I thought the same thing, which is why I bought a used 10-tape Exabyte library for my home network. And then I found CrashPlan and its ilk (MozyBackup, etc), and realized:
Statistically, yes, tapes are more reliable than disk - but not perfectly reliable. Which means you need to check them every once in a while to make sure you still have the backups you think you do. And if you're going to fetch the tapes once in a while, it's not any harder to fetch the disks. And if you're fetching the disks every once in a while, it's not any harder (once you've written the software) to maintain the equivalent of a nearline RAID array; any one platter can fail without you losing a byte of data. Now, disks are MORE reliable than your never-verified tapes, and cheaper too.
Oh, and once you're storing your archives on disk, you can do things like automatic x-deltas, versioning, pruning to a grandfather-father-son history, etc. as part of automatic maintenance. And you can maintain eventual consistency with off-site storage. And the list goes on.
Don't I have to give out my account number for a wire transfer to happen?
Technically, you're giving out the same information either way. Write me a check, and you've just given me your routing number and account number - they're at the bottom of every check.
Psychologically, though, many people feel the same way; wire transfers are viewed as more intrusive, at least in the US. Sure, I'll sell you this car right now - just give me your bank account number and routing number. No? OK, you can just write me a check instead.
Besides, if video on Wikipedia is anything like images on Wikipedia, when you click on it, it won't play the video. Instead, it'll take you to a page of details about the resolution, frame rate, codec, etc. On that page will be a bunch of text links that take you to a page that plays the video.
The security industry has failed to protect paying customers from some of today's most pernicious threats.
In a related story, the National Building Code and the construction industry have failed to protect homes and offices from burglaries.
We keep trying to solve a social and economic problem with cryptography. Deadbolts are nice, but crime is a problem that can't be addressed solely by architecture.
At that point, though, are they even scalping? I hate scalpers, but if they're taking specific pre-orders for specific concerts from specific people, what differentiates them from paid line-standers?
Which trade ban? (I'm serious; the only thing I can turn up in Google is a nuclear trade ban.) There were plenty of bright Indian DBAs and programmers coming to the US on work visas long before Bush. It was the ubiquity of global high-speed Internet that made it feasible for U.S. companies to outsource the labor instead of import it.
I've been thinking of setting up that sort of sandbox; right now, my Paypal is tied directly to my one and only checking account. But does Paypal ever withdraw (or un-deposit) money from your bank account? I've seen dozens of horror stories where they freeze your Paypal account, or put transactions on 21-day hold, but a sandbox wouldn't help there. I don't recall seeing them actually pulling money from your bank account since their early days (pre-eBay).
Unless you are actually a contender for the Olympics, thinking about being stronger and faster is both a waste of time and harmful. Will you actually be a finalist? Really? If not, your main objective should be to fit out the door. Hopefully, sponsors flock to you. Good for you, you'll have your work cut out for you training in the pre-season.
Or you watch the Olympics on TV like the rest of us. That sucks, but much less so than if you had spent months of effort cutting your times by a hundredth of a second. "Training" is merely a different form of premature optimization, and it is just as harmful.
The GNN browser was actually Internetworks, from a Massachusetts company called BookLink; it was also the embedded AOL browser for the first few versions before IE replaced it.
(And the GNN server was NaviServer, from CA-based NaviSoft. And the Mac client used a different browser, whose name I can no longer remember.)
Apparently it works somewhat-not-unlike a packet-switched network, periodically connecting garbage and recycling loads from different places to the appropriate suction via the same set of tubes.
It was initially supposed to handle grocery delivery as well, but... routing problems.
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I thought the same thing, which is why I bought a used 10-tape Exabyte library for my home network. And then I found CrashPlan and its ilk (MozyBackup, etc), and realized:
Statistically, yes, tapes are more reliable than disk - but not perfectly reliable. Which means you need to check them every once in a while to make sure you still have the backups you think you do. And if you're going to fetch the tapes once in a while, it's not any harder to fetch the disks. And if you're fetching the disks every once in a while, it's not any harder (once you've written the software) to maintain the equivalent of a nearline RAID array; any one platter can fail without you losing a byte of data. Now, disks are MORE reliable than your never-verified tapes, and cheaper too.
