Backblaze, which runs 16PB of disk storage has tested drives, here is their recommendation:
We are constantly looking at new hard drives, evaluating them for reliability and power consumption. The Hitachi 3TB drive (Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630) is our current favorite for both its low power demand and astounding reliability. The Western Digital and Seagate equivalents we tested saw much higher rates of popping out of RAID arrays and drive failure. Even the Western Digital Enterprise Hard Drives had the same high failure rates. The Hitachi drives, on the other hand, perform wonderfully.
We're effectively importing the labor. If overseas call centers were illegal or had a sufficiently high tariff, then the call center jobs would come back to the US and immigrants would be seeking those jobs here.
"Last year, Social Security started paying out more than it takes in" Only in the lowest-revenue quarter. On an annual basis SS still runs a surplus. See: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/assets.html . Over a $68 billion surplus in 2010.
This is the right answer. But do NOT use any kind of RAID except RAID 1. The controller will go bad, you won't be able to find another one, and nothing else will be able to read your data. Cold storage really is not that big a risk so long as the drives get spun up every month or two. No way should it cost anything like 3k for a NAS box. A good alternative is to get 3 or more USB 2.0 RAID 1, dual drive boxes for $50 each plus the cost of drives and keep 1 on-line and 2 off site, swapping them preferably at least weekly. This avoids the connector life issue for the drives themselves, provides ~6x redundancy, and keeps the drives spun up regularly. Write a script to verify each backup cycle. Replace the whole thing about every 3 years or at the first failure.
Clearly many sites have been found north of where you claimed, so, no, you aren't right. No one is known to have been living north of the Neanderthals. Those areas were covered by ice sheets. The Neanderthals moved north when the ice retreated, and south when it advanced. The climate was extremely variable during this period (see the Greenland O-18 variations), with changes over the course of decades of a magnitude similar to that of a change from the ice age average to the holocene, but going from well below the ice age average to well above it, yet still well below modern temperatures. The Neanderthals with their barrel chests and short limbs were more cold adapted than modern humans who have a greater surface-to-volume ratio, but being dependent on plants and animals which would have changed rapidly with the climate, and having a 15-20% greater energy need due to their mass, they would have been at a disadvantage not in cold climates, but in rapidly varying climates when food became scarce in a given region.
The Neanderthals held Europe for over 100,000 years. Counting the similar Heidelberg Man, they held Europe for perhaps 500,000 years. The sites and artifacts over this tremendous period show them to be were as intelligent and adaptable as any hominids on the planet during this time.
"How is that being 'suckered'?" Because it wasn't a good investment, it wasn't even a moderately safe investment, it wasn't even an investment that you could get out of without giving at least a year or two's income in losses, and they lost such a huge amount that their life is just about screwed? Or in other words, they were induced to pay more than the property was worth with threats that they'd never be able to afford to live in a house if they didn't get on the real estate bandwagon NOW. This loan of money was made in bad faith at many levels by a criminal conspiracy of different financial companies making reckless loans of other people's money and passing the loans along in deals calculated to confuse and deceive. Eventually the home buyers' money and everyone else's was taken not to correct this pyramid of fraud, but to simply give to the banks so that they can continue to try to squeeze blood out of these turnips, even when the banks didn't actually have the money they loaned out, and cashed in their interest in the loan within days after making it, unloading CDOs they knew to be crap investments on whichever sucker would take them - rated AAA because they bought CDSs (insurance backed by nothing) on the CDOs. Now the banks stupid enough to buy the CDOs and CDSs would be insolvent but for massive taxpayer-financed bailouts and monetary inflation from the Fed taking this toxic waste as collateral at face value. Meanwhile the economy is still tanked because the banks have no incentive to loan money for any productive enterprise when the Fed will give them money for free, let the the banks buy treasuries, which they can then use as reserves deposited at the Fed and collect the interest. Because the economy is in the tank, the original home buyers can't get jobs to pay the mortgage, even if they were to move, which they can't because the house wont sell and they have no cash cushion anyway.
