I've often wondered about that myself. It seems absurd to have so many little AC to DC PSU's in a data center. Why not just have 1, directly integrated into a backup power supply? What is there in a datacenter that doesn't run on 12V/5V/3.3V DC? It would seem way more efficient, and less costly to me. Not only that, but those PSU's are producing heat too, which only exacerbates the cooling issue (fans for each PSU). Also, it would seem to me an evaporative cooling system instead of AC would be just as effective, especially somewhere like NM.
Did a human end up reading your unencrypted emails
This may be the crux of the issue. Does it matter? They most certainly illegally searched, but did a human do it? I cannot answer that definitively. My question is this: is it still an illegal search if a human did not see it but the search was carried out by a program instead? I would posit that indeed it is still illegal. No warrant right? That is illegal. So who broke the law then? I don't quite know that, but the law was broken.
Unfortunately you are probably at least a little right. Hopefully something will come out in discovery though. Often even the most secretive and closed off agencies have poor controls on what they will release during discovery, maybe the EFF gets lucky. Also, we already know what ATT and the NSA were doing, so it isn't exactly a state secret anymore. Although I wouldn't put it by this administration to argue that even though the illegal program is now public knowledge it is still a state secret because they say so.
I'm all for PEPFAR. And as I responded to another post earlier -
PEPFAR Bush's only success.
Truthfully, I must agree, GWB has probably made a significant and positive impact on AIDS in Africa.
I am however opposed to abstinence only "education" here in the US. I believe that any honest education effort should include more than "hey don't give in to your raging teenage hormones, for Jesus". Do you honestly see no hypocrisy in a willingness to embrace Condom use and education in Africa to prevent the spread of AIDS, but no Condom education for Americans?
Presumably, if abstinence only education is good enough for kids in school, it ought to be good enough for AIDS prevention efforts in Africa. It really is the same issue. Clearly, any real effort toward prevention needs to include education about prophylactics.
Truthfully, I must agree, GWB has probably made a significant and positive impact on AIDS in Africa. But that doesn't mean such an effort couldn't be improved upon, without throwing bones to fundamentalists. It is that sort of pandering to idiocy which has put the US in our precarious position, and frankly I've had enough of it.
Sex Education
In a 2007 interview, Senator McCain said that sex education in the United States should follow President Bush's policy of abstinence-only education.
HIV/AIDS
McCain participated in ONE campaign's On The Record project. See Youtube (below).
In a statement released by his campaign on Global Aids Day (December 1, 2007), McCain supported maintaining the United States commitment to fighting AIDS, writing:
"It's critical that we face this crisis head-on, which is why I have consistently supported the most aggressive global AIDS program in the history of this pandemic, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Afflicted nations with whom we partner to fight this disease must also know that we expect a level of governance, transparency and effectiveness from them in order to make the fullest use of AIDS assistance so we can make the greatest impact on people's lives. Our commitment must be sustained, and our nation must always be faithful to those at home and abroad as they cope with the ravages of HIV/AIDS."[3]
Wouldn't fighting AIDS be easier if people where at least aware that Condoms can be used to prevent the spread of STDs like AIDS? Isn't prevention much less expensive than treatment? Wouldn't any real effort to fight AIDS include more than "abstinence only" education? This is absurd. How could anyone take such a candidate seriously?
Cost most certainly could have been a factor. How much in additional costs did the company incur to support customers with the linux distro versus Vista/XP?
Google's homepage to black? Like this? Though I have to wonder if they can really claim all that much in savings - for LCD's is there really a significant power savings for black pixels vs. white? Does anyone know what the difference is?
How much stuff do you have on your desk that actually runs at 120Hz AC? If you switched to a local DC source (say solar, backed up by batteries or something) you wouldn't have to convert to and from 120. Straight 12 volts DC down from the roof to the data center. That step alone seems to me like it would cut out at least two conversions which at best would be ~ 85 or 90% efficient. I don't design power supplies for servers but it seems that all of the components run on 12V, 5V or 3.3V so there is no reason to waste energy heating up a power supply right there in a server so that you have to use more power to cool it.
I have seen it - it was very good. I strongly recommend you watch it. Certainly it will not help your disillusionment, but it is satisfying none the less.
The read times are impressive - how impressive? I suspect almost nobody finds room for one of these in a machine that isn't just reading from disc. The metrics for write performance simply don't match the price tag. Also
According to Intel, its SSDs are so fast that NCQ helps to compensate for latency encountered in the host PC
NCQ? Really? Because the Host PC is too slow? I really don't buy that.
You jest, but I would be strongly suspect of buying hardware like this. Given such an opportunity to put in a hardware backdoor into every PC with such a chip, do you really think the PRC would pass?
Well, as I recall, in Athens, things were pretty bright. I don't recall seeing a good shadow this last olympics. Additionally, the last time I was in china, I did not see the sun for 4 weeks. And no, its not "fog" its pollution so bad that when it rains, the streets and buildings get covered with a film of black stuff.
Well, I don't know if you noticed, but you may not have seen the sun during the olympics. Reason: particulate pollution is so bad in most of China you cannot see the sun most of the time. While CO2 certainly is a greenhouse gas - particulate pollution acts as a cooling agent in the atmosphere. Here in the US we have at least some regulation on what industries can pump into the atmosphere, and have really made some great strides in reducing particulate pollution since the 70's.
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I'm gonna go ahead and count COBOL out. Don't be silly.
I've often wondered about that myself. It seems absurd to have so many little AC to DC PSU's in a data center. Why not just have 1, directly integrated into a backup power supply? What is there in a datacenter that doesn't run on 12V/5V/3.3V DC? It would seem way more efficient, and less costly to me. Not only that, but those PSU's are producing heat too, which only exacerbates the cooling issue (fans for each PSU). Also, it would seem to me an evaporative cooling system instead of AC would be just as effective, especially somewhere like NM.
