After a certain point, you have to go big or get out.

A tape drive able to handle 20 TB is going to be $3k+.

Online backup is out of the question. If it takes two weeks to backup 300 GB to Crashplan or Amazon Glacier, it'll take two and a half years for the 20 TB.

I do not mean to be insincere, but why would the government or anyone else for that matter directly pay the victims of a natural disaster $500,000?

I can understand a large amount of money being diverted by the government or charities to help the victims recover, either physically with homes or psychologically with mental health services.

But paying them money directly might not be such a good idea. It could make them targets and victims once again when people try to prey on them, abusing their emotional distress to try to take their money.

It takes time and effort to heal, not necessarily money.

How little faith you have in those that brought you to this point.

Either you can see it as something ludicrous that should be forgotten or something amazing that should be remembered.

It's all a matter of how you perceive it.

From my perspective, the original Genesis poem (the part prior to mentioning Adam and Eve, which predates almost every modern religion by thousands of years), proves to me that our ancestors were much smarter than we give them credit.

They were able to work out most of the major elements of our world's growth, create a narrative and make it important enough to pass it down possibly tens of thousands of years to survive today.

If you cannot see the power in that achievement, you are being clouded by some form of bias that does you a great disservice.

I think you would be surprised by just how much "science" is actually influenced by culture and religion.

For instance, the belief that the world began in flames is a religious ideology that is thousands of years old, yet persists to this day veiled beneath the Big Bang theory.

Even Evolution and Geology has it's roots in the Genesis poem, where God is said to have created the world in stages. If you compare the progression to the poem to the modern scientific narrative, you will see it pretty much lines up with what we know today (Light from Darkness, "Sky" or gas coalesces, planets form and plants begin to grow, animals appear, humans appear, party).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

When people cannot explain what is happening, their brains fall back on what they know and often times it is cultural inferences.

It is not necessarily a bad thing but proves that cultural diversity is important to scientific progress. Without differing cultural backgrounds, theory and narratives will form around the dominant culture's dogmas.

Where I need to worry that any moment of my life can appear on online without my permission.

Where I need to worry someone has turned on and off their recording at opportune times of that moment that appeared on online to make me look bad without giving full context of the situation.

Where I need to pay money to remove said videos from the Internet.

Where I cannot walk down the street, eat at a restaurant, workout at a gym, or celebrate at a bar without worrying someone is recording to be uploaded and judged harshly by tens of thousands if not millions of people.

I doubt anyone else wants to live in that world either, but every time someone resigns themselves to allowing it that world arrives that much sooner.

Seems like a good idea for a race car and can probably be integrated into self-driving cars at some point.

http://www.northropgrumman.com...

I think the most drastic thing about this new chipset is the fact Nvidia bumped the L2 cache up past 2 MB.

The Radeon R7 260 it is being compared against has only 768 KB and Kepler units had 256-320 KBs.

The performance improvement could simply be the L2 being larger, which means it is paging out to it's memory less.

W3Schools has been the idiots guide to web design for almost twenty years.

So, all this proves is that all of the dumbest web developers are using Chrome now.

Which I can understand after running into websites that can ONLY work in Chrome, just like 10 years ago we ran into websites that only worked in IE.

Nothing changes. New generation, new set of idiots, new browser being used by said idiots.

He seems to be trying his best to find flaws in the study, but his own logic is pretty poor. For instance.

"I’ve noted that we just found that the Seagate 1.5 TB drives are about 8 years old since release, for the failure rate, but the average age of the Seagate drives in use are 1.4 years old. Averages are pretty useless statistic, and if Seagate drives are so bad then why buy so many new drives?"

If the company began rolling out Seagates for 3 years at 5k a year and stopped after three years because of the high failure rate, moving on to Hitachi and such, then the average age even over 8 years could very well be only 1.4 years. Because, let's face it, when it's your ass on the line and you see a particular type of drive putting your servers into a precarious state, you might start migrating away as fast as you can.

Those Seagate drives still running are probably either running in very low IO servers or very low-risk servers (clustered or such), but in such few quantities that their continued lifespans are not increasing the overall average much. The remainder could be shelved to avoid the risk of failing in a critical system and while they are listed in the total number of drives purchased, their age might not be included in the average presented.

Seriously, what is it?

I thought calling something a satellite meant it was orbiting.

Requires WINE but should work fine on Linux.

http://www.anti-twin.com/

Why can't we just use transactional cryptographic 3D QR-code like web-based systems that use the smartphone's camera and screen?

If the retailer and the customer both have an Internet connection (independent of each other preferred for security), why is NFC necessary?

The Advertisers vs Ad-block arms race.

Because, let's face it... once the ad-block guys figure out how the advertisers are figuring out they are being blocked, they'll block it another way and then another way... until one side builds an a-bomb so big that the world is afraid the Internet will split in two if detonated.

That was a metaphor; no one nuke the advertisers, please. Or at least give me a few days notice so I can get to a safe distance.