Suckered is too mild a phrasing - "systematically fucked" is more like it.
you spendthrifts, always using up the capital letters. capital letters cost money, you know - that's why they call it capital. it's just like water - we must be running out. except i've never seen it rain capital letters, so it must be worse. i mean look at what happened to the russians when they depleted their vowel supply! if we keep depleting the capital letters, what are our grandchildren going to have? think of the children! and use smaller fonts, too.
Damn, that's stupid. Where do you think the name came from? "Thaler" means "of the valley" in German (and is the root of "dollar" as well). "Neanderthaler" "means "of the Neander valley", which is in the mid-latitudes of Germany, and not so far from the southern Baltic coast. If you check out the Wikipedia article on Neanderthals, you will see that their range included all of the southern Baltic except for Denmark. They also had southern Britain, all of non-Scandinavian Europe, the Mid-East north of the African coast, and also a good deal of central Asia.
I meant neuroleptics, not anticholinergics. The latter are often used with the former, and also have some risks, but can ameliorate the side--effects of neuroleptics.
"...these drugs work and without harmful side effects."
No, these are very dangerous drugs. Anticholinergics often cause permanent neurological damage, including lowered intelligence, accelerated dementia, tardive dyskinesia (your tongue has a tendency to hang out and you look and sound retarded), diabetes, obesity and pages and pages more side effects. These drugs do not work all that well except as tranquilizers - they cause a disabling loss of energy that prevents patients from annoying staff in psychiatric hospitals, and this application has expanded to the world at large. Those without real, florid psychoses will not benefit from these drugs and quite likely will be harmed.
I, too thought the Khan Academy's teaching methods must involve encouraging horrible chitinous creatures with far too many legs crawl in the students' ears and wrap themselves around the kids' brainstems.
SpaceX Dragon page: "6,000 kg (13,228 lbs) payload up-mass to LEO; 3,000 kg (6,614 lbs) payload down-mass ". Less than that to the Martian surface, I'd expect.
Also interesting is that even being launched on the Falcon 9 rather than the Falcon Heavy, it could have gone a lot higher,: "After separation of the Dragon spacecraft, the second stage Merlin engine restarted, carrying the second stage to an altitude of 11,000 km (6,800 mi)."(SpaceX Updates Dec. 15, 2010) Of course the only payload of the first Dragon launch was a top-secret wheel of cheese. Still, the Falcon 9 could just about get the Dragon plus an astronaut or two to geosynchronous transfer orbit (maybe not back again, though.) The Falcon Heavy can lift over five times as much.
About the same as nitrogen, which they used in the experiment. 0.2C/W, they think they can get it to half that. 0.05C/W is within the realm of possibility. So at least 3x better than today's coolers, maybe up to 16x better than some of them, eventually. I assume there will be a startup bearing that may not be more than a teflon or HDPE slip ring. The startup is brief, infrequent and low velocity, so there would not be much wear.
Any place exposed to something that could get through those transport casks has more to worry about than just radiation. And smooth, vitrified slugs of glass buried in a single deep hole are a far cry from microscopic dust dispersed in the atmosphere over hundreds of miles. Most of the curies released into the environment have been from coal, not nuclear, and released in a way that is far more hazardous to health.
Look, I love the LFTR as much as anybody, and have for many years, but this kind of BS doesn't help the case. The neutron budget is just over break-even in thorium reactors and it does not lend itself well to transmuting waste. Other types of reactors specially designed for the job are much better for transuranic transmutation.
Also, the anti-proliferation features of LFTR are overstated. The LFTR produces and continuously reprocesses U-233. U-233 has been verified to work in nuclear bombs. Mostly the supposed proliferation-resistance is a factor of just not having enough neutrons to be able to afford to take much U-233 out, and U-233 being less convenient for storeable bombs, but if one day somebody decides they'd like to have some bombs for immediate use rather than a reactor, they can potentially turn the fissile portion of the reactor core into bomb pits in just a few days. There is also some excess U-233 produced, and it could provide a pit or two per reactor per year. If the pits are stored away from the rest of the bomb until use, and periodically remanufactured, then LFTRs could be the basis for a substantial nuclear weapons arsenal. The U-233 excess storage is needed anyway to provide the startup material for new thorium reactors, so it would make it easy to have a hidden weapons program.
