cables is one of those things that people whom don't know how think is some sort of unlearnable gift, but once you know how, it's merely a grimy filthy task.
Haven't you heard of converting older laptops into picture frames?
Yes and being the handy guy that I am I could do it easily, but I'm not too comfortable hanging that on the wall, each one is extremely bulky heavy and full of moving parts hard drives and cooling fans. Its possible to invest "tens of dollars" and "a hundred hours" each, but my lifestyle at this time is a bit better oriented toward "a hundred dollars" and minutes of cable pulling for each. And with my luck, the week after I finish, the screen backlight will finally wear out, or the kids will knock it off the wall, and I get to start all over again.
I have to believe there are WiFi-enabled picture frames out there...
Yes, they do, and that is the aforementioned insane subscription model. You should see some of the knee slapping BS in the marketing material for those devices. We are to believe that in this era of multicore GHZ class CPUs, a hundred MHZ CPU could never handle the processing involved in displaying a VGA class picture on a screen, so they need to stick their heads in as middle men and collect a substantial monthly fee, despite my real world experience viewing VGA pictures on a XT class 8 MHZ computer in the 80s.
At the time, we had all our WLAN connections carried through Bell Canada VIA Frame circuits.
Was it ever possible to buy a frame relay switch that doesn't have an automatically rerouting ATM backbone as the underlaying technology? As far as I know, the answer is no.
ended up taking down all our frame services north of Edmonton
Somebody's got a single point of failure in Edmonton. Huge design mistake, not inherent technological limitation.
I worked for a carrier for many years that was properly designed. PVCs would drop over the dead trunk and reroute over the live trunk transparently, assuming you were using a real packet based protocol like TCP/IP and not SNA/SDLC where a dropped packet means reset the SNA communications controller...
It sucked, but I really feel bad for the poor guy that drilled through the wrong pipe.
The dude with the drill might be in ice cold Edmonton water. But the dude whom designed in the single point of failure in Edmonton is probably in really hot water.
No, because inflation would render those nickels worthless.
Recently, the value of the nickel content in a nickel briefly exceeded 5 cents. If the cost of everything, including nickel metal, exploded up by a factor of ten, then you'd be able to buy nickels at the bank or whatever for 5 cents and melt them into nickel ingots worth 50 cents. You'd be OK. Metals "always" hold value during inflation. Even hyperinflation, in that case especially if the metal happens to be cast and jacketed lead...
The criminal justice system of Dallas - maybe not in the same category.
No. Real high availability is like the AC power to the respirator in a hospital surgical room.
The criminal justice system of Dallas was closed exactly one week ago today for the holiday. Giving the parole officers, judges, juries, attorneys off is no big deal. The inmates, unless they had a trial scheduled today, frankly probably won't know the difference.
There should always be duplication of critical components of a system with the intention of increasing reliability of the system,
Yeah that might be the intent, but it only works if the combined reliability is higher than individual reliability. Transfer switches I'm looking at you! I have worked at numerous facilities with data centers, and inevitably the transfer switch is less reliable than either wall AC power, or the diesels (youch!). Yes I know exactly what I'm saying, that at every facility I've worked at, power reliability would have been higher without the transfer switch and the generators. But its politically incorrect as the rare wall AC power failure would be unacceptable unless we spent money on switches and gens. As long as you spend money on switches and gens, any low level of reliability is acceptable.
Your mileage may vary, maybe coastie cities have less reliable power. Don't know.
Traditionally, facilities with that level of management oversight don't even have backups. No not backup centers or facilities or hardware, I'm talking about backup tapes. Am I right or wrong?
I know rotating hard drives don't like immersion. Are SSDs any better, or do they die from galvanic corrosion? It might be an interesting race, which will survive longest.
Ooops, ye misspelled "release of hidden war crimes evidence"
I want our side to be the good guys. I really do. I served in our armed forces some decades ago and if anyone would sympathize with them it would be me. The problem is, we are not the good guys, our side is the war criminals, and I strongly wish that were not the case. I'll sympathize with them and excuse them and definitely forgive them, they're just doing the best that a bunch of kids can do in an horrible scenario with horrible conditions and awful leadership at the top, its not intentional its just an accident of the stress and exhaustion of combat. But fundamentally, a war crime is a war crime and pretending otherwise and not admitting it is irrational.
