Comment Re:Can we get a tape drive to back this up? (Score 1) 316
Tape may not have the capacity, but it's designed for resiliency. No chance in hell this drive could sit in a safe for 10 years and still spin up. LTO can.
Tape may not have the capacity, but it's designed for resiliency. No chance in hell this drive could sit in a safe for 10 years and still spin up. LTO can.
Or marketed towards people with real data disaster recovery or archival needs. Like businesses.
Go ahead and try backing put a couple PB onto rotating disk, and then expect it to last for 20 years. See how well that works out for you. I know how it will work out on LTO tape, because it's designed to do it.
The lights on the modem only mean you're talking to the CMTS on the other end of the neighborhood wiring, and that you were able to provision through DOCSIS.
If they fuck the routing over, you'll have all the blinkinlights in the world, but no packets get where they're supposed to.
They probably have a peering agreement for edge servers to lighten the load.
I get the sarcasm, but this outage almost screwed me - I was scheduled to work from home today so I could be here for a service appointment. With no data service, I can't do that.
There are real uses for home Internet connections besides porn and Twitter, you know. =)
Same with Cincinnati, OH. The little crumb crunchers are already done with screwing around for the summer.
Damn, now I want to buy a rocket capable of putting several tons into orbit via PayPal.
What, I can't find that on Amazon? No free two-day shipping available via Prime?
No, there's still plenty of horse shit being tossed around. Probably more.
It might be metaphorical horse shit, but it's still there.
I've never understood it. For some reason, everyone needs to go to college for a master's degree and have a career path that includes a corner office at some point.
Apparently, all the people that keep pushing this philosophy never need electricians, plumbers, municipal waste pickup, roads, and restaurants.
It's okay for people to have high school degrees and work in the service industry. It's okay for people to have associates degrees or vocational certificates and keep the world running. I don't know why anyone would possibly think that it isn't.
Yeah, because I was being completely and totally serious.
Lighten up, jackass.
And, ultimately, have the power to shitcan the laws under Article I, Section VII of the United States Constitution:
"Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States: If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law."
If the President really doesn't want something to happen, and the other side doesn't have the 66% + 1 vote to override, that's the way it's going to be.
Congratulations on painting about 100M people with that brush, because clearly they're all exactly the same.
YOU are the problem with politics in the United States.
It's been said many times - Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
Yep, off the bottom end of the scale compared to everything else.
More people die falling off their roofs while installing solar power in one year than have died from nuclear electrical generation in total.
Things positive about radiation:
Sunlight.
Radio.
Nuclear medicine.
Smoke detectors.
Don't be an ass.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.