Oh, and once you're storing your archives on disk, you can do things like automatic x-deltas, versioning, pruning to a grandfather-father-son history, etc. as part of automatic maintenance. And you can maintain eventual consistency with off-site storage. And the list goes on.
That's the trouble with it - you can know its sensitivity or its resolution, but not both, and the act of measuring one changes the other.
Technically, you're giving out the same information either way. Write me a check, and you've just given me your routing number and account number - they're at the bottom of every check.
Psychologically, though, many people feel the same way; wire transfers are viewed as more intrusive, at least in the US. Sure, I'll sell you this car right now - just give me your bank account number and routing number. No? OK, you can just write me a check instead.
Besides, if video on Wikipedia is anything like images on Wikipedia, when you click on it, it won't play the video. Instead, it'll take you to a page of details about the resolution, frame rate, codec, etc. On that page will be a bunch of text links that take you to a page that plays the video.
But what if we don't have any senators? For instance, I live in Massachusetts.
If this were a widespread scam, you'd have caught us at it by now.
In a related story, the National Building Code and the construction industry have failed to protect homes and offices from burglaries.
We keep trying to solve a social and economic problem with cryptography. Deadbolts are nice, but crime is a problem that can't be addressed solely by architecture.
Man, you people complain when projects are behind schedule, you complain when projects are -ahead- of schedule... Slashdotters are never happy.
Which is objectively more important: world hunger, or one cup of coffee?
Now that you've said "world hunger", how can you possibly drink coffee when you could be contributing the money to help world hunger?
Next up: Ice cream. Oh, it's on, baby.
At that point, though, are they even scalping? I hate scalpers, but if they're taking specific pre-orders for specific concerts from specific people, what differentiates them from paid line-standers?
OK, I'm going to go take high school physics now.
I never even took high school physics, but show me a two-body collision in which the direction of travel was not "toward each other"...
When an unmanned satellite nearly hits an ejected rocket stage... what exactly counts as a head-on collision? Would it be safer if it was side-impact?
about the guy who fatally overdosed on homeopathic medicine?
He forgot to take it.
Which trade ban? (I'm serious; the only thing I can turn up in Google is a nuclear trade ban.) There were plenty of bright Indian DBAs and programmers coming to the US on work visas long before Bush. It was the ubiquity of global high-speed Internet that made it feasible for U.S. companies to outsource the labor instead of import it.
I've been thinking of setting up that sort of sandbox; right now, my Paypal is tied directly to my one and only checking account. But does Paypal ever withdraw (or un-deposit) money from your bank account? I've seen dozens of horror stories where they freeze your Paypal account, or put transactions on 21-day hold, but a sandbox wouldn't help there. I don't recall seeing them actually pulling money from your bank account since their early days (pre-eBay).
Does it still happen?
Seriously? You haven't heard about the whole telecom warrantless-wiretapping thing? Any of it?
Unless you are actually a contender for the Olympics, thinking about being stronger and faster is both a waste of time and harmful. Will you actually be a finalist? Really? If not, your main objective should be to fit out the door. Hopefully, sponsors flock to you. Good for you, you'll have your work cut out for you training in the pre-season.
Or you watch the Olympics on TV like the rest of us. That sucks, but much less so than if you had spent months of effort cutting your times by a hundredth of a second. "Training" is merely a different form of premature optimization, and it is just as harmful.
It. brought. us. here.
Probably the same way it took four years before they fixed that bug you reported in [software package of your choice].
No, this is their signal that they wouldn't mind having $5.5 billion dollars around that doesn't depend on Google.
The GNN browser was actually Internetworks, from a Massachusetts company called BookLink; it was also the embedded AOL browser for the first few versions before IE replaced it.
(And the GNN server was NaviServer, from CA-based NaviSoft. And the Mac client used a different browser, whose name I can no longer remember.)
It was initially supposed to handle grocery delivery as well, but... routing problems.
Easy. First stop: the store that's not only notorious for NOT advertising, but for banning anyone who so much as mentions them on the web: T---
Hey, wait a minute.
Finally, an answer that will appeal to all the faith-based populists:
"You know who ELSE doesn't believe in global warming? Russia."