You cannot be forced to say anything. Stick out a couple of months for content of court at most, then give the wrong passwords, say you can no longer remember... The combination to a safe can not be compelled to be divulged, nor can a password. They can drill a safe, but a well encrypted password is impractical to break. The practicality has no effect on the legality. The government is free to attempt to break your 32 character password - the fact that they can't is of no legal weight.
Yes it was all a wasteland, a howling wilderness before it was settled by the noble, selfless Jews who made the desert bloom.... without stealing anybody else's water, or land - at least no one who mattered - or anyway, certainly no one who could fight back. Selfless Jews, unaccountably harassed in later years by the cowardly terrorism of little brown untermenchen, walking around to deliver bombs instead of properly dropping them from planes on children like real Yehudi herrenvolk do.
And its spelled "Israel", not "Isreal", O Hebrew sage.
OK... good point. OTOH they overthrew their corrupt government, and we still put up with our criminal bastards who need to be... removed. Not now, ten years ago.
And those fucking loudspeakers are by far the most rational reason to want to bomb the goddamn Mohammedans back to the stone age. If that had been the sales pitch, I'd be 110% behind the ongoing ordinance distribution program.
Utterly moronic. A heat pump to cool water, sprayed on the crowds using the Nile as a heat sink, now that would be about a hundred times more efficient and effective, but still impractical. Peltier coolers is about as stupid as praying for fairies to raise a cooling breeze with their goddamn wings.
No, the only practical ideas are: 1. hats 2. water spray bottles 3. awnings 4. cold drinks 5. big fucking fans with water-misters when the above aren't enough
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The specific drives they recommend are $130 each (Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145490R ), $5850 for 45, ~1% failure rate vs. the 5% they were getting from other drives.
Backblaze, which runs 16PB of disk storage has tested drives, here is their recommendation:
Newegg has them for $130 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145490R
We're effectively importing the labor. If overseas call centers were illegal or had a sufficiently high tariff, then the call center jobs would come back to the US and immigrants would be seeking those jobs here.
Unless, of course, they're foreign scabs fraudulently imported to do our work for slave wages.
"Last year, Social Security started paying out more than it takes in"
Only in the lowest-revenue quarter. On an annual basis SS still runs a surplus. See: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/assets.html . Over a $68 billion surplus in 2010.
This is the right answer. But do NOT use any kind of RAID except RAID 1. The controller will go bad, you won't be able to find another one, and nothing else will be able to read your data. Cold storage really is not that big a risk so long as the drives get spun up every month or two. No way should it cost anything like 3k for a NAS box. A good alternative is to get 3 or more USB 2.0 RAID 1, dual drive boxes for $50 each plus the cost of drives and keep 1 on-line and 2 off site, swapping them preferably at least weekly. This avoids the connector life issue for the drives themselves, provides ~6x redundancy, and keeps the drives spun up regularly. Write a script to verify each backup cycle. Replace the whole thing about every 3 years or at the first failure.
Clearly many sites have been found north of where you claimed, so, no, you aren't right.
No one is known to have been living north of the Neanderthals. Those areas were covered by ice sheets. The Neanderthals moved north when the ice retreated, and south when it advanced. The climate was extremely variable during this period (see the Greenland O-18 variations), with changes over the course of decades of a magnitude similar to that of a change from the ice age average to the holocene, but going from well below the ice age average to well above it, yet still well below modern temperatures. The Neanderthals with their barrel chests and short limbs were more cold adapted than modern humans who have a greater surface-to-volume ratio, but being dependent on plants and animals which would have changed rapidly with the climate, and having a 15-20% greater energy need due to their mass, they would have been at a disadvantage not in cold climates, but in rapidly varying climates when food became scarce in a given region.
