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Submission + - It's midnight, do you know where your data is? (tummy.com)

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jafo

on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @02:56AM

jafo writes: "Until recently I considered data storage to be a solved problem. I had a manufacturer and procedures that I had developed extensive faith in over the last decade. However, a replacement case of drives produced the same errors we were seeing in the original case, and support has had no answers. So I started wondering, is this a wide-spread problem that most people don't see because of lack of testing? Or is it just our bad luck across multiple cases? How is an end user to know the difference? What's been on my mind is: What testing do other people do before they trust their data to a new hard drive?"

Submission + - Lost "Clear" Laptop Found (In Office Where (cnet.com)

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jafo

on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @02:34AM

jafo writes: "Over at cnet is the story the the "Clear" laptop that was lost in a locked office was found in that same office.

"The computer, which held names, addresses, and birthdates for people applying to the program, was found in the same airport office but not in its previous location [...] a preliminary investigation showed that information was not compromised."

Pardon me if I have little confidence that an organization that loses a sensitive laptop for 9 days is able to tell if it was compromised."

Submission + - One month left for first Netflix prize (netflixprize.com)

Submitted by jafo on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @03:15PM

jafo writes: Last Sunday was the day Netflix was supposed to be sending out the "you have one month to win a million dollars" e-mail. I haven't seen that, but the Netflix Prize Leaderboard is not looking good for someone getting a million dollars. However, there are lots of teams that have far surpassed the requirement for the "progress prize". BellKor is currently the leader with an 8.26% improvement over Netflix's own engine. One contender that I've been watching, Simon Funk has slipped down to 29th, but he's been interesting because he's already revealed the algorithms he's used. It'll be interesting to if there's a burst of activity in the last month, or if revelations made after October 2 help get things motivated to move forward again.

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