We are poor in the sense that you are a jealous ass that doesnt know how well off you are.
Oh, I'm well aware indeed. The lifestyle you describe is for us few remaining middle class folks.
Now everyone has one.
We can feed ourselves for a month on one to two days of salary.
Technology is now hyper-disposable because we are insanely rich. Period. You are rich.
Yes, us rich extremely highly technically trained slashdotters. Joe 6 pack at the median income? No freaking way. Yes I personally am kind of rich, not quite up to the "no longer need to work" level or "buy my own tropical island" level, and I get the feeling you're vaguely near my situation, but everyone is by no means at that point. At the national median income level, your preposterous assumption that one days work feeds you for a month comes out, after taxes and split amongst a family of four, to about one can of soda per person per meal. Or maybe a big bowl of rice instead. Not exactly the steak and shrimp lifestyle I enjoy.
Individuals in our society throws away the equivalent of a billion 1950's room-sized mainframe computers as if it was nothing. You do it. I do it. We all do it.
Actually, the poor don't. They don't get health care either.
Nations have less and less control. Multinationals have more and more control. Predicted. Even the rise of the global communication network, and the exponential growth of the value of information.. predicted. Slashdot is all about putting up articles about Intelectual Property and so forth.. the very shit he predicted would be a defining concern of this age.
Agreed. But thats all for us "slashdotters" not the worlds TV watchers.
Slashdot Mirror
Think about that again, only this time make it a women's league. How has your attitude changed?
Uh, I'm thinking a career change to "elderly newspaper writer" is in the cards?
With my luck, they'll assign the noob (that being me) to the womens sumo wrestling team instead of beach volleyball.
If she actually takes the hit, and stops the car in its tracks, instead of being critically injured by it, then yes, she's ten times Brian Urlacher in my eyes.
Pro football players are occasionally critically injured while playing, and I think they should get credit for trying. So should granny in this scenario.
You make a boot floppy that defined your hardware.
The tradition of running a sysgen program to make config changes goes back a couple decades further, in the mainframe and minicomputer world. MVS, TOPS-10, OS/8, you name it.
Also, in the early linux pre modular kernel era, we did the same thing. I'm talking pre '95, pre version 1.2, or maybe version 1.3.
IIRC EFI also defines a standard way for the OS to update settings
That's "Enhanced Rootkit and Virii Support (tm)" not for the OS.
Its also bloat ware. We need bloat ware in the most basic operating software in our systems!
No, we need root kits and virii. Don't worry, I'm sure they're on the way.
If phrases like, "CMOS Settings," and, "IDE Controller," aren't descriptive enough for you, or they seem complicated and semi-unintelligible
Replaced with icons that look meaningless like squashed bugs, and names like "My CMOS Settings" and "My IDE Controller"
And Clippy. Don't forget Clippy.
I try to walk away for five minutes every hour, two at the most. This makes a bigger difference than you might think.
This is also vital for deep vein thrombosis prevention, spinal posture related issues, keeping properly hydrated, the eyestrain issue you already mentioned... Also eliminates or reduces sleepiness and daydreaming.
Also if you're not just grinding, but actually thinking, a physical perspective change and a pause in the thinking for a couple minutes can often result in higher total overall productivity. If you're mind's blank, staring even harder at the whiteboard doesn't help nearly as much as a short walk. Occasionally surfing slashdot has been scientifically proven to dramatically increase overall productivity.
I would counter your argument with "Try to play any of these kids ball games". It actually does take skill.
OK, I play kids games. My personal specialty, which happens to be "hide n seek", when compared to:
AmFootball, Baseball, Basketball, etc. and my personal favorite - soccer.
demonstrates the sillyness of adults taking a kids game too seriously. Its just a kids game.