The Neanderthals held Europe for over 100,000 years. Counting the similar Heidelberg Man, they held Europe for perhaps 500,000 years. The sites and artifacts over this tremendous period show them to be were as intelligent and adaptable as any hominids on the planet during this time.
"How is that being 'suckered'?"
Because it wasn't a good investment, it wasn't even a moderately safe investment, it wasn't even an investment that you could get out of without giving at least a year or two's income in losses, and they lost such a huge amount that their life is just about screwed? Or in other words, they were induced to pay more than the property was worth with threats that they'd never be able to afford to live in a house if they didn't get on the real estate bandwagon NOW. This loan of money was made in bad faith at many levels by a criminal conspiracy of different financial companies making reckless loans of other people's money and passing the loans along in deals calculated to confuse and deceive. Eventually the home buyers' money and everyone else's was taken not to correct this pyramid of fraud, but to simply give to the banks so that they can continue to try to squeeze blood out of these turnips, even when the banks didn't actually have the money they loaned out, and cashed in their interest in the loan within days after making it, unloading CDOs they knew to be crap investments on whichever sucker would take them - rated AAA because they bought CDSs (insurance backed by nothing) on the CDOs. Now the banks stupid enough to buy the CDOs and CDSs would be insolvent but for massive taxpayer-financed bailouts and monetary inflation from the Fed taking this toxic waste as collateral at face value. Meanwhile the economy is still tanked because the banks have no incentive to loan money for any productive enterprise when the Fed will give them money for free, let the the banks buy treasuries, which they can then use as reserves deposited at the Fed and collect the interest. Because the economy is in the tank, the original home buyers can't get jobs to pay the mortgage, even if they were to move, which they can't because the house wont sell and they have no cash cushion anyway.
Suckered is too mild a phrasing - "systematically fucked" is more like it.
you spendthrifts, always using up the capital letters. capital letters cost money, you know - that's why they call it capital. it's just like water - we must be running out. except i've never seen it rain capital letters, so it must be worse. i mean look at what happened to the russians when they depleted their vowel supply! if we keep depleting the capital letters, what are our grandchildren going to have? think of the children!
and use smaller fonts, too.
And oil. Gobs and gobs of oil.
Damn, that's stupid. Where do you think the name came from? "Thaler" means "of the valley" in German (and is the root of "dollar" as well). "Neanderthaler" "means "of the Neander valley", which is in the mid-latitudes of Germany, and not so far from the southern Baltic coast. If you check out the Wikipedia article on Neanderthals, you will see that their range included all of the southern Baltic except for Denmark. They also had southern Britain, all of non-Scandinavian Europe, the Mid-East north of the African coast, and also a good deal of central Asia.
I meant neuroleptics, not anticholinergics. The latter are often used with the former, and also have some risks, but can ameliorate the side--effects of neuroleptics.
"...these drugs work and without harmful side effects."
No, these are very dangerous drugs. Anticholinergics often cause permanent neurological damage, including lowered intelligence, accelerated dementia, tardive dyskinesia (your tongue has a tendency to hang out and you look and sound retarded), diabetes, obesity and pages and pages more side effects. These drugs do not work all that well except as tranquilizers - they cause a disabling loss of energy that prevents patients from annoying staff in psychiatric hospitals, and this application has expanded to the world at large. Those without real, florid psychoses will not benefit from these drugs and quite likely will be harmed.
I, too thought the Khan Academy's teaching methods must involve encouraging horrible chitinous creatures with far too many legs crawl in the students' ears and wrap themselves around the kids' brainstems.
I'm glad that that apparently is not the case.
SpaceX Dragon page: "6,000 kg (13,228 lbs) payload up-mass to LEO; 3,000 kg (6,614 lbs) payload down-mass ". Less than that to the Martian surface, I'd expect.
