Other than suburbanites how on earth is Facebook going to appeal to those who might want to live elsewhere. I can get having the "Marketing" people there despite Zuckerberg's aversion to marketing in the early days. However technical staff and coders probably would like to live in an area that appeals to everything that NYC can not provide. Places like Boulder Colorado, Austin Texas, Seattle come to mind.

There are 3 asteroids in that picture if you look to the right of the one the arrow points out.

Lets not forget Apple may report into http://www.theworknumber.com/index.asp

Its basically a credit report about your work history, and unfortunately the employee can not see what's listed in there because they do not fall under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

So it's entirely possible "Fired for Unionization" could be listed in there and you would not be able to do anything about it, and employers will not show you this information when they pull things up on you. So you could be a Sr Engineer and they list your title as Engineer, and you apply for another job elsewhere claiming your Sr Engineer and they will just call you a liar and move on to the next person.

The last two climate satellites were lost due to "Launch Failures". One which was supposed to measure global carbon emissions at the highest resolution to date. I guess this one was not much of a threat to those who deny climate change.

First any engineer they try to hire may just balk at having to live in such a small town. There are far bigger metro areas with good rates for electricity in the intermountain west that can provide 80% air cooling a year. Colorado Springs comes to mind where Walmart is considering building a Datacenter, and Verizon Wireless, Fedex, HP, and a few others already have facilities there as well, the cost of living is much cheaper compared to silicon valley or New York. I sure hope for their sake this small town is not far from Portland. Takes a special person to want to work in a town that small.

FWIW, data centers employ less than 100 people in most cases once it's built out, with small increases per 10000 sqft think 1-2 more people to cover the added workload. Considering the company involved, they will probably have a skeleton crew of facilities folks and a few engineers to handle the "Hands On" work. The rest will be taken care of remotely.

And in most cases these people just got sold out to facebook in the form of massive Tax breaks for facebook, that will not reduce the tax burden of the people who lived there. I think Colorado Springs is throwing millions in tax incentives to Walmart just to attract the business, not sure how a town of 10,000 could afford such large tax breaks, so hopefully it works out for them.

I believe NC is a red state. And she's probably a Democrat in name only.

It actually also prevents them from undercutting prices period. So if TW offers 5/1 for 50 dollars, the city can not offer anything for less. Which allows TW to set prices as it sees fit.

The Republicans scream free enterprise and small government, when they get voted in, they build regulatory walls to benefit the incumbents, and do this through invasive government regulations that are exactly like the "OMG BIG GOVERNMENT IS TEH EVIL!" statements they cast out every time someone says something about business.

It's also bad for jobs, the city could generate jobs with a fiber build out, and a maintenance crew to take care of it when it's build, but alas, that's not going to happen. Perdue just cost the state millions of dollars in investment and restricted rural communities and outlying suburban areas to slow crappy broadband. Worse is that tech companies will see this and look elsewhere to invest, such as places that have actual high speed broadband.

This is about the dumbest think I have heard. Explain to me how you will power external devices through a fiber optic link? Just like USB and Firewire I do not have to carry around a bunch of extra plugs just to power something. Copper is just fine for 10G, and you're not going to get any more speed out of Fiber, but maybe you can sell people a fiber cleaner every time a piece of dust gets in the way, along with a cable management solution for all those extra power cords that would be needed.

It would be funny if it was true.

I think it was reported that the majority of these reactors in the US are beyond their design lifetimes. Unfortunately capitalism says dont replace, keep using it, and take the risk.

The broader question is, can we afford to have a major chunk of the US off limits for hundreds of years?

They've been around for a very long time, and made money before we had advanced cookies that track you. It's become really stupid, visit one product website, and everywhere you go you're bombarded with ads on any other site with an ad engine.

It can be fun though. Go on a friends computer and google something embarassing, click on an ad, and close the browser. Then your buddies browser will show those ad's every time he's on.

You can not really stop stupid people. However many companies cripple their networks through so called "Security" measures. What do you do when you lock down everything to be accessed through a few servers and you experience a major network outage? Your time to resolution is crippled by having to use ancient back doors "Serial Access" to get back into these devices. Now you're losing customers on top of losing money, especially when it comes to compute clouds where you're literally billing by the hour. Even more so for long distance providers, cellular companies, and VOIP communications providers.

I am curious how the press of one key managed to wipe out the cloud, the load balancers, and the routers at the same time. Either they're using some program to manage their switching network which is the only key thing that could take it all out, or the idiot had the command queued up.

More likely some idiot introduced a cisco switch into their VTP domain and it had a higher revision number queued up and it overwrote their entire LAN environment. Simply fixed by requiring a password that way you can really nail an idiot that does it, and secondly bite the admin bullet and run vtp transparent mode.

There's no one command that's going to bring it all down, it's going to be a series of actions that result from a lack of proper network management, and lack of proper tested redundancy. Redundancy does not exist in the same physical facility, redundancy exists in a separate facility nowhere associated with anything that runs the backed up facility. Pull the plug on data center A, your customers should not notice a thing is amiss. If you can do that, then you have proper redundancy.

I believe the other problem is that were working on a 30+ year old protocol stack, and it's starting to show it's limitations. TCP/IP is great, but there needs to be some better upper layer changes that allow client replication to work as well. So if the App loses it's connection to server A, it seamlessly uses server B without so much as a hiccup. Something like keyed content where you can accept replies from two different sources, but the app can use the data as it comes in from each, much like bittorrent, but on a real time level. It requires twice the resources to handle an app, but if redundancy is king this type of system would be king and prevent some of the large outages we have seen in the past.