Nothing wrong with playing kids games with the kids, or joining an amateur league to meet people and/or an excuse to drink some beer after the game and/or an excuse for cardiovascular fitness.
I'm making fun of something entirely different, the pro athletes and fans that take those kids games waaaaaay too seriously, the sports media that (exclusively?) narrowcasts at a room temperature IQ level, the dumb arguments that if it doesn't involve a ball like object flying thru the air its not a "real sport" etc.
Any time you hear someone live or on TV yelling and screaming about some sports related topic, hey, its just a kids game.
I lift weights.
The "sportyness" is in the endless practicing and learning how not to damage joints, tendons, ligaments, etc. Eating the right foods, supplements, etc. Balancing lifting with at least some cardio to get the fat percentage low enough. Also there is some real world utility to being strong, its more "serious" or "adult" than moving a ball around by kicking it or tossing it.
SCUBA diving
My mistake, I meant the guys whom are paid huge money to weld, repair ships, work on shallow water offshore oil facilities, etc. Those dudes are hard core athletes, the muscular ability required is way beyond watching the tropical fish from underwater. The kind of guy whom relaxes when he gets out of the water, not when hes in the water.
Football players aren't real athletes? Let see you take a hit from a 280 pound person that moves like a gazelle.
So, a little old lady whom takes a hit by a 3K pound car must be approximately ten times more of a "real" athlete than a football player?
You might want o rethink criticizing other peoples intellect until you've sharpened your ability to have a discussion.
You sound like someone who insults mathematicians because you don't understand the subject
I'm referring to the intellectual level of the coverage on ESPN, and to some extent the culture of willful stupidity that surrounds it. Try watching it sometime. Note, I used to be highly interested in football, watch all the Packers games. Its a game of considerable tactical maneuvering, strategic insight, logistical long term planning. That's what I got out of it, anyway. What I see in ESPN and media sports coverage in general is a bunch of "grunt grunt yell look at that hit grunt grunt" on to the next story, probably about the soap opera drama of the players, which actually has nothing to do with the game or sports itself. There's too much junk to filter to bother watching anymore.
You comments is stupid.
Well sorry if I hit a little too close to home with you. I'll stick to less controversial topics, like bashing religion and race in the future. Geeze. It's just a kids game, nothing to get worked up about.
That said, I think football and soccer would be funnier if the scoring team tea-bagged their rivals every time they made a point.
Turnabout is fair play, you really want the halo team to dance, hug each other, and rub each others butts after a kill and then take a shower together after the game, while the elderly newspaper writers watch, er, I mean interview them? I could do without that creepy stuff.
They both get overpaid to play a childs game.
Almost no one watches real athletes like mountain climbers, weight lifters, soldiers qualifications courses, or deep sea divers. No one watches real gamers like hard core strategic wargamers. Just big steroid addicts playing kids ball games, and twitchy shooters.
Another similarity is the media coverage is scripted to an intellectual level that makes a typical Noggin/Nick Jr/PBS Sprout cartoon sound like PHD thesis material. Ever catch some ESPN while working out in the gym? All simple one syllable words, lots of grunting.
Test, test, and test.
That's how we wore ours out. They claim we scraped all the plating away, corrosion set in.
We test our ATS's quarterly
We ran our generator same day every week for a half hour under actual load. Got to keep the diesel fresh and get the engine oil hot thus water-free. I suppose it depends on the climate.
The useful lifetime of the building is just -slightly- longer than the useful lifetime of the computer, you know ?
Careful careful, nothing public schools like to do more than grub for money by holding press conferences showing the kids are still using textbooks from 1970.
Maintaining 10 quad-seat machines should be less job than maintaining 40 single-seat ones.
Unless they have a dell onsite service contract for the off the shelf 40 single seats so downtime is minimal, but the weird quad seat things need mail order or ebay type repairs. Generic is always cheaper than niche name brand.
Now that is extremely cool.
Let me introduce you to your rabid future fan club, over at:
http://modulatedlight.org/
I know, that they don't know, that you exist, and they'll be very excited to meet you. They/us think the best thing out there is the Luxeons series, and I think they'll find your website very interesting indeed.