Foiled again! At least they can't take swirlies away..... yet.
Did a human end up reading your unencrypted emails
This may be the crux of the issue. Does it matter? They most certainly illegally searched, but did a human do it? I cannot answer that definitively. My question is this: is it still an illegal search if a human did not see it but the search was carried out by a program instead? I would posit that indeed it is still illegal. No warrant right? That is illegal. So who broke the law then? I don't quite know that, but the law was broken.
I take solace in the fact that I could give him a wedgie. That would show him. Darn smart kids.
In all seriousness, I hope this somehow makes it to production, what a bad ass.
Unfortunately you are probably at least a little right. Hopefully something will come out in discovery though. Often even the most secretive and closed off agencies have poor controls on what they will release during discovery, maybe the EFF gets lucky. Also, we already know what ATT and the NSA were doing, so it isn't exactly a state secret anymore. Although I wouldn't put it by this administration to argue that even though the illegal program is now public knowledge it is still a state secret because they say so.
Ford sells cars? Wow, I need to pay more attention.
There's something behind the scenes.
I will give you one hint - it costs about 30$ to pull a barrel of oil out of the ground, at the most (think oil sands in Ontario).
PEPFAR Bush's only success. Truthfully, I must agree, GWB has probably made a significant and positive impact on AIDS in Africa.
I am however opposed to abstinence only "education" here in the US. I believe that any honest education effort should include more than "hey don't give in to your raging teenage hormones, for Jesus". Do you honestly see no hypocrisy in a willingness to embrace Condom use and education in Africa to prevent the spread of AIDS, but no Condom education for Americans?
Presumably, if abstinence only education is good enough for kids in school, it ought to be good enough for AIDS prevention efforts in Africa. It really is the same issue. Clearly, any real effort toward prevention needs to include education about prophylactics.
PEPFAR Bush's only success.
Truthfully, I must agree, GWB has probably made a significant and positive impact on AIDS in Africa. But that doesn't mean such an effort couldn't be improved upon, without throwing bones to fundamentalists. It is that sort of pandering to idiocy which has put the US in our precarious position, and frankly I've had enough of it.
Sex Education In a 2007 interview, Senator McCain said that sex education in the United States should follow President Bush's policy of abstinence-only education. HIV/AIDS McCain participated in ONE campaign's On The Record project. See Youtube (below). In a statement released by his campaign on Global Aids Day (December 1, 2007), McCain supported maintaining the United States commitment to fighting AIDS, writing: "It's critical that we face this crisis head-on, which is why I have consistently supported the most aggressive global AIDS program in the history of this pandemic, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Afflicted nations with whom we partner to fight this disease must also know that we expect a level of governance, transparency and effectiveness from them in order to make the fullest use of AIDS assistance so we can make the greatest impact on people's lives. Our commitment must be sustained, and our nation must always be faithful to those at home and abroad as they cope with the ravages of HIV/AIDS."[3]
Wouldn't fighting AIDS be easier if people where at least aware that Condoms can be used to prevent the spread of STDs like AIDS? Isn't prevention much less expensive than treatment? Wouldn't any real effort to fight AIDS include more than "abstinence only" education? This is absurd. How could anyone take such a candidate seriously?
More importantly, how can he really have a well formed opinion on Net Neutrality when he doesn't use the interwebs?
Cost most certainly could have been a factor. How much in additional costs did the company incur to support customers with the linux distro versus Vista/XP?
Cities of Bristol is now an accepted measurement of area? And here I thought I was paying attention to SI conventions. How many libraries of congre
Google's homepage to black? Like this? Though I have to wonder if they can really claim all that much in savings - for LCD's is there really a significant power savings for black pixels vs. white? Does anyone know what the difference is?
How much stuff do you have on your desk that actually runs at 120Hz AC? If you switched to a local DC source (say solar, backed up by batteries or something) you wouldn't have to convert to and from 120. Straight 12 volts DC down from the roof to the data center. That step alone seems to me like it would cut out at least two conversions which at best would be ~ 85 or 90% efficient. I don't design power supplies for servers but it seems that all of the components run on 12V, 5V or 3.3V so there is no reason to waste energy heating up a power supply right there in a server so that you have to use more power to cool it.
I have seen it - it was very good. I strongly recommend you watch it. Certainly it will not help your disillusionment, but it is satisfying none the less.
there are 8 nucleosides. They are part of the 68 count, so really 60.
According to Intel, its SSDs are so fast that NCQ helps to compensate for latency encountered in the host PC
NCQ? Really? Because the Host PC is too slow? I really don't buy that.
You jest, but I would be strongly suspect of buying hardware like this. Given such an opportunity to put in a hardware backdoor into every PC with such a chip, do you really think the PRC would pass?
Well, as I recall, in Athens, things were pretty bright. I don't recall seeing a good shadow this last olympics. Additionally, the last time I was in china, I did not see the sun for 4 weeks. And no, its not "fog" its pollution so bad that when it rains, the streets and buildings get covered with a film of black stuff.
Well, I don't know if you noticed, but you may not have seen the sun during the olympics. Reason: particulate pollution is so bad in most of China you cannot see the sun most of the time. While CO2 certainly is a greenhouse gas - particulate pollution acts as a cooling agent in the atmosphere. Here in the US we have at least some regulation on what industries can pump into the atmosphere, and have really made some great strides in reducing particulate pollution since the 70's.
Our handsomest politicians will come up with a half assed last minute solution!
I've never had the slightest interest in anything except strict monogamy.
You sir, lack imagination.