Re:Inconsistent Press
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LHC Success!
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The big idea is that the universe is spherical. As all the matter in the universe makes its way around the sphere, it'll all eventually come together to a point, then wildly explode again in the other direction, as a cycle. Since we don't have billions of years to wait around to prove if this is true or not, we can recreate the conditions somewhat by using this collider. Instead of "all the matter in the universe," they'll collide protons.
Hopefully the explosions are small.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26641652/
We're not *all* still alive. There is that Indian girl who committed suicide because of fear of doomsday from the LHC.
Aside from RTFM, let me, as a Cleversafe employee, try to explain a bit of what's happening. Cleversafe technology allows for a client-server application where your data to be backed up is sliced up into eleven pieces using our OWN Information Dispersal Algorithm... This is not RSA as some previous posts would lead you to believe. Once the data is split using this algorithm, it is sent out to eleven different sites running our server software. When you want to restore your data (say after recovering from a hard drive failure), you begin downloading your chunks of data, which you cannot access without your private key information. When retrieving your data, up to five of the eleven "dispersed grid" servers can be absolutely unresponsive, and you can still re-assemble your data (similar to.PAR files or RAID5, only with an open-source algorithm created by us). This allows us to have a dispersed storage mechanism with no single point of failure. In actuality, grid nodes could be running different operating systems and be located around the world. A breach at a single point would, assuming someone could decrypt a slice of someone's data (not very easy to do, I'll tell you), allow someone 1/11 of someone's data. For example, you'd be able to know there's a 3 in my credit card number if it was stored on the grid. This makes the technology not only more failsafe (over 99.9% uptime, I believe was the calculation), but also extremely secure.
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The big idea is that the universe is spherical. As all the matter in the universe makes its way around the sphere, it'll all eventually come together to a point, then wildly explode again in the other direction, as a cycle. Since we don't have billions of years to wait around to prove if this is true or not, we can recreate the conditions somewhat by using this collider. Instead of "all the matter in the universe," they'll collide protons. Hopefully the explosions are small.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26641652/ We're not *all* still alive. There is that Indian girl who committed suicide because of fear of doomsday from the LHC.
Aside from RTFM, let me, as a Cleversafe employee, try to explain a bit of what's happening. Cleversafe technology allows for a client-server application where your data to be backed up is sliced up into eleven pieces using our OWN Information Dispersal Algorithm... This is not RSA as some previous posts would lead you to believe. Once the data is split using this algorithm, it is sent out to eleven different sites running our server software. When you want to restore your data (say after recovering from a hard drive failure), you begin downloading your chunks of data, which you cannot access without your private key information. When retrieving your data, up to five of the eleven "dispersed grid" servers can be absolutely unresponsive, and you can still re-assemble your data (similar to .PAR files or RAID5, only with an open-source algorithm created by us). This allows us to have a dispersed storage mechanism with no single point of failure. In actuality, grid nodes could be running different operating systems and be located around the world. A breach at a single point would, assuming someone could decrypt a slice of someone's data (not very easy to do, I'll tell you), allow someone 1/11 of someone's data. For example, you'd be able to know there's a 3 in my credit card number if it was stored on the grid. This makes the technology not only more failsafe (over 99.9% uptime, I believe was the calculation), but also extremely secure.