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Comment Re:Probably good (Score 1) 48

They still have Canaveral Air Force Base. The Air Force were to get two shuttles of their own and built a launchpad out at Vandenburg AFB in California. Unfortunately funding was cut after they spent the money building the launchpad. So there were those times when they borrowed a shuttle or two from NASA.

Comment Re:depends (Score 1) 279

Netflix has already been pushing 4K as an upcoming feature. They're publishing streaming rates of 16Mbps which isn't bad, even 3D Hidef is around 12Mbps still a lot of bandwidth left in that 1Gbps pipe. I'd be more worried about upstream problems, Layer 3, VZ etc. constraining it before it gets on to Google's network.

Comment Re:"cloud" vs "remote server" (Score 1) 60

Oh yeah you own the data. Any public cloud service provider will tell you that. You're also responsible for backup/duplication unless then bundle that in as part of the offering. You still have the same data management requirements you'd have in your own data center. The difference being now you can spread that information across multiple AZs cheaply to provide data resiliency in case of outage or disaster.

Comment Re:"cloud" vs "remote server" (Score 1) 60

rent-a-car or zipcar or lyft or uber are similar paradigms. Cloud is just a term but the concepts go beyond a remove server. What IT doesn't like is the fact that now the business side of the house can go get this themselves, when they want and how they want it. Oh and your data doesn't have to "sit there" unless you want it to. From a pure data service perspective yes you can let it sit there but I wouldn't unless it's encrypted.

Comment Re:"cloud" vs "remote server" (Score 1) 60

Actually no. It involves a whole stack of services including self provisioning, scaling and resource allocation that can include long or short term utilization. It can also include software licensing as part of the deal. The remote server is one piece of the puzzle. It's commoditization of compute resources which can help to drive down costs and you can keep it long term or dispose of it as soon as you use it. It appears that the DoD is looking to reduce costs in one particular area, storage. Anybody who's priced a SAN infrastructure in the PetaByte range will tell you it's not cheap.

Comment Give it a couple of months (Score 1) 367

In a couple of months somebody will be able to disable it. Microsoft's Achilles's heel is that there are hackers out there who try to break and investigate things all the time. There is no piece of "perfect code" that can't be hacked and I'm sure there'll be a registry file posted oh github that will disable all this shit.

Comment Sad but good riddance (Score 3, Insightful) 320

When I was growing up cartoons meant something. Like Daffy Duck getting his head blown off or the Rabbit outwitting the dumb hunter. Saturdays were filled with the Coyote and the limitless bounty afforded him by ACME for any device necessary to attempt at catching the Roadrunner. I always wondered who delivered out in the middle of the desert and why he got it so fast? Shit now most of what I've seen from the 70s and up were warmed over commercials that were more about marketing to kids than really having fun. Sure there were the "educational" shows that came along but those were few and far between; the rest being tripe not worth even the electricity used to watch them, much less the brain drain.

When I saw Daffy's head getting blown off "censored" now it made me sad really because you can't blow up a cartoon duck anymore? Where has my country gone. So goodbye Saturday Morning cartoons full of marketing shit and hello Hentai Anime.

Comment Re:Nixon getting credit for starting Apollo? (Score 1) 125

It's funny how people look back at Kennedy and his "we choose to go to the moon" speech which ultimately led to Apollo but as others have pointed out it was Johnson who pushed for NASA and continued pushing the funding until he was out of office. From a timeline perspective it was politically expedient to push for more investment in the space race because of the Bay of Pigs Invasion which was a huge embarrassment for Kennedy. One month separated those epochs in time.

Comment Re:Perjury (Score 1) 191

Well there's a difference between seizure and forfeiture and regrettably the 6th amendment is inadequate in allowing you to use your assets wholly to defend yourself. Thus you're right, you'll get the public defender who often opts for a plea deal rather than a rigorous defense.

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