In actual use faraday cages can be readily subverted by incoming power lines. For a building wide faraday cage to be secure power lines must be conditioned to prevent data interception via subverted hardware within the faraday cage, otherwise that unsecured wire leads right from the supposedly secure hardware to a power station many kilometres away and connected to every other device hooked up to the same power source. Other things must also be looked at like water pipes, tapping into the earth circuit or even using the farady cage itself as conductor. Digital security is a mindless headfuck, no matter what you do to secure it, it can be subverted, which is why manual system are becoming preferred again for real serious security as they require direct personal access.

The real question is whether running down maintenance ability will sound real fine up until the moment of catastrophic failure and their ability to react to it has been totally compromised. This would result in hugely extended down time in the event of that catastrophic failure, what ever it's cause. Looks great on a spreadsheet and pumps up an executives bonus but the whole company ends up going boom when a catastrophic failure occurs because customers will not tolerate extended downtime and that downtime might not be hours but weeks on even months as the try to rebuild maintenance efforts so that their maintainers can rebuild the system.

This kind of evaluation extends out to government, should governments pay the costs of maintaining manual systems ie pencil and paper because in the event of catastrophic failure recovery is bound to their ability to sustain the essential elements of government whilst digital system are rebuilt and as it will be required to rebuild those systems. Corporate executives abandon these ideas because of course costs affect bonuses and golden parachutes in the event of failure.

Any solution should be readily human detectable so as to prevent bad mistakes being made. Nitrogen is extremely dangerous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bag) in terms of person being able to react to it prior to loss of consciousness.

Of course putting data in a bunker still does not solve the real problem, what point securing your data if no one can access it ie the infrastructure outside of the bunker is non-functional, what exactly are they attempting to preserve. Whilst they do try to wrap perception of value around data enabling companies to basically print funny money based around those perceptions (eg targeted manipulative advertisements, with the style of advertisement target at the psychological profile of it's victim, man, woman or child and the corporate value of that private citizens data) the true value of unused data is zero. For data to have value it must be used, when it is not used it is just empty cost and has no value.

So cut the cable that leaves the bunker and the reality is, you have nothing. On an interesting side note, does the data being stored have a positive or negative value as far as the majority of citizens are concerned and how far over the line has it gone in evaluating of people's psychology and manipulating them upon an individual basis by controlling the type of information they receive.

Unhappy with the choices, grow some and run yourself because that is exactly what it will take. New people stepping up, so either become one or support one. Whether you win or lose doesn't matter as long as you shake up the system because you shake it enough it will collapse.

Actually there is one function a tablet is really good for and the only reason I am in the market for one. A better more interactive remote control for a big screen smart TV. The tablet provides the keypad, the track pad and the touch pad but as yet the interface between the two doesn't seem good enough yet.

Speaking of governments, an interesting thought by the the US Department of in-Justice (let's at least be honest with that, three tier justice system, poor - always guilty, middle class - pay through the nose but still guilty and rich - innocent or somebody else pays the penalty). When things are kept secret they become a "zone of lawlessness", so national security is evil because when the government keeps secrets that would affect the elections they become a "zone of lawlessness", well, I would most certainly have to agree with that. So I gather that they will now be focusing their efforts on where secrets do the greatest harm (wars for profit, collusion on tax havens, corrupt lobbyists), ha ha ha.

What this really is all about, governments of the day don't like your political choices, they can ban you from flying, subject to random gropings including strip searches (normally called sexual assault), block your employment, cancel contracts, block all digital financial transactions and, then still use search warrants to invade your home, steal stuff and trash the rest of your in the process, whilst threatening you life and possibly ending it. All made laughably easy by the simple expedient of selectively presenting the information they have gleaned about you, including times you lack a alibi (even when they know exactly where you were), false association of facts, selected out of context information and claiming random internet interactions with other suspects as conspiratorial interactions. Hell, they can even perversely hack you computer systems and then claim that all the information is true because of course no one could have hacked it and planted it all, even when their hacking code is released to the wild by them using it and then subsequently usurped by organised crime (thanks for that idiots) ?!?

