Our chief weapons are Fear, Torture, and using mass media advertising beacon triangulation software to categorize you "shoppers" for mass extermination - um "reeducation" - in concentration camps - um, "citizenship experience chambers".
Here's the thing, though: as they say, they buy "the cheapest" they can. WD has very clearly defined categories of drives, and they don't even try to claim that "the cheapest" are by any means either the most performant or the most reliable. If you want those, you have to get the yellow (enterprise) or black drives. Of course, other manufacturers might have categories too, but Seagate doesn't really... it just has regular and "enterprise". So it's not surprising that the cheapest WD drives have the rates they do... because they're the least reliable drives they try to make.
50 C temps in Australia this decade (40 C temps now).
Halfway up the Rockies in Canada (Kootenays) they are having very very low snowfall - only one meter instead of three meters.
Massive 1000 year floods in Calgary are the new normal.
Get ready for climate change, boys and girls, cause it's coming and China's pushing it as hard as possible by increasing coal plants 6x this next year.
It's more about methodology. We're used to taking fuzzy raw data and developing techniques to isolate and quantify important things in messy data sets.
Most people in intel sadly believe their own data, even when it doesn't match reality. Can't tell you how many times that happened.
Incorrect. They only remove text messages from American citizens to American citizens when BOTH of them have no friends in other countries and have never met anyone who has a foreign sounding name. Like Smythe. Or Gonzalez. Or Romney. Or Colbert. Those are suspicious.
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There is no "Login with Slashdot?".
Or "Log in" with Slashdot?
Page title uses "Log-in". Any other permutations?
Logan's Run?
How about calling it AOL*Lite?
Next thing you know, you'll do a dead tree edition.
Our chief weapons are Fear, Torture, and using mass media advertising beacon triangulation software to categorize you "shoppers" for mass extermination - um "reeducation" - in concentration camps - um, "citizenship experience chambers".
Here's the thing, though: as they say, they buy "the cheapest" they can. WD has very clearly defined categories of drives, and they don't even try to claim that "the cheapest" are by any means either the most performant or the most reliable. If you want those, you have to get the yellow (enterprise) or black drives. Of course, other manufacturers might have categories too, but Seagate doesn't really... it just has regular and "enterprise".
So it's not surprising that the cheapest WD drives have the rates they do... because they're the least reliable drives they try to make.
Ah, that might explain it.
Probably sold out - bygones
Have to agree. We used to love SeaGate and despise WD - but now you can get 5 TB WD drives on NewEgg for a couple hundred bucks.
We've been spying on you since at least the 70s, and it's only accelerated since 2000.
Everything else is just sound and fury, signifying no real change, other than a lack of privacy.
In the 80s I used to drive long distances, in the 90s I drove half an hour to get to work, and took road trips.
In the Aughties I started taking the bus most of the time.
In this decade I mostly walk or bus to work, rarely use the car anymore.
I think we've reached #PeakCar already.
Snow pack in the West is less than one half of typical years.
A cold snap like the East just has used to be far more common.
They already sell plug-in diesel electric trucks in Canada.
Why are you subsidizing the Middle East?
50 C temps in Australia this decade (40 C temps now).
Halfway up the Rockies in Canada (Kootenays) they are having very very low snowfall - only one meter instead of three meters.
Massive 1000 year floods in Calgary are the new normal.
Get ready for climate change, boys and girls, cause it's coming and China's pushing it as hard as possible by increasing coal plants 6x this next year.
Period.
A math PhD is not the same as a PhD in biostatistics or something where the data has a higher noise to signal ratio and a higher fuzziness ratio.
Quants can't figure out that sometimes they're using the wrong tool set.
You don't think that the NSA employs any Statisticians with PhDs? Really?
I didn't say they didn't have any.
Just not enough GOOD ones.
Especially ones used to noisier environments, like biostatisticians.
Quite serious.
It's more about methodology. We're used to taking fuzzy raw data and developing techniques to isolate and quantify important things in messy data sets.
Most people in intel sadly believe their own data, even when it doesn't match reality. Can't tell you how many times that happened.
Just think of them as someone from Russia or Pakistan - they tell you the lies that make you think they aren't about to backstab you.
Also true. We then use the "analysis" data that we sent to the other country to "process" as "foreign intelligence trusted sources".
Face it, if you don't have a Blackphone running your own encryption algorithms for messaging, it's in there.
Incorrect. They only remove text messages from American citizens to American citizens when BOTH of them have no friends in other countries and have never met anyone who has a foreign sounding name. Like Smythe. Or Gonzalez. Or Romney. Or Colbert. Those are suspicious.
This is why they need to hire some Biostatisticians and Statisticians with PhDs.
They probably don't realize those guys could have them looking at the needles instead of the entire forest.
Agreed. Time to insist on our Constitutional Rights.
And some guillotines.
Sadly, they don't give those to the SEC to prosecute.
Let's be honest after retirement you're just chilling in the waiting room while you wait for death to call your number.
I'll tell that to my dad who became a professor in his 60s
Technically, you can't have dementia in your teens.
Early onset is usually in the 40s.
Get back to me after a disease kills off or renders ineffective half of your population.
A lot what we do keeps people from dying from non-rare diseases. The exotic diseases just get more press.