Also interesting is that even being launched on the Falcon 9 rather than the Falcon Heavy, it could have gone a lot higher,: "After separation of the Dragon spacecraft, the second stage Merlin engine restarted, carrying the second stage to an altitude of 11,000 km (6,800 mi)."(SpaceX Updates Dec. 15, 2010) Of course the only payload of the first Dragon launch was a top-secret wheel of cheese. Still, the Falcon 9 could just about get the Dragon plus an astronaut or two to geosynchronous transfer orbit (maybe not back again, though.) The Falcon Heavy can lift over five times as much.
Heat pipes and waterblocks still need to transfer the heat to the air, so this has the potential to improve those, too.
About the same as nitrogen, which they used in the experiment. 0.2C/W, they think they can get it to half that. 0.05C/W is within the realm of possibility. So at least 3x better than today's coolers, maybe up to 16x better than some of them, eventually. I assume there will be a startup bearing that may not be more than a teflon or HDPE slip ring. The startup is brief, infrequent and low velocity, so there would not be much wear.
Any place exposed to something that could get through those transport casks has more to worry about than just radiation. And smooth, vitrified slugs of glass buried in a single deep hole are a far cry from microscopic dust dispersed in the atmosphere over hundreds of miles. Most of the curies released into the environment have been from coal, not nuclear, and released in a way that is far more hazardous to health.
Look, I love the LFTR as much as anybody, and have for many years, but this kind of BS doesn't help the case. The neutron budget is just over break-even in thorium reactors and it does not lend itself well to transmuting waste. Other types of reactors specially designed for the job are much better for transuranic transmutation.
Also, the anti-proliferation features of LFTR are overstated. The LFTR produces and continuously reprocesses U-233. U-233 has been verified to work in nuclear bombs. Mostly the supposed proliferation-resistance is a factor of just not having enough neutrons to be able to afford to take much U-233 out, and U-233 being less convenient for storeable bombs, but if one day somebody decides they'd like to have some bombs for immediate use rather than a reactor, they can potentially turn the fissile portion of the reactor core into bomb pits in just a few days. There is also some excess U-233 produced, and it could provide a pit or two per reactor per year. If the pits are stored away from the rest of the bomb until use, and periodically remanufactured, then LFTRs could be the basis for a substantial nuclear weapons arsenal. The U-233 excess storage is needed anyway to provide the startup material for new thorium reactors, so it would make it easy to have a hidden weapons program.
You cannot be forced to say anything. Stick out a couple of months for content of court at most, then give the wrong passwords, say you can no longer remember... The combination to a safe can not be compelled to be divulged, nor can a password. They can drill a safe, but a well encrypted password is impractical to break. The practicality has no effect on the legality. The government is free to attempt to break your 32 character password - the fact that they can't is of no legal weight.
Yes it was all a wasteland, a howling wilderness before it was settled by the noble, selfless Jews who made the desert bloom.... without stealing anybody else's water, or land - at least no one who mattered - or anyway, certainly no one who could fight back. Selfless Jews, unaccountably harassed in later years by the cowardly terrorism of little brown untermenchen, walking around to deliver bombs instead of properly dropping them from planes on children like real Yehudi herrenvolk do.
And its spelled "Israel", not "Isreal", O Hebrew sage.
OK ... good point. OTOH they overthrew their corrupt government, and we still put up with our criminal bastards who need to be ... removed. Not now, ten years ago.
"Well, I'm Australian. We have heat and deserts too, you know."
Yeah, but you guys' answer to everything is more beer - wait, actually you might be on to something there...
And those fucking loudspeakers are by far the most rational reason to want to bomb the goddamn Mohammedans back to the stone age. If that had been the sales pitch, I'd be 110% behind the ongoing ordinance distribution program.
Utterly moronic. A heat pump to cool water, sprayed on the crowds using the Nile as a heat sink, now that would be about a hundred times more efficient and effective, but still impractical. Peltier coolers is about as stupid as praying for fairies to raise a cooling breeze with their goddamn wings.
No, the only practical ideas are:
1. hats
2. water spray bottles
3. awnings
4. cold drinks
5. big fucking fans with water-misters when the above aren't enough