According to the Hollywood accountants somewhere in the negative range and yet for some inexplicable reason they still keep functioning. Something to do with tax havens, sexually compliant starlets and perverted politicians but as yet taxation agencies from around the globe have still not managed to figure it all out after decades of trying. Apparently it is easier to gouge the rest of us at the tax office to pay for their subsidies and the free ride they get on the infrastructure we pay for, whilst they cheat us on the social services they should be paying for.

Just curious, how are larger companies going with algorithm libraries and variable naming rules to ensure maximum re usability of code (variables named by function rather than named by application). Any change, is most of it done from scratch, any fancy algorithm data bases with search functions based upon algorithm descriptors and software engineering. Also things like software language translators or the same algorithms stored in different languages. Any shift away from writing code to more assembling algorithms that can expanded or reduced and snapped together.

In point of fact if you are buying games from Steam, there are just so, so many of them, the only time to buy them is on discount or package deal. So buying a bundle of games during the specials season and then playing them for the rest of the year. This combined with F2P MMO really does provide all the gaming even the most intense gamer needs.

There is absolutely no excuse for buying games when they are not on special, as for the uPlay B$, well, don't buy any uPlay games at all, except those you buy, by accident on Steam discount. That one being Farcry with the B$ compulsory cut scenes which you can only get rid of by buying an expansion so screw Ubisoft (an interesting new scheme to kill re-playability, long annoying cut scenes which become intolerable upon replay, what will the asshats think of next).

If you are paying full retail, you should buy the box set at a retail store and screw over the publishers profit. Don't forget to return the game when they kill your licence and wait a year before buying it again at a steep discount with at least some of the bugs removed.

True, but it sure will alter it's attitude and orbit. A distributed system can always do more and will always be more durable, it can point in more than one direction at once, when a major target is not the focus and of course find many more major targets of interest. Should the focus be in orbit or should the real global focus be a permanent moon base, a real achievement for humanity and the required step to really reach further out. We could do it easy if we just dropped the focus on murdering each other with more and more advanced weaponry.

The reality is of course wildly different. One person can afford a billion chicken meals while ten of thousands of other people can not afford their next meal. One person creates a chicken farm monopoly and hugely inflates the profit margins and thousands starve. So the typical diversion of capitalism call for help and shit fuck no, taxes, taxes, taxes, cant help, wont help, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... the poor should die, now that's the reality. It is not capitalism, it never was, it is psychopathic capitalism, created by a minority to feed their ego and lusts at the expense of the majority. A minority that demands to have more than they can ever consume regardless of how many others end up with nothing and that is with no limits upon how much more. In fact the more the psychopathic capitalist has and the less everyone else has the more it feeds that broken ego of the capitalist, that ego that is fed by people begging for charity and that charity being necessary because all the means for generating any income have been bought out, purposefully and this beyond any sane measure of greed, sheer insensate greed regardless of harm in fact fed by causing harm as a measure of power.

Look at the carnage of capitalism, wars for profit, bad pharmaceuticals, a polluted world, corrupted democracy, those are the real payout of the unfettered free market.

Space is not really empty we just sort of mostly empty. The bigger the satellite the bigger the target and probability becomes really problematic. Makes more sense to launch many smaller satellites that collectively can achieve the same output and although more expensive be far more durable, expandable and replaceable.

Free market guarantees shortages that is it's function. What you are really saying is if you can not afford it, meh, fuck you, ha ha, die in the blizzard. That bullshit capitalist lie has to end, in the balance between need versus greed, capitalism is all about psychopathic greed and the bullshit propaganda that it comes wrapped in.

Laugh all you want but the dinosaurs will tell you, oh wait, they wont ;D.

Best method is to reduce expectations and use hard copy. How much of that stuff do you really need to keep, how much is best served as memories, that simply pass when you pass. How much will simply be binned, when you do pass or failed to be properly backed up there in after. The best back up method is to focus first on what you are backing up, you only need to make the choice to delete where as backing up is hard to do and must be verified and repeated again and again and again ad nauseam. If you created it once you can do it again, if you could not be bothered doing it again, did you really need to back it up in the first place. Want something carved in stone, then you carve it in stone, want it to be flexible in digital then you are going to have to work at it, verify it, audit it, do backups of backups, change media over time, change hardware over time and expect back up failures no matter what you do because time not weeks but decades makes for real effort and often as you never end up making any use at all of that backed up content a waste of time that could be better off spent on creating new memories.