Could Sherline (and other US manufacturers) scale up production to meet demand if we no longer imported the Chinese shit? And at what cost?
Well, machine tools, ironically, are made by computer controlled machine tools. So, its kind of like that bacterial growth thing where one bacteria with an infinite supply of food could replicate itself into the mass of the moon in a month or whatever. So this is a very poor example. Better doom scenario would be, say, the Japanese car manufacturers falling off the face of the earth, that would be trouble indeed, because it takes so long to build a car factory.
Then again, demand is not that great in the depths of the Great Recession. So, you might be wondering how the factory is going to handle a move from 100% demand to 200% demand, but I'm thinking its going from 75% capacity with first shift only, to maybe 75% capacity first, second, and maybe a third shift. No big deal, really. And you can always farm stuff out, temporarily. I'm sure there are plenty of small business owners would would like to get a piece of the action. Personally I have the education, tools, skills, and time to assemble and test motor controllers, maybe I'd get a nice side job out of it, or more likely someone nearby them in CA would get the contract.
There is not exactly a shortage of unemployed blue collar workers, a shortage of surplus machine tools, a shortage of empty factory space, a shortage of raw material (weird rare earths used in motors excepted, etc). Now if that happened at the absolute peak of the boom rather than now during the depths of the Great Recession, you might have a problem, yeah. But at 20% unemployment per shadowstats.org, I'm thinking we have a wee bit of excess capacity that could handle quite an extra load.
As for cost, the banks control that, as most businesses operate on Net30 agreements and capital expenditure loans and such. This specific example is way too easy as master machinists use machine tools to ... make more machine tools ... etc until the entire mass of the earths crust is CNC milling machines. Which would be very interesting to see. So they can grow organically, but other companies might have a bit of trouble.
And don't forget that Sherline is by no means alone. Their competitor Taig Machine Tools is also made in the USA... If Sherline doesn't scale up fast enough, Taig will eat their lunch. Or vice versa.
Really, you want to run VGA/DVI cables around your house instead?
I'm going to have to run AC to each frame anyway, since I'm not going to have extension cords dangling everywhere, so may as well run some VGA. Pulling cables is one of those things that people whom don't know how think is some sort of unlearnable gift, but once you know how, it's merely a grimy filthy task.
Haven't you heard of converting older laptops into picture frames?
Yes and being the handy guy that I am I could do it easily, but I'm not too comfortable hanging that on the wall, each one is extremely bulky heavy and full of moving parts hard drives and cooling fans. Its possible to invest "tens of dollars" and "a hundred hours" each, but my lifestyle at this time is a bit better oriented toward "a hundred dollars" and minutes of cable pulling for each. And with my luck, the week after I finish, the screen backlight will finally wear out, or the kids will knock it off the wall, and I get to start all over again.
I have to believe there are WiFi-enabled picture frames out there...
Yes, they do, and that is the aforementioned insane subscription model. You should see some of the knee slapping BS in the marketing material for those devices. We are to believe that in this era of multicore GHZ class CPUs, a hundred MHZ CPU could never handle the processing involved in displaying a VGA class picture on a screen, so they need to stick their heads in as middle men and collect a substantial monthly fee, despite my real world experience viewing VGA pictures on a XT class 8 MHZ computer in the 80s.
At the time, we had all our WLAN connections carried through Bell Canada VIA Frame circuits.
Was it ever possible to buy a frame relay switch that doesn't have an automatically rerouting ATM backbone as the underlaying technology? As far as I know, the answer is no.
ended up taking down all our frame services north of Edmonton
Somebody's got a single point of failure in Edmonton. Huge design mistake, not inherent technological limitation.
I worked for a carrier for many years that was properly designed. PVCs would drop over the dead trunk and reroute over the live trunk transparently, assuming you were using a real packet based protocol like TCP/IP and not SNA/SDLC where a dropped packet means reset the SNA communications controller...
It sucked, but I really feel bad for the poor guy that drilled through the wrong pipe.
