So we are moving to liquid cooling... You didn't have to do all the name dropping to make your point.

Buzz words I read in this story: "High performance Computing", "data-crunching", "Cloud computing", "bitcoin", "big data", 3x "bitcoin"..

BitCoin mining is certainly NOT a good reason to move to liquid cooling and it is not driving innovation in data center construction and design. Anybody building a data center for a mining operation clearly hasn't done the math and *will* loos money, liquid cooled or not. Cloud computing is really nothing more than the data centers of yore with IP connectivity, it might be driving people to BUILD new data centers, but nothing about the cloud drives you to liquid cooling. Big Data" might be driving this, but it's claim to fame is the ability to use lots of low power processors in parallel, much like RAID uses lots of spindles to spread out the data. Big data is not driving us to liquid cooling. HPC is the same. All this stuff MIGHT be adding to demand for data processing, but nothing about it drives one to liquid cooling over forced air.

The only reason we will be seeing a rise in liquid cooling is if it is CHEAPER than forced air cooling. Cheaper by taking up less space, being more power efficient, more reliable or any other way of reducing data center operator's costs. Until then, all the name dropping you can do with current buzz words won't really help get liquid cooling adopted. It's all about cost.

I guess it would have been a snoozer of an article to read without all the buzz words.

I don't know how it will be fast, but to use existing bitTorrent logic, there ARE legal torrents out there and I would assume web content would be similar.

No we don't "deserve it" especially from the likes of North Korea, Russia, China or Iran.

Your questions, one at a time:

YES, democrats knew about this. They get classified briefings, same as the president. Plus you do recall they talked about some of this right? Or is your memory that short?

Pretty sure OBL was found though information obtained though interrogation done using "enhanced" techniques.

Finally: We already knew, maybe not the full extent, but we knew about waterboarding, we knew about sleep depravation, all where previously outlined in the press and recounted by former Gitmo residents. It was a subtext of Obama's first campaign for president.

So I ask you, why do we need to know the details? I don't think the details are all that important, and this report doesn't expose anything we already haven't discussed in the public forum. That we use "enhanced" techniques when questioning combatants during a war isn't that important. We've done it for all our history, as EVERY other country in the world has in times of war. We've done much worse in the past, and I think we showed remarkable restraint compared to what this country allowed during WWII.

But, if we stipulate that we shouldn't do this kind of stuff, I ask you if it's permissible to just kill them on the battle field? Would you rather we just do that? Oh wait a min, we ARE doing that RIGHT NOW! Are drone strikes so routine that YOU don't care about them? But how do you prosecute a war without killing people and breaking things? Shall we just talk to them and use reason? Yea, that's going to work..

No deductible? No way that is possible. The "no deductible" part is for ONE preventative visit to a doctor per year for a physical. Anything else WILL have deductible and co-insurance or copays. Most plans I've seen have maximum out of pockets north of $5k for a family or more.

If $300/month sounds great to you, just make one extra doctor's visit and you will be paying both the $300 AND what the doctor chooses to bill you. If you hit the max out of pocket in the year, your monthly cost is north of $700.

Still sound affordable? I didn't think so..

Don't start with this "Well I won't use more than my one visit, I'm young and healthy" tripe either. Because if that is true, you are paying $3,600 for that visit.....

My mistake... make that "most" instead of "every"...

We do laptops for my kid because we homeschool and having a portable platform for him to do "homework" while away from home is a definite advantage for us. But, I usually get free laptops that my friends are throwing away when I promise to securely wipe their drives and destroy any personal data. My cost is just my time, or on the rare occasion they want to keep the drive, another drive.

It's been pretty cheep so far... But, that's not to say my time is worthless either. I can see why people who don't have the IT skills I have keep buying new stuff, and I don't mind taking their cast offs...

Sure... Just be ready to re-image the thing... In fact that's what I do for my homeschooled kid (well what I used to do until the laptop died about a month ago). Whenever something strange starts happening, I pop in the media and restore the image. Problem solved...

I've actually considered just running Linux, putting the XP part in a VM and keeping a snapshot that gets restored every time the machine boots. It's just too much trouble to set up right now and my kid doesn't have that many years of school left to make it worth the time.

Actually, the problem is that we fall for the "It's for the starving children" political rhetoric and have VERY short memories. What happens in reality is what Jonathan Gruber (sp) said happened with the ACA, it's how you package it. It's all about the marketing and the sound bites and NOT about the truth. In short, lie, cheat and steal what you want and politics has turned into a PR propaganda campaign where the truth comes in second to the cause. "The ends justify the means."

However, all is not lost. Despite the problems of politics, the voters still do respond to such tactics eventually. Every Senator that got elected for their first time in 2008 and voted for the ACA just lost their re-election bid. Many others who voted for the ACA are also gone. Once the real effects of the ACA started to hit home and the propaganda proven untrue, the voters responded.

Short term, the tactic works, but in the long run, I still have faith in the voters... At least the slice of voters in the middle who actually decide things for us...

Right, I thought you could just go get one now w/o fear of being deported. Didn't the Big "O" take care of that immigration thing?

B It's going to be a giant free for all, but don't worry, it already is. They are just adding more data, no need to worry... (sarc off)

Oh how naïve of you... You DO remember that the ACA mandates coverage for 1 doctor visit a year for a physical. They will now know that you did or didn't make that visit, because it is the LAW now that you have health care insurance. The IRS will have to know about your insurance status to make sure you have it or paid your fines. So you may not have any health issues of interest, but information about you will still be available, like it or not.

Your only way of "opting out" of such tracking is to 1. Make sure the IRS doesn't know about you (No tax returns, No employment, No bank accounts, no health insurance) and 2. Make sure you NEVER see a doctor who will be obliged to report the visit and pay in cash. 3. Don't have a driver's license, own a car or have insurance on one. 4. No credit cards. 5. Don't register to vote (much less actually vote). 6. Don't get married, divorced, or have kids (heck, just never get an SSN in the first place.) And there is a lot more things, but you get the idea...

Don't figure on that healthy lifestyle keeping you out of the medical database. Healthy people do get sick and require medical treatment from time to time. Perhaps not as much as you, but as you get older your chances of needing medical care will only go up, even if you do continue your healthy ways.

You are tracked.... Like it or not, healthy or not, you will be tracked in public records, credit records and the like.

An old laptop running XP would work..... Might be cheaper too.. I find them in the trash all the time.

I'll accept your critique, but do try to THINK about and not just dismiss the political angle. This report was partisan in it's construction and partisan in it's release, and you can not dismiss that the timing of this was politically motivated. This was the democrats LAST CHANCE for at least 2 years to release this report which has been in the works now for at least 2 years (really more like 6+ years), not to mention that there clearly are things the administration wishes to deflect attention to going on right now. The timing was all about politics, make no mistake.

Also note that I'm not debating the issues raised, that some of what was done was neither helpful nor necessary and likely should have been avoided. I'm saying that the release of this information, at this time, is political and very partisan. If you cannot see that, then you are easily duped by rhetoric from your side. I suggest you be careful, politicians lie, mislead and obscure things to their advantage all the time.

For which administration?

The last TWO have done the same things. You want to try them both?

for political reasons. Yea, it's a great thing...