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1940 Census Data Swamps Servers-> 0

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CowboyRobot

on Monday April 02, @06:52PM

CowboyRobot writes ""A trove of census data from 1940 released Monday includes the individual records of millions of U.S. citizens. Privacy watchdogs have warned that public release of the records could lead to identify theft or other misuse.... Shortly after it went live, Archives officials Tweeted that they had received about 22.5 million hits from 1.9 users and they were working with host Amazon Web Services to bring up additional servers""
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Comment: Re:Citizenship (Score 4, Informative) 714

by Alotau on Thursday March 29, @08:22PM (#39517491) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics?

Some clarification from http://www.uwec.edu/career/online_library/illegal_ques.htm :

"May ask about legal authorization to work in the specific position if all applicants are asked."

So if you must legally be a US citizen for the job and everyone is asked, it's OK.

Comment: Re:I have a portion of the gene (Score 1) 265

by Alotau on Tuesday March 06, @12:53AM (#39257723) Attached to: Redheads Feel Pain Differently Than the Rest of Us

If you let pain bother you so much it will invade all aspects of your life. Before you know it, you'll be using different injury types for login names. Oh... nevermind.

Comment: Re:Then let's test these next (Score 5, Funny) 284

by Alotau on Thursday February 23, @10:37PM (#39143493) Attached to: Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review

I'd like to see them test the ripping out a man's heart one, though I'm not sure PETA will appreciate them testing on live animals.

Simple, use politicians and lawyers. I think to be certain we need to try it on at least 10 thousand.

Your subjects are flawed... one needs a heart in the first place to have it ripped out.

Comment: Re:the flipside of reliability (Score 1) 151

by Alotau on Friday January 27, @03:47PM (#38843861) Attached to: Mars Rover Opportunity Turns 8

Just because they erred on the side of a good result doesn't mean the estimates are better. It means their methodology is HEAVILY padded

Under promise, over deliver. I wish more organizations/projects had this "flaw".

Comment: More invites? (Score 1) 1223

by Alotau on Tuesday July 12 2011, @11:18AM (#36734550) Attached to: Google+ Already At 10 Million Users

Would appreciate it if you still have one to spare. At gmail, user name is joeylrios. TIA.

Comment: Probably this same old stickler (Score 1) 40

by Alotau on Friday April 29 2011, @01:18PM (#35976688) Attached to: Endeavour Launch Delayed For At Least 48 Hours

Must be this guy screwing with the launch times again. Jerk.

Comment: Re:Why you want to reconfigure on the fly. (Score 1) 108

by Alotau on Friday April 15 2011, @08:40PM (#35835784) Attached to: Cheaper, More Powerful Alternative To FPGAs

Is it a huge hassle to offload video rendering to your graphics card?

Comment: Amazing use of factors (Score 4, Funny) 108

by Alotau on Friday April 15 2011, @08:33PM (#35835744) Attached to: Cheaper, More Powerful Alternative To FPGAs

For those of you who missed TFA, here is a juicy tidbit:

Teig estimates that the footprint of a Tabula chip is less than a third of an equivalent FPGA, making it five times cheaper to make, while providing more than double the density of logic and roughly four times the performance.

That is 6X more impressive than any other use of factors in a sentence... ever.

Comment: Sounds short (Score 1) 997

by Alotau on Thursday January 13 2011, @07:54PM (#34870702) Attached to: Are 10-11 Hour Programming Days Feasible?

Complaining about 10 or 11 hours? My work day is 1000 hours, like most peoples'. I guess there really are only 10 kinds of people: those that complain about work hours and those that don't.