The dude with the drill might be in ice cold Edmonton water. But the dude whom designed in the single point of failure in Edmonton is probably in really hot water.
If this is true, shouldn't they have been prepared for a flood?
Their mistake was preparing for the burning bush, from the oil spill, instead of the flood.
No, because inflation would render those nickels worthless.
Recently, the value of the nickel content in a nickel briefly exceeded 5 cents. If the cost of everything, including nickel metal, exploded up by a factor of ten, then you'd be able to buy nickels at the bank or whatever for 5 cents and melt them into nickel ingots worth 50 cents. You'd be OK. Metals "always" hold value during inflation. Even hyperinflation, in that case especially if the metal happens to be cast and jacketed lead...
The criminal justice system of Dallas - maybe not in the same category.
No. Real high availability is like the AC power to the respirator in a hospital surgical room.
The criminal justice system of Dallas was closed exactly one week ago today for the holiday. Giving the parole officers, judges, juries, attorneys off is no big deal. The inmates, unless they had a trial scheduled today, frankly probably won't know the difference.
There should always be duplication of critical components of a system with the intention of increasing reliability of the system,
Yeah that might be the intent, but it only works if the combined reliability is higher than individual reliability. Transfer switches I'm looking at you! I have worked at numerous facilities with data centers, and inevitably the transfer switch is less reliable than either wall AC power, or the diesels (youch!). Yes I know exactly what I'm saying, that at every facility I've worked at, power reliability would have been higher without the transfer switch and the generators. But its politically incorrect as the rare wall AC power failure would be unacceptable unless we spent money on switches and gens. As long as you spend money on switches and gens, any low level of reliability is acceptable.
Your mileage may vary, maybe coastie cities have less reliable power. Don't know.
The county does not have a backup data center
Traditionally, facilities with that level of management oversight don't even have backups. No not backup centers or facilities or hardware, I'm talking about backup tapes. Am I right or wrong?
I know rotating hard drives don't like immersion. Are SSDs any better, or do they die from galvanic corrosion? It might be an interesting race, which will survive longest.
criminally treasonous release of sensitive data
Ooops, ye misspelled "release of hidden war crimes evidence"
I want our side to be the good guys. I really do. I served in our armed forces some decades ago and if anyone would sympathize with them it would be me. The problem is, we are not the good guys, our side is the war criminals, and I strongly wish that were not the case. I'll sympathize with them and excuse them and definitely forgive them, they're just doing the best that a bunch of kids can do in an horrible scenario with horrible conditions and awful leadership at the top, its not intentional its just an accident of the stress and exhaustion of combat. But fundamentally, a war crime is a war crime and pretending otherwise and not admitting it is irrational.
We are poor in the sense that you are a jealous ass that doesnt know how well off you are.
Oh, I'm well aware indeed. The lifestyle you describe is for us few remaining middle class folks.
Now everyone has one.
We can feed ourselves for a month on one to two days of salary.
Technology is now hyper-disposable because we are insanely rich. Period. You are rich.
Yes, us rich extremely highly technically trained slashdotters. Joe 6 pack at the median income? No freaking way. Yes I personally am kind of rich, not quite up to the "no longer need to work" level or "buy my own tropical island" level, and I get the feeling you're vaguely near my situation, but everyone is by no means at that point. At the national median income level, your preposterous assumption that one days work feeds you for a month comes out, after taxes and split amongst a family of four, to about one can of soda per person per meal. Or maybe a big bowl of rice instead. Not exactly the steak and shrimp lifestyle I enjoy.
Individuals in our society throws away the equivalent of a billion 1950's room-sized mainframe computers as if it was nothing. You do it. I do it. We all do it.
Actually, the poor don't. They don't get health care either.
Nations have less and less control. Multinationals have more and more control. Predicted. Even the rise of the global communication network, and the exponential growth of the value of information.. predicted. Slashdot is all about putting up articles about Intelectual Property and so forth.. the very shit he predicted would be a defining concern of this age.
Agreed. But thats all for us "slashdotters" not the worlds TV watchers.